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Sennacherib 098 (Q003572)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 098
IDQ003572
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
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, king of the world, king of [Assyria], built a house in connection with the start of the work on the wall of Ninev[eh] for his son and ga[ve (it to him)].

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 ŠU₂ MAN [KUR AŠ]
2TA ṣa-bat BAD₃ ša₂ {uru}ni-⸢na⸣-[a]
3E₂ a-na ⸢DUMU-šu₂ DU₃-ma⸣ id-[di-in]

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