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Sennacherib 118 (Q003923)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 118
IDQ003923
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 [0:8] 11–88[Palace of Sennach]erib, king of [Assyria: (This is) ...-stone from] Mount Za[...] ... [(...) Whoever places (it) in the serv]ice of [a god (or another) person (or) eras]es my inscr[ibed na]me, [may] the deities Aš[šur, ...], Šamaš, [(and ...) make his name (and) his seed] disappe[ar].

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[...] ŠA₃ {kur}za-[x (x)]
3[...] ⸢EN NI⸣ [(x)]
4[ša₂ ana dul]-⸢li⸣ ša₂ [DINGIR]
5[LU₂-ti DU₃-šu₂ šu]-mi₃ šaṭ-[ru]
6[i-pa-ši]-⸢ṭu⸣ AN.[ŠAR₂]
7[...] {d}UTU {[(d}x)]
8[MU-šu₂ NUMUN-šu₂ lu]-⸢ḫal-li⸣-[qu]

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