Sennacherib 172 (Q003977)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 172 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003977 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| 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/scores · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] 11–66 | Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of the deities Aššur, Anu, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Nergal, Ištar of Bīt-Kidmuri, Bēlet-ilī, and the (other) great gods, I: With white limestone, I laid the foundation(s) of the akītu-house, the residence of (the god) Aššur, my lord. |
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-SU MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ | |
| 2 | DU₃-iš₃ ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂ {d}a-nim {d}30 | |
| 3 | {d}UTU {d}IŠKUR {d}U.GUR {d}iš-tar | |
| 4 | ša E₂-kid-mu-ri DINGIR.MAḪ u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ana-ku | |
| 5 | ša E₂ a₂-ki-it mu-šab AN.ŠAR₂ EN-ia | |
| 6 | ina {na₄}pi-li BABBAR-e te-men₅-šu₂ ad-di |
Sources & licences
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