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Sennacherib 083
(1) Sennacherib, king of Assyria, had the (inner) wall and outer wall of Nineveh built anew and raised as high as mountain(s).
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 084
(1) Sennacherib, king of Assyria, had the wall of Nineveh built anew.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 085
(1) [Palace of] Sennacherib, [king of] Assyria, who had (it) built using his [...].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 086
(1) Palace of Sennacherib, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria: With the power of my scepter that the father of the gods, (the god) Aššur, had given me, I brought back (with me) precious kašurû-stone, whose mountain is far away, and I installed (it) underneath the pivots of the door leaves of the gates of my palace.
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Sennacherib 087
A royal titulary inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE), preserving the ceremonial formula — great king, strong king, king of the world — through which Assyrian monarchs projected cosmic authority over conquered territories.
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Sennacherib 088
A royal palace inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE), asserting the twin titles 'king of the world, king of Assyria' — the standard ideological formula projecting universal dominion from the Assyrian heartland.
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Sennacherib 089
A royal titulary inscription of Sennacherib (~695 BCE), attesting the layered epithets — great king, strong king, king of the world — through which Assyrian kings projected cosmic authority over a multi-ethnic empire.
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Sennacherib 090
A royal palace inscription of Sennacherib, asserting his titulary — great king, mighty king, king of Assyria — and anchoring the ideological grammar by which Sargonid rulers legitimised their authority over the ancient Near East.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 091
(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, built a palace anew inside Nineveh.
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Sennacherib 092
Dedicatory inscription for Sennacherib's 'Palace Without a Rival' at Nineveh, attesting the Assyrian royal ideology that monumental construction expressed divine favour and legitimised kingship.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 093
(1) Palace [of Sennacherib, ...: He indeed built a palace anew] to be [his lordly] res[idence] inside Ni[neveh].
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Sennacherib 094
Attests Sennacherib's monumental rebuilding of Nineveh's double circuit of walls, the physical infrastructure that transformed the city into the definitive capital of the late Assyrian empire.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 095
(1) (As for) the (inner) wall and outer wall of Nineveh, which had not been built previously, Sennacherib, [king of] Assyria, had (them) built [an]ew and [raised] as high as mountain(s).
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Sennacherib 096
Attests Sennacherib's rebuilding of Nineveh's city wall, situating one phase of the capital's monumental expansion within his broader programme of urban transformation after destroying Babylon in 689 BCE.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 097
(1) [Sennacherib], great [king], strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, built [the (inner) wall (and outer wall) of] Nineveh anew.
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Sennacherib 098
Records Sennacherib granting his son a house tied to the construction of Nineveh's city wall — linking royal family patronage directly to the great building programme that defined his reign.
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Sennacherib 099
Records Sennacherib's grant of a house to his son Aššur-šumu-ušabši, tying a private royal property transfer to the ceremonial founding of Nineveh — evidence that dynastic patronage was embedded in the city's earliest building acts.
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Sennacherib 100
Attests Sennacherib's simultaneous founding of a royal residence and the laying of Nineveh's foundations, linking dynastic succession directly to the city's mythologized origins.
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Sennacherib 1002
One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Sennacherib (RINAP 3, Q004058), preserving — even in fragmentary form — the formulaic titulary through which Assyrian kings legitimised their rule.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1004
(1) [... Senn]ach[erib ...] my kingship [...] ... [...].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1006
(1) [...] from him [...] their name(s) (and) their seed, [as well as (those of) his advis]ors, [...].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1007
(1) [... Sennach]erib, king of Assyria [(...)].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1008
(1) [... Sennach]erib, king of [Assyria (...)].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1009
(1) [... Senn]acherib, king [...].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1011
(1') [may they] make [...] disapp[ear].
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Sennacherib 1015
Attests Sennacherib's siege of Azekah and tribute exacted from Hezekiah of Judah — the Assyrian royal record that corroborates, and complicates, the biblical account in 2 Kings 18–19.
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Sennacherib 1016
Records Sennacherib's reshaping of the Assyrian landscape — restoring pasturelands, resettling animals, and erecting white limestone bull colossi at a watercourse gate — documenting the royal ideology that equated hydraulic and architectural mastery with divine order.
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Sennacherib 1017
A fragmentary royal inscription of Sennacherib attesting his characteristic wilderness rhetoric — onagers and gazelles marking untamed land he claimed to have brought under Assyrian order.
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Sennacherib 1018
A fragmentary Sennacherib royal inscription invoking the great gods to bind future kings to his legacy — one of several RINAP 3 witnesses documenting how Assyrian rulers embedded dynastic legitimacy in monumental dedications.
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Sennacherib 1019
Sennacherib's own account of Kudur-Naḫḫunte's role in the removal of Babylonian divine statues — Nabû and Marduk among them — anchors Assyrian justification for intervention in Babylonian cult politics to a named Elamite aggressor.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 102
(1) Palace of Sennacherib, king of Assyria: (This is) the audience gift that Abī-Baʾal, king of the land Samsimuru[na], presented to me.
