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Sennacherib 181 (Q003986)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 181
IDQ003986
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 [0:8] 11–88I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aššur and the great gods, built this house for my second son Aššur-ilī-muballissu, who (is) in the service of (the god) Aššur, and I laid its foundation(s) with limestone, stone from the mountains.

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)
1ana-ku {m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU
2MAN KUR AŠ DU₃-iš₃ ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂
3u DINGIR.ME GAL.ME E₂ an-nu-u
4a-na {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DINGIR.MU-TI.LA.BI
5DUMU-ia tar-den-nu ša₂ ina GIR₃.II AN.ŠAR₂
6DU₃-uš-ma ina pi-i-⸢li⸣
7NA₄ KUR-i UŠ₈-⸢šu₂⸣
8ad-di

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