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ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB
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DANIEL DAVID LUCKENBILL, Ph.D.

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PREFACE
In his Preface the author is, I believe, supposed to justify his infliction of another
book upon a long-suffering world, and, having mollified the righteous wrath of his
prospective reader, to pay some small tribute to those whose kindly aid and encourage-
ment have lightened his labors and made possible the adequate publication of their
results.
Any student of ancient oriental civilization who has conscientiously endeavored
to make the Assyrian sources the basis of Assyrian history need not be told that the
text of many of these sources was copied from the originals years before the study of the
language had progressed far enough to make them even fairly intelligible; that such
translations as have been made from time to time are found scattered through many
books and journals; that most of the best translators seem to have had but a vague
conception of what the historian expected of them (they were linguists)—in short,
that there is a crying need for an up-to-date publication of the Assyrian sources, a
publication in which the needs of the historian who is not a specialist in the ancient
oriental languages are constantly kept in mind. (If that sentence does not mollify
the prospective reader, nothing will.) Therefore, when the University of Chicago
through its Oriental Institute came into possession of a splendid six-sided prism contain-
ing the final edition of Sennacherib’s royal annals, in almost as perfect condition as
when it left the hands of the ancient scribe, it seemed an opportune moment to make
available in translation a complete body of Sennacherib’s historical and building
texts (these are almost always combined). The fact that many of these documents
had already been edited for incorporation into the files of the Assyrian Dictionary
was an additional incentive for pushing the work.
Professor Olmstead in his penetrating Assyrian Historiography has adequately
discussed the nature of the Assyrian historical sources and the royal vanity to which
we owe their preservation. He deplored the growing tendency among the historians
to use the final Assyrian edition of a given document, which was the result of perhaps
a dozen editings during which there was a steady progression from the record of events
as they occurred to an idealized account that would please the royal fancy. I have,
therefore, arranged the documents chronologically, following in the footsteps of George
Smith, the first editor of Sennacherib’s annals, and the one in whose memory this
work is sent out.
Mr. F. W. Geers, Fellow in the Department of Oriental Languages, and assistant
on the Assyrian Dictionary staff, has done me the great service of comparing all the
transliterations with the texts and has read the proofs. Professors Price and
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Maynard have read page proof. If this volume is fairly free from typographical
errors the credit is due these good friends of mine. My colleagues, Professors
Breasted and Smith, are hard men to live with. Every time I talk with the latter
I come away with the titles of half a dozen articles and three or four books that I
want to start writing at once, and every time I rise from a conference with the former
I am convinced that the surface of the ancient Orient has hardly been scratched, and
I want to be up and digging. In spite of the dilemma they plunge me into, they have
my thanks for their unfailing kindness and constant support.
The publication of this volume is part of the large program of the Oriental Insti-
tute, which owes its auspicious beginning to the generosity of Mr. John D. Rocke-
feller, Jr. For a brief statement as to the origin and purpose of the Institute the
reader is referred to the Preface (pp. 5ff.) of Breasted’s Oriental Forerunners of
Byzantine Painting, which is the first volume in the series of Oriental Institute
Publications.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. InrropucTION. ON CERTAIN PHASES OF ASSYRIAN STATECRAFT . 7 1
IJ. THE REIGN oF SENNACHERIB . ; : ; ; ‘ : ; : : 9
III. THE Sources ; ; ; ; : ae ; : ; ; : ae 4)
IV. THe ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRism INSCRIPTION 2 , 5 ; : ; : a PS)
VY. Tue HistoricaAL Recorps ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY . ) : ; ‘ . 48
(eer PALACH WITHOUT A RIVAL” ( . . * +». « «©.» « « «. 94
VII. Tue “Bit-KutTatui”’ oR ARMORY . : 5 : 3 : : : : ; . 128
VIII. ‘THe Tempus or tHE New YEAR’s FEasr”’ eee ae VP e Se LOU
IX. MisceELLANEOUS BuILpING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS . : : : ; . 144
X. EXcERPTS FROM THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE AND THE HELLENISTIC SouRcEs . 158
AUTOGRAPHED TEXT OF THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM OF SENNACHERIB : ? we 1L03
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES ; : ; ; : ; ; , : : : ; kee

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION. ON CERTAIN PHASES OF ASSYRIAN

STATECRAFT
When the prophet, endeavoring to discourage the people who were clamoring for a
change of government, described “the manner of the king” that should reign over
them (I Sam. 8:16 f.), he became the author of what is perhaps at once the briefest and
most accurate word picture of an oriental despotism that we possess. Had he added
a sentence to the effect that the ruler would keep at his side a number of obsequious
scribes who would magnify his smallest military success into a stupendous victory;
who would demonstrate their mathematical ability by multiplying—by ten or twenty
—the number of the enemy dead and captured, or the amount of tribute received from
those who had warded off the royal wrath by speedy and abject submission; and who
would, in balanced prose periods or in vague but ringing verse, transform a defeat
which could not be passed over in silence, or a lucky escape from complete disaster
in some foolish venture, into a dignified retreat before, say, the winter’s bitter cold or
the floods of springtime—had the prophet done this he would have given us not only
the picture, but the gilded frame as well. But he would have spoiled the small chance
he had of making any impression upon his audience. The vanity of kings has always
been gently dealt with, in the East and in the West, if for no other reason than that
it often adds a touch of humor (in the Orient grim humor) to what would otherwise
be a dull and dreary tale. The historian of David’s reign, as keenly aware of “what
the public wants” as our modern editor, clinches the hold of his already popular hero
upon the imagination of his readers with that marvelously well-told story of the
encounter with the giant. Who was interested in the fact that ‘‘Elhanan the son
of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear
was like a weaver’s beam” (IJ Sam. 21:19)? Would any Egyptian have cared, even
if he had dared, to suggest that his Pharaoh, Ramses II, protested too much about that
victory of his at Kadesh on the Orontes?! Could one have found an Assyrian who
would not have been outraged by the Babylonian chronicler’s report of the defeat
of Sennacherib and the Assyrian army at Halulé?
History begins with the vanity of kings. (Will it end with the vanity of the
demos?) In the earliest records that we possess from the Nile Valley
We see the king on ceremonious occasions appearing in some state, preceded by four
standard-bearers and accompanied by his chancellor, personal attendants, or a scribe, and two
1A Chinese student in a term paper, using English which was more meaningful than idiomatic,
put it thus: ‘Ramses greatly claimed victory.”
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fan-bearers. He wore the white crown of Upper or the red crown of Lower Egypt, or even a
curious combination of the crowns of both kingdoms, and a simple garment suspended by a
strap over one shoulder, to which a lion’s tail was appended behind. So dressed and so
attended he conducted triumphant celebrations of his victories or led the ceremonies at the
opening of canals or the inauguration of public works. ... . He was a mighty hunter, and
recorded with pride an achievement like the slaying of a hippopotamus.!
From the Wadi Maghara (Sinai) relief of King Semerkhet, picturing that monarch
smiting the Beduin enemies of Egypt’s earliest progress Asiaward, to the walls of the
temple of Amon at Thebes, where the long annals of Thutmose III’s victories in Syria
were written down for the eye of god and man, and copiously illustrated, it was kingly
pride that gave the artist his cue. Similarly the history of Babylonia must be built
up about, and largely from, the records of royal achievement, whether these are the
simple sculptured placque with brief inscription of Ur-Nina, the detailed accounts
of Gudea’s pious deeds, the grim records of Assurnasirpal’s ‘‘ calculated frightfulness,”
or the plagiarizing annals of the flabby Assurbanipal. Wearisome and even nauseat-
ing as these records become, nevertheless they give us a true picture of the manner of
the king that ruled over the peoples of the ancient Near East.
Once upon a time during the days when we of the modern West were ‘‘making the
world safe for democracy,’”’ I conjured up the shades of Assurnasirpal, Sennacherib,
and Assurbanipal from the house of Irkalla in the Land of No-return, to listen to some
of the serious discussions of the day, such, for example, as that on the rights of weaker
or conquered nations. I soon read on their faces the question for whose utterance
they could find no words: ‘‘ You do not mean to say that the smaller and backward
peoples are to be allowed to determine their own destiny without interference from the
king and land to whom the great gods have intrusted the rule of the world?” ‘‘ Yes,”
I replied, “‘we are beginning to accept this proposition, for we see that it is a corollary
of another which has long since been formulated: ‘Governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the governed.’”’
But this was too much. The spirits left me, beating a hasty retreat to the under-
world “where clay is their food and sewer-water their drink,”’ but whither, so far as we .
are aware, democratic ideas have not penetrated as yet. And so I returned to my
cuneiform documents, there to find recorded. the mighty deeds and pious works per-
formed by the hands of my late guests while they were still in the flesh, to discover the
principles, if there were any, which governed the Assyrian kings in their endeavors
to make the god Assur and his rule supreme.
The Assyrians were part and parcel of the ancient Orient, and the ancient oriental
outlook upon the world was imperialistic. It was self-evident to the men of those
days that the normal order of things was the domination of the ‘‘four quarters of the
world” by one and only one nation. There were times when this order of things was
disturbed, when the great gods allowed two and sometimes more nations to be so
' Breasted, A History of the Ancient Egyptians, pp. 41f.
INTRODUCTION 3
evenly matched in strength that a decision was impossible. Such a state of affairs
obtained from about 1400 to 1000 B.c. This was the age of diplomacy. The kings of
Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, and the Hittiteland discovered that they were brothers,
that boundary lines might be determined by treaty and that it was possible, the gods so
willing, for nations to live at peace with one another. But no right-minded Oriental
regarded such a condition of affairs as natural, much less as permanently possible.
Of course, the theory that the rulership of the whole world was intrusted to one person
on earth by the god who held the supremacy among the gods of heaven and earth was
not formulated in a day, nor was its development independent of actual political
conditions. However, the theory was well established in the thinking of the ancient
oriental mind long before the Assyrians played any important réle in history. It
was from Babylonia (more accurately, the old Sumer and Akkad), the home of the
western Asiatic culture, that Assyria inherited most of her ideas and ideals of govern-
ment.
In the Enuma elish, the version of the creation stories edited by the priests at
Babylon, it was the god Marduk to whom the dominion over all was given. ‘‘ Nid-
dinka sarritum kissat kal gimréti,”’ which is by interpretation: ‘‘To thee we give the
rulership of the totality of the whole universe.” In the prologue to the Code of
Hammurabi we read:
When the exalted Anu, the king of the Anunnaki, and Enlil, the lord of heaven and earth,
who determines the destinies of the land, committed to Marduk, firstborn son of Ea, the domin-
ion over all mankind, and made him great among the Igigi; when they named the lofty name of
Babylon and made it great in the four quarters of the world, and erected therein for him an
everlasting kingdom, whose foundations are established firm as heaven and earth; then did
Anu and Enlil call me, Hammurabi by name, the exalted prince, who fears god, to bring justice to
prevail in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil, that the strong might not injure the
weak, that I nigny rise like Shamash over the black-headed people, to enlighten the land and
to further the welfare of men.
Marduk is recognized as the chief among the gods; Babylon, his city, as the mistress of
the world; and Hammurabi, the king, as the predestined ruler of all peoples. In like
manner, in the Assyrian versions of the story of creation, Assur holds the first rank
among the gods, and it was from his hands that the Assyrian rulers had their power.
But let us turn for a moment to the political development of Babylonia (using this
term in its wider sense), for, as already intimated, the theory of world-dominion by
one state grew out of the actual contest for supremacy in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.
At the dawn of history we find the city-states of Babylonia in a tooth-and-claw
struggle with one another. The kings of Kish seem already to have developed the
idea that they were “‘emperors.’’ At any rate we find Mesilim of Kish in the north
' intervening in the chronic strife between Lagash and Umma in southern Sumer, and
attempting to fix the boundary between these rival cities. However, such interven-
tion appears to have been exceptional. So long as these local quarrels continued,
none of the city-states would be likely to develop dangerous strength, nor would there
be much chance of a coalition against the overlord.
In the course of time the “‘kingdom of Kish passed to Kanna (Erech).”’ Later the
“kingdom passed” to another city. Now this city in Akkad was supposed to have
exercised universal dominion, now that city in Sumer. How accurately the stereo-
typed phrases of the early Sumerian historian describe the actual course of events
is still a matter of doubt. One “kingdom” at a time was his theory. It is not until
we come to Lugalzaggisi of Erech, Sargon of Akkad, and Hammurabi of Babylon
that the fuller records permit us to trace the steps in the progress toward world-
rulership. In the case of the first two, although expeditions reaching to the Persian
Gulf in the east and the Mediterranean in the west are spoken of, it is evident that
the immediate problem was the subjugation and control of Sumer and Akkad. With
Hammurabi the situation becomes more complicated. Himself an Amorite on the
Babylonian throne, he was keenly aware of the political progress that had been made
in the regions adjacent to the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, and realized that a campaign
for world-dominion would have to be conducted “with the breadth of vision which
Ea allotted” him and ‘“‘with the might which Marduk granted” him. First of all the
lesser tribes and nations to the north and east were brought into subjection. Not
until he had been on the throne close to thirty years did he feel ready to undertake
the decisive venture, the crushing of Rim-Sin, the Elamite king on the throne of the
Sumerian city of Larsa. But as soon as victory was attained, Hammurabi turned his
whole attention to restoring ‘‘normalcy”’ in all of the conquered territory. Temples
were rebuilt and cults revived, from Sumer in the south to Assyria and Mesopotamia
in the north and west. Everything was done to bring prosperity to the whole of the
empire. Hammurabi codified the laws of the land and boasts that this was done in
the language of the people. He made justice the cornerstone of the national life.
The strong were no longer to injure the weak; an ideal, by the way, which we find
expressed in almost exactly the same words more than half a millennium before
Hammurabi, by the reforming usurper Urukagina of Lagash. But we must not
think that Hammurabi felt that he was bound by his code of laws. That code he
received from the hand of the god Shamash for the establishment of justice.in the
empire, for the rulership of which he had been predestined from the foundation of the
world. From the gods he had his scepter and to them alone was he responsible.
The idea that a ruler derives his just powers from the consent of the governed,
whether these were the ‘‘ black-headed”’ Babylonians or peoples of conquered territory,
would not have been abhorrent to Hammurabi, it would simply have been incompre-
hensible. Nor can we imagine any such idea arising in the minds of the governed in
his day. Throughout the history of Babylonia and Assyria, the kings ruled by the
grace of god. It was true that people sometimes did rebel and set the ‘‘son of a
nobody” upon the throne, but such a procedure was contrary to all reason and cer-
INTRODUCTION 5
tainly always in defiance of the gods. This brings us to a point which we must never
lose sight of as we turn to review the barbarous and unspeakable cruelty of the Assyrian
kings. The oriental ruler had his scepter from the hand of his god. Victory over
the nations round about was also a gift from him. Conquered peoples took the oath
of obedience and servitude to the conqueror and the conqueror’s god. That they had
no choice in the matter made no difference. The Assyrian kings always distinguished
between enemies and rebels. Enemies were given a chance to submit and become
tributaries, but rebels (‘‘sinners”’ is a literal translation of the term employed), those
who “sinned against Assur and the great gods,”’ were usually exterminated with the
utmost savagery.
Shamshi-Adad, the first Assyrian king of whom we possess an inscription which is
more than a mere dedicatory record, and who lived perhaps shortly after the fall of
the First Dynasty of Babylon (ca. 1926 B.c.), tells us that he fixed the prices in his city
Assur, received the tribute of the kings of Tukrish and of the king of the upper country,
and set up a memorial stela on the shores of the great sea (the Mediterranean). Here,
almost at the beginning of Assyrian history, we come upon that which the Assyrian
kings to the very last made their chief occupation, namely, the collection of tribute.
That the Sumerian and Babylonian “emperors” were not averse to receiving more or
less voluntary gifts is to be taken for granted, but the records do not indicate that this
was first and foremost in their thoughts. Certainly Hammurabi realized that the
stability of a state depends upon economic health and social justice. Babylonia was
a land of unsurpassed productiveness, and agriculture and commerce became the
foundation stones of the state. Assyria, on the other hand, was a poor country, and
it was no doubt largely on this account that its inhabitants early began to cast covetous
eyes upon everything that was their neighbor’s. Hammurabi saw that prosperous
cities in Sumer and Akkad were likely to be contented cities. Only late in the game
did any Assyrian king wake up to the fact that a community, most of whose inhabitants
had been put to the sword and whose wealth had been carried off to Assyria, was not
likely to be a valuable nor quiet addition to the empire. But we are anticipating.
We pass over the weary centuries during which weak Assyrian kings and weaker
Kassite rulers of Babylonia warred with each other, or married one another’s daughters,
having come to terms as to dowries and boundaries. We pause only for a moment to
mention the deeds of Tukulti-Urta I (ca. 1290 B.c.). As is to be expected, we read
of the tribute exacted from the countries round about. But of greatest moment is his
capture of Babylon, an event described in the ‘‘ Babylonian Chronicle” as follows:
Tukulti-Urta returned to Babylon. .... He destroyed the wall of Babylon, and the men
of Babylon he slew with the sword. The treasures of Esagila and of Babylon he profanely
brought forth, and the great lord Marduk he removed from his dwelling place, and he carried
him away to Assyria. The administration of his governors he set up in the land of Karduniash
For seven years did Tukulti-Urta rule over Karduniash.
We cannot help comparing this procedure with Hammurabi’s methods. Hammurabi

had sense enough to see that the restoration of temples and cults which had suffered
from the ravages of war was one of the surest ways of healing war’s wounds. But
Tukulti-Urta was true to the Assyrian type and that type may best be described by
an adjective for which we are indebted to Brander Matthews, osteocephalic.
Our text goes on to describe the end of Tukulti-Urta.
Afterwards the nobles of Akkad and Karduniash revolted and they set Adad-shum-usur
upon his father’s throne. Against Tukulti-Urta, who had brought evil upon Babylon, Assur-
nasirpal, his son, and the nobles of Assyria revolted, and from his throne they cast him, and they
besieged him in a house in the city of Kar-Tukulti-Urta, and they slew him with the sword.
This sort of thing occurred time and again in the later history of Assyria. While the
king was away on a plundering expedition, his sons and nobles at home would get their
heads together and decide that a change of leaders was desirable. The limu-lists will
then have an entry, sihu, “rebellion,” in the capital, followed by a heavy ruling to
indicate a change on the throne.
It is not until we come to Tiglath-Pileser I (ca. 1100 B.c.) that we have Assyrian
records showing carefully planned campaigns with world-dominion as their object.
And here, too, we meet for the first time the detailed accounts of savagery which
blacken the pages of Assyrian history to the last. Let me give a few quotations from
the large Cylinder Inscription.
With their twenty thousand warriors and their five kings in the land of Kummuhi I fought
and I defeated them. The corpses of their warriors in the destructive battle like the destroyer
T hurled down. Their blood in the valleys and on the high places of the mountains I caused to
flow. Their heads I cut off, and outside their cities, like heaps of grain, I piled them up. Their
spoil, and their possessions in countless number I brought out. Six thousand men, the remainder
of their troops, who from before my weapons had fled and had embraced my feet, I took away and
as inhabitants of my country I counted them [Col. I, 74-88].!
Here we have the beginning of the deportation of the inhabitants of conquered

territory. But it is not until the reign of the third Tiglath-pileser (745-727 B.c.)
that this becomes a carefully planned policy.
Continuing the quotation from Tiglath-pileser:
The land of Kummuhi in its length and breadth I conquered and I added it to the borders
of my land [Col. III, 80-31].
His campaigns are summed up in the following words:

In all forty-two lands and their princes from beyond the Lower Zab, a region of difficult
hills, unto the further side of the Euphrates, and the land of Hatti and the Upper Sea of the
West, from the beginning of my rule up to the fifth year of my reign my hand hath conquered.
I have made them to be under one rule [literally, of one mouth], I have taken hostages from
them, and tribute and tax I have laid upon them [Col. VI, 39-48].
1See King, Annals of the Kings of Assyria, pp. 36 f.
INTRODUCTION 7
But what had he accomplished? The name Assyria spread terror over the nations.
But there is no evidence that any attempt was made to improve conditions in the lands
which had been conquered. Security from attack and regular tribute from the
conquered nations was all world-dominion meant to Tiglath-pileser, and neither had
been gained.
Now follows a long period of Assyrian decline with the falling away of dependencies
and the gradual cessation of the payment of tribute. The next conqueror which
Assyria produced was Assurnasirpal, whose name is synonymous with “Schrecklich-
keit.”’
Two hundred and sixty of their fighting men I put to the sword, and I cut off their heads
and I piled them in heaps. .... I built a pillar over against his city gate, and I flayed all of
the chief men who had revolted, and I covered the pillar with their skins; some I walled up within
the pillar, and some upon the pillar on stakes I impaled, and others I fixed to stakes round
about the pillar. .... Three thousand captives I burned with fire..... Their young men
and maidens I burned in the fire.
These are a few sentences taken at random from his Annals.!. Flaying, impaling,
mutilation, burning, these were the means by which Assurnasirpal sought to establish
an empire. In a sense he was successful. Tribute came pouring in as in the days of
old, and Assyria was a name to be spoken in a whisper. From his day to the end of
Assyrian history, the power of Assyria was felt over all of Western Asia. In time
even Egypt fell a victim to the Assyrian sword. But in that long period of two and
three-quarter centuries, there was hardly a moment when an Assyrian king could lean
back and be comfortable. Revolts were breaking out almost daily, at home and in
the conquered territories. The death of an Assyrian king was usually the signal for a
general uprising and refusal of tribute. As time went on, practically all there was to
Assyria was the army, and tribute and plunder from the conquered regions about all
there was to support the war machine. What methods did the Assyrians employ
to hold their empire together? Did it ever occur to them that a sound economic
policy and social justice might help? If so, the records of it have perished. As
already indicated, Tiglath-pileser III thought he had found the solution of an emperor’s
troubles when he revived the policy of deporting the inhabitants of a province at one
end of the empire and settling them among strangers at the other. Sennacherib
attempted to solve the age-old problem of Babylon by wiping the city off the map.?
Though his son, Esarhaddon, by his restoration of this old capital of the South, gave
promise of better things, nevertheless, ‘“‘in him, in spite of mercy shown a number of
times, there raged a fierceness and a thirst for blood and revenge that remind us forcibly
of Assurnasirpal. His racial inheritance had overcome his personal mildness.’’*
1 See King, op. cit., pp. 254 f.
2 Tukulti-Urta had tried this method earlier. See above.
3 Rogers, History of Babylonia and Assyria, II, 424.
The organization of the conquered territories into provinces of the Assyrian state,
begun early and carried out methodically in the empire period, if done in an enlightened
manner, might have resulted in time in the formation of a homogeneous culture. But
here again there is no evidence that economic and social conditions were ever seriously
studied. To the very end the problem was not how much a certain province might be
made to produce, but always how much could be gouged out of that province. In the
end this amount became small indeed. ‘The disappearance of the free peasant class
and the exorbitant rates of interest on money are but two of many indications we have
in the business documents dating from the empire of the unhealthy economic and
social conditions which prevailed in the homeland itself. And the Assyrian Code,
dating from about a millennium after that of Hammurabi, gives evidence in almost
every paragraph of the barbarous severity of the administration of the law.
I am aware that it is not good form to sit in judgment upon the kings of old whose
deeds we pass in review; that these worthies must be studied in the light of their own
time; etc. To which I reply, that to edit the inscriptions of such a man as Sennacherib
is to pass judgment upon him. If Assurnasirpal, Tiglath-pileser, Sennacherib, and
the rest insisted on spreading the accounts of their barbarities all over the walls of their
palaces, why should we refrain from calling them barbarians? That the times in which
these monarchs lived were strenuous ones none will deny, but if Assyrian justice was
ever tempered by mercy the accounts of it have been lost. There is not much use in
speculating as to what might have been, but there is no harm in contrasting the
haughty imperialism of the Assyrian kings with the humane and paternal imperialism
of such a Babylonian as Hammurabi. If
the proprieties of historical science (or the
postal laws) keep us from expressing our opinion as to the merits and demerits of
Assyria’s imperialistic policy, it is possible
to find relief for our feelings in the perusal
of the opinions expressed by some of the victims of that policy. Did not Nahum,
with his ‘Woe to the bloody city!” put into words the feelings which surged up in the
heart of the whole ancient world when the doom of Assyria had been sealed? “All
that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy
wickedness passed continually ?”’? Could the author of the Book of Jonah, that gospel
story of the Old Testament, have chosen a better example to illustrate the inscrutable
ways of providence, than Nineveh, object of god’s grace, recipient of Jehovah’s
forgiveness ?
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CHAPTER II
THE REIGN OF SENNACHERIB

When Sargon moved into his magnificent palace at Khorsabad, there must have
come to his mind the thought that he had set Assyria’s house in order and that he
and his land might now look forward with confidence to a season of peace and quiet-
ness. At Raphia he had shown the cities of Syria that ‘to take refuge in the shadow
of Egypt” would avail them nothing. In several hard-fought campaigns he had
shattered the power of Urartu which had long threatened Assyria from the north.
And finally, by a happy combination of successful military leadership and shrewd
diplomacy, he had found himself in possession of Babylonia with the Babylonians
hailing him as their champion.
Then suddenly there arose the cry: “A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a
destroyer of nations.’”’ Out of the north there were coming troops of barbarous
horsemen, descendants, perhaps, of the hordes of Gutium which had swept down over
Sumer and Akkad soon after the days of the elder Sargon, older cousins of the Seythians
who were to terrify Judah in Jeremiah’s day—the products of the Eurasian grasslands
which have periodically belched destruction over the civilized areas of the twin
continents. Our records are obscure, but it would seem as if for a time Sargon failed to
realize the danger, and that when he did sally forth, it was to meet a violent death.
In breaking down the kingdom of Urartu, he had opened up the door for the Cimmeri-
ans, Scythians, and other Indo-European hordes, who were, within the century, to
exhaust and to overthrow the empire. But, as so often happens in this world of
ours, the storm clouds blew over. The Cimmerians were turned aside and it was
not until the days of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal that they became a real menace
to Assyria.
However, Sennacherib, who succeeded to the throne on the twelfth of Ab, 705 B.c.,
was in no danger of finding time hanging heavy on his hands. There was the Baby-
lonian problem. Would Sennacherib proceed to Babylon, take the hand of Marduk,
and be proclaimed shakkanakku, viceroy, as his father Sargon had done, and thus salve
the feelings of the haughty Marduk priesthood? Sennacherib had evidently long
since made up his mind as to the manner in which Babylonian pride was to be handled.
He did not take the hand of Marduk as viceroy, but he had himself proclaimed
king of Babylon, and this without using a second name as Tiglath-pileser had done.
Nor does he seem to have taken the trouble to honor Marduk by calling on him in his
temple. And so, while the official state records have his name set down as king of
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Babylon, the Ptolemaic Canon, reflecting the true Babylonian feeling in the matter,
has the years 705 and 704 marked ‘‘kingless.”’
Events moved rapidly. In Babylon, one Marduk-zdkir-shumu, labeled “son of
a slave” in the King List, was proclaimed ruler (703). He had enjoyed royal dignity
but a month when Merodach-baladan appeared on the scene and regained the throne
from which he had been ousted by Sargon back in 709. This time Shutur-nahundu,!
the Elamite, sent substantial aid in the form of 80,000 bowmen, supported by cavalry
and under the command of the turtan and “left” turtan. Such backing brought all
of the Chaldeans of Bit-Yakin, Bit-Amukkani, and the other petty states on the shore
of the Persian Gulf, as well as the Aramaeans whose settlements were along the Tigris,
to the standard of the Babylonian king. Sennacherib’s generals, who were sent on
ahead, were attacked by the allies in the plain of Kish, and failed to hold their own.
Messengers were dispatched to the king who was in the vicinity of Kutha. This city
he immediately assaulted and captured. Raging like a lion and storming like a tem-
pest, he now turned his face toward Kish. Merodach-baladan’s courage failed him and
he fled into the swamps and marshes of Guzummanu, leaving the Elamite generals with
the allied troops to face the Assyrian. Sennacherib’s victory was decisive. Among
the captives are mentioned the stepson of Merodach-baladan and the brother of the
Arab queen, Yat’e. After the spoil had been gathered together, the king marched
upon Babylon, whose gates swung open on his approach, and Merodach-baladan’s
palace was made to yield up its treasures. Sennacherib spent five days hunting for
the fugitive Babylonian king down in the fens, but without bagging his quarry. The
fields and date groves of the Arabs, Aramaeans, and Chaldeans (one sees from these
names how the old Akkadian-Babylonian stock had been replaced by new blood) were
stripped bare, and their produce accompanied the 208,000 captives and correspondingly
large numbers of horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle, and sheep to Assyria. Before
leaving Babylon, Sennacherib set Bél-ibni, “‘a scion of Babylon,” who had grown up at
the Assyrian court, ‘like a young hound,” upon the throne of Sumer and Akkad.
Was he tempted to try leniency with the Babylonians? So ended the first cam-
paign (702).
But if Merodach-baladan’s whereabouts remained unknown to the Assyrian king,
he was not idle. His letters and a present reached Hezekiah, king of Judah, who lent
him a ready ear (II Kings, 20:12 f.).2 The trouble in the west had doubtless begun
as soon as the reports of Sargon’s violent death reached these regions. And with
Sennacherib apparently kept occupied for some time after his accession by events in
Babylonia, it is no wonder that the year 701 saw respect for Assyrian authority rapidly
disappearing. In the north, the cities had rallied about Lulé (Elulaeus), called king
of Sidon, though Tyre seems to have been his real capital, while in the south Hezekiah
1 See p. 49, note 2. ‘
2 Some would place this embassy before, others after, this date.
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of Judah, with Egyptian aid in sight, became not an altogether unwilling center
around which the anti-Assyrian forces rallied. In Ekron the staunch pro-Assyrian
Padi was thrown in chains and turned over to Hezekiah at J erusalem, there to be
further humiliated.
Such open defiance of Assyria could not be allowed to go unheeded, and Sen-
nacherib, having subdued the Kassites and Yasubigallians, rude mountaineers to
_ the east of the Tigris, in what is designated as his second campaign, now set out
against the “ Hittiteland,” that is, Syria. Lulé, like many another Phoenician prince
before and after him, did not wait to see what an Assyrian army looked like, but took
to his heels, or to be more exact, to his boat, and was soon at a safe distance from the
scene of operations. Tuba’lu (Ethbaal) was set up as king of Sidon and a number of
Phoenician cities were turned over to his rule. According to Sennacherib there now
followed a mad rush of petty kinglets eager to ward off his wrath by speedy submission;
among these were Mitinti of Ashdod, Budu-ilu of Beth Ammon, Kamusu-nadbi of
Moab, and Malik-rammu of Edom. But the opposition in the south was not so readily
broken down. In fact Sennacherib was compelled to do some real fighting. Beginning
with Ashkelon, where the rebels had deposed Sharru-lu-dari, son of the Rukibti whom
Tiglath-pileser had placed upon the throne, and set up Sidka as their king, one city
after the other was attacked and taken. As the Assyrian was on the point of moving
against Ekron, the Egyptian and Ethiopian armies made their appearance, and at
Eltekeh the battle was joined. The Assyrians won. Eltekeh and Timnath were
captured and Ekron’s rebels, who had ousted Padi, were now exposed to the fury of
the royal wrath.
Sennacherib next turned his attention to Jerusalem. Siege was laid to the city and
the daring Hezekiah was shut up “like a bird in a cage.’”’? The Assyrian account of
the investment of the city is very full and detailed, a sure sign that the victory claimed
was not at all decisive.
As for Hezekiah, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong cities, as well as
the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number—by levelling with battering-
rams (?) and by bringing up siege-engines (?), I besieged and took (those cities). 200,150
people, great and small, male and female, horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle and sheep, without
number, I brought away from them and counted as spoil. Himself, like a caged bird I shut up
in Jerusalem, his royal city. Earthworks I threw up against him—the one coming out of
the city-gate, I turned back to his misery.
The cities of his which I had despoiled I cut off from his land and to Mitinti, king of Ashdod,
Padi, king of Ekron, and Silli-Bél, king of Gaza, I gave. And (thus) I diminished his land.
I added to the former tribute, and laid upon him the giving (up) of their land (as well as)
imposts—gifts for my majesty.
As for Hezekiah, the terrifying splendor of my majesty overcame him, and the Urbi (Arabs)
and his mercenary(?) troops which he had brought in to strengthen Jerusalem, his royal city,
deserted him (lit. took leave).
In addition to the 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver (there were), gems, cosmetics (?),
jewels(?), large sandu-stones, couches of ivory, house chairs of ivory, elephant hide, ivory
(lit. elephant’s teeth), wshu-wood, urkarinnu-wood, all kinds of valuable (heavy) treasures,
as well as his daughters, his harem, his male and female musicians, (which) he had (them) bring
after me to Nineveh, my royal city. To pay tribute and to accept (lit. do) servitude, he dis-
patched his messenger(s).
We have heard what Sennacherib had to say about the great event of his third
campaign. We have also reached the most debated of the historical problems con- -
nected with his reign. Sennacherib’s attack upon Jerusalem and Judah is also fully
reported in the Old Testament. The echoes of a reverse to his army, there recorded,
reverberated down the centuries. Herodotus tells of the “multitude of field-mice”’
which came in the night and ‘‘which devoured all the quivers and bowstrings of the
enemy, and all the thongs by which they managed their shields”; how ‘‘next morning
they commenced their flight, and great multitudes fell, as they had no arms with which
to defend themselves” (Book II, 141). And Byron has helped us to exult over the
discomfiture of the Assyrian who “came down like a wolf on the fold.”” The prob-
lem is whether the non-Assyrian accounts refer to one or two campaigns of Sennacherib
in the West, one in 701 and another toward the end of his reign. Opinion has gradually
shifted round to the two-campaign hypothesis. Without going into details, let us
set down the pros and cons.
In the first place, the passage in IT Kings 18:13 f. (and Isa. 36:1f.) agrees with the
Assyrian account in the report of Judean cities captured by Sennacherib and tribute
paid the Assyrian by Hezekiah.
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up
against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to
the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me; that which thou
puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
In the second place, it is evident from both accounts that there was a siege of
Jerusalem. According to the Assyrian account this siege, conducted in 701, led to the
submission of Hezekiah (it does not mention the capture of the city) and his payment
of tribute. One is led to infer that operations were conducted by the king in person,
but this is not expressly stated and the reliefs show him seated on his throne before
Lachish (cf. IJ Kings 18:14). According to the Old Testament account, messengers
were sent by the king from Lachish to interview Hezekiah and to scare him into
submission. But without success. On their return to their master they found him
“warring against Libnah”’ (II Kings 19:8f.). The appearance on the scene of
Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, and a second embassy to Hezekiah are now recorded. ‘The
same insulting speech that had been used before, with but slight variations, is again
directed at Hezekiah through his representatives at the parley. But Hezekiah,
1 This and what follows sounds almost as if an Assyrian scribe had written it.
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encouraged by the prophet Isaiah, once more refuses to be intimidated. Then

follows the account of the smiting of the Assyrian host in the night by the angel of
Jehovah, the departure of Sennacherib to Nineveh, and his assassination there.
Those who hold the two-campaign hypothesis, and as already indicated, they are
now in the majority, feel that the difficulties presented by the Old Testament story,
especially the mention of Tirhakah and the placing of Sennacherib’s assassination close
upon his return to Nineveh after his disastrous defeat, are most easily overcome by
assuming a first western campaign in 701 in which the Assyrian king defeated the
Syrians and their Egyptian allies, devastated the cities of Judah, besieged Jerusalem
but failed to take it, contenting himself with Hezekiah’s release of Padi and his pay-
ment of tribute; and a second campaign in 687 or 686, when he met a crushing defeat
(naturally not mentioned in the Assyrian annals). The Old Testament is supposed to
have telescoped the two campaigns into one.
This hypothesis has many things in its favor. Nevertheless, its alternative which
holds that one campaign, that of 701, is all we need to posit, is easily defended.
Sennacherib’s annals make no mention of his presence before Lachish, but as
already indicated, an inscribed relief shows him there. The repeated dispatch of his
messengers to Hezekiah is right in line with what we should expect to have occurred.
Although Sennacherib places his defeat of the Syrians and their Egyptian and Ethio-
pian allies before the siege of Jerusalem, it is altogether possible that this battle, in
which he may have been fought to a standstill, came at the close of the campaign and
was the reason for his abandonment of the siege. Hezekiah’s release of Padi and his
payment of tribute (the latter is placed at the very beginning of the Old Testa-
ment narrative) may have come soon after the Assyrian’s appearance in southern
Syria, or any time during the long siege. Or the siege itself may have been the result
of some overt act of Hezekiah’s inspired by the resistance that Ashkelon and the other
cities of the plain were offering to Sennacherib. A drawn battle with the allies and
the raising of the siege of Jerusalem would be basis enough for the story of the
utter rout of Sennacherib as handed down by the Old Testament and Herodotus.!
That his campaign was not a brilliant success we may legitimately infer from Sennach-
erib’s own account of it in the annals. And Bél-ibni’s willingness to listen to
Merodach-baladan and the Elamites is additional evidence pointing in the same
direction. That Sennacherib had not met with outright defeat is evidenced, I believe,
by the silence of the Babylonian Chronicle, which was not slow to record Assyrian
reverses. And a similar silence as to a defeat of Sennacherib in the West toward the
end of his reign is not without significance. Would Sennacherib have been content
to have such a defeat passed over in silence? Is it not more probable that he would
have ordered his scribes to give to the world such an account as that of his battle of
Halulé? As for the mention of Tirhakah, he may well have been in command of his
1The miraculous elements of these accounts do not call for explanation here.
uncle Shabaka’s troops in 701, some thirteen years before he became king (so
Breasted, who finds no insuperable difficulty in assuming one campaign), as Hall, who
argues for two campaigns, admits.!
In 700 Sennacherib again marched on Babylon, captured the treacherous Bél-ibni,
who was sent back to Assyria, chased Shuzubu, the Chaldean, into the southern
marshes, and conducted such a hot pursuit after Merodach-baladan that this arch-
enemy of Assyria and the instigator of the trouble, packed up his gods and his people,
embarked them in ships, and fled to the Elamite city of Nagitu on the east shore of
the Persian Gulf. In place of Bél-ibni, Sennacherib set his son Assur-nddin-shumu
on the Babylonian throne and returned to Assyria. So ended the fourth campaign.
A period of comparative quiet now set in. But royal vanity demanded royal
campaigns to be recorded in high-sounding phrases on dedicatory cylinders and
prisms or on the walls of the steadily growing palace at Nineveh. So a raid against
the villages on the slopes of Mount Nipur (the modern Jaidi D&agh) northeast of
Nineveh, becomes a fifth campaign (699). But a real military undertaking conducted
the following year by his generals against Kirua, governor of Kue (Cilicia), who had
risen in revolt, though recorded on a recently discovered cylinder which was inscribed
in 694, was later passed over by the scribes who composed the royal annals. This
campaign is of special interest to us today because it was the one event of Sennacherib’s
reign of which any extended account was handed down by the Greek and Roman
historians.2, Some years later (695) the Assyrian generals undertook an expedition
against Til-garimmu (the Togarmah of the Old Testament), which had figured in
Assyrian history since the days of Assurnasirpal and which had now for some unknown
reason merited punishment.
The thought of Merodach-baladan, alive or dead, was a thorn in the flesh of
Sennacherib. The escape of that arch-conspirator to Elam must have embittered the
days and disturbed the nights’ dreams of the Assyrian king. And so we find him ready
in 694 to strike a blow at the Elamite coast whither Merodach-baladan and his people
had fled. He had kept Phoenician shipbuilders busy building ships for some time on
the upper Euphrates and at Nineveh on the Tigris, for a fleet to be used as transports
for hisarmy. The ships built on the upper Tigris were manned by Tyrian, Sidonian,
and Cyprian sailors, and floated down that stream to Opis. Here, presumably
because the lower Tigris was controlled by the Elamites, the ships were pulled up on
shore, placed on sledges or rollers, and transported overland to the Arahtu canal. Ata
point downstream, probably where the canal joined the Euphrates below Babylon,
the Assyrian troops, together with their supplies, were embarked and transported to
Bab-saliméti, at the mouth of the Euphrates. Sennacherib, not trusting himself to
such unusual means of transportation, kept on dry land. At the head of the Persian
Gulf, he and the fleet seem to have had a five-day battle with wind and waves, but
1The Ancient History of the Near East, p. 491. 2 See p. 162.
after Ea, the god of the deep, had been placated by sacrifices which were offered him,
and by a golden ship, a golden fish, and a golden aluttu which were cast upon the waters,
the voyage across the gulf to the Elamite side was made without further accident.
After a stubborn resistance, the cities of the coast were taken. Sennacherib calls it a
great victory. The captive Chaldeans and Elamites were apportioned like sheep
among his soldiers. He had his revenge upon Merodach-baladan, although, so it
would seem, the Babylonian had not lived to see the Assyrian’s great adventure.
Sennacherib makes no mention of the backfire from this invasion of Elam. But
the Babylonian chronicler, who never failed to record the things the Assyrian king
would have been willing to pass over in silence, has some information on the subject.
“In the sixth year of Assur-nddin-shumu, Sennacherib descended upon Elam, destroyed
Nagitu, Hilmu, Pillatu, Hupapanu and plundered them. Thereupon Hallushu,
king of Elam, came against Akkad, entered Sippar toward the end of the month Tash-
ritu, and slew the inhabitants. Shamash did not leave Ebarra. Assur-nddin-shumu
was captured and carried off to Elam. Six years Assur-n4din-shumu ruled as king in
Babylon. The king of Elam placed Nergal-ushézib on the throne in Babylon and
invaded (or, defeated) Assyria.”
But the success of the Babylonians and their allies was short-lived. They had
cut off Sennacherib from his base, and had him at a disadvantage. On the sixteenth
_of Tammuz (the fourth Assyrian month, corresponding to June-July) of his first year
of reign, Nergal-ushézib took Nippur. The first of Tashritu (seventh month) saw the
capture of Erech by the Assyrian army, and the seventh of the same month marked
the collapse of the allied advance. The Elamites aiding, Nergal-ushézib had attacked
the northward-moving Assyrian army near Nippur, was defeated, captured, and
carried off to Nineveh (693), where he had a chance to reflect upon the transitory char-
acter of worldly glory. The defeat of the allies cost Hallushu his throne and life, for a
rebellion broke out in Elam which ended in his overthrow and the accession of Kudur-
nahundu, three weeks after the reverse at Nippur.
Events now moved apace. The defeated, but not hopeless, Babylonians placed
Mushézib-Marduk on their throne. But Sennacherib was not to be diverted from
what he had come to know was the real center of the opposition. Late in the year he
invaded Elam. We hear of the capture and destruction of forty-six cities: but the
Elamites refused to let themselves be engaged. They were evidently too disorganized
to warrant taking any risks, so Kudur-nahundu withdrew into the mountains. The
rapid approach of winter, with rain and snow and bitter cold, was the only thing that
prevented Sennacherib from following. He returned to Nineveh.
The Assyrian king was now in dead earnest. Kudur-nahundu was killed in an
uprising ten months after his accession, and the time to strike another blow was at
hand. As Sennacherib moved south, the Babylonians hastily stripped their great
temple of Marduk of its treasures, to buy the support of Umman-menanu, the new
king in Elam. Umman-menanu, a man without any sense or judgment (this is the
Assyrian’s estimate of him), accepted the bribe, mustered his armies, and came on to
meet the advancing Assyrian host. At Halulé on the lower Tigris the great battle
was fought.
With the dust of their feet covering the wide heavens like a mighty storm with (its) masses
of dense (lit. pregnant) clouds, they drew up in battle array before me in the city of Halulé, on
the bank of the Tigris. They blocked my passage and offered battle. As for me, to Assur,
Sin, Shamash, Bél, Nabti, Nergal, Ishtar of Nineveh, Ishtar of Arbela, the gods in whom I
trust, I prayed for victory over the mighty foe. They speedily gave ear to my prayers and came
to my aid. Like a lion I raged. I puton (my) coat of mail. (My) helmet, emblem of victory
(battle), I placed upon my head. My great battle chariot which brings low the foe, I
hurriedly mounted in the anger of my heart. The mighty bow which Assur had given me, I
seized in my hands; the javelin, piercing to the life, I grasped. Against all of the hosts of
wicked enemies, I raised my voice (lit. cried out), rumbling like a storm. Like Adad I roared.
At the word of Assur, the great lord, my lord, on flank and front I pressed upon the enemy like
the onset of a raging storm. With the weapon of Assur, my lord, and the terrible onset of my
attack, I stopped their advance, succeeding in surrounding them. I decimated the enemy host
with arrow and spear. All of their bodies I bored through like Humban-undasha the
field-marshal of the king of Elam, a trustworthy man, commander of his armies and his chief
support, together with his nobles who wear the golden girdle-dagger and whose hands (wrists) are
encircled with heavy (thick) rings of shining gold,—like fat steers who have hobbles put on them,
—speedily I cut them down and established their defeat. I cut their throats like , cut
off their precious lives (as one cuts) a string. Like the many waters of a storm I made (the
contents of) their gullets and entrails run down upon the wide earth. My prancing steeds,
harnessed for my riding, plunged into the streams of their blood as (into) a river. The wheels
of my war chariot, which brings low the wicked and the evil, were bespattered with filth and
blood. With the bodies of their warriors I filled the plain, like grass. (Their) testicles I cut
off, and tore out their privates like the seeds of cucumbers of Siwan (June). Their hands I
cut off. The heavy (?) rings of brightest gold which (they had) on their wrists, I took away.
With sharp swords I pierced their belts and took away the girdle-daggers of gold and silver which
(they carried) on their persons. :
The rest of the nobles, together with Nabt-shum-ishkun, son of Merodach-baladan, who had
taken fright at (before) my onslaught and had gone over to their side, (these) my hands seized in
the midst of the battle. The chariots and their horses, whose riders had been slain at the
beginning of the terrible onslaught, and who had been left to themselves, kept running back and
forth (lit. going and returning) for a distance of two double-hours:—I put an end to their head-
long flight.
That Umman-menanu, king of Elam, together with the king of Babylon (and) the princes
of Chaldea, who had gone over to their side, the terror of my battle overturned them (lit. their
bodies) like a bull. They abandoned their tents and to save their lives they trampled the
bodies of their (fallen) soldiers, they fled like young pigeons that are pursued. They were
beside themselves (lit. their hearts were torn), they held back (?) their urine, but let their dung
go into their chariots.
In pursuit of them, I despatched my chariots and horses after them. Those among them
who had escaped, who had fled for their lives, wherever they (my charioteers) met them, they
cut them down with the sword.
This is by all odds the best description of a battle that has come down to us from
Assyria. The poet who portrayed Marduk’s great encounter with Tiamat and the
hosts of Chaos did no better. It is also the finest rhetorical smoke-screen that has
ever been thrown around a monarch retiring with dignity from a situation that had
proved to be too much for him. Its only serious competitor for first prize is the
Egyptian account of the victory of Ramses II at Kadesh on the Orontes.
The Babylonian chronicler’s report of the battle is brief: ‘In an unknown year
[it was 691], Menanu mustered the armies of Elam and Akkad, made an attack upon
Assyria at Halulé and defeated Assyria.”
It was a drawn battle. The Elamites must have suffered frightful losses.
Sennacherib boasts of the capture of an Elamite general and the son of Merodach-
baladan. But Umman-menanu was still at large, and Mushézib-Marduk still on the
Babylonian throne, when Sennacherib returned to Nineveh.
Sennacherib remained at home all of the next year, assisting, perhaps, in the
editing of the account of the victory at Halulé. And then, “Gott mit uns!” the Elam-
ite king suffered a stroke, his jaw was locked so that he could not speak. Sennacherib
was not slow to take advantage of this situation. He hurriedly marched upon Baby-
lon (689, his eighth and last campaign of which the official records tell us), captured
Mushézib-Marduk, sent him and the statue of Marduk back to Assyria, while the
city itself was totally wiped out.
The city and its houses,—foundation and walls, I destroyed, I devastated, I burned with
fire. The wall and the outer-wall, temples and gods, temple-towers of brick and earth, as many
as there were, I razed and dumped them into the Arahtu canal. Through the midst of that
city I dug canals, I flooded its site with water, and the very foundation thereof I destroyed. I
made its destruction more complete than that by a flood. That in days to come, the site of
that city, and its temples and gods, might not be remembered, I completely blotted it out with
floods of water and made it likea meadow. .... After I had destroyed Babylon, had smashed
the gods thereof, and had struck down its people with the sword,—that the ground of that
city might be carried off, I removed its ground and had it carried to the Euphrates (and on) to
the sea. Its dirt reached (was carried) unto Dilmun, the Dilmunites saw it, and terror of the
fear of Assur fell upon them and they brought their treasures. With their treasures they sent
artisans, mustered from their land, carriers of the basket, a copper chariot, copper tools, vessels
of the workmanship of their land;—at the destruction of Babylon. To quiet the heart of
Assur, my lord, that peoples should bow in submission before his exalted might, I removed the
dust of Babylon for presents to (be sent to the most) distant peoples, and in that Temple of the
New Year’s Feast, I stored (some) of it in a covered bin.
Sennacherib had achieved the end toward which he had pushed since the early
days of his reign. His remaining eight years were apparently years of peace (unless
there really was another campaign to the West during these years). No doubt the
king’s generals were sent out on an occasional punitive expedition—we know of one
against the Arabs—but he himself could now give his undivided attention to the
improvement of his capital.
Plots and counterplots have always disturbed the peace of oriental courts. Queen-
mothers, wives and concubines, younger sons, all watching every move the king
makes; priests and astrologers, all sorts of advisers telling him what to do and what
not to do—is it any wonder that the Assyrian monarchs spent so much time away
from home?! As old age came on, the matter of the succession was bound to cause
the king trouble. We are always left in the dark as to just what happened in these
scrambles for the throne. The victor is not apt to divulge the secret of his success.
So in the case of Sennacherib. Late in the reign, Esarhaddon seems to have won first
place in his father’s affections. When he was off on some expedition, his brother (or
brothers) murdered the father ‘“‘as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god.” This occurred on the twentieth of Tebet, 681 B.c. Six weeks thereafter
Esarhaddon had overcome the rebels and seated himself on the throne.
The building operations in and about Nineveh extended from the beginning to
the end of Sennacherib’s reign. The old palace, which was much too small and
plain, was torn down and replaced by a larger and more magnificent one. Wings
must have been added to it from time to time and in the end the reality caught up with
the name, “‘The Palace without a Rival.” In his later years Sennacherib bestowed
most of his energies upon the great armory, the Bit-kutallu. The streets of the capital
were widened, straightened, and made to articulate with a royal boulevard sixty-two
cubits in width. The greatly enlarged city was surrounded by huge walls, an inner
and an outer, pierced by fifteen magnificent gates. Parks were laid out about the
city and in them were planted all the trees of mountain and plain, including trees
that bore wool. And the Ninevite could walk out into a real ‘‘Tiergarten”’ and see
the birds and the fish and the animals in surroundings that were made to resemble
their natural habitats down to the minutest detail. Back of the city a large area was
subdivided into small plots which were assigned to the citizens. The improvement of
the city’s water supply must have occupied many a month of the king’s time.
Did Nineveh contain any large temples and if so what did Sennacherib do for them ?
We hear little of temple building, nothing in most of the cylinder and prism inscrip-
tions. There is only one temple in which Sennacherib seems to have taken much
interest, the House of the New Year’s Feast, and this was probably located outside
the city walls of Assur.2. And it was in this old capital of the Assyrian state that he
prepared his final abode, “‘the palace of rest, the sepulchre of repose, the eternal abode,
of Sennacherib, king of the universe, king of Assyria.”
This is not the place for any discussion of the art and architecture of Sennacherib’s
public buildings. In fact a discussion would have to be based upon many detailed
studies, and these are yet to be made. Paterson’s The Palace of Sennacherib, useful
1 The records of Sennacherib’s domestic troubles, the letters from his reign and that of Hsarhaddon,
have been excluded from our collection of documents.
2 See pp. 148 f. for inscriptions telling of restorations of other buildings at Assur, Tarbisi, and Kakzi.
as it is, serves mainly to bring home to one the painful inadequacy of the treatment
Assyrian art has received. (The French works on Sargon’s palace at Khorsabad,
published at enormous expense back in the days when public enthusiasm for such things
could still be aroused, contain many magnificent pictures, but they are not, for the
most part, Assyrian.)
On one point, however, a few remarks may be in order. It took many years to
rid us of the notion that the Assyrian culture was but a poor reflection of the Baby-
lonian, and to realize that the art of Assyria shows a great advance over that of Baby-
lonia on which, to a great extent, it doubtless rests. But the pendulum seems to be
swinging too far in the other direction. We may be inclined to utter a loud amen when
Hall, speaking of the sculpture of Assurbanipal’s day says: ‘‘In the representation of
animals and the chase the king’s sculptors shewed a power of observation, a love of
truth, and a skilful hand previously unexampled in ancient art.’’ But is his footnote
quite fair, does it rest upon fact ? |
The Phoenician has lost his old glamour now, and we know him for but a sorry imitator
who could never have made such fine things; the Ionian borrowed oriental ideas to mingle
with his Mycenaean art-tradition: he received from Nineveh rather than gave. It has been
supposed that it was a Syrian art that produced these works...
. ..
When the people of Chaldea, the Aramaeans, the Mannai, the people of Kue and
Hilakku, of Philistia and Tyre, who had not submitted to Sennacherib’s yoke, were
snatched away from their lands and made to carry the basket and mold bricks, are
we sure that they were merely put to the task of carrying out the plans of Assyrian
architects? Sennacherib takes great pride in his Bit-hilanu, a Syrian portico, which
was one of the show features of his great palace.2 Was the change from brick to stone
as building material just an inspiration of Sennacherib? Has Hall ever laid down
Sennacherib’s building inscriptions and taken up the Old Testament with its account
of Solomon’s temple? The writer has derived much benefit from such a procedure.
Sennacherib was not loath to have Phoenician shipbuilders provide him with a fleet;
why should we think it impossible for him to have borrowed ideas on art and architec-
ture from every available source? But, as already said, the time is not ripe for a dis-
cussion of Assyrian art. The inscriptions of Sennacherib will help the student to make
his special study of the monumental remains that have survived.
1 Hall, Ancient History of the Near East, p. 515. 2 See p. 97.
CHAPTER III
THE SOURCES
The sources are here listed in the order in which they were written, so far as that is
possible. Considerable uncertainty necessarily prevails since many of the documents
were not dated by the ancient scribe and we are compelled to fall back on internal
evidence. Worse than this is the pernicious habit our modern copyists and cataloguers
have fallen into of calling lines so-and-so of a text duplicates of certain lines of the
“Taylor Prism”’ when in reality the text is a duplicate of the “ Bellino,” the “‘ Rassam,”’
or some other cylinder. No attempt at a full bibliography has here been made, nor
has it been thought necessary even to give references to every publication of a docu-
ment. Texts will be quoted herein by letter and number.
A. Texts containing the record of the first campaign only, and presumably written before the
date of the second campaign
1. British Museum (hereafter BM), No. 113208, published by Sidney Smith, The First
Campaign of Sennacherib
B. Texts containing the record of the first and second campaigns
1. The so-called ‘‘Bellino Cylinder” =K 1680, published by Layard, Inscriptions in the
Cunetform Character from Assyrian Monuments, Plates 63f., and Smith, History of
Sennacherib, pp. 1f., 24f., 43 f., 140 f. Dated in the imu of Nabé-li’u (702 B.c.)
C. Three campaigns
1. The “Rassam Cylinder” =87-—7-19, 1, published, in part, by Evetts in Zeitschrift fir
Assyriologie, III, 311f. Dated in the limu of Metunu (700 B.c.)
. Cylinder 80-7-19, 2
. Cylinder 79-7-8, 302 ; variants only noted by Evetts
. Cylinder 81—2-4, 42
bo. Cylinders, VA (Vorderasiatische Abteilung der Kénigl. Museen zu Berlin) 7616, 7508,
GW
B®
Or
7509, published in Kevlschrifttexte aus Assur, historischen Inhalts (hereafter KAH),
II, No. 120
D. Four campaigns
1. K 4492, published CT, XXVI, Plate 39; earlier by Meissner and Rost, Die Bauin-
schriften Sanheribs (hereafter M-R), Plate 13
2. Fragment of Prism, VA 8486, published KAH, II, No. 121. (This seems to be a dupli-
cate of D1.)
EK. Five campaigns
1. BM, No. 103,000, published CT, XVI, X Plates 1-37. Dated in the limu of Ilu-ittia
of Damascus (694 B.c.). Variants 102,996, and K1674 on Plate 38.
2.’ Bull Inscription, published, Layard, Inscriptions, Plates 61 f.
3. Rock Inscriptions on the Jidi Dagh, published, King, PSBA, XXXV (19138), 66 f.
Panels I-VIII given as a, }, c, ete. A
20
THE SOURCES 21
F. Six campaigns
Le Bull Inscriptions, published IIIR, 12 f. (=Bull Inscription No. 4 of Smith, History).
2. Bull Inscriptions, 1, 2, and 3 of Smith, History, pp. 3 f., 30 f., 51f., 67 f., 86 f., 88 f.
G. Seven campaigns
H. Eight campaigns
1: The “Taylor Prism,” published IR, Plates 37f., and in the different editions of
Delitasch’s Assyrische Lesestiicke. Dated in the limu of Bél-emuranni (691 B.c.)
Variants noted by Bezold in KB, II, 80f., are given as Hla (=H2), H1b (=H3), ete.
i). The Oriental Institute Prism, herein published. Dated in the limu of Gahilu (689 B.c.)
. The Bavian stela inscriptions, published IIIR, Plates 14f. (A collated text of ll. 48-54
is given in King, Records of the Reign of Tukulti-Ninib, I, 114 f.)
. The Nebi Yunus Slab, published IR, Plates 43 f., and Smith, History of Sennacherib,
pp. 7f., 89f., 68f., 86f., 102f., 111f., 129.
On.
Broken Alabaster tablet, VA, 3310, published in Vorderasiatische Schrifidenkméler
(hereafter VS), I, No. 77.
. K2673, Seal of Tukulti-Ninib, republished by King in op. cit. (under H8), pp. 163 ff.
7 iscellaneous building inscriptions and epigraphs
. Bull inscription, published by Layard, Inscriptions, Plates 38 f.
. Foundation stela (VA 8248), published KAH, II, No. 122
. Inscription on limestone block (Assur, 10983), published in KAA, II, No. 117
. Inscription on limestone block (Assur, 10936), published in KAA, II, No. 118
. Inscription on limestone block (Assur, 11047), published in KAH, II, No. 119
. Inscription to go on a foundation stela (?), K 1356, published M-R, Plate 16
. Octagonal Stone Prism, VA 8254, published KAH, II, No. 124
. K 1635, published M-R, Plate 15
. Building inscriptions, published IR, 7, E
MAWNHERO
COMBO
. Building inscriptions, published M-R, Plate 10
. Inscriptions on door-sockets, 81-2-4, 1 and 2; see M-R, p. 45 and Plate 11
. Inscriptions on granite slab, published IR, 6, No. VIII, a
. Inscriptions on limestone slab (VA 3132), published VS, I, No. 75
. Brick inscriptions from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 48
. K 5418a, published M-R, Plate 14
. Inscription on limestone block from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 73
. Brick inscription, from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 72
. Brick inscription from Assur, published KAH, II, No. 123
. Inscription on limestone block from Assur, published KAA, I, No. 48
. Inscription on limestone block from Assur, published KAA, I, No. 45
. Brick inscription from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 46
. Vase inscription from Assur, published KAH, I, No. 50
. Inscription on slabs from wall of Nineveh, published IR, 6, No. VIII B
. Stela inscription from Nineveh, Smith, History, pp. 161 f.; M-R, 68f.; Paterson, The
Palace of Sennacherib, Plates 3 and 4
. K 2662, Rev. published M-R, Plate 12
. Brick inscription from Nergal temple at Tarbisi (Sherif Khan), published, IR, 7 C;
duplicates VA 3215, published VS, I, No. 74.
. Inscription on slabs from same place, published IR, 7 D
. Cone inscription from same place, published IIIR, 3, 13
. Brick inscription from the temple at Kakzi, published, IR, 7 H
. A collection of epigraphs, published IIIR, 4, No. 4
. Epigraph, Sennacherib at Lachish, published Paterson, op. cit., Plates 74-76
. Epigraph over city of Dilbat, published Paterson, op. cit., Plate 13
. Epigraph over city of Bit-Kubatti, published Paterson, op. cit., p. 12
. Epigraph over unknown city, published Paterson, op. cit., Plate 39
. Epigraph over the king in a chariot, published Layard, Inscriptions, Plate 75, E
. Epigraph over Sennacherib receiving tribute of the marshes, - published Paterson,
op. €it.; p. 18
43. Epigraph over camp of Sennacherib, published Paterson, op. cit., Plate 8 (88)
44. Kpigraph over tent of Sennacherib, published Paterson, op. cit., Plates 74-76
J. Non-Assyrian Sources
1. Excerpts from the Babylonian Chronicle, CT, XXXIV, Plates 46 f.
2. Excerpts from Eusebius’ Chronicle, quoting Polyhistor (see Schnabel, Berossos, pp.
268 f.); and Abydenos (see Cory’s Ancient Fragments [new ed., 1876], p. 89)
The abbreviations of determinatives used in the transliterations of the following

chapters are those adopted for the Assyrian Dictionary and are self-explanatory.
Brackets inclose restorations; broken brackets indicate that part of the sign is
preserved. ‘The words inclosed in parentheses in the translation are either variant
or literal renderings, or such additional words as are required by our idiom to make
the sense of the original intelligible.
CHAPTER IV
' THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION (H2)

THE FINAL EDITION OF THE ANNALS
Col. I
og m 4Sin(HN-ZU)-ahé?'-eri-ba Sarru is Sennacherib, the great king,
raba(u)!
2. Sarru dan-nu sar kis-Sa-ti Sar ‘A &Sur** 2; the mighty king, king of the universe,
king of Assyria,
. Sar kib-rat irbittim(tim)? ri-é-um 1t-pi- . king of the four quarters (of the
sus earth); the wise ruler (lit. shepherd,
“nastor’’),
. mi-gir tldni?! rabite?’ na-sir kit-te . favorite of the great gods, guardian
of the right,
. ra--1m ~Mi-Sa-ri e-pis t-sa-a-tr . lover of justice; who lends support,
. a-lik tap-pu-ut a-ki-t sa-hi-ru dam-ka- . who comes to the aid of the needy,
a-ti who turns (his thoughts) to pious
deeds;
. td-lum git-ma-lum zi-ka-ru kar-du . perfect hero, mighty man;
. a-Sa-rid kal mals-kt rab-bu la-?-7t . first among all princes, the powerful
one who consumes
. la ma-gi-ri mu-sab-ri-ku za-ma-a-ne . the insubmissive, who strikes the
wicked with the thunderbolt;
. *Assur Sadi(%) raba(%) Sarru-ut la . the god Assur, the great mountain,
Sa-na-an an unrivaled kingship
. t-Sat-li-ma-an-ni-ma ele gim-rié . has entrusted to me, and above all
those
. a-sib pa-rak-ki v-sar-ba-a “kakké?'-1a . who dwell in palaces, has made
powerful my weapons;
. ul-tu tamti(A-AB-BA) e-li-ni-tu 84 . from the upper sea of the setting sun
§a-lam’ *Samsi(s)
. a-di tam-tim Sap-li-ti $4 si-it Samsi(s2) . to the lower sea of the rising sun,
. gim-ri sal-mat kakkadi t-sak-nis Se- . all humankind (the black-headed
pu-U-a race) he has brought in submission
at my feet
11 and E1, om. 3 HI, Su. 5 H1 and El, gi-mir.
aE, ti. 4H1 and El, ma-al. 6 E11, Sul-mu.
Col. I
16. au mal-ki sip-su-te e-du-ru ta-ha-20 16. and mighty kings feared my war-
fare—
Lie da-dd-me-su'-un 12-21-bu-ma V7 leaving their abodes and
18. ki-ma su-din-nt issur? ni-gi-ts-st 18. flying alone, like the sudinnu, the bird
of the cave (? cliffs),
Lg; e-dis up-par-su3 a-sar la >a-a-ri 1: to (some) inaccessible place.
20. i-na mah-ri-e gir-ri-a sé "Marduk 20. In my first campaign I accomplished
(SIT)-apla(A)-iddina(na)4 the defeat of Merodach-baladan,
21. Sar 'Kar-“dun-1d-as a-di ummanat:?! 21. king of Babylonia, together with the
Elamti** | army of Elam,
22. ri-si-su i-na ta-mir-ti Kis as-ta-kan 22. his ally, in the plain of Kish.
tahtd-su
23. i-na kabal tam-ha-ri st-a-tu e-zib 23. In the midst of that battle he forsook
karas-su his camp,
24. e-dis vp-par-sid-ma na-pts-tus e-ti-ir 24. and made his escape alone; (so) he
saved his life. ‘
25. vnarkabate?! sisé?! “su-um-bi paré?! 25. The chariots, horses, wagons, mules,
26. Sa i-na kit-ru-ub ta-ha-2zi t-mas-sv*-ru 26. which he left behind at the onset of
battle,
27. tk-Su-da_ kdta*-ar a-na ekalli-Su sd 27. my hands seized. Into his palace,
ki-reb which is in
28. Babili®i(KA-DINGIR-RA) ha-di§ e- 28. Babylon, joyfully I entered.
ru-um-ma ap-te’-ma
29. bit ni-sir-ti-Su hurdsa kaspa u-nu-ti' 29. I opened his treasure-house:—gold,
hurdst kaspi silver, vessels of gold and silver,
30. abna a-kar-tu. mimma sum-su busd 30. precious stones of every kind (name)
makkira goods and property
ol. la ni-bi® ka-bet-tu biltu sigréti (SAL- 31. without limit (number), heavy trib-
SAB-E-GAL)?'-3u ute, his harem,
32. amtiré(GAL-TE)?' “™man-za-az pa-ni 32. (his) courtiers and officials, singers,
ameammer é?! male and
33. fzammeratt”! si-hir-tt wm-ma-a-ni 33. female, all of his artisans,
34. ma-la ba-su-t mut-tab-bi-lu-ut ekallu- 34. as many as there were, the servants of
Us his palace,
30. u-Se-sa-am-ma_ Ssal-la-tis® am-nu 1-na 35. I brought out, I counted as spoil. In
e-muk 4A ssur the might of Assur
1H, 82. 4H1 and El, m¢Marduk hid eee: 8’Text of Hi and KB
II, ba, but Delitzsch,
2El,om, 64:
AMAR-UD)-apla(TUR-
6 Hi and E1 insert e.
om U8) -iddina(na). Lesestiicke, bi.
3 El, Si. CVabils (ae 9 HI ae.
THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 25
Col. I
36. béli-ca 75! aldni?'-Su dan-nu-ti bit 36. my lord, 75 of his strong walled cities,
dtirani??
ov. Sd 'Kal-di u 420 aldni?? sthratir? 37. of Chaldea, and 420 small cities
38. Sad li-me-ti-Su-nu al-me aksud(ud)? 38. of their environs (within their
as-lu-la Sal-la-sun* borders), I surrounded, I conquered,
their spoil I carried off.
39. amUr-by *A-ra-mu *Kal-du 39. The Arabs, Aramaeans, and Chal-
deans,
40. Sa ki-rib Uruk*' Nippur® Kis" ¢Har- 40. who were in Erech, Nippur, Kish,
sag-kalam-ma*® Harsagkalamma,
41. Kutu® Sippara™ a-di maré?! ala 41. Kutha and Sippar, together with the
citizens,
42. bél hi-it-tr w-Se-sa-am-ma_ Sal-la-tis 42. the rebels (lit. sinners), I brought
am-nu out, as booty I counted.
43. i-na ta-ta-ar-ti-ia ¢”Tu->-mu-na 43. On my return (march) the Tu’muna
44, amRi-hi-hu “I a-dak-ku °"U-bu-du 44. Rihihu, Yadakku, Ubudu
45. am Kib-ri-e *” Ma-la®-hu “Gu-ru-mu 45. Kibré, Malahu, Gurumu,
46. amU—-bu-lum? ¢™Da-mu-nu ’Gam-bu- 46. Ubulu, Damunu, Gambulu
lum
47. am HTy-in-da-ru *"Ru--us-a “"Bu-ku-du 47. Hindaru, Ru’ta, Bukudu,
48. am Ha-am-ra-nu? °Ha-ga-ra-nu “Na- 48. Hamranu, Hagardnu, Nabatu,
ba-tu
49, am] 7->-ta-a-4% @”A -ra-mu la kan-st!-ti 49, Li’tau, Aramaeans (who were) not
submissive,
50. mit-ha-ris ak-Sud(ud) 208,000 nisé?! 50. all of them I conquered. 208,000
sthir rabit people, great and small,
dl. ztkaru w¥ zinnistu sisé?! paré?! imér é! ol. male and female, horses, mules, asses,
52. gammalé”! alpé?' u si-e-ni? sa la ni-be 52. camels, cattle and sheep, without
number,
53. Sal-la-tu ka-bit-tu as-lu-la a-na ki-rib 53. a heavy booty, I carried off to Assyria.
1A sSur™
4. i-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-ia §4"*Nabii(PA)- 54. In the course of my campaign, I
bél-sumate”! received from Nabt-bél-shumate,
1 Text of H1, 76. CH La. i 101, om.

