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Sennacherib 1017 (Q004073)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSennacherib 1017
IDQ004073
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:8] 1'1'–8'8'The foot path [...] onagers (and) gazelles [...] roamed about and [...] among the kings who came before [me ...] region [... Senna]cherib, king of As[syria, ...] that ... [...]

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'⸢ki-bi-is GIR₃.II⸣ [...]
2'ANŠE.EDIN.NA MAŠ.DA₃.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...]
3'it-tag-gi-šu-ma x [...]
4'⸢ina⸣ LUGAL.MEŠ a-li-kut maḫ-ri-[ia ...]
5'x na-ge-e [...]
6'{[m}{d}30-⸢ŠEŠ⸣.MEŠ-SU MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [aš-šur ...]
7'[x (x)] x x šu-a-tu [...]
8'[...] x [...]

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