Sennacherib 105

~695 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003579

Translation · reference

High confidence

(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, king of] Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that Karib-il, king of the land Sab]a, [...] ... [I was having] (it) incised. [Whoever eras]es [my inscribed name ... may the deities ...], (and) Uraš [make his name (and) his seed disapp]ear.

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/Q003579/

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Transliteration

[KUR md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN] ⸢KUR⸣ AŠ / [na-mur-tú šá mka-ri-bi-DINGIR MAN KUR.sa-ba]-aʾ / [...] x a / [... ú]-⸢šap⸣-ṭar / [šá šu-mì šaṭ-ru i-pa-ši]-⸢ṭu⸣ / [...] / [...] / [... d]⸢uraš⸣ / [MU-šú NUMUN-šú lu-ḫal-li]-qu

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003579.

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/Q003579/..
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/Q003579/.

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