Position in chronology
Sennacherib 214
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For the god Nergal, his lord: I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, built Egallammes, which is in the city Tarbiṣu, from its foundations to its crenellations for my life, the well-being of my offspring, the overthrow of my enemies, the success of the harvest of Assyria, (and) the well-being of Assyria. [I deposited] (my) clay cones (therein).
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/Q004019/
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Transliteration
⸢a-na⸣ dU.GUR EN-šú mdEN.ZU-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba MAN ⸢KUR aš-šur.KI é-gal-lam-mes šá qé-reb⸣ URU.tar-bi-ṣi TA UŠ₈-šú a-di ⸢gaba-dib-bi-šú⸣ / ⸢a-na⸣ TI.LA-ia šá-lam NUMUN-ia sá-kap LÚ.KÚR.MEŠ-ia ⸢SI.SÁ BURU₁₄ šá KUR aš-šur.KI šá-lam⸣ KUR aš-šur.KI DÙ-uš sí-ka₄-a-⸢te⸣ [áš-kun]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004019.
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/Q004019/..
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/Q004019/.
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