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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 060

(1) [I surrounded, conquer]ed, (and) [plund]ered [the city Aran]ziašu.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 061

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: The booty from the marshes of the city Saḫrina passed before him.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 062

(1) Senn[ach]erib, king of [the world], king of Assyria: The booty of the city Kasuṣi pa[ss]ed before him.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 063

(1) [Sennac]h[erib, king of the world], king of [Assyria: The bo]ot[y of] the city [...]bu... [pa]ssed [before him].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 064

(1) Sennac[herib, king of the world, king of Assyria]: The boot[y of ...] the city [... passed] be[fore him].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 065

(1) [...] the boot[y of ... passed] before [him].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 066

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, sat in (his) armchair and the booty of the city Lachish passed before him.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 067

(1) Tent of Sennacherib, king of Assyria.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 068

(1) Camp of Sennacherib, king of Assyria.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 073

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, was joyfully having large bull colossi, which had been fashioned in the territory of the city Balāṭāya, dragged to his lordly palace that is inside Nineveh.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 074

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: (With regard to) the white limestone that had been discovered by the will of the gods in the territory of the city Balāṭāya for the construction of my palace, I had the soldiers of enemy settlements and insubmissive troops of the mountains whom I had captured wield iron axes and picks [and] they quarried large bull colossi for the gates of my palace.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 075

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: I had [tall] cedar columns, which I had had hauled up from the Tigris River, loaded on sled(s) and dragged along a canal.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 076

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: I had [tall] cedar columns, [products of Mount Si]rāra (and) Mount Lebanon, hauled up [from the] Tigris [River].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 078

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, had Egalzagdinutukua (the “Palace Without a Rival”) built anew to be his lordly residence inside Nineveh.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 079

(1) Sennacherib, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, had Egalzagdinutukua (the “Palace Without a Rival”) built anew to be his lordly residence inside the citadel of Nineveh.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 080

(1) Palace of Sennacherib, great king, king of the world, king of Assyria, the almighty sovereign of all rulers.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 082

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, had the (inner) wall and outer wall of Nineveh built anew and raised as high as mountain(s).

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 083

(1) Sennacherib, king of Assyria, had the (inner) wall and outer wall of Nineveh built anew and raised as high as mountain(s).

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 084

(1) Sennacherib, king of Assyria, had the wall of Nineveh built anew.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 085

(1) [Palace of] Sennacherib, [king of] Assyria, who had (it) built using his [...].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 086

(1) Palace of Sennacherib, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria: With the power of my scepter that the father of the gods, (the god) Aššur, had given me, I brought back (with me) precious kašurû-stone, whose mountain is far away, and I installed (it) underneath the pivots of the door leaves of the gates of my palace.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 087

A royal titulary inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE), preserving the ceremonial formula — great king, strong king, king of the world — through which Assyrian monarchs projected cosmic authority over conquered territories.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 088

A royal palace inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE), asserting the twin titles 'king of the world, king of Assyria' — the standard ideological formula projecting universal dominion from the Assyrian heartland.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 089

A royal titulary inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE), attesting the layered epithets — great king, strong king, king of the world — through which Assyrian kings projected cosmic authority over a multi-ethnic empire.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 090

A royal palace inscription of Sennacherib, asserting his titulary — great king, mighty king, king of Assyria — and anchoring the ideological grammar by which Sargonid rulers legitimised their authority over the ancient Near East.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 091

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, built a palace anew inside Nineveh.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 092

Dedicatory inscription for Sennacherib's 'Palace Without a Rival' at Nineveh, attesting the Assyrian royal ideology that monumental construction expressed divine favour and legitimised kingship.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 093

(1) Palace [of Sennacherib, ...: He indeed built a palace anew] to be [his lordly] res[idence] inside Ni[neveh].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 094

Attests Sennacherib's monumental rebuilding of Nineveh's double circuit of walls, the physical infrastructure that transformed the city into the definitive capital of the late Assyrian empire.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 095

(1) (As for) the (inner) wall and outer wall of Nineveh, which had not been built previously, Sennacherib, [king of] Assyria, had (them) built [an]ew and [raised] as high as mountain(s).

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 096

Attests Sennacherib's rebuilding of Nineveh's city wall, situating one phase of the capital's monumental expansion within his broader programme of urban transformation after destroying Babylon in 689 BCE.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 097

(1) [Sennacherib], great [king], strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, built [the (inner) wall (and outer wall) of] Nineveh anew.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 098

Records Sennacherib granting his son a house tied to the construction of Nineveh's city wall — linking royal family patronage directly to the great building programme that defined his reign.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 099

Records Sennacherib's grant of a house to his son Aššur-šumu-ušabši, tying a private royal property transfer to the ceremonial founding of Nineveh — evidence that dynastic patronage was embedded in the city's earliest building acts.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 100

Attests Sennacherib's simultaneous founding of a royal residence and the laying of Nineveh's foundations, linking dynastic succession directly to the city's mythologized origins.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1002

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Sennacherib (RINAP 3, Q004058), preserving — even in fragmentary form — the formulaic titulary through which Assyrian kings legitimised their rule.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1004

(1) [... Senn]ach[erib ...] my kingship [...] ... [...].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1006

(1) [...] from him [...] their name(s) (and) their seed, [as well as (those of) his advis]ors, [...].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1007

(1) [... Sennach]erib, king of Assyria [(...)].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1008

(1) [... Sennach]erib, king of [Assyria (...)].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1009

(1) [... Senn]acherib, king [...].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1011

(1') [may they] make [...] disapp[ear].

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1015

Attests Sennacherib's siege of Azekah and tribute exacted from Hezekiah of Judah — the Assyrian royal record that corroborates, and complicates, the biblical account in 2 Kings 18–19.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1016

Records Sennacherib's reshaping of the Assyrian landscape — restoring pasturelands, resettling animals, and erecting white limestone bull colossi at a watercourse gate — documenting the royal ideology that equated hydraulic and architectural mastery with divine order.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1017

A fragmentary royal inscription of Sennacherib attesting his characteristic wilderness rhetoric — onagers and gazelles marking untamed land he claimed to have brought under Assyrian order.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1018

A fragmentary Sennacherib royal inscription invoking the great gods to bind future kings to his legacy — one of several RINAP 3 witnesses documenting how Assyrian rulers embedded dynastic legitimacy in monumental dedications.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1019

Sennacherib's own account of Kudur-Naḫḫunte's role in the removal of Babylonian divine statues — Nabû and Marduk among them — anchors Assyrian justification for intervention in Babylonian cult politics to a named Elamite aggressor.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 102

(1) Palace of Sennacherib, king of Assyria: (This is) the audience gift that Abī-Baʾal, king of the land Samsimuru[na], presented to me.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1021

One of the surviving manuscript witnesses to Sennacherib's royal inscriptions, preserving fragmentary titulary that documents how the king projected his authority in the last decade of his reign.

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~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 3

Sennacherib 1022

Survives too fragmentarily to yield a complete reading, but preserves Sennacherib's own scribes likening an enemy — or possibly a rebel — to a gallû-demon, grounding Assyrian royal rhetoric in the underworld mythology of the period.

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