The history of the Sennacherib project has been outlined in the preface to RINAP 3/1 as have the labors of the authors. We are once again extremely grateful to the individuals and institutions named in that preface for their past contributions and continuing support which has gone into the preparation of RINAP 3/2.
The penultimate manuscript of RINAP 3/2 was read by Andreas Fuchs, Greta Van Buylaere, and Martin Worthington, all of whom made numerous astute comments, welcome criticisms, and improvements, particularly on the transliterations and translations. In addition, members of the RINAP editorial board and the project consultants offered helpful suggestions at various times near the completion of the volume. Their time, care, and generosity are greatly appreciated.
We would like to thank the student and post-doctoral assistants who helped in the completion of the volume: Joshua Jeffers, Andrew Knapp, and Irene Sibbing Plantholt. The authors are grateful to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago), the Trustees of the British Museum, and the Vorderasiatisches Museum for allowing us to publish photographs of objects bearing Sennacherib inscriptions, as well as to J.M. Russell, who graciously gave us permission to include his personal photographs of in situ objects in the South-West Palace at Nineveh in this volume. Also, we would like to thank Grant Frame for bringing to our attention several unpublished copies of P.E. Botta now in the Archives of the Institut de France and to Alan R. Millard for providing us with a legible photograph of BM 91157 (text no. 193), a piece of bronze with a hitherto unknown inscription of Sennacherib.
The authors' appreciation goes out once again to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto, the University of Pennsylvania, and several private individuals, in particular Laurence Shiff and Malcolm Horsnell, whose financial support allowed for the authors' travel to numerous museums and provided the funding necessary for them to conduct the research in Sennacherib's inscriptions and to publish this volume.
Last, but by no means least, the authors wish to record their gratitude for the ongoing support and encouragement of their families: Eunice Grayson†, Vera and Sally Grayson, and six grandchildren — Mariek, Milena, Corin, Margot, Helen, and Lydia; Denise Bolton, Robert and Diana Novotny, and Jennifer Novotny.
Toronto and Philadelphia, February 2014
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A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny, 'Preface', RINAP 3: Sennacherib, The RINAP 3 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap3/rinap32frontmatter/preface/]