Position in chronology
Sargon II 088
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(1') to/for [...] (2') who makes restit[ution for the wrongful damage suffered by them; ...; who abolished corvée duty for (the cities) Dēr], Ur, [Eridu, Larsa, Kullaba, Kissik, (and) Nēmed-Laguda (...)]; (4') (most) capable of all rulers, w[ho extended his protection over the city Ḫarrān and recorded its exemption (from obligations) as if (its people were) people of the gods Anu and Dagān]; (5') the valiant man who brought about the d[efeat of Ḫumbanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš I), the Elamite; who destroyed the land Karalla], the land Šurda, the city Kišesim, the city Ḫar[ḫar, the land Media, (and)…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na (x) [...] / mu-šal-⸢li⸣-[mu ḫi-bíl-ti-šú-un ... mu-šá-áš-šík tup-šik-ki BÀD.AN.KI] / ÚRI.⸢KI⸣ [eridu.KI ARARMA.KI kul-la-ba.KI ki-sik.KI né-med-dla-gu-da.KI ...] / le-ʾi DÙ mal-⸢ki šá?⸣ [UGU? URU.ḫar-ra-na? AN.DÙL-la-šu? it-ru-ṣu-ma? ki-i? ṣa-ab? da-nim? u? dda-gan? iš-ṭu-ru? za-kut-su?] / eṭ-lu qar-du šá-kin ⸢taḫ⸣-[te-e mdḫum-ba-ni-ga-áš LÚ.ELAM.MA.KI-i mu-ab-bit KUR.kar-al-la] / KUR.šur-da…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006569.
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/Q006569/.
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