Position in chronology
Sennacherib 132
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: I had horse troughs of white limestone built so that fu[ng]us cannot carry (them) off (into death) in the future. I filled (the space) in front of these horse troughs under my warhorses’ feet with blocks of pappardilû-stone, papparmīnu-stone, (and) ḫulālu-stone, leftovers of my choice stones, as well as jasper, marble, breccia, pendû-stone, alallu-stone, girimḫilibû-stone, engisû-stone, alabaster, sābû-stone, ḫaltu-stone, (and) fragments of slabs (used in the building) of my palace.
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/Q003937/
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Transliteration
É.GAL md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur ú-ra-a-ti NA₄.pi-i-li pe-ṣe-e ša a-na ṣa-at u₄-me la ú-tab-ba-la ⸢ka⸣-[mu]-⸢nu⸣ ú-še-piš / NA₄.DAG.GAZ NA₄.BABBAR.DILI NA₄.BABBAR.MIN₅ NA₄.NÍR ši-ḫi-il ni-siq-ti NA₄.MEŠ-ia ù NA₄.aš-pu-ú NA₄.DÚR.MI.NA NA₄.DÚR.MI.NA.BÀN.DA / NA₄.dŠE.TIR NA₄.a-lal-lum NA₄.GI.RIM.ḪI.LI.BA NA₄.EN.GI.SA₆ NA₄.GIŠ.NU₁₁.GAL NA₄.sa-a-bu NA₄.ḫal-tum / nu-sa-a-ti NA₄.as-kup-pa-a-ti É.GAL-ia pa-na-at ú-ra-a-ti šá-ši-na šap-la-a-ni GÌR.II mur-ni-is-qí-ia uš-mal-li
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003937.
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/Q003937/..
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/Q003937/.
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