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Sennacherib 040
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [I ra]ised its superstructure [in its entirety 190 courses of brick]. I en[larged] the structure of the palace [to 700 large cubits along (its) longer side and 440 large cubits along (its) shorter side and (thus) I made its site bigger]. (2'b) I built [palatial halls of breccia, alabaster], elephant ivory, ebony, boxwood, [musukkannu]-wood, [cedar, cypress, juniper, (and) elammaku-wood] there[on as my lo]rdly [residence]; (then) I had a port[ico, a replica of a Hittite palace], constructed [opposite (its) gates]. (5') I [roofed them (the palatial halls) with] beams of ced[ar] (and)…
Source: Grayson, A.K. & Novotny, J. 2012–2014. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC). RINAP 3. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003514/
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Transliteration
[ul]-la-a re-ši-šu [a-na 7 ME i-na AS₄.LUM GAL-ti UŠ ù 4 ME 40 i-na AS₄.LUM GAL-ti SAG.KI]1 / ši-kit-ti É.GAL ⸢ú⸣-[ter-ma šu-bat-sa uš-rab-bi É.GAL NA₄.DÚR.MI.NA.BÀN.DA NA₄.GIŠ.NU₁₁.GAL]2 / ZÚ AM.SI ⸢GIŠ.ESI⸣ GIŠ.TÚG GIŠ.[MES.MÁ.KAN.NA GIŠ.EREN GIŠ.ŠUR.MÌN ŠIM.LI GIŠ.e-lam-ma-ku a-na mu-šab be]-lu-ti-[ia]3 / ab-ta-ni qé-reb-[šú] É ap-[pa-a-ti tam-šil É.GAL KUR.ḫa-at-ti mé-eḫ-ret ba-ba-a-ti]…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003514.
Attribution
Image: Created by A. Kirk Grayson, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2014. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2013. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003514/..
Translation excerpted from Grayson, A.K. & Novotny, J. 2012–2014. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC). RINAP 3. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003514/.
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