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Sennacherib 051
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High confidence(1) Palace of Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria: pendû-stone, whose appearance is as finely granulated as mottled barley (and) which in the time of the kings, my ancestors, was considered valuable enough to be an amulet, made itself known to me at the foot of Mount Nipur. I had (it) fashioned into sphinxes and had (them) dragged into Nineveh.
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/Q003525/
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Transliteration
É.GAL md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN GAL / MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur NA₄.dŠE.TIR / šá GIM ŠE.IM ṣa-aḫ-ḫa-ri ši-kin-šú / nu-us-su-qu ša ina tar-ṣi LUGAL.MEŠ / AD.MEŠ-ia ma-la NA₄ GÚ šu-qu-ru / i-na GÌR.II KUR.ni-pur KUR-i ra-ma-nu-uš / ud-dan-ni a-na MUNUS.ÁB.ZA.ZA-a-ti / ú-še-piš-ma ú-šal-di-da / qé-reb URU.ni-na-a
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003525.
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/Q003525/..
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/Q003525/.
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