Aššur, Part 5

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Two bricks from the inner city of Aššur have written on their edges a three-line text recording the rebuilding of the Step Gate of the Old Palace. The inscription is a near duplicate of text nos. 199–201. No score is provided on the CD-ROM, but the few known minor variants are listed at the back of the book.

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203 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q004008/]

Numerous bricks from Aššur are inscribed with a short text mentioning the "Palace of Rest" (ekal tapšuḫti), the mausoleum of the royal family.

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Commentary

Exs. 1, 7, 9–12, and 21–22 have the inscription written on the face of the brick. Ex. 4 has the inscription written on the edge of the brick. The text is usually written in five lines (exs. 1, 7, 9–12, and 21–22); in one exemplar (ex. 4), however, it is written in three lines. Exs. 2–3, 5–6, 9–10, 12–14, and 22 were probably left in the field. Exs. 9–10, 12–13, and 22 are known from excavation photographs and, therefore, could be collated; their measurements, however, could not be determined. Exs. 3 and 5–6 are known from on-the-spot copies ("Fundkopien") and, therefore, could only be edited from the facsimiles of those bricks in the Aššur excavation field notes. There are no on-the-spot copies or excavation photographs of exs. 2 and 14. The assignation of those exemplars to this text is based on information in the field journals and, thus, exs. 2 and 14 are included here arbitrarily. Ex. 21 was collated from a photograph of the brick in Istanbul taken by D.R. Frayne for the RIM Project. The master line and the lineation of the edition follow ex. 1. There is no score of this text on the CD-ROM. However, the known orthographic variants are listed at the back of the book.

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204 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q004009/]

Several bricks from Aššur are inscribed with a short text mentioning the "Palace of Sleep" (ekal ṣalāli), the mausoleum of Sennacherib.

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Uncertain Attribution

Commentary

The inscription is written on the edge of the bricks in either three (exs. 2–4 and 7) or four (exs. 1 and 6) lines. Ex. 1 was probably left at Aššur and is known from an on-the-spot copy ("Fundkopie"), which was later published (Messerschmidt, KAH 1 p. 49* no. 47). Since that brick was not available for study, its inscription was not collated and, therefore, the transliteration is based on the published copy. Ex. 5 was probably also left in the field; no "Fundkopie" or excavation photograph was taken of the two brick fragments and, thus, the assignment of Ass 14343a–b to this text is based on information in the field notes from the Aššur eexcavations. Therefore, ex. 5 is arbitrarily included here as a certain exemplar. Ex. 6 was collated from a photograph of the brick in Istanbul taken by D.R. Frayne for the RIM Project. Ass 272 is cited in previous literature as being a duplicate of this text, but it is a duplicate of text no. 203 and edited there as ex. 3. E. Nassouhi (Guide Sommaire p. 17) mentions a brick inscription in Istanbul that could be a duplicate of this text or the previous text (text no. 203). The museum number is cited as EŞ 7864 + EŞ 6671, which is certainly wrong since EŞ 7864 is an irregular shaped gypsum block that preserves part of the epitaph of Ešarra-ḫammat, Esarhaddon's wife; for an edition, see Leichty, RINAP 4 p. 314 Esarhaddon 2002. The correct number of the inscribed brick mentioned by Nassouhi is not known and, therefore, the object could not be located and examined. Thus, "EŞ 7864 + EŞ 6671" is tentatively included here as an uncertain exemplar (ex. 1*). The master text and the lineation of the edition follow ex. 1. No score is provided on the CD-ROM, but the known minor variants are listed at the back of the book.

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205 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q004010/]

A brick from Aššur in the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin) records that Sennacherib had a house constructed for Aššur-nādin-šumi, his eldest son.

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206 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q004011/]

Several bricks discovered at Aššur are inscribed with a short text stating that Sennacherib constructed a house for his son Aššur-šumu-ušabši at Nineveh. See text no. 99 for the catalogue of exemplars and an edition of the text.

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207 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q004012/]

This three-line text, which is inscribed on one or two bricks from Aššur, commemorates work by Sennacherib there. The inscription of one of the two bricks is known from an incomplete on-the-spot copy ("Fundkopie"), of which only the king's name (^md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU) was copied. F. Pedde and S. Lundström suggest that it was inscribed with one of the two texts commemorating work on the mausoleum of the royal family at Aššur (text nos. 203 and 204), but this is unlikely since neither of those inscriptions begins with Sennacherib's name. At present, nothing certain is known about this inscription and, therefore, it is not edited here.

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Commentary

Relying on information in the Aššur excavation field journals, O. Pedersén (Katalog p. 161) suggests that Ass 313 is similar/identical to Ass 255. We are unable to confirm that ex. 2 is a (near) duplicate of ex. 1 since that brick was probably left at Aššur and since there is no on-the-spot copy ("Fundkopie") or photograph of its inscription. Therefore, Ass 313 is only tentatively included here as a duplicate of Ass 255.

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208 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q004013/]

This text of Sennacherib, which is inscribed on a brick from Aššur, is only known from an on-the-spot copy ("Fundkopie"). This text is not edited here since the unpublished facsimile of the inscription in the Aššur excavation field journal was not available for study.

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209 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q004014/]

A fragment of the lower left corner of a tablet from Aššur preserves part of an inscription recording Sennacherib's work on Ešarra, the Aššur temple in that city, in particular his work on the cella Eḫursaggalkurkurra, its šuḫūru-house, and its new courtyard and gates. The inscription is similar to text no. 166, a text written on eight-sided horizontal stone prisms. The inscription was composed during the period after 689, when Sennacherib was remodeling the central sanctuary of the Aššur temple to make it more like the Esagil complex at Babylon.

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Commentary

The preserved text in certain passages duplicates text no. 166, one of the best known inscriptions of Sennacherib from Aššur. Therefore, the restorations in obv. 2'–3', 6'–8', 12', and 16'–rev. 4 are based on text no. 166 lines 16–27.

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A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny

A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny, 'Aššur, Part 5', RINAP 3: Sennacherib, The RINAP 3 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap3/rinap32textintroductions/assur/part5/]