Position in chronology
Sennacherib 223
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Deities Aššur, Anu, Enlil, Ea, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Marduk, Nabû, [Nerg]al, Ištar, (and) the Sebetti, the great gods, who install the lord (and) name the ruler to lead the black-headed (people) all over the inhabited world: (3) Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), the prince who provides for them, by your firm ‘yes’ I marched about safely from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea, and (then) I made rulers of the (four) quarters (of the world) bow down at my feet and they (now) pull my yoke: (5b) At that time, I greatly…
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/Q004028/
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Transliteration
daš-šur da-nu-um dEN.LÍL dé-a d30 dUTU dIŠKUR dAMAR.UTU dAG ⸢d⸣[U].⸢GUR⸣ diš-tar d7.BI DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ1 / ša ina gi-mir ad-na-a-ti a-na ⸢i⸣-tar-re-e ṣal-mat SAG.DU e-nu i-na-áš-šu-ú i-nam-bu-u mal-ku / md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu ⸢LUGAL⸣ ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-tim NUN za-nin-šú-un i-na an-ni-ku-nu ke-nim / ul-tu tam-tim e-ÁB a-di tam-tim šap-ÁB ⸢šal⸣-meš lu…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004028.
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/Q004028/..
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/Q004028/.
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