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Sennacherib 178 (Q003983)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 178
IDQ003983
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 [0:5] 11–55Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aššur and the great gods, I: With limestone, stone from the mountains, I laid the foundation(s) of the Step Gate of the Palace, which is in Baltil (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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1{m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ
2DU₃-iš₃ ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂ u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ana-ku
3muš-la-lum E₂.GAL ša₂ qe₂-reb
4bal-til{ki} ina {na₄}pi-i-lu
5NA₄ KUR-i UŠ₈-šu₂ ad-di

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