Position in chronology
Sargon II 013
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(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; (5) who provides for (the cities) Sippar, Nippur, (and) Babylon; who abolished corvée duty for (the cities) Dēr, Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, Kullaba, Kissik, (and) Nēmed-Laguda (and) who gave relief to their people; who (re)-established the privileged status (10) of (the city) Baltil (Aššur) that had lapsed; who extended his protection over the city Ḫarrān and recorded their exemption (from obligations) as if (its people…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
É.GAL mLUGAL-GI.NA LUGAL GAL-ú / LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL kiš-šá-ti LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI / GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI LUGAL KUR EME.GI₇ / ù ak-ka-de-e mi-gir DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ / za-nin ZIMBIR.KI NIBRU.KI KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI / mu-šá-áš-šík tup-šik-ki BÀD.AN.KI ÚRI.KI / UNUG.KI eridu.KI ARARMA†.KI kul-aba₄.KI ki-sik.KI / URU.né-med-dla-gu-da mu-šap-ši-ḫu1 / UN.MEŠ-šú-un ka-a-ṣir ki-din-nu-ut / bal-til.KI…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006494.
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/Q006494/.
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