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Sennacherib 121 (Q003926)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 121
IDQ003926
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. [Whoever] erases [my] inscribed [name (or) places (it) in the serv]ice of a god [(or another) pers]on, [may the gods Aššur, Sîn], (and) Šamaš 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⸣
2[MAN KUR] ⸢AŠ⸣
3[ša₂ MU] ⸢šaṭ⸣-ru
4[i]-pa-ši-ṭu
5[ana dul]-li ša₂ ⸢DINGIR⸣
6[LU₂]-⸢ti⸣ [DU₃-šu₂]
7[AN.ŠAR₂ {d}30 {⸢d⸣}UTU
8[MU-šu₂] NUMUN-šu₂
9[lu]-⸢ḫal⸣-li-⸢qu⸣

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