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Sîn-šarru-iškun 05 (Q003866)

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

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DesignationSîn-šarru-iškun 05
IDQ003866
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/rinap5 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:6] 1'1'–6'6'[...] ... [... that ..., king of A]ssyria, [... had bu]ilt became dilapidated [and] o[ld ...] I built (and) [completed (it) from] its [fo]undation(s) to [its] crenellatio[ns. ... I enlarged] its struc[tu]re. [...] ... [...]
Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7'[... when that] house [...]

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'[...] x A [(x)] AD [...]
2'[... LUGAL KUR] ⸢AN⸣.ŠAR₂{ki} x [...]
3'[... e]-⸢pu⸣-šu e-na-aḫ-[ma] la-⸢ba⸣-[riš il-lik ...]
4'[... ul-tu] ⸢UŠ₈⸣-šu₂ a-di gaba-dib-⸢bi⸣-[šu₂] ar-ṣip [u₂-šak-lil ...]
5'[...] x ši-⸢kit-ta⸣-šu [u₂-rab-bi ...]
6'[...] x [x x] x [...]
7'[... e-nu-ma] ⸢E₂⸣ [šu-a-tu ...]

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