Position in chronology
Sennacherib 212
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The Seal of Destinies [by which] (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, seals (the destinies of) the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods, the heavens, the netherworld, and man[kind]. (6) Whatever he seals cannot be changed. Whoever (tries to) change (what he seals), may (the god) Aššur, king of the gods, (and) the goddess Mullissu, together with their children, kill him with their mighty weapons. (11) I am Sennacherib, king of [As]syria, the ruler who reveres you. (13) Whoever erases (my) [inscr]ibed name (or) alters this Seal of Destinies belonging to you, erase his name (and) his seed from the land.
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/Q004017/
Why it matters
Transliteration
NA₄.KIŠIB NAM.MEŠ / [šá] AN.ŠÁR MAN DINGIR.MEŠ / dí-gì-gì da-nun-na-ki / AN-e KI-tim u LÚ-[tim] / ina lìb-bi i-kan-na-ku / mim-mu-u i-kan-na-ku-ú / la in-ni šá in-nu-u / AN.ŠÁR MAN DINGIR.MEŠ dNIN.LÍL / a-di DUMU.MEŠ-šú-nu ina GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-šú-nu / dan-nu-⸢tu?⸣ li-né-ru-šú / a-na-ku md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU / MAN KUR [aš]-⸢šur⸣.KI NUN pa-liḫ-ka / šá MU [šaṭ]-ru i-pa-áš-ši-ṭu / NA₄.KIŠIB NAM.MEŠ-ka an-nu-u / ú-nak-ka-ru MU-šú / NUMUN-šú ina KUR pi-šiṭ
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004017.
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/Q004017/..
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/Q004017/.
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