Sennacherib 216 (Q004021)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Tell Sherif Khan (Tarbisu) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 216 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004021 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; private, Perk, H., Turkey |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Tell Sherif Khan (Tarbisu) |
| Coordinates | 36.4088, 43.0773 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] 11–66 | For the god Nergal, his lord: Sennacherib, king of Assyria, built (and) completed Egallammes, which is in the city Tarbiṣu, from its foundations to its crenellations. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | a-na {d}U.GUR EN-šu₂ | |
| 2 | {m}{d}30-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba | |
| 3 | MAN KUR aš-šur e₂-gal-lam-mes | |
| 4 | ša₂ qe₂-reb {uru}tar-bi-ṣi | |
| 5 | ul-tu₂ UŠ₈-šu₂ a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu₂ | |
| 6 | DU₃-uš u₂-šak-lil |
Sources & licences
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