Sennacherib 115

~695 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003920

Translation · reference

High confidence

(1) [Palace of Sennacherib], king of Assyria: [Booty of] the city Duma. [Whoever] erases [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of a god] (or another) person, may [the deities ...], Ištar, [...], Nabû, (and) Uraš make [his name (and)] his [seed] disappear.

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/Q003920/

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Transliteration

[KUR md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU] MAN KUR aš-šur / [KUR-ti] ⸢URU⸣.du-ma / [šá MU šaṭ-ru i]-⸢pa⸣-ši-ṭu / [ana dul-li šá DINGIR] ⸢LÚ-ti⸣ DÙ-šú / [...] d15 / [... d]⸢MUATI⸣ duraš / [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 Q003920.

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/Q003920/..
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/Q003920/.

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