Position in chronology
Sennacherib 230
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The deities Aššur — great lord, the father of the gods — Anu, Enlil, and Ea, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Marduk, Nabû, Nergal, Ištar, (and) the Sebetti, the great gods who stand at the side of the king who reveres them and make his weapons prevail over all enemies: (3) Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), the king who was chosen by you, guardian of truth who loves justice, renders assistance, goes to the aid of the weak, (and) strives after good deeds, perfect man, virile warrior, foremost of all rulers, the bridle that…
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/Q004035/
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Transliteration
daš-šur EN GAL AD DINGIR.MEŠ da-num dEN.LÍL ù dé-a d30 dUTU dIŠKUR dAMAR.UTU dAG dU.GUR diš-⸢tar⸣ / [d]7.BI DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ša i-di LUGAL pa-li-ḫi-šú-un i-za-zu-ma UGU kul-lat na-ki-ri ú-šam-ra-ru ⸢GIŠ⸣.TUKUL.MEŠ-⸢šú⸣ / md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-tim LUGAL ni-iš IGI.II-ku-un na-ṣir kit-ti / ⸢ra⸣-ʾi-im mi-šá-ri e-piš ú-sa-a-ti a-lik…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004035.
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/Q004035/..
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/Q004035/.
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