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Sennacherib 191 (Q003996)

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

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Designation	Sennacherib 191
ID	Q003996
Collection	Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, UK; Arkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey
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/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:2] 11–22	For (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, the great lord, [his] lord:
Obverse [2:16] 33–1616	Sennach[erib], king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aš[šur] and the great gods, [had] twin doors of cedar, the pure wood, [made] for [his] life, the lengthening of [his] days, the securing of [his] reign, (and) the well-being of his offspring, [and] he had (them) secured in their position(s) upon kašur[rû]-stone, stone from the mountains, in the Gate of the Wa[gon] Star.

Line

English

Obverse [0:2] 11–22

For (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, the great lord, [his] lord:

Obverse [2:16] 33–1616

Sennach[erib], king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aš[šur] and the great gods, [had] twin doors of cedar, the pure wood, [made] for [his] life, the lengthening of [his] days, the securing of [his] reign, (and) the well-being of his offspring, [and] he had (them) secured in their position(s) upon kašur[rû]-stone, stone from the mountains, in the Gate of the Wa[gon] Star.

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	a-na AN.ŠAR₂ MAN DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣
2	EN GAL-i EN-[šu₂]
3	{m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-[SU]
4	MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur{[ki]}
5	e-piš ṣa-lam AN.[ŠAR₂]
6	u₃ DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.[MEŠ]
7	a-na TI-[šu₂]
8	GID₂.DA UD.⸢MEŠ⸣-[šu₂]
9	GIN BALA-[šu₂] ⸢SILIM⸣ NUMUN-šu₂
10	{giš}IG MAŠ.⸢TAB⸣.[BA] {giš}EREN
11	GIŠ KU₃ u₂-[še-piš-ma]
12	ina KA₂ {mul}MAR.[GID₂.DA]
13	UGU {na₄}ka-šur-[re-e]
14	NA₄ KUR-i
15	u₂-šar-šid
16	man-za-as-⸢si⸣-in

Sources & licences

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