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Sennacherib 123 (Q003928)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 123
IDQ003928
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 [0:6] 11–66[Palace of Sennac]herib, king of [Assyria. Whoever] erases [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of] a god (or another) person, may [the deities Aššur], Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, [...], (and) Uraš 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[ša₂ MU šaṭ-ru i]-pa-<<ti>>-ši-⸢ṭu⸣
3[ana dul-li ša₂] ⸢DINGIR⸣ LU₂-ti DU₃-⸢šu₂⸣
4[AN.ŠAR₂ {d]}30 {d}UTU {d}⸢IŠKUR⸣
5[...] {d}uraš
6[MU-šu₂ NUMUN]-šu₂ lu-ḫal-li-⸢qu⸣

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