Sennacherib 150
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) Se[nnacherib, ...]. | |
| o 22 | (2) Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan) [...] became frightened by his (Sennacherib’s) battle array; [...] he quickly de[parted from] Babylon [(...)]. | |
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | KÁ.DINGIR.MIN.KI ur-ru-ḫi-iš ⸢ú⸣-[ṣi (...)]2 | |
| o 55 | (5) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of [Assyria, ...] in joy and happ[iness ...] into Babylon, into the pal[ace ...] fine oil (fit) for anointing a kin[g ...]. | |
| o 66 | i-na ul-ṣi ù ri-šá-[a-ti ...] | |
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | Ì.GIŠ.MEŠ DÙG.GA pi-šat LUGAL-u-⸢ti⸣ [...] | |
| Reverse | ||
| rr | The list of names is not edited here |
1Cf. text no. 149 lines 11–13. Note the use of the third, not first person, suffix in line 3 (ti-ib ta-ḫa-zi-šu).
2KÁ.DINGIR.MIN.KI “Babylon”: See also text no. 149 line 13. On this unusual orthography, see Borger, Asarh. p. 31 §19 and George, BTT pp. 254–255.
3R. Borger (ARRIM 6 [1988] p. 8) suggests that Sennacherib entered Babylon and plundered fine oil from Marduk-apla-iddina’s palace. E. Frahm (Sanherib p. 212) tentatively suggests reading the lines as follows: md30-PAP.MEŠ-eri-ba MAN ŠÚ MAN [aš-šur.KI ...] i-na ul-ṣi ù ri-šá-[a-ti ...] i-na qé-reb KÁ.DINGIR.MIN.KI a-na ⸢É?⸣.[GAL? (...) ú-še-rib-ma?] Ì.GIŠ.MEŠ DÙG.GA pi-šat LUGAL-u-⸢ti⸣ [(...) ap-šu-uš (...)] “Sennacherib, king of the world, king of [Assyria, ...: I made PN (Bēl-ibni or Aššur-nādin-šumi) enter] in joy and happ[iness] into Babylon, into the pal[ace (...) I anointed (him) with] fine oil (fit) for anointing a ki[ng (...)].”
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/Q003955/.