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Sargon II 014
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High confidence(1) Palace of Sargon (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, favorite of the great gods. (4b) I continually act[ed] as provider for (the cities) Sippar, Nippur, Babylon, and Borsippa; I [(re)-established] the freedom (from obligations) of (the cities) Dēr, Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, Kulla[ba], Kissik, (and) Nēmed-La[gu]da. I restored the exemption (from obligations) of (the city) [Bal]til (Aššur) (10) and [the city] Ḫarrā[n], which had fallen into [oblivion] in the distant [pa]st, and [their privile]ged status…
Source: Frame, G. 2021. The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721–705 BC). RINAP 2. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap2/Q006495/
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Transliteration
É.GAL mLUGAL-GI.NA LUGAL† GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu / LUGAL kiš-šá-tim LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI GÌR.NÍTA / KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI LUGAL KUR EME†.<GI₇> ù URI.KI† / mi†-gir DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢GAL⸣.[MEŠ] ša† ZIMBIR†.KI NIBRU.KI / KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI ù bár-sipa.KI / za-nin-us†-su-un† e-tep-pu-[šá] ša ⸢BÀD†⸣.AN†.KI / ÚRI†.KI UNUG.KI eridu.KI ARARMA.KI kul-⸢la⸣-[ba.KI] / ki-sik.KI URU.né-med-⸢d⸣la-[gu]-da† ⸢áš⸣-[kun] /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006495.
Attribution
Image: Created by Grant Frame and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2019. Adapted for RINAP Online by Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny and lemmatized by Giulia Lentini, Nathan Morello, and Jamie Novotny, 2019, for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0..
Translation excerpted from Frame, G. 2021. The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721–705 BC). RINAP 2. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap2/Q006495/.
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