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Sennacherib 190 (Q003995)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 190
IDQ003995
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 [0:2] 11–22[F]or [(the god) Aššur, ... who dwells in E]šarra, the great lord, [his] lord:
Obverse [2:11] 33–1111[Sennacherib, (king of the world), king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of] the deities Aššur, Anu, Sîn, [..., and the (other) great gods], judicious ruler, the one who carries out to perfection (5) the ri[tes of Ešarra ...] ... [... after] I enlarged [...] (and) made the sanctuaries splendid, this gate [...] ... gods, I widened its entryway and [... had] twin doors of cedar, the pure wood, [made and] had (them) secured in their position(s) [upon kašurrû-stone, stone from the mountains, in the Gate ...]. In the inner gate, which through [...] for the coming and g[oi]ng of (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [... fo]r eternity.

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[a]-na [AN.ŠAR₂ ...]
2[... a-šib e₂]-šar₂-ra EN ⸢GAL EN⸣-[šu₂]
3{[m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU (MAN ŠU₂) MAN KUR AŠ DU₃-iš₃ ṣa-lam] AN.ŠAR₂ {d}a-nim {d}30
4[... u DINGIR.ME GAL.ME] ⸢NUN⸣ mun-dal-ku mu-šak-lil
5pa-[ra-aṣ ...] ⸢i⸣ man da x ⸢u₂⸣ x um-mu-lu 1-et
6GIŠ.[...] u₂-⸢šar⸣-bu-u u₂-⸢šar-ri-ḫu⸣ si-⸢ma-ku⸣ KA₂ šu-a-tu₂
7x [...] ⸢x x⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ-ni ne₂-reb-šu₂ u₂-rap-piš-ma {giš}IG MAŠ.TAB.BA {giš}EREN
8GIŠ ⸢KU₃⸣ [u₂-še-piš-ma ina KA₂ ... UGU {na₄}ka-šur-re-e NA₄ KUR-i] u₂-⸢šar-šid⸣ man-za-as-si-in ina KA₂ ⸢bit-a⸣-nu-u
9ša₂ ⸢ina⸣ [...] ⸢a⸣-na ⸢a⸣-[ṣe]-e u e-re-bi ša₂ AN.ŠAR₂ MAN DINGIR.MEŠ
10[...] x x x x x [x x x] x x x bu [x] x ʾu u x
11[...] x x x x x [... a]-na ṣa-a-ti

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