Sennacherib 107

~695 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003912

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 3

High confidence

(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, king of] Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that Karib]-il, [king of the land Saba, prese]nted to me. [Whoever places (it) in the serv]ice of a god [(or another) person (or) erases my] inscribed [name, may the deities Aššur, A]nu, Sîn,

Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[KUR md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN KUR] AŠ / [na-mur-tú šá mka-ri-bi]-⸢DINGIR⸣ / [MAN KUR.sa-ba-aʾ ú-qar]-ri-ba / [šá ana dul]-⸢li⸣ šá DINGIR / [LÚ-ti DÙ-šú šu-mì] ⸢šaṭ⸣-ru / [i-pa-ši-ṭu AN.ŠÁR da]-⸢num d⸣30

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003912.

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/Q003912/..
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/Q003912/.

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