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Sennacherib 205 (Q004010)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 205
IDQ004010
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 [0:7] 11–77Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aššur and the great gods, I: I built a house for Aššur-nādin-šumi, my eldest son, and laid its foundation(s) with limestone, stone from the mountains. I had (it) made with the craft of the god Kulla 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
2e-piš ⸢ṣa⸣-lam AN.ŠAR₂ u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ana-ku
3E₂ a-⸢na⸣ {m}aš-šur-MU-⸢MU⸣ GAL DUMU-ia
4DU₃-ma ina {na₄}pi-i-⸢li⸣ NA₄ KUR-i
5UŠ₈-šu₂ ad-di ina ši-pir {d}kulla
6⸢u₂⸣-še-piš-ma
7u₂-zaq-qi-ir ḫur-ša₂-niš

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