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Sennacherib 117 (Q003922)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 117
IDQ003922
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 [0:9] 11–99[Palace of] Sennacherib, [king of Assyria]: (This is) ḫulālu-[stone], a product of Mount [...] my ... [...] I [was having (it) incised in] my presence. [Whoever] er[ases] my inscribed name [(or) places (it) in] the service of a god [(or another) person], may the deities Aššur, Sîn, [Šamaš, ...], Ištar, Bēl, [...] make his [name] (and) his seed disapp[ear].

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{[na₄]}⸢NIR₂⸣ bi-nu-ut {kur}[...]
3[...] ⸢x⸣-ṣi-ia [...]
4[... ina] ⸢maḫ⸣-ri-ia ⸢u₂⸣-[šap-ṭar]
5[ša₂] ⸢MU⸣ šaṭ-ru i-pa-[ši-ṭu]
6[ana] ⸢dul⸣-li ša₂ DINGIR [LU₂-ti DU₃-šu₂]
7⸢AN⸣.ŠAR₂ {d}30 {d}[UTU ...]
8{⸢d⸣}15 {d}EN {d}[...]
9[MU]-⸢šu₂⸣ NUMUN-šu₂ lu-ḫal-⸢li⸣-[qu]

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