2 H1 and E1, add (nz). CS TO I ATs We a) 11 adds u.
3 1, ak-Sud(ud). 8H, u. 22th.
4H1 and El, su-wn. 91 and H18, insert a. 3 H1, sénicol,
5 H1, om. det. ¢ before and adds det. *‘ after name.
Col. I
50. omky-ni°Ha-ra-ra-te' hurdsa kaspa ’mu- 55. governor of the city of Hararate,
suk-kan-na 2 gold, silver, great musukkani-trees,
56. rabiite?’ iméré?' gammalé?! alpér! uw 56. asses, camels, cattle and sheep,
$i-e-ni?
57. ta-mar-ta-su ka-bit-tu. am-hur ba-hu- 57. as his onerous contribution. The
la-te* warriors of
58. ¢Hi-rim-me nakri ag-si i-na “kakkér! 58. Hirimme, wicked enemies, I cut down
a-Sam-kit-ma with the sword.
59. e-du ul e-21b pag-ri-su4-un 1-na ga-si-sr 59. Not one escaped. Their corpses
60. a-lul-ma si-hir-te® alt u-Sal-me na-gu-t 60. I hung on stakes, surrounding the city
(with them).
61. St-a-tu a-na. es-su-ti as-bat 1stén(en) 61. That district (province) I reorgan-
alpu ized: One ox,
62. 10 immeré?' 10 imér karaéni 20 imér 62. 10 lambs, 10 homers of wine, 20
suluppt homers of dates,
63. ri-se-ti®-Su a-na tldni?'(ni) ‘Assur*t 63. its choicest, (as gifts) for the gods of
Assyria,
64. bélé?'-ta ti-kin dd-ri-sam 64. my lords, I established for all time.
65. i-na Sané(e) gir-ri-ia 4A SSur be-lé u-tak- 65. In my second campaign, Assur my
kil-an-ni-ma lord, encouraged me, and
66. a-na mat *"Kas-s1-1 wu mat “La-su-bi- 66. against the land of the Kassites and
gal-la-ar the land of the Yasubigallai,
67. Sé ul-tu ul-la a-na Sarrdni?™ abé?'-ca 67. who from of old had not been sub-
la kit-nu-su8 missive to the kings, my fathers,
68. lu al-lik ki-rib hur-sa-a-ni.zak-ru-te 68. I marched. In the midst of the high
mountains
69. ekil nam-ra-st i-na sist ar-kab-ma 69. I rode on horseback where the terrain
was difficult,
70. vnarkabat sépdt'-ia i-na ti-ik-ka-te 70. and had my chariot drawn up with
U-Sa-as-St ropes:
(ae as-ru Sup-su-ku i-na sépad*-1a_ ri-ma- “1. where it became too steep, I clam-
nis at-tag-gis bered up on foot like the wild-ox.
72. eBit-"Ki-lam-za-ah °Ha-ar-dis-pt 72. The cities of Bit-Kilamzah, Hardishpi
73. eBit--Ku-bat-ti = aldini?"9-gu-nu bit 73. and Bit-Kubatti, their strong, walled
diirdnw?' (nt) cities,
LHI, i. 5 Hla, om. 9 H1 and E1, insert a.
2 El, sénicol, 6 H1 and E1, te. 101, adds (nt).
3 H1 and E1, te. 7H1 and E1, add (nz).
4H1 and El, Su. 81, Su.
Col. I
74. dan-nu-ti! al-me aksud(ud) niséP! sisé?! 74, I besieged, I captured. People,
horses,
75. paré?! iméré?! alpé?! wv si-e-ni? 75. mules, asses, cattle and sheep,
76. ul-tu kir-bi-Su-un %-Se-sa-am-ma, Sal- (Ay, I brought out from their midst and
la-tis am-nu counted as booty.
te u aldni?-Su-nu sihrati?! sé ni-ba la Ie And their small cities, which were
1-8-4 . numberless,
78. ab-bul ak-kur u-Se-me kar-mes bit séri 78. I destroyed, I devastated, I turned
kul-ta-ra intoruins. The houses of the steppe,
(namely) the tents,
79. mu-sa-bi-su-nu i-na> girrt ak-mu-ma 79; wherein they dwelt, I set on fire and
ti-tal-los
80. u-se-me %-tir-ma °Bit-"Ki-lam-za-ah . turned them into (a mass of) flames.
I turned round, and
. St-a-tu a-na al® bir-tu-tr as-bat . made that bBit-Kalamzah into a
fortress,—
. eli $4 dm(um)? pa-nt dtrdn?'-su . I made its walls stronger than they
u-dan-nin-ma had ever been before,—
II
. nse?! matate ki-sit-ti kata*-1a ina labbi® . and settled therein people of the
U-Se-Sib lands my hands had conquered.
. niséP! mat *™Kas-si-¢ u mat *"La-su-bi- . The people of the land of the Kas-
gal-la-ai sites and the land of the Yasubi-
gallai,
. $d la-pa-an “kakké?'-ca tp-par-sid-du . who had fled before my arms,
. ul-tu ki-rib Sadi(t) t-Se-ri-dam-ma . | brought down out of the mountains
and
. i-na “Har-dis-pi °Bit--Ku-bat-ti u-sar- . settled them in Hardishpi and Bit-
me Kubatti.
. ina kata esu-ut-rési-1a “bel pihate . Into the hand(s) of my official, the
cAr-rap-ha governor of Arrapha,
. am-nu-su-nu-ti "nara %-Se-pis-ma . I placed (lit. counted) them. Thad a
stela made, and
. li-d-tum ki-sit-tt kata’ sd eli-su-un . the might of my conquering hand
which I had
. as-tak-ka-nu si-ru-us-su U-sa-as-tir-ma . established upon them, I had in-
scribed thereon.
1H, fe. a TL ce, 7 El, ad-me.
2B, sénicol, 5 Hl, ina. 8 H1 and El, b-bi.
3 H1, adds (ni). § Hil, om. OU Se:
Col. IT
10. i-na kir-bi ali ul-ziz pa-an ni-ri-va 10. In the midst of the city 1 set it up.
a-tir-ma The front of my yoke I turned (that
is, I turned about) and
Lis a-na 'El-li-pi as-sa-bat har-ra-nu 11. took the road to the land of the Elippi.
12. el-la-mu-ti-a ™Is-pa-ba-a-ra sarru-st'- 12. Before me (my approach) Ispabara,
un their king,
13. alani?'-Su dan-nu-ti bit ni-sir-ti-su ie forsook his strong cities, his treasure-
houses (cities),
14. u-mas-sir-ma a-na ru-ki-e-ti? in-na-bit 14. and fled to distant (parts).
15. gim-ri mati-su rapastim(tim) kima’ zt 15. Over the whole of his wide land I
as-hu-up swept like a hurricane.
16. ¢Mar-u-bis-ti “Ak-ku-ud-du aldni?'(nt) 16. The cities Marubishti and Akkuddu,
Wh bit Sarru-ti-su a-di 34 aldni”’ sihriiti?! Li his royal residence-cities, together
with 34 small cities
LS: Sa li-me-ti-su-nu al-me aksud(ud)* ab- 18. of their environs, I besieged, I cap-
bul® ak-kur tured, I destroyed, I devastated,
19. i-na® girrt ak-mu nisé?’ sihir rabi 1: I burned with fire. The people,
ztkaru wu zinnistu great and small, male and female,
20. sisé?! paré?’ iméré?’ gammalé”! 20. horses, mules, asses, camels,
21. alpé?! w si-e-ni? a-na la mi-nam as-lu- 21. cattle and sheep, without number,
lam-ma I carried off.
22. a-di la ba-si-t %-sa-lik-si-ma v-sa-hir® 22. I brought him to naught, I diminished
mat-su his land.
23. °Si-st-ir-tu ¢Ku-um-ma-ah-lum?® 23. Sisirtu and Kummahlum,
aldni?"(ni)!
24. dan-nu-ti a-di aldni?! sihriti?? Sd 24. strong cities, together with the small
li-me-ti-Su-nu cities of their environs,
25. ‘Bit-"Ba-ar-ru-u" na-gu-u® a-na gi- 25. the district (province) of Bit-Barrt
mir-tt-su in its totality,
26. ul-tu ki-rib mati-su ab-tuk-ma eli mi- 26. I cut off from his land and added it to
sir ‘Assur the territory (lit. border) of Assyria.
27. u-rad-di °El-en-za-as a-na al sarru-t!4- 27. Elenzash I turned into the royal city
ti
28. u dan-na-at na-gi-e sti-a-tu as-bat-ma 28. and stronghold of that district.
1H1 and E1, su. 6 Hi, ina. uF, wu.
2 El, te. TEI, sénicol, ! Hl and E, w.
3 HI, ki-ma. 8 Hla and E1, -ah-hi-ir. 13 HI adds ki.
4H1, ak-Sud(ud). 9 See p. 68, n. 1. 4 HI, om.
5 H1, bu-ul. 101, om.
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29. Sum-su mah-ra-a t-na'-kir-ma ¢Kar- 29. I changed its former name,
md Sin-ahé?'-eriba?
30. at-ta-bt ni-bit-su nisé?! matati? ki- 30. calling its (new) name Kar-Sennach-
Sit-ti katd*-ia erib.!® Peoples of the lands my hands
had conquered
ol. i-na lib-bi w-se-sib i-nat “"St-ut-r éSt-ia ol. I settled therein. To my official,
32. ambél pihdti ‘Har-har am-nu-ma %- 32. the governor of Harhar, I handed it
rap-pis ma-a-tt over (counted it). Thus I extended
my land.
33. i-na ta-ia-ar-ti-ia Sé ‘Ma-da-ai® ru- 33-35. On my return, I received the
ku-te? heavy tribute
34. Sd i-na Sarrdm?® abé?'-ia ma-am-man of the distant Medes, whose name no
la is-mu-t one among the kings, my fathers,
had (ever) heard.
35. zi-kir mati-su-un man-da-ta-su-nu ka-
bit-tu am-hur
36. a-na ni-rt be-lu-ti-ia u-Sak-ni-su-nu-ti 36. To the yoke of my rule I made them
submit.
37. i-na sal-st gir-ri-ia a-na 'Hat®-tc lu of. In my third campaign I went against
al-lik the Hittite-land.”
38. "DLu-li-t sar “Si-du-un-ni pul-hi me- 38. Lulé, king of Sidon,—the terrifying
lam-me splendor (lit. terrors of splendors)
39. be-lu-ti-ia_ is-hu-pu-si-ma a-na ru- 39. of my sovereignty overcame him and
uk-kilt far off
40. ka-bal” tam-timin-na-bit*-ma sad-da'4- 40. into the midst of the sea he fled.
Su e-mid (There) he died.
41. °Si-du-un-nu rabi(%) %Si-du-un-nu 41. Great Sidon, Little Sidon,
sthru®
42. ¢Bit-zi-it-tr® *Za-ri-cb-tu! °“M a-hal-li-ba 42. Bit-Zitti, Zaribtu, Mahalliba,
43. U-si-t, “Ak-zi-bi *Ak-ku-t 43, Ushu, Akzib, Akko,
44. alani?'-su dan-nu-ti bit-dirdni! 8 44. his strong, walled cities, where there
a-sar ri-i-te were supplies (lit. fodder and drink-
ing places),
1H1 and El, nak. 8 H1 and E1, add (nz). 1 1, st-th-ru.
2 Vars. have different ideograms. 9 H1 and El, Ha-at. 16 H1 and El, te.
8E1, matdativ!. 10 Fil, Su. u HA, td.
41 and E1, insert katdd after ina. 1 Ata, te. 18 H1, adds (nz).
5 Hic, inserts wu. 2 AI and E1, kabal. 19 Sennacherib-burg.
6 Hla, Mad-ai. 18 Hla, kir(bi8). 20 Here, as frequently in the
7HI1, #; El, inserts w. 141 and El, om. late Assyrian inscriptions, Syria
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45. wu mas-ki-ti bit tuk-la-te!-Su ra-Sub-bat 45, for his garrisons,—the terrors of the
vkakki 4A Ssur weapon of Assur,
46. béli-ia_ ts-hu-pu-su?-nu-ti-ma tk-nu- 46. my lord, overpowered them and they
Su? Se-pu-t-a bowed in submission at my feet.
47. ™Tu-ba--lum i-nat “kusst Sarru-w-tt 47. Tuba’lu I seated on the royal throne
48. eli-Su-un t-se-sib-ma biltu man-da-tu® 48. over them, and tribute, gift(s) for
be-lu-ti-ia my majesty,
49. Sat-ti-Sam la ba-at-lu u-kin si-ru-us-Su 49, I imposed upon him for all time,
without ceasing.
50. Sad ™Mi-in-hi-im-mu eSam-si-mu-ru- 50. From Menachem, the Shamsimu-
na-ar ~ runite,
dl. ™Tu-ba--lum® “Si-du-un-na-at ol. Tuba’lu, the Sidonite,
52. ™A b-di-li-?-tt *A-ru-da-at 52. Abdi-liti, the Arvadite,
53. UT -ru-mil-ki ‘Gu-ub-la-ai 53. Uru-milki, the Gublite,
54. ™Mi-ti-in-tt “Az-du-da-at 54. Mitinti, the Ashdodite,
5d. ™Bu-du-tlu 8Bit ™Am-ma-na-at 50. Budu-ilu, the Beth-Ammonite,
56. ™Kam-mu-su-na-ad-bt 'Ma--ba-at 56. Kammusu-nadbi, the Moabite,
57. mdVMalik-ram-mu 'U-du-wm-ma-ai 57. Malik-rammu, the Edomite,
58. Sarrdni?' “A murri*™ ka-le-su-un tgisi-e 58. kingsof Amurru, all of them, numer-
Sad-lu-ti ous presents,
59. ta-mar-ta-Su-nu_ ka-bit-tu a-di ribé-su ag. as their heavy tribute,
a-na mah-ri-ia
60. 18-St-nim-ma 18-Si-ku sépadt-ia & ™Si- 60. they brought before me for the fourth
id-ka-a time, and kissed my feet. But
Sidka,
61. Sar ¢Is-ka-al-lu-na sé la tk-nu-su"! 61. king of Ashkelon, who had not sub-
mitted ~
62. a-na ni-ri-ia tldni?! bit-abi-sul! sa-a- 62. to my yoke,—the gods of his father-
v
Su"! assat-su house, himself, his wife,

63. mar é?'-Su. mdrdate?'-Su ahé?'-Su_zér 63. his sons, his daughters, his brothers,
bit-abi-su , the seed of his father-house,
64. as-su-ha-ma” a-na"A ssur**4-ra-as-su8 64. I tore away and brought to Assyria.
65. ™Sarru-lu-dda'-ri mar ™Ru-kib-ti Sarru- 65. Sharru-lu-dari, son of Rukibti, their
Su-nu mah-ru-a former king,
1H1 and El, ti. 6 E11, inserts at. uB1, Si.
2H and El, Su. 7H1 and E1, lu. 121, inserts, am.
3 H1 and E1, lu. 8H, Bit. BWI, -ras-su.
41, ina. 91, om. 141, inserts a.
Flom. 1 H1 and E1, add (ni). ed cil ET
THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION ol
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66. ela nisé?! ¢Is-ka-al-lu-na as-kun-ma 66 . I set over the people of Ashkelon and
67. na-dan biltt kat-ri-e be-lu-ti-ia e-mid- 67 . I imposed upon him the payment of
su-ma tribute (in the form of) presents to
my majesty.
68. 1-Sa-a'-at? ap-Sa-a-nt i-na_ me-ti-ik 68 . He accepted (lit. bore) my yoke. In
gur-ri-1a the course of my campaign,
69. ¢Bit-Da-gan-na °la-ap-pu-% 69 . Beth-Dagon, Joppa,
70. ¢Ba-na-ai-bar-ka °A-su-ru alani?'(nz)3 70 . Banaibarka, Asuru, cities
‘ak §d4 "Si-id-ka-a sa a-na Sépat-1a dr-his “1, of Sidka, who had not speedily bowed
in
(2. la tk-nu-sut al-me aksud(ud) as-lu-la 72. submission at my feet, I besieged, I
Sal-la-su-un® conquered, I carried off their spoil.
73. amsakkanaké?! ¢rubite?! wu nisé?! “Am- 73 . The officials, nobles and people of
kar-ru-na Ekron,
74, Sd ™Pa-di-c Sarra-su-nu bél a-di-e uv 74. who had thrown Padi, their king,
ma-met bound by (lit. lord of) oath and curse
of Assyria,
. $d ‘assur™ bi-ri-tu® parzilli id-du-ma 75 . into fetters of iron and
. a-na "Ha-za-ki-a'-t% 'Ta-v-da-ar 76-77. had given him over to Hezekiah,
. td-di-nu-su nak-ris a-na an-zil-lt i-str- the Jew,—he kept him in confinement
like an enemy ,—
v
SU
. tp-lah lib-ba’-su-un sarrén?”® 'Mu- 78 . they (lit. their heart) became afraid,
su-r7
. ™sAbé?! “kasts “narkabdte?! sisé? 79. and called upon the Egyptian kings,
the bowmen, chariots and horses
. && Sar 'Me-luh-hi e-mu-ki? la ni-bi 80. of the king of Meluhha (Ethiopia), a
countless host, and
. tk-te-ru-nim-ma_ il-li-ku ri-su-su*-un $l . these came to their aid.
. na ta-mir-ti °Al-ta-ku-t 82 . In the neighborhood of Eltekeh,
. el-la-mu-t-a si-id-ru. sit-ku-nu 83 . their ranks being drawn up before me,
vel
. U-sa-a?-lu “kakké?'-su-un i-na tukulti- 1 . they offered battle. (Trusting) in the
(tt) 4A sSur aid of Assur,
. béli-da 2t-ti-Su-un am-da-hi-is-ma as-ta- 2 . my lord, I fought with them and
kan
141, om. 6 E1, ti. 1 Hl and Hila, ha.
2 El, da. 7 HI, ia, H1a, ta-a. 12 1, £t.
31, om. 8 E1, libba. 131, inserts us, and El, ri-su-us-
4E1, Su. 9 H1 and E1, add (ni). su-un.
Pat), S10. te 1 43. 4H, wu.
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3. tahtd-Ssu-un *bél “narkabdte?! u mar éP? 3. brought about their defeat. The
Sarre Egyptian charioteers and princes,
. ‘Mu-su-ra-ai a-di *bél “narkabati?! 4, together with the charioteers of the
Sa Sar ‘Me-luh-hi! Ethiopian king,
. bal-tu-su-un i-na kabal tam-ha-ri tk- . my hands took alive in the midst of
Su-da the battle.
. katat-ai °Al-ta-ku-@ ¢Ta-am-na-a . Eltekeh (and) Timnah
. al-me aksud(ud) as-lu-la_ Sal-la-sun* . besieged, I captured and took away
a-na ‘Am-kar-ru-na their spoil.
. ak-rib-ma sakkanaké?! *rubite?! sd . I drew near to Ekron and slew the
hi-vt-tu governors and nobles
t-Sab-su-t%* a-duk-ma i-na di-ma-a-ti® . who had committed sin (that. is,
rebelled), and
. st-hir-ti ala a-lul pag-ri-su-un mdr é?! . hung their bodies on stakes around
ala the city. The citizens
. e-pis an-nt Ww kil-la-ti a-na Sal-la-ti . who sinned and treated (Assyria)
am-nu lightly, I counted as spoil.
. st-zt-tu-te-su-nu la ba-bil hi-ti-te . The rest of them, who were not
guilty (carriers) of sin
. u kul-lul-tt $a a-ra-an-su-nu la ib-su-a . and contempt, for whom there was no
punishment, !°—
. us-Sur-Su-un ak-br mPa-di-t Sarra- . I spoke their pardon. Padi, their
Su-nu king,
. ul-tu ki-rib ¢Ur-sa-li-im-mu® %-se-sa- . I brought out of Jerusalem,
am-ma
i-na’ “kussi be-lu-ti eli-Su-un U-Se-sib- . set him on the royal throne over
ma them and
. man-da-at-tu be-lu-ti-ia %-kin si-ru- . Imposed upon him my kingly tribute.
US-SU
. & "Ha-za-ki-a-t 'Ta-t-da-ai . As for Hezekiah, the Jew,
Sd la ik-nu-su’ a-na ni-ri-ia 46 aldni?'- . who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of
Su dan-nu-te his strong, walled cities, as well as
20. bit-dirdn?’® uw alan?! sihrtite?’ sd 20. the small cities in their neighborhood,
li-me-ti-Su-nu
21. Sa ni-ba la 1-su-% 1-na Suk-bu-us a-ram- 21. which were without number,—by
me levelling with battering-rams( ?)
111 and Hila, ha, dail, (2: 9 1, adds (nz) and has word before dannii.
2 H1 and El, wu. 61, and Hle, ma. 10 Or, against whom there was no charge.
3H1, su-un. 7E1, ina.
4E1, w. an Oy eS
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22. wu kit-ru-ub su-pi-i! mit-hu-us? zu-uk 22. and by bringing up siege-engines( ?),
Sépi™ by attacking and storming on foot,
23. pil-si nik-st wu kal-ban-na-te al-me 23. by mines, tunnels and breaches(?),
aksud(ud) I besieged and took (those cities).
24. 200,150 nisé?' sihir rabt zikaru wt 24. 200,150 people, great and small, male
zinnistu and female,
25. sisé?’ paré?! iméré?’ gammalé”! 25. horses, mules, asses, camels,
26. alpé?' wu si-e-ni® sé la ni-bi ul-tu kir- 26. cattle and sheep, without number, I
bi-su-un brought away from them
27. u-Se-sa-am-ma Sal-la-ti¥ am-nu S§a-a-Su 27. and counted as spoil. Himself, like
kima issur ku-wp-pi a caged bird
28. ki-rib °Ur-sa-la-im-mui al Sarru-ti-su 28. I shut up in Jerusalem his royal city.
29. e-sir-Su" chal-su?! eli-Su u-rak-kis-ma 29. Earthworks I threw up against him,—
30. a-si-e abul ali-su wu-tir-ra tk-ki-bu-us 30. the one coming out of the city-gate,
aldni?'-su I turned back to his misery.
ol. Sa as-lu-la ul-tu ki-rib méati-su ab-tuk- ol. The cities of his, which I had
ma despoiled, I cut off from his land and
32. a-na ™Mi-ti-in-tr Sar *Az-du-di 32. to Mitinti, king of Ashdod,
33. ™Pa-di-t Sar ‘Am-kar-ru-na wv ™Silli- 33. Padi, king of Ekron, and Silli-bél
bél
34. Sar °Ha-zi-tt ad-din-ma %-sa-ah-hir® 34. king of Gaza, I gave. And (thus)
mat-su I diminished his land.
OO. e-li biltt mah-ri-ti na-dan® mati (tr)-su- 30. I added to the former tribute,
un
36. man-da-at-tu kat-ri-e be-lu-ti-ia t-rad- 36. and laid upon him the giving (up) of
di-ma their land, (as well as) imposts—
gifts for my majesty.
37. u-kin si-ru-us-su su-i ™Ha-za-ki-a-t 37. As for Hezekiah,
38. pul-hi me-lam-me be-lu-ti-ia 1s-hu-pu- 38. the terrifying splendor of my majesty
Su'-ma overcame him, and
39. amyr-bi W *”sabé?'-Su damkiitr?! sé a-na 39. the Urbi (Arabs) and his mercen-
dun-nun® ary(?) troops which he had brought
in to strengthen
40. ¢Ur-sa-li-im-mu al sarru-ti-Su %-Se-ri- 40. Jerusalem, his royal city,
bu-ma
1H, e. 5 El, sénicol, 91, da-an.

2HI, su. 6 El, ma. 101, adds un.
Sly u. TEI, Su. WB, su.
El, w. 81, hi-ir. 2 Al and El, nu-un.
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41. ir-Sti'-t bat-la-a-tr? it-ti 30 bildt hurdsa 41. deserted him (lit. took leave).
In addition to the 30 talents of gold
and
42. 800 bildt kaspa ni-sik-te gu-uh-le 42. 800 talents of silver, (there were)
gems, antimony,
43. dag-gas-st "sandé rabite?’ virsér! 43. jewels( ?), large sandu-stones, couches
Simnt of ivory,
44. “kusst?’ ni-me-di sinnt masak pire sin 44. house-chairs of ivory, elephant hide,
pire ivory (lit. elephant’s “‘teeth’’)
45. “usu “urkarinnu mimma sum-su ni- 45, ebony(?), boxwood(?), all kinds of
str-tu’ ka-bit-tu valuable (heavy) treasures,
46. wu mdrdti?'-Su Sigrétr?'(?)-Su ™zam- 46. as well as his daughters, his harem,
mer é?? rs; his male and female
47. ‘zammerdte?! a-na ki-rib Ninua* al 47. musicians, (which) he had (them)
be-lu-ti-va bring after me
48. arki-ia %-se-bi-lam-ma a-na na-dan 48. to Nineveh, my royal city. To pay
man-da-at-te* tribute
49. wu e-pis ardu-ti-ti 18-pu-ra rak-bu-su 49. and to accept (lit. do) servitude, he
dispatched his messengers.
50. t-na ribé(e) gir-ri-ia “A SSur be-li t-tak- 50. In my fourth campaign Assur, my
kil-an-ni-ma lord, gave me courage, and
51. wm-ma-na-te-1a_ gab-sa®-te ad-ki-ma bl: I mustered my numerous armies and
a-na 'Bit-"Ia-kin gave the
52. a-la-ku ak-bi 1-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-va 52. command to proceed against Bit-
Yakin. In the course of my cam-
paign
53. 84 ™Sti-zu-bi ™Kal-da®-ai a-sib ki-rib 53. I accomplished the overthrow of
Ta-gam-me Shuzubi, the Chaldean,—who sat in
the midst of the swamps,—
54. 2-na’ °Bi-c-tu-ti-tu’ as-ta-kan tahtd-su 54. at Bitdtu.
55. su-t har-ba-su® tahdzi-7a eli-Su im- 5D. That one,—the terror (lit. ague,
kut-ma chills) of my battle fell upon him, and
56. 2t-ru-ku lib-bul'-su ki-ma az-za-ri e-dis 56. broke his courage (lit, tore his heart);
ip-par-sid-ma like a criminal( ?) he fled alone, and
57. ul in-na-'mir) a-Sar-su® pa-an ni-ri-ia 57. his place was seen no more. The
u-tir-ma front of my yoke I turned and
1K, su. 5 H1 and E1, insert a. 9 El, Sd.
a Wil; te, SEL da. 10 H1 and El, ta-ha-zi.
PHI ta. TEI, ina. El and H1a, libbu.
4H1 and EI, ti. 8 H1a, tz.
Col. {it
58. a-na 'Bit-"La-kin as-sa-bat har-ra-nu 58. to Bit-Yakin I took the way.
59. su-t@ =" Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sd 59. That (same) Merodach-baladan,
1-nai a-lak gir-ri?-a whose defeat I had brought about
60. mah-ri-e tahtaé-su as-ku-nu-ma t-par- 60. in the course of my first campaign,
ri-1U and whose forces I had shattered,
61. el-lat-su ri-gim “kakké?'ia dan-nu-ti 61. —the roar of my mighty arms
62. U ti-1b tahdzi-va 12-27 e-dur-ma 62. and the onset of my terrible battle he
feared and
63. ildmi?! ma-sal mati-su t-na Subti-su-nu 63. he gathered together the gods of his
ad-ki-ma whole land in their shrines,
64. ki-rib “eluppdte?’ %-Sar-kib-ma_ a-na 64. and loaded them into ships and fled
¢Na-gi-te-rak®-ki4
65. Sad ka-bal tam-tim is-su-ris ip-pa-rigs 65. like a bird to Nagite-rakki, which is in
ahé?'-su the middle of the sea. His brothers,
66. zér bit-abi-su sad t-mas-si5-ru a-ha 66. the seed of his father-house, whom he
tam-tim had left by the sea-shore,
67. a-di si-at-ti nisé?’ mati-su ul-tu 'Bit- 67. together with the rest of the people
™Iq-kin( ?) of his land,
68. ki-rib "a-gam-me u ap-pa-ra-a®-te ti-se- 68. I brought out of Bit-Yakin, (from)
sa-am-ma the midst of the swamps and cane-
brakes,
69. Sal-la-tig am-nu t-tir-ma aldni?'-Su ab- 69. and counted as spoil. I turned about
bul ak-kur and ruined and devastated his cities:
70. u-se-me kar-mes ela bél sa-li-me-su Sar 70. I made them like ruin-heaps. Upon
'Klamti** his ally, the king of Elam,
fhe na-mur-ra-tum’ at-bu-uk i-na ta-ta-ar- (ae I poured out terror. On my return,
ti-1a
72. md A SSur-na-din-sum mara ris-tu- 72. I placed on his (Merodach-Baladan’s)
tar-bit bir-ki-1a : royal throne,
73. i-na “kusst be-lu-ti-su t-se-sib-ma 73. Assur-nddin-shum, my oldest son,
offspring of my loins (knees).
74, rapastum(tum) ‘Sumeri u8’ Akkadiki 74. I put him in charge of the wide land
u-Sad-gil pa-nu-us-su? of Sumer and Akkad.
75. i-na hansé gir-ri-ia ba-hu-la-te °Tu- 75. In my fifth campaign, the warriors of
mur-re Tumurru,
1K, ina. 2 El, girri. 3 1, ra-ak.
4 The text of this and preceding line was abbreviated in E1.
5 H1, ma-Se. 6 H1, om. 7 El, tu. 8 Hil, w.
9 Hla, adds equivalent of ‘“‘Rassam,”’ ll. 59, 60. See p. 60.
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76. ‘Sa-ru-um! °B-2a?-ma °Kib-<u *Hal- 76. Sharum, Ezama, Kibshu, Halgidda,
gid-da
Va ‘Ku-u'-a °Ka-na sd kima_ kin-ni id, Kua (and) Kana, whose abodes
nasru” a-sa-rid
el issurée! si-ir zuk-ti *¢Ni-pur Sadi(z) 78-79. were set on the peak of Mt.
mar-st Nipur, a steep mountain, like the
ChE su-bat-sunt sit-ku-na-at-ma la kit-nu- nests of the eagle, king of birds,
Su’ a-na ni-rr® (these people) were not submissive
to my yoke.
80. i-na Sép™ *4Ni-pur ka-ra-st v-sa-as- 80 I had my camp pitched at the foot of
kin-ma Mt. Nipur and
. t-te ™mutir pu-ti Sépa*-ia na-as'-ku-tr 81. with my picked body-guard
3 LIN
u sabe?! tahdzi’-ca la ga-me-lu-ti . and my relentless warriors,
4
. a-na-ku kima rimi tk-di pa-nu-us-su- bo I, like a strong wild-ox, went before
un as-bat them (led the way).
. hur-re na-hal-li na-ad-bak® sadi(z) Gullies, mountain torrents and water-
me-li-e falls, dangerous cliffs,
. mar-su-tt i-na “kussi as-ta-am"-di-ch aN. I surmounted in my sedan-chair.
. a-Sar a-na “kusst Sup-su-ku i-na Where it was too steep for my chair,
Sépdat-ta as-tah-id" I advanced on foot.
. kima® ar-me a-na zuk-ti sa-ku-ti si- Like a young gazelle I mounted the
TU-US-SU-UN high(est) peaks in pursuit ‘of them.
. e-li a-sar bir-ka-at ma-na-ah-tu i-sa-a Wherever my knees found a resting-
place,
. §2-2r aban Sadi(z) %-sib-ma_ mé?? I sat down on (some) mountain boul-
masakng—g-di ka-su-te der and drank the cold water from
the water-skin
. a-na su-um'-me-ia lu as-tt i-na ) (to quench) my thirst. To the sum-
ubdanat?! mits
10. hur-sa-a-nt ar-di-su-nu-ti-ma_ as-ta- 10. of the mountains I pursued them and
kan brought about
Ui tah-ta-su-un aldni?'-Su-nu aksud-ma il. their overthrow. Their cities I cap-
as-lu-la sal-la-sun'® tured and I carried off their spoil,
1 Hle, Sa-ar-ma. TEI, as 13 H{1, te; El, inserts 2.
2 E11, inserts a. 8 Hi and E1, ta-ha-zi. 14 1 and El; i.
8 H1 and El,% 9E1, ba-ki. 15 #1 and H1g, om.
471, su-un. IM BOl Ueiie 16 1, su-un
5 El, Si. HI, fi-id, E1, hi-dam.
6 H1 and E1, insert 7. 21, ki-[ma].
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12. ab-bul! ak-kur i-na? girrt ak-mu_ pa- 12. I destroyed, I devastated, I burned
an ni-ri-1a with fire. The front of my yoke
13. u-tir-ma si-ir ™“Ma-ni-ia-e gar ‘Uk-ki 13. I turned. Against Maniae, king of
Ukku,
14. 'Da-ai-e la kan-se as-sa-bat har-ra-nu 14. of the land of Daie, who was not sub-
missive, I took the road.
15. ur-hi la pi-tu-ti tu-di pa-as-ku-ti sd 15-17. Before my day, none of the kings
la-pa-an who lived before me, had traveled
16. Sadé?! mar-su-tt ul-la-nu-t-a ki-rib- the unblazed trails and wearisome
Su-un paths
I
ie ma-am-man la il-li-ku sarréni?® pa- which (stretch) along these rugged
ni mah-ru-te mountains.
18. i-na. sép@ %4A-na-ra wu Sad Up-pa 18. At the foot of Mt. Anara and Mt.
Sadi(di-1)* dan-nu-ti Uppa, mighty mountains,
19. ka-ra-si ti-Sa-as-kin-ma a-na’-ku i-na 19. I had my camp pitched, and I, on a
vkussi ni-me-di house-chair,
20. at-ti °™sGbé?! ta-ha-zi-ia git-ma-lu-ti 20. together with my seasoned warriors,
21: i-na ne-ri-bi-su-un pi-ku-tt su-nu-hi-is 21. made my wearisome way through
their narrow passes
22. e-ru-um-ma = mar-si-is__e-te-el-la-a 22. and with great difficulty climbed to
ubandt?! Sadi (7)* the highest peak of the mountains.
23. pa-as-ka-a-te® si-t ™Ma-ni-ia-e tur- 23. That Maniae saw the clouds of dust
bu-? raised by the feet of my armies,
24. Sépd™ ummdndte?”-ca e-mur-ma Uk- 24. abandoned Ukku, his royal city,
ku al sarru-ti-sv8
25. e-zib-maa-naru-ki-e-ti in-na-bit°Uk-ku 25. and fled to distant parts.
26. al-me aksud(ud) as-lu-la_ Sal-la-su 26. I besieged Ukku, I captured (it) and
mimma sum-su busi makkiru took away its spoil. All kinds of
goods and merchandise,
27. ni-sir-ti ekalli-Su ul-tu kir-bi-e9-si 27. the treasure of his palace,
28. u-se-sa-am-ma Sal-la-tigs am-nu uw 38 28. I carried away from it, and counted
aldni?'(nz)™ as booty. Furthermore, 33 cities
29. $d pa-a-ti na-gi-su® aksud¥-ma nisé?! 29. within the bounds of his province I
améré?"4 alpér! captured. People, asses, cattle
1K 1, bu-ul. 5 H1, ana. 9 H1 and El, om.
2 El, ina. 6 H1 and El, tt. 10 FI, Su;
3 H1, adds (ni). 7E1, A of HI-A missing. 1 H1 and El, om.
4H1 and El, Sadé?!. 8 H1 and E1, su. 2 E1, li-me-ti-su for nagisu.
18 H1, adds (ud); E1, ak-Sud(ud).
14 Bl, has nisép! alpér! © si-e-ni imérévl as-lu-la ab-bu-ul ak-kur ina girri ak-mu.
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30. uw si-e-ni ul-tu kir-bi-Su-un as-lu-la 30. and sheep, I carried away from them
as spoil.
dl. ab-bu-ul ak-kur t-na girrt ak-mu4 ol. I destroyed, I devastated and I burned
(them) with fire.
32. Ina Sis gir-ri-ia si-it-ti nisé?’ 'Bit- 32. In my sixth campaign, the rest of the
Ta-kin people of Bit-Yakin,
33. Sad la-pa-an “kakké?'-ia dan-nu-te? 33. who had run off before my powerful
kima pu-ri-me weapons like wild asses,
34. ig-ru-ru ildni?! ma-sal mati-su-un i-na o4. who had gathered together the gods
Subti®-Su-nu id-ku-ma of their whole land in their shrines,
had
30. tam-tum rabitum(tum) 8d si-it “Sams 35. crossed the great sea of the rising
e-bi-ru-ma sun and
36. i-na °Na-gi-ti* sé 'Hlamti** id-du-t 36. in Nagitu of Elam had established
Su-bat-sun their abodes;
o7. i-na “elippate?’ 'Hat-ti tam-tum lu e-bir OU. in Hittite (Syrian) ships I crossed
‘Na-gi-ti® the sea. Nagitu
38. ‘Na-gi-tt-di---bi-na_ a-di 'Ai-il-mu 38. Nagitu-di’bina, together with the
‘Bil-la-tw® (lands of) Hilmu, Billatu
39. u 'Hu-pa-pa-nu na-gi-e sé 'Elamti* 39. and Hupapanu, provinces of Elam, I
aksud(ud) conquered.
40. nisé?' 'Bit-la-kin -adi tldni?'-Su-nu wv 40. The people of Bit-Yakin, together
niger! with their gods, and the people
41. Sd Sar 'Elamtc* as-lu-lam-ma la e-zi-ba 41. of the king of Elam, I carried off—
42. mul-tah-tu ki-rib Yelippati?! u-Sar-kib- 42. not a rebel (lit. sinner) escaped. I
ma, had them embarked in vessels,
43. a-na a-ha-an-na-a %-se-bi-ra-ma t-Ssa- 43. brought over to this side, and started
as-bi-ta on the way
44, har-ra-an 'Assurt* aldni?’ Sdé ki-rib 44. to Assyria. The cities which were in
nNa-gi-e those .
45. Sa-tu-nu ab-bul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu 45, provinces I destroyed, I devastated,
a-na tilla u kar-me I burned with fire. To tells and ruins
46. ti-tir i-na ta-ia-ar-ti-ia ™St-zu-bu | 46. I turned (them). On my return,
Shuzubu,
47. mar Babile®* §4 i-na e-si-ti ma-a-te® 47. the Babylonian, who during an up-
be-lu-tu? rising in the land
1 Here follows account of Cilician campaign in E1. See pp. 61f. 5 HI, tu.
2H, ti. 6 H1, mati.
3 KI-KU. According to KB IT, p. 101, variants of H1 have parakki. 7A, lut.
aE eeces
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48. “Sumeri u! Akkadi** ra-ma-nu-us t-tir- 48 . had turned to himself the rule of
ru Sumer and Akkad,
49. i-na tahdz? séri tahtd-su as-kun bal-tu- 49, I accomplished his defeat in a battle of
su i-na kata the plain (open battle).
50. as-bat-su.
v 4 . ‘
Sum-man-nu wv bi-ri-tu 50. I seized him alive with my (own)
parzills ad-di-si-ma hands, I threw him into bonds and
fetters of iron and
51. a-na 'Assur** %-ra-as-Su Sar 'Hlamte** 51. brought him to Assyria. The king
Sd idd*-Su of Elam, who
52. is-hu-ru-ma, ti-li-ku ri-su-su® tahtad-su . had gone over to his side and had
as-kun aided him, I defeated.
53. elldte?'-Su t-sap-pi-th-ma %-par-ri-ir . His forces I scattered and I shattered
pu-hur-su his host.
54. i-na sibé(e) gir-ri-ca 4A SSur be-lt t-tak- . In my seventh campaign, Assur, my
kil-an-ni-ma lord, supported me,
55. a-na 'E-lam-ti* lu-al-luk °Bit-"Ha-?-1-ri . and I advanced against Elam. (The
cities of) Bit-Ha’iri (and)
56. eRa-sa-a aldni?™ Sé mi-sir "Assur . Rasa, cities on the border of Assyria
57. Sd i-na tar-si abi-ia e8-la-mu-v e-ki-mu . which the Elamite had seized by
da-na-nis force during the time of my father,—
58. i-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-ia aksud(ud)? . In the course of my campaign I
as-lu-la Sal-la-sun conquered and I despoiled them.
59. sdbé?! §u-lu-ti-ia t-se-rib ki-rib-Su-un . I settled my garrisons therein,
a-na mi-sir
60. 1A SSur** U-tir-ra®-ma kataé* *rab ¢hal- . and restored them to the borders of
su Déri* Assyria.
Oks am-nu ‘Bu-bi-e “Dun-ni-4Samas °Bit- 61. I placed them under (in hand of) the
m™Ri-si-ia commandant of Dér. (The cities of)
Bubé, Dunni-Shamash, Bit-Risia
62. ¢Bit-ah-la-me-e ‘Du-ru °Kal-te-su-la-at 62. Bit-ahlamé, Duru, Kalte-sulai
63. °Si-li-ib-tu °Bit-A-su-si_ “Kar-"Zér?- 63. Shilibtu, Bit-Asusi, Kar-Zér-ikisha,
ikisa(Sa)
64. eBit-"Gi-ts-st °Bit-"Kdt-pa-la-ni_ °Bit- 64. Bit-Gissi, Bit-Katpalani, Bit-Imbia,
™Im-bi-ia
65. ¢Ha-ma-a-nu cBit-Ar-ra-bi°Bu-ru-tu 65. Hamanu, Bit Arrabi, Burutu
1 FI, w. 5H1, adds (nt). 9H1, MU=sum,

21, ta-ha-az. 6 H1, ame-, 01, om.
3 H1, inserts ws. 7HI1, aksud-ma.
4H1, Elamtik:. 8 H1, ram.
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66. ‘Dim-tti'-sad-"Su-la-ai *Dim-ti'-sd- 66. Dimtu-sha-Sulai, Dimtu-sha-Mar-
mdM Gr-biti-e tir (ir) biti-etir
67. ¢Har-ri-as-la-ki-e *“Rab?-ba-at 67. Harri-ashlaki, Rabbai
68. ‘Ra-a-su °*Ak-ka-ba-ri-na °Til-“U-hu- 68. Rasu, Akkabarina Tel-Uhuri,
Tt
69. ‘Ha-am-ra-nu °‘Na-di-tu a-di aléni?’- 69. Hamranu, Naditu, together with the
(nz)8 cities
70. §é ni-ri-bi sad °Bit-"Bu-na-ki °Til-'Hu- 70. of the passes of Bit-Bunaki, Tel-
um-bi Humbi,
71. eDim-ti'-8d-"Du-me-ilu °Bit-" U-bi-ia Gk Dimtu-sha-Dume-ilu, Bit-Ubia,
72. ¢Ba-al-ti-li-sir °Ta-gab-li-sir 72. Balti-lishir, Tagab-lishir,
13: ‘Sd-na-ki-da-te® “Ma-su-tt Sap-li-ti® 73. Shanakidate, the lower Masutu,
74. ‘Sa-ar-hu-di'-ri °A-lum-sd-bélit-biti 74. Sar-hudiri, Alum-sha-bélit-biti,
75. eBit-A hé'-iddina(na) *Il-te-v-ba 75. Bit-ahé-iddina, Ite-uba,
76. 84 aldmv?! dan-nu-te a-di aldni?® 76. 34 strong cities, together with the
sthrati?! small cities
(ae Sd li-me-ti-su-nu sd ni-ba la i-su-% ne of their environs, which were count-
less,
78. al-me aksSud(ud) as-lu-la_ Sal-la-sun 78. I besieged, I conquered, I despoiled,
ab-bul ak-kur I destroyed, I devastated,
rSe i-na girrt ak-mu ku-tur nak®-mu-ti- fue I burned with fire, with the smoke of
SU-NU their conflagration
80. kima 2 kab-ti pa-an Samé(e) rap-si-te 80. I covered the wide heavens like a
hurricane.
1 . The Elamite, Kudur-nahundu,
81. u-Sak-ti-im™ 7s-me-ma ki-sit-tt aldni?'- 81. heard of the overthrow of his cities,
Su
.V
. ™Kudur-*Na-hu-un-du %”E-la-mu-t
Re . im-kut-su
No hat"-tum si-it-tt aldni?'-su 2 . terror overwhelmed him, the (people
of) rest of his cities
. a-na dan-na-a"-te %-se-rib si-4 “Ma- 3 . he brought into the strongholds. He
dak-tu! himself
. al Sarru-ti-su e-zib-ma a-na°Ha-i-da-la 4 . left Madaktu, his royal city,
11, cDi-in-tu. CHI, tu: 1 HI, ha-at.
21, ra. 7H1, inserts e. 2 Hd ome:
3 H1, om. 8 H1, adds (ni). 28 a
41, eDi-in-tu. 9 H1, na-ak. a ee.
5 1, a-t. 101, tam.
THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION 4]
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5. Sa ki-rib Sadé?" rikatir! is-sa-bat har- 5. and took his way to Haidala which is
ra-nu in the distant mountains.
. a-na “Ma-dak-ti? al sarru-ti-Su a-la-ku 6. I gave the word to march against
ak-bi Madaktu, his royal city.
. arah tam-ti-ri_ kussu dan-nu e-ru-ba- . The month of rain, (with) extreme
am-ma cold set in and the
. Sa-mu-tum ma-at-tum %-Sa-az-ni-na . heavy storms sent down rain upon
zunné?! sa rain and
. zunneé?! xu Ssal-gi? na-ah-lut na-ad-bak I was afraid of the swollen
4s
. SNOW.
§adi(z)! a-du-ra mountain streams;

. pa-an ni-ri-ia u-tir-ma a-na Ninua* . the front of my yoke I turned and
as-sa-bat took the road to
. har-ra-nu i-na t-me-si-ma i-na ki-bit . Nineveh. At that time, at the com-
4A SSur béli-ia mand of Assur, my lord,
. ™Kudur-*Na-hu-un-du® gar 'Elamti* . Kudur-Nahundu, the king of Elam,
8 arhéer! in less than three months (lit. did not
fill three months)
. ul t-mal-li-ma i-na time(me)® la st-im- . died suddenly before his appointed
ti-Su time (lit. on a day not of his fate).
. ur-ru-hi-is™ am-tu-ut arki-su™Um- . After Him, Umman-menanu,
-man’-me-na-nu
. la ra-as té-e-me wv mil-ke . who possessed neither sense nor
judgment,
. ahu-su dup-pu-us-su-t i-na “kussi-su . his younger(?) brother, sat on his
u-sib-ma throne.
. i-na gamné(e) gir-ri-ia arki ™St-zu-bi . Inmy eighth campaign, after Shuzubu
as-si-hu-ma had revolted,
. marée? Babila®* gallé?’ lim-nu-te . and the Babylonians, wicked devils,
abullani”! ale had
. U-di-lu tk-pu-ut lab-ba-su-nu —a-na . closed the city-gates,—their hearts
e-pis tukmatr planning resistance;
20. mSi-zu-bu %Kal-dd-ai id-lum dun- . Shuzubu, the Chaldean, a weakling
na-mu-u hero,
pA $d la i-si-% bir-ki *ardu da-gil pa-an . who had no knees, a slave, subject to
ambél pihate the governor of
1H1, Sad-di-t. Si i, 7H, pid.

2H, te. SHES di. 8 H1, ma-an.
3H1, gu. 6 H1, d-um.

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22. ‘La-hi-ri *A-ra-me hal-ku mun-nab- 22. the city of Lahiri,—about him there
ti! a-mir da-me gathered the fugitive Arameans, the
run-away,
23. hab-bi-lu. si-ru-us-su tp-hu-ru-ma_ ki- 23. the murderer, the robber. Into the
rib Ta-gam-me ‘ marshes
. t-ri-du-ma %-Sab-si-u si-hu a-na-ku 24. they descended and made rebellion.
ni-tum al-me-su?-ma But I surrounded him completely.
. nap-sa-tus u-si-ka la-pa-an hat-ti & ni- 25. I pressed him to the life. Through
ab-ri-te® fear and hunger
. a-na 'Hlamti** in-na-bit ki-¢ ri-kal-te 26. he fled to Elam. When plotting
.uU kal-la-tt st-ru-us-Su ba-si-1—-ul-tu 27. and treachery were (hatched) against
\
’Hlamtv*? him (there),

. 1-hi-Sam-ma ki-rib St-an-na** e-ru-ub 28. he hastened from Elam and entered
em Babin! Shuanna. The Babylonians
. a-na la si-ma-ti*-su i-na “kusst %-Se- 29. placed him on the throne,—for which
Si-bu-Su he was not fitted,
. be-lut® “Sumeri v8 "Akkadi* t-ad-gi-lu 30. and entrusted to him the government
pa-ni-su of Sumer and Akkad.
. bit nisirti Sé4 E-sag-ila ip-tu-ma hurdsa dl. The treasury of the temple Esagila
kaspa they opened and the gold and silver
. && *Bél w 4Sar-pa-ni7-tum busd bit 32. belonging to Bél (Marduk) and Sar-
tldni?'-Su-nu t-Se-su-nt panit, the property of the temples of
their gods they brought forth
. a-na ™Um-man-me-na-nu sar ‘Hlamtr** 33. and to Umman-menanu, king of
Sd la 1-84-% Elam, who possessed
. té-e-mu wu mal-ku® %-se-bi-lu-us da-?-tt 34, neither sense nor judgment, they
? Ag
sent them as a bribe (saying):

. pu-uh-hir um-man-ka di-ka-a karas-ka 30. ‘“‘Gather thy army, prepare thy camp,
. a-na® Babile** hi-sam-ma 1-da-a-ni 1-21- 36. haste to Babylon, come to our aid
12-Ma (lit. stand at our side), for
. tu-kul-ta-ni lu at-ta si-t4 °™E-la-mu-% 37. thou art our trust.”’ That Elamite,
. && t-na a-lak gir-ri-ia mah-ri-ti sd 38. whose cities I had conquered and
‘Hlamts** turned into ruins
. aldn?'-su ak-su-du-ma u-tir-ru a-na 39. on my former campaign against Elam,
kar-me
11, tu. 5 AI, lu-ut. THT, om.
2H, Si. 6H, u. 10 1, Sud.
He he,Oe 7HI1, bani.
‘HI, te. 8 HI, ki.
Co. V
40. lib-bu-us ul th-su-us da-?-tti 40. without thinking (lit. his heart did
not consider)
41. im-hur-su-nu-ti-ma ummdandter??-su 41. received the bribes from them, gath-
kards-su t-pa-hir-ma ered his army and camp,
42. vnarkabdati”! “su-um-bi e-Sti-ra sisé?! 42. collected (his) chariots and wagons,
hitched (his) horses
43. paré?! is-ni-ka si-in-di-Su 'Par-su-as 43. and mules to them. The lands of
Parsuash
44. ‘An-za-an 'Pa-se’-ru ‘El-li-pi I a-az- +4 . Anzan, Pasheru, Ellipi, the men of
an Yazan,
45. amLa-kab-ra* “Ha-ar-zu-nu “™Du-um- 45 . Lakabra, Harzunu, Dummuku,
mu-ku
46. amSu-la-at =" Sa-am>-%-na_ —smar 46 . Sulai, Samuna, the son of Merodach-
mdVfarduk(SIT)-apal(A)-iddina(na)® baladan,
47. ‘Bit-A -di-nt "Bit-"A-muk-ka-na 'Bit- 47 . the lands of Bit-Adini, Bit-Amuk-
™Sil-la-na kanu, Bit-Sillana,
48. ‘Bit-"Sa-a-la-tu-té-ak-ke ‘La-hi-ru 48 . Bit-Saélatutu-akki, the city of Lahiru,
am By-ku-du the men of Bukudu,
49, amGam-bu-lum ”Ha-la-tum? ™Ru-- 49 . Gambulum, Halatum Ru’ua,
u-a
50. anU-bu-lum %Ma-la-hu °Ra-pi-ku 50 . Ubulum, Malahu, Rapiku,
dl. om Fj-in-da-ru ™Da-mu-nu — kat-ru 51 . Hindaru, Damunu,—an enormous
rabii(w) vassal host
52. ik-te-ra wt-te-Su gi-ib-sti-su-un t-ru-uh 52 . he called to his side. The masses of
them
53. ‘Akkadt** is-ba-tu-nim-ma a-Na 53-55. took the road to Akkad. Draw-
Babilv* te-bu-ni ing nigh to Babylon, they exchanged
54. a-di ™St-2u-bi *™Kal-dd-ai Sar Babili* courtesies with Shuzubu, the Chal-
55. a-na a-ha-mes ik-ru-bu-ma pu-hur- dean king of Babylon, and brought
Su-nu in-nin-du their host to a stand.
56. ki-ma ti-bu-ut a-ri-bt ma-?-di sd pa-an 56 . Like the onset of locust swarms
ry
Sat-tr (many locusts) of the springtime,
57. mit-ha-ris a-na e-prs tuk-ma-te? te-bu- 57 . they kept steadily coming on against
ni si-ru-u'l-a me to offer battle.
11, tu. 5 H1, inserts >. Ost, fo.
2H1, ummdandtece! rl, 6 H1, 4AMAR-UD-TUR-US-iddina(na). 10 H11, inserts v.
eH, &. 0s BIE FAT HI, tt.

