Sennacherib 167 (Q003972)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 167 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003972 |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Qalat Sherqat (Assur) |
| Coordinates | 35.4581, 43.2620 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] 11–99 | [Sennacheri]b, [great king, strong king], king of the world, king of Assyria, [the one who fashioned image(s) of] the deities Aššur, Mullissu, [... and] the (other) great [god]s, the one who makes great (5) [their purification rites], the one who carries out to perfection the forgotten ri[tes of Ešar]ra through divination, at the command of [the gods Šamaš (and)] Adad, the one who renovated Baltil (Aššur), the one who [...] its purification rites, the one who returns the unfinished [protective spirit of E]šarra to [its place, I]: |
| Obverse [9:26] 1010–2626 | [T]hen, after I had made the image of (the god) Aššur, the great lord, [my lord, and the image(s) of] the great [god]s, and [installed them] in their peaceful dwellings, in the month [Nisannu (I)], the first month, (the month) of [father Enlil, the month of the he]liacal rising of the Plow-star: (15) The festival of the [fea]st of the king of the gods, (the god) Aššur, which [fr]om distant days, because of [chaos] and disrup[t]ion, (and) the a[kītu]-house of the steppe had been forgotten; the ri[t]es of [the king of the god]s, (the god) Aššur, had been performed in[side the city]. Wi[th] (regard to) that [wo]rk, [I ma]de up [my mind] t[o (re)build] that [a]kītu-[house, and (then) I fo]und out [the will of the gods Šamaš (and) Adad, and they answered] me [with a firm ‘yes’] and [commanded me to (re)bui]ld (it). |
| Obverse [26:27] 2727–2727 | [In a favorable month, on a propitious day, through the craft of the purificat]ion priest |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {[m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-eri]-ba | |
| 2 | [MAN GAL MAN dan-nu] MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur | |
| 3 | [e-piš ṣa-lam] ⸢AN.ŠAR₂⸣ {d}NIN.LIL₂ | |
| 4 | [... u DINGIR].⸢MEŠ⸣ GAL.MEŠ ⸢mu⸣-šar-bu-u | |
| 5 | [šu-luḫ-ḫi-šu₂-un] mu-šak-lil | |
| 6 | ⸢pa⸣-[ra-aṣ e₂-šar₂]-ra ma-šu-ti ina bi-ri | |
| 7 | [ina] ⸢qi₂-bit⸣ {[d}UTU {d]}IŠKUR mu-ud-diš ⸢bal⸣-til{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 8 | ⸢mu⸣-x [...] šu-luḫ-ḫi-šu₂ | |
| 9 | ⸢mu-ter⸣ {[d}LAMMA e₂]-šar₂-ra la e-piš-ti | |
| 10 | a-na [aš₂-ri-šu₂ a-na-ku e]-nu-šu₂ iš-tu ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂ | |
| 11 | EN ⸢GAL⸣-[i EN-ia u ṣa-lam DINGIR].MEŠ GAL.MEŠ e-pu-šu-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 12 | ⸢u₂⸣-[šar-me-šu-nu-ti] šu-bat-su-nu ne₂-eḫ-ti | |
| 13 | {⸢iti⸣}[BAR.SAG.SAG] ITI ⸢reš⸣-tu-u₂ | |
| 14 | ša₂ [a-bi {d}EN.LIL₂ ITI na]-an-mur-ti {mul}APIN | |
| 15 | EZEN [qe₂-re]-e-ti ša₂ ⸢LUGAL⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢AN.ŠAR₂⸣ | |
| 16 | ša₂ [ul]-⸢tu u₄⸣-me SU₃.⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 17 | ina [e-ša₂-a-ti] ⸢u saḫ-ma⸣-[ša₂]-⸢a⸣-ti | |
| 18 | E₂ a₂-[ki-it] ⸢EDIN im⸣-ma-šu-u | |
| 19 | ina [qe₂-reb URU] ⸢in-ne₂⸣-ep-pu-šu₂ | |
| 20 | pa-[ra]-⸢aṣ⸣ [LUGAL DINGIR].⸢MEŠ⸣ AN.ŠAR₂ | |
| 21 | it-[ti šip]-⸢ri⸣-[im]-⸢ma šu⸣-a-ti | |
| 22 | ⸢a⸣-[na e-peš E₂ a₂]-ki-it | |
| 23 | [lib₃-bi ub-la]-ni-ma | |
| 24 | [ṭe₃-em {d}UTU {d}IŠKUR al]-mad-ma | |
| 25 | [an-na ki-i-nu i-pu-lu-in]-ni-ma | |
| 26 | [iq-bu-u-ni e-pe-e]-šu₂ | |
| 27 | [ina ITI DUG₃.GA u₄-me šal-mu ina ši-pir i-šip]-⸢pu⸣-ti |
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