Kress 218

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Sargon brings rival city-states under imperial rule.

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From the same catalogue range (near P453288)

P453289 · ~580 BCE

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

“[Nebuchadnezzar (Nabû-kudurrī-u]ṣur), king of Babylon, [provider of] [Esagil] and Ezida, [foremost] heir [of N…”

P453292 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000784, ex. 043

P453297 · ~1800 BCE

CDLI Literary 000347, ex. 017

P453269 · ~1300 BCE

Fs Van Lerberghe 273-275, 278

Transliteration

_5(asz@c) sze gur sag-gal2_
bara2-an-ne2
im-hur

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — Kress 218. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Kress 218 (private: anonymous, Germany) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P453288). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P453288..

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