‘Hi, 17. SHI fe
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58. epire?! Sépat-Su-nu ki-ma! 2 kab-ti? 58. With the dust of their feet covering
the wide heavens
59. $d dun-ni e-ri-ia-ti® pa-an Samé(e) rap- 59. like a mighty storm with (its) masses
Sti-te* ka-tum® of dense (lit. pregnant) clouds,
60. el-la-mu-ti-a ina °Ha-lu-li-e sé ki-sad 60. they drew up in battle array before
"Tdiglat me in the city of Halulé, on the bank
of the Tigris.
61. set-ku-nu_ si-dir-ta pa-an mas-ki-va 61. They blocked my passage and offered
sab-tu-ma battle.
62. u-sa->-lu “kakké?'-Su-un a-na-ku a-na 62. As for me, to Assur,
4A SSur
63. 4Sin *amas 4Bél 4*Nabii *Nergal 63. Sin, Shamash, Bél, Nabt, Nergal,
aT star §4 Ninua** | Ishtar of Nineveh,
64. 47 star §é “Arba-ilu tlani”! ti-tk-li-ia 64. Ishtar of Arbela, the gods in whom I
trust,
65. a-na ka-sa-di “"nakri dan-ni am-hur- 65. I prayed for victory over the mighty
Su-nu-ti-ma foe.
66. su-pi-e-a ur-ru-hi-is® is-mu-v al-li-ku 66. They speedily gave ear to my prayers
and came
67. ri-su-tt. la-ab-bis an-na-dir-ma_ at-tal- 67. to my aid. Like a lion I raged I
bi-sa put on
68. si-ri-ia-am hu-li-ia-am si-mat si-cl-ti? 68. (my) coat of mail. (My) helmet,
emblem of victory (battle),
69. a-pi-ra ra-sé-u-a t-na “narkabat 69. I placed upon my head. My great
tahdzi-va battle chariot,
70. sir-tt sa-pi-na-at za-?-1-r7 1-na ug-gat 70. which brings low the foe,
ge lib-bi-ca_ ar-ta-kab ha-an-tis Vkastu (ile I hurriedly mounted in the anger of
dan-na-tu' my heart. The mighty bow
(ee Sd *Assur v-Sat-li-ma i-na kdtda?-1a 72. which Assur had given me, I seized
as-bat in my hands;
73. vtar-ta-hu pa-ri-? nap-sa-ti® at-muh 73. the javelin, piercing to the life, I
rit-tu-u-a grasped.
74, si-ir gi-mir um-ma-na-te® na-ki-ri lim- 74, Against all of the hosts of wicked
nu-te enemies,
75. a-me-is zar-bis” al-sa-a kima 4Adad 75. I raised my voice (lit. cried out),
as-gu-um rumbling like a storm. Like Adad
I roared.
11, kima. 3 H1, inserts a. 5 HI, ti-im. 7 HI, tum. 9 H1, a-tt.
2 Hl, te. ‘Ht 4. 6 1S his. 8 H1, te. 10 AI, zar-bis t-me-i8.
Col. V
viae i-na ki-bit Assur béli rabt béli-ca a-na 76. At the word of Assur, the great lord,
Sid-di wu) pu-ti? my lord, on flank and front
Bf, kima ti-ib me-hi-e Sam-ri a-na ’nakri fhe I pressed upon the enemy like the
a-z1-tk onset of a raging storm.
78. i-na “kakke?’ 4Assur béli-ia uw ti-ib 78. With the weapons of Assur, my lord,
tahdzi-va 12Z-20 and the terrible onset of my attack,
19, i-rat-su-un a-ni--ma suh-hur-ta-su-nu (eh I stopped their advance, I succeeded
as-kun in surrounding them,
80. ummdandte! na-ki-ri i-na us-st mul- 80. I decimated the enemy host with
mul-li arrow and spear.
81. u-Sa-kir-ma gim-ri “pagré?'-su-nu t- 81. All of their bodies I bored through
pal-li-sa like—.
82. tam( ?)-zi-2i-18 ™ ¢Hu-um-ban3-un-da- 82. Humban-undasha, the field-marshal
Sa ’nagirut
83. Sd Sar 'Elamtt** cd-lum pit-ku-du mu- 83. of the king of Elam, a trustworthy
ma->-ir man, commander
84. ummandte??'-Su tu-kul-ta-su rabti(v) 84. of his armies, his chief support,
a-di *rabite?'-su together with his nobles
895. Sd patar Sib-bi hurdsi sit-ku-nu 85. who wear the golden girdle-dagger
86. u i-na Seméré?! as-pt hurdst ru-us-si-a 86-87. and whose hands (wrists) are
87. ruk-ku-sa rit-ti-Su-un ki-ma su-u-ri encircled with heavy (thick?) rings
of shining gold,—
88. ma-ru-tt §é na-du-% Sum-man-nu 88. like fat steers who have hobbles put
on them,—
VI
. ur-ru-hi-i* t-pal-lik®-Su-nu-ti-ma_ as- . speedily I cut them down and estab-
ku-na tah-ta-su-un lished their defeat.
. ki-Sa-da-te-su-nu u-na'-kis az-lis® ak- . I cut their throats like—,
ra-a-tv?
. nap-sa-te-Su-nu t-par-ri-? gu--u-18 ki- . I cut off their precious lives (as one
ma” mila cuts) astring. Like the many waters
. gab-Si $4 Sa-mu-tum si-ma-ni wu mun- . of a storm, I made (the contents of)
ni-Su-nu u-sar-da-a their gullets and entrails
. gi-ir ir-si-ti Sa-di-il-ti4 la-az-mu-ti 5. run down upon the wide earth. My
prancing
171, w. 5H1, is. ® HI, te, om. a.
THI; te. 6 H1, om. 101, kima.
3 H1, ba-an. 7H, nak. 11 1, te.
41, °"na-gi-ru. 8H1, li-is.
Col. VI
6. mur-ni-is-ki si-mit-tt ru-ku-bi'!-ia t-na 6. steeds, harnessed for my _ riding,
da-me-su-nu plunged
. gab-su-t i-Sal-lu-% aIndri-i§ S§d ii into the streams of their blood as
vnarkabat tahdzi-1a (into) a river. The wheels of my
war chariot,
. Sa-pi-na-at rag-gi wu si-nt da-mu wv? . which brings low the wicked and the
pir-su evil,
. ri-it-mu-ku ma-gar-ru-us pag-ri. ku-ra- . were bespattered with blood and
di-Su-nu filth. With the bodies of their
walriors
. ki-ma ur-ki-tt t-mal-la-a séri_ sa-ap- . I filled the plain, like grass. (Their)
sa-pa-te testicles
. U-na-kis-ma_ bal-ta-su-un a-bu-ut ki- . I cut off, and tore out their privates
ma bi-nt like the seeds
. kis-Se-e si-ma-ni tu-na-kis* ka-ti-su-un . of cucumbers of Siwan (June). Their
hands I cut off.
. SeméréP! as-pt hurdst kaspi (KI- . The heavy(?) rings of brightest gold
SAG)4 cb-bi Sa rit-ti-su-nu which (they had) on their wrists
. am-hur i-na nam-sa-ri zak-tu-tt hu-za- . | took away. With sharp swords
an-ni-su-nu
. t-par-ri->. patré?’ sib-bi hurdst kaspi el pierced their belts and took away
Sa> kablé?'-Su-nu
. e-kim st-tt-tu =™rabtite?'-su® a-di . the girdle-daggers of gold and silver
m dNabi-sum-iwkun(un)? which (they carried) on their persons.
The rest of his nobles, together with
Nabi-shum-ishkun,
. mar ™ 4*Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sé . son of Merodach-baladan, who had
la-pa-an tahdzi8ia tp-la-hu taken fright at (before) my onslaught
. d-ku-t 1daé%su-un bal-tu-su-un ina . and had gone over to their side,
kabal tam-ha-rz (these) my hands
. it-mu-ha kdta™-ar “narkabdte?! a-di . seized in the midst of the battle.
sis é?'-Si-na The chariots and their horses,
. &é r-na ket-ru-ub tahdz dan-ni ra-ki- . whose riders had been slain at the
bu-sin! di-ku-ma beginning of the terrible onslaught,
. & Si-na MUs-SU-Ta-MG TA-MA-NU-US-SiN . and who had been left to themselves,
1H1, pt. ys BRS 8 H1, ta-ha-zi. 4 Hl, Si-in.
aes 6 Text of H1, Su-nu. 9 H1, 7i-da.
3 H1, ak-kis. 7 Al, 78-kun. 10 H1, ta-ha-zi.
4 Probably wrong use of a variant of the ideogram KI-SI-GA, kasdpu.
Col. VI
22. wt-ta-na-al-la-ka mit-ha-ri 8i-tir-ra 22. kept running back and forth (lit.
going and returning)
23. a-di 2 birt mi-il-li-ku da-ak-sul-nu 23. for a distance of two-double-hours,—
ap-ru-us I put an end to their headlong flight.
24. su-t ™Um-ma-an-me-na-nu sar 24. That Umman-menanu, king of Elam,
‘Hlamtv**
25. a-di Sar Bébile** °™na-sik-ka-ni sa 25. together with the king of Babylon
'Kal-di (and) the princes of Chaldea,
26. a-li-kut ida*-su har-ba-su tahdzi-ia 26. who had gone over to their side, the
ki-ma? li-e terror of my battle
27. zu-mur-sul-un is-hu-up ~zq-ra-te-Su-un 27. overturned them (lit. their bodies)
U-Mas-Se-ru-ma like a bull. They abandoned their
tents
28. a-na su-zu-ub napsdte?'-Su-nu pag-rt 28. and to save their lives they trampled
ummidniater?3-su-un
29. u-da->*-i-Su. e®-ti-ku kt-1 Sd ad-mi ae, the bodies of their (fallen) soldiers,
summatu’ they fled like young pigeons
30. kus-si-di i-tar-ra-ku lib-bu-su-un &- 30. that are pursued.. They were beside —
na-te-su-un themselves (lit. their hearts were torn)
ol. u-zar®-ra-bu ki-rib “narkabaté?'-su-nu dl. they held back(?) their urine, but let
U-MAS-Se-1Uu-Nt their dung go into their chariots.
32. zu-ut-Su-un a-na_ ra-da-di-su-nu 32. In pursuit of them
~narkabati?!
33. sisé?!-ia t-ma--ir arkt?-Su-un 33. I despatched my chariots and horses
after them.
34. mun-na-rib-su-nu sd’ a-na nap-sa-a- 34. Those among them who had escaped,
te® u-su-% who had fled for their lives,
35. a-sar 1-kas-Sa-du t-ra-sa-pu—- 1-na 30. wherever they (my charioteers) met
vkakke. them, they cut them down with the
sword.
(See pp. 128 f. for the remainder of this document.)
1H, Su. 4H, om. 7H, ar-ki.
2 Hl, kima. id = UG SE Ursa:
3H1, wm-ma-na-te. 6 H1, za. ds BGS
CHAPTER V
THE HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED

CHRONOLOGICALLY
I. THE FIRST CAMPAIGN (A1)
. "4 Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba sarru rabi Sarruj! 1. Sennacherib, the great king, the
dan-nu sar 'Assur™ sarru la Sa-na-an mighty king, king of Assyria, king
ri-é-um mut-nin-nu-t pa-lih ilanir® without a rival; prayerful shepherd
rabiite?! (ruler), worshipper of the great
gods;
. na-|sir kit-tt ra---im mi-sa-ri el-pis 2. guardian of the right, lover of justice,
u-sa-a-li a-lik tap-pu-ut a-ki-t sa-hi-ru who lends support, who comes to the
dam-ka-a-tt aid of the needy, who turns (his
thoughts) to pious deeds;
. td-[lum git-ma-lum zi(text rz)-ka-ru 3. perfect hero, mighty man, first among
kar-du a-sa-rid| kal ma-al-ki rab-bu all princes, the powerful one who con-
la->-it la ma-gi-rt mu-sab-ri-ku za- sumes the insubmissive, who strikes
ma-a-nt the wicked with the thunderbolt ;—
. Assur Sadi(%) rabai(%) Ssarru-ut la 4. the god Assur, the great mountain,
has
Sa-na-an %-Sat]-li-ma-an-ni-ma eli gi- entrusted to me an unrivalled kingship
mir a-sib pa-rak-ki —%-Sar-ba-a and above all those who dwell in pal-
vkakké?'-1a aces, has made powerful my weapons.
. fiena rés Sarru-ti-ia 8é i-na “'kussi) 5. At the beginning of my reign, when
(rabis %)-'8i'-bu-ma ba-hu-la-a-te I solemnly took my seat on the
‘A SSur’* v-ma-7i-ru. i-na tas-me-e wu throne, and ruled the inhabitants of
sa-li-me Assyria with mercy and grace,
. ™4*Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sar ‘Kar- 6. Merodach-baladan, king of Babylonia,
Idun-ta-as §é libbi-su ig-su' ba-ra-nu-% (whose heart is wicked), an instigator
LP ee
ka-ras sur-ra-a-ti e-pis li-mut-ti sa of revolt, plotter of rebellion (lit.

an-zil-la-si kab( ?)-tu belly, mind, of rebellion), doer of
evil, whose guilt is heavy,
‘Contrary to the usual procedure (see p. 22), the bracketed portions of the transliteration of
ll. 1-9 of this text are not conjectural readings but restorations from a duplicate text, Ki, 1902-5-10,
1 (following Smith’s edition). In these lines I have therefore inclosed the conjectural readings in
parentheses,
48
HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 49
. ™St-tur-4Na- hu-du eK -(la-mu-t ff brought over to his side Shutur-

ida-su) is-hur-ma hurdsa kaspa ni-sik- Nahundu,? the Elamite, and gave
ti abnér! u-Sat-lim-sti-ma_ e-tir-ri-su him gold, silver and precious stones,
Tkit'-ru and (so) secured him as an ally.
. ™Im-ba-ap-pa antyr-ta(-nu sa sar . Imbappa, tartan of the king of
‘Hlamti**) ImT'a'-an-na-a-nu Elam, Tannanu, the left tartan,
omTT gsumélu(?)! 10 rab ki-sir?! a-di 10 commanders, together with Nergal-
miNergal-na-sir “Su-tu-t la a-di-ru nasir, the Sutaean, who was fearless
ta-ha-zu in battle,
5 80,000 *"(sabé “hase” . . .] sisé?? . 80,000 bowmen, . . . . horses which
at-ti-Su-nu-ti-ma a-na ‘Sumeri a were with them, he sent to Sumer and
Akkadi** is=pu-ra ri-su-(us-su! Akkad (Babylonia) to his aid.
10. au sti-u |" *Marduk-apla-iddina(na) 10. And that (Merodach-baladan) ....
eee Ure Hridu’ Kullabu®' Kr- Ur, Eridu, Kullab, Kissik, Nimid-
is-sik** “Ni-mid-*|La-gu]-da Laguda,
Ls ‘Bit-"[Ia-kin 'Bit-A-muk-ka-a-ni Oe Bit-Yakin, Bit-Amukkani, Bit-Salh,
'Bit-""Sa-al-|li "Bit-Dak-ku-ri si-hir-te Bit-Dakkuri, all the Chaldeans, as
am Kal-di ma-la ba-si-"%! many as there were,
12. $4 kisdd "|Mar-ra-ti “Tu->-mu-na 12. who (dwell) on the shore of (the
amPi-hi-hu %”U-bu-du %”\Ia-dak-ku Salt-sea), the Tu’muna, the Rihihu,
am K7ib-ri-e "Ma-"l'-hu the Ubudu, the Yadakku, the Kipré,
the Malihu,
13. &é kisad “Idiglat Gu-ru-mu ™U-bu- 13. who (dwell) on the bank of (the
lu ¢Da-mul-nu “"Gam-bu-lu “Hi-in- Tigris), the Gurumu, the Ubulu, the
da-ru *"Ru--u-a %Bu-ku-du Damunu, the Gambulu, the Hindaru,
the Ruwua, the Bukudu,
14. Sé kisdd"™Ukni ¢Ha-am-ra-nu °Ha- 14. who (dwell) on the bank of (the
ga-ra-nu| ”Na-ba-t% ™Lt-?-ta-a-u Karha); the Hamranu, the Hagaranu,
amA-ra-mu la kan-si sa la i-'du'-t% the Nabatu, the Li’tau, Aramaeans
mi-[tu( ?)]-tum who are not submissive, who do not
heed death(?),
15. Neppurakts.... . ** Bar-sip™* Kutu* 15. Nippur, . . . . Borsippa, Kutha, all
gi-mir 'Kar-dun-ta-as 18-te-nis -pa- of Babylonia, he gathered together
hir|-ma %-|Sak-sir 'ta'-ha-zu..... and marshalled for the fight.
1 Smith reads Sand rakbu. But the existence of such an officer is doubtful. The Salsu rakbu is
well known. The ‘‘second” (Sani) or “left”? (Swmélu) tartan, as over against the “right” (émnu)
tartan, is a regular staff-officer of the Assryian military organization (Harper, Letters, 144, 13, II R, 31,
26-7a).
2 This should be the Ishtar-hundu of the Babylonian Chronicle, ef. p. 159, 1. 33.
16. ia-a-ti '4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba! [Sd lb]-bi- 16. To me, Sennacherib, whose heart is
[Su] 'na->-du' tp-se-ti-Su lim-ni-e-te exalted, they reported these evil
u-Sa-an-nu-nim-ma_ la-ab-bis an-na- deeds; I raged like a lion, and gave
dir-ma ki-rib Babila** a-[na mah-]ri-s% the command to march into Baby-
ak-ti-'bi! a-la-ku lonia against him.
17. su-t im-di gal-li-e lim-ni a-lak gir-ri-ia We That evil prop of the devil heard of
1S-me-ma sis éP! sdbér! vkaste my march to battle, and the horse
am A[E( ?)|-la-mu-% ¢A-ra-mu *Kal- and bowmen of the Elamites, the
du it-ti”4N ergal-na-sir u 10 rab ki-sir[?! Aramaeans, and Chaldeans, together
Sar(?)] ‘Elamti 'Sa la’ t-du mi- with Nergal-nasir and the ten com-
[tw( ?)]-tu manders of Elam, who take no heed of
death(?),
18. e-mu-ki la ni-bt tt-ti-Su-nu-ti-ma u- 18. who had with them a countless host,—
dan-ni-in ki-is-ri-Su-un ki-rib Kutak the organization of these he perfected
as-te-nis U-Se-rib-ma a-na me-te-tk gir- (strengthened), brought them all into
ri-ia tu-sa-an-'sir! ka-[a]-a-'nam! Kutha, and (there) had a steady
watch kept on the progress of my
campaign.
12: si-in-di-ia_ us-te-Se-ra tému 20%" SG nat I had my teams (yokes) prepared,
arahSabdtu ul-tu Asgur(BAL-TIL)* on the 20th day of Shabdtu I set
kima rimé gab-st mah-rit ummandatr?'- out from Assur ahead of my army,
za as-bat-ma pa-an gi-ib-si-va ul %-sad- like a mighty bull; I did not wait for
gil ar-"ka'-a ul "%'-ki my host, I did not hold back.
20. amrab-sak “bélé-prhdatr?'-ca a-na Kis** 20. My general (and) governors I sent
u-ma-?-tr mah-ru-u-a a-ru-uh on to Kish, ahead of me, (with the
md Varduk-apla-iddina(na) sab-ta-a- order): “Take the road against
ma e-te-ga-a dun-ni-na ma-sar( ?)-tus Merodach-baladan; advance, keep a
close watch over him (lit. strengthen
his guard).”’
21. Si-@ ™bEélé prhdte?'-ia e-mur-ma a-di ode That one saw my governors, and
gi-mir el-la-ti-su Abtl *Za-md-ma us- with all of his troops sallied out
sa-am-ma 1i-na ta-mir-ti Kis** at-tr of the gate of Zamama and did
amrabtite?'-ia e-pu-us ta-ha-zu battle with my captains in the plain
of Kish.
22. amrabite?'-ia kit-ru-ub ta-ha-z. *nakre 22. As for my captains, the enemy’s
eli-Su-un id-nin-ma ul i-li->-t ma-ha- onset of battle against them was
ar-s& ™mar-sip-ri-su-un Sd ha-mat mighty and they could not stand
i-na ki-rib ta-mir-tt Kuti®* si-ru-u-a before him. They sent their mes-
1S~pUu-"rUu-U-Nt sengers for help to me (while I
was) in the neighborhood of Kutha
23. i-na ug-gat ltb-bi-ia eli Kutt** ti-bu-t- 23. In the anger of my heart I made an
ta(text ru) as-kun-ma *mun-dah-si assault upon Kutha; the troops
sa-hi-ir diri-su 'az'-li-is u-tib-bi-ch- about its walls I slaughtered like
ma as-sa-bat ala wild animals and took the city.
24. sisé?! sGbé?! “kaste ¢™H-la-me-e %A-ra- 24. The horse and bowmen of the
mu *Kal-du “rab ki-sir?* (Sar ?) Elamite, the Aramaeans (and) the
‘Hlamte* & ™4Nergal-na-sir a-di Chaldeans, the commanders of the
maré?! ale bél hi-ct-ti %-Se-sa-am-ma king(?) of Elam, as well as Nergal-
Sal-la-ti-1s am-nu nasir, together with the citizens, the
rebels (lit. sinners), I brought forth
and counted as spoil.
25. la-ab-big an-na-dir-ma al-la-bi-cb a-bu- 25. I raged like a lion, I stormed like a
bi-is t-te *ku-ra-di-ia la ga-me-lu-ti tempest, with my merciless warriors
si-ris ™4Marduk-apla-iddin(na) a-na I set my face against Merodach-
Kis" as-ta-kan pa-ni-ia baladan, (who was) in Kish.
26. U Su-% e-pis lim-ni-e-tt a-ka-mu gir- 26. And that worker of iniquity saw
ri-ta a-na ru-ki-e-ti e-mur-ma im-ku-su my advance from afar; terror fell
hat-tu gi-mir el-la-ti-Su e-zib-ma a-na upon him, he forsook all of his
'Gu-zu-um-ma-ni in-na-bit troops, and fled to the land of
Guzummanu.
27. ™Ta-an-na-a-nu. a-dt ~=um-ma-na-at 27. Tannanu, together with the armies of
amHlamé®* emKal-du u %A-ra-mu sd Elamites, Chaldeans and Aramaeans,
1-da-a-st, 1z-21-zu-ma t-li-ku ri-su-us- who had stood at his side (espoused
su tahté-Su-un as-kun-ma %-par-ri-ir his cause) and had come to his aid,—
el-lat>-su their defeat I accomplished and I
shattered his forces.
28. mA-di-nu mar assat ™?Marduk-apla- 28. Adinu, son of the wife of Merodach-
iddin(na) a-di ™Ba-as-ka-a-nu ah baladan, together with Baskanu,
STa-ti---e Sar-rat *A-ri-bi wt-tt wm-ma- brother of Yati’e, queen of the Arabs,
na-te-su-nu bal-tu-su-un ina ka-te along with their armies I seized as
as-bat living captives.
29. vnarkabdti?’ “su-um-bi sisé?! paré?! 29. The chariots, wagons, horses, mules,
umére?' gammalé?' erud-ri sad ki-rib asses, camels, and dromedaries, which
tam-ha-ri mus-sui-ru tk-su-da kata?-ar had been abandoned during the
battle, my hands captured.
30. i-na hu-ud ltb-bt uw nu-um-mur pa-ni 30. In joy of heart and with a radiant
a-na Babili** a-hi-is-ma a-na_ ekal face, I hastened to Babylon and
md Marduk-apla-iddin(na) as-si pa- entered the palace of Merodach-
kad bust & makkiri ki-rib-Sa_ e-ru-ub baladan, to take charge of the prop-
erty and goods (laid up) therein.
ol. ap-te-e-ma bit ni-sir-te-Su hhurdsa ale I opened his treasure-house. Gold,
kaspa v-nu-ut hurdsi kaspi abné?! a- silver, vessels of gold and _ silver,
kar-tt “irsé?! “kussé?! ni-me-di “sa-sa- precious stones, beds, couches, palan-
da-di “ga-si-ru-ut Sarru-ti-Su Sa vh-zu- quins, his royal standards(?), whose
Su-nu hurdsu kaspu inlay was of gold and silver,
32. mimma sum-si busi makkiru la ni-bi 32. all kinds of property and goods, and
ni-sir-tum ka-bit-tum assat-su sinni- without number,—an enormous treas-
Sati?’ ekalli-Su ‘naplasdte?’ (?2SAL- ure, his wife, his harem, his slave-
IGI-DUB-M ES) °™St-ut-r exe?! «tir 6?! girls( ?), his chamberlains, his officials,
amman-za-az pa-ni *zammeré?! Szam- his courtiers, the male and female
mer étr?! musicians,
30. amarddni”! ekallt mu-nam-mi-ru_ te-mu 33. the palace slaves, who gladdened his
ru-bu-ti-Su_si-hi-ir-tt. wm-ma-a-ni_ ma- princely mind, all of the artisans, as
la ba-si-t mut-tab-bi-lu-ut ekalli-su many as there were, his palace meni-
u-Se-sa-am-ma sal-la-ti-is am-nu als(?), (these) I brought forth and
counted as spoil.
34. ur-ri-th-ma arki-su a-na "Gu-zu-um- 34. I hurried after him, sent my warriors
ma-ni aemmun-dah-si-ia a-na_ ki-rib to Guzummanu, into the midst of
Ta-gam-me wu ap-pa-ra-a-tt %-ma-?-17r- the swamps and marshes and they
ma & t-me t%-ba-u-si-ma ul in-na- searched for him for five days, but his
mir a-sar-su (hiding) place was not found.
30. st-te-it sisé?’ ummdndte’?'-Su Sd ta-2-s8t 35. The rest of his horses and troops,
ma-na-ah-tum na-a-lis vp-par-si-du- who were without a place to go, -
su-ma la il-li-ku 1-da-a-s% 1s-tu ki-rib who had fled from him like hinds
séri u ba-ma-a-ti 18-te-nis ti-pa-hir and had not gone with him, I gathered
together from the midst of plain and
highland.
36. i-na me-ti-tk gir-ri-ia °A-ma-tu °*Ha- 36. In the course of my march the cities
u-a-e °“Su-pa-bu °‘Nu-ka-bu °Bit-"Sa- Amatu, Hauae, Supabu, Nukabu,
an-na-bi *Ku-ta-at-in Bit-Sannabi, Kutain,
of”. ¢Kid-ri-na °‘Déir-"La-di-ni °Bi-ta-a-tr of. Kidrina, Dfr-Ladini, Bitaéti, Banitu,
‘Ba-ni-tu 'Gu-zu-um-ma-nu *Dtir-"La- Guzummanu, Ddr-Yansuri, Diar-
-an-su-rt ‘Diir-"A -b1-ia-ta-? “Dtir-"Ru- Abiyata’, Dair-Rudumme
du-um-me
38. ‘Bit-"Ra-hi-e ‘Ha-pi-sa °Sa-di-ilu 38. Bit-Rahé, Hapisha, Sadi-ilu, Hurudu,
‘Hu-ru-du ‘Sa-ah-ri-na °[l-tu-uk ¢Al- Sahrina, tuk, Allallu, Marad, Yaki-
la-al-lu Marad** ‘Ia-ki-mu-na muna
39. ¢Ku-ub-ru-na °Bit-"-Ku-dur-ri “Stika- 39. Kubruna, Bit-Kudurri, Sika-Marusi,
(ka)-"Ma-ru-si nap-har 83 alan?! in all 33 strong, walled cities of Bit-
dan-nu-ti bit dirdni?'(ni) Sd ‘Bit- Dakkuri with 250 hamlets within their
™Dak-ku-ri a-di 250 aldni?’ sihratir® borders;

Sa li-me-ti-Su-nu .
40. ‘Dir-"Ap-pi-e “Dtr-"Ta-ni-e °Dir- 40. the cities Dair-Appé, Dir-Tané, Dir-
mSa-ma-~ °Sa-ar-ra-ba-tu ‘Sa-la-ha-tu Sama’, Sarrabatu, Salahatu, Ddr-
‘Dir-"Ab-da-ai “Sa-ap-pi-hi-ma-ri Abdai, Sappihimari, Sibtu-sha-Mak-
‘Sib-ttu sé *Ma-ak-ka-me-e kamé
41. nap-har 8 alani?! dan-nu-ti bit dtraniv! 41. in all 8 strong, walled cities of Bit-
(nt) §é “Bit-"Sa-2-al-li a-di 120 alaéni® Sa’alli, with 120 hamlets within their
sthrati?! Sa li-me-ti-Su-nu borders;
42. ‘Sa-pi-a = *Sa-ar-ra-ba-nu —-Larak*? 42. the cities Sapia, Sarrabanu, Larak,
Parak-mar-ri(BAR.MAR.RI.K1I) Parak-marn (BAR.MAR.RI), Bit-
¢Bit-"Tlu-ba-ni_ °A-hu-du Sa-is-sur- Ilu-bani, Ahudu, Sha-issur-Adad, Sha-
4A dad *Sd-har-ra-tt “Ma-na-ah-hu harratu, Manahhu,
43. ¢Sd-a-me-li-e ‘Dtr-Ak-ki-ia ‘Na-gi-tu 43. Sha-amelé, Dir-Akkia, Nagitu, Nur-
‘Nu-ur-a-bi-nu °Ha-ar-su-ar-ra °Dir- abinu, Harsuarra, Dtir-Rukbi, Dan-
™Ru-uk-bt °Da-an-da-hul-la ¢Ditr- dahulla, Dir-Bir-Dada,
™Bir-Da-da
44. cBit-ri---e “Dir-"U-gur-ri. *Hi-in-da-i- 44, Bit-r’e, Ddr-Ugurri, Hindaina, Dir-

na ‘Dir-"U-ai-it “Bit-"Ta-ti-ra-a °Sa- Uait, Bit-Tauraé, Saphuna, Buharru,
ap-hu-na ‘Bu-ha-ar-ru
45, ¢Har-be-"I'ddina(na) ‘Har-be-"Kal-bi 45, Harbe-Iddina, Harbe-Kalbi, Sha-
‘Sa-bar-ri-e °Bit-"Ba-ni-ilu-t-a °Su- barré, Bit-Bani-ilia, Suladu, Bit-
la-a-du °bit-"Il-ta-ma-sa-ma-? °bit- Iltamasama’, Bit-Dini-ilu,
™Di-ni-ilu )
46. Da-ka-la *Ha-me-za ‘Be-la-a °Ta-i-ru 46. Dakala, ~Hameza, Beli, ‘Tairu,
¢Kip-ra-a-nu e[l-ta-ra-tu c°Ak-am Kipranu, Iltaratu, Akam(?)-shakina,
(kar ?)-Sa-ki-na °*Sa-ga-ba-ti sé ™M ar- Sagabatu-sha-Mardukia,
duk-va
47. nap-har 89 alan?’ dan-nu-tt sd 'Bit- 47. in all 39 strong, walled cities of Bit-
™A-muk-ka-a-ni a-di 850 alana?! sih- Amukkani, with 350 hamlets within
rati?! §é li-me-ti-su-nu- their borders;
48. eBit-Za-bi-di-ia Larsa** Kullab** 48. the cities Bit-Zabidia, Larsa, Kullab,
Eridu*®* Ki-is-stk** ¢Ni-mid-4*La-gu-da Eridu, Kissik, Nimid-Laguda, Ditr-
eDir-"La-ki-nt a-di *Kar-4Nabi sa Yakini and Kar-Nabt which is (are)
ki-Sad *"Mar-ra-ti beside the Salt-sea (the Persian
Gulf)
49. nap-har 8 aldn’ dan-nu-tc bit 49. in all 8 strong, walled cities of Bit-
dtradni?'(nt) §é "Bit-"La-ki-ni a-di 100 Yakin, with 100 hamlets within their
alani?! sthrati?! Sd
sa li-me-ti-Su-nu borders;
50. nap-har 88 aldni?'(nt) dan-nu-ti bit 50. a total of 88 strong, walled cities of
dtrdni®'(nt) sé "Kal-di a-di 820 .Chaldea, with 820 hamlets within
aldni[?"| sthraite?’ sad li-me-ti-su-nu their borders, I besieged, I conquered,
al-me ak-sti-ud as-lu-la Sal-la-su-un I carried away their spoil.
51. se-im suluppa Sd ki-rib ki-ra-a-te-Su-nu dl. The grain and dates which were in
ebtira-Su-nu §dé sért ummdnie?'(nt) U- their plantations, their harvest of the
§a-kil ab-bul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu plain, I had my army devour. I
a-na tillé?’ ma-su-u%-ti v-tir destroyed, devastated and burned
with fire (their towns), and turned
them into forgotten tells.
52. amUr-bi ™A-ra-mu “Kal-du sd ki-rib 52. The Arabs, Aramaeans, Chaldeans,
Uruku®? Nippuru® Kist* Har-sag- who were in Uruk, Nippur, Kish,
kalam-mak* a-di mdré?! alc 'bél Harsagkalamma, together with the
[hi-c t-te! u-Se-sa-am-ma Sal-la-ti-1s am- citizens, the rebels (sinners), I brought
nu forth and counted as spoil.
53. Se-im suluppa sd ki-rib_ ki-ra-a-te- 53. The grain and dates which were in
Su-nu me-ris ma-na-hi-su-nu — ebtir their plantations, the planting of
séri ba-mat [sadé(e)-su-nu! ummdnie?! their garden-beds, the harvest of
(nt) U-Sa-kil their plain and highlands(?) I had
my troops devour.
54. ™Bél-ibni mar rab bant pi-ri- St- oA. Bél-ibni, son of a master-builder, a
an-na** §a ki-ma mi-ra-ni sa-ah-ri ki- scion of Shuanna,! who like a young
rib ekalli-ia ir-bu-i [a-na sarru-ul hound had grown up in my palace, I
‘Akkadi u Sumerr®"| as-ta-kan ela-Su-un placed over them as king of Akkad
and Sumer.
55. i-na ta-ai-ar-ti-ia ™Tu---mu-na “Ri- 55. On my march back, the Tu’muna, the
hi-hu Ia-dak-ku *U-bu-du ™Kib- Rihihu, the Yadakku, the Ubudu, the
ri-[e *"Ma-li-hu ”Gu-ru-mu °”U]-bu- Kipré, the Malihu, the Gurumu, the
lu «Da-mu-nu %Gam-bu-lum °”Hi- Ubulu, the Damunu, the Gambulu,
in-da-ru the Hindaru,
56. amRy--u-a “Bu-ku-du *Ha-am-ra-a- 56. the Ru’ua, the Bukudu, the Hamranu,
nu ™”#Ha-"ga'-ra-a-nu %”Na-ba-tu the Hagaranu, the Nabatu, the
am[-[>|-ta-a-[u %A-ra-mu la kan- Li’tau,—Aramaeans, who were not
Su-ti mit-ha-|ri§ ak-Sud(ud)-ma as-lu- submissive, all of them, I captured
la Sal-la-su-un and I carried off as spoil.
57. i-na me-ti-ik gir-ri-ia Sad ™Nabi-bél- 57. In the course of my campaign, I
Sumate?'[°"|ki-pt °*Ha-ra-ra-tt hurdsa received the heavy tribute of Nabit-
kaspa = *mul-suk-kan-ni] — rabtte?? bél-shumate governor of Hararati,—
iméré|P’? gammalé'”? alpér’ wu séniee! gold, silver, great musukkanni-trees,
man-da-ta-su ka-bit-tt am-hur asses, camels, cattle and sheep.
1 That is, a Babylonian.
58. ba-hu-la-te ‘Hi-rim-me ’’nakru ag-su 58. The warriors of Hirimmu, evil ene-
§é ul-tu ul-la a-na Sarrdni?!(ni) abé”'-ta mies, who from of old had not sub-
la tk-nu-su i-na “kakki t-Sam-kit-ma mitted to any of the kings, my fathers,
na-pis-tum ul e-zib I slew with the sword. Not a soul
escaped.
59. na-gu- Sté-a-tu a-na es-sti-ti as-bat 59. That district I reorganized: one ox,
ustén(en) alpa 10 immeré?! 10 imér 10 lambs, 10 homers of wine, 20 homers
kardna 20 imér suluppa ri-se-te-Su a-na of dates, of his best, as standing dues
gi-ni-e vldni?! 'Assurk* bélé?'-ca u-kin for the gods of Assyria, my lords,
da-ri-sam I established for all time.
60. at-ti 208,000 Ssal-lat nisé?' ka-bit-twm 60. I returned to Assyria with 208,000
7,200 sisé”' paré?! 11,073 iméré?! 5,230 men, a huge spoil, 7,200 horses and
gammalé?! 80,050 alpé?! 800,100 sénie* mules, 11,073 asses, 5,280 camels,
zinnisate?! (lahrdate?’) a-tu-ra a-na ki- 80,050 cattle, 800,100 ewes.
rib Assur**
61. e-2tb nisé?’ iméré?’ gammalé?! alpé?’ u 61. This does not include the men, asses,
sénie? 78-"tul wmmdndte?'-ia e-bu-ku- camels, cattle and sheep which my
nim-ma a-na ra-ma-ni-su-nu_ ts-ki-lu troops had carried off and parcelled
-st-kil-tu out among themselves.
62. u ba-hu-la-te na-ki-ri sip-su be-ru sa 62. And the enemy warriors, strong and
al-na ni-| ri-a la ik-nu-st i-na “kakki proud,! who had not submitted to
a-Sam-kit-ma a-lul ga-si-ses my yoke, I cut down with the
sword and hung on stakes.
(The remainder of this document, containing the record of Sennacherib’s early
building activities, is given on pp. 94 f.)
II. CAMPAIGNS ONE AND TWO (THE BELLINO CYLINDER B11)

. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba Ssarru rabi sarru i Sennacherib, the great king, the
dan-nu sar 'Assur** Sarru la Sa-na-an mighty king, the king of Assyria, the
ri-é-um mut-nin-nu-% pa-lih ilani?! king without a rival; the pious ruler
rabiti' (shepherd), fearing the great gods;
2. na-sir kit-ti ra--im mi-sa-ri e-pis 2. guardian of the right, lover of justice,
u-sa-a-ti a-lik tap-pu-ut a-ki-t sa-hi-ru who lends support, who comes to the
dam-ka-a-tt aid of the needy, who turns (his
thoughts) to pious deeds;
. td-lu git-ma-lum zi-ka-ru kar-du a-sa- . perfect hero, mighty man, first among
rid kal ma-al-ki rab-bu la->-it la ma-gi- all princes, the powerful one who con-
rt mu-sab-ri-ku za-ma-a-nr sumes the insubmissive, who strikes
the wicked with the thunderbolt :—
‘The same epithets are applied to Hezekiah, cf. p. 77, 1. 21.
THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB
. "Assur Sadi(u) rabi(%) Ssarru-ut la 4. the god Assur, the great mountain,
Sa-na-an %-Sat-li-ma-an-ni-ma eli gi- has entrusted to me an unrivalled
mir a-sib pa-rak-ki —%-Sar-ba-a kingship and above all those who
vkakké?'-ia dwell in palaces, has made powerful
my weapons.
.t-na res sarru-ti-ia §4 ™Marduk- . At the beginning of my kingship, I
apla-iddina(na) Sar 'Kar-dun-id-as brought about the overthrow of
a-di ummanat?! Elamti** i-na ta-mir-te Merodach-baladan, king of Baby-
Kis’ as-ta-kan tahtd-su lonia, together with the armies of
Elam, in the plain of Kish.
. i-na kabal tam-ha-ri st-a-tu e-zib . In the midst of that battle he forsook
karas-su e-dis ip-par-sid-ma a-na 'Gu- his camp, made his escape alone,
zu-um-ma-ni in-na-bit ki-rib "a-gam- fled to Guzummanu, went into the
me uw ap-pa-ra-a-te e-ru-wm-ma_ na- swamp and marshes, and (thus)
pis-tus e-ti-ir saved his life.
. “narkabdte?’ “su-um-bi sisé?’ paré?! . The chariots, wagons, horses, mules,
imére?’ gammalé?! wv ™rud-ri_ §d 1-na asses,.camels and dromedaries which
kit-ru-ub ta-ha-zi ti-mas-si-ru tk-si-da he had forsaken at the onset of
kdtat-at battle, my hands seized.
. a-na ekalli-Su Sa ki-rib Babili®* ha-dis . Into his palace in Babylon I entered
e-ru-um-ma ap-te-e-ma bit ni-sir-ti-Su joyfully and I opened his treasure-
hurdsa kaspa t-nu-tti hurdst kaspi house:—gold, silver, vessels of gold
abna a-kar-tu.mimma Sum-si. busd and silver, precious stones of all
makkira ni-sir-tu ka-bit-tu kinds, goods and property, an enor-
mous (heavy) treasure,
. assat-su sinnisdte?'-ekalli (Sigréti ?)-Su . his wife, his harem, his courtiers and
amtiy 6?! amman-za-az pa-nt si-hir-tt uwm- officials, all of his artisans, as many as
ma-a-ni ma-la ba-su-t mut-tab-bi-lu-tu there were, his palace servants, I
ekalli t-se-sa-am-ma. sal-la-tig am-nu brought out, I counted as spoil,
10. as-bat-ma arki-su a-na 'Gu-zu-um-ma- 10. I seized. I sent my soldiers after
ne ™mun-dah-si-ta a-na ki-rib "a-gam- him to Guzummanu, into the midst of
me wW ap-pa-ra-a-te t%-ma--ir-ma 6 the swamps and marshes, and for five
ai-me i-pa(ba)-ru-nim-ma ul in-na-mir days they hunted him, but his
a-Ssar-su (hiding)-place was not found (lit.
seen).
1 i-na e-muk 4A SSur béli-ia 89 aldni?*(nt) 1h In the might of Assur, my lord, 89 of
dan-nu-ti bit-dirdni?'(nt) §é "Kal-di u the strong, walled cities of Chaldea,
820 aldni”' sihrati?! $4 li-<me-ti>-Su-nu and 820 small cities of their environs
al-me ak-Sud(ud) as-lu-la Sal-la-su-un I besieged, I conquered, I carried off
their spoil.
12. amUr-bi ™A-ra-mu wu ™Kal-du 4 12. The Arabs, Aramaeans and Chaldeans
ki-reb Uruku®' Nippuru®* Kis** Har- who were in Erech, Nippur, Kish,
sag-kalam-ma* Kutuk<a-di> mérér! Harsagkalamma, Kutha, together
alt bél hi-tt-tc u-se-sa-am-ma_ Sal-la- with the citizens (of these places),
tis am-nu the rebels (sinners), I brought out, I
counted as spoil.
13. m@Bél-ibni mar rab bant pi-ir-u St- 13. Bél-ibni, the son of a master builder,
an-na** §& kima mi-ra-a-ni sa-ah-ri a scion of Shuanna (Babylon), who
ki-rib ekalli-ca ir-bu-t% a-na Ssarru-ut had grown up in my palace like a
‘Sumeri u Akkadi* as-ta-kan eli-Su-un young hound, I set over them as king
of Sumer and Akkad.
14. i-na ta-at-ar-ti-ia ™Tu---mu-na *Ri- 14. On my return (march), the Tu’muna,
hi-hu ™Ia-dak-ku “™U-bu-du ™Kib- Rihihu, Yadakku, Ubudu, Kipré,
ri-e ™Ma-li-hu °Gu-ru-mu “U-bu- Malihu, Gurumu, Ubulu, Damunu,
lum ¢"Da-mu-nu
15. amGam-bu-lu °”Hi-in-da-ru “™Ru--u-a 15. Gambulu, Hindaru, Ru’fa, Bukudu,
omBu-ku-du °Ha-am-ra-a-nu %”Ha- Hamranu, Hagaranu, Nabatu,
ga-ra-nu *”Na-ba-tu “Ii-?-ta-a-% %”A- Li’tau,—Aramaeans (who were) not
ra-mu la kan-su mit-ha-rig ak-sud (ud) submissive, all of them I con-
quered.
16. 208,000 nisé?' zik-ru zinnistu 7,200 16. 208,000 people, male and female,
sisé?’ uw paré?' 11,073 iméré?' 5,230 7,200 horses and mules, 11,073 asses,
gammalé?! 80,100 alpé?' 800,500 5,230 camels, 80,100 cattle, 800,500
sénie?’ Sal-la-tu ka-bit-tu as-lu-la a-na sheep, an enormous spoil, I carried
ki-rib ASSur** off to Assyria.
Wie i-na me-ti-tk gir-ri-ia sé ™¢*Nabi-bél- ive In the course of my campaign, I
Sumate®! *ki-pt °*Ha-ra-ra-tt hurdsa received from Nabi-bél-shumate,
kaspa “mu-suk-kan-ni rabttr?! imér é?! governor of the city of Hararate,
gammalé?! alpé?! u séni°?! ta-mar-ta-su gold, silver, great musukkani-trees,
ka-bit-tu am-hur asses, camels, cattle and sheep, as
his onerous contribution.
18. ba-hu-la-ti *Hi-rim-me “"nakru ak-su 18. The warriors of Hirimme, wicked
Sé ul-tu ul-la a-na ni-ri-ia la kit-nu- enemies, who from of old had not
su i-na “kakki %-Sam-kit-ma na-pis- submitted to my yoke, I cut down
tu ul e-zib with the sword. Not a soul escaped.
19; na-gu-t st-a-tu a-na es-st-ti as-bat 1D; That district (province) I reorgan-
istén(en) alpa 10 twmmeré?’ 10 imér ized: One ox, 1€ lambs, 10 homers of
karadna 20 imér suluppa ri-se-te-su wine, 20 homers of dates, its choicest,
a-na ildni?!(n2) ‘A ssurk* bélé?'-ia ui-kin (as gifts) for the gods of Assyria, my
da-ri-sam lords, I established for all time.
20. i-na Sané(e) gir-ri-ia *Assur be-lt %- 20. In my second campaign, Assur, my
tak-kil-an-ni-ma a-na mat ”Kas-si-t w lord, encouraged me, and against the
mat Ia-su-bi-gal-la-ai °"nakri ak-si sa land of the Kassites and the land of
ul-tu ul-la a-na Sarrdni?'(nt) abé?'-ia the Yasubigallai, wicked enemies,
la kit-nu-s% lu al-lik who from of old had not been submis-
sive to the kings, my fathers, I
marched.
21. ki-rib hur-sa-a-ni zak-ru-te ekil nam- 21. In-the midst of the high mountains I
ra-si i-na sist ar-kab-ma “narkabat rode on horseback, where the terrain
sépat-1a i-na tt-rk-ka-a-te t-Sa-as-S1 was difficult, and had my chariot
as-ru Sup-st-ku i-na sépa%-ia ri-ma- drawn up with ropes; where it
nig at-tag-gis became too steep, I clambered up
on foot like the wild-ox.
22. ¢Bit--Ki-lam-za-ah al dan-nu-ti-su-nu 22. Bit-kilamzah, their stronghold, I
al-me ak-Sud(ud) nisé?’ sthir rabt besieged, I captured. People, great
sisé?! paré?! iméré?! alpé?’ uw sénic! and small, horses, mules, asses, cattle
‘
ul-tu kir-bi-si u-se-sa-am-ma, Sal-la-tis and sheep, I brought out from its
am-nu midst and counted as booty.
23. aldni?'-Su-nu sthrit?’ sd ni-ba la 23. Their small cities, which were num-
1-Su-t ab-bul ak-kur u-se-me kar-mes berless, I destroyed, I devastated, I
bit séri kul-ta-rt tu-kul-ti-su-nu i-na turned into ruins. The houses of the
girrt ak-mu-ma ti-tal-lis %-Se-lum (for steppe, (namely) the tents for their
mt) protection (i.e., wherein they dwelt),
I set on fire and turned them into (a
mass of) flames.
24. a-tir-ma ‘°Bit-"Ki-lam-za-ah Su-a-tu 24. TI turned round, and made that Bit-
a-na bir-tu-ti as-bat elt Sd ti-me pa-ni Kilamzah into a fortress,—I made
u-dan-nin a-muh-hus nisé?' méatdte its defences stronger than they had
ki-stt-ti katd?-1a ina lib-bi v-Se-srb ever been before, and settled therein
people of the lands my hands had
conquered.
25. nisé?! mat Kas-si-t u mat Ta-su-bi- 25. The people of the land of the Kassites
gal-at Sa la-pa-an “kakké?'-1a tp-par-s1- and the land of the Yasubigallai,
du ul-tu ki-rib Sadi(2) u-Se-ri-dam-ma 1- who had fled before my arms, I
na °Har-dis-pi “Bit-"Ku-bat-ti t-sar-me brought down out of the mountains
and settled them in Hardishpi and
Bit-Kubatti.
26. i-na kata ¢si-ut-rési-ia *"bél pi hate 26. Into the hand(s) of my official, the
cAr-rap-ha am-nu-su-nu-tt abnungrd governor of Arrapha, I placed (lit.
u-Se-pis-ma li-i-tum ki-sit-tr kata counted) them. I had a stela made,
_ HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 59
Sd eli-Su-un as-tak-ka-nu_ si-ru-us-Su and the might of my conquering

u-Sa-as-tir-ma kir-bi alt ul-ziz hand which I had established upon
- Mv, vy ° . . . .
them, I had inscribed thereon. In

the midst of the city I set it up.
27. pa-an ni-ri-va v-tir-ma a-na ‘EI-li-pi 27. The front of my yoke I turned (that
as-sa-bat har-ra-nu el-la-mu-u-a ™Is- is, I turned about) and took the road
pa-ba-a-ra Sarru-su-un aldni?'-Su dan- to the land of the Elippi. Before
nu-te bit-ni-sir-li-su ti-mas-Sir-ma a-na me (my approach) Ispabara, their
ru-ki-e-ti in-na-bit king, forsook his strong cities, his
treasure-houses (cities), and fled to
distant (parts).
28. gium-rt. mati-s% rapasti(tc) ki-ma 2 as- 28. Over the whole of his wide land I
hu-up ‘°Mar-t-bis-ti °Ak-ku-ud-du swept like a hurricane. The cities
aldni’ bit Sarru-ti-Su a-di 34 aldni?! Marubishti and Akkuddu, his royal
dan-nu-ti w alan’ sthrati?’ sa li-me- residence-cities, together with 34
ti-Su-nu Sd ni-ba la 1-su-% strong cities and the small cities of
their environs, which were without
number,
29. ab-bu-ul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu-ma 29. I destroyed, I devastated, I burned
kiréte?'-Su-nu ak-sit elt ugaré?'-su-un with fire. Their orchards I cut down,
hab-su-tt Sa-har-ra-tum at-bu-uk ‘EI- over their fertile( ?) fields I poured out
li-pt a-na pdt gim-ri-sa_ ar-bu-ta misery. The Ellipi, in their totality,
u-Ssa-lik I brought to naught.
30. nse?! sthir rabi zikaru u zinnistu sisé?! 30. The people, great and small, male
pare?! iméré?! alpér' wu sénie” la mi- and female, horses, mules, asses,
nam as-lu-lam-ma a-di la ba-si-e u-sa- cattle and sheep, without number, I
lik-su-nu-te carried off and brought them to
naught.
ol. ¢$i-si-ur-tu ¢Ku-um-ma-ah-lum'! ol. Sisirtu. and Kummahlum, - strong
alan”! dan-nu-ti a-di aldni?! sihriiter® cities, together with the small cities
$d li-me-ti-Su-nu(?) "Bit-Bar-ru-t na- of their environs, the district (prov-
gu-u a-na gi-mir-ti-Su ul-tu ki-rib ince) of Bit-Barri, in its totality,
mati-su ab-tuk-ma eli mi-sir 'Assur™ I cut off from his land and added it
u-rad-dt to the territory (lit. border) of
Assyria.
32. ¢Hl-en-za-as a-na al sarru-ti uw dan-na- 32. Elenzash I turned into the royal city
at na-gi-e Sti-a-tu as-bat-ma sum-su and stronghold of that district. I
mah-ra-a t-nak-kir-ma °Kar-"4Sin- changed its former name, calling its
ahé?'-eri-ba at-ta-bi ni-bit-su (new) name Kar-Sennacherib.
eCirp. 68, n. 1.
oo. i-na ta-ai-ar-ti-ia Sd '‘Ma-da-at ru-ku- 33. On my return I received the heavy
ti dé i-na Sarradni?'(nt) abé?'!-1a ma-am- tribute of the distant Medes, whose
man la is-mu-u z2i-kir matat?'-su-un name no one among the kings, my
man-da-ta-Su-nu ka-bit-t% am-hur a-na fathers, had (ever) heard; to the
ni-rt_ be-lu-ti-ta v-Ssak-ni-su-nu-te yoke of my rule I made them submit.
(Continued on p. 99)
III. RECORDS WRITTEN SOON AFTER THE THIRD CAMPAIGN

(THE RASSAM CYLINDER, C1)
(The text of the “Rassam Cylinder,” written 700 B.C., became the standard teat for
campaigns one to three. (See pp. 23 f.) Only the closing lines of the historical section,
which were omitted in the later editions, are here given.)
56. 30 bilta hurdsa 800 bilta kaspa ni-sik-te 56. (In addition to the) thirty talents of
gu-uh-li dag-gas-st ®"™“sdndé?! rabiite?! gold, 800 talents of silver, (there
wirsé?r! Sinnt “kussé?’ ni-me-di sinni were) gems (precious stones), anti-
masak piri sin pirt “usu Vurkarinnu mony, jewels(?), great sandu-stones
lu-bul-ti bir-me &“°kitt@ sipdtu ta-kil- (carnelian ?) ivory beds, house-chains
tu sipdtu ar-ga-man-nu of ivory, elephant hides, ivory (ele-
phant’s tusks, teeth), ebony(?), box-
wood(?), colored garments, garments
of linen, violet and purple wool,
57. a-nu-ut stparrt parzills ert andke 57. vessels of copper, iron, bronze, lead,
parzillt “narkabdte?’ ga-ba-bi as-ma- iron, chariots, shields, lances, armor,
ri-e si-ri-ia-am patre?’ parzillr sib-bi girdle-daggers of iron, bows and
pit-pa-ni ui us-st til-li t-nu-ut ta-ha-z0 arrows, spears, countless implements
Sd? ni-ba la 1-si-t of war,
58. it-tt mdrdte?®-su zinnisat?’ ekalli-su 58. together with his daughters, his
ameqmmer é?! fzammerdte?! r-na* ki-rib palace-women, his male and female
eNinua® al be-lu-ti-ia arki-ia w-se-bi- musicians (which) he had (them)
lam-ma a-na na-dan man-da-at-ti wu bring after me to Nineveh, my royal
e-pis ardu-ui-ti 1s-pu-ra rak-bu-su city. To pay tribute and to accept
servitude, he dispatched his mes-
senger(s).
‘59. i-na_ Sal-la-at mdtdti?’ Ssa-ti-na sd 59. From the booty of those lands which
as-lu-la 10,000 “kastt 10,000 “a-ri-ta® I plundered, 10,000 bows, 10,000
ina lib-bi-su-nu ak-sur-ma ela ki-sir? shields I took therefrom and added
Sarru-ti-ia %-rad-dt them to my royal equipment.
1C4, om. 2 C2, 3, Sd. 3 SAL-TUR-MES, C2, 3, 4, TUR-SAL-MES.
4 C2, 3, a-na. 5 C2, 3, 4, Ninuaki, 6 C3, 4, tu. 7 C3, adds rim.
60. si-it-tt Sal-la-ti na-ki-ri_ ka-bit-tu a-na 60. The rest of the heavy booty (taken
gi-mir kardsi-ia uw “"bél pihdti-ia from) the enemy, I divided like sheep
nse?! ma-ha-za'-ni-ia rabite?' ki-ma among my whole camp (army) as
gt-e-nt lu v-2a--12 well as my governors and the citizens
of my large cities.
(Continued on p. 102)
IV. RECORDS WRITTEN AFTER THE FIFTH CAMPAIGN

(At the close of the historical section containing the standard record of campaigns
one to five [see pp. 23 f.], BM, 103,000 has the account of two campaigns conducted by
Sennacherib’s generals.)
a) CAMPAIGN AGAINST CILICIA, 698 B.C. (BM, No. 103,000. E1)
Col. IV ‘3
61. 7-na li-mu ™Sulmu(mu)-bélu ¢Sa-kin 61. In the eponymy of Shulmu-bél, the
¢Ri-mu-st governor of Rimusi,
62. ™Ki-ru-a “"hazdnu sd ¢Il-lu-ub-ri 62. Kirua, prefect of [llubru,
63. *ardu da-gil pa-ni-ia sd 12z-z1-bu-sh 63. a slave, subject to me, whom his gods
tlane?'-Su forsook,
64. ba-hu-la-te °Hi-lak-ki 64-65. caused the men of Hilakku (Cili-
65. us-bal-kit-ma ik-su-ra ta-ha-zu cia) to revolt, and made ready for
battle.
66. nisé ?'a-si-bu-ut “In-gi-ra-a wu °Tar-zi 66. The people who dwelt in Ingiré and
Tarsus
67. 1-da-a-Su is-hu-ru-ma gir-r1i ‘Ku-e OF came to his aid (lit. side) and
68. is-ba-tu ip-ru-su a-lak-tu 68. seized the Kue (Cilician) road, block-
ing traffic.
69. 2sdbé?’ “kasti na-si tuk-si(ki?) w as- 69. Bowmen, bearers of shield and lance,
ma-ri-e
70. narkabdti?! sisé?’ ki-sir sarru-ti-va 70. chariots, horses, my royal host,
71. u-ma-?-ir si-ru-us-su-un fae I sent against them.
72. &é ba-hu-la-te *Hi-lak-ki 72. The defeat of the men of Hilakku
73. 8d 1-da-a-Su is-hu-ru 73. who had come to his aid,
74. i-na ki-rib Sadi(¢) mar-si ws-ku-nu 74, they brought about in the midst of a
tah-ta-su-un difficult mountain.
75. ‘In-gi-ra-a °Ta-ar-zu tk-st-du-ma 75. Ingird and Tarsus they took
76. ts-lu-lu Ssal-la-su-un 76. and carried off their spoil.
77. Sa-a-su ki-rib ¢Il-lu-ub-ri al dan-nu- Ui That one they besieged and attacked
ti-Su in Illubru, his stronghold
1C4, 2t.
Col. IV
78. ni-tum wl-mu-su-ma is-ba-tu. mu-su-st 78. and prevented his escape.
io. i-na kur-ru-ub sui-pi-e nim-gal-li dura 7a. With the assault of siege-engines and
“oreat wall flies’? (some siege-engine),
80. mu-hu-su— zu-uk 80. followed by a rush through the
‘breaches(?) (and) the attack of the
- foot-soldiers, 7
81. tap-da-a-Su 18-ku-nu-ma is-ba-tu ala 81. they brought about their overthrow
and took the city.
82. ™Ki-ru-a hazdnu a-di sal-lat alani?'- . Kirua, the prefect, together with the
Sie spoil of his cities,
83. u nse?! *Hi-lak-ki Sd 1-da-a-su . and the people of Hilakku, who had
come to his aid,
84. is-hu-ru a-di iméré?! alpé?! w si-e-nt . with asses, cattle and sheep,
85. a-na ‘Ni-na-a a-di mah-ri-ia ub-lu-ni . they brought to Nineveh into my
presence.
86. Sd ™Ki-ru-a ma-sak-su a-ku-us . I flayed Kirua.
87. u-tir-ma ‘Il-lu-ub-ru. a-na_ es-su-te . I restored Illubru again:
as-bat
88. nisé?! mdtdte ki-stt-tc kdtd’-1a 1-na . people of the lands which my hands
ltb-bi %1-Se-sib had conquered, I settled therein.
89. wkak 4ASSur béli-ia ki-rib-Su u-Sar-me . The weapon of Assur, my lord, I
established in its midst.
90. abnungrd(a) $4 &™pardtu ti-Se-pis-ma . An alabaster stela I had (them)
fashion
Silke ma-har-st ul-zi-t2z . and set up before him (Assur or
the ‘‘weapon”’ of Assur).
Vv b) CAMPAIGN AGAINST TILGARIMMLU, 695 B.C. (E1, CONTINUED)
. ina li-mu “Assur-bél-usur “Sa-kin i In the eponymy of Assur-bél-usur,

the governor of ....
. a-na °Til-ga-ri-[em-mu|] . against Til-garimmu,!
a-lum sé pa-a-tt 'Ta-[ba-li] . a city on the border of Tabalu,
Sé ™Hi-di-i Sarru-tu-[us-su] . whose kingdom Hidi
. ir-ku-su kakké[?’-ca] . had consolidated,
Pp
On
wp. as-su-uk-ma sdbé?! “kasti na-st [tuk- Oo
bW
W
oP. I leveled my weapons. Bowmen,
i(k) ] bearers of shield
. u as-ma-ri-e “narkabdti?! si[sé]?! . and lance, chariots, horses,
. ki-str Sarru-ti-ia t-ma-?-ir s[i-r]u-us-su NI. my royal host, I sent against him.
CO
LCi p. 77, 1. 24.

Vi
. alu st-a-tum ni-i-tum al-[m|u-ma . That city I besieged, and
. ina 'mas'-pak e-pi-"ri a! kur-ru-ub 10. by the throwing up of earth (works)
Su-pi-t and the assault of siege-engines,
. mit-hu-su zu-[uk sépa™ 7zs'-ba-tu ala . the rush and attack of foot-soldiers,
VA A
they captured the city.

. nse?! a-di idan?! a-[sib— lib-bi-su] . The people, together with the gods
am-nu Sal-la-ti-1s dwelling there, I counted as spoil.
i SU-O-FUN? |.ccc osot ] tk-ku-ru . That city they devastated,
. a-na tile uv [kar-me] v-tir-ru . to tells and ruins they turned it.
. i-na Sal-lat matati?! [sd] as-lu-la . From the spoil of the lands which I
plundered,
. 80,000 “klastu . 30,000 bows(?) ... . shields,
. i-na [lib-bi-su-nu] ak-sur-ma . I gathered from among them
. ella ki-sir Sarru-ti-ia] t-rad-di . and added them to my royal
equipment.
. [s2-ct-t¢ Sal-lat na-ki-ri| ka-bit-tu . The rest of the heavy spoil of the foe
. [a-na gi-mir kardsi-ia| bél-pthdat:?'-1a . among the whole of my camp, my
provincial governors,
. [& nisé?! ma-ha-za-ni-ra] rabiitr?! . and the people of my large cities,
. [kima st-e-ni lu] u-za-?-iz . I divided like sheep.
c) THE ROCK INSCRIPTIONS ON THE JUDI DAGH (E3)
. Assur 4Sin 4Samas *Adad Li Assur, Sin, Shamash, Adad,

2. (MAS wi 4Istar ilani?! 'rabite’® 2. Ninib and Ishtar, the great gods,
. $4 1-di Sarri me-ig-'ri'-su-un 3. who:stand at the side of the king, their
favorite,
. 1-2a-zu-ma eli kul-lat "na'-ki-ri . and make bitter his
. u-sam-ra-ru “kakké?'-Su On. arms against all enemies:
. ™4Sin-ahé-eriba Sarru. raba sarru . Sennacherib, the great king, the

dan-nu mighty king,
. sar kissati Sar "A SSur** rubt na-1-du . king of the universe, king of Assyria,
the exalted prince,
. i-ri-is kata*-ku-un sa? 1-nat . to whom your (the gods’) hands are
stretched out, who through
. an-ni-ku-un Po ARE cee 2-'tal'-la- . your grace advances (triumphantly),
ku-ma
La Os
2 a inserts 8d v-Ikan(?)1-na-bu kal(?) ma-al-ki. c probably had same addition.
3c, Sd. 4a and ¢, ina.
10. mdtdte?’ la ma-gi-ri sabé?! hur-sa-ni 10-11. bringing in submission at his feet
11. la-kan-st-te? G-Sak-ni-su* Se-pu-us-SUu insubmissive lands (v. kings) and
unyielding mountain peoples.—
12. ina t-me-Su-ma °Tu-mur-ra 12. At that time the cities of Tumurra,
13. Sa-ri-im ‘Hal-gid-dat 13. Sharim, Halgidda,
14. ¢Ki-ib-sa *H-sa-a-ma °“Ku-u-a 14. Kibsha, Esfma, Kia, (and)
15. ‘Ka-na §d> me-sir “UK vt®mu-hi 15. Kana, which are on the border of
Kutmuhu (Commagene)
16. $dé kima kin-ni nasri” si-ir 16. and, like the nest of the eagle,
17. ubdndt?! *4Ni-pur sad-di-t 17-18. are situated upon the peaks of
18. sit-ku-na-at si-bat-su-un Mt. Nipur;
19. sd? ul-té8 ul-la ina Sarrdni?’ abé?'-cd® 19. who from days of old, in (the time of)
the kings, my fathers,
20. stp-su be-ru la 1-du-t 20. were strong and proud, not knowing
21. pa-lah be-lu-ti ina palé bélu-ti-id 21. the fear of (Assyrian) rule,—in the
time of my rule,
22. aldni?'-Su-un 1-21-bu- 22. their gods deserted
23. Su-nu-ti-ma t-Sab-Su-w" 23. them and left them
24. ri-kiwui-"Susn 27 eee ee 24. empty. {. eee
Bod Sele pee on eeeeds fA RSYDsire gions kth 25 7)h ee. he eh ches eee
26 Re noe getok oe ul-tu ri-Se 20 nee ee ee from the sources
Di dudeehoes Senos a "Idiglat DY cate eeaveusee
ol ee . the Tigris,
De Abhaeeee ge awoe lal-na Assurk* DB i a ee to Assur,
78 a eae + RNa RiRS rece ae cre AM ge yi! rere Gre
SO ene ti mares... eee. te marin 30. ee the Assyrians(?) .. .
SUN ce
tans tac EDUCBIL atsfecenn teres re
Ole WTO ac. eostereaneeaoe Teens Sokotek: 7a 631. they sank in the river Seen
1Tnstead of this line ¢, Sarrdnivl [sabécoll [hur-Sa-ni]. The following line of c, of which only a
few traces remain, seems to have differed considerably from b; e seems to have had the same text
as Cc.
2d, te. 6 The old Assyrian spelling. Cf. AJSL, XXVIII (1912), 178, n.
ode “d, Sa. :
4e has town names in dif. order? ®d, tu.
5d and e, Sa. 9d, 7a.
10 The text of the different panels seems to have varied very considerably at this point. In a only
the beginnings of the lines are preserved: 23. i-na [Sarraniv!(?)] ... . 24. ildni-Su-un....
25, Sadi Nair. «ee 20 OGL)tb Stu((7) ence can eo 28. 4ASSur Dé... . 29. U-
Sa-a8-kin-ma ...... The text of d runs: 24. ildni-Su-un 1-zi-bu-Su-nu-ti-ma v-Sab-Su-% 25. [ri-
Ku-ut-su-ile es ti Sad(Ni-pur] .... 26. u-8ah(?)-ma(?)-tu(?) fal-na.........
27. u-ma(?) ir Upul-su (ski-ril v-ta-bu .... 28. si-[ru]-fuSl-Su-un fal-lik S8épadv] sadNi-pur
Badeo. sae,
. st-"ru-us-Su-un! al-lik Sépa™ 4 Ni-pur 32 . against them I went. (At) the foot
Sadi(t) ka-ra-si of Mt. Nipur
. U-sa-as-kin'-ma 33. Tpitched my campandl .......
1-pis tahdzi-a? my choice warriors
. git-ma-"lu'-ti *4Ni-pur a-na® gi-ni 34. who fight my battle(s). Mt. Nipur
LOPE Yee reds ciate
Sa See 6 ee, el 8} ti al-me 'har-ri! na-ad- 35 I_ besieged. Gullies,
ba-ki Sad ér! mountain torrents,
~My... ... gi-ir ubdndte?™ Sa-ka-ti a:
36. [I surmounted in my (sedan-)chair]

to the high(est) summits,
siete ie je le 6 6) OY 8 es lp 6 8 ele ee eS eS Ts AN ROL ior oe Be neaOe the stars
of heaven
o. Ohad ONS Aare oe . i-na ~kusst DS UO Reema eas on my _ (sedan-)
ri-Sa-'su-un! CHALE RR gions veld age Bey
Weel) 0 16) "e .6 6 ve: “eo o kima alpurhmns Si ends dana gate like a wild bull I went
Ipa-nu-us-sun! [as-bat] la'-Sar ina before them. Where it was
vkusst
ce ee ee ee Sup-su-ku ina [sépdé]- 40. too steep for my (sedan-)chair, I
a as-tah-hi-id advanced on foot like
<4, ki-ma| ar-me Al. a young gazelle Gbex). Where my
a-[Sar] bir-ka-at knees °
es 5 4-Sa-a ma-na-ah-|tu] 42. (failed) and found a resting-place, I
's?-ir aban! Sadé(e) u-sib-ma sat down on (some) mountain boulder
and
. mér! Imasakng-g-di! ka-su-tt a-na su- 43. drank the cold water from the water-
um-me-iabe el ‘lu’
en lt as-tt
neta skin (to quench) my thirst.
8: [alana]?! 44 othdan degen ae) gee those cities I be-
¥::
se en 6 oe eb 6 8 8 Sa-a-tu-nu
al-me aksud(ud)® ak-ku-"ur! sieged, I conquered (v. adds I
carried off their booty, I destroyed),
I devastated.
. 4 he ee Le eid is SLOT) 45
. “mul-tah! 7-ti-Su-nu si-ir ubdn [§4|N7- 46. their rebellious people on (to) the
pur top of Mt. Nipur
ee a -li-su-nu_si-ir_ zuk-te 47. I—their—; to the mountain-tops,
Sadé(e)
1f, ki-in. 5 Here f has tr-ma-a.
2f, sabér! ta-ha-zi-ia. 6 Here f inserts a&-lu-la Sal-la-sun ab-bul.

