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RINAP 3/2 Sennacherib x1016, ex. 001 (P394553)
Official or display, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RINAP 3/2 Sennacherib x1016, ex. 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394553 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Official or display |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-H2, 2026-10-18), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1' | [...] x x | |
| 2' | [...] x x _ra_ | |
| 3' | [...] ab-tuq-ma | ... I fell, and(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 4' | [...] _en_-ia | ... my lord(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 5' | [...] x sza2-am-mu#? | ... šammu(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 6' | [...] sa#-kul#-lat _ansze-kur-ra-mesz ansze-mesz_ | ... the totality of horses and donkeys(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 7' | [...] par#-ga-nisz u2-szar-bi-is,-ma | ... I made (it) shine like the sun. |
| 8' | [...] x x? i#-sze-er | ... rises(?)(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 9' | [...] ri-ti | ... of the city(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 10' | [...]-ri i-ha-du-ud | ... he rejoiced(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 11' | [... _ansze]-edin-na-mesz masz-da3-mesz_ | ... donkeys, gazelles(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 12' | [...] szad-da-szu2-un | ... their mountain(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 13' | [...] x sze-lep-pu-u | ... is swollen.(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 14' | [... id]-du-u e-ru-tu2 | ... they established the rites.(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 15' | [...] _e2#-gal-mesz_-ia | ... my palaces(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 16' | [...] u2#-za#-'i#-iz#? | ... he libates ...(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 17' | [...] x x x [x x?] x x x? x | |
| 18' | [...] x u2#-sza2-ziz-ma ma-gal ik-bi-ru-ma i#-szi-hu# la-a-nu | ... he set up ... and a great flood raged, and the people rejoiced. |
| 19' | [...] _x-mesz_ 2(disz) _{d}alad-{d}lamma_ sza2 pe-e-li pe#-[s,e-e] | ... 2 ... of Alad-Lamma, who is above the ... |
| 20' | [...] x _ka2 i7_ szu2-a-tu u2-sza2-ziz | ... ... the gate of that canal he set up. |
| 21' | [...] a#-ge-e dan-ni u e-de-e szam-ri sza2 i-na-asz2-szam-ma | ... the strong aegis and the high steppe, which he brings and |
| 22' | [...] pat-ti _e_ u _pa5_ kib-ri-szi-na u2-sza2-am-ma-t,u-ma | ... they made their perimeters shaky and dilapidated. |
| 23' | [... bu?-tuq?]-tu ib-bat-taq-qu-ma u2-t,e-eb-bu#-u _buru14_ | ... a flood will arise and they will cut off the harvest. |
| 24' | [_...]-mesz# an-bar_ s,i#-ra#-a-ti u2-sze-pisz-ma# | I had ...s of shiny iron made and |
| 25' | [...] mu-s,e-e ma-a-me x x [x] | ... there is nobody ...(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 26' | [...] x x _u2 nig2 gu la a_ x [...] | ... ... food that has no water ...(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 27' | [...] ina _illu_-szu2 gap#-szi# [...] | ... in its extensive flood ...(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 28' | [...] x ma x x [...] | |
| 29' | [...] x x [...] | |
| reverse | ||
| 1' | [...] x x x x x x x x x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] _ka_-ia pit-la-hu-ma mit-gu-ru# [x x?] | ... my mouth is swollen and a throne ... |
| 3' | [...] x x x x x x x x x x x x x [x x] x | |
| 4' | [...] x-ma mad-bar na-gu-u | ... madbar (is) the nagû(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 5' | [...] {i7#}za-ban u {i7}idigna | ... the Zabban and the Tigris(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 6' | [...] x x x x x x x x | |
| 7' | [...] x x? x | |
| 8' | [...] x [x] | |
| 9' | [...] x x | |
| 10' | [...] x-ma? | ... and(?)(very low confidence: a guess) |
| 11' | [...] x-szu2 | ... his(very low confidence: a guess) |
| 12' | [...] x | |
| 13' | [...] x | |
| 14' | [...] x x | |
| 15' | [...]-tu? | ...-tu(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 16' | [...] x | |
| 17' | [...] x-szu2-usz | |
| 18' | [...] x x? | |
| 19' | [... {kur}]elam#?-ma?{ki} | ... the land Elam(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 20' | [_...]{ki} | |
| 21' | [...] uri{ki} | ... of Ur(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 22' | [...] x-ti | |
| 23' | [...] _ig_ | ... he will die.(low confidence: few signs survive) |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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