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Sennacherib 052 (Q003526)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSennacherib 052
IDQ003526
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] 11–11[(Palace of) Sennac]herib, [...], favorite of the great gods:
Obverse [1:3] 22–33[(The god) Aššur granted] me [...] and, from ea[st] to [west he made ... bow d]own [at my feet] and they (now) pull my yoke.
Obverse [3:6] 44–66At [that time, ... which earlier kings], my ancestors, had had built [and ...] its construction [...]. Moreover, from [...]

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1[(E₂.GAL) {m}{d}EN.ZU-ŠEŠ].⸢MEŠ⸣-eri-⸢ba⸣ [...]
2[...] ⸢mi⸣-gir DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ [...]
3[u₂-šat-li-ma-an]-ni-ma ul-tu ṣi-[taš] a-di [šil-la-an ...]
4[še-pu-u₂-a u₂-šak]-niš-ma i-šu-ṭu ⸢ab⸣-[ša₂]-a-ni i-[na u₄-me-šu-ma ... LUGAL.MEŠ]
5[a-li-kut maḫ-ri] AD.MEŠ-ia u₂-še-pi-šu-[ma ...]
6[...] e-piš-taš u₃ ul-tu [...]

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