3 qa-na restored from f. 7 Restoration rendered certain ‘by a and f.
4d, [u-ba-na-a]-li Sa[ka-tz].
48. ar-di-ma' me) eg abann ard

eee len ee) a ee 48. I pursued and [defeated them.] A
u-Se-pis-ma? memorial stela I caused to be made,
49, li-7-tu da-na-nu sa Assur béli-ia u-sa- 49. and I had them inscribe (thereon)
as-tir the might and power of Assur, my
lord.
50. elu 2uk-te =*Ni-pur a-Sar. =. eae a 50. On the summit of Mt. Nipur where
ti ra as
51. Miles oh taeae ra... . kir St-ter-1a Tab oti {ose See eee (who destroys)
the writing of my name
52. Assur ildni?® rabiite?’ . 0... ik! 52. may Assur and the great gods look
kil-mu-Sut lis-ki-[pu-su] upon him [in anger]* and destroy him.
V. RECORDS WRITTEN AFTER THE SIXTH CAMPAIGN

a) BULL INSCRIPTION FROM THE PALACE AT NINEVEH (F1).
. ekal m4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba Sarru rabi Ll: Palace of Sennacherib, the great king,
Sarru dan-nu sar kissate Sar ‘AS§ur Sar the mighty king, king of the universe,
kib-rat <irbittem(tim) mi-gir rlénd?? king of Assyria, king of the four
rabtite® ir-st it-pi-Su zi-ka-ru kar-du quarters; favorite of the great gods;
a-sa-rid kal mal-ki the wise and crafty one; strong hero,
first among all princes;
. rab-bu la-?-it la ma-gi-ri mu-sab-ri-ku . the powerful one who consumes the
za-ma-a-ni 4Assur ilu rab sarru-ut insubmissive, who strikes the wicked
la Sa-na-an %-Sat-li-ma-an-ni-ma eli with the thunderbolt: Assur, the
gi-mir a-sib pa-rak-ki %-Sar-ba-a great god, has entrusted to me an
vkakké?'-ia unrivalled kingship, and has made
powerful my weapons above (all)
those who dwell in palaces.
. ul-tu tamti (A.AB.BA) e-li-ni-ti Sd . From the upper sea of the setting
Sul-mu 4Samsi(&) a-di tam-tim gap-li- sun, to the lower sea of the rising
ti 8d si-it *Samsi(i) gim-ri ma-al-ki sun, all princes of the four quarters
Sa kib-ra-a-tt t-Sak-nis Se-pu-u-a i-na (of the world) he has brought in sub-
mah-ri-a - mission to my feet. In my first
. gir-ri-ia §é4 ™*Marduk-apla-iddina(na) . campaign, I accomplished the defeat
Sar 'Kar-4dun-id-as a-di wmmdndt:*! of Merodach-baladan, king of Baby-
'Hlamtt** ri-si-si i-na ta-mir-ti Kis? lonia, together with the armies of
1 Read, perhaps, instead of ma, [Sd-nu-ti1; a and f had [ar]-di-Su-nu-ti-ma as-ta-kan tah-[ta-sun].
2f has an additional clause before this, and like a, ended the inscription somewhat differently.
3a has w& before this word. 5 Pl. sign omitted.
4a reads ag-gis li-tr-[ru-su]. 6 Variant, curse him in anger.
as-ta-kan tahtd-Su si-a% a-na st-zu-ub Elam, his ally, in the plain of Kish.
na-prs-ti-su e-dis That one fled alone to save his life,
and
. ip-par-Xid-ma ’narkabdti?® “su-wm-bi . the chariots, wagons, horses and
sisé?! paré?! $4 t-mas-si-ru ik-si-da mules which he abandoned, my hands
kata?-ar a-na ekalli-su $d ki-rib captured. Into his palace in Babylon
Babila** e-ru-wm-ma ap-te-e-ma I entered and I opened
. bit ni-sir-ti-Su hurdsa kaspa u-nu-th . his treasure-house,—gold, silver, ves-
hurdsi kaspt abnu a-kar-ti busd sels of gold and silver, precious stones,
makktira ekalli-Su as-lu-la aléni?'-Su property and goods of his palace I
dan-nu-ti bit dtirdni®! §a4 ‘Kal-di a-di took as spoil. His strong, walled
aldni”’ sihrati?’ sa li-mi-ti-su-nu cities of Chaldea, together with the
vy
small cities of their environs,

. aksud(ud)-ma as-lu-la Sal-la-su-un . I captured, I carried off their spoil.
i-na ta-ai-ar-ti-ia “A-ra-me Sd Sid-di On my return the Aramaeans who
"Idiglat "Puratti ak-Sud(ud) as-lu-la lived along the banks of the Tigris and
§al-la-su-un i-na mi-ti-tk gir-ri-ia Euphrates, I conquered and carried
off their spoil. In the progress of my
campaign
. &4 ki-pi *Ha-ra-ra-ti man-da-ta-su . I received the heavy tribute of the
ka-bit-tu am-hur ba-hu-la-ti *Hi-rim- governor of Hararati. The men of
me *nakri ag-si i-na “kakké?! u-Sam- Hirimme, wicked enemies, I cut down
kit-ma e-du ul e-zib ala St-a-tu a-na with the sword. Not one escaped.
es-St-tt That city
. as-bat istén(en) alpa 10 «immeré?! . Lrebuilt: one ox, 10 lambs, 10 homers
10 imér kardna '20' imér suluppa of wine, 20 homers of dates, its choic-
ri-se-ti-Su a-na ildni?’ "Assur** u-kin est, (as gifts) for the gods of Assyria,
i-na gané(e) gir-ri-ia a-na 'Kas-si-t u I appointed. In my second cam-
'Ta-su-bi-gal-la-ai lu al-lik ki-rib hur- paign, I went against the Kassites,
Sa-a-nt and the Yasubigallai. In the midst
of the mountains
10. ekil nam-ra-si i-na sisé ar-kab as-ru 10. I rode on horseback where the terrain
Sup-st-ku i-na sépa*-ca ri-ma-nas at- was difficult, and where it became
tag-gis ‘Bit-Ki-lam-za-ah, ‘“Har-dis-pr too difficult (for this) I clambered up
eBit-" Ku-bat-te aldni?'-Su-nu bit on foot like a wild-ox. Bit-Kilamzah,
dtrani®! dan-nu-te Hardishpi, Bit-Kubatti, their strong,
walled cities,
1 akgud(ud)-ma_ as-lu-la_ Sal-la-suw MH. I captured, I carried off their spoil,
aldni®'-Su-nu — sihraiti?’ Sd ni-ba la and the small cities of their environs,
4-8a-t ab-bul ak-kur bit séri kul-ta-ri- which were numberless, I destroyed,
Su-nu(?) t-na girrt ak-mu %-tir-ma I devastated. Their houses of the

eBit-"Ki-lam-za-ah st-a-tu plain, (that is) tents, I burned with
fire. I turned back, and that Bit-
Kilamzah
12. a-na al bir-tu-ti as-bat nisé”! matati ki- 12. I made into a stronghold. People of
Sit-tt_ kata™-ia i-na ltb-bi ti-Se-s1b i-na the lands which my hand had seized,
kata’ ™bél pihati cArba-ha am-nu- | I settled therein, and placed them
Su-nu-ti pa-an ni-ri-ia v-tir-ma a-na under (lit. counted them into the
'El-li-pi hand of) the governor of Arrapha.
I turned the front of my yoke
15. as-sa-bat har-ra-nu el-la-mu-a ™Is-pa- 13. and took the road against the Ellipi.
ba-a-ra Sarru-su-un aldni?'-su dan-nu- Ispabara, their king, forsook his
ti ti-mas-sir-ma a-na ru-ki-e-tt in-na- strong cities, and fled to. distant
bit “Mar-t-bis-ti *Ak-ku-ud-du alam? parts. Marubishti and Akkuddu,
bit Sarru-ti-su his royal residence-cities,
14. a-di aldni?’ sé li-mi-ti-su-nu aksud- 14. together with the cities of their
(ud)-ma as-lu-la Sal-la-su-un ab-bul environs, I captured, I carried off
ak-kur t-na girrt ak-mu ‘Si-si-ir-tu their spoil, I destroyed, I devastated,
¢Ku-um-ma-ah-lum! alana?! dan-nu-te I burned with fire. Sisirtu, Kum-
a-di aldni”! sihrite?! mahlum, strong cities, together with
the small cities
. §é li-mi-ti-su-nu aksud(ud) 'Bit-"Ba- 15. of their environs, I captured. The
ar-ru-% na-gu-% a-na gi-mir-ti-su ul-tu district of Bit-Barrd in its totality I
ki-rib- mati-Su. ab-tuk-ma_ elt mi-sir cut off from his land and added it to
tA SSur** u-rv?-di ¢°Hl-en-za-aS a-na the territory of Assyria. Elenzash
dan-na-at na-gi-e I turned into the stronghold of
that
Mee Su-a-tu. as-bat Sum-su t-nak-kir-ma 16. district. I changed its name, and
¢Kar-4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba_ at-ta-bi ni-bit- _ealled it Kar-Sennacherib. Peoples
su nisé?! matdati ki-sit-tt kdtat-va i-na of the land which my hands had con-
lib-bi U-Se-sib i-na kata “"bél prhate quered, I settled therein, and placed it
¢Har-har under the governor of Harhar.
La am-nu i-na ta-at-ar-ti-ia §é 'Ma-da-at is: On my return I received the gifts of
ru-ku-ti sd Sarrdni?! abé?'-1a la is-mu-% the distant Medes, whose name the
2zi-kir mati-su-un man-da-ta-su-nu am- kings, my fathers had not heard,
hur a-na ni-ri-ia %-Sak-ni-su-nu-te and I made them submit to my
yoke.
18. i-na sal-si gir-ri-va a-na 'Ha-at-ti lu 18. In my third campaign I went against
al-luk ™Lu-li-i Sar *Si-du-un-ni [pul- the Hittite’ land, Luli, king of Sidon
1Var. lu. 2 So text, but original probably had rad. 3 Syria.
luh-ti me-[lam-me-ia is-hup|-su-ma —my terrifying splendor overcame

ul-tu ki-rib “Sur-ri! a-na ‘Ta-ad-na-na him, and from Tyre he fled to Cyprus?
12, kabal tam-tim in-na-bit-ma sadda-su 1D: in the midst of the sea, and died.
e-mid ™T'u-ba->-lu i-na “kussi Sarru-ti- Tuba’lu I placed on the royal throne,
Su %-se-Sib_ =~
man-da-at-tu_ be-lu-ti-ia (and) imposed my kingly tribute upon
u-kin si-ru-us-Sue Sarrdni?’ 'MAR- him. The kings of Amurru, all of
TU** ka-li-su-un biltu ka-bit-tu them,
20. i-na ta-mir-ti ‘U-8i-t a-di mah-ri-ia 20. brought their heavy tribute before me
u-bi-lu-ni wu ™Si-id-ka-a Sar °Is-ka- in the neighborhood of Ushu, and
al-lu-na sé la tk-nu-su a-na ni-ri-ia Sidka, king of Ashkelon, who had not
ildni?’ bit-abi-su Sa-a-si a-di_ ki-im- submitted to my yoke,—his father-
ti-[ Sv] house, himself, together with his
family,
21. as-su-ha-am-ma a-na "A ssur™* t-ras-st 21. I tore up and carried away to Assyria.
™Sarru-lu-da-a-ri mar ™Ru-kib-ti Sarra- Sharru-lu-dari, son of Rukibti, their
Su-nu [mah-ru-% eli nisé|?’ °Ls-ka-al- former king, I placed over the people
lu-na as-kun-ma man-da-at-tu [bélu]- of Ashkelon, and imposed my royal
ti-ia U-kin si-ru-us-s% tribute upon him.
22. i-na mi-ti-ik gir-ri-ia aldni?'-Su $d a-na 22. In the course of my campaign, his
Sépat-ia la tk-nu-st ak-sti-da as-lu-la cities, which had not submitted at
Sal-la-su-un °"Sakkannaké?! w niseé?! my feet, I captured, I carried off their
cAm-kar-ru-na §4 ™Pa-di-i Sarra-si-nu spoil. The governors and people of
Ekron, who had thrown into iron
fetters Padi, their king,
23. bél a-di-e sé 'ASSur™* bi-ri-tu parzille 23. who was bound by oath to Assyria,
id-du-ma a-na "Ha-za-ki-a-% 'Ta-ti-da-, and had given him to Hezekiah, the
at id-di-nu|-su] a-na an-zil-li e-sir-Su Jew,—he kept him in confinement,
ip-lah<libbad-su-nu sarrani?! 'Mu-su- like an enemy,—they became afraid,
rt sdbé?! “kasti?! and appealed to the Egyptian kings,
the bow-men,
24. ~narkabdte®’ sisé?’ sé Sar 'Me-luh-ha 24. the chariots and horses of the king of
e-mu-ki la ni-bi tk-te-ru-ni i-na_ ta- Meluhha, a countless host. In the
mir-ti °Al-ta-ku-t it-ti-Su-un am-da- plain of Eltekeh I fought with them,
his-ma_ as-ta-kan tahtd-su-un “™bél I defeated them. The charioteers
~narkabati?!
25. au maré”! Sarri ‘Mu-su-ra-ai a-di “bél 25. and Egyptian princes, together with
v~narkabati?! Sé Sar 'Me-luh-ha bal-tu- the charioteer of the king of Meluhha,
su-un i-na ka-ti as-bat a-na *Am-kar- I captured alive with my (own) hand.
180 Smith-Sayce, III R has !A-mur-ri.
2 Yadnan, the isle(s) of the Danaoi. Cf. Zeitschrift fiir Assyriologie, XXVIII (1914), 92 f.
ru-na ak-rib-ma Ssakkannakké?! sa I drew near to Ekron,—the gover-

hi-vt-tu nors who had rebelled (committed sin)
26. u-Sab-su-t i-na “kakké?! a-duk mdr é?! _ 26. I slew with the sword. The citizens
alt e-pis an-ni a-na sal-la-ti am-nu who had rebelled (sinned) I counted
si-it-tu-te-Su-nu [sd hi-te'-ta-su-un la as spoil. The rest of them, who
ab-st-t) us-Sur-su-un ak-bt ™Pa-di-i had not rebelled, I pardoned. Padi,
Sarra-SU-NU their king,
27. ul-tu ki-rib ¢Ur-sa-li-im-ma_ %-Se-sa- 27. I brought out of Jerusalem and placed
am-ma i-na “kussi eli-Su-un %-Se-sib- on the throne over them. My royal
ma man-da-at-tt be-lu-ti-ia u-kin si-ru- tribute I imposed upon him. As for
us-Su &é ™Ha-za-ki-a-% 'Ta-ti-da-ai la Hezekiah, the Jew, who had not sub-
tk-nu-su mitted
28. a-na ni-ri-ia 46 aldni?'-su bit dirdni?! 28. to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled
dan-nu-ti wu aldni?’ sé li-me-ti-su-nu cities and the cities of their environs,
Sé ni-ba la 1-st-% al-me aksud(ud) which were numberless, I besieged,
as-lu-la Sal-la-tig am-nu sa-si kima I captured, I plundered, as booty I
issurky-up-pr ki-rib counted. Him, like a caged bird in
29. ¢Ur-sa-li-am-ma al Sarru-ti-Su e-sir-st 29. Jerusalem, his royal city, I shut up.
chal-suP! eli-su u-rak-kis aldni?'-su Earth works I threw up about it.
§é as-lu-la ul-tu ki-rib mati-su ab-tuk- His cities which I plundered, I cut
ma a-na sarrdni”! ¢‘Az-du-di *Is-ka-al- off from his land and gave to
lu-na
30. °‘Am-kar-ru-na °Ha-zi-ti ad-din-su u- 30. the kings of Ashdod, Ashkelon,
sa-ah-hir mat-su e-li biltt mah-ri-ti Ekron and Gaza,—I diminished his
na-dan mati-su-un man-da-at-ti v-rad- land. To the former tribute, I
di-ma t-kin si-ru-us-Su-un sa-% ™Ha- imposed and laid upon him the giving
za-ki-a-% pul-hi me-lam-me up of his land as a gift. That
Hezekiah,—the terrifying splendor
of my royalty
ol. be-lu-ti-ia is-hu-pu-si-ma @%Ur-bi u 3l. overcame him, and the Arabs and
amsdbé?'-su damkati?’ Sd a-na ki-rib his picked troops whom he had
¢Ur-sa-li-im-ma al sarru-ti-su u-se-ri- brought into Jerusalem, his royal
bu-ma ir-su-t bat-la-a-ti 2t-tr 30 bildt city, ran away. With 30 talents of
hurdsa 800 bilat kaspa gold, 800 talents of silver
32. mimma Sum-su ni-sir-tt ekalli-su u 32. and all kinds of treasure from his
marati”'-Su fsinnisét”* ekalli-Su “zam- palace, he sent his daughters, his
mer éP! amzqmmerate?! a-na ka-rib palace women, his male and female
Ninua®* %-se-bi-lam-ma a-na na-dan singers, to Nineveh, and he dis-
man-da-at-tt 18-pu-ra rak-bu-su patched his messenger to pay the
tribute.
33. i-na ribé(e) gir-ri-ia a-na 'Bit-Ia-kin

33. In my fourth campaign I went against
lu al-li-ik i-na mi-ti-ik gir-ri-ia sdBit-Yakin. In the course of my
mSi-zu-bi omKal-da-a a-sib— ki-rib. campaign, I defeated Shuzubu, the
ra-gam-me i-na °bi-it-tu-ti as-ta-kan Chaldean, who dwelt in the midst of
the marshes, at Bittutu.
34. tahtd-<su> Si-% “kakkér'ia e-dtir-ma 34. That one feared my weapons, fled
e-dis tp-par-sid ul in-na-mir a-sar-Su alone, and his (hiding) place has not
pa-an ni-ri-ia t-tir a-na °“bit-Ia-kin been found (seen). The front of my
as-sa-bat har-ra-nu s-% yoke I turned, and took the road to
Bit-Yakin. That
35. m4 Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sd 1-na 30. Merodach-baladan, whom I had de-
a-lak gir-ria = mah-ri-e as-ku-nu feated in my first campaign, became
tahta-su ri-gim “kakké?'-1a dan-nu- afraid at the tumult of my mighty
ti?! e-dir-ma a-na °“Na-gi-t-ti 8d kabal arms, and fled to Nagitu which is in
tam-tum in-na-bit the midst of the sea (Persian Gulf).
36. ahé?'-Su zér bit-abi-su sd t-mas-si-ru 36. His brothers, the seed of his father-
a-ha tam-tim si-at-tt nisé?! mati-Su ul-tu house, whom he abandoned by the
eBit--La-kin ki-rib "a-gam-me u ap-pa- sea-shore, the rest of the people of his
ra-a-ti as-lu-la %i-tir-ma aldni?'-Su land, I carried off as spoil from Bit-
Yakin, out of the marshes and
swamps. I turned about and
37. ab-bul i-na girrt ak-mu i-na ta-ai-ar- 37. destroyed his cities, I burned them
tia ™ASSur-na-din-sum mar-u-a 1-na with fire. On my return, I placed
“kusst be-lu-ti-su v-se-sib-ma %-sad-gi- my son Assur-nadin-shum on_ his
la pa-nu-us-su i-na hansé gir-ri-ia royal throne, and made (the land)
submit to him. In my fifth cam-
paign, the
38. ameltite?! “Tu-mur-ra-a §é kima kin-ne 38. people of Tumur, whose abodes are
nasri™ si-ir zuk-ti %4Ni-pur sadi(t) situated on the peaks of Mt. Nipur,
mar-si St-bat-su-un sit-ku-na-at-ma la a difficult mountain, like the nests
kit-nu-Si a-na ni-ri-ia i-na sép™ of the eagle, and who had not sub-
SadN}-pur ka-ra-st mitted to my yoke:—at the foot of
Mt. Nipur
39. u-Sa-as-kin-ma i-ti sdbé?’ tahdzi-ra 39. I pitched my camp. With my relent-
la ga-me-lu-ti a-na-ku kima rimi vk-di less warriors, I, like a strong wild-ox,
pa-nu-us-Su-un as-bat hur-ri na-hal- led the way. Gullies and difficult
li-e Sadé”! mar-su-ti i-na “kusst as-ta- mountain torrents I surmounted in
am-di-th my (sedan-)chair.
40. a-Sar a-na Vkusst Sup-si-ku 1-na 40. Where it was too steep for my chair,
sépa-ia as-tah-hi-id kima ar-me a-sar I advanced on foot, like a young
bir-ka-ai ir-ma-a i-sa-a ma-na-ah-tt gazelle. Where my knees gave out

si-ir aban Sadi (7) %-sib-ma mé?! ™8akng- and found a resting-place, I sat down
a-di upon (some) mountain boulder and
drank
41. ka-su-ti a-na su-me-ia lu as-ti i-na 41. cold water from the water-skin (to
ubdndt?’ hur-sa-a-ni ar-di-su-nu-ti-ma quench) my thirst. To the summits
_as-ta-kan tah-ta-su-un aldni?'-Su-nu of the mountains I pursued them,
aksud(ud)-ma as-lu-la Sal-la-su-un and brought about their overthrow.
Their cities I captured and I carried
off their spoil,
42. ab-bul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu pa-an 42. I destroyed, I devastated, I burned
ni-ri-ia u-tir-ma_ si-ir ™Ma-ni-ia-e (them) with fire. I turned the front
Sar ‘Uk-ki la kan-se as-sa-bat har-ra-nu of my yoke. Against Maniae, king
ur-hi pa-as-ku-ti sa la~pa-an Sadé?! of Ukku, who was not submissive,
I took the road. Among the un-
blazed trails and wearisome paths
which stretch along these rugged
mountains,
43. mar-su-ti ki-rib-Su-un ma-nam-ma la- 43. none of the kings who went before me,
pa-an ni-rt i-li-ku Sarru pa-ni mah- had traveled before the yoke. At the
ri-ia i-na sép* *4A-na-ra u *4U p-pa foot of Mt. Anara and Mt. Uppa,
Sadé”! dan-nu-tt ka-ra-si %-sa-as-kin- mighty mountains, I had my camp
ma pitched, and
44. a-na-ku 1-na “kusst ni-me-di at-te 44, I, on a house-chair, together with my
amsabéP! tahdzt-ia mar-si-vs 1-te-el-la-a warriors, with difficulty climbed to
ubandt?’ sadé?' pa-as-ka-a-ti the summits of the wearisome moun-
tains.
. i-t "Ma-ni-ia-e. a-lak gi-tr-ri-ia 7is- 45, That Maniae heard of the approach
me-ma °Uk-ku al sarru-ti-Su e-zib-ma of my army (lit. campaign), left
a-na ru-ki-ti in-na-bit e-ru-um-ma Ukku, his royal city and fled to dis-
tant parts. I entered
46. a-na ki-rib ekalli-su mimma sum-su 46. into his palace. All kinds of property
busi makkiru la ni-ba! as-lu-la ni-sir- and goods, without number, I carried
ta-Su ka-bit-tw aldni?'-su ab-bul ak-kur off,—heavy treasure was his. His
i-na girrt ak-mu-ma cities I destroyed, I devastated, I
burned with fire,
47. ki-ma til a-bu-bi as-pu-un! 47. and I overwhelmed them (so that
they) were like a tell (left by) the
deluge.
1 So Smith-Sayce.
48. I-NG SiSSé gir-ri-ia a-na 48. In my sixth campaign, against

*YVA
49. ‘Na-gi-tt “Na-gi-ti-di->-bi-na 49. Nagitu (and) Nagitu-di’bina,

50. alam?! sé sar 'E-lam-ti $d i-na 50. cities belonging to the king of Elam,
which
51. e-bir-tan "Mar-ra-ti sit-ku-na-at dl. are situated (lit. whose abode is
situated) on the other side the Bitter-
Sea (Persian Gulf),
52. Su-bat-su-un Sd |nisé|?’ “Bit--La-kin 52. whither the people of Bit-Yakin had
la-pa-an scattered before
53. vkakkt ¢Assur dan-nu-tt is-hu-pu-ma 53. the mighty weapons of Assur,—
12-21-bu leaving
54. da-ad-me-su-un ‘"Mar-ra-tum 7-bi- 54. their towns, and crossing over the
TU-U-Ma Bitter-Sea,
55 .... [t-na_ kir-bi-su-un — tr-te-mu 50. they had settled down peacefully
Subat| ni-ch-ti therein:
56. 4A §Sur be-lit u-tak-kil-an-ni-ma_ s$i-ru- -56. Assur, my lord, strengthened me,
US-SU-UN A-nNa against them
57. 'Na-gi-ti a-la-ku ak-bi ameliti(ti)?! 57. I ordered the march to Nagitu.
'Ha-at-ti hu-bu-ut Hittite-people,? plunder of my bow,
08. ~kasti-ia i-na Ninua* t-Se-Sib-ma 58. I settled in Nineveh. Mighty
~elippate?! si-ra-a-te
og. e-pis-ti mdati-su-un ib-nu-% =nak-lis 59. ships (after) the workmanship of
ammalahhé?’ “Sur-ra-ar their land, they built dexterously.
Tyrian,
60. ¢Si-du-un-na-at_ 'Ia-ad-na-na-ai_ ki- 60. Sidonian and Cyprian sailors, captives
Sit-ti kata™-1a t-Sa-hi-su-nu-tr of my hand, I ordered
61. ur-tum ki-rib "Idiglat it-ti-si-na-ti a-na 61. (to descend) the Tigris with them and
kid'-da-ti a-di °U-pi-a come to land at the wharves(?) at
Opis.
62. ti-Se-kil-pu-t 'na'-ba-liy ultu ‘U-pi-a 62. From Opis (where) they drew them
na-ba-lis %-se-lu-si-na-ti-ma up on land,
63. si-ir “gam-gu-gi a-[na"A]-rah-[t1] al-du- 63. they dragged them on sledges(?) [to
du-si-na-ti ki-rib "A-rah-te the Arahtu-canal( ?)].
64. id-du( ?)-si-na-ti [a-na "Har-ri Bit- 64. They launched (lit. threw) them on
Dak( ?)-ku(?)-ri 8é 'Kal-di u-se-kil- the Arahtu-canal. To the channel of
pu-u Bit-Dakkuri(?) of Chaldea I had
them descend.
65. Se, A ok a vkakkeé?'- 65. Below(?) in (a city), the
ia Sam-ru-te bearers of my terrible weapons,
'Or Sid? 2 Syrians.
66. i a t-du-% a-di-ru “mutir pu-tuP?

~—~sS 66. who know no fear, my picked foot-
Sépat-ia git-ma-lu-ti “sdbé?! ta-ha-zi- soldiers, my brave warriors,
67. kar-du-tt sd la i-na_ ka-rib 67. who know no rest(?), I embarked

velippati?’ u-Sar-kib-su-nu-ti-ma them in the ships, and
68. si-di-tu ad-ka it-tt Se-im u *tibnuc! 68. provided
supplies for the journey,
4
a-na mu-ur-ni-is-ki_ %-Se-la-a together with grain and straw for the
horses, which I embarked with
69. it-ti-Su-un ku-ra-du-ti-a 1-na”ellip pate?’ 69. them. My warriors went down the
1-kil-pu-% "Pu-rat-tu a-na-ku Euphrates on the ships while I
70. a-na 2-ti-Su-un na-ba-lu sab-ta-ku-ma 70. kept to the dry land at their side.
a-na °*Bdb-sa-li-me-ti. a-Sar-da-a ur-hi I had (them) proceed to Bab-salimeti.
fee i-na ul-lu-t% ri-si-ia ul-tu a-ht "Pu- (ak At the lifting of my head, from the
rat-tt a-di kib-ri tam-tum ma-lak 2 biru bank of the Euphrates, to the shore of
kak-ka-ru the sea, a journey of two double-
hours, by land,
72. ka-lt ka-lu-u .... t-na a-a-ri-du-% 72. all finished (7) [safely]: eee
a-lik pa-...a.... Sal-la-at-ma eS go! And the waves
e-du-t%
73. §d tam-tim a-di... %-ma a-na-ku 73. ofthe: sea. eee And I, the
ves PB b= 4
a-mat ki-bi-ti-Su ul a-[sur.... | word of his command did not heed.

as(?)-du-ud
74, i-na as-11 Sst-a-tum at-ta-di ka-ra-si 74, In that place I pitched my camp.
e-du-t ta-ma-ti gab-[Sis 7]-Sa-am- The mighty waves of the sea came
ma ki-rib up and 3
75. »za-ra-ti-ia e-ru-um-ma ni-ti-rs tl-ma-a 75. entered my tent. And they com-
kima ina ka-ra-si-ia i-na “elippati?! pletely surrounded me while in my
dan-nu-te camp, causing all of my men
76. 5 ti-me u must ki-ma ku-up-pi-e Sur- 76. to camp in the mighty ships as in
bu-sa gi-mir ba-hu-la-ti-ia “elippdte?’ cages for five days and nights. The
ku-ra-di-va ships of my warriors
ee a-na rak-ka-at pi-t nari tk-si-da a-sar FG reached the swamps at the mouth
"Pu-rat-tu mé?'-sa u-ses-Se-ru of the river, where the Euphrates
empties (lit. carries) its waters
78. kir-bu-us tam-tim ga-lit-ti a-na-ku a-na 78. into the fearful sea. I met them on
mi-hi-ir-ti-Su-un i-na kisdd "Mar-ra-ti the shore of the Bitter-Sea (the
Persian Gulf). | |
(isk as-bat-ma a-na 7H-a sar apst t-Se-pi-sa Tee To Ea, king of the deep, I offered pure
mkeér’ ellati?’ rt-tc Yelip hurdst nun sacrifices, and with a ship of gold,
hurdst
80. al-lut-tu. hurdst a-na ki-rib tam-tim 80. I cast into the sea a golden fish and
ad-di-ma “elippdate?'-ia a-na eli “Na- a golden aluttu. My ships
gi-i-te
81. ur-ru-hi-is %-se-bir i-na kib-ri tam-tim an I speedily brought over to Nagitu.
gal-la-tt Sd a-na si-ik-nu a-na e-li-e On the shore of the fearful sea, which
for landing and loading
82. sisé?’ w sit-kun sépi améli la na-tu 82. horses, and for men to walk upon, was
dannis Sum-ru-us-ma ba-hu-la-ti '‘Kal- unsuitable, (indeed) exceedingly
di wearisome, the people of Chaldea,
83. a-sib *Na-gi-tt °Na-gi-ti-di->-bi-na 83. who lived at Nagitu and Nagitu-di’-
nse?’ 'Hi-il-mu °Bil-la-té bina, the people of Hilmu, Billatu
84. u 'Hu-pa-pa-nu “elippate?’ ku-ra-di-ia 84. and Hupapanu, saw the ships of my
t-mu-ru-ma sabé?! “kastt “su-uwm-bt warriors and they gathered together
bowmen, wagons,
85. sisé?! paré?! e-muk la ni-bi t-kap-pi-tu 85. horses, mules, a countless host,
mit-ha-ris
86. el-la-me-Su-un 1-na 86. against them. By
87. U-la-a na-a-ru §é. kib-ru-sa 87. the Ulai, a river whose bank
88. tabu si-id-ru sit-ku-nu 88. was good, the battle line was drawn
up.
89. me-li-e ummandat®?'-ia sab-tu-ma 89. Seizing the place where my armies
were to land (lit. the landing place
of my armies),
90. u-sa--lu “kakké?'-su-un 90. they offered battle.
SAN ku-ra-du-t-a a-na ka-a-ri ol; My warriors gained the
92. ma-kal-li-e 1k-si-du_ si-ru-us-su-un 92. banks of the levees, against them
93. ul-tu ki-rib “elippdate?’ a-na_ kib-ri 93. they swarmed from the ships to the
a-ri-bis shore, like locusts, and
94. ip-par-su-ma is-ku-nu tah-ta-su-un 94. established their overthrow.
‘Na-gi-tu
95. ¢Na-gi-tu-di->-bi-na 'Hi-il-mu 'Bil-la- 95. Nagitu, Nagitu-di’bina, Hilmu,
tu Billatu,
96. wu 'Hu-pa-pa-nu alana”! sé sar 'E-lam- 96. and Hupapanu, cities belonging to
ti tk-si-du the king of Elam, they captured.
a, dan-nu-su-un te-ne-sit *Kal-di vlan?! Jae Their garrisons, men of Chaldea, all
gim-rt *Bit--La-kin the gods of Bit-Yakin,
98. a-di makkiri-su-nu w nisé?! H-la-me-t 98. together with their goods, and the
~su-um-bt Elamites, and wagons,
a2. paré?' iméré?' is-lu-lu-ni_— ki-rib o0; mules and asses, they carried off as
»elippate?'-|su-nu| spoil, loaded them on their ships
100. u-Se-lu-ma a-ha-an-na-a a-na °Bdab- 100. and brought them over to Bab-
sa-li-me-ti a-di mah-ri-ia salimeti, into my presence.
101; u-se-bi-ru-ni aldni”! §a-tu-nu ib-bu-lu 101. Those cities they destroyed, devas-
tk-ku-ru i-na girrt tk-mu-t tated and burned with fire.
102. eli 'Hlamti** rapastim(tim) it-bu-ku 102. Over the wide land of Elam they
Sa-ah-ra-ar-tu i-na Ssal-lat métdti?’ poured out terror. From the booty
Sam of the lands which (I had con-
quered),
103. 80,500 “kastt 30,500 “a-ri-tu i-na 103. 30,500 bows, 30,500 arrows, I selected
lib-bi-su-nu ak-sur-ma eli ki-sir from among them, and added
104. Sarru-ti-ia t-rad-di it-tt Sal-lat na-ki- 104. to my royal equipment. From the
rt ka-bit-tc a-na gi-[mir] great spoil of enemy-(captives), I
apportioned (men) like sheep
105. karads-ia bel pthdte?'-ia u nisér! 105-6. to all of my camp, my governors,
ma-ha-za-ni-ia?! . . Pl kima and the people of my large cities.
si-e-n
106. lu t-2a->-1z
b) OTHER BULL INSCRIPTIONS (F2)
. Ekal ™4Sin-ahé?"-eriba’ sarru. rabit 1-6. Palace of Sennacherib, the great

Sarru dan-nu sar kissati Sar "A ssur** king, the mighty king, king of the
Sar kib-rat irbittim(tim) mi-gir rlana?? universe, king of Assyria, king of the
rabite?' 4A Ssur abu (v. a-bu) tldni?’ ina four quarters (of the world), favorite
kul-lat ma-li-ki ki-nis ippalsa-ni?-ma of the great gods (am I). Assur,
eli gi-mir a-sib pa-rak-ki %-sar-ba-a father of the gods, has looked upon
vkakké?'-ca me among all princes with favor, and
above all those who dwell in palaces,
has made powerful my weapons.
. i-na ta-ha-az séri [ina ta-mir-ti Kis**]§ . In open battle (in the plain of Kish),
as-kip I overthrew
. ™4Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sar ‘Kar- . Merodach-baladan, king of Baby-
dun-id-as lonia,
. e-ki-ma be-lut-su gim-ri “Kal-di* a-di . I deprived him of his kingdom (lit.
gi-bis rulership). All of the Chaldeans,
together with the numerous
10. um-ma-na-a-ti “Elamti** (v. E-la- 10. hosts of Elamites, his allies, I cut
me-e) ri-si-8u& t-ra-sib down
1h. i-na “kakkér' =™A SSur-na-din-sumu Lie with the sword. Assur-nadin-shum,
maru-t-a® ris-tu-v [tar-bit bir-ki-ia}8 my first-born son, (the offspring of
my loins)
1 E2, eri-ba. 2 E2, an-ni. 3So E2. 4E2, mat oKal-di. 5 2, om. t-a.
HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY i
i-na “kusst Sarru-ti-si t%-Se-sib-ma 12. I placed on the royal throne and made
‘Akkadu** rapastum(tum) t%-sad-gil the wide land of Akkad (Babylonia)
submit to him.
. pa-nu-us-Su as-suh na-gab A h-la- 13. I uprooted all the Ahlamu and Sutu
me-e! ™Sy-ti-2 (Aramaean tribes).
. ba-hu-la-ti °Hi-rim-me i-na “kakki 14. The men of Hirimme I cut down with
u-Sam-kit-ma the sword, and ©
. la wz-zi-ba pi-ri---Su-un ak-Sud(ud) 15. no offspring of theirs escaped. I con-
a2 Ta-su-bi-gal-la-ar quered the Yasubigallai,
. ™™akr ag-st ‘Hl-li-pi u-sal-pit-ma 16. treacherous enemies, overthrew the
u-ab-bit da-dd-me-sa Ellipi and destroyed their towns.
.u ™Lu-li-c sar °Si-du-un-ni e-du-ra ee And Luli, king of Sidon, was afraid
A
ta-ha-zi a-na 'Ta-ad-na-na to fight me (lit. feared my battle)

and fled to Cyprus,
. 8a ki-rib tam-tim in-na-bit-ma 1-hu-uz 18. which is in the midst of the sea, and
mar-ki-tum’ i-na mat-tim-ma su*-a-tu there sought a refuge. In that land,
. t-na_ ra-Sub-bat “kak 4A SSur béli-ia 19. in terror of the weapons of Assur,
e-mid Sad-da-su ™Tu-ba-?-lu i-na “kusst my lord, he died. Tuba’lu I placed on
. Sarru-ti-su %-se-sib-ma man-da-at®- tu 20. the throne of his kingdom, and im-
be-lu-ti-ia v-kin si-ru-us-su %-Sal-pit posed upon him my royal tribute. |
devastated
21. rap-si na-gu-t "Ta-ti-di sip-su be-ru 21. the wide district of Judah, the strong,
™Ha-za-ki-ai-a sarra-s% %-Sak-nis proud Hezekiah, its king, I brought in
submission
22. Se-pu-ti-a" nisé?’ °Tu-mur-ra-at_ a-si- 22. to my feet. The people of Tumur,
bu-ut *¢Ni-pur Ssadi(z) mar-st ina who dwell on Mt. Nipur, a steep
vkakke mountain,
23. u-sam-kit ‘Uk-ku a-di nap-har da-dd- 23. I cut down with the sword. Ukku,
me-su ki-ma til a-bu-bi v-ab-bit together with all of its towns, I
destroyed (so that they were) like a
ruin (left) by a deluge.
24. nisé?! 'Hi-lak-ki a-si-bu-ut hur-sa-ni 24. The people of Hilakku, who dwell in
zak-ru-ti w-tib-bi-th az-li-is °Tl-ga- the high mountains, I slaughtered
rum-me like wild animals. Til-garimmu,
25. §é pa-a-tt 'Ta-ba-li aksud(ud)-ma 25. which is on the border of Tabal, I
u-se-me kar-mes ba-hu-la-a-ti 'Kal-di conquered, I turned into a ruin.
The men of Chaldea
12, 7. 4 E2, tu. 72 puts this word before wsaknis.
2 E2, lam, 5 H2, Sa.
3 2, 2nak-ri. 6 #}2, om.
26. Sa ti-ib ta-ha-zi-ia e-du-ru-ma ildni?! 26. who feared the onset of my battle
nap-har mati-si-un i-na Sub-ti-su-un and, gathering the gods of their whole
land from their shrines,
27. id-ku-t& tam-tim i-bi-ru-ma i-na °“Na- 27. crossed the sea, and settled in
gi-a-ti id-du-% su-bat-sun Nagitu.
28. i-na “elippate?’ 'Ha-at-ti arki-su-un 28. I crossed over after them in Hittite
e-bir “Na-gi-a-tu (Syrian) ships. Nagitu,
20; ¢Na-gi-a-tu-di---bi-na 'Hi-il-mu 'Bil- 29. Nagitu-di’bina, Hilmu, Billatu
la-tu
30. u 'Hu-pa-pa-nu na-gi-e sd e-bir-tan 30. and Hupapanu, the province which
"Mar-ra-ti ak-sud(ud)-ma is on the other side the Bitter-Sea,
I conquered.
ol. te-ni-sit ‘Kal-di a-di tldni-su-nu nisé?! af And the people of Chaldea, together
Sar ‘Hlamti** with their gods, the people of the
king of Elam,
32. as-lu-lam-ma la 72z-zi-ba mul-tah-tu 32 I carried off. Not a sinner escaped.
ae RECORDS WRITTEN AFTER THE EIGHTH CAMPAIGN!

a) THE BAVIAN INSCRIPTIONS (4H 3)
. WAssur 4*A-nu-um 4En-lil 4E-a 4Sin HE Assur, Anu, Enlil, Ea, Sin, Shamash,
dSamas ‘4Adad ‘4¢Marduk 4Nabt Adad, Marduk, Nabd, Nusku, Ishtar,
4INusku] @#s-tar 4%Sibi(bi) aldna?? Sibi, the great gods,
rabite?!
. &é ina (v.i-na) gi-mir ad-na-a-tt a-na . who in all lands give attention (lit.
'{)-tar-ri-e sal-mat kakkadi e-nu 1-na- raise the eye) to the rule of the black-
as-su-t i-nam-bu-u mal-ku headed race of men, (who) named
(me) ruler:
. ™Sin-aheé?'-eriba sarru. rabt Ssarru . Sennacherib, the great king, the
dan-nu sar kissati Sar 'ASSur Sar kib- mighty king, king of the universe,
rat <irbittim(tim) rubt za-nin-su-un king of Assyria, king of the four
i-na an-ni-s& (text, ku)-nu ki-nim quarters (of the world), the prince
who endows (their cults): in their
enduring grace,
. ul-tu tam-tim e-lit a-di tam-tim sap-lit . from the upper sea to the lower sea, .
'Sal'-mes lu at-ta-lak-ma mal (v. ma-al)- I have marched in safety, and the
ki $d kib-rat (v. ra-a-tt) Se-pu-u-a t- princes of the four quarters (of the
Sak-nis-ma world) I have brought in submission
to my feet,
1 For the standard inscription see chapter iv.
. 1-8t-tu ap-Sa-a-ni i-na t-me-sti-ma 5. so that they drew my yoke. At that

Sd Ninua** si-bat-su dannig§ us-rab-bi time I greatly enlarged the site (lit.
dtira-su w Sal-hu-su 8é ina mah-ri-e abode) of Nineveh. Its wall, and
the outer-wall thereof, which had not
. la ib-Su es-Sis %i-Se-pis-ma t-zak-kir . existed before, I built anew, and
hur-sa-nis_ ta-me-ra-tu-su $d i-na la raised mountain-high. Its fields,
ma-mi na-mu-ta sti-lu-ka-ma which through lack of water had
fallen into neglect (lit. ruin), and
. Sa-ta-a-ki-e it-tu-ti au nisé?'-Su méP! . came to look like pitch(?), so that
Si-ki la i-da-a-ma a-na zu-un-ni ti-ik its people did not have (lit. know)
Samé(e) tur-ru-sa énd@-Sun any water for watering, but turned
their eyes heaven-ward for showers
of rain,—(these fields)
. as-ku-ma ul-tu libbi *Ma-si-ti *Ban- . I watered, and from the villages of
ba-kab-na = *Sa-ap-pa-ri-Su— °Kar- Masiti, Banbakabna, Shapparishu,
™Samas-ndsir(ir) ‘¢Kar-nu-t-ri ¢Ri- Kar-Shamash-nasir, Kar-niri, .Ri-
mu-sa musa,
. ‘Ha-ta-a ‘Da-la-ai-in °Ri-es-e-ni “Su-lu . Haté, Dalain, Résh-éni, Sulu, Dur[-
‘Dir-4 [Istar] °Si-ba-ni-ba °Is-pa( ?)- Ishtar], Shibaniba, Isparirra,
ri-tr-1a
10. eGi-in-gi-li-ni§ “Nam-pa-ga-a-te (v. tt) 10. Gingilinish, Nampagate, Tillu, Alum-
- ¢Tllu ¢A-lum-su-st mé?! sé si-ir “Ha- susi, the waters which were above the
da-bi-ti XVIII nérat?® u-Sah-ra-a town of Hadabiti, (through) eighteen
a-na libbi canals which I dug,
11: "Hu-su-ur (v. ri) u-Se-sir ma-lak-sun Tt I brought (lit. directed their course)
ul-tu pa-a-ti ¢°Ki-si-rt a-di_ [lebbi] into the Khosr River. From the
Ninuak *hi-ri-ta u-Sah-ra-a mé?! §t- border of the town of Kisiri to the
nu-te midst of Nineveh, I dug a canal, and
brought down
12. u-sar-da-a ki-rib-sa pat-ti ™*Sin-ahé?'- 12. those waters therein. Sennacherib-
eriba at-ta-bit ni-bit-su-[ma] gu-bu-us Channel, I called its name. And
mé?! §a-tu-nu ul-tu libbi **¢Ta-as the surplus of those waters I led out
through the midst of Mt. Tas,
13. Sadi(z) mar-st $d 1-te-e Akkadi"' %-Se-si' | 13. a difficult mountain, on the border
pa-na-[ma] ndru st-a-tti nar [. .. | of Akkad.?, Formerly they called that
i-nam-bu-u Sum-st e-nin-na a-[na-|ku canalix a. Now, I, at the com-
ina (v. i-na) ka-bit mand of
14. 24 &ur béli rabé(e) béla-ca mé?! im-na 14. Assur, the great lord, my lord
u S-me-li Sadi(t) Sd 1-ta-tu-us-Ssu directed into it (the canal mentioned)
1 Conjectural reading. 2Or Urartu, Armenia?
ces Melee .. | Ku-uk-[kut 2] the waters from the right and left of
¢Bi-it-ur-ra the mountain
15. alani?'(ni) §aé li-me-ti-su eli-Su us-rad- 15. in whose sides are the... . of
di i-na abné”! nari |Su-a-te Me—, Kuk—(and) Biturra, towns
md Sin-aheé?'-eriba az-ku-ra of the neighborhood: with stone I
walled that canal, and called its
name Sennacherib-[Channel].
iG: ni-bit-su elt mé?' ku-up-pt u mé?! 16. In addition to the waters from
mah-ru-ti sé ah-[ru-u eo © 0 0 @ © « springs, and the waters which [I had
u-\se-sir [ma-|lak-Su-un earlier secured] by digging (canals),
See I directed their course
14; a-na Ninua*' ma-ha-zu si-i-ru su-bat Wie to Nineveh, the great metropolis, my
sgarru-ti-ia<sd> ul-tu [ul-la Sarrdni abé- royal abode, whose site since days of
ia| Su-bat-su la %-sar-bu-u old, the kings my fathers, had not
enlarged,
18. la t-nak'-ki-lu nik'-la|-as|-su e-ne-na 18. and whose adornment they had not
a-na-ku ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar ‘A ssur*? undertaken, At this time, I, Sen-
a-sa-rid kal mal-ki sd ul-tu si-it nacherib, king of Assyria, first among
4Samsi (st) all princes, who from the rising sun
uA fs a-di e-rib ~-*Samsi(8i)-.-2 =. mér? 19. to the setting sun, (with)
pat-ta-a-ti Sd. u-Sah-ru-% Ninua*™ a-na waters from the canals which I had
li-me-ti-Su “kiré?! vkardnév! caused to be dug [supplied] Nineveh,
together with its neighborhood.
Gardens, vineyards,
20. gi-mir ... . be-lat hur-Sa-a-ni_ ka- 20. all kinds of .... products of all
li-Su-un inib ad-na-a-ti the mountains, the fruits of all lands,
21. ka-lalnae s ak ae ee [az|-kup 21 ERP I planted(?), setting free
a-di mé?! la i-kas-Sa-du a-na su-ma- the waters where they did not reach
me-ti t-mas-str-ma am-ba-su the thirsty (field), [and reviving] its
vegetation,
22. mu-bil Sa gi-mir sip-pa-a- 22. damaged (by drought)... . of all
ti ina e-ri-bi e-ri-si-ti e-li-enCalidu the orchards, at the entrance . .
'Saplanw’ istu libbi *Tar-bi-si above (the city) and below( ?)
from the midst of the town of
Tarbisi
23. a-di ali Sa *™Ninuai(?) mé(me) a-na 23. to Nineveh, providing for all time,
mi-rig Se-am u Samassammu %-sam- water for the planting of corn and
ka-ra Sat-ti-[Sam-ma] ... lu... [t]- sesame ee @among the kings
8 «@
na Sarrdni?'(nz)
' Conjectural reading.
HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY 8]
24. maré?'-ia Sd it-ti ltb-bi us-tam-mu-ma 24. my sons, whoever reflects (com-
i-na ka-a-pi la tur-ru a-ki-i ina libbi munes with his heart) and cannot
amsabéP’ an-nu-ti e-su-tt bring himself to believe that with
these few people
25. naru St-a-tu u-Sah-ri ni-is 4A SSur . I had dug that canal:—by Assur,
th-ia_ ~rabt.. . Sum-ma ina labbi my great lord I take oath. If with
amsabé?! an-nu-ti ndru st-a-tu la %-sah- these men | did not dig that canal,
ru-u (v. la ah-ru-u)
26. u ina satti 8 arhi la i-kat-tu-% Si-pir-sa 26. and in a year (and) three months did
ig-gam-ru-& t-kat-tu-a —hi-© not complete its construction, then
[its construction] was not finished
[nor] its excavation brought to com-
pletion.
27. a-na pa-te-endri Si-a-tu *asipu(MAS- 27. To dedicate (open) that canal I sent
MAS) @kala(US-KU) tma--ir an ashipu and a kala priest,.....
-ma t&..... *sandu %uknad sandu-stone (carnelian), lapis-lazuli,
eemsoaru ™hulali eu) D- Mushgarru, Hulalu, UD-ASH stones,
AS?!
28. abné?! ni-sik-ti BAL-GI'* SUHUR"™ 28. precious stones, a Balgz fish,' and a
tam-sil bi . . . hurdsi rikké?! Samna Suhur-fish Sone of gold, herbs,
sew ee
taba a-na *H-a bél nak-bi kup-pi choice oil, to Ka, lord of the springs,
fountains
29. wu ta-mir-ti *“HN-BI-LU-LU gugal 29. and the plain(?), (and) Enbilulu,
nar é?'4 bélé(e) nappalti-[ia] u-ka-at-7s lord of rivers, the lords who answer
ki-Sa-a-ti a-na_ rldniP? rabite?’ ut- my prayers(?), I presented as gifts.
nin-ma I prayed to the great gods, and
30. su-up-pi-1a 18-mu-ma t-se-si-ru_ li-pit 30. they heard my prayers, and prospered
katat-ia bdb-ndri...... a ’narpasu the work of my hands. A canal-
a-na ra-ma-ni-st ip-pi-ti-ma gate(sluice-gate) [I built] and the
sluice-valve opened by itself and
3l. u-Sar-da-a mé?! nuhsi i-na_ si-pir ol. supplied the water of abundance ;—
kata™ amélitim(tim) babu-su la tp-pi- through man’s handiwork the sluice
[ti ....ana ntih(?)| lb-bi alan! was not opened..... For the
u-Sah-ru ma-a-me is-tu heart’s comfort(?) of the gods I dug
water (courses). After I had planned
32. nari ap-pal-su-ma_ wus-te-es-Se-ra_—Si- 32. the canal and directed its construc-
pir-sa a-na ildna®! rabiite”! a-lik 1-di-va- tion, to the great gods, who go at my
ma mu-kin-nu bal-tu(du) alpé! side, and who establish prosperity,
martte?! ; sleek oxen and
1A fish mentioned in the Omen literature.
33. immer é?! du-us-Su-tt “niké?’ rb-bi-te 33. fat sheep I offered as pure sacrifices.
lu ak-ki °™sdbé?! Si-nu-tt Sad nara su- Those men who dug that canal I
a-tu th-ru-t kita lubulti?’ bir-me clothed with brightly colored linen( ?)
u-hal-lip-si-nu-tt garments.
34. Seweré?! hurdsi patré?’ hurdsi as-kun- 34. Golden rings, daggers of gold, I put
Su-nu-ti i-na sattii-ma it-tr ar ndaru upon them. In the same year with
St-a-tu Sa ah-ru-t it-tt ™Um-ma-an-me- the opening (lit. flowing) of that
na-nu canal which I dug, against Umman-
’ menanu,
. Sar 'Hlamtt®* a Sar Babili®* a-di 85. king of Elam and the king of Baby-
Sarrdni?'(ni) ma--du-ti Sd Sadi(t) u lon together with many kings of
tam-tim Sd& ri-su-ti-su-nu i-na ta-mir- mountain and sea, who were their
ti “Ha-lu-li-e allies, in the plain of the city of
Halulé .
36. as-ta-kan si-dir-ta i-na ki-bit Assur 36. I drew up the battle line. At the
béli rabé(e) béli-1a ki-i “tar-ta-hr Sam- command of Assur, the great lord,
rv i-na lib-bi-su-nu al-lik-ma_ si-kip-te my lord, like a swift javelin I went
ummanidte??!-?'-Su-nu into their midst and accomplished
Oo”. as-kun pu-hur-su-nu t-Sap-pi-7h-ma 3”. the defeat of their armies. Their
u-par-ri-ir_el-lat-su-un “"rabite?’ Sar hosts I shattered, I broke up their
'Hlamti®* a-di ™¢Nabi-sum-iskun(un) organization. The chieftains of the
mar ”*M arduk-apla-iddina(na) king of Elam, together with Nabti-
shum-ishkun, son of Merodach-
baladan,
38. Sar '‘Kar-*Dun-id-as_ bal-tu-su-un 38. king of Babylonia, my hands took
ki-rib tam-ha-ri tk-st-da kdta*-at Sar alive in that battle. As for the king
'Hlamti®*’ u sar Babili* har-ba-su of Elam and the king of Babylonia,
tahdzi-1a dan-nav the dread of my terrible onslaught
39. is-hup-su-nu-ti-ma ki-rib ’narkabati?'- 39. overcame them, they forsook their
Su-nu t-mas-se-ru-nt_ Sd-a-Su-un a-na chariots, and they fled their lands
Su-zu-ub nap-sa-te-su-nu ma-tu-us-su- to save their lives.
un in-nab-tu-ma
40. la i-tu-ru-ni ar-kig min-di-ma ”4Sin- 40. And they did not come back. There-
ahé?'-eriba Sar 'ASSur** ag-gis 1-z1z-ma upon Sennacherib became violently
a-na 'Elamti* 1-Sak-ka-nu ta-ai-ar-tt angry and as he ordered (his army)
to turn toward Elam,
41. hat-tu pu-luh-tu ela "Elamti** ka-li-su- 4l. fear and terror were poured out over
un it-ta-bi-ik-ma mat-su-nu t-mas-se- all of Elam, and they left their land
ru-ma a-na su-zu-ub nap-sa-te-su-nu and, to save their lives, like the eagle
ki-t nasri
42. Sad-da-a mar-su in-nin-du-ma_ ki-i 42. betook themselves to the inaccessible
a-na 1s-su-ri._ kus-su-di i(text, at)-tar- mountain(s), and, like unto birds
ra-[|ku] lab-bu-su-un a-di a-mi Si-tim- that one pursues, their hearts were
ti-su-nu tu-du rent. To the day of their death
43. la ip-tu-ma la e-pu-si ta-ha-zu i-na 43. they did not come out (lit. open any
Sani(z) girri-ta a-na Babili** sa (v. $d) way) nor did they make war. In
a-na ka-sa-di t-sa-am-me-ru-st hi-it- my second campaign I advanced
mu-trs swiftly against Babylon, upon whose
44, al-lik-ma ki-ma ti-ib me-hi-e a-zik-ma 44, conquest I had determined, like the
ki-ma im-ba-ri_ as-hu-up-sti(v. Su) ala oncoming of a storm I broke loose,
ni-t-tt al-me-ma i-na and I overwhelmed it like a hurri-
cane. I completely invested that
city, with
45. pil-si u na-p(b)al-ka-tt kdta[-ai tk-su- 45. mines and engines my hands (took
dal hu-bu-ut o. 6... danniite? '-Su the city), the plunder his
sthra u rabd(a) la e-zib-ma “pagré?'- DOWeTIU LZeek whether small or
Su-nu ri-bit ala great, I left none. With their
corpses
46. ti-mal-li ™Sti-zu-bu gar Babili** ga-du 46. I filled the city squares (wide places).
imatiesu- [. . 8. ] ?-Su bal-tu-su- Shuzubu, king of Babylonia, together
un a-na ki-rib mati-ia 1-bil-si (v. la) with his family and his (nobles) I
carried off alive into my land.
47. makkéir alt st-a-tu kaspu hurdsu 47. The wealth of that city,—silver, gold,
abné?! ni-sik-ti busi makktiru a-na precious stones, property and goods,
kdtad™ |nisé?'-1a! am-ni-i-ma a-na i-di I doled out (counted into the hands
ra-ma-ni-su-nu U-tir-ru of) to my people and they made it
their own.
48. ilani®’ a-sib lib-bi-Su kata nisé?'-ia 48. The gods dwelling therein,—the hands
ik-su-su-nu-ti-ma u-Sab-bi-ru-ma of my people took them, and they
[busda|-su-nu makkira-su-nu_ il-ku-ni smashed them. Their property and
(v. %) ¢Adad 4Sé-la ilani? goods they seized. Adad and Shala,
49. Sé °Kkallati?’ sé ™Marduk-nddin- 49. the gods of Ekalldte (a city), whom
ahé?' sar 'Akkadi*' a-na_ tar-si Marduk-nadin-ahé, king of Babylon,
™Tukulti(ti) -apal-e-Sdr-ra = ‘Sar! in the reign of Tiglath-pileser, king
1A §Sur*? il-ku-ma a-na Babili** a-bil-lu of Assyria, had seized and carried off
to Babylon,
50. i-na 418 Sandti?! ul-tu Babilr** u-se-sa- 50. after four hundred and eighteen years
am-ma a-na °E|kalldéti?'| a-na as-ri- I brought them out of Babylon and
Su-nu %-tir-Su-nu-ti ala u bitate?’ returned them to their place in Ekal-
late. The city and (its) houses,—
ol. ul-tu ussé-Su a-di gab-dib-bi-su ab-bul

VVA
51. foundation and walls (lit. from its
ak-kur i-na girri ak-mu dtiru wu foundation to its walls), I destroyed,
Sal-hu-u bitatr?? tlani?! =ztk-kur-rat I devastated, I burned with fire.
libitte wu epirr°?’ ma-la ba-su-u The wall and outer wall, temples and
gods, temple-tower of brick and earth,
as many as there were,
52. as-suh-ma a-na "A-ra-ah-ti ad-di ina 52. I razed and dumped them into the
ki-rib ali Si-t-tu 'hi-ra'-a-ti ah-ri-e-ma Arahtu-canal. Through the midst
ir-si-ts-su-nu (v. om.) i-na (v. ina) méP! ‘ of that city I dug canals, I flooded
as-pu-un si-kin its site (lit. ground) with water, and
the very
53. us-se-Su U-hal-lik-ma eli sd a-bu-bu 53. foundations thereof (lit. the structure
na-al-ban-ta-su u-sa-lir as-si ah-rat of its foundation) I destroyed. I
a-mi kak-kar ali St-a-tu w bitdate?! made its destruction more complete
alan?! than that by a flood. That in days
to come, the site of that city, and
(its) temples and gods,
54. la mus-8i i-na ma-a-mi us-har-mit-su- 54. might not be remembered, I com-
ma ag-da-mar %-sal-lis i-na pi-t nari pletely blotted it out with (floods)
§é U-Sah-ru-t i-na ki-rib *¢Ta-as of water and made it like a meadow.
At the mouth of the canal which
I dug through the midst of the
mountain of Tas,
55. 6 wnunaré?' [dan-nu-ti'’ sa-lam aldni?! 55. I fashioned six great stelas with the
rabiti?’ bélé?! -1a ab-ta-ni ki-rib-Su-un images of the great gods, my lords,
uw sa-lam Sarru-ti-ia la-bi-in upon them, and my royal image,
with face averted
06. ap-pt ma-har-su-un ul-ziz mimma 56. (in prayer), I set up before them.
lip-ta-at kdta*’-1a sd ki-rib Ninua** Every deed of my hands, which I
1-tib-bu-Su_ si-ru-us-Su-un %-Sa-as-tir- wrought for the good of Nineveh,
ma had engraved thereon,
57. a-na Sarrant'?!'(nt)méré”"-1a e-pis-ti-ts . to be a memorial(?) to the kings,
ma-ti-ma rubt ar-ku-u i-na sarrdni?! my sons. If ever there is a future
(nt) méré?'-ia Sa e-pis-ti e-pu-su prince among the kings, my sons,
who
. t-sah (text sam)-hu-t rik-sa-te ar-ku- 58. destroys the work which I have done,
su i-pat-ta-ru mé”! pat-ta-a-tt Sa-ti-na (and) breaks the covenant I have
ul-tu ta-mir-ti Ninua®* . . . . ma-lak- (hereby) made with him, diverts
sin the course of the waters of those
- canals from the plain of Nineveh,
59. ildmi?’ rabiite?’ ma-la i-na “%"“naré 59. may the great gods, all whose names
an-ni-e St-mu na-bu-t% i-na si-it pi-i- are named in these stelas, by the
Su-[nu] word of their mouth,
60. pars? el-li §é la na-[du-u ar-rat limut|- 60. a holy decree which cannot fail,
te li-ru-ru-su-ma lis-ki-pu palé-su curse him with an evil curse, and
overthrow his rule.
b) THE NEBI YUNUS INSORIPTION (H 4)
. ekal mdSin-ahé?'-eri-ba Ssarru rabt 1 Palace of Sennacherib, the great king,

