Sennacherib 201


Obverse
11	[^m]⸢^d30⸣-PAP.MEŠ-⸢SU MAN⸣ ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur ⸢DÙ⸣-[ìš ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR]	(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, the one who fashi[oned image(s) of (the god) Aššur] and the great gods: With baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln, I [had] the Step Gate [of the Palace in Baltil (Aššur) built] anew [and I] rai[sed (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 ú⸣-[še-piš-ma]
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.” Those texts also omit É before muš-la-lu “Step Gate.” É is probably used here as a determinative; see AHw p. 684b.

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/Q004006/.