Position in chronology
Sargon II 042
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(1) Palace of Sargon, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters (of the world), favorite of the great gods; (4b) the king who with the support of the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk ruled all together from the land Yadnana (Cyprus), which is in the middle of the Western Sea, as far as Egypt and the land Musku, the wide land Amurru, the land Ḫatti (Syria) in its entirety, all of the land Gutium, the distant Medes (who live) on the border of Mount Bikni, the lands Ellipi (and) (10) Rāši on the…
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 LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-i / mi-gir DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ LUGAL ša i-na tu-kul-ti / da-šur dAG dAMAR.UTU iš-tu KUR.ia-ad-na-na / ša MURUB₄ tam-tim šá-lam dUTU-ši a-di KUR.mu-ṣu-ri / ù KUR.mu-us-ki KUR MAR.TU.KI DAGAL-tum KUR.ḫa-at-ti / a-na si-ḫir-ti-šá nap-ḫar…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006523.
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/Q006523/.
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