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Sennacherib 049
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Palace of Sennacherib], great [king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), favorite of the great gods, wise prince], circumsp[ect ru]ler, shepherd of [the pe]op[le, (and) leader of a widespread population, I]: (3b) [The goddess Bēlet-ilī, the lady of creat]ion, [looked steadfastly upon me and created my features] (while I was still) in the womb of the mot[her who g]ave birth to [me. Moreover, the god Ninšiku ga]ve me wide understanding equal to (that of) the sage Ada[pa (and) endowed me with broad knowledge]. (5) [The god Aššur, father…
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/Q003523/
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Transliteration
[É.GAL mdEN.ZU-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-SU LUGAL] ⸢GAL?⸣ [LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-ti mi-gir] / [DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ lu-li-mu er-šu mal]-⸢ku⸣ pit-⸢qu⸣-[du] ⸢RE⸣.É.⸢UM⸣ [ba]-⸢ḫu⸣-[la-ti mut-ta-ru-ú UN.MEŠ rap-šá-a-ti] / [a-na-ku dbe-let-DINGIR.MEŠ be-let nab-ni]-⸢ti i⸣-na ŠÀ.TÙR a-⸢ga-ri-in⸣-[ni a]-⸢lit-ti⸣-[ia ke-niš IGI.BAR-an-ni-ma ú-ṣab-ba-a] / [nab-ni-ti ù dnin-ši-kù…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003523.
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/Q003523/..
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/Q003523/.
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