Sarru dan-nu sar kissati Sar "A ssur* the mighty king, king of the universe,
Sar kib-rat irbittim (tim) king of Assyria, king of the four
quarters (of the world);
. mi-gir wldn?! rabiite?’ lu-li-mu tr-si . favorite of the great gods; wise sover-
ma-al-ku pit-ku-du ri-é-um ba-hu-la-a- eign, provident prince, shepherd of
te peoples,
. mut-tar-ru-t nisé?! rap-sa-a-tt a-na-ku . ruler of widespread nations, am I.
4A §Sur abu ildni?! i-na_ kul-lat ma-li- Assur, father of the gods, regarded
ki me with favor
. ki-nis tppalsa-ni-ma ela gi-mir a-sib . above (lit. among) all princes, and —
pa-rak-ki w-sar-ba-a “kakké?'-ia .. . made my arms great above all
(those) who dwell in palaces;
. “hattu i-Sar-tu mu-rap-pi-sat mi-is-rt . a righteous scepter, which enlarges
Si-bir-ru la pa-du-t% a-na Sum-kut za- the border, an unsparing lance for
4-1 the overthrow of my enemies,
. t-Sat-me-ih, rit-tu-ti-a i-na_ ta-ha-az . he put into my hand. In open battle
séri ™Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sar (lit. a battle of the plain) like a hurri-
'Kar-*dun-td-as cane (deluge) I cast down Merodach-
baladan, king of Babylonia,
. ™Kal-du u A-ra-me a-di ummdanatee! . the Chaldeans and Aramaeans, to-
Elamti** ri-si-Su a-bu-bis as-pu-un gether with the armies of Elam, his
su-t ally. That one
. a-na mat tam-tim e-dis ip-par-sid-ma . fled alone to the Sea-land and the
tldmi?* ma-sal mdati-su it-ti mesréte gods of his whole land, with the bones
(GIR-PAD-DU)?”! abé?'-Su of his fathers,
. mah-ru-ti ul-tu ki-rib kimahhi th-pi- . (who lived) before (him), (which) he
ir-ma nisé?"|-Su] a-na ki-rib “elippate?! gathered from their coffins, and his
people,
10. u-Se-li-ma a-na °‘Na-gi-ti sd e-bir-tan 10. he loaded on ships and crossed over to
*Mar-rat e-bir-ma i-na as-rv Nagitu,which is on the other side of the
Bitter-Sea (Persian Gulf); and in that
1: Su-a-tu i-mid sad-da-su gi-mir mati-su HH place he died. The whole of his
ak-Sud(ud)-ma Ssal-la-tis am-nu aléni?!- land I conquered and counted as
Su ab-bul ak-kur booty. His cities I destroyed, I
devastated,
12. i-na girrt ak-mu ak-Sud(ud) °*Hi-rim- 12. I burned with fire. I conquered
mu ua mat *La-su-bi-gal-la-ai mat 'EI- Hirimmu and the land of the Yasubi-
li-pr gallai; the land of the Ellipi I
13. u-sal-pit-ma %-ab-bit da-dd-me-sa sd 13. overthrew, and I destroyed its towns.
™Eu-li-t Sar “Si-du-un-nt e-kim Sarrt- I deprived Luli, king of Sidon, of his
su kingdom.
14. ™T'u-ba--lu i-na “kusst-Su t-se-sib-ma 14. Tuba’lu I set on his. throne and
man-da-at-tu béli-ti-ia t-kin si-ru- imposed my royal tribute upon him.
US-SU
15. u-sal-pit rap-su na-gu-t ‘Ta-v-di ™Ha- 15. I overthrew the wide province of
2a-ki-a-% Sarra-sui e-mid ap-sa-a-ni Judah. On Hezekiah, its king, I
laid my yoke.
16. amélatt ¢°Tu-mur-ra-ai — a-si-bu-ut 16: The people of Tumur, who live in the
Sadi(i) mar-st i-na “kakki t-sam-kit steep mountains, I cut them down
‘Uk-ku with the sword. Ukku
Lie a-di nap-har da-dd-me-su ki-ma_ tal Li: with all of its towns, I destroyed (so
a-bu-bi t-ab-bit nisé?’ 'Hi-lak-ki a-si- that they were) like ruins (left by)
bu-ut a hurricane (deluge). The people
of Cilicia, who live
18. hur-sa-a-ni a-nar i-na “kakki alaéni?'- 18. in the mountains, I slew with the
Su-nu ab-bul ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu sword; their cities I destroyed, I
devastated, I burned with fire.
19; eTil-ga-rum-mu_ sa pa-at 'Ta-ba-li bey Til-garimmu, which is on the border
aksud(ud)-ma v-tir a-na kar-me ¢*Na- of Tabalu, I captured and turned
gi-tu into ruins. Nagitu,
20. ¢Na-gi-tu-di->-bi-na 'Hi-il-mu ‘Bil-la- 20. Nagitu-di’bina, Hilmu, Billatu, Hupa-
tu ‘Hu-pa-pa-a-nu na-gi-e panu, the provinces
21 Sd Sar 'Elamtc”! sd i-na e-bir-tan tamtim 21. of the king of Elam, which lie on the
Sit-ku-na-at su-bat-sun §& nis ep! other side of the sea, where the people
22. ‘Bit-La-kin la-pa-an “kakké-ia dan- 22. of Bit-Yakin, gathering the gods of
nu-te tldni?’ mati-su-un i-na Subti-su- their lands out of their shrines, before
nu my mighty arms, and crossing the
sea,
23. id-ku-t tam-tim e-bi-ru-ma %-si-bu ki- 23. had settled,—in Hittite! ships
rib-su-un i-na “elappate?’ 'Hat-tr
1 That is, Syrian, Phoenician, ships.
24. Sd i-na Ninua®' uw ¢Til-bar-si-ip e-pu- 24. which I built in Nineveh and Til-
Su tam-tim lu e-bir aldni?’ sé ki-rib barsip,? I crossed the sea. The cities of
25. na-gi-e sa-tu-nu aksud(ud)-ma i-na 25. those provinces I captured and
gurrt ak-mu nisé?’ 'Bit-"La-kin uv burned with fire. The people of Bit-
tldni?'-Su-nu Yakin, and their gods,
26. a-di ba-hu-la-a-te sar 'Elamtt** as-lu- 26. together with the men of the king of
lam-ma a-na 'Assur** %-ra-a Elam, I carried off and brought them
to Assyria.
27. ar-ka Babila®'?' ga it-ti ™¢Marduk- 27. Afterwards, the Babylonians who had
apla-iddina(na) %-su-% in-nab-tu E- left with Merodach-baladan and had
lam-tas fled to Elam,
28. Sar 'Elamti** a-na Bébila®* (al)illiku- 28. (and) the king of Elam, came to
nim-ma ™St-zu-bu mar "Ga-hul i-na Babylon, and he (the Elamite king)
vkusst Sarru-te placed Shuzubu, son of Gahul, on
the royal throne
29. eli-Su-nu u-Se-Sib-ma_ sadbé?’ “kakki 29. over them. Soldiers, chariots, horses,
(so Sm.-Sayce, IR has ~hattz) my royal host, against
~narkabdti?' sisé?’ ki-sir sarru-ti-ia
a-na mi-ih-rit
30. Sar 'Hlamti** t-ma--ir ummédndtec?! 30. the king of Elam I sent. Many of
ma--du it-ti mari-su i-du-ku-ma i-tur his host, together with his son, they
ar-ka-nis slew, and he turned back.
ol. Su-nu a-di' Uruk** is-tam-di-hu dl. But they marched on to Erech.
dSamas $d Larsa*' ¢Béltu &é Eriduk Shamash of Larsa, Beltis of Eridu(?),
(? text NUN-E-SI) *Béltu §4 Uruk* Beltis of Erech, Nana,
4Na-na-a
32. 40-sur-a-mat-sa *Be-lit bald ti “Kurun- 32. Usuramatsa, Beltis (goddess) of life,
nam(GAS-TIN-nam) ¢Kas-Si-tu Kurunnam, Kashshitu, Nergal, the
4INergal (IGI-DU) ildni?! a-si-bu-ut gods dwelling
33. Uruk** a-di busi-su-nu =makkira- 33. in Erech, as well as their property and
Su-nu Sé la ni-bi 18-lu-lu-ni i-na ta-ai- their goods,—there was no numbering
ar-ti-Su-nu it, they carried off as spoil. On their
return (march)
34. ™St-zu-bu Sar Babilt** i-na tahdz séri 34, they (lit. their hands) seized Shuzubu,
bal-tu-su tk-si-da kdtd?"-Su-un e-ri- king of Babylon, alive, in open battle
m-nu (lit. battle of the plain). They threw
1S$mith-Sayce, na.
2 Usually identified with Btrejik, on the upper Euphrates. But see Hall, Ancrent History of the
Near East, p. 488, n. 4, where reference is made to R. C. Thompson’s identification of this place with
Tell Ahmar, near Jerabis.
35. bi-ri-tu. td-du-si-ma_ a-di mah-ri-ia 35. him fettered into a cage and brought
ub-lu-nis-si i-na abulli kabal alt sd him before me. I tied him up in
Ninua** the middle city-gate of Nineveh,
36. ar-ku-su da-bu-ti-e§ sar 'Elamtt** sa 36. like a pig. The king of Elam who
ri-su-ut *"Babila*: ?! al-li-ku had come to aid the Babylonians,—
ov. a-na mati-su lu al-lik aldni?! dan-nu-te of. against his land I marched. The
bit-ni-sir-ti-Su wu aldni?’ sihrtiti?’ sa strong cities, his treasure-houses
li-me-ti-Su-nu (cities), and the small cities of their
environs,
38. a-di ne-ri-bi §é 'Bit-"Bu-na-ak-ki 38. as far as the pass of (or, entrance to)
al-me ak-Sud(ud) as-lu-la sal-la-su-un Bit-Bunakki, I besieged, I captured,
ab-bul I carried off their spoil, I destroyed,
39. ak-kur i-na girrt ak-mu sar 'Hlamte®* 39. I devastated, I burned with fire. The
ka-sad_ aldni?'-Su is-me-ma im-ku-su king of Elam heard of the capture of
hat-tum his cities and terror fell upon him.
40. si-it-ti nisé?! mdti-su a-na dan-na-a-ti 40. The remnant of the people of his
u-Se-li Su-t “Ma-dak-tu al sarru-ti-su land he brought up into strongholds,
while he (himself) forsook Madaktu,
his royal city,
41. e-zib-ma a-na °Ha-i-da-la sd ki-rib 41. and turned his face toward Haidala
Sad-di-t 18-ta-kan pa-ni-st which is in the midst of the mountains.
42. a-na ‘Ma-dak-te al Sarru-ti-su a-la-ku 42. To Madaktu, his royal city, I ordered
ak-bi 7 Tebitu ku-us-su dan-nu tk-st- the march. Tebitu (the tenth Baby-
dam-ma lonian month) (with) severe weather
(cold) set in,
43. §a-mu-tum la zi-iz-tum il-lik-ma sal-gu 43. uninterrupted rains came on, and
na-hal-lum na-ad-bak sadi(1) a-du-ra snow. I was afraid of the swollen
u-tir-ma mountain streamsand turned back and
44, a-na 'Assur** as-ba-ta har-ra-na ar-ka 44, took the road to Assyria. Thereupon
Sar 'H-lam-ti 'Par-su-as 'An-za-an the king of Elam gathered to himself
a large body of confederates,—(the
men) of Parsuas, Anzan,
45. 'Pa-si-ru 'El-li-pt nap-har 'Kal-di 45, Pashiru, Ellipi, the whole of Chaldea,
am A -ra-me ka-li-Su-un kit-ru rabtii(%) and all the Aramaeans.
46. ik-te-ra it-ti-Su a-di Sar 'Babili** a-na 46. These, with the king of Babylon,
a-ha-mes tk-ri-bu-ma a-na e-pis drew near en masse, and set upon me,
offering battle.
47. tahdzi i-na irti-ca wliku-ni i-na e-muk 47. (Trusting) in the might of Assur, my
4A Sur béli-ca i-na ta-mir-tr °Ha-lu- lord, I fought with them in the plain
li-e (text, na) of Halulé,
48. it-ti-Su-nu am-da-hi-is_ tahtd-Su-nu 48 . I defeated them, cutting down with

as-kun 150,000 sdbé?' tahdzi-Su-nu the sword 150,000 of their warriors.
i-na “kakk
49. u-sam-kit “narkabdte?’ “su-wm-ba-a-ti 49. Their chariots, wagons and royal
~za-ra-tt Sarru-ti-su-nu_ e-kim-su-nu-ti tents I took from them.
50. amrabiite?'-su-nu a-di =™4Nabii-Sum- 50. Their nobles, as well as Nabti-shum-
iskun(un) mar mdM arduk-apla- ishkun, son of Merodach-baladan,
iddina(na) sé i-na “narkabati?’ kaspi who stood (?) on silver chariots,
ol. [u-st-uz|-zu as-ma-a-ti hurdsi tul-lu-% 51. were bedecked with golden orna-
patré?’ hurdsi sit-ku-nu wv i-na ments, wore golden daggers,
52. [Sewer é?"! hurdst ru-uk-ku-sa rit-ti-su- . had their fingers covered (lit. bound)
un bal-tu-su-un ki-rib tam-ha-ri with golden rings,
tk-su-da
53. kata*-ai Sar Babili®* u sar 'Elamti* 53. I (lit. my hands) captured alive in
har-ba-Su tahdzi-ia_~—ts-hup-su-nu-tt the battle. As for the king of Baby-
ki-rib lon and the king of Elam, the chilling
terror of my battle overcame them,
4. v~narkabdte?'-su-nu t-mas-se-ru-ni_ 2u- 54. they let their dung go into their
u-Su-un e-dis tp-par-sid-du-ma ma-tu- chariots, they ran off alone,
Us-SUu-UN
. in-nab-tu 59 . and fled their land.
c) SLAB CONTAINING AN ABBREVIATED RECORD OF THE EIGHT ROYAL CAMPAIGNS,

WITH THE ACCOUNT OF A LATE CAMPAIGN (BY THE KING’S
GENERALS?) AGAINST ARABIA (H5)
1s [The people of Bit-Yakin and their gods

. [a-di bal-hu-la-ti [Sar Elamti aslulam- 2 . together with] the men of [the king
ma ana 'Assur**| of Elam I carried off and brought
them to Assyria!.
. [urd] ar-ka Sar(?) [.... $a itt . . | . Afterwards [the Babylonians who
had
. [”"4*Marduk'-apla-iddina(na) 2 erree ©) Jae
. [“lkakké?'-ca dan-nu-te [ig-ru]-ru-ma eae eres [before] my mighty weapons

had run away and
. [W-us-su-ma in-nab-tu. E-lam-tas ret ay had gone forth and fled to
. (BE-la-mu-t a-na Babili®* (al)illiku- these and] the Elamite came

nim-|ma] to Babylon,
. [St-zu-bu t|-na “kusst sarru- . [and he (the Elamite king)] placed
ti eli-Su-nu u-se-[sib] [Shuzubu] on the royal throne over
them.
. [sdbé?! vhatte “narkabdte?’] sisé?! ki-sir 2 [Soldiers, chariots] horses, my royal

Sarru-ti-ia a-na me-th-rit host, against
. [Sar ‘Hlamte** umatr] ummdndtec?'-su 10. [the king of Elam I sent]. Many of
ma--du it-ti mari-su i-"du'-ku-ma his host, together with his son, they
slew. But
Tut [zturma arkanis sunu adi] Uruk** 11. [I turned back, while they] marched
1s-tam-di-hu 4“Samas sé Larsa** on to Erech, Shamash of Larsa,
12. tldni?"| a-si-bu-ut kir-bi-su 12 [the gods] dwelling therein
a-di busé-su-nu (that is, in Erech) together with their
property
Be Imakkaérisunu sa la nibi 281-lu-lu-ni 13. [and their goods,—there was no
ina ta-ai-ar-ti-su-nu ™S%-zu-bu numbering it], they carried off as spoil.
On their return (march), Shuzubu
14. [Sar Babelc ina tahdz sérc' bal-tu-su 14. [king of Babylon] they captured alive
is-ba-tu-nim-ma a-di mah-ri-ia in open battle
15. [ublinissu ina abullc' kabal alc sa 15. and [brought him] before me. I
Ninua™ ar-ku-su da-bu-t-es tied him up [in the gate] in the middle
the city of Nineveh like a pig.
16. [Sar Elamti** Sa ri-su-lut *Bdabilé** P! 16. [The king of Elam] who had come to
il-li-ku | the aid of the Babylonians,—
Lie lana matisu lu allik aldni?"| dan-nu-ti 17. [against his land I marched.] The
bit-ni-sir-ti-su u aldni”! sthrite?! strong cities, his treasure-houses
(cities) and the small cities
18. [Sa limétisunu adi] ne-ri-bi Sd 'Bit- 18. [of their environs, as far as] the pass
™Bu-na-ak-ki al-me aksud(ud) of (or, entrance to) Bit-Bunakki, I
besieged, I captured,
12; [aslula Sallasun ab-]bu-ul ak-kur i-na Lo: [I carried off their spoil], I destroyed,
girrt ak-mu I devastated, I burned with fire.
20. [sar '‘Hlamti kasdd aldni?'-su 1s|-me-ma 20. [The king of Elam] heard of the [cap-
im-kut-su hat-tum si-it-ti nisé?! mati- ture of his cities] and terror fell upon
SU him. The remnant of the people of
his land
21. lana danndti uséli SA al-na “Ma-dak-tu 21. [he brought up into strongholds,]
al Sarru-ti-Su e-zib-ma while he himself forsook Madaktu,
his royal city and
22. [ana ‘Haidala sa kirib' Sadi(2) is-ta-kan 22. turned his face to [Haidala which is
pa-ni-SUu in the] midst of the mountains.
23. lana ‘“Madaktu al sarré-ti'-su a-la-ku 23. [To Madaktu, his royal] city, I
ak-bi °Tebétu. ku-us-su dan-nu ordered the march. Tebetu,! with
severe weather
1The tenth Babylonian month, that is, December-January.
[a-du-ra! %-tir-ma a-na "A sSurké 24. [set in LPP, & ] I was afraid [of the
as-ba-ta har-ra-nu swollen mountain streams] and turned
back and took the road to Assyria.
St-ub na-gi-su i-na eli ti-la-ni of his province upon tells.
. [st-t-]te nisé?’ mati-su sé la-pa- cones tere the rest of the people of his
an “kakké?'-ia land who [had fled] before my weap-
ons,
DIMPAVGrsid® . 6... u-Se|-ri-dam-ma aera he(?) brought down and
u-Se-Sib di-ra-a-ti settled in the forests( ?).
oS) See niséP! mati-su ak-su-ud-ma sal- b Aves rc: the people of his land, I cap-
la-tts am-nu tured and counted as spoil.
ats Oe ina girrt ak-mu ™Babilak* P! | © 6, © ‘6 I burned with fire. The
Babylonians
Us eee [¢p-hu'-ru-ma ik-nu-su = &d- gathered together and sub-
pal-su mitted to him.
Lams mms [a-na] St-an-na* a-la-ku ak-bi cat Te hes I ordered the march to Baby-
lon (Shuanna).
Rev.
Leean u ni-sa-ti-1§ hat-tum im-kut-su- een ee with lamentation. Fear fell
nu-t upon them.
2. [... . wp-tul-t% hurdsa kaspa ni-stk-te . [The treasury of Esagila they opened],
abné?! a-na sar Elamti** gold, silver, precious stones to the
king of Elam
3. [ts-pu'-ru-su ki-a-am a-na Babili** . [asa gift they sent. Their messenger]
they dispatched with the message:
chPee tu-kul-ta-nt lu at-ta su-u . “To Babylon [hasten, come to our
[Sar] Elamtc** ald (side)] for thou art our trust.”
That Elamite [king]
St eee lakSud-|ma as-lu-la Sal-la-su . [whom in the course of my former
aléni”'-su ab-bu-la campaign I had defeated], had carried
off his spoil, had destroyed his cities,
OMes ak|-mu-a@ i-na uz-ni-su ul rb- . [had devastated and] burned [them]
Sa-a with fire, who hadn’t any sense,
Mem. Ss [da-]?-tu *Babilé™ ?' im-hur|[- are received the gifts of the Baby-
ma| lonians.
oy ae ul tk-ba-a e-pi-su-un * 8 % did not tell them what to do( ?)
@ “e
9. [. . . . u-pal-hi-ir-ma 'Par-su-as 'An- ae [his army and camp] he

re Pas
za-an 'Pa-si-ru gathered and Parsuash, Anzan,
Pashiru.
Mee ee cs am A-ra-me ka-li-su-un kit-ru 10 all the Aramaeans, an enor-

rabi(%) mous host of confederates
ve Pauets 'Babilt* méré Baébil** Bar- 14; [he called to his side. Babylon! and
sip* the Babylonians, Borsippa
Ra ea [a]-na e-pis ta-ha-zi a-na irti-ia 12: [and the men of Borsippa
illiku(ku)-nt to make battle they came on against
me.
lon lina emuk ¢Assur bélia ina] ta-mir-te 13. [In the might of Assur my lord], in
¢|Ha-lu-li|-e it-ti-su-nu the plain of Halulé, [I fought] with
them,
14. lamdahis tahtédsunu askun] 150,000 14. [I defeated them], 150,000 of their
lamsabér! ta-ha)-zi-su-nu warriors
15. lina “kakki usamkit “narkabdte?! “sul- 15. [I cut down with the sword. Their
um-ba-a-ti “za-ra-tt [Sarru-ti'!-Su-nu chariots], wagons, and royal tents I
e-kim-su-nu-tt took from them.
16. [rabtite?'-Sunu adi ”™*Nabi|-sum-iskun 16. Their nobles, as well as Nabd-shum-
(un) mar ”¢*Marduk-apla-iddina(na) ishkun, son of Merodach-baladan,
Lie [sa ina “narkabati?! kaspi usuz]-zu (?) We who stood (?) on silver chariots, were
as-ma-a-tt hurdst tul-lu-a =patré?? bedecked with golden ornaments,
hurdst sit-ku-nu wore golden daggers,
18. [lu ana Seweré?!’ hurdsi rul-uk-ku(text 18. [had their fingers] covered with
lu)-sa rit-ti-Su-un bal-tu-us-sul-un] [golden rings], these, alive
19. [kirib tamhari tk-su'-da katd*-ai sar 19. lin the midst of the battle] my hand
Babilt** u Sar ‘Elamti** captured. The king of Babylon and
the king of Elam,—
20. [harbasu tahdzva is|-hup-su-nu-ti ki-rib 20. [the chilling terror of my battle]
~narkabate?'-su-nu u-mas-se-ru-nt overcame them and they let their
dung go into their chariots.
21. [zisun edi tpparsidu'-ma ma-tu-us- . [They ran off alone] and fled their
Su-un in-nab-tu land.
22. fTelhul-nu sar-rat “A-ra-bi .... [Telhunu], queen of the Arabs,
i-na ki-rib mad-ba-re in the midst of the desert,
23. [. . . 2],000 gammalé?! e-kim ka-tus-sa ee! x thousand camels I took
so Pei Pie
Si-t wt-tr ™Ha-za-alu from her hand. She, with Hazael,

24. [.... harbasu ta-ha-zi'-1a_ 1s-hup- i 6 Oe[the terror of my battle]
ow se:
Su-nu-tt kul-ta-ri-Su-nu w-mas-se-ru- overcame them, they left their tents,

ma
25. [. . . .|-lu *A-du-wm-ma-te a-na nap- ee © @ «6 to the...of Adummatu
Sa-a-t in-nab-tu they fled for their lives.
Rev
26. [. . . . ‘A-dul-wm-ma-tu. sé ki-rib 26... . [and] Adummatu, which are
mad-ba-rt sit-ku-na-at sui-bat-sun situated in the desert,
J he ] su-me Sd ri-i-tu mas-ki-ti 27 ... . Of thirst, wherein there are no
la ba-Su-% ki-rib-sul-un] feeding nor drinking places.
d) SEAL OF TUKULTI-URTA I (H6)
1. (¢Tukulti)-MAS Sar kissate apil 1 Tukulti-Urta, king of the universe,

4Sulmdnu(nu)-asaridu Sar 'Agur son of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria.
2. kisttti(tz) “Kar-du mu-ni-kir sitri-ia . Booty of Babylonia. Who blots out
Sumi-ia my inscribed name,
3. Assur ¢Adad sum-su mét-su lu-hal-li- . may Assur and Adad destroy his
ku | name and his land.
4, enukunukku an-nu-u istu "Assur ana . This seal found some hidden way
‘Akkadt* sa-ri 1k-ta-din from Assyria to hostile Akkad.
5. ana-ku ™4Sin-ahé?'-ertba Sar "Assur . I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
(o>). na 600 sandte?’ Bab-ili akSud(ud)-ma for). after 600 years, took Babylon,
7. wtu makkir Bab-ala ws-si-si-as-su . and from the wealth (booty) of
Babylon, I selected it.
Edge J
makkir Sa-ga-ra-ak-ti-Sur-ia-ds sar Property of Shagarakti-Shuriash, king
kissate of the universe.
Rev. .
1. ¢Tukulti-MAS Sar kissatt =apal . Tukulti-Urta, king of the universe,
4Sulmdnu(nu)-Kasaridu> sar "Assur son of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria.
2. [kisitta|(tz) "Kar-du-ni-st mu-ni-kir . Booty of Babylonia. Who blots out
Sitri-ia Sumi-ia my written name,
3. Assur *Adad sum-su mat-su lu-hal- . may Assur and Adad destroy his
li-ku name and his land.
4. makkir Sa-ga-ra-ak-ti-Sur-ia-d§_— Sar . Property of Shagarakti-Shuriash, king
kissati of the universe.
5. Sa ina ela *“kunukkt $4 uknit . What was on a seal-cylinder of lapis-
lazuli.
CHAPTER VI
“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL”

I. EARLIEST RECORD! OF THE IMPROVEMENTS UNDERTAKEN
BY SENNACHERIB AT NINEVEH (A 1)
63. i-na t-mi?-si-ma Ninua** ma-ha-zu3 63. At that time, Nineveh, the noble
si-t-ru alu na-[ram|] ¢Is-tar sé nap-har metropolis, the city beloved of Ishtar,
ki-du-di-e tldni?! v4 4T star ate?’ ba-su-u4 wherein are all the meeting-places of
ki-rib-st gods and goddesses;
64. tim-me-en-nu da-ru-t du-ru-us sa-[a]-ti 64. the everlasting substructure, the
Sd ul-tu ul-la it-tt si-tir bu-ru-wm5-me eternal foundation; whose plan had
is-rat-su is-rit-ma su-pu-% si-in-du-su been designed from of old, and whose
structure had been made beautiful
along with the firmament of heaven;
65. as-ru nak-lu’ si-bat pi-ris-ti sa’ 65. the beautiful (artistic) place, the
¥v
mimma sum-sue si-pir ni-kil-tim"™ abode of divine law (decision, rule),

gi-mir bil-lu-di-e ni-sir-ti! LAL.GAR into which had been brought all kinds
St-ta-bu-lu® ki-rib-su of artistic workmanship, every secret
and pleasant (?) plan (or command,
of god);
66. Sd ul-tu ul-la sarréni?'(ni) a-[li|-kut 66. where from of old, the kings, who
mah-ri abé?"8-1a ul-la-nu-u-a be-lu-ut" went before, my fathers, had exer-
LA SSur™ e-pu-su-ma u-ma-1-ru® ba-u- cised the lordship over Assyria before
lat ¢En-lal me, and had ruled the subjects of Enlil,
67. w Sat-ti'®-sam la na-par-ka-a [e]-rib la” . and yearly without interruption, had
nar-ba-a-tt bilat mal-ki kib-rat ar-ba->2 received therein an unceasing income,
im-da-na'8-ha-ru ki-rib-st the tribute of the princes of the four
quarters (of the world).
1 Written after the first campaign. The bracketed portions of the transliterations are for the
most part restored from variants, and are therefore not conjectural.
2 C1-4, me. 8 C1-4, 84. 144 Bl, tu, Cl-4, ti.
8 C1-4, zt. 9Bl, C1-4, Su. 1 Cl, ir; C4, tr-ru.
4C1-4, wu. 10 Bl, C1-4, tt. 16 ©], 2, 4, té.
6 C1-4, u. 11 Cl, te. 17C1, 4, om.
6 C4, Su. 2 Ci, 3, la. 18 B1, C2, 3, insert ah.
7 C3, lum. 13 C1, 4, abt.
94
“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” 95
68. ai-um-ma i-na) [1b®-bi-Su-nu—a-na 68. Not one among them had given his
ekallt . kir-bi-Si = =kum-mu — ri-mit thoughtful attention to, nor had his
be-lu-tu? sé sut-hur® su-bat-su li-e-su heart considered, the palace therein,
ul id®-da-a lib-bu-us wl ih7-su-us the place of the royal abode, whose
site had become too small;
69. a-na su-te-sur sik ali u Sum-dul ri-ba- 69. (nor) had he turned his thought (lit.
a-tt ha-ri-e nari za-ka-ap sip-pa-a-te® ear), nor brought his mind (lit. liver),
t-zu-un-su ul ib-si-ma ul us-ta-bil to lay out the streets of the city, to
ka-ras-su widen the squares, to dig a canal, to
set out trees.
70. ta_q-te ™ 4Sin-ahé?'-ert-ba sar 'A ssurk* 70. But I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
e-pis Ssip-ri St-a-tu ki-c te-im alan?! gave my thought (ear) and brought
wna ua-ni-ia vb-si-ma ka-bit-ti wb- my mind, to accomplish this work
lam-ma according to the command (will) of
the gods.
ae te-ne-sit ['Kal]-di °"A-ra-mu8® '‘Man- iat The people of Chaldea, the Ara-
na-at 'Ku-e w4 'Hi-lak-ku sa!® a-na maeans, the Mannai, (the people) of
mi-ri-ia® la kit-nu-su" as-su'-ha-am- Kue and Hilakku, who had not sub-
ma dup-sik-ku® %-Sa-as-sv-su-nu-ti- mitted to my yoke, I snatched away
ma 1l-bi-nu libitta (from their lands), made them carry
the basket and mold bricks.
72. a-pt ku-pi|-e?! sd] kirib ?Kal-di ak-sit- 72. I cut down the reed marshes which
ma ap-pa-ri-su-un* sam-hu-ti i-na are in Chaldea, and had the men of
ba-hu-la-tt™ na-ki-re k16-Sit-te kdta-1a the foe whom my handshad conquered
u-Sal-di-da a-na e-pis sip-ri-sa drag their mighty reeds (to Assyria)
for the completion of its work.
73. ekallu mah-[ri-tu] sa°380 GAR sid-du u 73. The former palace, which was30GA R””
10 GAR piit-sa $4 Sarraéni?'(ni) a-lion the side and 10 GAR on its front,
kut pa-ni abé?'-ca %-Se-pi-si-ma la which the kings, who went before, my
t-nak-ki-lu si-pir-sa fathers, had built, whose structure
they had not, however, made artistic,
1Cl1, 3, 4, ina. 11 C3, a-a. 19 Bl, ki.
2 Cl1-4, rb. 2Cl, 4, a. 20 C3, om.
3 Bl, C1+4, ti. 13 C1-4, me. 21 C3, 1.
4 C8, zu. 144C1-4 om. and add !Pi- 2 Cl, ¢
’ C14, ub-bu-ru. lis-tu(te) w! Sur-ri after Hilakku. 23 C3, om.
6 Bl, i; C3, id-di. * Bl, C1+, 3d. 243, om.
703, li-ip. 16 C3, ni-ri_ be-lu-ti-ia; Cl, 25 C2, te.
8Bl, C14, ti. Boe 26 O3 inserts «.
9 C8, uz. “BI, Su, C1-4, tk-nu-ku. 27 A GAR was equal to two
BI, di.
C1, 4, hu. “reeds” or 12 cubits.
74. Sd ul-tu [d-me ru-|ku-te "T'e-bil-ti 1-ta-a- 74. up to whose side the Tebiltu river
Sa 1-ba->-ma i-na us-si-Sa ab-bu u-sab- had come from days of old, had
Su-t t-ri-ib-bu. tim-me-en-sa worked havoe with its foundation
and destroyed its platform,—
~IOn . [ekalla sthra Sa-a-tu] a-na si-hir-ti-sa 75. that small palace I tore down in its
ak-kur-ma sé "Te-bil-ti ma-lak-sa us- totality. The course (that is, the
tib-ma U-Se-sir Mu-su-sa channel) of the Tebiltu I improved
and directed its outflow.
76. i-na [arha] se[-me-e i-na] t-mi mit-ga-re 76. In a propitious month, on a favorable
ki-rib- ka-tim-tt a-sur-rak-ki-sa 60 day, in its (the river’s) hidden bed,
Sid-du 84 pitu aban sadi(c) dan-nu (for a space of) 60 (GAR) on the side,
ak-si-ma ekla ul-tu ma-a-me %-se-lam- and 34 (GAR) on the front, I covered
ma na-ba-lis t-se-me over great mountain boulders, and
made a field rise up from the water,
and made it like unto the dry land.
i la-ba-rig ti-me i-na mili kis-sa-ti te- th Lest in the passing of days its
me-en-sti la e-ni-si as-kup-pat &™pi- platform should give way before the
i-li rab-ba-a-ti a-Sur-ru-Su t-Sa-as- (floods of) high-water, I set up great
hi-ra t-dan-na st-pu-uk-su slabs of limestone around its walls, and
strengthened its structure (lit. up-
heaping,—of earth);
78. 120+50 ti-ip-ki si-ru-us-sin a-na 78. over these (slabs) I filled in the terrace
e-la-ni tam-la-a v-mal-li-ma e-li mi-si- to a height of 170 tzpku,—I added to
th-tt ekallt mah-ri-te t-rad-di-ma t-sa- the site (lit. measurement) of the
an-di-la ti-sar-sa former palace, and widened its bul-
warks,
rite ekal sin piri “usu Yurkarinnu “mu- fgtp Thereon (lit. therein) I had them
suk-kan-ni “erinnu “Surménu “burdsu build a palace of ivory, ebony(?),
a”’bu-ut-ni ekalZAG.DU.NU.TUK.A boxwood(?), musukannu-wood, cedar,
(ekal Sdninu la 18%) a-na mu-sab cypress and spruce, the “ Palace with-
Sarru-ti-ia t-se-pi-sa ki-rib-sa out a Rival,’ for my royal abode.
80. wgustiré?? verine tar-bit **¢Ha-ma-nim 80. Beams of cedar, the product of Mt.
Sd ul-tu hur-sa-a-nt_ ru-ku-u-tt nam- Amanus, which they dragged with
ra-si-t8 vp-Sal-lu-ni %-Sat-ri-sa_ ta-ra- difficulty out of (those) distant moun-
an-si-in tains, I stretched across their ceil-
ings(?). |
roo w~dalati?’ “Surméni si-ra-a-ti Sd i-na 81. Great door-leaves of cypress, whose
pi-te-e w ta-a-ri e-ri-es ta-a-bu me-sir odor is pleasant'as they are opened and
stparrt nam-ri %-str-kis-ma %-rat-ta-a closed, I bound with a band of shining
ba-bi-sin copper and set up in their doors.
“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” oF
82. bit ap-pa-a-te tam-sil ekal 'Hat-ti Sd 82. A portico, patterned after a Hittite!
a-na li-sa-a-ni ‘Amurri** bit hi-la-a-ni palace, which they call in the Amorite
1-Sa-as-su-su a-na mul-ta->-u-ti be-lu- tongue a bit-hildni, I constructed
ti-ta t-Se-pi-sa ki-rib-sin inside them (the doors),? for my lordly
pleasure.
83. (81 néséP! pi-tan bir-ki St-ta-ki-ti Sd 83. Eight lions, open at the knee, advan-
wna 8X8,600+600 bilat éri nam-ru cing, constructed out of 11,400 talents
pi-ti-ik 4NIN-A-GAL SU-PU-SU-MaA of shining bronze, the workmanship
lu-%@ nam-ri-rt of the god Nin-a-gal, and exceedingly
glorious,
84. u 2 dim-me Su-ta-hu-ti Sd 3,600+4X 84. together with 2 colossal pillars whose
600 bilat pi-ti-ck si-par-ri st-ub-bu-? copper work came to 6,000 talents,
a-di 2 dim-me “erint rabiiti?! ela ug-gal- and two great cedar pillars, (which) I
li-e u-kin-ma dap-pi ku-lul babi-si-in placed upon the lions (colossi), I set
e-mid up as posts to support their doors.
85. ar|-bit sénu Sadi(dz)] lamassu sd] kaspr 85. Four mountain-sheep, as protecting
si-par-ri it-tt séni Sadi(di) lamassi sd deities, of silver and copper, together
abnusadt(z) es-ki nak-lig ab-ni-ma a-na with mountain-sheep, as protecting
ar-bit-ti. Sa-a-ri ti-Sa-as-bi-ta sigar-si-in deities, of great blocks of mountain
as-mu stone, I fashioned cunningly, and
setting them toward the four winds,
(directions) I adorned their entrances.
86. as-kup-[pat %%"“pi]-i-lt rab-ba-a-ti da- 86. Great slabs of limestone, the enemy
dd-me na-ki-ri ki-sit-tt kdta*-ca ki-rib- tribes, whom my hands had con-
Si-in 1s-si-ha a-sur-ru-si-in %-Sa-as-hi- quered, dragged through them (the
ra a-na tab-ra-a-ti G-Ssa-lik doors), and I had them set up around
their walls,—I made them objects of
astonishment.
87. »gar-mah-hu tam-sil **4*Ha-ma-nim sa 87. A great park, like unto Mt. Amanus,
gi-mir rikkéce!P! imbugiy-na-a-te sé?! wherein were set out all kinds of herbs
biblat(lat) sa-di-c uw 'Kal-di ki-rib-su and fruit trees,—trees, such as grow
~ hur-ru-st 1-ta-a-sa az-ku-up on the mountains and in Chaldea, I
planted by its (the palace’s) side.
88. as-8% za-ka-ap sip-pa-al-ti] ekla ta- 88. That (they might) plant orchards,
mir-ti e-li-en ali 2 PI(TA-AM) a-na I subdivided some land in the plain
maré?' Ninua™* pil-ku uv-pal-lik-ma above the city, into plots of 2 PI
u-sad-gi-la pa-nu-us-su-un each,’ for the citizens of Nineveh,
and gave it to them.
1 That is, a “western,” Syrian, palace, as the next phrase clearly shows. For the kind of structure
that is meant we must turn to the seventh chapter of I Kings.
2 The portico opened on the inner court. 3 A PTI, or 60 ka, was probably a little under an acre.
89. a-na be-ra-a-ti Sum-mu-hi ul-tu pa-a-te 89. To increase the vegetation, from the
¢K7-si-ri a-di ta-mir-ti Ninua* gada(a) border of the city of Kisiri to the
u bi-ru-ti i-na ag-gul-la-te parzille plain about Nineveh, through moun-
u-Sat-tir-ma %-Se-Sir "har-ru tain and lowland, with iron pickaxes
I cut and directed a canal.
90. 15 béruw kak]-ka-ru ul-tu ki-rib *Hu- 90. For (a distance) 13 béru® (double-
su-ur ma-a-me da-ru-t-ti a-sar-sa hours) of land, the waters of the
u-Sar-da-a ki-rib sip-pa-a-te Sa-ti-na Khosr, which from of old sought too
u-Sah-bi-ba pat-ti-1s low a level (lit. place), I made to
flow: through those orchards in irriga-
tion-ditches.
91. ul-tu sip-ru ekal be-lu-ti-ca u-kat-tu-% 1 After I had brought to an end the
u-Sa-an-di-la ri-ba-a-tt bi-ri-e-tt su- work on my royal palace, had widened
ka-a-nt us-pir-du-ma t-nam-mir kima the squares, made bright the avenues
a-me and streets and caused them to shine
like the day,
92. [*Assur] bélu rabi(u) ialdni?? a 92, I invited Assur, the great lord, the
qT stardti?' a-si-bu-tt 'Agsur*®* i-na gods and goddesses who dwell in
kir-bi-Sa ak-ri-ma '“niké?! tas-ri-ih-te Assyria, into its midst. I offered
ak-ki-ma u-sat-lim kad-ra-ar sacrifices in great numbers and pre-
sented my gifts.
93. [a-na]! dr-kat? d-me? 74-na Sarradni?'(nt) 93. In the days to come, whoever among
mar é?'-ia §é 4ASSur a-na ri-é-u(m)-ut the kings, my sons, whose name
mati u nisé?!? t-nam-bu-w zi-kir-sus Assur calls to rule over land and
e-nu-ma ekallu sa-a-tu 1-lab-bi-ru-ma people, when that palace shall have
[en]-na-hu become old and have fallen to ruins,—
94. an-hu-sa_ lu-ud-dis mu-Ssar-e* 80-tir 94. (whoever) restoresits ruins, looks upon
Su-me'-ia li-mur-ma samna lip-[su-us] the memorial-stela with my name
luntké uk-ki a-na as-ri-Su li-tir 4A SSur inscribed upon it, anoints it with oil,
ik-ri-bi-su® 1-sim-me offers sacrifices, and returns it to its
place, his prayers Assur will hear.
95. 60+34 TA-AM MU minutu mu-Sar-e
180 B1, C1-4.” Bute 7C1-4, mi.

2 Bl, arkat. C1,3, 4, ar-kat. 8.C1, 350%.
3 Bl, Cl, dmér!, 6 C1+4, Si.
8 The Assyrian béru, like the neo-Babylonian, was equivalent to about 3.8 miles.
Il. BUILDING RECORDS FOUND ON THE BELLINO CYLINDER, (B1)!

(WRITTEN 702 B.C.)
44, ekallu mab-ri-tu §4 360 ina ammatu 44. As for the former palace which (meas-
Stddu 1-na tar-si za-me-e bit 2ik-kur-rat ured) 360 cubits on the side toward
80 ina ammatu rupsu i-na tar-si? bit the enclosure of the temple-tower,
na-ma-ri bit “star? 1384 ina ammatu (was) 80 cubits wide on the side
rupsu i-na tar-si bit na-ma-ri bit Kid- toward the bit-namari of the temple
mu-ri 95 ina ammatu rupsu of Ishtar, and 134 cubits wide on the
side toward the bit-namari of the
Kidmuri-temple, and 95 cubits wide
(on the fourth side),
45. Sé Sarrdm?'(nt) a-li-kut mah-ri abé?'-ia 45, which the kings who went before
a-na ri-mit be-lu-ti-su-un %-Se-pi-su- me, my fathers, had built for their
ma la t-nak-ki-lu si-pir-sa royal dwelling, but had not beauti-
fied its workmanship,—
46. 'Te-bil-ti a-gu-% Sam-ru-v sit-mu-ru 46. the Tebiltu-river, a raging, destructive
Sdé i-na na-si-sa gi-gu-ni-e ka-bal-ti stream, which at its high water, had
alt %-ab-bi-tu-ma ki-mah-hi-su-un nak- destroyed the mausoleums inside the
mu-ti® 4-kal-li-mu ‘Samsu(su) city and had exposed to the sun their
tiers of coffins (lit. piled-up coffins),
47. wu ul-tu timé?® rikdte”’ ti-ch ekalle 47. and, from days of old, had come up
1-ba->-v'-ma ina mili-Sa gab-si 1-na close to the palace and with its
us-si-Sa ab-bu %-Ssab’-su-u u-ri-1b9-bu floods at high water had worked
tim-me-en-sa havoc with its foundation and de-
stroyed its platform:
48. ekalla sthra(ra) sa-a-tu a-na si-htr-ti- 48. that small palace I tore down in its
Sa ak!©-kur-ma sé *Te-bil-ti. ma-lak-sa totality. I changed the course of
us-te-es-na-a ab-bu us-tib-ma u-sel!-sir the Tebiltu, repaired the damage,
mu-su2-sa and directed its outflow
49. ki-rib ka-tim-ti_ a-sur-rak-ki'8-sa" sap- 49, through its. covered channel (bed).
la-nu kdné?! e-la-nis abné?"® gadi(z)- Below, reeds, above, mighty blocks of
dan-ni ittt iddt ak-si-ma ekla ul-tu mountain-stone, I covered with
ma-a-me %-Se-lam-ma na-ba-lig v-tir asphalt, and raised up a field out of
the waters and turned it into dry land.
1 Lines 34-43 are duplicates of Al, 63-72 (see pp . 94 f).
2 Cl, om. tar-si. 7 C3, om. 122 C14, adds wu.
8 Cl-4, [8-tar. 8 C4, bu. 13 C1-4, ku.
4C1-4, om. Samra. 9 C1-4, om. “C1, 3, om.
5 C1-4, pa-az-ru-tt. C1, 3, 4, a. 16 C1-4, om.
6 Cl, a-me. 1 C3, te.
50. 700 ina suk-lum' rabiti (tt) Siddu 162 ina 50. (On a plot of ground) 700 great cubits
suk-lum rabiti(tr) patu elitu altdni 217 on the side, 162 great cubits on its
ina suk-lum rabiti(ti) pitu kablitim upper, north, front, 217 great cubits
(tim) on its inner front,
51. 386 ina suk-lum rabiti(tt) paitu saplitu ol. 386 great cubits on its lower, south,
$ati ita4(US-SA-DU) "Idiglat tam-la-a front, along the Tigris, I filled in a
a-mal-li-ma am-su-uh me-si-ch-ta terrace, and made a careful survey of
it (lit. surveyed its survey).
52. la-ba-ris tmé?” i-na mila kis-sa-ti tim- 52. That in days to come its platform
me-en-Su la e-ni-se as-kup-pat ®"“pi-i-la might not be weakened by the floods
rab-ba-a-tt a-sur-ru-si? %-sa-as-hi-ra at high water, I had its sides (lit.
u-dan-nin su-pu-uk-su4 walls) surrounded with mighty slabs
of limestone, and (so) I strengthened
its structure.
ve
53. mu-sar-e® Si-tir si-mi-ia 160 ti-ip-ki 53. A stela with my name inscribed I
tam-li-t ki-rib-Su al-tu-ur-ma_ sap-la- wrote (and buried) 160 t¢pku deep
nu i-na Us-81-Su e-zib ah-ra-tas in the terrace, and left it deep down
in the foundation for the days to
come.
54. ar-ka-nu® sti-us-ku-t tam-li-t ka-bit-ti o4. Later my heart urged me to make the
ub-lam-ma 20 ti-ip-ki si-ir_ mah-ri-v? terrace higher, so I added 20 tipku
us-sip-ma 180 ti-ip-ki t-sak-ki e-la-nigs to the former altitude and made it
180 tepku high.
55. tar-pa-su-v% el? $4 t-me® pa-ni %-Sar-bt 55. I enlarged the area (thereof, lit. the
si-ir me-s1-1h-ti ekalla mah-ri-ti” “-rad- width) and added to the size (lit.
di-ma t-sa-an-di-la si-kit-tas measurement) of the former palace,
and enlarged its structure.
56. ekal sin pir vusu Yurkarinnu “mu- 56. Thereon (lit. therein) I built a palace
suk-kan-ni? Yerini “Surméni' burdsi4 of ivory, ebony(?), boxwood(?),
u “bu-ut-ni ekal ZAG-DI-N U-TUK- musukannu-wood, cedar, cypress, and
A (sdnina la ist) a-na mu-sab Sarru- spruce, the “ Palace without a Rival,”
ti-ta U-Se-pi-sa ki-rib-si'® for my royal abode.
1 C1-4, ammatusyk-lum. Cl, 2, 4, 5, mu.
2C1-4, a-me. 10 C3, tum; 4, te.
3 C1, ki-is-su-du-8u; C2—4, ki-su-u-Su (38a). "So also C5; C1-4, ekal 2"-paritu Sin piri.
4C1-4, Sa. 12C3, nu.
5 C5, v. adds ri-e. 18 C3, adds (nu).
6 C5, inserts a. 4 Cl, 2, 4 insert dap-ra-nu. (2, ni), C3, dap-ra-a-nu.
1 OL@ 4.6: C1, 4, ZAG-NU-DI-NU-TUK-A.
8 C1-5, eli. 16 C1, 4, Sa.
57. »Sar-mah-hu' tam-sil *°4Ha-ma-nim sd 57. A great park, like unto Mt. Amanus,
gi-mir rikkée’ >usin-na-a-ti sé?! wherein were set out all kinds of herbs
- biblat(lat) Sadi(z) w 'Kal-di ki-rib-si? and fruit trees, trees, such as grow in
hur-ru-s% 1-ta-a-Sa az-ku-up the mountains and in Chaldea, I
planted by its side.
58. as-Su za-ka-ap sip-pa-a-ti ekla ta-mir- 58. That (they might) plant orchards, I
ti e-li-en ali 23 PI-TA-AM a-na subdivided some land in the plain
maré?'4 Ninua™* pil-ku %-pal-lik-ma above the city into plots, of 2 PI each,
u-Sad-gi-la pa-nu-us-Su-un for the citizens of Nineveh, and gave
it to them.
59. a-na be-ra-a-ti Sum-mu-hi ul-tu pa-a-te 59. To increase the vegetation, from the
¢Ki-si-rt— a-di ta-mir-tr Ninuak® border of the city of Kisiri to the plain
Sadad(a) w bi-ru-tt i-na ag-gul-la-te® about Nineveh, through mountain
u-Sat-tir-ma %-se-sir "har-ru and low land, with iron pickaxes I
tA ds ¢ A v ye
cut and directed a canal.

60. 12 béru kak-ka-ru ul-tu ki-rib "Hu-su- 60. For (a distance) of 14 béru (double-
ur ma-a-me da-ru-t-ti a-Sar-sa %-sar- hours) of land, the waters of the
da-a' ki-rib sip-pa-a’-ti Sa-ti-na t-sah- Khosr, which from of old sought too
bi-ba pat-ti-1s low a level (lit. place), I made to
flow through those orchards in irriga-
tion ditches.
61. Sd Ninua®® al be-lu-ti-ia su-bat-su 61. I increased the size (site) of Nineveh,
us-rab-bi ri-ba-ti-sul? u-sa-an''-dil-ma my royal city, I widened its squares,
bi-ri-e-tt wu su-ka-a-nt us-pir-di'? made bright the avenues and streets
u-nam-mir kima t-me and caused them to shine like the day.
62. a-na arkat®aimé?"4 i-na® sarrdni?'(nt) (Here follows the blessing as in
maré?'-ia §é 4*ASSur a-na ri-é-u(m)-ut Al, cf. p. 98)
mati wu nisé?’ i-nam-bu-u_ zi-kir-su
e-nu-ma ekallu sa-a-tu i-lab-bi-ru-ma
en-na-hu
63. an-hu-sa lu-ud-dis mu-sar-e® &-tir
su-mi-ia li-mur-ma samna .lip-si-us
lungké lik-ki a-na_ as-ri-su li-tir
44 §Sur ik-ri-bi-su 1-sim-me
1C3, om. hu; C5, text rz. 6§Cl, 3, 4, a-ti. 12 C1-4, add ma.
2 C2, Su; C3 has ki-rib before 7Cl, w-Sar-Si-da-a. 13C1, ar-kat; C2, dr-kat.
‘Kal-di. 8Cl1, om. a. | 14 CJ—4, a-me.
*Ci-4, 4. 9C1, 4, -Ninua, 2, 3 add *, C1, 3, 4, a.
4Cl, 4 insert ¢. 10 C3, Su. 16 C1, a.
5C1, inserts ¢. 1 Cl, 4, na.
III. BUILDING RECORDS AS FOUND ON THE RASSAM CYLINDER (C1)!

(WRITTEN 700 B.C.)
vis 700 ina ammatu suk-lum_ rabiti (iz) Tae (On a plot of ground) 700 great
Siddu 176 ina suk-lum rabiti(tr) paitu cubits on the side, 176 great cubits
elitu iltanu 268 ina suk-lum rabiti(tr) on its upper, north, front, 268 great
pitu kabliti(tc) mi-th-rat za-me-e ad- cubits on its inner front opposite the
man-ni ku-tal 41 §-tar enclosure of the building back of
Ishtar’s (temple ?) ;
78. 383? ina suk-lum rabite(tt) pitu kab- 78. 383 great cubits on the second inner
li-tum Sa-ni-tu? mu-uh-hur-tt Sa-a-ri front, facing the west (lit. west-wind),
A-mur-ri ku-tal bit zik-rat* bit *Is-tar back of the temple tower of Ishtar’s
temple;
79. 386 ina suk-lum rabiti(ti) pitu saplitu iv: 386 great cubits on the lower, south,
Satu ita(US-SA-DU) "Idiglat tam-la-a front, along the Tigris, I filled in a
a-mal-li-ma am-st-uh me-si-th-ta® terrace and made a careful survey of
bNietoy
OU: i-na mi-th-rat® abulli kabal ala i-na’ 90. Opposite the gate within the city, I
a-gur-ri %"“yi-1-lt pi-si-e® a-na me-ti- made my royal road pass over a
tk be-lu-ti-ia %-Sak-bi-is_ ti-tur-ru bridge (built) of burnt brick and
white limestone.
Ox mu-sar-a u-se-pis-ma li-i-t u da (text aL I fashioned a memorial stela, had
§d)-na-nu Sd i-na tukulti(tt) Assur engraved thereon (lit. therein) the
béli rabi" béla-ia ela kul-lat na-ki-ri might and power which, with the
as-tak-ka-nu help of Assur, the great lord, my
lord, I wielded (established) over all
enemies,
92. u mimma ip-sit e?-tip-pu-su ki-rib- 92. together with every work which I
§u8y-Sat4-tir-ma_ i-na_ tim-me-en-ni had accomplished, and left it for all
ekal be-lu-ti-ia e-zib ah-ra-tas time to come in the foundation-
platform of my royal palace.
1 Except for the passages here given this is a duplicate of the Bellino Cylinder.
2C5, 393, v. 400. 7C3, ina. 12 C2, 1.
3 C2, tum. 5Co, ts 18 O2, Su.
4C2, 3, 2ik-kur-rat. 9C2, tum. 14 C2, 4, Sa-a3
5 This section also in D1. 0 C2, 3, (Assur. 15 Cf. above p. 100, Il.50-51.
6 C2, 4, rit. C8, 4, add (e).
IV. A VERY FULL RECORD OF THE IMPROVEMENTS IN AND

