Position in chronology
Sennacherib 209
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] of gold, two bull-shaped [son-of-Šamaš figures of ...] I opened [a n]ew [gate ... towards the east], and [named it “The Royal] Gate.” (3') [...] I built (anew) [the ga]te (of) ... and [widened ...] that [gate of the ce]lla had become dilap[idated and ...] of gold, a bull-shaped son-of-Šamaš figure of gold, a scorpion-m[an figure of ..., ...] I widened [the gate of the c]ella and [I named it] “The Gate of the Path of the En[lil-Stars.”] Four bull-shaped son-of-Šamaš figures of reddish bronze ra[ise] up in their hands a sun disk (and) [hold up the roof] above, (while) below, their…
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/Q004014/
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Transliteration
[...] ⸢KÙ.GI⸣ 2 ⸢GU₄⸣ [DUMU? dUTU? ...] / [mé-eḫ-ret IM.KUR.RA KÁ eš]-⸢šiš⸣ ap-te₉-e-ma ⸢KÁ⸣ [LUGAL-ti MU-šú am-bi] / [...] ⸢KÁ⸣ x x e-pu-uš-ma ⸢ú?⸣-[rap-piš? ...] / [KÁ? pa?]-⸢pa?-ḫu?⸣ šu-⸢a⸣-tu e-⸢na?⸣-[aḫ-ma? ...] / [...] ⸢KÙ⸣.GI GU₄ ⸢DUMU dUTU KÙ.GI⸣ GÍR.TAB.LÚ.⸢U₁₈⸣.[LU ...] / [KÁ pa]-pa-ḫu ú-rap-piš-ma KÁ KASKAL šu-ut dEN.[LÍL az-za-kar MU-šú] / 4 GU₄ DUMU dUTU ZABAR ḪUŠ.A ⸢e⸣-liš…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004014.
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/Q004014/..
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/Q004014/.
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