Sennacherib 123

~695 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003928

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 3

High confidence

(1) [Palace of Sennac]herib, king of [Assyria. Whoever] erases [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of] a god (or another) person, may [the deities Aššur], Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, [...], (and) Uraš make [his name (and)] his [seed] disappear.

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] / [šá MU šaṭ-ru i]-pa-<<ti>>-ši-⸢ṭu⸣ / [ana dul-li šá] ⸢DINGIR⸣ LÚ-ti DÙ-⸢šú⸣ / [AN.ŠÁR d]30 dUTU d⸢IŠKUR⸣ / [...] duraš / [MU-šú NUMUN]-šú lu-ḫal-li-⸢qu⸣

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003928.

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/Q003928/..
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/Q003928/.

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