Position in chronology
Sennacherib 156
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 3(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, son of Shalmaneser (I), king of Assyria: Booty of Kardu(niaš) (Babylonia). As for the one who removes my inscription (and) my name, may (the god) Aššur (and) the god Adad make his name disappear from the land. (4) This seal was given as a gift from Assyria to Akkad. I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, after six hundred years conquered Babylon and took it out from the property of Babylon. (8) Property of Šagarakti-Šuriaš, king of the world. (9) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, son of Shalmane(ser) (I), king of Assyria: [Booty] of Karduniaš…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[d]⸢GISKIM⸣-MAŠ MAN ŠÁR A dSILIM-nu-MAŠ MAN KUR aš-šur / KUR-⸢ti⸣ KUR.kár-du-<ni-ši> mu-né*-kir₆ SAR-ia MU-ia1 / aš-šur dIŠKUR MU-šú KUR-su lu-ḫal-li-qu / NA₄.KIŠIB an-nu-u TA KUR aš-šur ana KUR URI.KI šá-ri-ik ta-din / ana-ku md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN KUR aš-šur / ina 6 ME MU.MEŠ KÁ.DINGIR KUR-ud-ma / TA NÍG.GA KÁ.DINGIR us-se-ṣi-áš-šú / NÍG.GA ša-ga-ra-ak-ti-šur*-ia-aš LUGAL KIŠ2 / dGISKIM-MAŠ MAN…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003961.
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/Q003961/..
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/Q003961/.
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