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Sennacherib 174
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, [king of Assyria, the one who fashioned] image(s) of the deities Aššur, ... [(...)], and the (other) great gods, I: [With] limestone, stone from the mountains, I had the akītu-house of the steppe [(for)] the festival of the feas[t] of (the god) Aššur, built an[ew] from its foundations to [its] crenellations and I raised (it) [as high as a mountain].
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/Q003979/
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Transliteration
md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU ⸢MAN ŠÚ⸣ [MAN KUR aš-šur e-piš] / ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR x x x [(...)] u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.⸢MEŠ⸣ / [ana]-⸢ku?⸣ É ⸢a-ki-te? EDIN⸣ [(ša)] i-sin-ni qé-re-[ti] / AN.ŠÁR TA UŠ₈-šá a-di gaba-dib-⸢bi⸣-[šá ina] / ⸢NA₄⸣.pi-i-li NA₄ KUR-i eš-[šiš] / ú-še-piš-ma ú-za-qir [ḫur-šá-niš]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003979.
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/Q003979/..
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/Q003979/.
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