ABOUT THE CAPITAL (E1)
(WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 694 B.C.)
Col. V
2a. [i-na t-mi-su-ma Ninua** ma-ha-zlu 23. At that time Nineveh, the noble
$2-1-ru metropolis,
24. [alu na-ram 4|I§-tar 24. the city beloved of Ishtar,
25. [sa nap-har ki-du-di|-e lana?! 25-26. wherein are all the meeting-places
26. [ua Istardti”! ba|-su-u ki-rib-su of gods and goddesses;
27. [tim-me-en-nu da-ru-u dlu-ru-us sa-a-ti 27. the everlasting substructure, the
eternal foundation;
28. [Sa ul-tu ul-la <|t-ti si-tir bu-ru-wm-me 28. whose plan had been designed from
of old,
29. [7s-rat-su 7s-rit-ma Su-p|u-% si-in-du-su 29. and whose structure had been made
beautiful along with the firmament
of heaven,
30. [as-ru nak-lu] su-bat pi-ris-te 30. the beautiful (artistic) place, the
abode of divine law,
ol. [sa mimma Sum-Su] si-pir ni-kel-te 31-33. into which had been brought all
32. [gi-mir bil-lu-di-e] ni-sir-ti LAL-GAR kinds of artistic workmanship, every
secret and pleasant plan;
33. [Su-ta-bu-lu] ki-rib-su
4. [Sa ul-tu ull-la Sarrani?*(nz) 34. where from of old, the kings
35. la-lli-kut mah-ri abé?'-va 35. who went before, my fathers,
36. ul-la-nu-ui-a be-lu-ut ‘Assur e-pu-su- 36. had exercised the lordship over
ma Assyria before me, and
37. u-ma--ru ba-u-lat 4Hn-lal 37. had ruled the subjects of Enlil;
38. ai-um-ma i-na lib-bi-su-nu a-na sum- 38. but not one among them
dul si-bat ale
39. e-pis dari su-te-sur su-ka-a-nt 39. had turned his thoughts (lit. ear)
40. wu ha-ri-e nari za-ka-ap sip-pa-a-te 40. nor brought his mind
41. u-zu-un-st ul tb-si-ma 41. to widen the city’s area (lit. abode),
to build a wall, to lay out streets,
42. ul us-ta-bil ka-ras-su 42. or to dig a canal (and) to set out
trees;——
43. a-na ekalli kir-bi-Su kum-mu_ ri-mit 43. nor to the palace therein, the royal
be-lu-te abode and dwelling-place,
44. &dé su-uh-hu-rat su-bat-sa 44, whose area was too small,
45. e-prs-tas la nak-lat-ma 45. whose construction was not artistic,
Col. Vv
46. li-e-su wl id-da-a 46. nor had he given his energy
47. lib-bu-us ul th-su-us 47. nor his heart’s thoughts;
AS. ta-a-ti 4?Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba 48. but I, Sennacherib,
49. Sar kis-sa-ti Sar "A SSur** 49, I, king of the universe, king of
Assyria,
50. e-pis Sip-ri sti-a-tu ki-t te-im ilani?! ol. gave my thought and brought my
mind
DL: t-na wue-ni-ia tb-si-ma_ ka-bit-ti wub- 50. to accomplish this work according to
lam-ma ; the command (will) of the gods.
Won te-ne-sit 'Kal-di *"A-ra-me 'Man-na-ai 52. The people of Kaldu (Chaldea), the
Aramaeans, the Manna,
53. '‘Ku-e u 'Hi-lak-ku 'Pi-lis-ti wu ‘Sur-ri 53. (the people of) Kue and Hilakku,
(of) Philistia and Tyre,
4. Sd a-na ni-ri-ia la tk-nu-st . who had not submitted to my yoke,
5. as-su-ha-am-ma tup-stk-ku v-Sa-as-s1- . I snatched away (from their lands),
Su-nu-ti-ma made them carry the basket and
. al-bi-nu libitta ekallu mah-ri-tu . mould bricks. The former palace
. 8d 860 ina ammatu siddu . whose dimensions were
. 95 ma ammatu pitu . 360 cubits on the side
. ma-ra-ku sit-ku-na-at-ma . and 95 cubits on the front,
. su-uh-hu-rat si-bat-sa . and whose site had become too small;
. $d Sarradni?'(nt) a-li-kut mah-ri abé?'-ia . (the palace) which the kings who
went before, my fathers,
. a-na ri-mit be-lu-ti-su-un t-Se-pi-su- . had built as an abode of royalty,
ma
: la t-nak-ki-lu si-pir-sa . but had not made its structure

artistic:
. Seder! SG "“ni-1-la. pi-si-e . bull-colossi of white limestone,
. i-na °Ta-as-ti-a-te Sa e-bir-tan "I'diglat . they! quarried in Tastiate, which lies
across the Tigris,
. tb-tu-ku a-na mu-kil babati?'-si-in . as supports for their (the new pal-
aces’) doors.
. a-na su-pu-us elippate?! . For the construction of boats (rafts)
. ki-rib kisati?! isé?! rabati? . they! felled mighty trees
. U-ki-ru i-na nap-har mdti-su-un . in the forests throughout the whole of
their land.
.r-na %Airu ti-mu a-dan-ni e-di-e . In Airu, at the regular time of the
pa-an Sat-tr spring floods,
1The captives mentioned in Il. 52f,.
Cols Vv
(ek i-na elippdte?' si-ra-a-te Ge 72. they! laboriously brought them?
72. a-na a-ha-an-na-a %-sib-bi-ru-ni_ mar- over to this side on the mighty rafts.
$t-18
73. i-na ni-bir ka-a-ri GIS-MA-GU-LA?! 73. As they! crossed the quay-wall,
the large boats
74, u-ti-cb-bu-% ba-hu-la-te-su-un 74. went down. ‘Their crews
75. u-sa-ni-hu v-lam-me-nu ka-ras-si-in 75. strained and injured their bodies,
76. i-na da-na-ni u Sup-su-ke 76. but by might and main
77. mar-si-18 u-bi-lu-nim-ma (we with difficulty they landed them (lit.
brought)
78. u-Sa-as-bi-tu bdbatr?'-si-in 78. and placed them by their doors.
1: "Te-bil-ti a-gu-v sit-mu-ru vite The Tebiltu, a raging stream,
80. Sd ul-tu dime?! arkiiti?! 80. which from days of old
81. ti-ch ekallt 1-ba-?-vi-ma 81. had come up close to the palace,
82. i-na mili-sa gab-si i-na us-si-sa 82. and with its great floods at high water
83. ab-bu tU-sab-su-u t-ri-ib-bu. tim-me-en- 83. worked havoe with its foundation
Sa and destroyed its platform:
84. ekalla sihra(ra) sa-a-tu a-na si-hir-te- 84. that small palace I tore down in its
Sa ak-kur totality:
85. Sa *Te-bil-ti ma-lak-sa 85. the course of the Tebiltu
86. ul-tu ka-bal-te alt ap-ru-us-ma 86. I turned aside from the city’s midst,
87. i-na ta-mir-ti ku-tal ali u-se-sir mu- 87. and directed its outflow into the plain
su-sa back of the city.
88. i-na+GAN ma-lak mé?! 4 &™pi-7-la 88. Into (the space) of half a gan of the
rabiti”! water’s course, (I placed) four great
blocks of limestone
. ut-ti kupri ak-si-ma kandte?! a-pr oe and covered (them) with bitumen;
reeds of the cane-brake
. Uku-pi-e t-sat-ri-sa eli-su-un 90. and rushes I spread over them.
. 840 ina ammatu siddu oF (A piece of) land, 340 cubits on the side,
. VI
. 289 ina ammatu pitu . 289 cubits on the front,
kak-ka-ru ul-tu ki-rib *Hu-su-ur . out (of the bed) of the Khosr,
. & ta-mir-te ale . and the plain (about) the city,
. [k]i-ma a-haz-tim-ma lu as-ba-ta si-ir I measured (lit. seized) off according
me-si-th-te to plan. To the plot (lit. survey)
. tam-li-i mah-ri-e lu v-rad-di-ma . of the former palace-terrace I added
it,
‘The captives mentioned in ll. 52f. 2'The bull-colossi of 1. 64.
Col. VI
6. a-na si-hir-ti-Su ina 190 ti-tp-ki ul-la-a 6. and raised the whole of it to the
TU-St-SU height of 190 tipkz.
. (lla-ba-ris time?! i-na milt kis-sa-te 7-8. Lest in the passing of days the plat-
. [tl¢m-me-en tam-li-i la e-ni-se form of that terrace should give way
before the (floods) of high water,
, abnun1-li rabttr?! ki-su-t-su 9-10. I built the facing-wall around it of
. U-Sa-as-hi-ra t-dan-nin su-pu-uk-su great blocks of limestone, and
strengthened its structure (lit. up-
heaping).
. a-na 700 i-na suk-lum rabite(te) siddu LT: To 700 large cubits on the side
. u 440 i-na suk-lum rabite(te) piitu 12. and 440 large cubits on the front,
. &t-kit-ti ekalla u-tir-ma 13. I brought the size of the palace,
. St-bat-sa_ us-rab-bi_ ekalldti?’ hurdsi 14. and enlarged its site. A palace of
kaspr gold, silver,
. siparrt @sandér!? emuTUR-MI-NA- 15. copper, carnelian(?), breccia,
MAR-DA
. erunaritt sin pire “ust “urkarinnt 16. alabaster, ivory, ebony(?), box-
wood(?)
. “mis-ma-kan-na “erini “Surmént LiZs musukanni-wood, cedar, cypress,
. burdsu “e-lam-ma-ku “si-in-da-a 18. spruce, elammaku-wood, sindu-wood,
. a-na mu-sab be-lu-ti-ia 19. for my royal dwelling
. ab-ni-ma bit mu-tir-ri-te 20. I built and portals (‘‘door-houses’’)
. tam-sil ekal 'Ha-at-tr 21. patterned after a Hittite (Syrian)
palace
. mi-th-rit ba-ba-a-ti U-se-pis 22. I had constructed in place of doors.
. gusaré?! Yeri-ni “Surmént 23. With (beams) of cedar and cypress,
. &é.e-ri-su-un ta-a-bu bi-nu-ut *4Ha- 24. whose scent is pleasant, products of
ma-nim Amanus
. u 48i-ra-ra Sadé?! ellatr?® 25. and Sirara, the snow-capped (lit.
shining) mountains,
. U-sat-ri-sa_ e-li-sin 26. I roofed them.
. dalati?’ “eri-ni ’Surméni burdse 27. Door-leaves of cedar, cypress, pine
. “st-in-da-a me-sir kaspi ert 28. and sindu-wood, I bound with a band
of silver and copper
. u-rak-kis-ma %-rat-ta-a ba-bi-sin 29. and set up in their doors.
. i-na ba-rak-ki sé ki-rib biti papahani?! 30. In the room within the building, I
arranged (lit. opened) chambers,
. ap-tr bi-ir-ri u-pat-ta-a ol. and opened corridors( ?).
. 4S édati partite Sin piri o2. Female-colossi of marble and ivory,
Col. VI
33. Sd al-lu-ru na-sa-a kit-mu-sa rit-ta-sin Oo. wearing horned-headdresses( ?), their
fore-legs (lit. hands) kneeling,
34. bal-tu ku-uz-bu hi-ct-lu-pa lu-li-e 34. clothed with strength and vigor,
35. ma-la-a i-na babdati?'-sin ul-ziz-ma 30. full of splendor, I set up by their doors
and
36. a-na tab-ra-a-te u-sa-lik 36. made them a wonder to behold.
37. su-lul ta-ra-a-ni §é ki-rib ba-rak-ka-a- 37. The dark color of the roofing tim-
ne bers in the chambers,
38. e-tu-su-un u-sah-la-a 38. I brightened (painted ?)
39. ti-me-1S us-nam-mir 39. and made them shine like the day.
40. stk-kat kar-ri kas-pi uw ert 40. Clothes-hooks (pegs) of silver and
copper:
41. ka-rib-sin %-sal-me 41. I put up around their interior.
42. i-na agurri Mr“ KA enuykni 42. With burnt-brick, KA-stone, and
lapis-lazuli,
43. us-si-ma, si-el-lum ni-bi-ht 43. I adorned the walls, cornices
44, au gi-mir pa-as-ki-si-in 44. and all of their copings.
45. as-Su sip-ri ekalli-va st-te-su-ri 45. That I might accomplish the con-
struction of my palace,
46. u li-pit kata?-1a Sul-lu-me 46. and bring to an end the work of my
hands,
47. i-na ti-me-su-ma 7A ssur vu “star! 47. at that time, Assur and Ishtar,
48. ra--i-mu “Ssangu-ti-1a 48. who love my priesthood,
49. na-bu-t Sumi-ia gis-mah-hi Yert-na 49. and have called me by name,
D3. showed me how to bring out the
mighty cedar logs
50. Sé ul-tu time”! arkiitr?! 1-si-hu-ma 50. which had grown large in the days
gone by,
dl. ik-bi-ru dannts i-na ki-rib *4St-ra-ra dl. and had become enormously tall as
they stood
52. Sadé?! ina pu-uz-1t Na-an-Zu-zU 52. concealed in the mountains of Sirara.
53. t-Sak-li-mu-in-nt_§i-1-su-un
54. Sd yaritu sé i-na tar-st Sarrani?! o4. Alabaster (marble) which in the days
(nt) of the kings, my fathers,
55. abé?'-ia a-na kar-ri nam-sa-ri si-ku-ru 55. was precious enough for (inlaying)
the hilt of a sword,
56. i-na sa-pan *¢Am-ma-na-na %-Sap- 56. they disclosed to me in the darkness
tu-nt pa-ni-su of Mt. Ammanana.
1 D1 and 2 have text of ll. 45-47 preceded by C1, 77 f. (cf. p. 102) and followed by lines containing
city names, including Balatai.
VEL
uu euTUR-MI-NA-MAR-DA ma-la 57 And breccia for all kinds of great jars,
dikarunyr-zi-hal-lr
. $d la in-nam-ru ma-ti-ma 58. such as had never been seen before,
. ina *Kap-ri-da-ar-gi-la-a BO. in Kapridargila,
. &é4 pa-a-ti °Til-Bar-si-ip 60. which is on the border of Til-Barsip,
. a-kal-lim ra-ma-nu-us 61 disclosed itself.
. i-te-e Ninua* i-na ir-si-ti “Ba-la-ta-ar 62 Near Nineveh, in the land of Balatai,
. ki-a te-im ili-ma &"pi-i-lu pi-su-u 63 by decree of the god, white limestone
. a-na mu--di-e in-na-mir-ma 64. was found (appeared) in abundance;
. §édé?' & sa-lam mes-ri-ti partite 65. and bull-colossi and sculptured statues
of alabaster,
»
ve
$a i-na stén(en) abni * ib-ba-nu-% 66. which were carved out of one stone,
mi-na-a-te Suk-lu-lu of enormous proportions,
. i-na ki-gal-la ram-ni-su-nu 67-68. towering high upon their own
. Sa-kig na-an-zu-2u bases;
. fitzg-za-a-te partite 69. alabaster cow-colossi,
. 8d zi-me nu-us-su-ka 70. whose appearance was splendid,
. kima t-me na-pir-di-t nu-wm-mu-ru th whose bodies shone like the bright
ZU-MUT-SiN day;
. askuppate?® abnu TU R-MI-NA-MAR- 72 great slabs of breccia
DA sirdti?!
. ab-nt_ ki-lal-la-an i-na S§ad-di-Su-un 73 I fashioned and cut free on both
ab-tuk-ma sides, in their mountain,
. a-na Sip-ri ekalli-ca 74-75. and had them dragged to Nineveh
. t-Sal-di-da ki-rib *Ni-na-a for the construction of my palace.
. Sédé?! & f"*za-za-a-te 76. The bull and cow-colossi
. ebnrum-1-lt pi-si-e i-na lip-ta-at 4Nin- fit of white limestone, with Ninkurra’s
kur-ra help,
. i-na ir-si-it °Ba-la-ta-ar 78-79. I ‘‘caused to be begotten,” and
. U-sa--lid-ma u-sak-li-la gat-ta-su-un made complete as to their members.
. &é ul-tu ul-la Sarrdm?'(nt) abé?'-ca 80 In times past, when the kings, my
fathers,
. sa-lam ert tam-sil gat-ti-su-un 81 fashioned a bronze image in the like-
ness of their members,
. a-na St-zu-2t ke-rib ekurré?! 82 to set up in their temples,
. tb-nu-ma 1-na, e-pis-ti-Su-nu 83 the labor on them
. U-Ssa-ni-hu gi-mir mar wm-ma-a-ni 84. exhausted every workman;
. i-na la bi-rit wz-ni la ha-sa-as a-ma-te 85. in their ignorance and lack of knowl-
edge,
Col. VI
86. a-na Sip-rt hi-sih-ti-su-nu 86-88. they drank oil, and wore sheep-
87. Samna is-ku-ru na-al-ba-as si-e-ni skins to carry on the work they
88. u-ki-ru. ki-rib Sadé?'-Su-un wanted to do in the midst of their
mountains.
89. ta-a-ti ™ 4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba melsilue ls Sennacherib,
90. a-Sa-rid kal mal-kt mu-di-e sp-rt 90. first among all princes, wise in all
craftsmanship,
. ka-la-ma dim-me ert rabuite?! Gir great pillars of bronze,
. ur-mah-hi pi-tan bir-ki §é ma-nam- . colossal lions, open at the -knees,
ma which no king before my time,
. la tp-ti-ku Sarru pa-ni mah-ri-ia 93. had fashioned,
aVil
. i-na ue-nt ni-kil-te . through the clever understanding
2. §é u-Sat-li-ma ru-bu-u*NIN-IGI-KUG 2. which the noble Nin-igi-kug had
given me,
. na Si-tul-tt ram-ni-ia 3. (and) in my own wisdom,
. a-na e-pis Sip-ri st-a-tu 4-5. I pondered deeply the matter of
. ra-bis am-tal-lik-ma i-na me-lik te- carrying out that task, following the
me-ta advice of my head (will)
. ume-ris ka-bit-ti-ca . and the prompting of my heart,
. pi-ti-ik ert %-ba-as-sim-ma . I fashioned a work of bronze
. t-nak-ki-la nik-la-su . and cunningly wrought it.
. &é gis-mah-hi vu a-la-mit-ta . Over great posts and cross-bars of
. “mes-ri-e 12 urmahhé?! ni-?-ru-ti . wood, 12 fierce lion-colossi
. a-di 12 sédé?! . together with 12 mighty bull-colossi,
. strate”! §é Suk-lu-lu nab-ni-tu . complete in form,
. 22 Itzq-za-a-te Sd ku-uz-ba . 22 cow-colossi, clothed
. ul-su hi-ct-lu-pa bal-tu la-la-a . with exuberant strength
. kum-mu-ru si-ru-us-sin . and with abundance and _ splendor
heaped upon them,—
. ki-a te-im tli-ma 21--pr ti-tt-te . at the command of the god, I built
. ab-ni-ma e-ra-a ki-rib-su as-tap-pa-ka . a form of clay and poured bronze into
it,
. ki-t pi-ti-ik 4 Siklu (TA-AM), . as in making half-shekel pieces,
. U-Sak-li-la nab-ni-su-un. . and finished their construction.
. Sédé?! nab-nit ert . Bull-colossi, made of bronze,
. && 2 ina ltb-bi za-ha-lu-wu lit-bu-su . two of which were coated with
enamel (? gilding),
. SédéP! rrr nartiti . bull-colossi of alabaster,
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20. a-di sédé?! & /t-za-za-a-te 23. together with cow-colossi
24. abnun1-li pi-si-e Sad ekalldti?'-ca 24. of white limestone, I placed
2eY, . ve vee
20. u-Sa-as-bi-ta Sigar-si-in 25. at the thresholds of my palaces.
26. dim-me ert strtiti?’ a-di dim-me “eri-ni 26. High pillars of bronze, together with
tall pillars of cedars,
27. rabtti?! bi-cb-lat §*¢Ha-ma-nim 27. the product of Mt. Amanus,
28. me-sir ert U anadki U-rak-kis-ma 28. I enclosed in a sheathing of bronze
and lead,
29. si-ar ug-gal-li-e ul-ziz-ma 29. placed them upon lion-colossi,
30. dap-pi ku-lul babdte?'-sin e-mid 30. and set them up as posts to support
their doorways.
ol. flit_zq-za-a-te "par ate dl. Upon the alabaster cow-colossi,
32. a-di /t-za-za-a-te pi-ti-ck u-ru-di-e 32. as well as the cow-colossi made of
bronze,
30. Sa za-ha-lu-u lit-bu-sa u /-za-za-a-te 30. which were coated with enamel(?)
and the cow-colossi
34. pi-ti-ik GU-AN-NA 4. made of GU-AN-NA,
35. Sé nu-um-mu-ru gat-ta-si-in 35. whose forms were brilliant,
36. »dim-me “ust “Surmént Yeri-ni “dup- 36. I placed pillars of ebony, cypress,
ra-nt cedar, dupranu-wood,
37. burdst u “si-in-da-a th-z1-1t pa-sal-la ol. spruce and sindu-wood, with inlay
of pasalli
38. U kas-pi si-ru-us-sin ul-ziz-ma 38. and silver,
39. §é kum-me mu-sab be-lu-ti-ca 39-40. and set them up as columns in
40. e-mid hété?'-Su-un the rooms of my royal abode.
41. askuppati?? &«TUR-MI-NA-MAR- 41. Slabs of breccia and alabaster,
DA %“nartite
42. uaskuppati?!? &pi-i-lt rabtti?? 42. and great slabs of limestone,
43. a-sur-ru-sin t-Sa-as-hi-ra 43. I placed around their walls;
44. a-na tab-ra-a-te %-sa-lik 44. I made them wonderful to behold.
45. as-Su ti-me-Sam-ma mé?! di-lu-ti 45-46. That daily there might be abund-
46. dannts vp-li-gu tar-sa-a-te siparri ant flow of water of the buckets,
47. u har-ha-ri siparri %-se-pis-ma 47. I had copper cables(?) and pails
made,
48. ki-mu-t ma-ka-a-te gis-mah-hi wu 48. and in place of the (mud-brick)
a-la-mit-ta pedestals (pillars) I set up
49. si-ir biré?! us-ziz ekallati?? Sa-ti-na 49, great posts and cross-beams over the
v
u-sa-lik as-me-is wells. Those palaces, all around the

(large) palace,
“THE PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL” Ll
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50. si-hir-ti. ekallt a-na_ tab-rat kis-sat . I beautified; to the astonishment of
niger! all nations,
51. ul-la-a ri-si-sa ekallu Sa-ni-na la i-sti-u . I raised aloft its head. “The Palace
without a Rival”
52. ni-bit-sa az-kur . I called its name.
53. “Sar-mah-hu tam-sil §¢Ha-ma-nim . A great park, like unto Mt. Amanus,
4. Sd gi-mir rikkéce! >“ sin-pa-a-te . wherein all kinds of herbs and fruit-
trees,
55. isé?" biblat(lat) Sadi(i) u 'Kal-di . trees, such as grow on the mountains
and in Chaldea,
56. a-di 1sé?! na-as sipatie?! . as well as trees bearing wool,
57. ki-rib-Su hur-ru-s% 1-ta-a-sa az-ku-up ov. were set out, I planted by its (the
palace’s) side.
58. Ninua® sé ul-tu ti-me pa-ni . Nineveh, whose site, in former days
59. 9,300 ina ammatu su-bat li-me-ti-su . measured 9,300 cubits in circumfer-
ence,
60. diru u Salhti ul %-Se-pi-su 60-61. (for which) the princes who lived
61. a-li-kut mah-ri ma-al-ki (went) before me had built neither
wall nor outer-wall;
62. 12,5165 a-sar ta-mir-te li-mit ale . 12,515 (cubits) of the land of the plain
around the city
63. si-ir me-si-ih-te mah-ri-ti t-rad-di-ma . I added to its earlier site (lit. survey).
64. 21,815 ina suk-lum rabiti(ti) u-kin . 21,815 great cubits, I made its
man-da-tus circumference.
65. Sé diri-su rabi(t) BAD-NI-GAL-BI- . IT laid the platform of its great (inner)
K UR-RA-SU-SU wall, Bad-nigalbi-Kurra-Shushu,
66. du-ti-ru $d nam-ri-ru-su% na-ki-ri. sah- . “The Wall whose Splendor Over-
pu whelms the Foe,”
67. si-ar “ny -1-lr tim-me-en-Su ad-di-ma upon a limestone (foundation)
68. 40 libittu t-kab-bir . I made it 40 bricks thick,
69. i-na 180 ti-cp-ki wl-la-a ri-s1-st and raised its top (head) to 180 t¢pkz.
70. a-na tr-bit-tt sa-a-ri 15 abullé?! . Toward the four winds (directions),
15 gates!
(ac pa-nu u ar-ka i-na si-li ki-lal-la-an . front, back and on either side,
72. a-na e-ri-bi u a-si-e 72 . for entrance and egress,
1In BM, 3330 (See King, Supplement, pp. xviii f.), written in 696 B.c., the names of the fifteen
gates present many variants: Jil-bur for li-bur of 1. 74; palé(e) for pali-ia, 4Sa-mas for 4Samas and
: iGa-a-gal for 'Ga-gal of 1.77; 418-tar za-nin KI-KUR-BI for ¢Nin-lil, etc., of 1.79; 'Am-ba-si for Am-
ba-si of 1. 88; ¢Ur-ra mu-Sam-kit ai-bi for name in 1. 89; ¢7GI-SIG-SIG mu-sam-me-ih sip-pa-a-te for
dNannaru, etc., of 1.91; abul Kirdter! for abul 4Sin of 1. 91; abul ma-as-ki-e for abul mas-ki-e of 1. 94.
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oe u-Sap-ta-a ki-rib-su 73. I had opened through it.
TA, li-bur issakki ¢AsSur abul 4Assur sd 74, “May Assur’s Viceroy Prevail,’ the
cA ssur Gate of Assur of the city of Assur;
75. sa-pi-in gi-mir na-ki-rv 75. “Overthrowing all Foes,”
£6; abul ™ 4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba sd 'Hal-zi 76. the Gate of Sennacherib, towards
(lit. of) the land of Halzi;
(ith 4Hn-lil mu-kin pali-ia abul ‘Samas &d 77. “Enlil, Establisher of my Rule,” the
‘Ga-gal Gate of Shamash, toward the land of
Gagal;
78. sé ™ 4Sin-ahé?'-eri-bait-tt man-zal-ti 78-79. “Sennacherib’s Rule Establish
e-rik-ke thou (fem.) in the Station of the
oo kin-ni pali-su abul 4Nin-lil sé *Kar- Lance,” the Gate of Nin-lil, toward
4Nin-lil the city of Kar-Ninlil;
80. mu-se-sa-at sér asakki abul mus-la-lum 80. “Providing Egress for the Sick,” the
Mushlal-Gate;
81. du-muk as-na-an & AN-SURIM ki- 81. “The Choicest of Grain and Flocks
rib-sa ka-ai-an are ever within it,”’
82. abul ‘Si-ba-ni-ba 82. the Gate toward the city Shibaniba;
83. ba-bi-lat hi-sib hur-sa-a-ni abul 'Ha- 83. “Bringing the Products of the moun-
lah!-hi tains,” the Gate toward the land
Halahhi;
84. naphar 7 abullé?! sit “Sams 84. total: seven gates toward the sun-
rise,
85. mi-th-rit %sy-a-ti uw *"“Sa-di-t 85. facing the south and the east.
86. az-ku-ra ni-bit-si-in 86. (So) I called their names.
Si: 4A dad sa-ri-ik hegallt a-na mats 87. ‘“Adad, Bestower of Abundance to
the Land,”
88. abul ¢Adad sé Am-ba-si 88. the Gate of Adad toward (the land
of) Ambasi;
89. 4Ur-ra §a-a-gis za-ma-ni-ia? 89. “Urra, Destroyer of My Enemies,”
20: abul ¢Nergal sé ¢Tar-bi-st 90. the Gate of Nergal, toward the city
of Tarbis;
Ol; 4Nannaru(ru) na-sir agt be-lu-ti-ia 91. ““Nannar, Guardian of my Royal
abul %Sin Diadem,”’ the Gate of Sin;
02. naphar 3 abullé?’ sé mi-ch-rit *42l- 92. total: 3 gates, facing north.
ta-ne
93. at-ta-bi si?-kir-si-in* 93. (Thus) I called their names.
1 Suggested by Mr. Geers. The Halah of II Kings 17:6 and f. ?

2 D1 [mu-sam]-kit ai-bi-ia. *Di, 2. 4D1, Sin.
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94. “H-a mu-se-Sir kuwp-pi-ia abul mas-ki-e 94. “Fa, who causes my Springs to
Flow,” the Gate of the Watering-
places;
95. mu-se-ri-bit mi-hir-ti da-dd-me abul 95. “Furnishing an Entrance in Front of
ka-a-ri the Residences,”’ the Quay-gate;
96. kat-ri-e °™Su-mu-?-an u %™Te-e-me 96+-VIII, 1. ‘‘The Gifts of the Sumu’-
anite and the Temeite Enter through
it,”’ the Desert-gate;
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. ki-rib-Sa tr-ru-ub abul mad-ba-ri
. pa-ki-da-at ka-la-ma abul ekallt ma- . “Protector of All,” the Gate of the
hir-tr Armory;
. WSdar-tr mu-sam-kit ai-ab sarri abul . “Shar-ur, Overthrower of the Foe of
Ha-an-du-ti-r1 the King,” the Handiri-gate;
. naphar 5 abullé”’ sé mi-th-rit *a- . total: 5 gates, facing west.
ad
mur-r1
. at-taz-ka-ra su-me-sin . (Thus) I named them.
. $é Sal-hi- BAD-NIG-ERIM-HU- . I opened up trenches for the outer
LUH-HA wall,
. mu-gal-lit za-ma-a-ni us-Se-Su ap-te- . Bad-nig-erim-huluhha, “That Terri-
e-ma fies the Enemy.”
. 45 GAR t-Sap-pil-ma . I dug down 45 gar and
. U-Sa-ak-sid mé?! na-ak-bi . reached the waters under the earth.
. ki-rib —-ma-a-me Sap-la-a-nu aban . In the midst of those nether waters I
Sadi(t) dan-ni ak-si-ma laid (lit. fastened) great blocks of
mountain stone,
. e-la-nis a-di pa-as-ki-su i-na %™pi-t-la . and above, up to its coping, I care-
rabitr?? fully
. t-nak-kil st-pir-sh . built it of great lime-stone blocks.
. && Ninua®* ala be-lu-ti-ia su-bat-su . The area of Nineveh, my royal city, I
us-rab-bi enlarged.
. ri-ba-ti-Su %-Sa-an-dil-ma_ %-nam-mir . I widened its squares, and made it
kima G-me shine like the day.
. dir Ssal-hu-ti U-se-pis-ma_ %-zak-kir . The outer-wall I built and made it
hur-sa-nis mountain high.
. e-li-en ali u Saplan ali t-se-pis kiratr?! . Above the city and below the city I
laid out parks.
. ussubu (MUD-LUM-ME) sadi(i) a . The wealth of mountain and all
ma-ti-tan lands,
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18. kul-lat rikkéee! 'Hat-to Se™mur-ri Sa 18. all the herbs of the land of Hatti
ki-rib-su-un (Syria), myrrh-plants, among which
19. si-ar Sa ab-bur-ti sd-a-ha am-ba-si 19; fruitfulness was greater than in
karan Sadi(2) their (natural) habitat,
20. kali-Su-un gi-mir inrcb ad-na-a-te . all kinds of mountain-vines, all the
fruits of (all) lands (settlements),
21, rikkéeet w& vsi-ir-di a-na ba-u-li . herbs and fruit-bearing trees I set
az-ku-up out for my subjects.
22, "Hu-su-ur sé ul-tu ul-la-a mé?'-Sa . The river Khosr, whose waters from of
old
23, Su-up-lu sab-tu-ma i-na sarrdni?'(nz) . took a low level and none
abé?'-1a
24. mimma la ts-sir-su-nu-ti-ma_ 1-tab- . among the kings my fathers, had
ba-ku "Idiglat-es dammed (confined) *them as they
poured into the Tigris ;—
25. a-na be-ra-a-te Sum-mu-hi . to increase the productiveness of the
cultivable (lit. low-lying) fields,
26. ul-tu pa-a-ti *Ki-si-ri . from the border of the city of Kisiri,
27. mu-la-a mus-pa-lum i-na ag-gul-la-a- . through the high and low (ground)
te
28. ah-ra-a %-se-sir "pat-tu . I dug with pickaxes, I ran a canal
(channel) ;
29: mé”! su-nu-te si-ir ta-mir-ti Ninua* . those waters I brought across the
u-ki-nam-ma plain (around) Nineveh, and
30. ki-rib sip-pa-a-te sd-ti-na u-sah-bi-ba . made them flow through the orchards
a-tab-bis in irrigation-ditches.
HE a-na Bit-ri-e-ma-a-me ina sépa% Mu- . To Bit-rémdme, which is at the foot
us-ri Sadé(e) gir-ri as-bat-ma of Mt. Musri, I took the road and
od. as-ku-ma a-di *El-mu-na-kin-ni-e Sup- . climbed up and with great difficulty
Su-kis at-tal-lak came to the city of Elmunakinne.
33. i-na ri-ex ‘Dér-*Istar “Si-ba-ni-ba . At’ the head of the cities of Dir-
Ishtar, Shibaniba,
34. u °“Su-lt nam-ba-? a-mur-ma . and Suli, I saw pools and
35. énd@-Su-nu pi-ka-a-te t-rab-bi-ma %- . enlarged their narrow springs and
tir a-na kup-pi turned them into a reservoir.
36. as-Su. ma-lak mé?! su-nu-tr sadé?! 36. To (give) these waters a course
mar-su-tr (through) the steep mountains,
Oo”. as-ri pa-as-ku-tt ina ag-gul-la-tt %- 37. I cut through the difficult places with
Sat-tir-ma pickaxes and
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38. mu-su-su-un %-Se-Si-ra a-na ta-mir-ti 38. directed their outflow on to the plain
Ninua** of Nineveh.
39. "har-ra-ti-Su-un %w-dan-nin ki-c su- 39. I strengthened their channels, heaping
pu-uk sadt(2) up (their banks) mountain-high,
40. mé?! sd-tu-nu ki-rib-Su-un u-kin-na 40, and brought those waters into them.
41. ki-ma a-haz-tim-ma si-ir mé?! "Hu- 41. Following (my) plan, I added
su-ur
42. u-rad-da-a da-ri-sam 42. them to the Khosr’s waters forever.
43. i-na um-ma-a-te %-sa-as-ka-a gi-mir 43. I had all of the orchards watered in
stp-pa-a-tr the hot (season).
44, i-na kussi 1000 *zéré?! ta-me-ra-a-ti 44. In winter, a thousand fields of
alluvium,
45. e-li ali & Saplu ali %-sdé-an-kar Sat-ti- 45. about and below the city, I had them
sam enclose (?) every year.
46. a-na Sup-st-hi a-lak-t1 mé?! si-nu-te 46. To arrest the flow of these waters,
47. Ta-gam-mu t-sab-si-ma su-su-% ki-rib- 47. I made a swamp and set out
Sa
48. as-ti-il igiré?! Sahé?! abi 48. a cane-brake within it. Igiru-birds,
wild swine (lit. swine of the reeds),
49, a-tan ki-st i-na lib-bi t-mas-sir 49. beasts of the forest, I let loose therein.
50. i-na te-im wli-ma ki-rib kirdti?’ sir sa 50. By the command of the god, within
ab-bur-ti the orchards, more than in their
(native) habitat,
dl. kardnu gi-mir inbt “si-ir-du 51. the vine, every fruit-bearing tree,
52. rikké:! dannis is-mu-hu 52. and herbs throve luxuriously.
53. »Surménu “mis-ma-kan-na 53. The cypress and musikannu-tree,
54. nap-har 1sé?! 1-si-hu-ma 4. all kinds of trees, grew large and
55. u-sar-ri-Su pa-pa-al-lum 505.sent out many shoots(?).
56. ap-pa-ra-a-ti dannis 1-si-ra 56. The cane-brakes developed rapidly
(mightily) ;
57. issurat?’ Samé(e) igiré?’ Sd a-sar-su 57. the birds of heaven, the zgiru-birds,
ru-a-ku whose home is far away,
58. kin-na ik-nun-ma sahé?’ abi a-tan 58. built their nests; the wild-swine
ki-sv and beasts of the forest
59. u-rap-pi-su ta-lit-tu 59. brought forth young in abundance.
60. »mis-ma-kan-né “Surmanu tar-bit sip- 60. The musikannu-tree and the cypress,
pa-a-ti the product of the orchards,
61. kant appardti?® Sad ki-rib "a-gam-me 61. the reeds of the brakes which were in
Vi?
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62. a-na Sip-rt hi-sih-ti ekalldti?’ 62-63. used them as desired, in the build-
63. be-lu-te-ia lu e-pu-us ing of my royal palaces.
64. 7s-su na-as si-pa-a-ti ib-ku-mu im-ha- 64. The wool-bearing trees they sheared,
su su-ba-ti-7s and wove (the wool) into garments.
65. ul-tu Sip-ri ekalli-ia u-kat-tu-t 65. When I had made an end of building
my palace,
66. “Assur bélu raba(%) cldni?' u¢Tstarati?’ 66. Assur, the great lord, the gods and
goddesses
67. a-si-bu-ut 'Assur*? 67. who dwell in Assyria,
68. i-na kir-bi-Sa ak-ri-ma 68. I invited therein and
69. '“niké?! tas-ri-th-te ak-ki-ma 69. offered countless sacrifices,
70. %-Sat-lim kat-ra-ai 70. and gave (them) presents.
71. Saman “sir-di wu hi-bi-18-ti 71. Oil of the fruit-tree (the olive) and
products
72. Sd kirdti?’ sir Sa ab-bur-ti 72. of the gardens (more than these trees
bore in their native habitats)
73. u-Sal-ka-a a-na ru-us-tt 73. I brought them in abundance.
74. i-na_ tas-ri-it ekalli Sd ba-hu-la-te 74. At the dedication of the palace,
(v. tt) mdti-ia
75. u-Sa-as-ka-a muh-ha-si-in (v. Su-un) 75. I drenched the foreheads of the people
of my land with wine,
76. kardnu du-us-st-pu sur-ra-si-in (v. Su- 76. with mead I sprinkled their hearts.
un) am-kir
77. a-na dr-kat t-me i-na_ Sarrdni?' 77. In days to come, among the kings
(v. adds [nz]) méré?'-ca my sons,
78. Sé *AsSur a-na ri-é-u(m)-ut mati % 78-79. (the prince) whose name Assur
niger! shall call to rule land and people,—
79. i-nam-bu-t (v. u) 2t-kir-su
80. e-nu-ma dtru sa-a-tu 80. when that wall
81. 2-lab-bi-ru-ma en-na-hu 81. shall have become old and weak,
82. an-hu-us-su lu-ud-dis 82. may he repair its ruins, may he
83. musaré(e) Si-tir Su-me-ia 83. look for the written memorial
84. li-mur-ma samna lip-Su-us 84. of my name, may he anoint it with oil,
85. ““niké lik-ki a-na_ as-ri-Su _li-tir 85. may he offer sacrifice, and restore it
(v. lu-tir) to its place.
86. ¢Assur w I 8-tar . 86. (Then) Assur and Ishtar,
87. tk-ri-bi-Su 1-sim-mu-t 87. will hear his prayers.
88. "Abu li-mu "Ilu-itti-ia ¢"Sa-kin 88. The month Ab, the eponymy of
¢Di-mas-ka Ilu-ittia, governor of Damascus.
V. UNDATED BULL INSCRIPTION (11)!

. Ekal ™*Sin-ahé?'-eriba (v. eri-ba) Sarru il Palace of Sennacherib, the great
rabi sarru dan-nu sar kissatc sar king, the mighty king, king of the
1A SSur** Sar keb-rat irbitti(ti) mi-gir universe, king of Assyria, king of the
alana?’ rabite?! four quarters (of the world); favorite
of the great gods;
. lu-li-mu ir-s% mal-ku pit-ku-du ri-é- . wise sovereign, provident prince,
um ba-hu-la-ti mut-ta-ru-% nisé?! rap- shepherd of peoples, ruler of wide-
§a-a-li_ a-na-ku spread nations, am I.
.
. *Be-lit rldni?’ be-lit nab-ni-ti i-na . The queen of the gods, the goddess
Sasurri a-ga-ri-in-ni_ a-lit-ti-ia ki-nigs of procreation, looked upon me with
tppalsa-an-ni-ma t-sab-ba-a favor (while I was still) in the womb
of the mother who bore me, and
watched over
. nab-ni-ti u ININ-IGI-KUG id-di-na . my conception, while Ea provided a
kar-si (v. Su) rit-pa-su Sun-na-at spacious womb, and granted (me)
apkalli A-da-pd is-ru-ka pal-ka-a ha- keen understanding, the equal of
sis-su 4ASSur abu ildni?! Master Adapa’s. Assur, father of
the gods, brought in submission to
my feet
. gi-mir sal-mat kakkadi t-sak-nis se- . the whole race of blackheaded men,
pu-ti-a a-na ri-é-u(m)-ut mati u niséP! raised aloft my head to be ruler of
ul-la-a ri-si-ia id-di-na “hattu 1-sar-tu land and people, gave me a righteous
mu-rap-pi-sat scepter which enlarges
. ma-a-ti “kakku la pa-du-t a-na sum- . my land and put into my hands an
kut za-7-ri U-sat-mi-ih rit-tu-t-a i-na unsparing sword for the overturn of
ti-me-Sti-ma te-ne-sit na-ki-ri ki-sit-te my enemies. At that time, I made
katat-1a the enemy population which my
hand had conquered
. dup-sik-ku t-sa-as-si-Su-nu-ti-ma w-bi- . carry the basket (do forced labor)
nu libitta ekallu kabal ali sa°Ni-na-a? sa and mould bricks. The palace inside
360 ina ammatu siddu 95 ina ammatu the city of Nineveh, which extended
pttu 360 cubits on the side, 95 cubits on
the front,
. ma-ra-ku sit-ku-na-at-ma su-uh-hu-rat . and whose site had become too small,
Su-bat-sa §é Sarrani”! a-li-kut mah-ri which the kings who went before,
abé?'-ia a-na ri-mit be-lu-ti-Su-un my fathers, had built for their royal
u-Se-pi-si3-ma ’ abode,
1 Undoubtedly published late in the king’s reign. 2F1, Ninuaki SOR Lats
we la u-nak-ki-lu Si-pir-Sa Sédé lamast a; but had not beautified :—bull-colossi

Sa aban pi-t-li pi-si-e 1-na °T'a-as-ti-a- of white limestone, they® fashioned in
te 2b-tu-ku a-na mu-kil babdte?'-si-in4 the city of Tastiate to flank their (the
palaces’) doors.
10. a-na Si-pu-us = “elappdati?’ —_ka-rib 10. For the construction of boats (rafts)
~kisati?! sé?! rabite?’ u-ki-ru i-na they felled mighty trees in the forests
nap-har matdtr?'-Su-nuw? i-na Adru throughout the whole of their land.
ai-mu a-dan-ni e-di-e pa-an Ssat-ti In Airu, at the time of the regular
spring floods,
Vals i-na “elippdte?! si-ra-a-ti a-na a-ha-an- 11. they laboriously brought them over to
na-a t-Stb-bi-ru-ni_ mar-si-7s i-na ’ni- this side on the mighty rafts. As
bir ka-a-ri VM A-GU-LA®! ti-ti-ab-bu-% they crossed the quay-wall, their
(v. u) large boats went down.
12. ba-hu-la-ti-Su-un %-Sa-ni-hu t-lam- 12. Their crews strained and injured their
me-nu ka-ras-sin i-na da-na-ni % Sup- bodies, but by might and main
Su-ki mar-si-1s t-bi-lu-nim-ma with difficulty they landed them
13. u-sa-as-bi-tu bdbdate?'-si-in "Te-bil-ti 18. and placed them by their doors.
a-gu-t sit-mu-ru sé ul-tu timéP? The Tebiltu, a raging stream, which
rakite?’ ti-ch ekalle from days of old had come up close to
the palace
“14. i-ba~-ti-ma i-na mili-Sa gab-si w-ri- 14. and with its great floods at high
ib®-bu tim-me-en-sa ekalla sthra(ra) water, had destroyed its foundation-
Sa-a-tu a-na si-hir*-ti-sa ak-kur platform:—that small palace I tore
down in its totality.®
15. $a *Te-bil-tt ma-lak-sa us-te-es-na-a_ 15. The course of the Tebiltu I changed;
u-se-Sir mu-su-sa ki-rib a-sur-rak-ki-sa I directed its outflow through its low-
Sap-la-nu kdné?! e-la-nis idda water channels; below, reeds, above,
bitumen (were laid)
16. it-ti %"“pi-c-li rabate?’ dun-nu-nig ak- 16. and (with) great blocks of lime-stone
siX-ma>454 ina ammatu siddu (GID- I covered it over good and strong.
DA) 289 ina ammatu rupsu ekla ul-tu (A tract) 454 cubits on the side,
ma-a-me | 289 cubits in width, I raised up out
of the water (in the form of) a
field
1F1, Sin. SIL, rv. 5 The captives mentioned in ]. 6.
2F1, mati-Su-un, E2, matati-su-un. 4F1, hi-ir.
6 After losing himself in a maze of dependent clauses, Sennacherib is now back at the point where
he started in the middle of line 7.
ie u-se-lam-ma na-ba-lig v-tir tar-pa-su-% die and turned it into dry-land. I en-
- b ce eet 2 S gts td
eli Sa (v. Sd)! ti-me pa-ni t-Sar-bi si-ir larged the extent (of the available
me-si-th-ti ekalli mah-ri-ti %-rad-di-ma palace area) over that of former days,
and added it to the site (survey) of
the former palace.
18. i-na 190 ti-ip-ki ul-la-a ri-se (v. 81)?-s% 18. I raised its height (head) to 190
(v. Su) ana’ la-ba-ris ti-me (v. timé?')4 tipku. Lest in the passing days its
i-na (v. ina) mili kis-Sa-ti (v. te) tim- platform should give way before
me-en-st, la e-ni-se the (floods) of high water,
19. abnwy-7-lr rabiitr?' ki-su-su t-Sa-as-hi-ra 19. I built a facing wall around it
u-dan-ni-na su-pu-uk-su a-na 914 ina of great blocks of limestone and
suk-lum rabiti(tr)® siddu strengthened its structure. To 914
great cubits on the side
20. au 440 ina suk-lum rabite(tr)® pitu si- 20. and 440 great cubits on the front, I
kat-ti ekalla t-tir-ma su-bat-sa us-rab- brought the size of the palace and
bi ekal &™“TUR-MI-NA-MARDA® enlarged its site. A palace of breccia,
21. abrunaritu sin pirtc “ust “urkarinnu 21. marble, ivory, ebony(?), box-wood,
’mes-md-gan-na verinu ~Surméent musukannu-wood, cedar, cypress,
burdsi “e-lam-ma-ku® a-na mu-sa-ab spruce, elammaku-wood, for my royal
(v. Sab)? abode
22. be-lu-ti-ca ab-ni-ma bit ap-pa-a-ti 22. I built and portals, patterned after a
tam-sil ekal 'Ha-at-tt mi-ih-rit ba-ba-a- Hittite!’ palace, I had constructed in
ti %-Se-pis “gustré?! “eri-ni place of the doors; with beams of
VA A
cedar (and)
23. ~Surmént $4 1-ri-su-un ta-a-bu bi-nu- 23. cypress, whose scent is pleasant,
ut *4Ha-ma-nim *4Si-ra-ra_ sadé (e; products of Amanus and Sirara, the
v. ©) elltiti?! wt-Sat-ri-sa_ e-li-si-in snowcapped (lit. shining) mountains,
(v. sin)” I roofed them.
24. ~daldte?' “eri-ni “Surméni burdsi me- 24. Door leaves of cedar, cypress and
sir kaspi (KI-SAG) w ert t-rak-kis-ma spruce I bound with a band of silver
u-rat-ta-a ba-bi-sin i-na ba-rak-ki and copper and set them up in their
doorways. In
10 also E2. TRI, eri-ni.

2So also F1 and E2. 8F1 adds ~si-in-da-a.
-3F1 omits from here to 1. 19, ana 914. 9So also F1.
4So also E2. 101, mu-tir-ri-te.
® FI, tim. uF 1, e
6 F 1, ekallater! hurdsi kaspi siparri 4usandu 12 So also F1 and E2.
abnuT UR-MI-NA-MARDA. 13 That is, Syrian.
25. Sd ki-rib- bitt papahdni?'(m; PA- 25 . the room within the building, I
PAH-MES-nt) ap-ti bi-ir-ri t%-pat- arranged (lit. opened) chambers, and
ta-a ‘lamassé?! &™nartitu sin pirr opened corridors(?). Female colossi
of marble and ivory,
26. $d il-lu-ru na-sa-a kit-mu-sa rit-ta-sin 26. wearing horned head dresses( ?), their
bal-tu ku-uz-bu hi-ct-lu-pa lu-li-e ma- fore-legs (lit. hands) kneeling, clothed
la-a with strength and vigor, full of
splendor,
27. i-na bdbdte?'-Si-in(v. sin) ul-ziz!-ma 27 . I set up by their doors and made them
a-na tab-ra-a-tt %-Sa-lik su-lul ta-ra- a wonder to. behold. The dark color
a-ni $d ki-rib of the roofing timbers in
28. ba-rak-ka-a?-ni_ e-tu-su-un %-Sah-la-a 28 . the chambers, I brightened (painted ?)

a-me-1S us-nam-mir sik-kat kar-ri and made them shine like the day.
kas-pr Clothes-hooks (pegs) of silver
29. au ert ki-rib-sin v-sal-me i-na agurre 29. and copper I put up around their
abnu keA abnuykni us-si-ma interior. With burnt brick, KA-
stone and lapis-lazuli I adorned
30. si-t8-lum . the walls,
ol. ni-bi-hi . cornices,
4 * . v mye
oz. u gi-mir pa-as(v. as)-ki-sin . and all their copings.
33. as-st Sip-ri ekalli-ia . That I might accomplish the con-
struction of my palace,
34. Sti-te-Su (v. S4)*-rt w li-pit kata?-ia . and bring to an end the work of my
hands,
30. Sul-lu-me i-na ti-me-su (v. su)4 . at that time, Assur and Ishtar,
36. 4A SSur u 4Ts-tar ra-i-mu . who love my priesthood,
Oo”. Sangt-ti-ia na-bu-t? Sumi-va . and have called me by name,
38. gis-mah-hi “eri-ni Sa ul-tu time?! showed me how to bring out the
mighty cedar logs
39. rikite?’ 71-si-hu-ma ik-bi-ru dannis . which had grown large in the days
gone by,
40. i-na ki-rib **4S7-ra-ra Sad-di-1 40. and had become enormously tall as
they stood concealed in the mountains
of Sirara.
41. 1-NG PU-U2Z-"l NA-AN-ZU-ZU 41-48. Alabaster (marble) which in the
days of the kings, my fathers,
42. u-Sak-li-mu-in-ni_si-1-su-un was precious enough for (inlaying)
the hilt of a sword,
11, 2-12. 2 Fl, om. 3 F1, el. 4So also F1.
43. Sd O-partitu $d i-na tar-si Sarrani? they disclosed to me in the darkness

of Mt. Ammanana,
44. abé?'-ca a-na kar-ri nam-sa-ri Si-ku-ru and breccia (used) for all kinds of
great jars,
. i-na sa-pan *4Am-ma-na-na t-sap-tu- such as had never been seen before,
nt
. pa-ni-su* uw abou TU R-MI-NA- in Kapridargila,
MAR-DA ma-la
. kareathyr-zi-gal-li 8d la in-nam-ru ma- which is on the border of Til-Barsip,
ti-ma
. i-na *Kap-ri-da-ar-gi-la-a Sa(v. $d) pa- disclosed itself.
a-tt °Til-bar-si-ip
. u-kal-lim ra-ma-nu-us 7t-te-e Ninua** 49 . Near Nineveh, in the land of Balata,
i-na tr-si-tt
. “Ba-la-ta-a ki-i te-im ili-ma %™pi-i-lu 50 . by decree of the god, white limestone
. pi-su-% a-na mu-?-di-e in-na-mir-ma ol . was found (appeared) in abundance;
qédé
. Mamassé?* a sa-lam = mes-ri-e8-ti 52 . and bull-colossi and sculptured
abnunartitu statues of alabaster,
. [Sd]* t-na istén(en) abni ib-ba-nu-t 53 . which were carved out of one stone,
mi-na-a-ti [Suk-lu-lu]4 of enormous proportions,
2
. i-na ki-gal-la 1-2. towering high upon their own
. ra-ma(v. ram)>-ni-su-nu Sa-kigs bases;
. na-an-zu-zu / 'za-za-a-tt . alabaster cow-colossi,
. ormunaritu Sa(v. Sa) Zi-1-me whose appearance was splendid,
. nu-us-su-ka kima ti-me na-pir-di-e OO.
or whose bodies shone like the bright
day;
- NU-UM=-MU-TU Zu - mur - Si -7in® oP). great slabs of breccia
askuppatr!
. euTUR-MI-NA-MAR-DA si-ra- . I fashioned
a-tt ab-ni
. ki-lal-la-an (v. ki-la-ld-an) i-na Sad- . and cut free on both sides, in their
di-si'-un ab-tuk-ma mountain,
. a-na sip-rt ekalli-ia %-sal-di-da 2: and had them dragged to Nineveh
for the construction of my palace.
10. ki-rib “Ni-na-a’ §édé-lamassé”! rabtte”! 10 . The bull and cow-colossi
igs uf ltza-za-a-tr %"pi-t-li pi-si-e igs of white limestone,
1F 1, adds (nz). 3F1, om. 5 So also F1. OWL St.
2F1, Su. 4So F1. oN LinPRS's 3F1, Ninua*
Bs
. ina lip-ta-at ¢NIN-KUR-RA_ 1-na 12. with Ninkurra’s help
(v. ina) ir-si-it
. ‘Ba-la-ta-ai %-Sa-?-lid-ma_ %-Sak-li-la 13. I “caused to be begotten” and made
complete as to their members.
. gat-ta-Su-un Sd ul-té(v. tu)! ul-la 14. In times past, when the kings, my
Sarrdni®?"(ni)? abé?'~ia fathers,
. sa-lam ert tam-sil gat-ti-su-un a-na 15. fashioned a bronze image in the like-
St-zu-2t ki-rib ness of their members,
. ekurrati?! ab-nu-ma ina(v. t-na)! aay: to set up in their temples,
e-pis-ti-Su-nu U-Sa-ni-hu gi-mir
. maré?? um-ma-a-ni i-na la bi-rit uz-ni 17. the labor on them exhausted every
la ha-sa-as workman;
. a-ma-ti a-na sip-rt ha-sih-ti-Su-nu 18. in theirignorance and lack of knowl-
Samna is-ku-ru edge,
. na-al-ba-as si-e-ni u-ki-ru ki-rib sad é?'- 1S: they drank oil, and wore sheep-skins
Su-un to carry on the work they wanted to
do in the midst of their mountains.
. ta-a-tr ™Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba® a-Sa-rid kal 20. But, I, Sennacherib, first among all
mal-kt princes,
. mu-di-e sip-rt ka-la-ma dim-me ert 2. wise in all craftsmanship, great pillars
rabiite?’ ur-mah-htr of bronze,
. [pil*-tan bir-ki §4 ma-na-ma la tp-ti-ku 22. colossal lions, open at the knees,
Sarru pa-ni mah-ri-1a which no king before my time had
fashioned,—
23. [i-na|* uze-nt ni-kil-ti Sd t-Sat-li-ma 23. through the clever understanding
ru-bu-% (v. u%)>
24. NIN-IGI-KUG i-[na Si]‘-tul-ti ram- 24. which the noble Nin-igi-kug had
ni-1a given me,
. a-na e-prs sip-ri Su-a-tu ra-bis am-tal- 25. (and) in my own wisdom, I pondered
oy
lik-ma i-na me-lik te-me-ia wv mMme-Lis deeply the matter of carrying out that
‘
ka-bit-ti-va task, following the advice of my head

(will) and the prompting of my heart
26. pi-ti-tk ert %-ba-as-sim-ma t-nak-ki-la 26. I fashioned the work of bronze and
nik-ld-su §aé gis-mah-hi u a-la-mit-ta cunningly wrought it. Over great
~mes-r1-e€ posts and cross-bars of wood,
2ts 12 ur-mah?! m--ru-ti a-di 12° ¢sédé- aie 12 fierce lion-colossi together with 12
lamassé?’ striite?’ sé Suk-lu-lu nab-ni- mighty bull-colossi, complete in form,
tu 22 ftzq-za-a-te (v. tr)® 22 cow-colossi
180 also F1. 3¥F1, eriba. 5 F1 has ¢NIN-IGI-KUG.
2F1, om. 4So also F1. 6So F1.
No. 2
28. Saé ku-uz-bu u ul-su hi-it-lu-pa bal-tu 28. clothed with exuberant strength and
la-la-a kum-mu-ru_ si-ru-us-sin ki-t with abundance and splendor heaped
te-m ili-ma upon them,—at the command of the
god
29. 21->-pr ti-ct-ti ab-ni-ma e-ra-a ki-rib-su 29; I built a form of clay and poured
(v. 8%) as-tap-pa-ka ki-i pi-ti-ck $ stklu bronze into it as in making half-
(TA-AM) %t-Sak-li-la shekel pieces and finished their con-
struction.
30. nab-ni-su-un .48édé-lamassé?! nab-nit 30. Bull-colossi, made of bronze, two of
ert Sé 2 ina (v. t-na) ltb-bi za-ha-lu-t which were coated with enamel(?),?
lit-bu-sul ¢sédé-lamassé?! bull-colossi of alabaster,
ol. abnunaritu a-di sédé-lamassé?! ut !*za- él. together with cow-colossi of white
za-a-tr ®"pi-r-li pi-si-e Sa ekalldte?'-ca limestone, I placed at the thresholds
u-Sa-as-bi-ta of my palaces.
32. Sigar-si-in dum-me ert siriite?’ a-di 32. High pillars of bronze, together with
~dim-me ~eri-nt rabtite?’ —br-zb-lat tall pillars of cedars, the product of
Sad a-ma-nim me-sir ert t-rak-kis-ma Mt. Amanus, I enclosed in a sheath-
ing of bronze and lead,
oo. si-ar ug-gal-li-e ul-ziz-ma = dap-pi 30. placed them upon lion-colossi and
ku-lul bdbdte?'-sin? e-mid f "**za-za-a-tr set them up as posts to support their
abnunaritu a-di f “za-za-a-tr doors. Upon the alabaster cow-
colossi as well as the cow-colossi
made of bronze,
34, pi-ti-rck u-ru-di-e sd za-ha-lu-u? lat-bu- 34. which were coated with enamel(?)
Sault "“tzq-za-a-ti pi-ti-ik GU-AN-NA and the cow-colossi, made of gu-
Sd nu-um-mu-ru gat-ta-sin an-na, whose forms were brilliant,
30. ~dim-me “ust “Surmané” erini(v. eri- 35. I placed thereon, pillars of ebony,
ni) [“dup-ra-ni burdsi wu “si-in-dué cypress, cedar, duwpranu-wood, pine
th-zi-it pa-sal-la uw kas-pi and sindu-wood, with inlay of pasalli
and silver
36. si-ru-us-sin ul-ziz-ma Sd kuwm-me mu- 36. and set them up as columns in the
Sab be-lu-ti-ia e-mid “hittdtr?'-su-un rooms of my royal abode. Slabs of
askuppati?’® %TUR-MI-NA-MAR- breccia and alabaster,
DA ?“paritu
37. au askuppate?!? %"“yi-1-le rabtite?’ a-sur- 37. and great slabs of limestone, I
ru-sin(v. Ssti-in) wt-Sa-as-hi-ra a-na placed around their walls; I made
1F1, Sd. 4So F1. $F1, as-kup-pa-a-tt.
2V. °F, da-a. 7Or gilded?
CL at.
No. 2
tab-ra-a-te! u-Sa-[lik as-sti t-mi-sam- them wonderful to behold. That
ma mé|P daily there might be an abundant flow
of water of the buckets,
38. di-lu-#-ti ~~rabtitt;: DA-LUM )ip-li-qu 38.-39. I had copper cables(?) and pails
tar-sa-a-ti stparrt W har-ha-rt svparrt made
ti[-Se-pis-ma] ki|-mu-t =ma-ka-a-ti
gis]?-mah-hi
39. wu a-la-mit-ta st-ir btré?’ —-us-21z and in place of the (mud-brick)
ekallati?’ Sa-ti-na t-Sa-lik as-me-ts pedestals (pillars) I set up great
si-hir-ti ekalli a-na tab-rat kis-Sat posts and cross-beams over the wells.
nse?! ul-la-a Those palaces, all around the (large)
palace, I beautified; to the astonish-
ment of all nations, I raised aloft
40. ri-si-Sa ekallu sd Ssa-ni-na la 1-si-% 40. its head. “The Palace without a
(v. wu?) ni-bit-sa az-kur “Sar-mah-hu Rival,” I called its name. I set
tam-sil *4Ha-ma-nim 8a gi-mir out a great park, like unto Mt.
rikkée! -s7p-pa-a-te 1s éP! Amanus, wherein were all kinds of
herbs and fruit-trees, trees, such as
41. biblat(lat) Sad-di-1 wu 'Kal-di ki-rib- Al. grow on the mountains and in Chal-
Su(v. 8&) hur-ru-su(v. st)? t-ta-a-Sa dea. ‘To increase the productiveness
az-kup a-na be-ra-a-tt Sum-mu-hi ul-tu of the cultivable (lit. low-lying)
[pal-a-tt °Ki-si-ri a-di fields, from the border of the city
of Kisiri
42. ta-mir4-ti Ninua’® gaddé(a) i-na ag-gu- 42. to the plain of Nineveh, I cut through
la-a(v. om.)?-i parzillt %w-Sat-tir-ma the hills (mountains) with iron pick-
u-se-sir Thar-ru béru kak-ka-ru ul-tu axes, ran a canal over [14] double-
ki-rib hours of ground, from the place
where
43. "Hu-su-ur ma-a-me da-ru-t-ti a-sar-sa 43. the Khosr lets down its ancient waters
u-sar-da-a _——ki-rib__be-ra-a-te(v. 2) too low (for irrigation), (and) I
Sa-ti-na t-sah-bi-ba pat-ti-is a-na sup- made (the water) flow through those
Su-uh fields in irrigation ditches. To arrest
the
44. a-lak-ti mé?' Sd (v. Sa) “kirdté?! "a-gam- 44. flow of the water through (lit. of)
mu %t-Sap-si-ma__su-su-t ~—ka-rib-sa those orchards, I made a swamp and
as-ti-il igiré?’ sahé?’ “abi a-tan set out a cane-brake therein. Igiru-
birds, wild-swine, beasts
1F1, ti. 3F1, om. 5 F1, «Ni-na-a.
2So also F1. 4F1, mar.
No. 2
45. a-tan ki-t-st i-na lib-bi t-mas-sir i-na . of the forests, I let loose therein.
te-im ili-ma ki-rib “kirdte?’ kardnu By command of the god, within the
gi-mir intb “si-ir-du u rikkée?! dannigs orchards, the vine, every fruit bear-
(MA-GAL) ing tree, and herbs throve luxuriously.
46. is-mu-hu “surmént “’mes-md-gan-na 30. The cypress and musukannu-tree,
nap-har sé?! 2-si-hu-ma %w-sar-ri-su all kinds of trees, grew large and sent
(v. &%)! ‘“pa-<pa>*-al-lum ap-pa-ra-a- out many shoots(?); the cane-brakes
ta§ dannis(MA-GAL) 1-Sl-ra -tssur developed rapidly (mightily); the
Samé(e) birds of heaven,
47. agit kin-na tk-nun-ma sahé “kane 47. the zgiru-birds, built their nests, and
a-tan ki-1-st t-rap-pi-su ta-lit-tu ’mes- the wild swine and beasts of the
md-gan-na “surmént tar-bit svp-pa-a-te forest brought forth their young in
kan abundance. The musukannu-tree
and the cypress, the product of the
parks, the reeds of
48. appardti?! sé (v. Sa) ki-rib "a-gam-me 48. the brakes which were in the swamp,
ak-Sit-ma a-na Sip-ri hi-sah-ti I cut down and used them as desired,
ekalldti?’ be-lu-ti-ia lu e-pu-us* ul-tu in the building of my royal palaces.
Sip-rt
49. ekalli-ia t-kat-tu-t 4Assur bélu rabi 49. When I had made an end of building
ilant u Istardte?’ a-st-bu-ut 4A ssur** my palace, Assur, the great lord, the
i-na kir-bi-sa ak-ri-ma gods and goddesses who dwell in
Assyria, I invited therein and
50. nikér™ tas-ri-ih-te (v. tr)? ak-ki-ma t- 50. offered countless sacrifices and gave
Sat-lim kat-ra-ai Saman “bu-di wv hi-bi- (them) presents. Oil of the fruit-tree
1s-ti U-Sal-ka a-na ru-us-te® (the olive) the products of the gardens,
I brought to them in abundance.
DL i-na tas-ri-it ekalli sd ba-hu-la-te® ol. At the dedication of the palace, I
mati-ia wt-Sa-as-ka-a muh-ha-si-in" drenched the foreheads of the people
kardné?’ du-us*-su-pu of my land with wine, with mead I
sprinkled their hearts.
52. <sur>?-ra-si-in? am-kir i-na_ ki-bit 52. At the command of Assur, father of
Assur a-bu ildni?’ u “Is-tar Sar-ra-ti the gods, and Ishtar, the queen, may
4sédi dum-ka the gracious shédu
53. 4amasst dum-ki ki-rib ekallt sa-a-tu 53. and the gracious lamassu ever be seen
da®-rig§ lis-tab-ru-t8 ai wp-par-ku-v in that palace, may they not with-
i-da-a-sa draw from its side.
180 also F1. 4F1, epus(us). 7 F1, din.
2So F1. 571, luniképl, UNTIL, coven,
FI, te. 6 FI, ti 9F1, da-a
VI. MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS REFERRING TO THE

“PALACE WITHOUT A RIVAL”
a) L110
. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissate Sar ‘ASSur 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe,
abnun-1-lu pi-'su-t! king of Assyria: white limestone,
. §é ki-t te-vm ili-ma a-na sip-ri ekalli-ca . which at the command of the god
ina tr-st-[2t] was discovered in the land of Baladai,
for the construction of my palace,
. ‘Ba-la-ta-ai in-nam-ru nisé?! da-dd-me . the people of enemy towns
. na-ki-ri wu sdbé?’ hur-sa-a-ni pa-az- . and the men of remote (lit. hidden)
ru-ti kisitte(tt) kata*~ca [-na] mountain (districts), the conquest
of my hands, with
. 2ir-me-e & ag-gul-la-ti parzilla %-sa-as- . Iron picks and pickaxes quarried,
'ti-ru'-[ma] and
. édé-lamassé”! rabite?’ a-na bdabdte?! . I turned it (the limestone) into
ekalli-ia u-"tir-ra] mighty protecting bull-colossi, for
the gates of my palace.
b) T11
. ekal ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba . Palace of Sennacherib
. Sarru rabti sarru dan-nu: sar kissati . the great king, the mighty king, king
v A yY Vv *vY oy
Sar '‘AsSur of the universe, king of Assyria,

