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This text, now in private possession, is engraved on a stone cylinder-shaped bead. The small inscribed and polished stone was an audience gift from Abī-Baʾal, the king of Samsimuruna.
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The object could not be located, but the inscription could easily be collated from the published photo. For details on Abī-Baʾal, who was in power during the reigns of Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal, see Jursa, PNA 1/1 pp. 8–9.
This text is engraved on a banded agate cylinder-shaped bead from Nineveh. The small inscribed and polished stone was an audience gift from Karib-il, the king of Saba. This is the first of six beads presented to Sennacherib by that ruler (text nos. 103–108). These objects may have been intended to be part of a deposit placed in the foundations of the akītu-house at Aššur and, therefore, were likely inscribed sometime after 689, when Sennacherib was working on that temple; see p. 15 for details.
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Karib-il, king of Saba, is also mentioned in an inscription recording the rebuilding of the akītu-house outside the city Aššur (text no. 168 lines 48–49). In that text he is said to have sent precious stones and choice aromatics to Sennacherib, who had them placed in that temple's foundations. Following a proposal of Hommel, H. von Wissmann (Sabaʾ 2 pp. 145–150), suggests that the Karib-il mentioned in Sennacherib's inscriptions is the Sabaean ruler (mukarrib) Karib-il Watar I, who records his successes on the battlefield and his improvement of the water supply system in a long inscription discovered in the Almaqah temple in Ṣirwāh. K.A. Kitchen (Documentation for Ancient Arabia 1 pp. 106–111 and 242) rejects this proposal and suggests that this Karib-il is the Sabaean ruler Karib-il Hašikum. For further details and bibliography, see Ephʿal, Arabs pp. 227–229; Müller, TUAT 1/6 (1985) pp. 651–658; Frahm, Sanherib pp. 145–146 and 174; Frahm, PNA 2/1 pp. 606–607; Potts, ISIMU 6 pp. 197–201.
A short text engraved on a banded agate cylinder-shaped bead, probably from Nineveh, states that the object was an audience gift from Karib-il, the king of Saba.
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A chalcedony cylinder-shaped bead, probably from Nineveh, is inscribed with a text stating that Karib-il, the king of Saba, gave it to Sennacherib as an audience gift.
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A small inscribed and polished chalcedony cylinder-shaped bead is inscribed with a short text, which records that it was an audience gift from Karib-il, the king of Saba. The object is probably from Nineveh.
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An onyx cylinder-shaped bead, probably from Nineveh, apparently bears an inscription stating that it was an audience gift from Karib-il, the king of Saba.
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A small inscribed and polished banded agate cylinder-shaped bead, probably from Nineveh, states that Sennacherib received that object as an audience gift from Karib-il, the king of Saba.
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This inscription is engraved on an onyx cylinder-shaped bead, probably from Nineveh. The stone is reported to have been an audience gift from Nabû-zēr-kitti-līšir, a son of Marduk-apla-iddina II (biblical Merodach-baladan).
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A banded agate cylinder-shaped bead is inscribed with a text stating that it was an audience gift from a foreign ruler (name not preserved). The object was probably discovered at Nineveh.
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An onyx cylinder-shaped bead that probably comes from Nineveh is inscribed with a short text recording that the stone was taken as booty from the city Dumetu (see also text nos. 112–114 and probably 115).
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The city Dumetu is probably identical with the city Adummatu, an Arabian city whose conquest is recorded in text no. 35 lines 56'–58' and in the inscriptions of Esarhaddon (Leichty, RINAP 4 p. 19 Esarhaddon 1 iv 1–16, p. 30 Esarhaddon 2 ii 46–62, and pp. 42–43 Esarhaddon 4 ii' 2'–14'). However, H. Galter (ARRIM 5 [1987] p. 29) suggests that Dumetu should be identified with Dummutu, a city located on the Euphrates in the southern part of the kingdom of Bīt-Adini. This bead, as well as the other beads that state that they were taken as booty from Dumetu/Duma (text nos. 112–115), could not have been inscribed until after that city was captured and, therefore, were engaved ca. 690 (or slightly later, 689).
This short inscription is written on an onyx cylinder-shaped bead, probably discovered at Nineveh. Like text nos. 111, 113–114, and probably 115, the inscription states that the stone was taken as booty from the city Dumetu.
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A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny
A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny, 'Nineveh, Part 9', RINAP 3: Sennacherib, The RINAP 3 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap3/rinap32textintroductions/nineveh/part9/]