Names

  • Sennacherib 229

Numbers

  • Q004034
  • Sennacherib 229

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Details

  • series of blocks
  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. 704-681
  • Wadi Bastura Tunnel
  • Royal Inscription
  • Sennacherib

Sennacherib 229

Obverse
11

md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI

(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: (As for) the three watercourses which (flow) from Mount Ḫāni, a mountain above the city Arbela, I dug out the springs which are on the right and left banks of those watercourses and (thus) added (the springs’ water) to them. I dug a (subterranean) watercourse and directed (all of) their course(s) inside the city Arbela, the dwelling of the goddess Ištar, the exalted lady.

22

3 ÍD.MEŠ ša ul-tu KUR.ḫa-a-ni KUR-e1

33

ša SAG URU.LÍMMU-DINGIR A.MEŠ ku-up-pi2

44

ša ZAG u GÙB ša i-ta-at ÍD.MEŠ šá-ti-⸢ni⸣3

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aḫ-re-ma UGU-ši?-na? uš-rad-di

66

ÍD aḫ-re-ma a-na qa-bal-ti URU.LÍMMU-DINGIR4

77

šu-bat diš-tar GAŠAN ṣir-ti

88

ú-še-šir ma-lak-šin

1Cf. text no. 226 lines 5–6. In this inscription, mê kuppī probably refers to (mountain) “springs,” and not to “water from wells.” Note the use of the ŠD of redû in line 5 of this text and in line 6 of text no. 226; see CAD R p. 245 sub redû A 18 for addition references.

2For the translation of nāru as “watercourse,” rather than as “river,” see Bagg, Assyrische Wasserbauten p. 225. With regard to KUR.ḫa-a-ni, J. Reade (RA 72 [1979] p. 173) suggests that Mount Ḫāni is the section of the Zagros range neighboring the canal, an area which A. Bagg (Assyrische Wasserbauten p. 225) identifies as the stretch between the Safin and Bana Bawi ridges. With regard to the three watercourses, F. Safar (Sumer 3 [1947] p. 24) proposes that these are the three largest tributaries of the Bastura, the sources of which are located near the villages of Qirzah, Ziyarat, and Susan.

3šá-ti-⸢ni⸣ “those”: Safar and Basmaji (Sumer 2 [1946] p. 51) read šá-ti-dù, while Laessøe (JCS [1951] p. 29) and Bagg (Assyrische Wasserbauten p. 225) read šá-ti-na. The last sign is barely legible in the published photograph but the traces support the reading proposed here (cf. the copy).

4qa-bal-ti “inside”: The copy omits the TI-sign, which is clearly visible in the published photograph.

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/Q004034/.

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