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This epigraph is inscribed on a badly worn slab that is still in situ at Nineveh, in the throne room (Room I, slab 1) of Sennacherib's palace. It is engraved above a relief depicting the burning city of Ukku. The text and relief refer to an incident that took place during the king's fifth campaign (697; his 8th regnal year).
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A fragmentary two-line epigraph is engraved on a sculpted slab that once decorated the wall of a room of the "Palace Without a Rival" (Court H, slab 2). The relief depicts the siege of a city (name damaged).
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This badly damaged epigraph is preserved on a broken sculpted slab that once decorated a wall of the "Palace Without a Rival" (Room XLVII). The text accompanies a scene showing mountains, forests, and a fortified city.
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An epigraph recording the conquest and looting of the city Bīt-Kubatti is carved on a stone slab discovered by A.H. Layard in Room LX of the palace of Sennacherib (slab 2). The two-line text is just above the depiction of a burning city. Bīt-Kubatti was captured during Sennacherib's second campaign (702).
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Text no. 71 may be a duplicate of this inscription, but because the reading of the preserved signs in that epigraph are not certain, the two texts are edited separately. See the commentary to text no. 71 for details.
A carved orthostat in the South-West Palace at Nineveh portraying the city Dilbat under siege (Room III, slab 8) has a two-line epigraph located just above the besieged city. Although Dilbat is not mentioned in Sennacherib's annals, the event probably took place during his first campaign (late 704–early 702).
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This broken epigraph is engraved on a slab that is still in situ in the throne room (Room I, slab 4a) of Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh.
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This epigraph is engraved on a carved orthostat discovered in situ in the palace of Sennacherib (Room XIV, slab 10). The text is accompanied by a scene of a city under siege, presumably the city Alammu. There is no other record of Sennacherib capturing that city.
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This mutilated epigraph is engraved on an orthostat discovered in situ in Sennacherib's "Palace Without a Rival" at Nineveh (Room V, slab 35). The text is accompanied by a scene of a city under siege. There is no other record of Sennacherib capturing the city Aranziašu (reading uncertain).
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The rather bold restorations are based upon J.M. Russell's edition, which should be consulted for justification. E. Frahm rightly points out that the restoration of line 1 is uncertain and notes that this city should be differentiated from the city Elenzaš, which Sennacherib plundered during his second campaign.
A relief in Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh (Room LXX, slab 4) portraying soldiers carrying booty towards the king in his chariot is inscribed with an epigraph recording the receipt of booty from the town Saḫrina (which may be situated between Babylon and Borsipa).
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This epigraph is engraved on a relief that once decorated the interior of the "Palace Without a Rival" (Room V, slab 11) at Nineveh. The four-line text records the receipt of booty from the city Kasuṣi, a place not otherwise mentioned in Sennacherib's annals.
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This badly worn epigraph records the receipt of booty from a city (name damaged); it is engraved above the image of the king on a sculpted orthostat in Sennacherib's palace. The slab was left in situ, in Room V (slab 30).
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A fragment of a sculpted orthostat discovered in the "Palace Without a Rival" (location unknown) preserves part of a four-line epigraph. The text, which appears above the image of Sennacherib in his chariot, records the receipt of booty from a city (name destroyed).
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This badly effaced epigraph is carved on a slab that once lined a wall of the South-West Palace at Nineveh (Room XLV, slab 2). Like other captions recording the receipt of booty taken from a conquered enemy city, the text appears above the image of Sennacherib in his chariot.
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A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny
A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny, 'Nineveh, Part 5', RINAP 3: Sennacherib, The RINAP 3 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2024 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap3/RINAP32TextIntroductions/Nineveh/Part5/]