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Sennacherib 164
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [At] that time, the private room ... of the palace of Baltil (Aššur), the seat of the kings, my ancestors, from distant days, of Tiglath-pileser (I), son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), king of Assyria, became dilapidated. Ashurnasirpal (II), king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, renovated its dilapidated section(s). That private room ... (and) its construction was inexpert (and thus) I tore down that cella. (7) I had a large private room constructed anew to be my lordly seat [(and)] through the craft of well-trained master builders I built (and) completed (it) from its…
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/Q003969/
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Transliteration
[ina] u₄-me-⸢šú⸣-ma kúm-⸢mu⸣ x [x] ⸢É?.GAL? URU.bal⸣-til.⸢KI šu⸣-bat ⸢LUGAL?.MEŠ?⸣ / ⸢AD?⸣.MEŠ-ia ⸢ša? ul?-tu? u₄-me? ṣa?⸣-a-te šá? m⸢tukul-ti⸣-A-é-šár-⸢ra⸣ / ⸢DUMU⸣ maš-šur-SAG-i-ši MAN KUR aš-šur.KI e-⸢na⸣-aḫ-[(ma)] / maš-šur-PAP-IBILA MAN KUR aš-šur.⸢KI⸣ DUMU mtukul-ti-⸢d⸣MAŠ MAN KUR aš-⸢šur.KI⸣ / an-ḫu-⸢sa ud⸣-diš kúm-mu šá-a-⸢tu a⸣-na x x x x x x / ul nu-uk-ku-lat e-piš-tuš ki-iṣ-⸢ṣu…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003969.
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/Q003969/..
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/Q003969/.
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