Sennacherib 184

~695 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003989

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 3

High confidence

(1) I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aššur (and) the great gods, built (this) house and gave (it) to my second son Aššur-ilī-muballissu. I strengthened and laid its foundation(s) with limestone, stone from the mountains.

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

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Transliteration

ana-ku md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU / MAN KUR AŠ DÙ-ìš ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR / u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ É DÙ-ma / a-na mAN.ŠÁR-DINGIR.MU-TI.LA.BI / DUMU-ia tar-den-ni ad-din / UŠ₈-šú ina pi-i-li NA₄ KUR-i / ú-dan-nin-ma ad-di

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003989.

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/Q003989/..
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/Q003989/.

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