Sennacherib 227 (Q004032)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Jerwan Aqueduct · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 227 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004032 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Jerwan Aqueduct |
| Coordinates | 36.6698, 43.3935 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] 11–22 | [Sennacherib ...]: I had a [can]al d[ug] over a long distance, from the Ḫusu[r] River [...] I had an aqueduct constructed (by packing down) limestone [over dee]p [wadis (and thereby) ...] water[s ...]. |
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 ⸢šid⸣-di ru-u₂-qi₂ ul-tu {id₂}ḫa-zu-[ur pat]-tum u₂-⸢šaḫ₂⸣-[ra-a ...] | |
| 2 | [... UGU na-aḫ-li ḫu-du-du]-ti ša {na₄}pi-i-li u₂-ša₂-ak-bi-is ti-tur-ri A.[MEŠ ...] |
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