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Sennacherib 196 (Q004001)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 196
IDQ004001
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Arkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey
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 [0:3] 11–33Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aššur and the great gods, I: With baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln, I had the tikātu-house of the courtyard (where) the pedestals of the Igīgū gods (stand) in rows made anew 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 DU₃-iš₃ ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂ u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ
2ana-ku E₂ ti-ka-a-ti ša KISAL sa-ad-rum man-za-az {d}i₂-gi₃-gi₃
3ina a-gur₂-ri UDUN KU₃-ti eš-šiš u-še-piš-ma u-zaq-qir₆ ḫur-ša₂-niš

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