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Sennacherib 218 (Q004023)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qasr Shamamuk (Kilizu) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSennacherib 218
IDQ004023
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQasr Shamamuk (Kilizu)
Coordinates36.1058, 43.7518

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:6] 11–66Sennacherib, great king, king of the world, king of Assyria, had the (inner) wall (and) the outer wall of the city Kilīzu built anew and raised as high as mountains.

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-eri-ba
2MAN GAL-u MAN kiš-ša₂-ti
3MAN KUR aš-šur
4BAD₃ šal-ḫu-u ša₂ {uru}DU₃-zi
5eš-šiš u₂-še-piš-ma
6u₂-zaq-qir ḫur-ša₂-niš

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