Sennacherib 074 (Q003548)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 074 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003548 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK; Arkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 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 |
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| Obverse [0:6] 11–66 | Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: (With regard to) the white limestone that had been discovered by the will of the gods in the territory of the city Balāṭāya for the construction of my palace, I had the soldiers of enemy settlements and insubmissive troops of the mountains whom I had captured wield iron axes and picks [and] they quarried large bull colossi for the gates of my palace. |
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 {na₄}pi-i-lu pe-ṣu-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| 2 | ša ki-i ṭe₃-em DINGIR-ma a-na šip-ri E₂.GAL-ia ina er-ṣe-⸢et⸣ | |
| 3 | {uru}ba-la-ṭa-a-a in-nam-ru ba-ḫu-la-ti da-ad₂-⸢me⸣ | |
| 4 | na-ki-ri u₃ ERIM.MEŠ ⸢ḫur⸣-ša₂-a-ni la kan-šu-ti KUR-ti ⸢ŠU.II-ia⸣ | |
| 5 | qul-me-e u₃ ak-kul-la-ti AN.BAR u₂-⸢ša₂-aš₂-ši-šu₂-nu⸣-ti-[ma] | |
| 6 | {d}ALAD.{d}LAMMA.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ a-na KA₂.MEŠ E₂.GAL-ia ⸢ib-tu-qu⸣ |
Sources & licences
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