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Sennacherib 1018 (Q004074)

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

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DesignationSennacherib 1018
IDQ004074
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 [0:4] 1'1'–4'4'[...] ... [...] the great gods [... of] my [lordsh]ip [I had inscribed] upon them [...] I erected and ... [...]
Obverse [4:8] 5'5'–8'8'[...] the kings, my descendants, [...] the people ... [... the] great [go]ds [...]

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'[...] x x x x-⸢šu₂⸣ [...]
2'[...] x DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...]
3'[... be-lu]-⸢ti⸣-ia EDIN-uš-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ [u₂-ša₂-aš₂-ṭir ...]
4'[...] x ul-zi-iz-ma a-x [...]
5'[...] LUGAL.MEŠ DUMU.MEŠ-⸢ia⸣ [...]
6'[...] ⸢UN⸣.MEŠ i-x [...]
7'[...] ⸢DINGIR⸣.MEŠ ⸢GAL⸣.[MEŠ ...]
8'[...] x [...]

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