. ekallu sanina la ist (ZAG-DI-NU- . “The Palace which has no Rival”
TUG-A)
. a-na mu-sab bélite(ti)-su . for his royal dwelling
. ki-rib “Ni-na-a esSis(78) lu epus(us) . in Nineveh he has built anew.
vyyY*yv
c)
. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissate Sar ‘A SSur . Sennacherib, king of the universe,
4§édé-lamassé?! king of Assyria, huge protecting bull-
colossi
. rabite?’ Sd i-na tr-si-it “Ba-la-ta-ar . which were fashioned in the land of
Baladai,
. 1b-ba-nu-% a-na ekal be-lu-ti-su . for my royal palace
. '$é! ki-rib Ninua** ha-di-1s %-Sal-da-da . which is in Nineveh, I had joyfully!
transported (dragged).
1 Transporting these huge colossi may have been a picnic for Sennacherib, but the pictures we
have of such activities (cf. Paterson, Palace of Sennacherib, Plates 27-28) do not indicate that it
afforded much pleasure to the captives who pulled the sledges.
d) 19
. ekal ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sarru raba 1. Palace of Sennacherib, the great king,
. Sarru dan-nu sar kissatt sar "Assur 2. the mighty king, king of the universe,
abnug nan king of Assyria. Ashnan-stone,
. $a (v. 84) kima se-im sa-ah-ha-ri Si-kin 3. whose splendid surface (made it seem)
(v. sckin)-Su as if (it were composed) of kernels of
sahhar-grain,
. nu-us-su-ku sd ina (v. i-na) tar-si 4. which in the time of the kings,
Sarrani?!
. abé?'-ia ma-la aban kisddi Su-ku-ru 5. my fathers, was solely valued for
(v. ak-ru) necklaces (lit. stone of the neck),
. tna sép™ *4Ni-pur Sadi(z) (v. Sad-di-e) 6. made its appearance(?) at the foot
ra-ma-nu-us of Nipur-mountain,
. ut-tan-ni a-na ‘ "tza-za-a-ti 7. (and) I had female-colossi made there-
of, and
. U-Se-pis-ma %-Ssal-di-da (v. id) 8-9. transported into Nineveh.
. ki-rib *Ni-na-a.
é) 118
. ekal (v. mat) ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sarru 1. The palace of Sennacherib, the great
dan-nu (v. om. two words) sar kissate king, king of the universe,
. Sar 'ASSur ina me-til s-bir-ri-ia (v. 7d) 2. king of Assyria. Through the might
Sa wS8-ru-ka of the scepter which
. ab ildni?! 4A SSur %"ka-sur-ru-u a-ka- 3. Assur, father of the gods, presented
ra (Vv. ru) to me, costly basalt,
. Sa mati(sadt)-su ru-u-ku t-ra-am-ma 4. from a distant land (mountain, lit.
whose land or mountain is distant),
I brought
. tna sapal sir-ri “daldte?® 5. and under the door-posts
. badbate?’ ekalli-ca u-kin 6. of the gates of my palace I placed it.
‘ay ee
. ekal ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba 1. Palace of Sennacherib,
. Sarru rabtt Sar kis-sa-ti 2. the great king, king of the universe.
. Sar ‘Assur dan-dan-nu 3. king of Assyria, the almighty,
eH . e-til kal mal-ki
mon 4. ruler of all princes.
CHAPTER VII
THE “BIT KUTALLI”? OR ARMORY
I. THE BIT-KUTALLI INSCRIPTION OF THE ORIENTAL
INSTITUTE PRISM (H2)
Col. VI
36. i-na ti-me-su-ma ul-tu ekalla kabal ala 36. At that time, after I had completed
Sd Ninua** the palace
37. a-na ri-mit Sarru-ti-ia u-sak-li-lu of. in the midst of the city ot Nineveh
for my royal residence,
38. a-na tab-ra-a-'te kis-Sat nisé?" lu-li-e 38. had filled it with gorgeous furnishings,
u-mal-lu-si to the astonishment of all the people,
(I found that)
a9. ekal ku-tal-li §é a-na si-te-Sur ka-ra-s1 39. the side-palace, which the former
kings,
40. pa-ka-a-di sisé?! sa-na-ki mimma sum- 40. my ancestors, had built
su
41. u-se-pi-Su Sarrani?? a-li-kut mah-ri 41. for the care of the camp, the stabling
abé?'-ca of the horses and the storing of things
in general (lit. whatever its name),
42. tam-lu-sa ul 1b-si Su-bat-sa su-uh-hu- 42. had no terrace, that its site was too
rat-ma small,
43. la nu-ku-lat e-pis-tas la-ba-ris ti-me 43. that its construction had not been
tum-me-en-sa skillfully done, that, as the days went
by, its foundation-platform
44. e-nis-ma is-da-a'-sa ir-ma-a 1-ku-pa 44. had become weak, its foundation had
11-SA-a-Sa given way (and) its roof had fallen in.
45. ekalla sa-a-tu a-na si-hir-ti-sa ak-kur 45. That palace I tore down in its totality.
46. ki-ru-bu-u ma-?-du ul-tu ki-rib v-sal-la 46. A large tract of land in (lit. out of)
the meadows
47. wu ta-mir-ti ali kima’ a-haz-tum-ma lu 47. and environs of the city I took over
as-ba-ta (lit. seized),—according to plan,
48. i-na+ muh-hi lu w-rad-di. mas-kan 48. and added thereto. The site of the
ekallt mah-ri-te former palace
11, om. 3 H1, ki-ma. Sisb, Gas

2H1, adds (nz). Hi ings
128
THE “BIT-KUTALLI” OR ARMORY 129
Col. VI
49. e-zib-ma i-na kak-ka-ri! v-sal-li sé 49 I abandoned. With the ground of
ul-tu the meadows
50. mal-di nari as-ba-ta tam-la-a us-mal-li 50. which I had seized from the river-
200 ti-ip-ka flats(?), I filled in a terrace,
dl. a-na e-la-ni u-Sak-ki ri-e-su ina arhi ol. 200 tipke (thickness of brick) I
Se-me-e raised its top on high. In a favorable
month
52. ai-mu mit-ga-ri si-ir tam-li-e Sa-a-tu 52. on an auspicious day, on the top of
that terrace,—
O38. i-na* nek-lat lib-bi-ca ekal &"™pi-t-la 53. following the prompting (lit. cun-
ning) of my heart,—a palace of lime-
stone
54. u “eri-ni ni-pis-ti 'Hat®-ti u ekalla 54. and cedar, of Hittite workmanship
(or in Hittite style of architecture),
also a
55. si-tr-tu tp-sit "A ssur** sé ela mah-ri-ti 55. lofty palace of Assyrian workman-
ship, which
56. ma-?-dis §u-tu-rat ra-ba-ta u nak-lat 56. far surpassed the former (palace) in
size and beauty (cunning workman-
ship)—
57. i-na si-pir “"dim-gal-li-e en-ku-ti 57. according to the plan of wise archi-
tects,
58. a-na* mu-sab_be-lu-ti-ia = Ui-Se-pis 58. I had (them) build for my royal
~gusur éP! residence.
59. ver-ni si-ru-ti tar-bit *4Ha-ma-nim 59. Mighty cedar beams, the product of
Sadi(z) el-la Amanus, the shining mountain,
60. u-Sat-ri-sa e-li-sin “daldti?! l5-1a-ri 60. I stretched over them (that is: with
cedar I roofed them). Door-leaves
of iari-wood I
61. me-sir ert nam-ri u-rak-kis-ma %v-rat- 61. covered with a sheathing of bright
ta-a bronze and set up,
62. babi?'-sin’ 7-na %¢"n1-1-li. pi-si-e" 62. in their doors. Out of white lime-
stone,
63. Sd i-na ir-si-it “Ba-la-da-ai in-nam-ru 63. which is found in the country of the
city of Baladai,
64. Sédé lamassé?’ si-ru-ti® u-Se-pis-ma 64. I had mighty colossi fashioned and
vm-na
1H1, kar. 31, ha-at. 5 H1, lt. iN 8
2H, ina. 4H1, om.(?). 8 H1, Si-in. SH1. te:
Col. VI
65. wu Su-me-la ti-Sa-as-bi-ta Sigar-sin a-na 65. stationed right and left of their
Su-te-Sur entrances. For the equipment of the
66. sal-mat kakkadi pa-ka-di mur-ni-ts-ki 66. black-headed (people, that is the
paré?! a-ga-li 1- Assyrians), the housing (storing) of
(battle)-steeds, mules, colts
67. bel-li “narkabati?’ “at-ta-ra-te e-rik-ki 67. riding camels(?) chariots, wagons,
18-pa-a-a-te carts, quivers,
68. pit-pa-na-a-te u us-st mimma Sum-su 68. bows and arrows, all kinds of battle-
a-nu-ti’ tahdzi* equipment :—
69. na-as-ma-di sisé?’ paré?’ sa> e-mu-ki 69. teams of horses and mules which
v0: ra-ba-a-te 1-Su- Suk-nu-se a-na ni-ri 70. possessed enormous strength, and
ki-sal-la-sa were broken to the yoke.
71. kd-nu-t rabis ws-rab-bi ekalla sa-a-ti® Hab, I greatly enlarged its (i.e. the palace’s)
ul-tu® us-se-Sa court of the gate(?). That palace,
from its foundation
72. a-di na-bur-ri-sa ar-sip t-sak-lil mu- (P+ to its coping, I constructed, I finished.
sar-e€ A stela
73. Si-tir Sumi7-1a i-na kir-bi-sa as-kun 73. with my name inscribed I set up in
a-na dr-kat imé?! it. In the days to come
74. i-na Sarrdni?® mdré?"-ia §é 4A Sssur uw 74, among the kings, my sons, whose
al Star? name Assur
75. a-na ri-é-um” mdte u nisé?! 1-nam- 70. and Ishtar shall name for the rule of
bu-w!! 21-kir-su land and people,—
76. e-nu-ma ekallu Sa-a-tu™ t-lab-bi-ru-ma 76. when that palace shall have become
en-na-hu old and ruined,
77. ruba ar-ku-t% an-hu-sa lu-ud-dis mu- 77. may some future prince restore its
sar-e ruins, look upon
78. Si-tir Sumi'-ia li-mur-ma samna lip- 78. the stela with my name inscribed
St-us niki (thereon), anoint it with oil,
79. lik-ki a-na as-ri-si'*= lu-tir 4Assur uv 79: pour out a libation upon it and return
aT Star® it toits place. (Then) Assur and Ishtar
80. vk-ri-bi-su 1-siem-mu-u! mu-nak-kir sit- 80. will hear his prayers. He who de-
11-10 stroys my inscription and my name
81. u Sumi'-ia 7A SSur bélu rabit abu ilani?! 81. may Assur, the great lord, the father
of the gods,
1 HI bi. 5 HI, Sd. 8H1, adds (nz). EH) BUile 7
2) om. sll 1h 9H1, 478-tar. HAI, ti.
SSE eaiats THI, Si-me. 101, -w(m)-ut. wd) eM Ry
‘HI, ta-ha-zi.
Col. VI
82. nak-ris li-zi-is-su “hatta u “kussd 82. treat him as an enemy,
83. li-kim-sti-ma lis-ki-pa palé-su 83. take away from him scepter and
throne and overthrow his rule.
84. arab Dy-zu li-mu ™Ga-hi-lu 84. Month Tammuz, eponym of Gahilu
85. ambél pihdts *Ha-ta-rik-ka} 85. governor of Hatarikka.
ile ANOTHER VERSION OF THE BUILDING OF THE ARMORY (H4)

55. 1-nu-su ekal ku-tal-li §a ki-rib Ninua*? 55. At that time (I found that) the side-
Sd a-na §%-te-Sur ka-ra-si palace which is in Nineveh, which the
kings, my ancestors had built
56. pa-ka-ad sisé?’ u sa-na-a-ki mimma 56. for the care of the camp, the stabling
Sum-Su t-Se-pi-Su <Sarrani”'-ni> a-li- of the horses and the storing of things
"4 Y 4 yY i Akg v A rpl . =
kut mah-ri in general, (that)

57. abé?'-(e)a sé ekalli Sa-a-tu tam-lu-t-sa 57. that palace had no terrace and its
ul ib-Si-ma su-uh-hu-rat su-bat-sa site was too small,
58. a-na St-us-mur sisé?' ul sum-du-la 58. for the exercising of the horses the
kd-nu-% ki-sal-lu la-ba-ris tmé?! gate(?)-court was not roomy enough,
(that), as the days went by,
59. tim-me-en-sa i-nis-ma it-ru-ra 11-Sa-a- 59. its foundation had become weakened
Sa ekallu sa-a-tu a-na_ si-hir-ti-sa and its roof was tottering. That
ak-kur palace in its totality I tore down.
60. ki-ma a-haz-tum-ma ki-ru-bu-&% ma-a- 60. According to plan, I took over a large
du ul-tu ki-rib ti-sal-li lu as-ba-ta tract out of the meadows
61. si-ru-us-sa us-rad-di mas-kan ekalli 61. joining it thereto. The site of the
mah-ri-ti e-zib-ma i-na ki-rib- ki-ru- former palace I abandoned and in the
bi-e ; middle of the tract
62. $d ul-tu u-sal-li as-ba-ta tam-la-a 62. which I had taken over from the
us-mal-li 3 Sug +20 ti-ip-ki i-na na-al- meadows I filled in a terrace. 200
ban-1a tupk (thickness of brick) of my large
bricks (lit. brick-work)
63. rabi(t) a-na e-la-ni t-Sak-ki ri-e-su 63. I raised its top on high. Upon that
si-ir tam-li-e Sa-a-tu sd ekalldte?’- terrace
1a
64. at-ta-di tim-me-en-sin ekal &™pi-1-li 64. I laid the foundation of my palaces;
ver-ni tam-sil ekal 'Ha-at-te a palace of limestone (and) cedar
(after) the pattern of a Hittite
palace,
1 Date of H1, ina 27¢bAdaru Amu 20am li-mu ™Bél-émur-a-ni ambél pipati ¢Gar-ga-mis.
65. a ekallu si-ir-tu e-pis-ti 'ASSur™* sd 65. and a lofty palace of Assyrian work-
ma-dis Su-tu-ra raba-a u Sar-ha a-na manship, which far surpassed (the
mu-sab— former palace) in size and splendor,
I had
66. Sarru-ti-ia %-Se-pi§ as-s& mur-ni-is- 66. (them) build for my royal residence.
ki-ia Suk-nu-se a-na ni-i-ri u pa-ka-du That the steeds might be trained to
the yoke
67. Sal-la-at na-ki-ri_ ka-bit-tu sé %-Sat-li- 67. and the heavy booty of the enemy
ma *Assur ki-sal-la sa kd-nu-t danntgs which Assur put into my hands might
be stored (in safety), I greatly
68. us-rab-bi i-na e-mu-ki si-ra-a-ti sd 68. increased the court of the gate(?).
ilant bélé?'-ta Sarrdni?! '‘Amurri® kali- (Relying) on the exalted might of the
Su-un gods, my lords, I sent the order to
69. Sd a-na sépa*-1a u-sa-ak-ni-s% t-ma- 69. the kings of Amurru, all of them, who
ir-Su-nu-tt ur-tu “guste?! “eri-ni had submitted to me (lit. at my feet).
VA A
Great cedar beams

70. rabiti?! ki-rib **¢Ha-ma-nim_ tk-si-tu 70. they felled in Mt. Amanus, dragged
a-na Ninua™ 1-su-tu-nim-ma t-Ssat-ri- them to Nineveh and roofed (my
sa e-li-sin palaces with them).
(oe ~daldte?’ “Surméni li-ta-ri me-sir ert TAs Door-leaves of cypress and laru-
u-rak-kis-ma t-rat-ta-a ba-bi-sin wood I covered with a sheathing of
bronze and set up in their doors.
72. abnugsnan Sd kima zér kis-se-e sikin-su 72. Ashnan-stone, whose beautiful struc-
nu-su-ku ma-la aban kisddi ak-ru ture had the appearance of cucumber-
aban ®"“ka-bi-e seeds, and was highly prized for neck-
laces (lit. stones of the neck)
73. ma-ga-rt wu ri-th-su sui-tu-ki mur-su 73. or amulets to bring on rain (lit. stone
a-na améli la tehé(e) (NA NU-TE-E) for commanding favor or bringing on
Sa ul-tu sép *4Ni-pur rain) and to keep disease from
approaching a man, which
74, Sadi(z) ab-bab-la it-ti &"“pi-7-li_ pi-si-e 74. was brought from the foot of Mt.
Sd i-na °Ba-la-ta-ai in-nam-ru Nipur, together with white limestone
which is found at Baladai,
75. a-na “Ssedé-lamassé?! %-Se-pis-ma %-Ssa- 75. I had them fashioned into protecting
as-bi-ta sigar-si-in 1 !“*za-za-a-ti colossi and placed them by their
entrances. Upon cow-colossi of (this)
ashnan-stone
76. abnuasnan dim-me “eri-ni si-ru-si-in 76. I set. cedar columns (pillars) and (on
ul-ziz-ma Sd ekal %"™pi-1-li Sa-a-tu these) I placed the cornice of that
limestone palace.
tha e-mid hété?'-sa i-na uz-ni ni-kil-ti S4 .77. With the keen understanding which
u-Sat-li-ma bél ni-me-ki 4Ea (4NIN- Ka, lord of wisdom, gave me, I
IGI-KUG)
1D. ma-la dul-la-a-ti siparri sé a-na hi- 78-79. made clay molds for all the copper
Sih-ti ekalldte?'-1a sé Ninua* ap-ti-ku work needed (desired) for my palace
(Lee ki-t te-im tle 21-?-pt te-tt ab-ni-ma era which I built at Nineveh,—according
ki-rib-su as-pu-uk-ma 1-si-ra to the command of the god, and
poured bronze therein. The work of
my hands
80. Sip-ru ka-ti-ia uF 4lamassé?! ert 80. was successful and (these) female
ma-sa-a-ti as-kup-pu @ “asnan protecting deities of shining bronze I
flanked (lit. caused to bear) with
slabs of ashnan-stone,
81. u-Sa-as-si-si-na-tt bi-rit J '“zazdte?! 81. and set them between the cow-
(ZA-ZA-MES) ul-ziz na-bur-ris t-Se- colossi. I made them serve as a
me-ma t-sa-lik dado(?) and
82. as-me-1§ i-na ki-sa-al-li rabi(2) sap-la- 82. made them most beautiful. In the
nu ekal %yi-1-la a-na ri-mit Sarru- great court below the limestone
ti-ia palace (built) for my royal residence,
I built (laid)
83. SG mua inan &“TUR-MI-NA-MAR- 83. a pavement of ashnan, breccia, and
DA & abnusq-a-bu w-se-pis ki-gal-lum sabu-stone. Four copper pillars,
4 dim-me siparrv
84. $d Ses-Sa-Su-nu andku bal-lum si-ru-us- 84. whose capitals(?) were of cast lead,
Su ul-ziz-ma i-na da-ap-pi “eri-ni sd I set up on it (the pavement) and over
kaspi (KI-SAG) beams of cedar
85. lit-bu-su w-Sat-ri-sa su-lul-su ekallu 85. which were covered with silver, I
ma-hir-ti danni§ t-sar-bi t-Sa[-ak-lil]- spread its roof. The former palace I
ot) greatly enlarged. I finished it
86. u-Sar-ri-ih-st a-na_tab-rat_——kis-Sat 86. and splendidly adorned it, to the
msér! la-la-a us-mal-lis man-da-at-tu amazement of all peoples I filled it
'bi-lat! mdatatr?’ with costly equipment. Gifts, the
tribute of the lands,
87. a-haz-tu sé '‘Ma-da-ai ru-ku-tt $d i-na 87. the wealth of the distant Medes,
Sarrami?'(ni) abé?! (e)-a ma-am-man whose tribute none among the kings
my fathers had (ever) received,
88. la im-hu-ru bi-lat-su-wn tt-ti “su-wm- 88. together with the wagons and riding
ba-te “narkabdte?' [ru-ku-bt Sar(?)! chariots of the Elamite king,
E-la-me-t
89. sar Babili®* ua '‘Kal-di Sd 1tk-si-da 89. the king of Babylon and Chaldea,
kdtat-ai [it'-t2 'ha-lab-te! la mi-nam which my hands had captured, and
innumerable (pieces) of equipment
90. Sa ak-ki(?)-mu a-na na-kam-ti sd 90. which I had laid up as a store for
ekalli Sa-a-tu ‘i-Se-b1-lam]-ma %-se-rib that palace,—(all this) I had (them)
ki-rib-Sa bring and place therein (in the
palace). ;
oT i-na ki-bit “Assur abu wlan?! & 4Belit ot At the command of Assur, father of
(NIN-LIL) Sar-[ra]-ti [ki-rib] ekalli the gods, and Belit, the queen, may I
[Sa-a-tu] dwell in that palace
92. i-na tu-ub sérz hu-ud ltb-bi uv nu-um- . in health of body, joy of heart and
mur pa-ni [lu-ur-me-ma. ..... ] brightness of countenance. ....
93. lit-tu-tu li-pu-t-a dtr dari a-na t-me may my descendants forever
ru-ku-ti li-ku-nu ki-rib-sa and for all time to come, abide
therein.
94. 4sédu na-sir nap-sa-a-tt ilu mu-sal-li- 94. May the bull-colossus, guardian of life,
mu ur-ru & mu-su at tp-par-ku-t the god who keeps (things) safe by
1-da-at day and night, not leave its side.
CHAPTER VIII
“THE TEMPLE OF THE NEW YEAR’S FEAST”

a) INSCRIPTION ON A FOUNDATION STELA FOUND AT ASSUR (I 2)
43 m 4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sarru rabai sarru 1; Sennacherib, the great king, the
dan-nu sar kigsate Sar ‘ASSur* mighty king, king of the universe,
king of Assyria.
. Sar kib-rat irbitte (tc) mu-tar-ru-u nisé?! . king of the four quarters (of the
rapsate?! world), ruler of wide-spread peoples;
. e-prs sa-lam ¢Assur! wu ildni?’ rabtte?! . maker of the image (statue) of Assur
mu-sak-lal and the great gods; who restores all
(fulfills)
. pa-ra-as K-sdr-ra ma-st-u-tt ina bi-re . the forgotten cults of Esharra, who,
ina ki-bit through the oracle, (and) at the
behest
. amas wu 4*Adad mu-sar-bu-u su-luh- . of Shamash and Adad, multiplies
hi-su-un their ceremonies (cults, ritual);
. mu-tir Aamassu H-sdr-ra ba-as-ti a-na . who restores the powerful(?) pro-
as-ri-SUu tecting deity of Esharra to its place;.
. Sa pa-lih, ildni?’ Sa Samé(e) wu tldni?! . who fears the great gods of heaven
Ls
LA SSur** ra-bis and greatly

. mu-du-u mu-ul-li cldni?! rabiti?! ina . befriends the gods of Assyria, who
Sub-ti-su-nu exalts the great gods in their shrines,
. mu-sar-bu-u si-ma-ti-Su-nu — e-pis . multiplies their adornments; maker
tA SSur** of Assyria,
10. mu-sak-lil ma-ha-zi-Su mu-ma-gir mat 10. who completes its metropolis; sub-
na-ki-re duer (who makes obedient) of the
enemies’ land,
Le mu-ab-bit da-dd-me-su-un mu-sah-ru-u 11. destroyer of their towns; who digs
nar é?! canals,
12. pi-tu-u be-ra-a-tt mu-sah-bi-cb pat- 12. open wells, runs irrigation-ditches,
ta-a-tt
13. Sa-kin nu-uh-st u duh-du ina t-ga-ri iG who brings plenty and abundance to
LA SSur** rap-su-te the wide acres of Assyria,
14. mu-kin mé?! si-ka-a-ti ina kar-ba-a-te 14. who furnishes water for irrigation to
1A SSur* Assyria’s meadows,—
1 Written AN-SAR.
135
15. Sa ul-tt G-me pa-ni hi-ri-ti u si-kin ina 15. engineering (lit. digging) and con-
1A SSur** struction such as none had seen in
Assyria in days
16. man-ma-an la i-mu-ru ai-um-ma la 16. of old, none had known
1-du-u
Abe St-ut- mah-ri la i-pu-su mu-har-rit Wh of (those kings) who went before, (none)
Si-pir *Libittu had made; who replaces (adobe)-brick
work, (lit. the work of the brick-god),
18. ul-tt 8-pir bal-tu-te a-di ki-mah si-mat 18. both in buildings for the living and
me-tu-tu the tombs provided for the dead,
jhe ina &™pyi-i-li aban Sadi(i) Sa ma-na-a- iv: with mountain limestone, which none
ma tna 'Assur™ la i-pu-su of the kings of Assyria, who went
before me, had done;
20. Sarru pa-ni mah-ri-ia ma-al-ku pit- 20. provident prince, whose rule is praised
ku-du sa eli Sarréni”! a-sib pa-rak-kr above that of (all) kings who dwell in
palaces;
21. nu-u-da-at be-lut-su tukulti(tt) métr- Pailhe the support of his land, terrible (lit.
Su na--id kab-li wu tahdzr exalted) in battle and warfare,
22. su-lul ummdndtee?'-su a-na-ku e-nu-su 22. the (protecting) shadow of his armies,
is-tu sa-lam 4Assur béli rabi(2) béli-ca am I. At that time, after I had
made the image of Assur, the great
lord, my lord,
23. u sa-lam iléni?’ rabiti?’ epusu-ma 23. and the images of the great gods, had
u-Sar-me-st-nu-tt S-bat-su-nu ni-th-ti caused them to take up their abode
in their shrines of peace,
24. arah BAR-SAG-SAG arhu ris-tu-u sa 24. (in) the month BAR-SAG-SAG, the
a-bt *Hn-lil °*Na-an-mur-te first month of father Enlil, the month
Nanmurti,
25. kakkabA PIN i-sin-nt ki-ri-tt sa Sar 25. (the month) of the star APIN, of
ilani?! 4A sSur the feast of the banquet of the king
of the gods, Assur,
26. Sa ul-tu ti-me rtiikiite?’ ina e-sa-a-te 26. which from days of old, on account of
wu sah-ma-sa-a-tt Bit-a-ki-it disturbances and _ uprisings, had
ceased to be held (lit. neglected) in
the Temple of the New Year’s Feast
of the Desert,
2 séri im-ma-su-u ina ki-rib ala in-ni- 27. (but) was then being celebrated within
ip-pu-su pa-ra-as Sar ildni®! 4A sur the city,—the cult of the king of the
gods, Assur, in (lit. with) that (kind
of a) structure!
“THE TEMPLE OF THE NEW YEAR’S FEAST” 137
28. it-ti Sip-ri-im-ma_ Sst-a-ti a-na e-pis 28. —to build a Temple of the New
Bit-a-kit b-bi ub-la-ni-ma Years’ Feast, my heart moved me,
29. te-im “Samas 4Adad al-mad-ma an-na 29. the command of Shamash and Adad
ki-<ni> i-pu-lu-in-ni-ma I sought by oracle (lit. learned), a
favorable reply they gave me,
30. tk-bu-u-ni_ e-pi-e-Su ina arhi tabi 30. and commanded (me) to build. In
a-me sal-mu ina si-pir ra-bu-ti a favorable month, a propitious (lit.
peaceful) day, with the aid (lit.
work) of masterbuilders (and)
ol. ni-me-tk asipu-u-ti ina “"“pi-i-la aban ol. the wisdom of the priests, I built its
Sadi(i) ussi-Su ad-di-ma foundation of mountain limestone,
32. ul-la-a ri-si-Suul-tuussi-Su— a-di 32. I raised aloft its turrets (head), its
gab-dib-bi-su ina aban Ssadi(z) foundation as well as its walls (lit.
from its foundation to its walls)
33. u-Sak-lil-su-ma_wu-sak-kir-su hur-sa- Oo. I constructed entirely of mountain
ns 2-TA pat-ta-a-ti limestone, and I raised it up moun-
tain high. Two irrigation .ditches
o4. a-na 1-ta-ti-su u-Sah-ri-i-ma_’ kira 34. I dug around its sides, and encircled
nu-uh-st it with a garden of abundance
and
35. sip-pat Sa sa-sa°?’ %-Sa-as-hir-su-ma 30. orchard(s) of—, with luxurious plan-
mu-sa-ri-e ku-uz-bi tations I surrounded its sides.
36. 4-ta-ti-su. U-Sal-me_ = -1s-tu = Babalr** 36. After I had destroyed Babylon,
ah-bu-u
37. lant sa U-Sab-bi-ru nisé?'-Su ina 37. had smashed the gods thereof, and
vkakki as-pu-nu had struck down its people with the
sword,
38. as-St kak-kar ale st-a-tr [st'-ws-si-c 38. —that the ground of that city might
kak-kar-su as-suh-ma be carried off, I removed its ground
and
39. a-na "Pu-rat-ti a-na tam-tim %v%-Ssa-bil 39. had it carried to the Euphrates (and
e-pi-ri-su a-na Dilmun** on) to the sea. Its dirt (lit. dust)
reached (was carried) unto Dilmun,
40. tk-su-du-ma Dilmun*'-at i-mu-ru-ma 40. the Dilmunites saw it, and the terror
hat-ti pu-luh-ti sa “Assur of the fear of Assur
41. im-kut-su-nu-ti-ma na-mur-ta-su-nu 41. fell upon them and they brought their
ub-lu-u-ni treasures ;!
1 Reports of the power of Sennacherib’s father had reached the ears of ‘‘Uptri, king of Dilmun,
situated at a distance of 30 double-hours in the eastern sea,” and he sent tribute. Sargon’s Annals,
Il. 369 f.
42. at-tz na-mur-ti-su-nu ummani! di-ku- 42. with their treasures they sent artisans,
ut mati-su-nu za-bil dup-sik-ki mustered from their land, carriers of
the basket,
43. v~narkabat stparre epsét?! stparri ti-nu- 43. a copper chariot, copper tools, vessels
tt Si-pir mati-su-nu of the workmanship of their land,
44. a-na na-kar Babi 1s-pu-ru-u-ni-a-na 44. —at the destruction of Babylon.
nu-uh-hi lib-bi To quiet the heart
45. 4A ssur béli-ia ta-nit-ti dan-nu-ti-su 45. of Assur, my lord, that peoples
nse?! a-na da-la-li should bow in submission before his
exalted might,
46. a-na ta-mar-te niséP! ah-ra-a-ti epiréc! 46. I removed the dust of Babylon for
Babili** presents to (the most) distant peoples,
47. as-su-ha-am-ma ina bit a-ki-ti Su-a-te 47. and in that Temple of the New Year’s
ka-ri-e katmt v-gar-ri-in Feast, I stored up (some) in a covered
bin G7)
48. ina na-di-e ussi $a Bit-a-ki-ti na-mur-tt 48. At the laying of the foundation of
Sa ™Ka-ri-bi-ilu the Temple of the New Year’s Feast,
the treasure which Karibi-ilu
49, Sar ‘'Sa-ba-> aban(?) . . ni-sik-tr 49. king of Saba’,— . . .—stones, pre-
abné?! rikké?! tabatir? cious-stones, choice herbs,
50. (lz|-ka 1k-ba-am-ma 18-tu lib-bi na-mur- 50. ordered to be brought, from that
tr Su-a-tt treasure,
51. abné rikké?’ a-na libbi ussi-su ad-di 51. stones and herbs I laid down in the
a-na libbi usst Bit-a-ki-tr heart of its foundation, in the heart
of the foundation of that Temple of
the New Year’s Feast,
52. Sa-a-ttu kaspu hurdsu aint sands 52. silver, gold, sandu-stone (carnelian ?),
abrunknd &“hulala &-“musgarru lapis-lazuli, hulalu, mushgarru,
53. abnu
JD-AS xT D-AS-AS IM-DUB 53. UD-ASH-stones, UD-ASH-ASH-
(aspuk ?) nap-har rikké?! ta-bu-tu stones, I heaped up. All kinds of
choice herbs,
ve
54. ki-'ma*.. . . - hi usst S-a-tt ni-gu- 54. like—I—. That foundation I
la-a Saman ru-us-tt sprinkled with the choicest
50. ki-ma mé?! nart lu as-lu-uh te-mi-en-na 55. oil as with water from the river.
at-ta Thou, Foundation (-deposit),
56. Sa ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar 'AsSur** ra-im 56. for Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
ki-na-a-te lover of justice,
1Three Sabaean kings, and one mukarrib, of this name are known (see Corpus Inscr. Sem.,
Pars Quarta, Tomus II, Nos. 373 f., and Glaser, Skizze, I, 62). Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon had
dealings with Saba’, the latter with a king called Ithamar (Annals, 1. 97).
57. e-pis sa-lam 4AsSur ba-an' bit da-me- 57. maker of the image of Assur, builder
tk-ta-su a-na ¢Assur ki-bi of the house of his grace, to Assur
speak:
58. at-tt Assur®* wu H-Sdr-ra_ les-te-li-bu 58. With Assyria and Esharra may his
lipt?'-su offspring prosper;
. maré?'-§u mdar-mdré?'-su it-ti sal-mat 59. may his sons and his grandsons abide
kakkadi li-ku-nu among the black-headed race
. a-na du-ur da-a-ri at-um-ma rubti 60. (of men) for ever and ever. May
arkii(u) sa ¢Assur any future prince ;
. a-na r@u-ut mati wu nisé?? i-nam-bu-u 61. whose name Assur shall call for the
Sum-Su rulership (shepherding) of land and
people,
. Sa ina pali-su bitu su-a-tt in-na-hu 62. in whose reign that temple shall fall
an-hu-us-su to ruins, restore
. lid-dis mu-sar-at li-mur-ma samna_ 63. its ruins; may he look upon my
lip-su-us memorial stela, anoint it with oil,
. niké k-ki wna as-ri-su les-kun 64. offer sacrifices, and restore it to its
place.
. 4Assur tk-ri-bi-Su_ 1-sim-me 65. And Assur will hear his prayers.
. mu-mi-kir mu-sar-at da-ai-i-st a-ma- 66. But the destroyer of my stela, who
ti-1a ignores my word,
. e-pis [la] tabi al-na..... ]?’ w 67. who does that which is not good for—
pir-hi?'-Su-nu and their offspring,—
. Assur Sar ildni?’ u tldni?! rabaiti?’ Sa 68. may Assur, king of the gods, and the
Samé(e) u irsitim(tim) great gods of heaven and earth,
. ar-rat [la] nap-su-ri ma-ru-us-ti li-ru- 69. curse him with an evil curse which
ru-Su-ma cannot be removed, may
. Sarru-us-su. lis-ki-pu baldt-su li-ki- +70. they overthrow his kingship, deprive
mu-SU him of life, and
. Suma-su zéra-Su_pir-hi(lipa?)-su u 71-72. destroy his name, his seed, his
4
na-an-nab-su kith and his kin, in every land.

. ina nap-har matate l-hal-li-ku
b) INSCRIPTION INTENDED FOR A FOUNDATION STELA ([6)
. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar 'AsSur'* e-pif§ 1. Sennacherib, king of Assyria, maker of

sa-lam ¢Assur wv ildni?! rabite?! the images of Assur and the great gods:
. Bit-a-ki-ct séri Sa "parsu-sa' ul-tu 2. the Temple of the New Year’s Feast
ame?! riikite?! 1m-ma-st-u of the Plain, whose cult has been for-
gotten since days of old,
. fina bil-ri wu ki-bit “Sama wu “[Adad 3. which(?) I restored at the command

Bit|-ug(?)-ga bitu ka-mu-w tk-mu-su of the oracle (lit. oracle and com-
1sdtu(girru) mand) of Shamash and Adad,—
its outer temple, Bit-ugga, was de-
stroyed by fire.
steiie Ui pa-pa-hi-xu B-balag-ga . The name of its sanctuary, E-balagga,
sir-tu ni-bit-su az-kur I changed and oe, Mol 6 Fe Vole te I called its
exalted name.
. abul siparri russa(a) sa ma-la a-ga-[le”’ . A gate of burnished copper, with all
Sa] si-pir “Nappahu kinds of—, in the workmanship of
the Smith-god,
. ina nik-lat ramdni-ia t-Se-pis-ma sa- . by my own artistic ability, I made,
lam '4AsSur sa ana libbt Tiamat] and the image of Assur, who is
sal-ti illaku(ku) advancing to battle into the midst
of Tiamat,
. “kastu ki-t Sa na-sui-u ina “narkabti sa . as he raises his bow, riding in a
ra-ak-bu a-bu-bu [sa pa-ak'-du chariot, bringing on the storm,
. “Amurru sa a-na mu-kil ap-pa-a-te . (and the image of) Amurru, who
at-ti-su rak-bu a-'na pi'-i sa 4Samas u rides with him as charioteer (holder
4A dad of the reins), (these) I engraved upon
that gate
. ina bi-rt tk-bu-nim-ma_ si-ir abullt . at the command of Shamashand Adad,
Sa-a-Su e-sir_ tldni!?"! pa-ni-Su_il- as they gave it through the oracle.
laku(ku) The gods who went before him
HU u arki-su illaku(ku) sa ru-ku-bu rak-bu 10. and after him, those who rode on
Sa ina sépa’-su illaku(ku) [ul koa chariots, and those who went on
Sa ina pani 4A ssur foot, as they were drawn up in line
before Assur,
11. si-id-ru u arki ¢A Sur si-id-ru Ti-amat Ei: and as they were drawn up in line
nab-nit [kir-bi-su] Sa *ASssur Sar ildni behind Assur. (The image of) Tia-
y
mat, (and) the creatures inside her,

into whose midst
12. a-na lib-bi-su sal-ti il-la-ku a-na ‘eli 12. Assur, king of gods is advancing to
pi'2 sa 4Samas wu *Adad si-ir abulli battle,—I engraved upon that gate in
Sa-a-Su e-sir obedience to the command of
Shamash and Adad.
13. si-at-ti cldni?! Sa ina sépat’-su-nu il-la- 13: The rest of the gods, who were
ku ina elt pi-t sa “Samas u ¢Adad advancing on foot,—at the command
of Shamash and Adad (I engraved
these)—
14. a-di la-a “Assur Ti-amat i-kam-mu-u 14. when Assur was not yet overpowering
u-ma-ma-a-nu Sa T2-amat i-na-as-sa-a Tiamat, and facing the beasts whom
Tiamat was bringing on,
15. [pa-na(?)' it-nam-di-nu ki-< an-ni-t 15. how these were advancing on foot
ina sépat-su-nu i-du-ul-lu
LOG: « . it-te-Su-nu ku( ?)-ul-[lu] [ana ela! 16. Molding me Daecer a LMG. ac.4o- In
pi-t Sa “Samas u ¢Adad [sa si-ir] obedience to the command of Sham-
ash and Adad [that which]
Rev.
be [a-bul]-li Su-a-ttas-tu-ru———‘e-sir] . I wrote (i.e., described in words)
kaspt hurdst siparri se-ir-tu upon that gate, I (also) engraved
(thereon) Si a eure 'e ie ue silver, gold,
copper,—,
. ul-ziz u-nu-th kaspi hurdst stparri bo. I set up. Vessels of silver, gold,
a ee, ie fe) oe ul-tu eli 1 IGI-MAS(?) copper (whose weight ranged ?) from
half
. a-di 1 siklu Sup-si-lim-ma a-ha-mes . to 1 shekel, were welded together
a-na la? .. mu-nak-kil nik-la-te-su- LA, Bt. eae the skilled designer of
nu their beauty,
. sa-bit bat-ki-su-nu a-li->-e a-na-ku(?) . the repairer of their injuries (cracks),
Sum-ma sa dun Sa siparri Sa-a-su I am able (? or, wish). .... If this
—of copper
°
. 'a?'-na bab balati ta-sak-kan at-mi sar . at the gate of life(?) thou dost place,
tlani®! 4A §Sur ilu ba-ni-ia say(?): ‘King of the gods, Assur, the
gods, my begetter,
4'-Sad-ru u mas-kan sa-lam SE Mobos 8 aSeeee the place of the
4A ssur u sa-lam wldni rabitr?! image of Assur and the image of the
great gods,
. ma-la at-ti-su. a-na libbi Tr-amat . as many as advanced to battle with
sal-ti <il-la-ku 1ts-(gis?)-ru-si bat-ka him into the midst of that Tiamat,
Su-u its—, its injury
. la a-na-ku ti-sap-si-lu a-na id- .. . - . I had not repaired (welded). For
su-nu-ti as-Su li-ch-ha-kim their—, that I might learn( ?)
~ an-na ina b-bi us-Sa-am-id ina libbi . this therein I—. On learning this
an-nim-ma hi-kim ki-t bat-ka su-u therein, that that injury (existed),
ana-ku t-sSap-si-lu I repaired it.”
10. sa-lam 4Assur Sa a-na libbt Ti-amat 10. (This is) the image of Assur as he
sal-t2 illak(ku) sa-lam ™4Sin-ahé?!- advances to battle into the midst,
eriba Sar ‘Assur of Tiamat, the image of Sennacherib,
king of Assyria,
Rev. — .
11. *Sdr-tr ‘Sdr-gaz %Ga-ga ‘¢Nusku 11. of Shar-ur, Shar-gaz, Gaga, Nusku,
‘Daianu *Tisxpak “MAS sé dri Daianu, Tishpak, Mash of the Wall,
12. *Ku-bi =4*Ha-ni 4Szrbittu an-nu-ti 12. Kubu, Hani, Sibitti—these gods who
ildni?! Sa ina pani 4A SSur al-la-ku were advancing in front of Assur,
13. *NIN-LIL 4Se-ru-u-a 4Sin ¢NIN- 13. Ninlil, Sheru’a, Sin, Ningal, Shamash,
GAL 4¢Samag ¢Aia *Gam-lat Aia, Gamlat,
14. 4A-num An-tum *Adad ¢Sa-la ¢H-a 14. Anu, Antum, Adad, Shala, Ea, Dam-
¢Dam-ki-na kina, |
15. *Be-lit ilani?* 4MAS an-nu-ti ildni?' 15. the mistress of the gods, Mash,—
Sa arki “Assur illaku(ku)] these gods who are behind Assur.
1. [ana|-ku ka-si-du ina “narkabtt ¢Assur_ —-1. I am the one who conquers, stationed
Sak-nu in Assur’s chariot.
2. [T7]-amat a-di nab-nit kir-bi-su 2. Tiamat and the creatures inside her.
c) INSCRIPTION ON STONE BLOCK FROM THE TEMPLE OF

THE NEW YEAR’S FEAST (13)
1. 4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissate 1. Sennacherib, the king of the universe,
2. Sar "Assur épes(es) sa-lam 4A Sur 2. king of Assyria, maker of the image
of Assur
3. utlani rabite?! 3. and the great gods,
4, Bit-a-ki-ti Su-a-ti 4. that Temple of the New Year’s Feast
5. ul-tt ussi-Sa a-di gab-dib-bi-sa 5. from its foundation to its upper-walls
(that is, both its foundation and its
upper walls)
6. ina &"pi-1-li aban Sadi(t) 6-7. I built mountain high of mountain
7. u-zak-kir hur-sa-nis limestone.
d) THE SAME (14)

1. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissSati Sar 1. Sennacherib, the king of the universe
1A SSur king of Assyria,
2. épes(es) sa-lam ¢Assur 4A-nim 4Sin 2. maker of the image (statue) of Assur,
Anu, Sin
3. 4Samag *Adad 4Nergal 4I star : 3. Shamash, Adad, Nergal, Ishtar
4. "S41 bit Kid-mu-ri “MAH wu ildni 4. of the Kidmuru-temple, Mah, and the
rabite?’ ana-ku . great gods, am I.
5. [Sd] Bit-d-ki-it mu-sab 4AsSur béli-ca 5-6. I built (laid) the foundation-plat-
6. [ena] %"p2-la pise(e) te-min-Su ad-di form of the temple of the New
Year’s Feast, the dwelling of Assur,
my lord, of white limestone.
e) THE SAME (15)

= . ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissati sar . Sennacherib, king of Assyria, the
TA SSur king of the universe,
. épes(es) sa-lam 7A Sur 4Ser-u-a . maker of the image of Assur, Sherua
. *A-nim 4Sin 4Samak ¢Adad . Anu, Sin, Shamash, Adad,
. Tstar $a bit "Kid-mu'-ri “(MAH . Ishtar of the Kidmuru-temple, Mah
. Ga-ga *Ha-ni *Ku-bi(KUG-SUD) . Gaga, Hani, Kubu,
Oo
WD
W
or. “?DUB(Balag ?) aNergal' 4NIN]- . Dub, Nergal, Ningal-kimah,
GAL-KI-'MAH
. u dna rabite?’ [ana|-ku . and the great gods, am I.
. te-me-en Bit-a-ki-tt i-sin-ni . The foundation-platform of the
Temple of the New-Year’s Feast, the
festival
. ki-ri-ti *ASSur ina pi-le . of Assur’s banquets, of mountain
10. aban Sadi(2) usst-su ad-di 10. limestone I built (laid) its foundation.
VVA Y
CHAPTER IX
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS

AND EPIGRAPHS
I. REPAIRS MADE ON THE TEMPLE EHARSAGKUR-
KURRA AT ASSUR (17)
. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba sarru rabi sarru L Sennacherib, the great king, the
dan-nu sar kissati sar 'Assur** Sar mighty king, king of Assyria, king
kib-rat irbittim(tim) mut-'tar-ru-u] of the four quarters (of the world),
ruler of
. nisé?? rapsate?’ e-pis sa-lam 4A ssur . widespread peoples, maker of the
4A-nim *Sin 4Samags 4... image of Assur, Anu, Sin, Shamash,
. *Nergal *Istar Sa bit Kid-mu-ri “MAH . Nergal, Ishtar of the Kidmuru-temple,
\ .
wu itlane?!? rabtte?! Mah, and the great gods,
_ mu-sak-lil pa-ra-as E-Sér-ra u B-mis- . who restores all (fulfills) the cults of
mis Sa pa-lih ilani?’ sa samé(e) wu Esharra and Emishmish, who fears
¥Y
alana?! the gods of heaven, and greatly

befriends the gods
. Assur’? ra-bis mu-du-u e-pis 'Assur** 5. of Assyria. Maker of Assyria, who
mu-sak-lil_ ma-ha-zi-su na-si-ih [mat] completes its metropolis, who de-
stroys the land of
. na-ki-ri mu-ab-bit da-dd-me-su-un mal- . the enemy, who destroys their settle-
ku ptt-ku-du sa elt sarrani?’ a-sib ments. Provident prince, whose rule
parakke
. nu--u-da-at be-lut-su tukulte(tc) méati- . Is exalted above that of (all) kings
Su na--id kabli u tahazi su-lu-lu who dwell in palaces; the support of
his land, terrible in battle and war-
fare; the
. ummanate?'-su a-na-ku i-nu-su E-har- . (protecting) shadow of his armies, am
sag-gal-kur-kur-ra sa ki-rib H-sdr-ra I. When EharsaggaJkurkurra, which
pa-rak 4A ssur is in Esharra, the shrine of Assur,
. béli rabi(c) béli-ia Sa ul-tu time?! . the great lord, my lord, whose splen-
rikate?’ si-ma-tu-su im-ku-ta-a-ma did structure had fallen to ruins since
babi-su days of old;—its door
10. pi-tu-u a-na situ ina uend™ (text . opened to the south. In the wisdom
has énd) ra-pa-as-ti sa 4H-a 18-ru-ku (lit. wide ears), which Ea gave me,
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Li: ina 8i-tk-lu-u-ti §a 4A SSur 1-Sat-li-man- ie with the cleverness with which Assur
nt 1a-a-st ina te-im ram-ni-ia endowed me, I took
12: am-tal-lik-ma bab E-har-sag-gal-kur- 12: counsel with myself alone, and to
kur-ra a-na na-pa-ah 4Samési(S) open the gate of Eharsaggalkurkurru
mi-th-rit Sada to the east (rising sun) instead of the
south,
13. pi-ta-a-su lib-bi ub-la-an-ni —_te-im 13. my heart moved me. The will of
aSamasx 4A dad al-mad-ma an-nNa Shamash and Adad I sought to
ki-1-nu learn
14. 1-pu-lu-in-ni-ma sa babi st-a-[ti] a-na 14. (by oracle), and they vouchsafed me
na-pa-ah 4Samsi(s) mi-ih-rit sada (their) enduring grace,—that that
door should open toward the east
instead of the south,
15. 4Samag u *Adad ik-bu-w pi-ta-a-su ina 15. Shamash and Adad commanded. On
Se-me-Su-ma igara an-da-ak-kis-ma hearing this, I cut through its wall and
16. a-na tat *Assur béli-ia =mi-ch-rit 16. toward the breast of Assur, my lord,
imgadt bdba es-Sit ap-te-e-ma_ bdb instead of the south, I opened a new
Sarru-'ti! door, and I called
Gi Suma-su am-bi bit-sa-hu-ru es-ses e-pu- bye its name Gate of Royalty. The
us-ma bab-su t-rap-pis ina bab bit-sa- Shahuru-temple I built anew, and
hu-ru widened its door. In that door of
the Shahuru temple,
18. Si-a-tu 4 GUD mér *Samag siparri 18. four (statues) of GUD, son of Sha-
russa(a) e-lif katdt-Su-nu 4Samsi(&) mash, of burnished copper, raising
NA-SU-U their hands on high to Shamash,
19. a-kal-lu su-lu-lu sap-lig sépa?-su-nu 12: supported the roof. Below their feet
i-na elt 2 parak siparrr rested upon two bronze shrines,
20. $a HA-LU-GAL-LU(nin amiéli) 20. of copper fish-men (and) of copper
siparrt Sa Suhur'* siparri Ssur-su-du Suhur-fish. (To) the rooms
gis-gal-la
21. imna u Suméla Sa badbt UR-BE (idim- 21. right and left of the gate, fierce dogs
me?) wu akrab-améli kul-lu Si-ga-ri aud scorpion men supported the
babi Su-nu-'tu] entrances.
22. baéb harran si-ut ¢En-lil as-sa-ka 22. The Door of the Road of Enlil, I called
—Sum-su kisal-Su es-sis ab-ni-ma kisal its name. Its court I restored and
si-dir man-za-az called it the Court of the Rows of the
Stations of the Igigi.
23. 4Tgigt Sum-Su am-bi bab-su sa a-na 23. Its door, opening toward the rising
si-it 4Samsi(si) a-na muhhi nari bab sun, and upon the river, I named the
bu-ru-mu Burumu (Firmament, )-door.
24. az-2a-kar ni-bit-su bab ni-ri-bi-su a-na 24. Its entrance door to the court, I
kisalli ni-rib *I gigi Sum-Su az-kur called the Entrance of the Igigi.
25. bdbu sa a-na ™Sttu bdb-kam-su 41 gigi 25. The door toward the south, I named
Sum-Su. am-bt bab ni-ri-bi-su a-na the Door of Prostration(?) of the Igigi.
kisalla To its entrance door to the court
26. bab hi-[stb] mate Sum-su az-kur bab-su 26. I gave the name Door of the Products
Sa a-na *iltdnu bab ***>sumbi Sum-su of the Land(s). Its door toward the
am-bi north, I called the Door of the Wagon-
star.
27. bab ni-ri-bi-su a-na kisallt bab parak ais Its entrance-door to the court lL
Simdte?' Sum-Su az-kur bab pa-pa-hi named the Door of the Shrine of
bit Sa-hu-ru Fate. The Bab Papahi (Door to
the Sanctuary) of the Shahuru-
temple,—
28. igardte?'-Su a-di_ kisalli-su _batdte?! 28. its walls as well as its court, (its)
babdte”’ ul-tu usst-su a-di gab-dib-bi-su rooms and doors, from its foundation
ina si-pir *Libittu to its surrounding wall, -
29. a-Sak-lil-si-ma ki-ma Sadi(i) ri-si-su 29. I completed it in brick (lit. work-
ul-lt ina nik-lat lib-bi-ia-Sa babdte?' manship of the brick-god). I raised
its top (head) mountain-high. In
the cunning of my heart (artistic
sense) I gave names to its doors
30. u 'kisallé-Si'-na Sum-Su-nu am-bi-ma 30. and their courts. Thou, foundation
ni-bit-si-na az-kur te-im-me-en-na. at-ta stela, for Sennacherib,
Sa ™4Sin-ahé?'-[ercba]
ol. Sar "Assur ra->-im ki-na-a-ti e-pis sa- ol. king of Assyria, lover of justice,
lam tl-su ba-an bit da-me-ik-ta-su a-na maker of the images of his god,
2A Sur ki-'ba' builder of the temple of his grace,
to Assur speaks:
32. it-ti ASsSur®* u H-Sdr-ra_ ls-te-li-bu 32. With Assyria and Esharra may his
lipt (pir-hi)?'-Su mdré?'-Su méarér! offspring prosper; may his sons and
mar é?'-§u u-trt sal-mat kakkadz - his grandsons abide among the
black-headed race
33. li-ku-nu a-na du-ur da-a-ri ai-uwm-ma 33. (of men) for ever and ever. May any
rub, arkai(d) Sa *Assur a-na réu-ut future prince whose name Assur shall
At: "¥Anl
mats u nisé?!
7
t-nam-bu-u call for the rulership (shepherding)
of land and people,
34, Sum-su Sa ina pali-su bitu su-a-tu 34. in whose reign that temple shall fall
in-na-hu an-hu-su lid-dis mu-sar-at to ruins, restore its ruins; may he
li-mur-ma samna lip-su-us Jook upon my memorial stela, anoint
it with oil,
35. niké Wk-ki ina as-ri-Su lis-kun 4A Sur 35. offer sacrifices, and restore it to its
tk-ri-bi-su i-sim-me mu-nak-kir- mu place. And Assur will hear his pray-
sar-atr ers. But the destroyer of my stela,
36. da-ai-i-st a-ma-ti-ia *Assur Sar ilaniP® 36. who ignores my word, may Assur,
u wldni?! rabtte?! king of the gods, and the great gods
. Sa Samé(e) w irsitim(tim) ar-rat ma- 37. of heaven and earth, curse him with an
ru-us-tu li-ru-ru-su-ma evil curse which cannot be removed,
. Sarru-us-su lis-ki-pu baldta-su li-ki- 38. may they overthrow his kingship,
mu-su Suma-su 2éra-su deprive him of life,
. pir-hi-Su u na-an-nab-su i-na pi nisér! 39. and destroy his name, his seed, his
li-hal-li-ku kith and his kin, in the people’s mouth.
II. FOUNDATION STELA OF A HANI TEMPLE (18)

. ["*Sin-'ahé?'-eriba Sarru rabt sarru 1. Sennacherib, the great king, the
dan-nu Sar kis-Sa-ti Sar “A §Sur** mighty king, king of the universe,
king of Assyria,
. [Sar kib-rit irbittim(tim)| mut-tar-ru-u 2. king of the four quarters of the earth,
nse?! rapsdate?! ruler of widespread peoples,
3. [e-pis sa-lam “Assur... .] %Adad 3. maker of the images of Assur
4Nergal 4*Nusku Mer rd ye Adad, Nergal, Nusku
. 4-7. (LOST) 4-7. (Lost)
oh Dake eearaen u-Sd-ad-[gil .... ane Pee Cone OMe: ec eascs has made
subject
OMe e,s ummandte?'-su a-na-ku 9... <sHis armies; am I.
‘os ee Sa-ad|-da-bak-ku §& mi-nu-té 1Qe ry eee the shaddabak whose appear-
Shee s ance was... .
1s eae cee 4Ha-ni ili-Su-nu t-Sar-bi-1§ 1 ee of Hani, their god, I made
great
je ee a-na ildni?' rabite Wig AP ae for the great gods,
Seed Sle ti wlan?’ a-na... UG PK Zee gods, for
14..... 72 ina mah-ri-ia 1A ee before me
15a Lhe gna e-pis *Ha-nt Lhe eh eae
LOM to build (for?) Hani,
Bites s 18. [wl-tu] ussi-su a-di gab-dib- Tv
bi-Su t-Sak-lil 18. from its foundation to its walls I
finished.
. *Ha-ni tlusé ™dupsarré?! u-Sar-ma-[a 19. Hani, god of the scribes, I made to
dwell (therein).
20. te-im-me-na at-ta sé ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 20. Thou foundation(-stela), for Sen-
Sar ‘ASsSur*i 'ruba(u) nacherib, king of Assyria, the prince,
21. e-pis sa-lam “Assur uw wlan?! rabiitir® 21. maker of the images of Assur and
ba-an bit-da-me-ik-ta-su a-na [4A ssur the great gods, builder of the temple
ki-bi] of his grace, to Assur speak:
22. mar é?'-Su mar-mareé?'-su at-ti sal-mat
kakkadi li-ku-nu a-na du-ur da-[a-r]
23. ai-um-ma rubi(u) arki(a) sd ¢AsSur
a-na réu-ut mati wu nise?!
24. i-nab-bu-u Ssum-su sé ina pali-su bitu
Su-a-tt in-na-hu
25. an-hu-us-su lu-dis mu-sar-t li-mur-ma
Samna lip-si<zus (The blessing and curse which follow
26. luniké lwk-ki ina as-ri-su lis-kun Assur are the same as in the preceding in-
wu ¢Is-tar tk-ri-bi-Su 1-sim-me scription, ll. 32b. f.)
27. mu-nak-kir mu-sar-at da-ai-i-st_ a-ma-
ti-ia *Assur Sar aldni?’ u aldni?®
rabite?’
28. Sd Samé(e) wu irsitim(tim) ar-rat la
nap-su-rt ma-ru-us-t% li-ru-ru-su-ma
yeh Sarru-su lis-ki-pu baldta-su li-ki-mu-su
sSum-su zéra-su pir-hi-su na-an-nab-su
ina pi-t nisé?’ li-hal-lik
Ill. SLAB FROM THE COURT OF ESHARRA (115)

. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissatt sar L Sennacherib, king of the universe,
LA SSur king of Assyria,
. e-pis sa-lam 4A ssur ilani?? . maker of the images of Assur (and)
the great
. rabiti?! ana-ku sa kisal H-Sdr-ra . gods, am I. Of the court of Esharra,
. ekal vlan! ina &"“pi-li-[z] . the palace of the gods, the foundation-
platform
. “te-min-st ad-di . [laid with limestone (slabs).
IV. BRICK FROM THE SAME TEMPLE AT ASSUR (116)

. a-na 4A ssur abu lant”?! bélu-Su I For Assur, father of the gods, his lord,
. ™Sin-ahe?'-eriba sar 'As-sur . Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
. e-pis sa-lam 4Assur u ildni rabiti?! . maker of the image(s) of Assur and
the great gods,
. ni-bi-hi sa-met H-Sdr-ra . the cornice of the wall of Esharra,
. na a-gur-ri abné?! ma-?-dis t%-si-im . with burnt-brick blocks (stone) has
beautified exceedingly.
V. BROKEN INSCRIPTION CONCERNING THE SAME TEMPLE (117)

1; a-na “Assur (An-Sar) Sar kis-Sat 1. To Assur, king of all the gods, creator
wlan ba-nu-u ram-ni-su ab ildne?? of himself, father of the gods, ....
. Sé ina apst w-mu-hu gat-tu-us Sar 2 . whose form developed in the deep
Samé(e) u irsitim(tim) (apst), king of heaven and earth,
. bél tldn?’ ka-la-ma sa-pi-ik “Igigi us 3 . lord of all of the gods, who pours
44 -nun-na-ke out the Igigi and the Anunnaki,
. pa-ti-ik ir-mi *A-nim u ki-gal-li e-pis = 4 . fashioner of the abode of Anu (heaven)
kul-lat da-dd-me and the earth’s surface, maker of all
habitations,
. a-stb bu-ru-mu elliti?’ 4En-lil ildni?’ —5. who dwells in the shining spheres
mu-sim Simate?' (constellations), Enlil (lord) of the
gods, who decrees destinies,
_ a-sib B-Sdr-ra sa ki-rib Agfurt* béli 6. who dwells in Esharra, which is in
rabi(t) béli-su ™@[Sin-ahé?'-lerzba Assyria, the great lord,! Sennacherib,
. Sar 'Assur** e-pis sa-lam 4AsSur uo 7. king of Assyria, maker of the image of
tlani”’ rabiti?’ a-[na] Assur and the great gods, for
. arak (GID-DA) timé?'-Su tub(ub) lib- 8. the lengthening of his days, the
bi-Su kun palé-[su] happiness of his heart, the stability
of his reign,
. lilis(LI-LI-ES) siparri rugSa(a) pi-ti- 9. a drum of burnished (red) copper,
ees. gia] of ee be workmanship,
ie.
. $a ina Si-pir “IGI-DUG-GU e-.... 10 . which according to the workmanship

of the god IGI-DUGGU, was
. nak-lis u-Se-pis-ma a-na sd- ..... 11 . skilfully I made, and for

.& nu-uh lib-bi-Su..... 12 . and for the peace of his heart... .
comune "imu 7 13 . on the fifth day and the seventh
day
Oia 14. eo ‘s « 6
VI. INSCRIBED SLAB FROM THE COURT OF ESHARRA (118)

. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissate . Sennacherib, king of the universe,
. Sar "Assur e-pis sa-lam 4A SSur . king of Assyria, maker of the images
of Assur
. urildni?! rabiti?! ana-ku sa kisal . and the great gods, am I. The floor
of the court
. B-&ér-ra ekal ilani?! . of Esharra, the temple of the gods,
. ina *"ni-li pisé(e) te-min-su addi (RU) 5 . I laid with white limestone.
1 Going back to Assur in 1. 1.
VII. INSCRIPTION ON A SLAB FROM ASSUR (119)

. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissati 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe,
. Sar ‘Assur epis(es) sa-lam 2. king of Assyria, maker of the
images
. *Askur(SAR) u ildni?* rabatelP' ana- 3. of Assur and the great gods, (am I).
ku]
VIII. INSCRIPTION ON BRICKS FROM A SHRINE AT ASSUR (120)

1. ™4Sin-ahé?'-errba sar kissati Sar 'ASSur 1, Sennacherib, king of the universe,
épis(es) (v. e-pis) sa-lam 4A SSur u (Vv. w) king of Assyria, maker of the image(s)
alan?’ rabtte?! of Assur and the great gods
. ana-ku bit-ti-ka-a-tt Sa(?) kisal sa-ad- 2. am I. The bit-tikdte (house of
rum (v. rt?) man-za-az *Igigt ropes ?) of the court where the Igigi
stand in line(?),
. tna a-gur-ri utani elliti(ti, v. te) es-sis = 3. I built of bright oven-bricks and
u-se- pis-ma u-zak-kir (v. t-za-kir) raised mountain high. -
hur-Sa-nis
IX. BRICK FROM A PALACE AT ASSUR (121)

. ekal ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba 1. Palace of Sennacherib
2. Sarru rabii(u) Sarru dan-nu sar kisSati 2. the great king, the mighty king, king
Sar 'Assur of Assyria.
X. INSCRIPTION ON A LIMESTONE BLOCK FROM ASSUR (122)

. ana (vs. a-na)-ku ™Sin (vs."Sin)- 1. I am Sennacherib,
ahé?'-eriba
. Sar "Assur (vs. As-Sur) épes(eS) sa-lam 2. king of Assyria, maker of the image(s)
44 SSur of Assur
.u ildni(AN-ME) rabéti(GAL-ME) _ 3. and the great gods, this temple
bitu an-nu-u (v. %)
. a-na (vs. ana) ¢Assur (v. As-Sur) ili- 4. for my god Assur, for the life
ia(AN-MU) ana balédti-%u (TI(L)-
LA-BI)
. mar-ia kud-din-nu (v. ni) Sa ina Sépad _—'5. of my younger son, who was begotten
44 Sur (v. adds 7b-ba-nu-u) at the feet of Assur,
. epus(us. vs. om.)-ma ina pi-d-la 6. I have built, of limestone (blocks),
~J. aban Sadi(2) ussd-su J . mountain-stone, its foundation
Y¥VYA Vv
. ad-di CO. I have built (laid).

