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Sennacherib 094 (Q003568)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 094
IDQ003568
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; Arkeoloji 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 [0:3] 11–33Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, 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 GAL-u MAN dan-nu MAN ŠU₂
2MAN KUR aš-šur BAD₃ u šal-ḫu-u ša NINA{ki}
3eš-šiš u₂-še-piš-ma u-zaq-qir ḫur-ša₂-niš

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