Position in chronology
Sargon II 067
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(1) For the god Aššur, the father of the gods, the great lord, his lord: (2) Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and A[kkad] renovated Eḫursaggalkurkurra (“House, the Great Mountain of the Lands”), the temple of (the god) Aššur, his lord, by plastering the walls of the towers all around the temple. He fashioned towers, friezes, parapets and glazed sikkatu-cones, and placed (them) all around [it (the temple)]. (7) He built (these) in the temple of (the god) Aššur, his lord, for the sake of ensuring his good health, prolonging his days, firmly establishing his reign, (and) overthrowing his enemies. (9) Month Abu (V), eponymy of Nasḫur-Bēl, the governor of the city Sinabu.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na daš-šur AD DINGIR.MEŠ EN GAL-e EN-šú / mMAN-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI MAN KUR ⸢EME.GI₇ u URI?⸣.[KI]1 / é-ḫur-sag-gal-kur-kur-ra É aš-šur be-lí-šú / É.GAR₈.MEŠ na-me-ri si-ḫir-ti É gab-bu ina si-i-ri GIBIL-ìš / na-me-ri né-bé-ḫi sa-me-tu u sí-ka-a-ti2 / šu-ut NA₄ ip-tiq-ma ú-šal-ma-a si-ḫir-⸢ti⸣-[šú?] / a-na TI ZI.MEŠ-šu GÍD UD.MEŠ-šú GIN BALA.MEŠ-šú / sa-kap LÚ.KÚR.MEŠ-šú ina É aš-šur EN-šú DÙ-uš3 / ITI.NE lim-mu mna-as-ḫur-EN LÚ.GAR.KUR URU.si-na-bu4
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006548.
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/Q006548/.
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