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Sennacherib 200 (Q004005)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 200
IDQ004005
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 [0:4] 11–44[Sennach]erib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of [(the god) Aššur and the great god]s: [With baked bricks] from a (ritually) pure kiln, I [built] the Step Gate of the Palace [in Baltil (Aššur)] 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]
2[u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL].⸢MEŠ⸣ {e₂}⸢muš-la-lu ša₂⸣ E₂.⸢GAL⸣ [bal-til{ki]}
3[ina a-gur₂-ri] UDUN KU₃-ti eš-⸢šiš ab⸣-[ni-ma]
4[u₂]-⸢zaq⸣-qir₆ ⸢ḫur⸣-ša₂-niš

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