Position in chronology
Sennacherib 226
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: Over a long distance, I had the water of the two Ḫazur Rivers, the water of the Pulpullia River, the water of the city Ḫanusa, the water of the city Gammagara, (5) (and) water from mountain springs on the right and left sides of it added to it (and thereby) I had a canal dug to the plain of Nineveh. I had an aqueduct constructed (by packing down) white limestone over deep wadis (and thereby) enabled those waters to flow over it.
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/Q004031/
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Transliteration
md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur a-na šid-di / ru-ú-qí A.MEŠ ÍD.ḫa-zu-ur ki-lal-la-an / A.MEŠ ÍD.pul-pul-li-ia A.MEŠ URU.ḫa-nu-sa / A.MEŠ URU.gam-ma-ga-ra / A.MEŠ kup-pa-ni ša KUR.MEŠ ša im-na ù šu-me-li / ša i-ta-tu-uš-šú UGU-šú uš-rad-di pat-tum / ú-šáḫ-ra-a a-na ta-mir-ti NINA.KI UGU na-aḫ-li / ḫu-du-du-ti ša NA₄.pi-i-li pe-ṣi-i ú-šak-bi-is / ti-tur-ru A.MEŠ šá-tu-nu ú-še-ti-iq ṣe-ru-uš-šú
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004031.
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/Q004031/..
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/Q004031/.
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