Sennacherib 196


Obverse
11	^m^d30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur DÙ-ìš ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ	(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of (the god) Aššur and the great gods, I: With baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln, I had the tikātu-house of the courtyard (where) the pedestals of the Igīgū gods (stand) in rows made anew and I raised (it) as high as a mountain.
22	ana-ku É ti-ka-a-ti ša KISAL sa-ad-rum man-za-az ^dí-gì-gì1
33	ina a-gúr-ri UDUN KÙ-ti eš-šiš u-še-piš-ma u-zaq-qir₆ ḫur-šá-niš

1É ti-ka-a-ti “tikātu-house”: The meaning of tikātu is not known. See CAD T pp. 400–401 sub tikātu B. KISAL sa-ad-rum man-za-az ^dí-gì-gì “the courtyard (where) the pedestals of the Igīgū gods (stand) in rows”: Literally “courtyard with rows (of) the pedestals of the Igīgū gods.” Compare the courtyard’s proper name in text no. 166 line 22b–23a KISAL si-dir man-za-az ^dí-gì-gì “The Courtyard of the Row of Pedestals for the Igīgū gods.”

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