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Sennacherib 175
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, [king of Assyria], the one who fashioned image(s) of the deities Aššur, [Mullissu], Šerūa, Sîn, Nik[kal], Šamaš, Aya, Anu, Antu, Adad, Šala, Ištar of Bīt-Kidmuri, [Bēlet]-ilī, Ḫaya, Kusu, [Lumḫa], Dunga, Egalkiba, [and the] (other) great gods, [I: With limes]tone, stone from the [mountai]ns, [I had] the akī[tu]-house [of the steppe built] anew [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/Q003980/
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Transliteration
⸢m⸣d30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ [MAN KUR AŠ] / ⸢e⸣-piš ṣa-lam AN.⸢ŠÁR⸣ [dNIN.LÍL] / dše-ru-u-a d30 d⸢NIN⸣.[GAL] ⸢dUTU⸣ / ⸢d⸣a-a da-num an-⸢tum?⸣ [d]IŠKUR / [d]ša-la ⸢d15⸣ šá É-⸢kid-mu-ri⸣ / [DINGIR].⸢MAḪ⸣ dḫa-ìa dkù-sù / [dlumḫa] ddúnga ⸢dé⸣-gal-⸢ki?-ba?⸣ / [u] ⸢DINGIR.MEŠ⸣ GAL.MEŠ [ana-ku] ⸢É a-ki⸣-[te] / [EDIN 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 Q003980.
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/Q003980/..
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/Q003980/.
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