Sennacherib 210

~695 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q004015

Translation · reference

High confidence

(1) Palace of Sennach[erib, king of Assyria]: papparmīnu-stone from the land/mountain [...]. Whoever [places (it)] in the service [of a god (or another) person (or) erases] my inscribed name, [may] the deities Aššur, Mullissu, [...] make his name (and) his seed dis[appear].

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/Q004015/

Why it matters

Transliteration

KUR md30-PAP.MEŠ-[SU MAN KUR AŠ] / NA₄.BABBAR.MIN₅ KUR.x [...] / man-nu šá a-na dul-lu [šá DINGIR LÚ-ti] / [DÙ-šú] šu-mì šaṭ-ru i-[pa-ši-ṭu] / AN.ŠÁR dNIN.LÍL [...] / MU-šú NUMUN-šú [lu]-⸢ḫal⸣-[li-qu]

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004015.

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/Q004015/..
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/Q004015/.

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