Position in chronology
Sargon II 064
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(1') [... (As for) the citizens of (the cities) Sippar], N[ippur, Babylon, and Borsippa who through no fault of their own had been held captive in it (Dūr-Yakīn), I put an end to their imprisonment and let them see the light (of day). (With regard to) their fields, which long ag]o, whi[le the land was in disorder, the Sutians had taken away and appropriated for their own], I stru[ck down (those) Sutians, the people] of the steppe, with the sword. [I (re)assigned to them (the citizens) their territories, (whose boundaries) had been forgotten (and) fallen into disuse during the troubled period…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[... DUMU.MEŠ ZIMBIR].⸢KI? NIBRU?⸣.[KI KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI u bár-sipa.KI ša i-na la an-ni-šú-nu i-na qer-bi-šú ka-mu-ú ṣi-bit-ta-šú-nu a-bu-ut-ma ú-kal-lim-šú-nu-ti nu-ru] / [A.ŠÀ.MEŠ-šú-nu ša ul-tu u₄-me ul]-⸢lu⸣-ti i-⸢na⸣ [i-ši-ti ma-a-ti LÚ.su-ti-i e-ki-mu-ú-ma ra-ma-nu-uš-šú-un ú-ter-ru] / [LÚ.su-ti-i ERIM].⸢MEŠ? EDIN i-na GIŠ.TUKUL ú-šam⸣-[qit ki-sur-ri-šú-nu ma-šu-ú-ti ša ina di-li-iḫ KUR…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006545.
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/Q006545/.
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