Position in chronology
Sennacherib 190
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [F]or [(the god) Aššur, ... who dwells in E]šarra, the great lord, [his] lord: (3) [Sennacherib, (king of the world), king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of] the deities Aššur, Anu, Sîn, [..., and the (other) great gods], judicious ruler, the one who carries out to perfection (5) the ri[tes of Ešarra ...] ... [... after] I enlarged [...] (and) made the sanctuaries splendid, this gate [...] ... gods, I widened its entryway and [... had] twin doors of cedar, the pure wood, [made and] had (them) secured in their position(s) [upon kašurrû-stone, stone from the mountains, in the Gate ...]. In the inner gate, which through [...] for the coming and g[oi]ng of (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [... fo]r eternity.
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/Q003995/
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Transliteration
[a]-na [AN.ŠÁR? ...] / [... a-šib é]-šár-ra EN ⸢GAL EN⸣-[šú?] / [md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU (MAN ŠÚ) MAN KUR AŠ DÙ-ìš ṣa-lam] AN.ŠÁR da-nim d30 / [... u DINGIR.ME GAL.ME] ⸢NUN⸣ mun-dal-ku mu-šak-lil / pa-[ra-aṣ ...] ⸢i⸣ man da x ⸢ú⸣ x um-mu-lu 1-et / GIŠ.[...] ú-⸢šar⸣-bu-u ú-⸢šar-ri-ḫu⸣ si-⸢ma?-ku?⸣ KÁ šu-a-tú / x [...] ⸢x x⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ-ni né-reb-šú ú-rap-piš-ma GIŠ.IG MAŠ.TAB.BA GIŠ.EREN / GIŠ ⸢KÙ⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003995.
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/Q003995/..
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/Q003995/.
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