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Sennacherib 199 (Q004004)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 199
IDQ004004
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) Aš[šur] and the great gods, I: With baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln, I had the Step Gate of the Palace in Baltil (Aššur) built anew.

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 e-piš ṣa-lam AN⸣.[ŠAR₂]
2u ⸢DINGIR.MEŠ⸣ GAL.MEŠ ana-⸢ku muš-la-lu ša⸣ E₂.GAL bal-⸢til⸣{[ki]}
3ina a-gur₂-⸢ri⸣ UDUN KU₃-ti ⸢eš⸣-šiš u₂-še-⸢piš⸣

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