Sennacherib 163


Obverse
oo	Lacuna	Lacuna
o 1'1'	mu-šak-lil ⸢ma-ḫa⸣-[zi-šú mu-ma-ag-gir KUR na-ki-ri]	(1') the one who brings [his] cult cent[ers] to completion, [makes enemy land(s) submissive] (and) destroys [their] settlem[ents, ...]:
o 2'2'	mu-ab-bit da-ád-⸢me⸣-[šu-un ...]
o 3'3'	e-nu-ma ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR ⸢EN⸣-[ia ... ud^?]-⸢di^?-šu^?⸣	(3') When [I refur]bis[hed] the image(s) of (the god) Aššur, my l[ord, ... (and) carried out to perfe]ction the rites of Ešar[ra], (5´) just like Sargon (II), king [of Assyria], my [fat]her — my father [...]. Its place [...] my [... (the god) Aš]šur
o 4'4'	pa-ra-aṣ ⸢é-šár⸣-[ra ú-šak]-⸢li⸣-lu
o 5'5'	ki LUGAL-GIN ⸢LUGAL⸣ [KUR aš-šur.KI a]-⸢bi⸣-ia1
o 6'6'	a-bi lu-u [...]2
o 7'7'	a-šar-šú^? [...] x-pi-ia
o 8'8'	⸢maš^?⸣ [... AN].ŠÁR
o 9'9'	[...] u	(9') (No translation possible)
o 10'10'	[...]
o 11'11'	[...]-a
	Lacuna	Lacuna
Reverse
rr	Lacuna	Lacuna
r 1'1'	⸢ši⸣-ik-nu ša UGU ⸢NA₄⸣.KUN₄.MEŠ	(r 1') The arrangement (of the inscription) that (is) upon the (paving) slabs of alallu-stone in the temple of the god Aššur upon which the king stands (when) he kisses the ground.
r 2'2'	ša NA₄.a-lal-lum ša É ^daš-šur
r 3'3'	ša LUGAL ina muḫ-ḫi i-za-zu-ni
r 4'4'	qaq-qu-ru i-na-áš-ši-qu-ni

1LUGAL-GIN “Sargon (II)”: Sargon is very rarely mentioned in the inscriptions of Sennacherib. He is also likely named in text no. 135 line 2 (name restored).

2This line is written in “normal clay script” rather than in the “monumental script” of the rest of the inscription. The script of this line is also smaller in size than that of all of the other lines. Moreover, no horizontal ruling separates this line from line 5´. The relationship between the two lines is not clear.

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/Q003968/.