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Sennacherib 229
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: (As for) the three watercourses which (flow) from Mount Ḫāni, a mountain above the city Arbela, I dug out the springs which are on the right and left banks of those watercourses and (thus) added (the springs’ water) to them. I dug a (subterranean) watercourse and directed (all of) their course(s) inside the city Arbela, the dwelling of the goddess Ištar, the exalted lady.
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/Q004034/
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Transliteration
md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI / 3 ÍD.MEŠ ša ul-tu KUR.ḫa-a-ni KUR-e1 / ša SAG URU.LÍMMU-DINGIR A.MEŠ ku-up-pi2 / ša ZAG u GÙB ša i-ta-at ÍD.MEŠ šá-ti-⸢ni⸣3 / aḫ-re-ma UGU-ši?-na? uš-rad-di / ÍD aḫ-re-ma a-na qa-bal-ti URU.LÍMMU-DINGIR4 / šu-bat diš-tar GAŠAN ṣir-ti / ú-še-šir ma-lak-šin
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004034.
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/Q004034/..
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/Q004034/.
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