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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.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1004
(1) [... Senn]ach[erib ...] my kingship [...] ... [...].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1006
(1) [...] from him [...] their name(s) (and) their seed, [as well as (those of) his advis]ors, [...].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1007
(1) [... Sennach]erib, king of Assyria [(...)].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1008
(1) [... Sennach]erib, king of [Assyria (...)].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1009
(1) [... Senn]acherib, king [...].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1011
(1') [may they] make [...] disapp[ear].
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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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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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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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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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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.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 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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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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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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Sennacherib 1023
Invokes the Assyrian divine pantheon — Aššur, Anu, Ea, Enlil, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad — as legitimating witnesses to a royal act, attesting the theological scaffolding Sennacherib deployed to underwrite his authority c. 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 1024
Preserves Sennacherib invoking both Marduk and Sîn in a territorial context — fragmentary evidence bearing on the contested question of how he framed divine authority after his sack of Babylon in 689 BCE.
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Sennacherib 1025
One of Sennacherib's royal inscriptions (RINAP 3, Q004081): too fragmentary to recover its specific campaign or building claim, but preserving the spider-web desolation topos used in Assyrian rhetoric to depict conquered lands.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1026
(1') [...] ... [...] all of th[em ...] spider webs. [...] ... [...] ... [...]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 103
(1) [Palace of Sennac]herib, king of Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that] Karib-il, [king of the land Saba], presented to me. [Whoever] places (it) [in] the service of a god [(or another) person (or) eras]es my inscribed name, [may] the deities Aššur, [...], Sîn, (and) Šamaš make [his name (and) his seed] disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 104
(1) [Palace of Sennac]herib, king of Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that] Karib-il, [king of the land Saba], presented to me. [Whoever ... may the deities ...], Šamaš, [...], Nabû, (and) Uraš [make his name (and) his seed disa]ppear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 105
(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, king of] Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that Karib-il, king of the land Sab]a, [...] ... [I was having] (it) incised. [Whoever eras]es [my inscribed name ... may the deities ...], (and) Uraš [make his name (and) his seed disapp]ear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 106
(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, king of] Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that Karib-il, king of the land Sa]ba, [...] ... I was having (it) incised. [Whoever eras]es [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of a god (or another) pers]on, [may ... make his name (and) his seed] disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 107
(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, king of] Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that Karib]-il, [king of the land Saba, prese]nted to me. [Whoever places (it) in the serv]ice of a god [(or another) person (or) erases my] inscribed [name, may the deities Aššur, A]nu, Sîn,
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 108
(1) [Palace of Sennach]erib, king of [Assyria: (This is) the audience gift that] Karib-[il, king of the land Sab]a, prese[nted to me. Whoever] places (it) [in] the service of [a god (or another) person ...]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 109
(1) [Palace of] Sennacherib, king of [Assyria: (This is) the aud]ience gift that (Nabû)-zēr-kitti-[līšir, son of] Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan) presented to me. [Whoever] erases [my] inscribed [name] (or) places (it) [in the serv]ice of a god (or another) person, may [(the god) Aššur] make his name (and) his seed disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 110
(1) Palace of [Sennacherib], king of [Assyria: (This is) the audience gift] that [...] ... [...] prese[nted to me]. Whoever eras[es my inscribed name (or) places (it) in the service] of a god (or another) person, [may] (the god) Aššur [make his] name [(and) his seed disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 111
(1) [Palace of Senn]acherib, king of Assyria. [Whoever] erases [my inscr]ibed [name] (or) places (it) [in the serv]ice of a god (or another) person, may [the deity ...] make [his name] (and) his seed disappear. [Booty of] the city Dumetu.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 112
(1) [Palace of Sennach]erib, king of Assyria. [Whoever] erases [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of a god (or another) pers]on, may [the deities ...], Šamaš, Adad, [...], (and) Nergal make [his name (and) his seed] disappear. [Booty of the city Du]metu.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 113
