Position in chronology
Sennacherib 167
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Sennacheri]b, [great king, strong king], king of the world, king of Assyria, [the one who fashioned image(s) of] the deities Aššur, Mullissu, [... and] the (other) great [god]s, the one who makes great (5) [their purification rites], the one who carries out to perfection the forgotten ri[tes of Ešar]ra through divination, at the command of [the gods Šamaš (and)] Adad, the one who renovated Baltil (Aššur), the one who [...] its purification rites, the one who returns the unfinished [protective spirit of E]šarra to [its place, I]: (10b) [T]hen, after I had made the image of (the god)…
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/Q003972/
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Transliteration
[md30-PAP.MEŠ-eri]-ba / [MAN GAL MAN dan-nu] MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / [e-piš ṣa-lam] ⸢AN.ŠÁR⸣ dNIN.LÍL / [... u DINGIR].⸢MEŠ⸣ GAL.MEŠ ⸢mu⸣-šar-bu-u / [šu-luḫ-ḫi-šú-un?] mu-šak-lil / ⸢pa⸣-[ra-aṣ é-šár]-ra ma-šu-ti ina bi-ri / [ina] ⸢qí-bit⸣ [dUTU d]IŠKUR mu-ud-diš ⸢bal⸣-til.⸢KI⸣ / ⸢mu⸣-x [...] šu-luḫ-ḫi-šú / ⸢mu-ter⸣ [dLAMMA é]-šár-ra la e-piš-ti / a-na [áš-ri-šú a-na-ku e]-nu-šú iš-tu ṣa-lam…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003972.
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/Q003972/..
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/Q003972/.
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