Sennacherib 031
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Column i | ||
ii | Lacuna | |
i 1'1' | [...] x [x (x)] | (i 1') [...] ... [... who lo]ves justice, [renders as]sistance, [goes to the aid of the w]eak, (i 5´) (and) [strives after] good deeds, [perfect man, viri]le warrior, [foremost of all rul]ers, [the bridle that controls the in]submissive, (and) [the one who strikes en]emies [with lightning]: |
i 2'2' | [... ra]-⸢ʾi⸣-im mi-šá-ri | |
i 3'3' | ||
i 4'4' | ||
i 5'5' | ||
i 6'6' | ||
i 7'7' | ||
i 8'8' | ||
i 9'9' | ||
i 10'10' | (i 10') [The god Aššur, the great mountain, granted to] me [unriv]alled sovereig[nty] and [...] ... [...] | |
i 11'11' | ||
i 12'12' | ||
i 13'13' | [...] x [...] | |
Lacuna | ||
Column ii | ||
iiii | Lacuna | |
ii 1'1' | (ii 1') [I surrounded (and) conquered ... their] for[tified] wa[lled cities. I brought] out of th[em] people, hor[ses, mules], donkeys, ox[en, and sheep and goats, and I counted (them) as booty]. (ii 5´) Moreover, I destroyed, devas[tated, (and) turned into ruins their small(er)] settlements, [which were without number. I burned] with fi[re] pavilions (and) [tents, their abodes, and reduced (them) to ashes]. | |
ii 2'2' | ||
ii 3'3' | ||
ii 4'4' | ||
ii 5'5' | ||
ii 6'6' | ||
ii 7'7' | ||
ii 8'8' | ||
Lacuna |
1Based on parallels, the translation assumes that the now-missing ii´ 9´ would have begun with ú-še-mi or ú-še-me “I reduced (them).”
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/Q003505/.