Sennacherib 195


Obverse
11	a-na AN.ŠÁR AD DINGIR.MEŠ EN-šú	(1) For (the god) Aššur, the father of the gods, his lord: Sennacherib, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aššur and the great gods, greatly embellished the frieze of the battlemented parapet of Ešarra with baked bricks (and) stone.
22	^m30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN KUR aš-šur
33	e-piš ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ
44	né-bé-ḫi sa-mit é-šár-ra1
55	ina a-gur-ri NA₄.MEŠ ma-aʾ-diš ú-si-im

1sa-mit “battlemented parapet”: The translation of samītu tentatively follows the CAD (S pp. 117–118). AHw (p. 1018) translates this word as “Mauersockel.”

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/Q004000/.