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Sennacherib 109 (Q003914)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 109
IDQ003914
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 [0:7] 11–77[Palace of] Sennacherib, king of [Assyria: (This is) the aud]ience gift that (Nabû)-zēr-kitti-[līšir, son of] Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan) presented to me. [Whoever] erases [my] inscribed [name] (or) places (it) [in the serv]ice of a god (or another) person, may [(the god) Aššur] make his name (and) his seed disappear.

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[KUR {m]}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [AŠ]
2[na]-⸢mur⸣-tu₂ ša₂ {m}NUMUN-⸢ZI⸣-[SI.SA₂]
3[DUMU {m]}{d}AMAR.UTU-A-⸢AŠ⸣
4[u₂]-qar-rib-an-⸢ni⸣
5[ša₂ MU] šaṭ-ru i-pa-ši-⸢ṭu⸣
6[ana dul]-⸢li⸣ ša₂ DINGIR LU₂-ti ⸢DU₃⸣-[šu₂]
7[AN.ŠAR₂] ⸢MU⸣-šu₂ NUMUN-šu₂ lu-ḫal-⸢liq⸣

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