Sennacherib 200


Obverse
11	[^m^d30-PAP.MEŠ]-⸢SU⸣ MAN ŠÚ ⸢MAN KUR aš-šur DÙ⸣-ìš ⸢ṣa-lam⸣ [AN.ŠÁR]	(1) [Sennach]erib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashioned image(s) of [(the god) Aššur and the great god]s: [With baked bricks] from a (ritually) pure kiln, I [built] the Step Gate of the Palace [in Baltil (Aššur)] anew [and I] raised (it) as high as a mountain.
22	[u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL].⸢MEŠ⸣ É.⸢muš-la-lu šá⸣ É.⸢GAL⸣ [bal-til.KI]1
33	[ina a-gúr-ri] UDUN KÙ-ti eš-⸢šiš ab^?⸣-[ni^?-ma^?]2
44	[ú]-⸢zaq⸣-qir₆ ⸢ḫur⸣-šá-niš

1Compare text nos. 199 and 202, which add ana-ku “I” after DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ “the great gods” and omit É before muš-la-lu “Step Gate.” É is probably used here as a determinative; see AHw p. 684b.

2⸢ab^?⸣-[ni^?-ma^?] “I [built and]: Or possibly ⸢DÙ^?⸣-[(uš^?)-ma^?].

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/Q004005/.