Sennacherib 053 (Q003527)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 053 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003527 |
| 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 | [Sennacherib], king of the world, king of As[syria: Maniy]e, [the king of the city Uk]ku, [became frightened by my] batt[le] array, abandoned [the city Ukku], a city upon which he relied, [and] fled [far] away. (As for) the populati[on living] inside it, [who] had flown away like [bir]ds to the peak of a [rug]ged mountain, [I pu]rsued them and [def]eated them on the peak of (that) mountain. [I burned] the city Ukku, his royal city, with fi[re]. |
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 | {[m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU] MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-[šur {m}ma-ni-ia]-e | |
| 2 | [MAN {uru}uk]-⸢ki⸣ ti-ib ta-ḫa-[zi-ia e-dur₂]-ma | |
| 3 | {[uru}uk-ku] ⸢URU⸣ tuk-la-te-šu₂ e-⸢zib⸣-[ma a-na ru]-⸢qe₂⸣-te | |
| 4 | ⸢in-na⸣-bit ba-ḫu-la-[te a-šib] ⸢ŠA₃⸣-šu₂ | |
| 5 | [ša] ⸢a⸣-na zuq-ti KUR-⸢i⸣ [mar]-⸢ṣi⸣ [iṣ-ṣu]-riš | |
| 6 | ⸢ip⸣-par-⸢šu₂⸣ ar-ki-šu₂-⸢un⸣ [ar]-⸢de⸣-ma | |
| 7 | i-na zuq-ti KUR-i [aš₂-ta]-kan | |
| 8 | ⸢taḫ⸣-ta-šu₂-un {uru}⸢uk-ku⸣ | |
| 9 | ⸢URU⸣ LUGAL-ti-šu₂ i-na {d}⸢GIŠ⸣.[BAR aq-mu] |
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