Position in chronology
Sennacherib 165
Translation · reference
High confidence(28 illegible lines) (i 29) I seized the chariots, horses, wagons, (and) mu[les] that he had abandoned in the thick of battle. (i 32) I joyfully entered his palace, which is in Babylon, and (then) I opened his treasury and brought out gold, silver, gold (and) silver utensils, precious stones, all kinds of possessions (and) property without number, a substantial tribute, (together with) his palace women, courtiers, attendants, male singers, female singers, all of the craftsmen, [as ma]ny as there were, (and) his palace attendants, and I counted (them) as booty. (i 43) With the strength of the…
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/Q003970/
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Transliteration
⸢GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ⸣ GIŠ.ṣu-um-bi / ANŠE.[KUNGA.MEŠ] ša i-na qit-ru-⸢ub⸣ ta-ḫa-zi / ú-maš-ši-ru ik-⸢šu-da ŠU⸣.II-a-a / ⸢a-na⸣ É.GAL-šú ša qé-reb ⸢KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI⸣ / ḫa-diš e-ru-um-⸢ma⸣ ap-te-e-ma / É ni-ṣir-ti-šú KÙ.GI ⸢KÙ⸣.BABBAR / ú-nu-ut KÙ.GI ⸢KÙ⸣.BABBAR NA₄ a-qar-tu / ⸢mim⸣-ma šum-šú NÍG.ŠU ⸢NÍG.GA⸣ la ni-bi / ⸢ka⸣-bit-tu GUN MUNUS.UN.MEŠ É.GAL-šú / LÚ.TIRUM.MEŠ ⸢LÚ⸣.man-za-az…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003970.
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/Q003970/..
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/Q003970/.
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