Position in chronology
Sennacherib 041
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [I made (them) an obj]ect of wonder. (2'b) I decorated them (the doors) with silver [and copper] knobbed [nails]. I adorned the arches, friezes, and all of their copings with baked bricks (glazed in the color of) obsidian (and) lapis lazuli. (7'b) So that the construction of my palace might be carried out correctly and that my handiwork be completed, at that time, the god Aššur and the goddess Ištar, who love my priestly service (and) who selected me (lit. “who called my name”), revealed to me a source of trunks of cedar, which since distant days grew tall and very thick as they stood in…
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/Q003515/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[a-na tab]-ra-a-ti / [ú-šá-lik sik-kàt] kar-ri1 / kas-pi [ù URUDU qé]-reb-šin / ú-šal-me i-na SIG₄.AL.ÙR.RA / NA₄.ZÚ NA₄.ZA.GÌN us-si-ma / se-el-lum né-bé-ḫi ù gi-mir / pa-as-qí-šin áš-šú šip-ri É.GAL-ia / šu-te-šu-ri ù li-pit ŠU.II-ia šul-lu-me / i-na u₄-me-šu-ma daš-šur ù diš-tar / ra-ʾi-mu LÚ.SANGA-ti-ia na-bu-ú MU-ia / giš-maḫ-ḫi GIŠ.ere-ni ša ul-tu u₄-me SÙ.MEŠ / i-ši-ḫu-ma ik-bi-ru ma-gal…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003515.
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/Q003515/..
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/Q003515/.
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