Position in chronology
Sennacherib 1019
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] ... [... of m]y lordship [...] ... they seized him [...] inside Uruk ... [... Ku]dur-Naḫundu (Kudur-Naḫḫunte), the E[lamite, ...] the gods Nabû, Marduk, [...] he/they had ta[ken ...] before me [...] he changed/reported and brought back [... th]ey brought back and (thus) pacified [...] to fight ... [...] ... [...]
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/Q004075/
Why it matters
Sennacherib's own account of Kudur-Naḫḫunte's role in the removal of Babylonian divine statues — Nabû and Marduk among them — anchors Assyrian justification for intervention in Babylonian cult politics to a named Elamite aggressor.
Transliteration
[...] x [...] / [...] x ŠID x [...] / [...] ⸢be?⸣-lu-ti-⸢ia?⸣ [...] / [...] x-liš? iṣ-ba-tu-⸢šú?⸣ x [...] / [...] ⸢qé⸣-reb UNUG.KI ma-x-[...] / [... mku]-dur-dna-ḫu-un-di LÚ.⸢e⸣-[la-mu-ú ...]1 / [...] x dAG dAMAR.UTU x [...] / [...] ⸢maḫ⸣-ri-ia ú-šá-aṣ-x-[...] / [...] ú-šá-an-ni-ma ú-ter x [...]2 / [... ú]-⸢ter-ru-ma ú-šap-ši-ḫu x⸣ [...] / [...] x a-na ⸢mit-ḫu⸣-uṣ-ṣi iš-x [...] / [...] x [x x] x x (x) x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004075.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P395589). source
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/Q004075/.
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