Sennacherib 173 (Q003978)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 173 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003978 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK; 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 [0:10] 11–1010 | Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of the deities Aššur, Šerūa, Anu, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Ištar of Bīt-Kidmuri, Bēlet-ilī, Kaka, Ḫaya, Kusu, Lumḫa, Dunga, Egalkiba, and the (other) great gods, I: With limestone, stone from the mountains, I laid the foundation(s) of the akītu-house for the festival of the feast of (the god) Aššur. |
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-šur | |
| 2 | DU₃-iš₃ ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂ {d}še-⸢ru⸣-u-a | |
| 3 | {d}a-nim {d}30 {d}UTU {d}IŠKUR | |
| 4 | {d}15 ša₂ E₂-kid-mu-ri DINGIR.MAḪ | |
| 5 | {d}ka₃-ka₃ {d}ḫa-ia₃ {d}ku₃-su₃ | |
| 6 | {d}lumḫa {d}dunga₂ {d}e₂-gal-⸢ki⸣-ba | |
| 7 | u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ a-na-ku | |
| 8 | te-me-en E₂ a-ki-ti ša₂ i-sin-nu | |
| 9 | qe₂-re-ti AN.ŠAR₂ ina pi-i-lu | |
| 10 | NA₄ KUR-i UŠ₈-šu₂ ad-di |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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