Position in chronology
Sennacherib 046
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 3(1) Palace of Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), the wise (and) capable favorite of the great gods, virile warrior, [fo]remost of all rulers, the bridle that controls the insubmissive, (and) the one who strikes enemies with lightning: (2b) The god Aššur, the great mountain, granted to me unrivalled sovereignty and made my w[eapon]s greater than (those of) all who sit on (royal) daises. He made all of the rulers of the (four) quarters (of the world) from the Upper Sea of the Setting Sun to the [Lo]wer Sea of the…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
É.GAL mdEN.ZU-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur ⸢LUGAL kib⸣-rat ⸢LÍMMU⸣-tim mi-gir ⸢DINGIR.MEŠ GAL⸣.MEŠ er-šu ⸢it-pe⸣-šú zi-ka-ru qar-⸢du⸣ [a]-šá-red ⸢kal mal-ki⸣1 / ⸢rap⸣-pu la-ʾi-iṭ la ma-gi-ri mu-šab-ri-qu za-ma-a-ni daš-šur ⸢KUR GAL⸣ LUGAL-ut la šá-na-an ú-šat-li-ma-an-ni-ma ⸢UGU gi⸣-mir a-šib pa-rak-⸢ki⸣ ú-šar-ba-a ⸢GIŠ⸣.[TUKUL].⸢MEŠ⸣-ia / ul-tu A.AB.BA…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003520.
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/Q003520/..
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/Q003520/.
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