Sennacherib 012

Obverse
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[md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU] LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR -šur.KI1

(1) [Sennacherib], great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, [king of the four quarters (of the world), lea]der of a widespread population, [the one who fashioned image(s) of the deities Aššur, Anu, Sîn], Šamaš, Adad, Nergal, Ištar of Bīt-Kidmuri, [Bēlet-ilī, and the great gods], the one who carries out to perfection the rites of Ešarra (5) [and Emašmaš, who knows well how to revere the go]ds of heaven and the gods of Assyria, [the builder of] Assyria, the one who brings [his] cult centers to completion, [the one who uproots enemies (and) destroys] their [set]tlements, [circumspect] ru[ler],

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[LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-tim mut]-tar-ru-ú UN.MEŠ DAGAL.MEŠ

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[e-piš ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR da-nim d30] dUTU dIŠKUR dU.GUR d15 ša É-kid-mur-ri

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[DINGIR.MAḪ ù DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ] mu-šak-lil pa-ra-aṣ é-šár-ra

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[ù é-maš-maš šá pa-làḫ] DINGIR.MEŠ šá AN-e ù DINGIR.MEŠ KUR -šur.KI

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[ra-biš mu-du-u e-piš KUR] -šur.KI mu-šak-lil ma-ḫa-zi-[šú]

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[na-si-iḫ na-ki-ri mu-ab-bit da]-ád-me-šú-un ma-[al-ku]2

Lacuna

Lacuna

1'1'

[mu-nak-kìr MU.SAR-a-a da-a-a-i-ṣi a-ma-ti-ia AN.ŠÁR MAN DINGIR.MEŠ u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL].MEŠ3

(1') [(As for) the one who alters my inscribed object (and) disrespects my words], may [(the god) Aššur, king of the gods, and the gre]at [gods of heaven and netherworld] curse him [with a harsh, irreversible curse, and may they overthrow his kingship, deprive him of his life], (and) eradicate [his name, his seed, his offspring, (and) his progeny] from the mouth of the people.

2'2'

[ša AN-e ù KI-tim ar-rat la nap-šu-ri ma-ru--] li-ru-ru-šu-ma

3'3'

[LUGAL-su lis-ki-pu TI.LA-šú li-ki-mu-šú MU-šú NUMUN-šú NUNUZ-šú na-an-nab-šú] i-na KA UN.ME li-ḫal-li-qu

1See the on-page notes to text no. 10 lines 1–2.

2Based on parallels, the translation assumes that the now-missing line 8 would have begun with pit-qu-du “circumspect.”

3Apart from text no. 10 (and probably also text nos. 11 and 13), an admonition against the removal of a royal inscription does not appear in cylinder inscriptions from Nineveh.


Created by A. Kirk Grayson, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2012. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2011. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003486/.