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Sennacherib 083 (Q003557)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 083
IDQ003557
CollectionArkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey
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 [0:4] 11–44Sennacherib, king of Assyria, had the (inner) wall and outer wall of Nineveh built anew and raised as high as mountain(s).

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 KUR AŠ
2BAD₃ u₃ šal-ḫu-u ša₂ NINA{ki}
3eš-šiš u₂-še-piš-ma
4u-zaq-qir ḫur-ša₂-niš

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