Sennacherib 229 (Q004034)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Wadi Bastura Tunnel · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 229 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004034 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Wadi Bastura Tunnel |
| Coordinates | 36.3517, 44.1158 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] 11–88 | Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: (As for) the three watercourses which (flow) from Mount Ḫāni, a mountain above the city Arbela, I dug out the springs which are on the right and left banks of those watercourses and (thus) added (the springs’ water) to them. I dug a (subterranean) watercourse and directed (all of) their course(s) inside the city Arbela, the dwelling of the goddess Ištar, the exalted lady. |
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 | {m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 2 | 3 ID₂.MEŠ ša ul-tu {kur}ḫa-a-ni KUR-e | |
| 3 | ša SAG {uru}LIMMU₂-DINGIR A.MEŠ ku-up-pi | |
| 4 | ša ZAG u GUB₃ ša i-ta-at ID₂.MEŠ ša₂-ti-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 5 | aḫ-re-ma UGU-ši-na uš-rad-di | |
| 6 | ID₂ aḫ-re-ma a-na qa-bal-ti {uru}LIMMU₂-DINGIR | |
| 7 | šu-bat {d}iš-tar GAŠAN ṣir-ti | |
| 8 | u₂-še-šir ma-lak-šin |
Sources & licences
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