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Sennacherib 079 (Q003553)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 079
IDQ003553
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 [0:2] 11–22Sennacherib, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, had Egalzagdinutukua (the “Palace Without a Rival”) built anew to be his lordly residence inside the citadel of 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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1{m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur e₂-gal-zag-di-nu-tuku-a
2a-na mu-šab be-lu-ti-šu₂ qe₂-reb MURUB₄ URU ša NINA{ki} eš-šiš u₂-še-piš

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