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Sennacherib 231
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, great king], strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, [king of the four quarters (of the world), favorite of the] great [god]s, wise prince, [circumspect] rul[er, shepherd of the peop]le, (and) leader of a widespre[ad] population, [I]: (4) [The god Aššur, father of the gods], looked steadfastly upon me [among all of the ru]lers and [made] my [we]apons [greater] than (those of) a[ll who sit on (royal) daises]. He gave me a ju[st] scepter [that widens borders (and) he put in my hand] a merciless [ro]d to fell ene[mies]. (7b) [I]n a pitched battle, I…
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/Q004036/
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Transliteration
[É.GAL mdEN.ZU-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba LUGAL GAL] LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.[KI]1 / [LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-tim mi-gir DINGIR].⸢MEŠ⸣ GAL.MEŠ lu-li-mu er-šú ma-al-[ku]2 / [pit-qu-du RE.É.UM ba-ḫu-la]-a-ti mut-tar-ru-ú UN.MEŠ rap-šá-⸢a⸣-[ti a-na-ku] / [daš-šur AD DINGIR.MEŠ i-na kul-lat ma]-li-ki ke-⸢niš⸣ IGI.BAR-ni-ma UGU ⸢gi⸣-[mir] / [a-šib pa-rak-ki ú-šar-ba-a GIŠ].⸢TUKUL⸣.MEŠ-ia id-di-⸢nam⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q004036.
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/Q004036/..
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/Q004036/.
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