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Sennacherib 201 (Q004006)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 201
IDQ004006
CollectionArkeoloji 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 [0:4] 11–44Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashi[oned image(s) of (the god) Aššur] and the great gods: With baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln, I [had] the Step Gate [of the Palace in Baltil (Aššur) built] anew [and I] rai[sed (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 u₂⸣-[še-piš-ma]
4[u₂]-⸢zaq⸣-[qir₆ ḫur-ša₂-niš]

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