Position in chronology
Sennacherib 173
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 3(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of the deities Aššur, Šerūa, Anu, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Ištar of Bīt-Kidmuri, Bēlet-ilī, Kaka, Ḫaya, Kusu, Lumḫa, Dunga, Egalkiba, and the (other) great gods, I: With limestone, stone from the mountains, I laid the foundation(s) of the akītu-house for the festival of the feast of (the god) Aššur.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 3 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / DÙ-ìš ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR dše-⸢ru⸣-u-a / da-nim d30 dUTU dIŠKUR / d15 šá É-kid-mu-ri DINGIR.MAḪ / dkà-kà dḫa-ìa dkù-sù / dlumḫa ddúnga dé-gal-⸢ki⸣-ba / u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ a-na-ku / te-me-en É a-ki-ti šá i-sin-nu / qé-re-ti AN.ŠÁR ina pi-i-lu / NA₄ KUR-i UŠ₈-šú ad-di
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003978.
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/Q003978/..
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/Q003978/.
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