Position in chronology
Sennacherib 092
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 3(1) Palace of Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria: He indeed built Egalzagdinutukua (the “Palace Without a Rival”) anew to be his lordly residence inside Nineveh.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Why it matters
Dedicatory inscription for Sennacherib's 'Palace Without a Rival' at Nineveh, attesting the Assyrian royal ideology that monumental construction expressed divine favour and legitimised kingship.
Transliteration
É.GAL md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU / MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / é-gal-zag-di-nu-tuku-a / a-na mu-šab EN-ti-šú / qé-reb URU.ni-na-a GIBIL-ìš lu DÙ-uš
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003566.
Attribution
Image: BM 090213 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P427842). source
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/Q003566/.
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