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Sennacherib 174 (Q003979)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 174
IDQ003979
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/scores · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:6] 11–66Sennacherib, king of the world, [king of Assyria, the one who fashioned] image(s) of the deities Aššur, ... [(...)], and the (other) great gods, I: [With] limestone, stone from the mountains, I had the akītu-house of the steppe [(for)] the festival of the feas[t] of (the god) Aššur, built an[ew] from its foundations to [its] crenellations and I raised (it) [as high as a mountain].

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⸣ [MAN KUR aš-šur e-piš]
2ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂ x x x [(...)] u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.⸢MEŠ⸣
3[ana]-⸢ku⸣ E₂ ⸢a-ki-te EDIN⸣ [(ša)] i-sin-ni qe₂-re-[ti]
4AN.ŠAR₂ TA UŠ₈-ša₂ a-di gaba-dib-⸢bi⸣-[ša₂ ina]
5{⸢na₄⸣}pi-i-li NA₄ KUR-i eš-[šiš]
6u₂-še-piš-ma u₂-za-qir [ḫur-ša₂-niš]

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