Nineveh, Part 8

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88 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003562/]

This text, a short two-line label, is inscribed on numerous bricks from Nineveh. This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] A" and "Sennacherib [brick] B."

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Commentary

The text is inscribed, not stamped, on one of the edges of each brick. Exs. 11, 13, and 16 are well-head bricks. Ex. 24 actually comprises several bricks that Scott and MacGinnis report seeing in situ on the southeastern side of the Nebi Yunus cemetery, where the wall is preserved up to six courses of bricks high, resting on a course of limestone blocks; the number of bricks there bearing this text is not recorded.

Exs. 1–4, 7–8, and 10 were acquired by C.J. Rich between 1810–1820 and purchased by the British Museum from Mrs. Rich in 1825. Objects in the R-collection (also 1825-5-3) come from many sites in Iraq, including Nineveh, but they are mostly unprovenanced, unless Rich recorded the relevant information in his memoirs. Ex. 19 was part of the Joseph Troll collection of the Museum für Völkerkunde (Vienna) until 1952, when it became part of the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna); the brick is reported to have been purchased in Mosul. In 1850, courtesy of K. Bellino, G.F. Grotefend published a composite copy of this inscription from four complete and two fragmentary bricks; those bricks are probably in the R-collection of the British Museum (see Frahm, Sanherib p. 139).

The authors were able to collate exs. 27–29 from several unpublished photographs taken by D.R. Frayne in the Eşki Şark Eserleri Müzesi (Istanbul).

The text of "Sennacherib [brick] A" and that of "Sennacherib [brick] B" are identical and are therefore edited here as a single text. C.B.F. Walker (CBI p. 120 nos. 172–173) differentiated the two texts on the basis of two orthographic variants: "B" has (1) É.GAL instead of KUR at the beginning of line 1 and (2) KUR aš-šur for KUR AŠ at the end of line 2. Although there are some minor variants in this inscription, no score is provided on the CD-ROM. The aforementioned variants are listed at the back of the book.

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89 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003563/]

This text, a short two-line label, is inscribed on numerous bricks from Nineveh, as well as from Kilīzu (Qaṣr Šemāmok) and Beisan. The inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] C."

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Uncertain Attribution

Commentary

Exs. 1 and 3–9 were acquired by C.J. Rich between 1810–1820 and purchased by the British Museum from Mrs. Rich in 1825; for details on the R-collection (also 1825-5-3), see the commentary to text no. 88. G.F. Grotefend, courtesy of K. Bellino, published a copy of this inscription in 1850 from six complete and two fragmentary bricks; those bricks are probably in the R-collection of the British Museum (see Frahm, Sanherib p. 139). Ex. 10 is recorded as coming from Nineveh; exs. 11–12 were discovered at Kilīzu (Qaṣr Šemāmok); ex. 14 was found at Besian (a town just north of Nineveh) by R.C. Thompson; and ex. 15 was discovered during the 1954 Nebi Yunus excavations. F. Sarre and E. Herzfeld (Archäologische Reise 2 [1920] pp. 312–313) mention an object bearing a text that may be a duplicate of this inscription, but that text is not included here since its contents are not known with any degree of certainty. In AAA 19, Thompson refers to one or two inscribed bricks of Sennacherib that are similar to ex. 13, but the brick(s) are not included here since the contents are not known. Contrary to D.D. Luckenbill and C.B.F. Walker, ex. 11 (Ass 19003) comes from Kilīzu, not Aššur. Exs. 19–21 and 2* were collated from photographs taken by D.R. Frayne in Istanbul at the Eşki Şark Eserleri Müzesi. The text is inscribed, not stamped, on one of the edges of each brick. All of the minor (orthographic) variants are listed at the back of the book. No score is provided on the CD-ROM.

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90 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003564/]

A short label is inscribed on six bricks from Nineveh. This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] D."

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Commentary

The text is inscribed, not stamped, on all of the bricks. On exs. 1–2, 4–5, and 7–9 the text is written on the face of the brick and on exs. 3, 6, and 10 it is inscribed along an edge. E. Frahm tentatively suggests that bricks with this inscription could be earlier than the bricks inscribed with text no. 92 since this text does not include šar kiššati ("king of the world") as one of Sennacherib's titles. Exs. 7–10 were collated from unpublished photographs of the bricks in Istanbul taken by D.R. Frayne for the RIM Project. No score of this text is provided on the CD-ROM. The one known minor variant in line 1, however, is listed at the back of the book.

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91 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003565/]

This three-line text is inscribed on the face of a brick (presumably) from Nineveh. It records the construction of Sennacherib's palace and is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] E."

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92 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003566/]

This text, which is inscribed on numerous bricks from Nineveh and Tell Yarah (a site halfway between Mosul and Tepe Gawra), records the construction of Sennacherib's palace, the "Palace Without a Rival." This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] F."

