Sennacherib 141
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| 1'1' | [...] ⸢al-lik⸣ x [...] | (1') [...] I marched [... every] kind of [valuable] treasu[re, ...] ... and Akk[ad ...] |
| 2'2' | [... mim-ma] ⸢šum?-šú? ni-ṣir⸣-[tu ka-bit-tu ...] | |
| 3'3' | [...] x x x ù KUR ⸢URI?⸣.[KI? ...] | |
| 4'4' | [... a-na na-gi]-⸢te-ra⸣-aq-qi šá qé-reb ⸢A⸣.[AB.BA ...]1 | (4') [... to (the city) Nagī]te-raqqi, which is in the midst of the s[ea. ...] the land Bīt-Yakīn and within the sw[amps ...] |
| 5'5' | [...] KUR.É-ia-kin₇ ù qé-reb ⸢ÍD⸣.[a-gam-me ...]2 | |
| 6'6' | [... UGU EN] sa-li-mì-i-šú LUGAL ⸢ELAM⸣.[MA.KI na-mur-ra-tum at-bu-uk ...]3 | (6') [... I poured out awe-inspiring brilliance upon] his [al]ly, the king of (the land) Ela[m. ...] I confined them within the marshes [...] |
| 7'7' | [...] ⸢qé⸣-reb ÍD.a-gam-me e-sir-⸢šun?⸣ x [...] | |
| 8'8' | [i-na šal-la-at KUR.MEŠ šá-ti-na ša áš-lu-la 10 LIM GIŠ.PAN 10 LIM GIŠ.a-ri-tú ina lìb-bi]-⸢šú⸣-nu ak-ṣur-ma UGU ki-⸢ṣi?⸣-[ir? LUGAL-ti-ia ú-rad-di]4 | (8') [From the booty of those lands that I had plundered], I conscripted [10,000 archers (and) 10,000 shield bearers] and [added (them)] to [my royal] contin[gent. I divided up the rest of the substantial enemy booty like sheep and goats among my entire camp and] my [governor]s, (and) the people of [my great] cult centers. |
| 9'9' | [si-it-ti šal-la-ti na-ki-ri ka-bit-tu a-na gi-mir KARAŠ-ia ù LÚ.EN.NAM].⸢MEŠ⸣-ia UN.MEŠ ma-ḫa-za-a-ni-[ia GAL.MEŠ ki-ma ṣe-e-ni lu ú-za-ʾi-iz]5 | |
| 10'10' | [...] x x [...] | |
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1Cf. text no. 22 iii 64–68.
2[na-gi]-⸢te-ra⸣-aq-qi “[(the city) Nagī]te-raqqi”: Possibly restore URU or KUR before the name. The second element of the name is generally written -ra-aq-qí or -raq-qí in Sennacherib’s inscriptions; see, for example, text no. 15 iv 33´ and text no. 22 iii 64. šá qé-reb ⸢A⸣.[AB.BA] “which is in the midst of the s[ea]”: Cf., for example, text no. 22 iii 65, which has ša qa-bal tam-tim.
3Cf. text no. 22 iii 70–71. [EN] sa-li-mì-i-šú “his [al]ly”: This is generally written EN sa-li-me-šú in the Sennacherib corpus; see, for example, text no. 15 v 3 and text no. 22 iii 70.
4ki-⸢ṣi?⸣-[ir?] “contin[gent]”: This is generally written ki-ṣir in the Sennacherib corpus; see, for example, text no. 4 line 59.
5ma-ḫa-za-a-ni-[ia] “[my] cult centers”: This is generally written ma-ḫa-za-ni-ia in the Sennacherib corpus; see, for example, text no. 4 line 60.
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/Q003946/.