Position in chronology
Sargon II 004
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2Continued from several unpreserved slabs (1') I shattered their very strong walls [wi]th a mighty battering ram, leveling (them) to the gr[ou]nd. I took as booty [the people], [together] with their property. I destroyed, demolished, (and) burned down those cities with fire. (3') The people of the cities Sukkia, Bāla (and) Abitikna conceived (lit.: “deliberated”) an evil plan [that] was to eradicate (lit.: “to tear out the root of”) (their own) land and [g]ave [the]ir word to Ursâ (Rusâ), the Urarṭian, to do obeisance (to him). Because of the crime that they had committed, I deported them…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[i]-na GIŠ.a-ši-bi dan-ni ⸢BÀD.MEŠ⸣-šú-nu† dun-nu-nu-ti ú-par-ri-⸢ir⸣-ma qaq-[qa†]-riš am-nu1 2 / [UN].MEŠ [a]-di ⸢mar⸣-ši-ti-šú-nu áš-lu-la URU.MEŠ-ni šu-a-tu-nu ap-pul aq-qur ina IZI áš-ru-up3 / [LÚ].URU.su-uk-ka-a-a LÚ.URU.ba-la-a-a LÚ.⸢URU⸣.a-bi-ti-ik-na-a-a mi-lik ḪUL-tim / [ša] na-⸢saḫ⸣ šur-še ma-ti† im-tal-li-ku-ma a-⸢na m⸣ur-sa-a KUR.ur-ar-ṭa-a-a a-na e-peš ar-du-ti4 / ⸢id⸣-di-nu…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006485.
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/Q006485/.
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