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Commentary

The text is inscribed, not stamped, on the face of each brick. Exs. 6–8 were acquired by C.J. Rich between 1810–1820 and purchased by the British Museum from Mrs. Rich in 1825; for details, see the commentary to text no. 88. Exs. 10 and 15–28 certainly come from Nineveh and ex. 13 was purchased at Tell Yarah. Ex. 27 actually comprises three different exemplars since R.C. Thompson gives three different find spots and a variant in line 2 (⸢LUGAL⸣ for [MAN]); two of the bricks come from Ashurnasirpal II's Palace, Square D, and one comes from Square H of that building. H. Behrens (JCS 37 [1985] pp. 243 and 247) records that the five-line inscribed brick purchased by E.A. Speiser at Tell Yarah (BASOR 55 [1934] pp. 22–23) is UM 37-16-8. However, this is not the case; that brick comes from Tepe Gawra and bears a (illegible) stamped five-line inscription. The Sennacherib brick from Tell Yarah (ex. 13) could not be found in the collections of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (2013). Ex. 31 is reported to have been in the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid in 1854. The authors have been unable to confirm that the brick seen by de Longpérier is still in that collection. The authors were able to collate ex. 32 from an unpublished photograph taken by D.R. Frayne in the Eşki Şark Eserleri Müzesi (Istanbul). There is no score on the CD-ROM, but a few orthographic variants are listed at the back of the book.

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93 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003567/]

An inscribed brick from Nineveh bears an inscription recording the construction of Sennacherib's palace, the "Palace Without a Rival." The inscription is an abbreviated version of text no. 92. Based on the line count, the text appears to have omitted some of Sennacherib's titles and the name of his palace. This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] F."

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94 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003568/]

This text, which is inscribed along the edges of numerous bricks from Nineveh, records the construction of the inner and outer walls of that city. This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] G."

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Uncertain Attribution

Commentary

Several stone slabs from Nineveh are reported to be inscribed with an identical text; those slabs are edited as text no. 81. The master text and lineation follow ex. 2. The text in ex. 3 is written in two lines. Ex. 6 was collated from a photograph taken of the brick in Istanbul by D.R. Frayne. Too little of exs. 1*–2* is preserved to be certain that they are duplicates of this text. These brick fragments are tentatively edited here. No score of this text is provided on the CD-ROM. A few minor (orthographic) variants, however, are listed at the back of the book.

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95 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003569/]

This text, which is inscribed on the face of a brick from Nineveh, records the construction of the inner and outer walls of that city. This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] H."

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96 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003570/]

This text is inscribed along the edges of three bricks from Nineveh and records the construction of the wall of that city. This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] I." The edition is a conflation of exs. 1–2. No score is provided on the CD-ROM, but the one known minor variant in line 2 is listed at the back of the book.

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97 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003571/]

This text, which is inscribed on the edge of a brick from Nineveh, records the construction of the wall of that city. The inscription is a marginally expanded version of text no. 96. This text is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] I."

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98 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003572/]

A brick from Nineveh bears an inscription along its edge recording the construction of a house, possibly for Sennacherib's son Aššur-šumu-ušabši since other bricks from Nineveh (text no. 99) state that the king constructed a house for this son of his. This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] J."

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99 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003573/]

This text, which is inscribed along the edges of several bricks from Nineveh and Aššur, records the construction of a house for Sennacherib's son Aššur-šumu-ušabši. This inscription is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] K."

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Uncertain Attribution

Commentary

Some bricks inscribed with this inscription have been discovered at Aššur and these may have been brought there from Nineveh. Ex. 2 is a well-head brick and was previously catalogued in the British Museum as BM 12082. The attribution of exs. 6–8 is not certain as the name of the recipient of the house is entirely broken away; nevertheless they are tentatively edited here as certain exemplars. In his dissertation, Kinscherf published two duplicates of this text (exs. 9–10), both bearing the Aššur excavation number Ass 16777, one of which is certainly wrong. The correct excavation number of ex. 10 is not known since that brick is attested only from an excavation photograph (from which Kinscherf made his copy); the object was probably left in the field. In addition, two badly damaged bricks preserve on their edges inscriptions of Sennacherib recording the construction of a building; the inscriptions could be collated from photographs taken by D.R. Frayne in the Eşki Şark Eserleri Müzesi (Istanbul). The inscribed surfaces are too badly damaged to determine with certainty the content of the inscriptions apart from the king's name. One or both bricks could be exemplars of this inscription or of another brick inscription of Sennacherib that is inscribed in three lines on the edges of bricks. Those two bricks are edited here as exs. 1*–2*. The lineation follows ex. 1. There is no score of this inscription on the CD-ROM; however, a few orthographic variants are listed at the back of the book.

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100 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003574/]

Inscribed along the edges of three bricks from Nineveh is this inscription that records the construction of a house for a son of Sennacherib, probably Aššur-šumu-ušabši. The inscription is a near duplicate of text no. 99. This text is sometimes referred to as "Sennacherib [brick] L."

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Commentary

According to C.B.F. Walker (CBI p. 124 no. 183), ex. 3 has been "temporarily mislaid; information on it is taken from the Museum's registers" and, therefore, it was not collated. The authors were able to collate ex. 4 from an unpublished photograph taken in Istanbul by D.R. Frayne for the RIM Project.

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101 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003575/]

In 1974, M. Jabur of the Mosul Museum discovered some inscribed bricks of Sennacherib in the northern courtyard of a building complex on the east side of the city, south of the Ḫusur River and roughly equidistant between Kuyunjik and Nebi Yunus. The bricks are probably now in the Mosul Museum and have never been published; thus, the contents of their inscriptions are not known.

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A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny

A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny, 'Nineveh, Part 8', RINAP 3: Sennacherib, The RINAP 3 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap3/rinap32textintroductions/nineveh/part8/]