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Sennacherib 1021
One of the surviving manuscript witnesses to Sennacherib's royal inscriptions, preserving fragmentary titulary that documents how the king projected his authority in the last decade of his reign.
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Sennacherib 1022
Survives too fragmentarily to yield a complete reading, but preserves Sennacherib's own scribes likening an enemy — or possibly a rebel — to a gallû-demon, grounding Assyrian royal rhetoric in the underworld mythology of the period.
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Sennacherib 1023
Invokes the Assyrian divine pantheon — Aššur, Anu, Ea, Enlil, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad — as legitimating witnesses to a royal act, attesting the theological scaffolding Sennacherib deployed to underwrite his authority c. 695 BCE.
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Sennacherib 1024
Preserves Sennacherib invoking both Marduk and Sîn in a territorial context — fragmentary evidence bearing on the contested question of how he framed divine authority after his sack of Babylon in 689 BCE.
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Sennacherib 1025
One of Sennacherib's royal inscriptions (RINAP 3, Q004081): too fragmentary to recover its specific campaign or building claim, but preserving the spider-web desolation topos used in Assyrian rhetoric to depict conquered lands.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 1026
(1') [...] ... [...] all of th[em ...] spider webs. [...] ... [...] ... [...]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 103
(1) [Palace of Sennac]herib, king of Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that] Karib-il, [king of the land Saba], presented to me. [Whoever] places (it) [in] the service of a god [(or another) person (or) eras]es my inscribed name, [may] the deities Aššur, [...], Sîn, (and) Šamaš make [his name (and) his seed] disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 104
(1) [Palace of Sennac]herib, king of Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that] Karib-il, [king of the land Saba], presented to me. [Whoever ... may the deities ...], Šamaš, [...], Nabû, (and) Uraš [make his name (and) his seed disa]ppear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 105
(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, king of] Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that Karib-il, king of the land Sab]a, [...] ... [I was having] (it) incised. [Whoever eras]es [my inscribed name ... may the deities ...], (and) Uraš [make his name (and) his seed disapp]ear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 106
(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, king of] Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that Karib-il, king of the land Sa]ba, [...] ... I was having (it) incised. [Whoever eras]es [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of a god (or another) pers]on, [may ... make his name (and) his seed] disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 107
(1) [Palace of Sennacherib, king of] Assyria: [(This is) the audience gift that Karib]-il, [king of the land Saba, prese]nted to me. [Whoever places (it) in the serv]ice of a god [(or another) person (or) erases my] inscribed [name, may the deities Aššur, A]nu, Sîn,
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 108
(1) [Palace of Sennach]erib, king of [Assyria: (This is) the audience gift that] Karib-[il, king of the land Sab]a, prese[nted to me. Whoever] places (it) [in] the service of [a god (or another) person ...]
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 109
(1) [Palace of] Sennacherib, king of [Assyria: (This is) the aud]ience gift that (Nabû)-zēr-kitti-[līšir, son of] Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan) presented to me. [Whoever] erases [my] inscribed [name] (or) places (it) [in the serv]ice of a god (or another) person, may [(the god) Aššur] make his name (and) his seed disappear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 110
(1) Palace of [Sennacherib], king of [Assyria: (This is) the audience gift] that [...] ... [...] prese[nted to me]. Whoever eras[es my inscribed name (or) places (it) in the service] of a god (or another) person, [may] (the god) Aššur [make his] name [(and) his seed disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 111
(1) [Palace of Senn]acherib, king of Assyria. [Whoever] erases [my inscr]ibed [name] (or) places (it) [in the serv]ice of a god (or another) person, may [the deity ...] make [his name] (and) his seed disappear. [Booty of] the city Dumetu.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 112
(1) [Palace of Sennach]erib, king of Assyria. [Whoever] erases [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of a god (or another) pers]on, may [the deities ...], Šamaš, Adad, [...], (and) Nergal make [his name (and) his seed] disappear. [Booty of the city Du]metu.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 113
(1) [Palace of Senn]acherib, king of [Assyria: Booty of] the city Dumetu. [Whoever] eras[es my inscr]ibed [name (or) places (it) in the serv]ice of a god (or another) person, [may the deities ...], Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, [..., (and) ... make his name (and) his seed disappear].
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 114
(1) [Palace of Sennac]herib, [king of] Assyria: [Booty of the city] Dumetu. [Whoever eras]es my inscribed name (or) places (it) [in the service] of a god [(or another) person, may the deities Aššur], Sîn, (and) Šamaš [make his name (and)] his [seed dis]appear.
LawReligion & MythSennacherib 115
(1) [Palace of Sennacherib], king of Assyria: [Booty of] the city Duma. [Whoever] erases [my inscribed name] (or) places (it) [in the service of a god] (or another) person, may [the deities ...], Ištar, [...], Nabû, (and) Uraš make [his name (and)] his [seed] disappear.
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