XI. THE SAME (123)

. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba 1. Sennacherib.
. Sar 'ASSur bita-a-na 2. king of Assyria, (this) palace
. ana “Assur ili-ca ana bala ti-su 3. for Assur, my god, for his life
NO
oe. epus-(us) 4. has built.
XII. INSCRIPTION FROM THE MUSHLAL AT ASSUR (124)

. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kissati Sar "Assur 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe,
king of Assyria,
. épes(es) sa-lam 4Assur wu iléni?’ 2. maker of image(s) of Assur and the
rabitr?’ ana-ku great gods, am I.
. mus-la-lum ekalla sa ki-rib 3. The mushlal' of the palace which is in
. Assur (BAL-TIL-KI) ina %"pi-i-lu 4. Assur (the city) ,—of limestone blocks,
. aban Sadi(t) ussa-su ad-di 5. mountain-stone, I built its foundation.
XIII. BRICK FROM ROYAL SEPULCHRE AT ASSUR (125)

. ekal tap-si-uh-ti 1. The palace of repose,
. §t-bat da-rat 2. the eternal abode,
. bitu kima 'Samé-irsitim) Sur-si-du 3. the house established firm as heaven
and earth,
. Sa ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sarru rabi 4. belonging to Sennacherib, the great
king,
. Sarru dan-nu Sar kissati Sar "AS-Sur 5. the mighty king, king of the universe,
king of Assyria.
XIV. THE SAME (126)

. ekal sa-la-li 1. The palace of rest (sleep),
. ki-mah tap-si-uh-te 2. the sepulchre of repose,
. §t-bat da-ra-a-ti 3. the eternal abode,
em
eR
wh. Sa ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissatt Sar 4. of Sennacherib, king of the universe,
1A S-Sur king of Assyria.
XV. BRICK FROM PALACE BUILT AT ASSUR FOR

ASSUR-NADIN-SHUM (127)
. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissate Sar 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe,
1A §-Sur king of Assyria,
. e-pis sa-lam ¢Assur u ilaémi?’ rabiti?’ 2. maker of the image(s) of Assur and
ana-ku the great gods, am I.
1 Some sort of stairway or incline leading up to the palace.
. bitu a-nu-u ana AS8-sur-nddin-sumu 3. This house for Assur-nddin-shum,

GAL-TUR-ia my oldest son,!
. epus-ma ina %"pi-i-li aban sadi(2) 4.1 have made and of limestone
(blocks), mountain-stone,
. ussd-su ad-di ina si-pir ¢Labittu 5. its foundation I have built. Of
brick (lit. the work of the brick god)
. U-Sse-pis-ma 6. I have built it, and
. u-zak-ki-ir hur-sa-nigs 7. mountain high I have raised it.
VL VASE INSCRIPTION (I 28)
. Saf *Tas-me-tum-Sar-rat SAL-E-GAL 1. Belonging to Tashmetum-sharrat, the

Sa ™4*Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar 'AS-Sur concubine (palace-woman) of Sen-
nacherib, king of Assyria.
XVII. INSCRIPTION ON TWO STELAS FROM NINEVEH (130)

. ™4Sin-aheé?'-eri-ba 1. Sennacherib
. Sarru raba Sarru dan-nu sar kissati 2. the great king, the mighty king, king
of the universe,
. Sar "Assur Sar kib-rat irbittim(tim) 3. king of Assyria, king of the four
regions (of the world),
. mi-gir ilar?! rabiitr?® 4. favorite of the great gods.
. Assur u UW8s-tar (v. [star) 5. Assur and Ishtar
. ka-ak (v. “kak) la ma-har 6-7. have given me an invincible weapon,
. U-Sat-li-mu-in-ni-ma
-
Oo
OD
CON. a-na ra-sa-ab nak-ru-ti A sSur™* ip-tu-u 8. and have opened my hand for the
destruction of the enemies of Assyria.
. i(v. ta)-da-ar a-na___ tu-kul-ti-Ssu-un 9. Trusting in their great might,
rabitim (tim)
10. ul-tu. si-tdn a-di stl-la-an wm-ma-na- 10. I led my armies from one end of the
ti-1a earth to the other
. Sal-mes lu at-ta-bal-ma gim-ri (v. gi- 11-12. and brought in submission at my
mir) mal-ki a-sib pa-rak-ke feet all princes, dwelling in palaces,
. && kib-rat ar-ba->1 Se-pu-u-a t-Sak-nis- of the four quarters (of the world) ,—
ma
13. 1-St-tu ap-Sa-a-ni i-na ti-me (v.mt)-su- 13. and they assumed (lit. drew) my
ma yoke. At that time
14. Sa *Ni-na-a al be-lu-ti-ia su-bat-su 14. I enlarged the site of Nineveh, my
royal city.
1Hlsewhere mdru rista
15. us-rab-bt su-ki-su me-ti-ik gir-ri Sarri 15. I made its ‘‘market streets” (stiks)
wide (enough to) run a royal road,
16. u-sa-an-dil-ma ti-nam-mir kima (v.ki- 16. and made (it, the road) shine like the
ma) ti-me (v. m2) dira day. The wall
7. wu Sal-hu-% nak-lis t-Se-pis-ma t-zak- 17. and outer-wall I caused to be skilfully
(v. 2a)-kir constructed and raised mountain-
high.
18. hur-Sa-nis 100 ina ammati rabitim 18. I widened its moat to 100 great cubits.
(tim) ha-ri-su-us
. us-rap-pis ah-ra-tas ti-me (v. timé??) 19. In days to come, that there might
gir-rt Sarrt a-na
. la su-uh-hu-ri “nar é?! G-se-pis-ma 20. be no narrowing of the royal road, I
had stelas made
. §é a-hi ul-li-e ina me (v. mi)-hir-ti-su 21. which stand facing each other (lit. on
1-2a-2U that side over against this).
. 62 i-na ammati rabitim(tim) sd gir-ri 22-23. 62 great cubits I measured the
Sarre width of the royal road, up to the
. (a-di abil vkiré?") am-st-uh ru-pu-su Park Gate.
(v. us-su)
. ma-ti-ma nisé”! a-si-bu-ut ali Sa-a-Su $d 24. If ever (anyone of) the people who
bit-su dwell in that city
. la-bi-ru 7-nak(v. na-ak)-ka-ru-ma es-su 25. tears down his old house and builds a
1-ban-nu-t new one,
. Sa us-Se biti-su a-na gir-rt Sarri vr-ru-ba 26. and the foundation of his house
encroaches upon the royal road,
. si-ir biti-sui a-na ga-si-st il-la-lu-su 27. they shall hang him upon a stake
(v. St) (crucify him) over his (own) house.
XVIII. FRAGMENT OF BUILDING INSCRIPTION (131)

Lee ree
PERIey 3 palace ....
PGs Sb SIP TAG... 3. thatatheswOrk sane
. li-me-it dari Ninula(**)] 4. the circuit of the wall of Nineveh....
. ki-su-u u-se-pis 5. A retaining-wall I caused to be
. Sa kabal Gli mi-[ih]-rat(?) . 2... 6. which isin the city ....

. ri-ba-ti-su-un
“I u-sa-an-dil-[ma_ bi-ri-e- 7. its squares I widened ....
ti ul
. su-ka-a-ti us-par-di [u-nam-mir kima 8. its streets I adorned. ....
aime]
9: ina mi-th-rit abulli kabal ali 7-na(?) Sh Opposite the gate inside the city
[a-gur-r2 2%*"y1-7-li_ pi-si-e] of burnt-brick and white limestone
10. a-na me-ti-ik narkabti belu-ti-ia u-se- 10. I built a [bridge] for the driving of
[pis te-tur-ru] my royal chariot. ....
11; mu-sar-a ab-ni-ma li-i-tu u da-na-nu 1AG I fashioned memorial stelas and wrote
[sa ina tukul-tc (*)Assur béli-ia] thereon the might and power which,
with the aid of Assur, my lord,
12. eli kul-lat na-ki-rt as-tak-[ka-nu] 12. I imposed upon all my enemies (as
well as). . 3.
13. mimma e-pis kdtd-1a u-Sa-as-tir [ki- 13. all the works of my hands.
rib-su]
14. it-tu mu-sar-e mal-ki a-li-kut 14. With the stelas of princes who went
before 4m
To ina dirt kabal ali sa Ninua(**) al 15. in the wall within the city of Nineveh,
be-[lu-ti-ca] my royal city aes
16. a-na sarrént maré-ia e-zib ah-[ra-tas] 16. I left them for the days to come to the
eo « © 8 © «6 kings, my sons... .
1G 74 When [in the reign of any] of my
sons
18. Sa 4Assur a-na be-lut matt u [niseé ey, whom Assur [shall call by name] to
i-nam-bu-u 2i-kir-su] rule over land and [people],
19: e-nu-ma déru su-a-tu i-lab-bi-ru-[ma 19: that wall shall become old [and fall
i-na-hu an-hu-sa lu-ud-dis] to ruins, let him restore its ruins],
20. mu-sar-u Si-tir Sumi-ta_ li-mur|[ma 20. let him look upon the memorial with
Samnt lip-Su-us] my name inscribed, [and anoint it
with oil],
21. luntké Wk-ki a-na as-ri-[Su li-tor] 21. let him offer sacrifices [and return it]
to its place.
22. (Assur u(4)Is-tar ik-ri-[bi-Su i-sim- 22. Then Assur and Ishtar [will hear] his
me| prayers.
6, O05 8, 0:5 6 Ve Ks That which is on the memorial. . .
* 0: 2168.6 $e! ie. which Sennacherib, (?)....
XIX. SLABS FROM WALL OF NINEVEH (129)

. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissati . Sennacherib, king of the universe,
. Sar ‘Assur dira u Sal-hu-u . king of Assyria. The wall and outer
wall
. Sa Ninua* es-sis U-Se-pis-ma . of Nineveh I built anew and
hg - ki Va eae *yv
. t-zak-kir hur-sa-ng . raised mountain-high.

XX. BRICK FROM NERGAL TEMPLE AT TARBISI (132)

1. a-na 4Nergal béli-su 1. For Nergal, his lord,
2. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba 2. Sennacherib,
3. Sar 'Assur** ekal-LAM-MES 3. king of Assyria, the Meslam-palace,
4. Sa ki-rib °Tar-bi-si 4. which is in Tarbisi,
5. ul-th ussi-su a-di gab-dib-bi-su 5. foundation as well as walls (from its
foundation to its walls)
6. epus(us) u-Sak-lil 6. has (re)built, has finished.
XXI. SLABS FROM SAME TEMPLE (133)

1. ™4Sin-ahé?-ertba Sarru rabt 1. Sennacherib, the great king,
2. Sarru dan-nu sar kisSati sar "Assur 2. the mighty king, king of the universe,
king of Assyria,
3. ekal-LAM-MES bit ¢Nergal 3. the Meslam-palace, the temple of
Nergal,
A. Sd (v. Sa) ki-rib “Tar-bi-si 4. which is in Tarbisi,
5. U-Se-pis-ma 5. has caused to be (re)built and
6. kima t-me us-nam-mir 6. has caused it to shine like the day.
XXII. CONE INSCRIPTION FROM THE SAME TEMPLE (134)

1. a-na *Nergal béli-Su ™4Sin-ahé?'-eri-ba 1. For Nergal, his lord, (I), Sennacherib,
Sar Aggur'* B-LAM-MES & ki-rib king of Assyria, have (re)built the
eTar-bi-st ultu ussi-su a-di gab-dib- Meslam-temple which is in Tarbisi—
bi-Su its foundation as well as its walls;
2. ana baldti-ia Sa-lam zéri-ia za-kap 2. for my life, the welfare of my seed,
ammakiré?'ia isir ebtirt Sa 'Assur** the overthrow of my enemies, the
Sa-lam “Assur epus(us) zi-ka-a-te [as- success of the harvests of Assyria and
kun] the welfare of Assyria, and I have set
up votive-cones (pahalli).
XXIII. BRICK FROM THE TEMPLE AT KAKZI (135)

1. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kissatte Sar 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe,
A SSur** king of Assyria,
2. dara u Sa-al-hu sd “Kak-2t 2. the wall and outer wall of Kakzi!
3. i-na(?) a-gur-r1 v-se-pis 3. has built of brick.
1 From a letter, Harper, 389, 8f., we learn that Sennacherib restored a palace at Kakzi for the use
of Naki’a, his queen.
XXIV. A COLLECTION OF EPIGRAPHS (136)

. WSin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kisSate Sar iy Sennacherib, king of the universe, king
‘Assur i-na Sadé?! dan-nu-tt of Assyria, in the mighty mountains,
. 8 bal-te Sd-ri-? ha-a-mu hu-sa-bu i-na . wherein there is no abundant (plant)-
lib-bi life—(neither) hému (nor) husdbu,!
. la-as-su-ni “gu-up-ni dan-nu-ti sd . (but) wherein mighty wild grape-
we-a-71 vines thrive;
. i-na lib-bi se-ru---v-ni Sa-a-ru dan-nu . no strong, steady wind
. ka-ai-ma-nu i-na_ bir-tu-us-sti-nu_ a- . delays progress (going) among them:
la-ku
. la i-par-ra-az i-na sa-ka-a-ni sd ma- . Into the (place) where I pitched my
dak-ti-ia camp,
. bal-tu Santii(%) i-na libbi-su mas-ka-na . no other (second) living being made his
la ub-la halt (lit. brought his camping-place).
. ana-ku a-di ummdnate °°'-ia t-sa-am- . Over them (these mountains) I and
ri-is ina eli-Su-nu my armies, laboriously struggling,
ar-ti-dt . passed.
Bit-" Ku-bat . Bit-Kubat
. ™'Marduk-apla-iddina(na) sar 'Kar- . Merodach-baladan, king of Baby-
4Dun-id-ds lonia,
. ti-tb tahdzi-ia e-dur-ma $%sy-ba-tu . feared the onset of my battle,
be-lu-ti-su
. -Sar-rit-ma ul-tu ‘Babila ur-ru-hi-a . rent his royal robe and hastily left
U-St Babylon.
. ™Si-zu-bu Sarru NI-ZI &4é Sarrut(ut) . Shuzubu, the terrified king, who
Badbilt** ra-ma-nu-us turned the
. U-tir-ru har-ba-su ta-ha-zi-1a im-ku-su . kingship of Babylon to himself,—
-Mma terror of my onset fell upon him and
. ir-Sa-a na-ah-tt ul-tu si-ir sist kak-ka- . he became despondent(?), from the
ris back of (his) horse
im-ku-ut . he fell to the ground.
. “Sumer . Sumer
te Me(?)-luh( ?)-ha . Melubha( ?)
XXV. EPIGRAPH: SENNACHERIB AT LACHISH (137)

. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Sar kigssSatt Sar 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe,
1A SSur king of Assyria,
. ina “kusst ni-me-di %-sib-ma . sat upon a throne (lit. standing-chair)
(J). Sal-la-at ‘La-ki-su (st). (while) the booty of Lachish
. ma-ha-ar-su e-ti-ik . passed before him.

1Cf. AJSL, XXXVII, 166.
XXVI. EPIGRAPH OVER CITY OF DILBAT (138)

. Dil-bat® al-me aksud(ud) 1. Dilbat I besieged, I conquered,
. as-lu-la sal-la-su 2. I carried off its spoil.
XXVII. EPIGRAPH OVER CITY OF BIT KUBATTI (139)

. “Bit-Ku-bat-ti al-me ak-Sud(ud) 1. Bit-Kubatti I besieged, I conquered,
. as-lu-la sal-la-su ina girrt ak-mu 2. I carried off its spoil, with fire I
burned it.
XXVIII. EPIGRAPH OVER AN UNKNOWN CITY (140)

eeecd? (daval?)-am-mu al-me 1..... ammu I besieged .....
lakSud (ud) |
. [as-|lu-la Sal-la[su] 2. I carried off its spoil.
XXIX. EPIGRAPH OVER THE KING IN HIS CHARIOT (141)

. ™4Sin-ahé?'-eriba [sar] kissate 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe,
. Sar ‘Assur [Sallat] 2. king of Assyria. [The booty]
. “Ka-su-si( ?) 3. of Kasusi(?)
. ma-har-su [e-ti-ik]
mewhdy 4. passed before him.
XXX. EPIGRAPH:SENNACHERIB RECEIVING THE

TRIBUTE OF THE MARSHES (142)
. ™Sin-ahé?'-eriba sar kisSate Sar 1. Sennacherib, king of the universe,
LA SSur king of Assyria,
. Sal-la-at "a-gam-me 2. booty from the marshes
Ww. $4 Sa-ah-ri-te 3. of Sahriti
. ma-ha-ar-s% e-ti-vk 4. passed before him.
XXXI. EPIGRAPH OVER THE CAMP OF THE KING (1438)

us-man-nu Sa (v. 4) "4Sin-ahé?'-eriba Camp of Sennacherib, king of Assyria.
Sar ‘Assur
DeLee EPIGRAPH OVER HIS TENT (144)

. 2a-ra-tum 1.. Tent
. $4 Sin-ahé?'-eriba 2. of Sennacherib,
. Sar "ASur 3. king of Assyria.!
1 The tent is just back of the king’s throne at Lachish.
CHAPTER X
EXCERPTS FROM THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE

AND THE HELLENISTIC SOURCES
EXCERPTS FROM THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE (CT, XXXIV, 46 f.)
“II
. ™BAad I?! ul usappihu mi-is-ri [mati- 18. The Babylonians had not overstepped
Su! (broken across?) the border of [his
land].
. or-tib-ma ‘4Marduk-apla-iddina u 19: But he (Sennacherib) became en-
raged(?), Merodach-baladan [fled( ?)]
. hu-bu-ut mati-su th-ta-bat wu... .. ~ 20. he (Sennacherib) plundered his
Su
. ‘La-rak u °Sar-ra-ba-[nu] . 2... Su 21. When he had fortified Larak and
Sarrabanu [as his outposts],
. ki-c urakki-su(su) ‘¢Bél-ib-nt ina 22. he put Bél-ibni on the throne in
Babili®* ina kusst ul-te-sib Babylon.
. Sattu [*™ *Bél-ib-ni 4Sin-dhé?'-eriba 23. In the first year of Bél-ibni, Sen-
nacherib
. “Hi-ri-im-ma u °*Ha-ra-ra-tum th-te-pi 24. overthrew Hirimme and Hararatu.
. Sattu ITT ™4Bél-ib-ni 4Sin-ahé?'- 25. In the third year of Bél-ibni, Sen-
eritba ana 'Akkadi** nacherib descended upon Akkad
. ur-dam-ma_ hu-bu-ut 'Akkadi** th-ta- 26. and carried off the plunder of Akkad.
bat
. ™Bél-ib-ni u “rabite?'-su ana ‘Assur 27. Bél-ibni and his nobles were taken,
ul-te-ck-lu bound, to Assyria.
. ITT sandte?' *Bél-ibni Sarru-ut Babila** 28. Three years Bél-ibni ruled in Babylon.
epus(us)
v YY
. 48in-ahé?'-eriba 4A §Sur-nadin-sumu 29. Sennacherib placed Assur-nddin-

mara-su shum, his son,
. ina Babilr® ina kussi ul-te-sib 30. on the throne in Babylon.
. Sattu [ko 44 SSur-nddin-sumu Is-tar- ol. In the first year of Assur-nddin-
hu-un-du sar Elamts shum, Ishtarhundu, king of Elam,—
. Hal-lu-su ahu-su is-bat-su-ma baba ina 32. Hallushu, his brother, seized him
pani-su tp-ht and imprisoned! him.
1 Lit. ‘closed the door in his face.” Perhaps it merely means ‘‘locked him out (of the palace).”’
158
THE BABYLONIAN CHRONICLE AND THE HELLENISTIC SOURCES 159
Col eh
ao. XVITI sandti?' [s-tar-hu-un-du sarru- 33. Kighteen years Ishtarhundu ruled
ut '‘Hlamtc epus(us) in Elam.
. Hal-lu-su ahu-su ina 'Elamti ina kusst 34. Hallushu, his brother ascended the
ittasab(ab) throne in Elam.
. Satiu Vike 44 §Sur-nddin-sumu 4Sin- 30. In the sixth year of Assur-nddin-
ahé?'-eriba shum, Sennacherib
. ana 'Hlamti u-rid-ma ‘Na-gi-tum °Hi- 36. descended upon Elam, destroyed
al-ma Nagitu, Hilmu,
. ‘Pi-al-la-tum wu *Hu-pa-pa-nu th-te-pi of”. Pillatu, Hupapanu, and plundered
them.
. hu-bu-us-su-nu th-ta-bat arkti Hal- 38. Thereupon, Hallushu, king of Elam,
lu-su sar Elamti
. ana 'Akkadi** illi-kam(kam)-ma ina 39. came against Akkad, entered Sippar
kit Tasriti ana Sippara* erub toward the end of the month of
Tashritu,
. nse”! idik 4Samas istu H-bar-ra ul 40. and slew the inhabitants. Shamash
attast did not leave Ebarra.
. ™4A SSur-nddin-sumu sabit-ma ana . Assur-nddin-shum was captured and
'Hlamti a-bi-ik carried off to Elam.
. VI sandti?! 4A sSur-nddin-sumu sarru- . Six years, Assur-nddin-shum ruled
ut Babilt*®* epus(us) as king in Babylon.
. Sar Elamti “Nergal-u-se-2zib ina Babili** . The king of Elam placed Nergal-
ushézib on the throne in Babylon
. ina kusst ul-te-sib lmabalkutu(tu) ™ . and invaded (or, defeated) Assyria.
‘A SSur ittaska(an)
. Sattu [*™ ™4Nergal-t-se-[zib] 7" Daizu . In the first year of Nergal-ushézib,
amu X V [kom the 16th of the month Tammuz,
. ™Nergal-ti-se-zib Nippuru* csbat(bat) . Nergal-ushézib took Nippur and
SUR-SUR SA(?)-NI-LAL ° ended the lamentation( ?).
. FT asritu imu I” sdb ‘Assur ana . The first of Tashritu the Assyrian
Uruk** erubt army entered Erech.
Ill
. ani?! Sa Su-ut Uruk** ui nisé?'-Su . The gods of Erech and its inhabitants
th-tab-tu they plundered.
. *Nergal-t-se-zib arkt ”Elamt illik-ma . Nergal-ushézib joined (lit. went after)
tlani?? Su-ut Uruk** the Elamite(s) and so the gods of Erech
. u nisé?'-su i-te-ik-mu “%Tasritu imu . and its inhabitants were carried off.
VIT' ina pi-hat Nippurv* On the seventh day of the month
Tashritu
1Tdeogram probably KJ-BAL-tu.
Col. Ill
4, sal-tum ana libbi sdb "Assur epus(us)- 4, he made an attack upon the Assyrians
ma ina tahdz séri sa-bit-ma in the province of Nippur. He was
captured in open battle and carried
off
_ ana ‘Assur a-bi-ik Sattu I VI arhé?! . to Assyria. One year and six months
4N ergal-t-se-zib Nergal-ushézib
. Sarru-ut Babili** epus(us) %Tasritu . ruled as king in Babylon. On the
dimu XX V [em 26th of the month Tashritu
. Hal-lu-su sar Elamt« nisé?'-su ts-hu- . his people rebelled against Hallushu,
Su-ma baba ina pani-sulsu] king of Elam,
. tp-hu-t idikt-su VI sandti?!’ Hal-lu-su . Imprisoned! and slew. him. Six
Sarru-ut 'Hlamti epus(us) years Hallushu ruled as king in Elam.
. Kudur ina 'EKlamti ina kusst . Kudur ascended the throne of Elam.
ittaSab(ab) arka ¢Sin-ahé?'-eriba Thereupon Sennacherib
. ana 'Elamti u-rid-ma istu 'Ra-a-si a-di . descended against Elam, devastated
the land from Rashi to
. Bit-bur-na-ki th-te-pt hu-bu-ut-su . Bit-burnaki and carried off its spoil.
1h-ta-bat
. Mu-se-zib--Marduk ina Babili®* ina . Mushézib-Marduk ascended the
kusst ittasab(ab) throne in Babylon.
. Sattu Tem Mu-se-2zib--Marduk "Abu . Inthe first year of Mushézib-Marduk,
amu XVII (vy. VIII) on the seventeenth (v. eighth) of
Ab,
14. Kudur Sar 'Elamtt ina si-hi sa-bit-ma 14. Kudur, king of Elam, was seized
dik X arhé?? during an uprising and killed. Ten
months
15. Kudur Ssarru-ut 'Elamti epus(us) Me- 15. he reigned in Elam. Menanu
na-nu ina 'Hlamte ascended the throne in Elam.
16. ina kussi ittasab(ab) sattu ul cd? Me- 16; In an unknown year [it was 691 B.c.],
na-nu sab 'Hlamti 'Akkadi** Menanu mustered the armies of
Elam and Akkad,
Lege id-ki-e-ma ina °Ha-lu-li-e sal-tum ana 1%. made an attack upon Assyria at
libbt ‘Assur Halulé
18. epus(us)-ma nabalkutum(tum) "Assur 18. and defeated Assyria.?
ittaska(an)
19: Sattul V Mu-se-zib-¢M arduk “™ Nisénu 19; In the fourth year of Mushézib-
imu X Vem Marduk, on the fifteenth of the
month Nisan,
1Cf. note on Col. II, 32. 2 Lit. ‘made an attack into Assyria and invaded Assyria.”
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Col. III
20. Me-na-nu sar 'Elamti mi-sit-tum t-mi- 20. Menanu, king of Elam, suffered a
Sid-su-ma stroke,
21. pu-su sa-bit-ma at-ma-a la li-? 21. his jaw was locked (mouth seized)
so that he could not speak.
22. na "*Kisilimu amu I’ mahdzu 22. On the first of the month Kislimu,
sa-bit Mu-se-zib--Marduk the city [Babylon] was taken,
Mushézib-Marduk
23. sa-bit-ma ana "Assur a-bi-ik 23. was captured and carried to Assyria.
24. IV sandti?'’ Mu-se-zib-¢M arduk Sarru- 24. Four years Mushézib-Marduk reigned
ut Babilt** epus(us) as king in Babylon.
25. ina *Adaru tmu VIT*™ Me-na-nu 25. On the seventh of the month Adar,
Sar 'Elamti Simati?? Menanu, king of Elam, died.
26. IV sandti?’ Me-na-nu Sarru-ut 'Elamti 26. Four years Menanu reigned as king
epus (us) in Elam.
27. Hum-ma-hal-da-su ina 'Elamti ina PLfe Hummahaldashu ascended the throne
kusst ittasab(ab) in Elam.
28. Sattu VIII” garru ina Baébili®* "ul 28. Eight years there was no king in
ast! "ab Dizu dmu [IT's Babylon. On the third of the month
Tammuz
Zo; alan?’ Su-ut Uruk"? istu Hridu** ana 29. the gods of Erech returned to Erech
Uruk** eribt from Eridu.
30. na Y*Tasritu imu XXILT*™ Hum- 30. On the 28rd of the month Tashrit,
ma-hal-da-su sar Elamti ina isate Humma-haldashu, king of Elam, was
seized with fever,
dl. ma-hi-is-ma ina mikit(?) 2[sate] ol. and died from the attack. Eight
imit(ut) VIII sandti?' Hum-ma-hal- years Hummahaldashu
(text an)-da-su
32. Sarru-ut '‘Hlamti epus(us) 32. reigned as king in Elam.
33. Hum-ma-hal-da-su sant(u) ina 'Hlam- 33. Hummahaldashu the second, ascend-
ti ina kussi wttasab(ab) ed the throne of Elam.
34. erabTebitu tmu XX*m 4Sin-ahér'- 34, On the 20th of the month Tebit,
eriba Sar ‘Assur his son killed Sennacherib, king of
Assyria,
35. maru-su ina si-hi wdtk-[su XXITT 35. during an uprising. [23] years Sen-
Sandtr?! 4Sin-ahé?'-eriba nacherib
36. Sarru-ut ‘Assur epus(us) tmu X X*am 36. reigned as king in Assyria. From
Sa %"Tebit a-di the 20th of the month Tebit to
37. on AI" sa, etAdar si-ht ina 37. the 2nd of the month Adar the up-
‘A sur SA-DIRIG rising continued in Assyria.
Col. III
38. 7Adar almu] XVITI*™ 4A sgur-ah- 38. On the 18th of the month Adar
iddina mdaru-su ina 'Assur ina kusst Esarhaddon, his son, ascended the
attasab(ab) throne in Assyria.
Il. EXCERPTS FROM THE HELLENISTIC WRITERS

a) Eusebius quoting Polyhistor, who no doubt abbrenated the account of Berossos:
After the reign of the brother of Sennacherib, and after the reign of Akises over the Baby-
lonians, before he had ruled thirty days, he was slain by Merodach-baladan. Merodach-
baladan maintained himself as ruler six months, and he was slain by one, whose name was
Elibos, and he became king. And in the third year of his reign, Sennacherib, king of the
Assyrians, levied an army against the Babylonians, engaged them in battle and conquered;
taking prisoner him and his adherents, he carried them off unto the land of the Assyrians.
He assumed the rulership over the Babylonians and appointed his son Asordanias as king
over them; but he himself withdrew unto the land of the Assyrians.
When he received a report that the Greeks had made a hostile descent upon the land of
the Cilicians he marched against them, and fought with them a pitched battle, and, after
many of his troops had been cut down by the enemy, he conquered and upon the spot he
left a statue of himself as a monument of his victory, and ordered his prowess and heroism
to be inscribed upon it in the Chaldean character, to hand down the remembrance thereof to
posterity. And the city of Tarsos, so he says, he built, after the likeness of Babylon, and
he called the city Tharsis. And after enumerating the various exploits of Sennacherib
(Sinecherim) he adds he reigned 18 years, and met his end in a conspiracy which was formed
against him by his son, Ardumuzan.
So far Polyhistor.
After Phul his brother Sennacherib reigned. He marched against Babylon with an
army. He was victorious, captured Sarnelibos alive, and sent him to Assyria. After he
had become master of Babylon, he set his son Asordanisos as king over Babylon, and himself
returned to Assyria. When he learned that the Ionians had invaded Cilicia, he hastened
against them and destroyed many of them. He left behind a victory-stela, setting up his
image in that place, and writing upon it, in Chaldean characters, the events. He built the
city of Tarsus, and named it Tarshish. Then he returned, so he says, unto his own land.
He ruled 18 years, and was slain by his son. This one reigned 8 years, and after him
Hamugios 21 years, and his brother 21.
b) From Abydenos:
At the same time, the twenty-fifth, who was Senecherib, can finally be recognized among
the kings. It was he who subjected the city of Babylon to his power, and defeated and sunk
a Grecian fleet upon the coast of Cilicia. He built also an Athenian temple and erected
brazen statues, upon which he engraved his own exploits. And he built the city of Tarsus,
after the plan and likeness of Babylon, that the river Cydnus should flow through Tarsus,
in the same manner as the Euphrates intersected Babylon.
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INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
Abdili’ti, 30, 52 Asuru, 31, 70
Abydenos, 162b Assur (city), 50, 19; 55, 60; 57, 16; 64, 28;
Adad, 44, 75; 63,1; 78, 1; 83, 48; 93,3; 112, 66, 52, 2; 112, 74; 146, 32; 149, 6; 161,
87, eet Shoop a1OT) 2070140. 3 Sl, 15) XI14, 35
141, 16; 142, 14; 142, d3; 143, 3; 145, 13, Assur (god), 24, 10, 35; 26, 65; 29, 45; 31, 1;
15; 147, 3 33, 50; 39, 54; 44, 62, 72; 45, 76, 78; 48, 4;
Adapa, 117, 4 56, 4, 11; 58,20; 62,89; 68, VI1; 78, 53, 156;
TG Gt is Os Tey Le 19, 14° 81525-7182. 36;
Adinu, 51, 28 85,3; 88,47; 92,13; 93,3; 94, 66; 98, 92, 93,
Adummatu, 92, 25; 93, 26 94; 101, 62, 63; 102, 91; 107, 47; 112, 74;
Ahlamu, 77, 13 116, 66, 78, 86; 117, 4; 120, 36; 125, 49;
Ahudu, 53, 42 127, e3; 130, 74, 79, 81; 182, 67; 134, 91;
Aia, 142, 13 135, 3; 186, 22, 25, 27; 137, 40; 138, 45;
139, 57, 60, 65, 68, b1; 140, 6, 10. 11; 141, 5, 6,
Akamshakina, 53, 46 10; 142, 12, 15, 1, c2, d2, 5; 143, 3,9; 144,2, 8;
Akises, 162a, 1 145, 11, 16; 146, 31, 33; 147, 35, 36, 3; 148,
Akkabarina, 40, 68 21, 23, 26, 27, ITIZ TV 1, 2; 149, 1, 7, VI2; 150,
ViTo VIL X45) G1 eX Isy x2 xXV2:
Akkad, 35, 74; 39, 48; 42, 30; 43, 53; 49, 9; 152, XVII5; 154, 11, 18, 22; 155, XXII2
54, 54; 77, 12; 79,13; 83,49; 93,4; 158, 25,
26; 159, 39 Assur-bel-usur, 62, 1
Akko, 29, 43 Assur-nadin-shum, 35, 72; 71,37; 76,11; 152, 3;
158, 28, 29; 159, 35, 41, 42
Akkudu, 28, 16; 59, 28; 68, 13
Assyria, 23, 2; 25, 53; 26, 63; 28, 26; 30, 64;
Akzibu, 29, 43 38, 44; 39, 51, 56, 60; 48, 1,5; 55,59; 57, 19;
Allallu, 52, 38 59,7313 68; Vissi G6, 12°67, 9> 68, 153969, 21;
Alumsusi, 79, 10 23; 76, 1, 6; 78, 3; 80, 18; 82, 40; 83, 49;
Alum-sha-bélit-biti, 40, 74 85, 1; 87, 26; 88, 44; 89, c2; 91, 24; 93, 1, 4;
95, 70; 98, 92; 103, 36; 104, 49; 116, 67;
Amanus, see Hamanu 117, 1; 126, al, 62, cl; 127, d2, e2, 3; 129, 55;
Amartu, 52, 36 182;°65; 135, 1, 7, 9, 13, 14; 136, 15, 19:
Ambasi, 112, 88 138, 56; 139, 58, b1; 141, 10; 142, c2, al:
Ammanana, 107, 56; 121, 45 143, le ‘144, i >: 146, al; 147, A 20; 148, 1
IV2: 149, rh VI2; 150, VIL, VIIi1, eat X2:
Amorite (Amurru), 30, 58; 69, 19; 97, 82; 102, 151, XT?) XII2, XTII5, XIV4, XV1; 152,
78; 132, 68; 140,8 XVU, XV; 8: 154, XIX2: 155,, xe
Anara, 37, 18; 72, 43 XXI2, XXIT1, XXIII1; 156, XXIV1, XXV1;
Anu, 78, 1; 142, 14, d2; 143, 3; 144, 2; 149, 4 LOT, eX XIX2 UX XT ex Nes.
Anunaki, 149, 3 158, 27; 159, 44, 47; 160, 4,5, 18; 161, 23, 34,
36, 37; 162, 38
Anzan, 48, 44; 88, 44; 91,9
Apin (star), 136, 25 Babili, see Babylonia
Arabs, 25, 39; 51, 28; 54, 52; 57, 12; 70, 31; Bab-salimeti, 74, 70
92, 22 Babylon, 24, 28; 48, 53, 54; 50, 16; 51, 30;
Arahtu, 73, 63; 84, 52 56, 8; 67, 5; 83, 43, 49, 50; 91, 3; 92, 11;
Aramaeans, 25, 39, 49; 42, 22; 49,14; 50, 17; 93, 6, 7; 134, 89; 137, 36; 138, 44, 46; 156,
G17) 24-27; 64; 52, 563. OT; 12, 15; 67,7; 13, 14; 158, 22, 28, 30; 159, 42, 43; 160, 6, 12;
85, 7; 88, 45; 92, 10; 95, 71; 104, 52 161, 24, 28
Ardumuzan, 162, Ila, 17 Babylonia (Karduniash), Babylonian, 24, 21;
Arrapha, 27, 6; 58, 26; 68, 12 38, 47; 41, 18; 42, 20, 36; 43, 54; 47, 25; 48,
6; 49, 15; 56, 5; 66, 4; 76, 8; 82, 35, 38; 83,
Arvad (ite), 30, 52 46; 85, 6; 87, 27, 28, 34; 88, 36; 89, 53; 90, 14,
Ashdod (ite), 30, 54; 33, 32; 70, 29 16; 91, 29, 7; 92,11, 19; 93,2; 156, 11; 158, 18
Ashkelon, 30, 61; 31, 66; 69, 20, 21; 70, 29 Balata(i), 108, 62, 78; 121, 50; 122, 13; 126, a3,
Asordanias (Asordanisos), 162, Ila, 7, 21 c2; 129, 63; 132, 74
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Balti-lishir, 40, 72 Bitter Sea (Marrati), 73, 51, 54; 74, 78; 78, 30;
Banaibarka, 31, 70 ,
Banbakabna, 79, 8 Bittdtu, 34, 54; 71, 33

Banitu, 52, 37 Biturra, 80, 14
Baskanu, 61, 28 Borsippa, 49, 15; 92, 11
Bel, 42, 32; 44, 63 Bube, 39, 61
Bela, 53, 46 Budu-ilu, 30, 55
Bel-emurani, 131, note 1 Buhartru, 53, 44
Bel-ibni, 54, 54; 57, 13; 158, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28 Bukudu, 25, 47; 438, 48; 49, 13; 54, 56; 67, 15
Beltis, 87, 31, 32; 112, 3; 134, 91; 142, 15 Burutu, 39, 65
Beth-Dagon, 31, 69
Billatu, 38, 38; 75, 83, 95; 77, 29; 86, 20 Chaldea, 25, 1,37; 47, 25; 67,6; 77, 25; 78, 31;
Bit-Adini, 43, 47 101, 57; 111, 55; 124, 41; 134, 89
Bit-Ahe-iddina, 40, 75 Chaldeans, 25, 39; 33, 53; 41,20; 48,54; 49, 11;
50, 17; 51, 24, 27; 54, 50, 52; 56, 11; 57, 12:
Bit-Ahlame, 39, 62 71, 33; 73, 64; 75, 82,97; 76,9; 85, 7; 88,
Bit-Ammon(ite), 30, 55 45; 96, 71, 72; 97, 87; 104, 52; 162, Tigt
Bit-Amukkan, 48, 47; 49, 11; 53, 47 Cilicia, 61, 64, 68, 72; 162, IIa, IIb
Bit-Arrabi, 39, 65 Commagene, 64, 15
Bit-Asusi, 39, 63 Cydnus, 162, IIb
Bit-Bani-ilua, 53, 45 Cyprus, 69, 18; 73, 60; 77, 17
Bit-Barru, 28, 25; 59, 31; 68, 15
Bit-Bunaki, 40, 70; 88, 38; 90,18. Cf. fol. Daianu, 142, 11
_ Bit-Burnaki, 160, 11 Daie, 37, 14
Bit-Dakkuri, 49, 11; 52-53, 39; 73, 64 Dakala, 46, 46
Bit-Dini-ilu, 53, 45 Dalain, 79, 9
Bit-Gissi, 39, 64 Damascus, 116, 88
Bit-Hairi, 39, 55 Damkina, 142, 14
Bit-Iltamasama’, 53, 45 Damunu, 25, 46; 43, 51; 49, 13; 54, 55; 57, 14
Bit-Ilu-bani, 53, 42 Dandahulla, 53, 48
Bit-Imbia, 39, 64 Deri, 39, 60
Bit-Katpalani, 39, 64 Dilbat, 157, XXVI1
ieee ose 26, 72; 27,80; 58, 22,24; 67, 10 b] Dilmun, 1387, 39, 40
’ Dimtu-sha-Dume-ilu, 40, 71
Bit-Kubatti, 26, 73; 27, 5; 58,25; 67, 10; 156, 10 ? Dimtu-sha-Mar-biti-etir, 40, 66
157, XXVIII
Dimtu-sha-Sulai, 40, 66
Bit-Kudurru, 52, 39
Dub, 143, 6
Bit-Rahe, 52, 38
Dummuku, 438, 45
Bit-Ri’e, 53, 44
Dunni-Shamash, 39, 61
Bit-Risia, 39, 61
Dir-Abdai, 53, 40
Bit-Sa’alli, 53, 41
Dir-Abiyata’, 52, 37
Bit-Salatutu-akki, 43, 48
Dir-Akkia, 538, 43
Bit-Salli, 49, 11
Dir-Appé, 53, 40
Bit-Sannabi, 52, 36
Dir-Birdada, 53, 43
Bit-Sillana, 43, 47
Dir-Ishtar, 79, 9; 114, 33
Bit-Taura, 53, 44
Dir-Ladini, 52, 37
Bit-Ubia, 40, 71 Dir-Rudumme, 52, 37
Bit-Ugga, 140, 3
Diar-Rukbi, 53, 438
Bit-Yakin, 34, 51; 35, 58, 67; 38, 32, 40; 49, 11 d
53, 49; 71, 33, 34, 36; 73, 52; 75, 97; 86, 22 d
Dir-Sama’, 53, 40
87, 25 Dir-Tané, 53, 40
Bit-Zabidia, 53, 48 Dir-Uait, 53, 44
Bit-Zitti, 29, 42 Dir-Ugurri, 53, 44
Bitati, 52, 37 Didr-Yakini, 53, 48
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 193
Dir-Yansuri, 52, 37 Gublite, 30, 53

Duru, 39, 62 Gurumu, 25, 45; 49, 13; 54, 55; 57, 14
Guzummanu, 51, 26; 52, 34, 37; 56, 6, 10
Ha, 74, 79; 78,1; 113, 94; 133, 77; 144, 19
Ebalagga, 140, 4 Hadabiti, 79, 10
Ebarra, 159, 40 Hagaranum 25, 1, 48; 49, 14; 54, 56; 57,15
Edomite, 30, 57 Haidala, 40, 4; 88, 41; 90, 22
Egypt, 31, 78; 32, 4; 69, 23, 25 Halahhi, 112, 83
Eharsaggalkurkurra, 144, 8; 145, 12 Halatu(m), 48, 49
Ekallate, 83, 49, 50 Halgidda, 36, 76; 64, 13
Ekron, 31, 73; 32,7; 33, 33; 69, 22, 25; 70,30 Hallushu, 158, 32; 159, 34, 38; 160, 7, 8
Elam (ite), 35, 70; 38, 36, 39, 41; 39, 51, 55; Halule, 44, 60; 88, 47; 90, 13; 160, 17
40, 1; 41, 2; 42, 26, 27, 33, 37, 38; 45, 83; Halzi, 112, 76
49, 7, 8; 50, 17; 51, 24, 27; 56, 5; 66, 4; Hamanu, 39, 65; 96, 80; 97, 87; 101, 57; 106,
75, 96, 98; 76, 102, 10; 78, 31; 82, 35, 37, 38, 24; 110, 27; 111, 53; 119, 23; 123, 32; 124,
40, 41; 85, 7; 86, 22; 87, 26, 28, 30; 88, 36, 40; 129, 59; 132, 70
39, 44; 89, 53, 67; 90, 10, 16, 20; 91, 2, 4; Hameza, 58, 46
92, 19; 183, 88; 158, 31; 159, 33, 34, 36, 38, Hamranu, 25, 1, 48; 40, 69; 49, 13; 54, 56;
41, 43, 2; 160, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16; 161, 20, BT, 15
25, 26, 27, 30, 32, 33
Elenzash, 28, 27; 59,32; 68, 15 Hamugios, 162, Ila
Elibos, 162, a Hani, 142, 12; 143, 5; 147, 11, 15, 19
Ellipi, 28, 11; 48, 44; 59, 27, 29; 68, 12; 77, 16; Hapisha, 52, 38
86, 12; 88, 45 Hararati(te, tum), 26, 1, 55; 54, 57; 57, 17;
Elmunakinne, 114, 32 67, 8; 158, 24
Eltekeh, 31, 82; 32, 66; 69, 24 Harbe-iddina, 53, 45
Emishmish, 144, 4 Harbe-kalbi, 53, 45
Enbilulu, 81, 29 Hardishpi, 26, 72; 27, 5; 58, 25; 67, 10
Enlil, 78, 1; 94, 66; 103, 37; 112, 77; 136, 24; Harhar, 29, 32; 68, 16
145, 22; 149, 5 Harri-ashlaki, 40, 67
Erech (cf. Uruk), 25, 40; 57, 12; 87, 31, 33; 90, Harsagkalamma, 25, 1, 40; 54, 52; 57, 12
Ti 159, 4, 7, 17-2; 161, 29 Harsuarra, 53, 43
Eridu, 49, 10; 53, 48; 87, 31; 161, 29 Harzunu, 43, 45
Esagila, 42, 31 Hata, 79, 9
Esdma, see Ezima Hatarikku, 131, 85
Esarhaddon, 162, 38 Hatti (Hittite), 114, 18
Esharra, 135, 4, 6; 1389, 58; 144, 4, 8; 146, 32; Hauae, 52, 36
148, 3, IV4; 149, 6, VI4 Hazael, 92, 23
Ethiopia, 31, 80; 32, 4; 69, 24, 25 Hezekiah, 31, 76; 32, 18; 33, 37; 69, 23; 70, 27,
ae tes 67, 7; 74, 69, 71, 77; 187, 39; 162, 30; 77, 21; 86, 15
Hidi, 62, V4
Eusebius, 162a Hilakku, 61, 64, 72; 62, 83; 77, 24; 86,17; 95,
Ezdma (Esdma), 36, 76; 64, 14 71; 104, 53
Hilmu, 38, 38; 75, 83, 95; 78, 29; 86, 20; 159, 36
Gaga, 142,11; 143, 5 Hindaina, 53, 44
GAgal, 112, 77 Hindaru, 25, 47; 48, 51; 49, 138; 54, 55; 57, 15
Gahilu, 131, 84 Hirimme, 26, 58; 55, 58; 57, 18; 67, 8; 77, 14;
86, 12; 158, 24
Gahul, 87, 28
Hittite, 29, 37; 38, 37; 68, 18; 73, 57; 78, 28;
Gambulu, 25, 46; 43, 49; 49, 13; 54, 55; 57, 15 86, 23; 97, 82; 106, 21; 119, 22; 129, 54;
Gamlat, 142, 13 131, 64
Gargamish, 131, note 1 Humban-undasha, 45, 82
Gashtinnam, 87, 32 Hummahaldashu, 161, 27, 30, 31, 33
Gaza, 33, 34; 70, 30 Hupap4nu, 38, 39; 75, 84, 96; 78, 30; 86, 20;
Gingilinish, 79, 10 159, 37
Hurudu, 52, 38 Kisiru, 79, 11; 98, 89; 101, 59; 114, 26; 124, 41
Husur (Khosr), 79, 11; 98, 90; 101, 60; 105, Kissik, 49, 10; 53, 48
VI2; 114, 22; 115, 41; 124, 43 Kia, 36, 77; 64, 14
Kubruna, 52, 39
Igi-duggu, 149, 10
Kubu, 142, 12; 1438, 5
Igigi, 146, 24, 25; 149, 3; 150, VII2
Kudur, 160, 9, 14
Illubru, 61, 62, 77; 62, 87
Kudur-nahundu, 40, 1; 41, 2
Iltaratu, 53, 46
Kue, 61, 67; 95, 71; 104, 53
Ilte-uba, 40, 75
Kukkut, 80, 14
Iltuk, 52, 38
Kullab, 49, 10; 53, 48
Ilu-ittia, 116, 88
Kummahlum, 28, 23; 59, 31; 68, 14
Imbappa, 49, 8
Kurunnam, 87, 32
Ingiré, 61, 66, 75
Kutain, 52, 36
Ishtar, 63, VI2; 78, 1; 94, 63; 98, 92; 99, 44;
102, 77; 103, 24, 26; 107, 47; 116, 86; 120, Kutha, 25, 41; 49, 15; 50, 18, 22; 51, 23; 57, 12
36; 125, 52; 130, 74, 79; 142, d3; 143, 4; Kutmuhi, 64, 15
144, 3; 148, 26; 152, XVII5; 154, 22
Ishtar’s temple, 102, 78 Lachish, 156, XX V3
Ishtar of Arbela, 44, 64 Lahiru, 42, 22; 43, 48
Ishtar of Nineveh, 44, 63 Lakabra, 43, 45
Ishtarnahundu, 158, 31; 159, 33 Larak, 53, 42; 158, 21
Ispabara, 28, 12; 59, 27; 68, 13 Larsa, 53, 48; 87, 31;. 90, 11
Isparirra, 79, 9 Libittu, 136, 17; 146, 28; 152, 5.
Li’tau, 25, 49; 49, 14; 54, 56; 57, 15
- Jerusalem, 32, 15; 33, 28, 40; 70, 27, 29, 31 Lulé(t), 29, 38; 68, 18; 77, 17; 86, 13
Jew, 31, 76; 32, 18; 69, 23; 70, 27; 77, 21
Joppa, 31, 69 Madaktu, 40, 3; 41, 6; 88, 40, 42; 90, 21, 23
Judah, 86, 15 Mah, 142, d4; 148, 4; 144, 3
Kakzi, 155, X XIII2 Mahalliba, 29, 42
Kalte-sulai, 39, 62 Malahu, 25, 45; 43, 50
Kammusu-nadbi, 30, 56
Malihu, 25, 45; 49, 12; 54, 55; 57, 14
Malikrammu, 30, 57
Kana, 36, 77; 64, 15
Manahhu, 58, 42
Kapri-dargilé, 108, 59; 121, 48
Maniae, 37, 13, 23; 72, 42
Kar-Nabd, 53, 48
Kar-Ninlil, 112, 79 Mannai, 95, 71; 104, 52
Marad, 52, 38
Kar-Niri, 79, 8
Marduk, 78, 1
Kar-Sennacherib, 29, 29; 59, 32; 68, 16
Marduk-nadin-ahe, 83, 49
Kar-Shamash-nasir, 79, 8
Marrati (Bitter Sea), 49, 12; 53, 48; 73, 51, 54
Kar-Zer-ikisha, 39, 63
Marubishti, 28, 16; 59, 28; 68, 13 .
Karduniash, see Babylonia
Karha, 49, 12
Masiti, 79, 8
Masutu, 40, 73
Kashshitu, 87, 32
Kassite, 26, 66; 27,2; 58, 20, 25; 67,9
MAS, 83, VI2; 142, 11, 15
MG. firey , 80,14
Kasusi, 157, XXIX3
Khosr, see Husur Medes, 29, 33; 60, 33; 68, 17; 133, 87
Melubha, 31, 80; 156, 18
Kibré, 25, 45; 49, 12; 54, 55; 57, 14
Menachem, 30, 50
Kibshu, 36, 76; 64, 14
Menanu, 160, 15, 16; 161, 20, 25
Kidmuri-temple, 99, 44
Merodach-Baladan, 24, 20; 35, 59; 48, 46;
Kidrina, 52, 37
46, 17; 48, 6; 49, 10; 50, 20; 51, 25, 28, 30;
Kipranu, 53, 46 56, 5; 66, 4; 71, 35; 76, 8; 82, 37; 85, 6;
Kirua, 61, 62; 62, 82, 86 87, 27; 89, 50, c4; 92, 16; 156, 115 sibe aaa.
Kish, 24, 22; 25, 40; 50, 20, 21; 51, 25; 54, 52; 162, a2
56,5; 57, 12; 66,4; 76, 7 Meslam temple, 155, XX3; XXI3; XXII1
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 195
Mitinti, 30, 54; 33, 32 Rab(b)ai, 40, 68

Moab(ite), 30, 56 Rapiku, 43, 50
Mushezib-Marduk, 160, 12, 13, 19; 161, 22, 24 RasA, 39, 56
Musri, 114, 31 Rashi, 160, 10
Rasu, 40, 68
Nabatu, 25, 48; 49, 14; 54, 56; 57, 15 Résh-éni, 79, 9
Nabu, 44, 63; 78, 1 Rihihu, 25, 44; 49, 12; 54,55; 57,14
Nabu-bel-shumate, 25, 53; 54,57; 57, 17 Rimusu, 61, 61; 79, 8
aaa 46, 16; 82, 37; 89, 50; 92, Ru’ua, 25, 47; 43, 49; 49, 13; 54, 56; 57, 15
Rukibti, 30, 65; 69, 21
Naditu, 40, 69
Nagite-rakki, 34, 64 Saba’, 138, 49
Nagitu, 38, 36, 37; 58, 43; 71, 35; 73, 49, 57; Sadi-ilu, 52, 38
75, 80, 83, 94; 78, 27, 28; 85, 10; 86, 19; Sagabatu-sha-Mardukia, 53, 46
159, 36 Sahrina, 52, 38
Ne ci 38, 38; 73,49; 75, 83,95; 78, 29; Sahriti, 157, XXX3
’
Salahatu, 53, 40
Nampagate, 79, 10
Samuna, 43, 46
Nana, 87, 31
Saphuna, 53, 44
Nannar, 112, 91
Sapia, 53, 42
Nergal, 44, 63; 87,32; 112, 90; 142, d3; 143,6;
144, 3; 147, 3; 155, XX1; XXI3 Sappihimari, 53, 40
Nergal-nasir, 49, 8; 50, 17; 51, 24 Sar-hudiri, 40, 74
Nergal-ushezib, 159, 43, 45, 2; 160, 5 Sarnelibos, 162, IIa, 20
Nimid-laguda, 49, 10; 53, 48 Sarpanitu, 42, 32
Nin-4-gal, 97, 83 Sarrabanu, 58, 42; 158, 21
Nin-igi-kug, 109, 2; 117, 4; 122, 24; 133, 77 Sarrabatu, 53, 40
Nin-kur-ra, 108, 77; 122, 12 Sennacherib-channel, 79, 12; 80, 15
Nineveh, 34, 47; 41, 10 ; 44, 63; 60, 58; 62, 85; Sha-amélé, 53,43
10, a2: 19, 08; 19, 0, 11; 80,17, 19, 23; 84, Sha-issur-Adad, 53, 42
56, 58; 87, 24; 88, 35; 90,15; 94, 63; 97, 88; Shabarré, 53, 45
98, 89; 101, 58, 59, 61; 108, 23; 108, 62, 75; Shagarakti-shuriash, 93, edge 4
datos; 113,+1o° 114,29; 115, 38% 117, °7;
121, 49, 10; 124, 42; 126, b5, c4; 127, d9; Shaharratu, 53, 42
128, 36; 131, 55; 182, 70; 133, 78; 1652, Shala, 83, 48; 142, 14
XVII14; 153, XVIII4; 154, 15, XIX3 Shalmaneser, 93, 1
Ningal, 142, 13 Shamash, 44, 63; 63, VI1; 78,1; 87, 31; 90, 11;
Ningalkimah, 143, 6 112, 77; 185, 5; 187,29; 140, 3, 8, 12, 13;
Ninlil, 112, 79; 142, 13 141, 16; 142, 138; 143, 3; 144, 2; 145, 13, 15,
18; 159, 40
Nippur, 25, 40; 49,15; 54, 52; 159, 46, 3
Shamsimurun(ite) 30, 50
Nipur, 36, 78, 80; 64,17; 65, 32, 34, 46; 66, 50;
71, 38; TT, 22; 127, d6; 132, 73 Shanakidate, 40, 73
Nurabinu, 53, 43 Shapparishu, 79, 8
Nusku, 142, 11; 147, 3 Shar-gaz, 142, 11
Shar-Ur, 113, 3; 142, 11
Opis, 73, 61, 62 Sharim, 64, 13
Sharma, 36, 76
Padi, 31, 74; 32, 14; 33, 33; 69, 22; 70, 26 Sharruludari, 30, 65; 69, 21
Parak-marri, 53, 42 Sharum, 36, 76
Parsuash, 43, 43; 88, 44; 91, 9 Sheru’a, 142, 13; 143, 2
Pasheru (Pashiru), 43, 44; 88, 45; 91, 9 Shibaniba, 79, 9; 112, 82; 114, 33
Philistia, 104, 53 Shilibtu, 39, 63
Phul, 162, IIa, 10 Shuanna, 42, 28; 54, 54; 57, 113; 91, 31
Pillatu (see Billatu), 159, 37 Shulmu-bel, 61, 61
Polyhister, 162a Shutur-nahundu, 49, 7
Shuzubu, 34, 53; 38, 46; 41, 17, 20; 48, 54; Teme, 113, 96
71, 33; 83, 46; 87, 13; 90,13; 156, 14 Tharsis, 162
Sibi(ttu), 78, 1; 142, 12 Tiamat, 140, 6, 11; 141, 14, 7, 10; 142, 2
Sibtu-sha-Makkamé, 53, 40 Tiglath-pileser, 83, 49
Sidka, 30, 60; 31, 71; 69, 20 Tigris, 44, 60; 49, 13; 64, 27; 67, 7; 73, 61;
Sidon, 29, 38, 41; 30, 51; 68, 18; 73, 60; 77, 17; 100, 51; 102, 79; 104, 65; 114, 24
86, 13 Til-Barsip, 87, 24; 108, 60; 121, 48
Silli-bel, 33, 33 Til-Humbi, 40, 70
Sin, 44, 63; 63, VI1; 78, 1; 112, 91; 142, 13; Til-Uhuri, 40, 68
143, 3; 144, 2 Tilgarimmu, 62, V2; 77, 24; 86, 19
Sin-ahe-eriba (Sennacherib), 23, 1; 48, 1; 50, 16; Tillu, 79, 10
55, 1; 63, VI6; 66, 1; 76, 1, 6; 78,3; 80, 18;
82, 40; 85,1; 93, 5; 95, 70; 109, 89; 112, 76, Timnah, 32, 6
(85 117, 1; 122, 20° 426. al, OL els) 127 .7al; Tishpak, 142, 11 '
el, f1; 135, 1; 138, 56; 141, 10; 142, cl, dl; Tuba’lu, 30, 47, 51; 69, 19; 77, 19; 86, 14
143, 1; 144, 1; 146, 30; 147, 1, 20; 148, 1, [V2;
Tukulti-Urta, 93, 1
149, 6, VI1; 150, 1, VIIT1, 1X1, X1; 151, X11,
XIl1, XII14, X1V4, XV1; 152, XVI1, XVII1; Tu’muna, 25, 43; 49,12; 54,55; 57, 14
164, 22, XIX15 166, XX2, XXII XAT Tumurru, 35, 75; 64, 12; 71, 38; 77, 22; 86, 16
AALITTS 156, XXIVI XA V1 167 Aa Tyre, 69, 18; 73, 59; 104, 53
XXXII, XXXII2; 158, 23, 25, 29; 160, 9;
161, 34, 35; 162
Sippar, 25, 41 Ubudu, 25, 44; 49, 12; 54, 55; 57, 14
Sirara, 106, 25; 107, 51; 119, 23; 120, 40 Ubulum, 25, 46; 48, 50; 49, 13; 54, 55; 57, 14
Sisirtu, 28, 23; 59, 31; 68, 14 Ukku, 37, 13, 24, 25; 72, 42,45; 77,23; 86, 16
Suka-Marusi, 52, 39 Ukni, 49, 14
Suladu, 53, 45 Ulai, 75, 87
Sulai, 43, 46 Umman-menanu, 41, 14; 42, 33; 47, 24; 82, 34
Sulu, 79,9; 114,34 | Upiru, 137, note 1
Sumer, 35, 74; 39, 48; 42, 30; 49, 9; 54, 54; Uppa, 37, 18; 72, 43
57, 13; 156, 18 Ur, 49, 10
Sumu’an, 113, 96 Urra, 112, 89
Sutu, 49, 8; 77, 18 Uruk (cf. Erech), 54, 52; 87, 31, 33
Urumilki, 30, 53
Tabalu, 62, V3; 77, 25; 86, 19 Ushu, 29, 43; 69, 20
Tagab-lishir, 40, 72 Usur-amatsa, 87, 32
Tairu, 53, 46
Tanndnu, 49, 8; 51, 27
Yadakku, 25, 44; 49, 12; 54, 55; 57, 14
Tarbisi, 80, 22; 112, 90; 155, XX4, XXI4,
XXIT1 Yakimuna, 52, 38
Tarsos, 162 Yasubigalli, 26, 66; 27, 2; 58, 20, 25; 67, 9;
77, 15; 86, 12
Tarsus, 61, 66, 75
Yati’e, 51, 28
Tas, 79, 12; 84, 54
Yazan, 43, 44
Tashmetum, 152, XVI1
Tastiate, 104, 65; 118, 9
Tebilti, 96, 74, 75; 99, 46, 48; 105, 79, 85; 118, ZAG-DU (or DI)-NU-TUK-A, 96, 79; 100, 56
13, 15 Zamama, 50, 21
Telhunu, 92, 22 Zaribtu, 29, 42
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS

DANIEL DAVID LUCKENBILL

JAMES HENRY BREASTED

THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY

THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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DANIEL DAVID LUCKENBILL, Ph.D.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

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I. InrropucTION. ON CERTAIN PHASES OF ASSYRIAN STATECRAFT . 7 1

IJ. THE REIGN oF SENNACHERIB . ; : ; ; ‘ : ; : : 9

III. THE Sources ; ; ; ; : ae ; : ; ; : ae 4)

IV. THe ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRism INSCRIPTION 2 , 5 ; : ; : a PS)

VY. Tue HistoricaAL Recorps ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY . ) : ; ‘ . 48

(eer PALACH WITHOUT A RIVAL” ( . . * +». « «©.» « « «. 94

VII. Tue “Bit-KutTatui”’ oR ARMORY . : 5 : 3 : : : : ; . 128

VIII. ‘THe Tempus or tHE New YEAR’s FEasr”’ eee ae VP e Se LOU

IX. MisceELLANEOUS BuILpING INSCRIPTIONS AND EPIGRAPHS . : : : ; . 144

AUTOGRAPHED TEXT OF THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM OF SENNACHERIB : ? we 1L03

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES ; : ; ; : ; ; , : : : ; kee

INTRODUCTION. ON CERTAIN PHASES OF ASSYRIAN

We cannot help comparing this procedure with Hammurabi’s methods. Hammurabi

Here we have the beginning of the deportation of the inhabitants of conquered

His campaigns are summed up in the following words:

THE REIGN OF SENNACHERIB

encouraged by the prophet Isaiah, once more refuses to be intimidated. Then

The abbreviations of determinatives used in the transliterations of the following

' THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PRISM INSCRIPTION (H2)

1 Text of H1, 76. CH La. i 101, om.

Su"! assat-su house, himself, his wife,

1H, e. 5 El, sénicol, 91, da-an.

1 FI, w. 5H1, adds (nt). 9H1, MU=sum,

§adi(z)! a-du-ra mountain streams;

1H1, Sad-di-t. Si i, 7H, pid.

3H1, gu. 6 H1, d-um.

’Hlamtv*? him (there),

sent them as a bribe (saying):

11, tu. 5 H1, inserts >. Ost, fo.

2H1, ummdandtece! rl, 6 H1, 4AMAR-UD-TUR-US-iddina(na). 10 H11, inserts v.

eH, &. 0s BIE FAT HI, tt.

THE HISTORICAL RECORDS ARRANGED

ka-ras sur-ra-a-ti e-pis li-mut-ti sa of revolt, plotter of rebellion (lit.

. ™St-tur-4Na- hu-du eK -(la-mu-t ff brought over to his side Shutur-

™Dak-ku-ri a-di 250 aldni?’ sihratir® borders;

44. cBit-ri---e “Dir-"U-gur-ri. *Hi-in-da-i- 44, Bit-r’e, Ddr-Ugurri, Hindaina, Dir-

II. CAMPAIGNS ONE AND TWO (THE BELLINO CYLINDER B11)

Sd eli-Su-un as-tak-ka-nu_ si-ru-us-Su and the might of my conquering

them, I had inscribed thereon. In

III. RECORDS WRITTEN SOON AFTER THE THIRD CAMPAIGN

IV. RECORDS WRITTEN AFTER THE FIFTH CAMPAIGN

Vv b) CAMPAIGN AGAINST TILGARIMMLU, 695 B.C. (E1, CONTINUED)

. ina li-mu “Assur-bél-usur “Sa-kin i In the eponymy of Assur-bél-usur,

LCi p. 77, 1. 24.

they captured the city.

c) THE ROCK INSCRIPTIONS ON THE JUDI DAGH (E3)

. Assur 4Sin 4Samas *Adad Li Assur, Sin, Shamash, Adad,

. ™4Sin-ahé-eriba Sarru. raba sarru . Sennacherib, the great king, the