Position in chronology
Sennacherib 144
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1') [...] I ma[rched ...] (i 3') After[wards, (he), the k]ing of the land Elam, [the lands Parsuaš, Anzan, Paširu], (and) Ellipi, the entirety of Chaldea, and [all of the Arameans, a large host], formed a confederation with him. [They met up] with the king of Ba[bylon (and) the citizens of Babylon] (and) Borsippa [and they ...] as far as the city Ḫal[ulê] to do battle. (i 7'b) [I myself prayed t]o the deities Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Bēl, [Nabû, Nergal], Rest of the inscription missing The royal decree on the reverse is not edited here
Source: Grayson, A.K. & Novotny, J. 2012–2014. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC). RINAP 3. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003949/
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Transliteration
x [...] / ⸢al?⸣-[lik? ...] / ⸢ar?⸣-[ka? (šu?-ú?)] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR.ELAM.⸢MA.KI⸣ [KUR.par-su-áš KUR.an-za-an KUR.pa-ši-ru]1 / KUR.el-⸢li-pi nap⸣-ḫar LÚ.kal-di ⸢ù⸣ [LÚ.a-ra-me ka-li-šú-un kit-ru GAL-ú] / ik-te-ra it-ti-šú a-di LUGAL ⸢KÁ⸣.[DINGIR.RA.KI DUMU.MEŠ KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI] / bár-sipa.KI a-na a-ḫa-meš [iq-ri-bu-ma] / a-na e-peš ta-ḫa-zi a-di URU.ḫa-⸢lu⸣-[le-e ... a-na-ku]2 / [a]-⸢na⸣ daš-šur d30 dUTU d⸢EN⸣ [dMUATI dU.GUR]3
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003949.
Attribution
Image: Created by A. Kirk Grayson, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2014. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2013. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003949/..
Translation excerpted from Grayson, A.K. & Novotny, J. 2012–2014. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC). RINAP 3. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003949/.
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