Position in chronology
Sennacherib 222
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The deities Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Ninurta, and Ištar, the great gods who stand at the side of the king, their favorite, and make his weapons prevail over all enemies: (6) Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, the attentive prince (who is) your protégé, who by your [firm] ‘yes’ marched about and who made the insubmissive lands (and) disobedient people of the mountains bow down at his feet: (12) At that time, the cities Tumurrum, Šarum, Ḫalbuda, Kipšu, Ezāma, Qūa, (and) Qana, which were on the border of the land Katmuḫi, which were situated like 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/Q004027/
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Transliteration
daš-šur d30 dUTU dIŠKUR / dMAŠ ù dINANNA DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ1 / ša i-di LUGAL mì-ig-ri-šú-un / i-za-zu-ma UGU kul-lat na-ki-ri / ú-šam-ra-ru GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-šú / md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN GAL MAN dan-nu / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI NUN na-aʾ-du / ti-ri-iṣ ŠU.II-ku-un šá i-na / an-ni-ku-un [ke-nim] i-⸢tal⸣-la-ku-ma2 / KUR.MEŠ la ma-gi-ri ERIM.⸢MEŠ⸣ ḫur-šá-ni3 / la kan-šu-ti ú-šak-ni-⸢šu⸣ še-pu-uš-šú / ina…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004027.
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/Q004027/..
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/Q004027/.
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