(1) [Palace of Senn]acherib, king of [Assyria: Booty of] the city Dumetu. [Whoever] eras[es my inscr]ibed [name (or) places (it) in the serv]ice of a god (or another) person, [may the deities ...], Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, [..., (and) ... make his name (and) his seed disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 114
(1) [Palace of Sennac]herib, [king of] Assyria: [Booty of the city] Dumetu. [Whoever eras]es my inscribed name (or) places (it) [in the service] of a god [(or another) person, may the deities Aššur], Sîn, (and) Šamaš [make his name (and)] his [seed dis]appear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 115
(1) [Palace of Sennacherib], king of Assyria: [Booty of] the city Duma. [Whoever] erases [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of a god] (or another) person, may [the deities ...], Ištar, [...], Nabû, (and) Uraš make [his name (and)] his [seed] disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 116
(1) Palace of Sennach[erib, king of Assyria]: Booty of [...]. Whoever [erases] my inscribed name [(or) places (it)] in the service [of a god (or another) person, may] (the god) Aššur [make] his name (and) [his seed disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 117
(1) [Palace of] Sennacherib, [king of Assyria]: (This is) ḫulālu-[stone], a product of Mount [...] my ... [...] I [was having (it) incised in] my presence. [Whoever] er[ases] my inscribed name [(or) places (it) in] the service of a god [(or another) person], may the deities Aššur, Sîn, [Šamaš, ...], Ištar, Bēl, [...] make his [name] (and) his seed disapp[ear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 118
(1) [Palace of Sennach]erib, king of [Assyria: (This is) ...-stone from] Mount Za[...] ... [(...) Whoever places (it) in the serv]ice of [a god (or another) person (or) eras]es my inscr[ibed na]me, [may] the deities Aš[šur, ...], Šamaš, [(and ...) make his name (and) his seed] disappe[ar].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 119
(1) [Palace of] Sennach[erib, king of Assyria: (This is) papparmī]nu-[stone], a product [of ...] may [...] ... [... make his name] (and) his seed [disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 120
(1) Palace of [Sennacherib], king of [Assyria]. Whoever eras[es] my [inscribed] name [(or) places (it)] in the service [of a god] (or another) person, may (the god) Aššur [make his] name (and) [his seed disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 121
(1) [Palace of] Sennacherib, [king of] Assyria. [Whoever] erases [my] inscribed [name (or) places (it) in the serv]ice of a god [(or another) pers]on, [may the gods Aššur, Sîn], (and) Šamaš make [his name] (and) his seed disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 122
(1) [Palace of] Sennac[herib, king of Assyria. Whoever erases my] inscribed [name (or) places (it) in the serv]ice of [a god (or another) person, may (the god) Aššur make his name] (and) his seed [disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 123
(1) [Palace of Sennac]herib, king of [Assyria. Whoever] erases [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of] a god (or another) person, may [the deities Aššur], Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, [...], (and) Uraš make [his name (and)] his [seed] disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 124
(1) Palace of [Sennacherib, king of Assyria. Whoever erases] my [inscribed] name [...]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 125
(1) Palace of [Sennacherib, (...)] ... [...]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 126
(1´) [...] ... [... Whoever erases] my inscribed [name (or) places (it) in the serv]ice of a god (or another) person, may [the deities ...], Sîn, Šamaš, [...], Bēl, (and) [... make his name] (and) his seed [disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 127
(1´) [...] I [was having (it) incised in] my [presence. Whoever] eras[es my inscr]ibed [name (or) places (it) in the service] of [a god (or another) person]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 128
(1´) [Whoever places (it) in the service] of a god [(or another) person, may the deities Aššur], Sîn, [Šamaš, Adad, ...], Bēl, [... make his name (and) his seed disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 129
(1´) [Whoever places (it) in the service of] a god (or another) person, may [the deities Aššur, Sîn], Šamaš, [Adad, ...], Nabû, (and) [Uraš] make [his name (and) his seed] disapp[ear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 130
(1´) [...] Whoever places (it) in [... (or another) pers]on [...]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 131
(1´) [... Whoever plac]es (it) [...], Adad, [...]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 132
(1) Palace of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: I had horse troughs of white limestone built so that fu[ng]us cannot carry (them) off (into death) in the future. I filled (the space) in front of these horse troughs under my warhorses’ feet with blocks of pappardilû-stone, papparmīnu-stone, (and) ḫulālu-stone, leftovers of my choice stones, as well as jasper, marble, breccia, pendû-stone, alallu-stone, girimḫilibû-stone, engisû-stone, alabaster, sābû-stone, ḫaltu-stone, (and) fragments of slabs (used in the building) of my palace.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 133
(1) I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, gave this naḫbuṣu-vessel to Aššur-ilī-muballissu, [my] son. Whoever should take it away from him, from his sons, (or from) his grandsons, may (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, take away his life, as well as (those of) his sons, (and) may he (lit. “they”) make their name(s) (and) their seed, as well as (those of) his advisors, disappear from the land.
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