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Sennacherib 171 (Q003976)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSennacherib 171
IDQ003976
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates35.4581, 43.2620

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:7] 11–77Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aššur and the great gods: With limestone, stone from the mountains, I raised this akītu-house as high as a mountain, from its foundations to its crenellations.

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{m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠU₂
2MAN KUR AŠ DU₃-iš₃ ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂
3u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ
4E₂ a-ki-ti šu₂-a-ti
5ul-tu₂ UŠ₈-ša₂ a-di gaba-dib-bi-ša₂
6ina {na₄}pi-i-li NA₄ KUR-i
7u₂-zaq-qir ḫur-ša₂-niš

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