Sennacherib 162

~695 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003967

Translation · reference

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Completely missing (ii 1) [... t]o my land [...] ... [...] ... [...] (iii 1') [... I ...] to (the god) Aššur, king of [the gods, ... for (...)] the securing of my reign, the increasing of [..., ..., ...] the foundation of my throne for [...] days. (iii 5') May (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, the great god, ... look kindly up[on] my [de]eds. When he looks, may the works that are the desire of ..., as much I ha[ve do]ne, please him and be acceptable to him. May he make the people of the four quarters (of the world) bow down to him so that they pull his yoke. May he make the substantial…

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/Q003967/

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Transliteration

[... a]-na KUR-⸢ia⸣ / [...]-⸢šá⸣-a-ni / [...]-x-šú / [...] x / [...] x / x [...] / a-na ⸢AN.ŠÁR MAN?⸣ [DINGIR.MEŠ? ... a-na (...)] / GIN BALA-ía šum-⸢dul x⸣ [...] / SUḪUŠ GIŠ.GU.ZA-ía a-na ⸢u₄-me⸣ [...]1 / AN.ŠÁR MAN DINGIR.MEŠ EN GAL x [(x) ep]-⸢še⸣-ti-⸢ía lip-pa⸣-[lis] / dam-qiš ina nap-⸢lu-si-šú⸣ ep-še*-te bi-bíl x [(x)]2 / ma-la i-tep-⸢pu-šú⸣ UGU-šú li-ṭib-ma lim-ma-ḫir pa-nu-uš-⸢šú⸣ / UN.MEŠ…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003967.

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/Q003967/..
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/Q003967/.

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