Position in chronology
Sargon II 117
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(i 1) The god Aššur, great lord, king of all the [Igīgū] god[s and] Anunnakū gods, lord of the lan[ds] ... [...], Aššur ... [...]; (i 5) the god Marduk, lord of all, who provides all [people] with food (and) grants [...]; the god Sîn, lord of heaven and [netherworld], exalted one, divine li[gh]t [of the gods]; the god Šamaš, bright ... [...] (i 10) ... the fo[e ...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] (i 15) [Great god]s, ma[nagers of heaven and netherworld, who]se [attack means] battle and [strife, who nam]ed Sargon (II), ki[ng ...] ... [in accordance with] your heart’s desire: (i 19b)…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢d?a?⸣-x (x) x ⸢GAL?⸣-u LUGAL KIŠ d[NUN.GAL? u?] / x x x x x x EN ⸢KUR?.KUR?⸣ [...] / ⸢AN?⸣ x x (x) x BU x [...] / ⸢AN?.ŠÁR?⸣ x x x E x [...] / dAMAR.⸢UTU EN TIL e-pir?⸣ kiš-⸢šat⸣ [UN.MEŠ?] / ⸢šá?⸣-ri-ku DA? x [x]1 / d⸢30 e?⸣-tel? AN-e ⸢ù?⸣ [KI-tim] / ⸢šá?-qu⸣-ú d⸢ŠEŠ?⸣.[KI? DINGIR.MEŠ?] / ⸢d⸣UTU x x ⸢nam?-ru⸣ KUL/MU? ŠÁ [...] / [x] x ⸢ŠÁ⸣ [(x)] ⸢BI?⸣ za-ma-[ni ...] / [x (x)] x x (x) x MA ŠÈG?…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006596.
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/Q006596/.
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