Sennacherib 1016 (Q004072)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 1016 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004072 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:18] o 1'1'–o 18'18' | [...] ... [...] ... [...] I cut free and [...] of my lord [...] grass [...] herds of horses (and) donkeys [...] I made dwell (as safely) as on a meadow and [...] ... prospered [...] pastures, [...] he was deeply cutting [... on]agers (and) gazelles [...] their mountain [...] turtle(s) [... la]id eggs [...] my palatial halls [...] I divided [...] ... [...] I made stand (there), and (then) they grew very thick and tall. |
| Obverse [18:29] o 19'19'–o 29'29' | [...] ... two bull colossi of wh[ite] limestone [...] the gate of that watercourse, I had erected. [...] the strong wave and wild tide that rise up and [...] canal(s), dike(s), and irrigation ditch(es) eroded their bank(s) and [... when] there was [bre]ach, harvests were submerged [...] I had magnificent [...]s of iron made and [...] the outflow of water ... [...] ... [...] when its flood was in full spate [...] ... [...] ... [...] |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [...] ... [... of] my mouth which is to be feared and obeyed [...] ... [...] and a desert, a region [...] Zab River and the Tigris River |
| Reverse [5:18] r 6'6'–r 18'18' | (No translation possible) |
| Reverse [18:21] r 19'19'–r 21'21' | [... the land] Elam [...] Akkad |
| Reverse [21:23] r 22'22'–r 23'23' | (No translation possible) |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [...] x x | |
| 2' | [...] x x RA | |
| 3' | [...] ab-tuq-ma | |
| 4' | [...] EN-ia | |
| 5' | [...] x ša₂-am-⸢mu⸣ | |
| 6' | [...] ⸢sa-kul⸣-lat ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ ANŠE.MEŠ | |
| 7' | [...] ⸢par⸣-ga-niš u₂-šar-bi-iṣ-ma | |
| 8' | [...] x (x) ⸢i⸣-še-er | |
| 9' | [...] ri-ti | |
| 10' | [...]-ri i-ḫa-du-ud | |
| 11' | [... ANŠE].EDIN.NA.MEŠ MAŠ.DA₃.MEŠ | |
| 12' | [...] šad-da-šu₂-un | |
| 13' | [...] x še-lep-pu-u | |
| 14' | [... id]-du-u e-ru-tu₂ | |
| 15' | [...] ⸢E₂⸣.GAL.MEŠ-ia | |
| 16' | [...] ⸢u₂-za-ʾi-iz⸣ | |
| 17' | [...] x x x [x (x)] x x (x) x | |
| 18' | [...] x ⸢u₂⸣-ša₂-ziz-ma ma-gal ik-bi-ru-ma ⸢i⸣-ši-⸢ḫu⸣ la-a-nu | |
| 19' | [...] x.MEŠ 2 {d}ALAD.{d}LAMMA ša₂ pe-e-li ⸢pe⸣-[ṣe-e] | |
| 20' | [...] x KA₂ ID₂ šu₂-a-tu u₂-ša₂-ziz | |
| 21' | [...] ⸢a⸣-ge-e dan-ni u e-de-e šam-ri ša₂ i-na-aš₂-šam-ma | |
| 22' | [...] pat-ti E u PA₅ kib-ri-ši-na u₂-ša₂-am-ma-ṭu-ma | |
| 23' | [... bu-tuq]-tu ib-bat-taq-qu-ma u₂-ṭe-eb-⸢bu⸣-u BURU₁₄ | |
| 24' | [...].⸢MEŠ⸣ AN.BAR ⸢ṣi-ra⸣-a-ti u₂-še-piš-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 25' | [...] mu-ṣe-e ma-a-me x x [x] | |
| 26' | [...] x x U₂ NIG₂ GU LA A x [...] | |
| 27' | [...] ina ILLU-šu₂ ⸢gap-ši⸣ [...] | |
| 28' | [...] x ma x x [...] | |
| 29' | [...] x x [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] x x x x x x x x x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] KA-ia pit-la-ḫu-ma mit-gu-⸢ru⸣ [x (x)] | |
| 3' | [...] x x x x x x x x x x x x x [x x] x | |
| 4' | [...] x-ma mad-bar na-gu-u | |
| 5' | [...] {⸢id₂⸣}za-ban u {id₂}IDIGNA | |
| 6' | [...] x x x x x x x x | |
| 7' | [...] x (x) x | |
| 8' | [...] x [x] | |
| 9' | [...] x x | |
| 10' | [...] x-ma | |
| 11' | [...] x-šu₂ | |
| 12' | [...] x | |
| 13' | [...] x | |
| 14' | [...] x x | |
| 15' | [...]-tu | |
| 16' | [...] x | |
| 17' | [...] x-šu₂-uš | |
| 18' | [...] x (x) | |
| 19' | [... {kur]}⸢ELAM⸣.MA{ki} | |
| 20' | [...].KI | |
| 21' | [...] URI{ki} | |
| 22' | [...] x-ti | |
| 23' | [...] IG | |
Sources & licences
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