Sennacherib 051 (Q003525)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 051 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003525 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] 11–99 | Palace of Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria: pendû-stone, whose appearance is as finely granulated as mottled barley (and) which in the time of the kings, my ancestors, was considered valuable enough to be an amulet, made itself known to me at the foot of Mount Nipur. I had (it) fashioned into sphinxes and had (them) dragged into Nineveh. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | E₂.GAL {m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN GAL | |
| 2 | MAN dan-nu MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur {na₄}{d}ŠE.TIR | |
| 3 | ša₂ GIM ŠE.IM ṣa-aḫ-ḫa-ri ši-kin-šu₂ | |
| 4 | nu-us-su-qu ša ina tar-ṣi LUGAL.MEŠ | |
| 5 | AD.MEŠ-ia ma-la NA₄ GU₂ šu-qu-ru | |
| 6 | i-na GIR₃.II {kur}ni-pur KUR-i ra-ma-nu-uš | |
| 7 | ud-dan-ni a-na {munus}AB₂.ZA.ZA-a-ti | |
| 8 | u₂-še-piš-ma u₂-šal-di-da | |
| 9 | qe₂-reb {uru}ni-na-a |
Sources & licences
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