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Sennacherib 053
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Sennacherib], king of the world, king of As[syria: Maniy]e, [the king of the city Uk]ku, [became frightened by my] batt[le] array, abandoned [the city Ukku], a city upon which he relied, [and] fled [far] away. (As for) the populati[on living] inside it, [who] had flown away like [bir]ds to the peak of a [rug]ged mountain, [I pu]rsued them and [def]eated them on the peak of (that) mountain. [I burned] the city Ukku, his royal city, with fi[re].
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/Q003527/
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Transliteration
[md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU] MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-[šur mma-ni-ia]-e / [MAN URU.uk]-⸢ki⸣ ti-ib ta-ḫa-[zi-ia e-dúr]-ma / [URU.uk-ku?] ⸢URU?⸣ tuk-la-te-šú e-⸢zib⸣-[ma a-na ru]-⸢qé⸣-te / ⸢in-na⸣-bit ba-ḫu-la-[te a-šib] ⸢ŠÀ⸣-šú / [ša] ⸢a⸣-na zuq-ti KUR-⸢i⸣ [mar]-⸢ṣi⸣ [iṣ-ṣu]-riš / ⸢ip⸣-par-⸢šú⸣ ar-ki-šú-⸢un⸣ [ar]-⸢de⸣-ma / i-na zuq-ti KUR-i [áš-ta]-kan / ⸢taḫ⸣-ta-šú-un URU.⸢uk-ku⸣ / ⸢URU⸣ LUGAL-ti-šú i-na d⸢GIŠ⸣.[BAR aq-mu]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003527.
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/Q003527/..
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/Q003527/.
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