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SAA 12 086. Sennacherib Dedicates Personnel to his Newly-built Akitu Temple (PKTA 27)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The se[al of] Aššur, king of the gods; the seal of God the King, not to be contested. (2) I am Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, circumspect monarch, the perfecter of the forgotten cult of Ešarra according to the oracular command of Šamaš and Adad, the enlarger of their purificatory cult, the restorer of the protective deity of Ešarra, which had ceased to function, [to] its place. (Blank seal space) (5) In Nisan (I), when at the New Year's Festival, on account of chaos and anarchy, [A]ššur was going to the festival banquet in a garden within the city; (7) at that time,…
Source: Kataja, L. & Whiting, R. 1995. Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period. SAA 12. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa12/P336316/
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Transliteration
NA₄.⸢KIŠIB⸣ [d]a-šur₄ LUGAL DINGIR-MEŠ NA₄.KIŠIB DINGIR ru-bé-e ša la pa-qa-ri / md.EN.ZU—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—eri-ba LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.KI NUN mun-tal-ku / mu-šak-lil pa-ra-aṣ É.ŠÁR.RA ma-šu-ú-ti ina bi-ri qí-bit dUTU u dIM / mu-šar-bu-u šu-luḫ-ḫi-šú-un mu-tir dLAMA É.ŠÁR.RA la—e-piš-ti [ana] áš-ri-šá a-na-ku / ITI.BAR.SAG.SAG ša ZAG.MUG ina e-šá-a-ti ù saḫ-maš-a-ti / ⸢AN⸣.ŠÁR ša qé-re-e-ti ina…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P336316.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Laura Kataja and Robert M. Whiting, Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period (State Archives of Assyria, 12), 1995. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336316/..
Translation excerpted from Kataja, L. & Whiting, R. 1995. Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period. SAA 12. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa12/P336316/.
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