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Sennacherib 197 (Q004002)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 197
IDQ004002
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 [0:3] 11–33Sennacherib, 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 pedest[als 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 KUR aš-šur DU₃-iš₃ ṣa-<lam> AN.⸢ŠAR₂⸣ [u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ana-ku]
2E₂ ti-ka-⸢a-ti ša₂⸣ KISAL sa-ad-ru man-⸢za⸣-[az {d}i₂-gi₃-gi₃ ina a-gur₂-ri]
3UDUN KU₃-ti eš-šiš u₂-⸢še-piš-ma u₂⸣-[zaq-qir₆ ḫur-ša₂-niš]

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