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Sennacherib 038
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 3(1) Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), (and) favorite of the great gods: (5) The god Aššur and the goddess Ištar granted me a weapon without equal and gave me the strength (lit. “opened my arms”) to destroy those hostile to Assyria. With their great support, (10) I constantly directed my troops in safety from east to west and I made all of the rulers who sit on (royal) daises throughout the four quarters (of the world) bow down at my feet and they (now) pull my yoke. (13b) At that time, I enlarged the site of…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
mdEN.ZU-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba1 / LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ / LUGAL KUR aš-šur LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-ti / mi-gir DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ / daš-šur ù diš-tar / GIŠ.TUKUL la ma-ḫar / ú-šat-li-mu-in-ni-ma / a-na ra-sa-ab nak-ru-ti KUR aš-šur.KI ip-tu-ú / i-da-a-a i-na tu-kul-ti-šú-un GAL-tim / ul-tu ṣi-taš a-di šil-la-an um-ma-na-ti-ia2 / šal-meš lu at-ta-bal-ma gim-ri mal-ki a-šib pa-rak-ki / ša kib-rat…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003512.
Attribution
Image: Created by A. Kirk Grayson, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2012. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2011. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003512/..
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/Q003512/.
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