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A fragment of the bronze plating of an object (possibly part of a dais) made for the god Aššur preserves part of an inscription of Sennacherib. Although the king's name is broken away, the attribution to Sennacherib is based on the inclusion of the epithet ēpiš ṣalam ... "the one who fashioned image(s) ..."; the list of deities for whom images were made is similar to the ones in text nos. 173 and 175, inscriptions recording the construction of the akītu-house at Aššur. In addition to the text, there are two inverted numbers (comprising three cuneiform signs) incised just above line 1: 5 (written IA₇) and 26 (written 20+6). These could indicate the weight of the plating (5 [talents] and 26 [minas]). BM 91157 could not be located in the British Museum (2012), but its inscription could be collated from an unpublished British Museum photograph; we thank A.R. Millard for generously providing us with a copy of this photograph.
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An inscribed bronze fragment now in the Iraq Museum preserves part of an inscription of Sennacherib recording work on the Aššur temple at Aššur.
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Lines 4'–7' appear to duplicate (with some deviation) text no. 166 lines 8–14. E. Weidner (AfO 21 [1966] p. 130) suggests that IM 62197 indirectly joined AO 20185 (in the Louvre Museum in Paris), a fragment of a bronze relief depicting Naqīʾa (Zakūtu) following an Assyrian king. The two pieces do not belong to the same object since AO 20185 dates to the reign of Esarhaddon (or Ashurbanipal) and IM 62197 comes from the time of Sennacherib. For further details, see Frahm, Sanherib pp. 169–170.
Four inscribed bricks (exs. 1–3 and 5) and one stamped brick (ex. 4) from Aššur have a five-line text recording the embellishment of the frieze of the parapets of Ešarra, the temple of Aššur at Aššur. This text is sometimes referred to as the "Samītu Inscription." No score is provided on the CD-ROM, but the minor variants are listed at the back of the book.
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Numerous bricks from Aššur are inscribed with a short text stating that Sennacherib had baked bricks made in a (ritually) pure kiln for the tikātu-house of the Aššur temple at Aššur; the meaning of tikātu is not known. This text is sometimes referred to as the "Bīt-tikāti Inscription" (formerly the "Bīt-qātē Inscription").
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| (1) VA Ass 03279h [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P373543/] (Ass 00915) | (2) Ass 00916 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P466946/] | (3) Ass 00917 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P466947/] | (4) Ass 16240 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P466948/] |
| (5) VA Ass 03279i [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P373544/] (Ass 16726) | (6) VA Ass 03279k [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P373545/] (Ass 17077) | (7) VA Ass 03280a [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P373546/] (Ass 17384) | (8) VA Ass 03280b [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P373547/] |
| (9) Ist EȘEM — [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P466949/] | (10) Ist EȘEM 06673 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P466950/] |
The text is written on the bricks in three lines (exs. 1–3, 5, 10), four lines (exs. 6–9), and eight lines (ex. 4). The inscription is written on the edge of most of the exemplars, but on the face of ex. 4. The master text is based on ex. 2. The present locations of exs. 2, 3, and 4 are not known and it is possible that these bricks were left at the site. Exs. 9–10 were collated from photographs of the bricks in Istanbul taken by D. R. Frayne for the RIM Project. Ass 17171 is inscribed with a near duplicate of this text (text no. 197), but it is edited separately since it omits Sennacherib's title "king of the world" (MAN ŠÚ). No score is provided on the CD-ROM, but the minor variants are listed at the back of the book.
The edge of a brick from Aššur is inscribed with a three-line text stating that Sennacherib had baked bricks made in a (ritually) pure kiln for the tikātu-house of the Aššur temple at Aššur. This inscription is a duplicate of text no. 196, but with one minor omission: this text omits Sennacherib's title "king of the world" (MAN ŠÚ). The brick was probably left in the field and, therefore, its inscription was collated from an excavation photograph. Restorations are based on text no. 196.
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Several fragments of bricks from Aššur are inscribed with a text recording work on Ešarra ("House of the Universe"), the temple of Aššur at Aššur, possibly the construction of a new courtyard.
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Uncertain Attribution
The exact provenance of the bricks at Aššur is uncertain; H. Galter and E. Frahm say ex. 1 was discovered in area kA3III, while O. Pedersén (using Aššur excavation field journals) states that the provenance is iD3IV (on the brick terrace). The bricks were probably left at Aššur and, therefore, the exemplars were collated from an excavation photograph (Ass ph 5634). In addition to Ass 16409a–d, there are two unnumbered pieces photographed with these fragments; their excavation numbers and find spots are not known. All six certain exemplars are poorly preserved and the extant text is not always legible on the photograph. The inscription is written on the face of the bricks. The name of the structure in the Aššur temple is damaged in all exemplars (or not read with certainty from Ass ph 5634). Based on their provenance, some or all of these bricks may record work on the new courtyard that Sennacherib had constructed for Ešarra, and the inscription could be a near duplicate of a text written on stone blocks (text no. 169); Frahm suggests that the reference to white limestone would have been replaced by the mention of baked bricks. Moreover, due to the bricks' poor state of preservation, we are uncertain if all six exemplars are inscribed with the same text. For convenience, all of the pieces photographed in Ass ph 5634 are edited together. The master text is a conflation of all six certain exemplars. In addition, Galter proposes that the inscription written on VA Ass 3282 could also be a near duplicate of text no. 169 and, therefore, a duplicate of this text. As Frahm has already pointed out, the text written on that brick is too fragmentarily preserved to be certain of what project at Aššur it records. Therefore, VA Ass 3282 is tentatively included here as an uncertain exemplar (ex. 1*). No score is provided on the CD-ROM and no minor variants are listed at the back of the book.
The edge of a brick from Aššur now in the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin) is inscribed with a three-line text stating that Sennacherib rebuilt with baked bricks the Step Gate of the Old Palace in that city.
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Uncertain Attribution
A brick from Aššur has written on its edge a short text stating that Sennacherib had the Step Gate of the Old Palace rebuilt. The inscription is a near duplicate of text nos. 199 and 201–202.
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This text, which is inscribed on the edge of one or two bricks from Aššur, states that Sennacherib worked on the Step Gate of the Old Palace in that city. The inscription is a near duplicate of text no. 200.
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Uncertain Attribution
Both exemplars were collated from photographs of the bricks in Istanbul taken by D.R. Frayne for the RIM Project. The identification of EŞ 538 (Ass 4195) as an exemplar of this text is not certain since the name of the structure is not preserved. Therefore, that brick fragment is tentatively included here as an uncertain exemplar (ex. 1*). No score is provided on the CD-ROM.
A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny
A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny, 'Aššur, Part 4', RINAP 3: Sennacherib, The RINAP 3 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap3/RINAP32TextIntroductions/Assur/Part4/]