Sargon II 005

~715 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q006486

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Continued from several unpreserved slabs (1') [... I offe]red [before them ... geese (and) ducks. I appealed to them (the gods)] in order to bring about the defeat of Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-Baladan), descendant of Yakīn, of Chalde[an] extraction, [the (very) image of an evil gallû-demon;] I prayed t[o the]m [with supplications and entre]aties. After I had carried out in full the festival of the great lord, the god Marduk, [...] Continued on several unpreserved slabs

Source: 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/Q006486/

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Transliteration

[...] x x x [x (x)] x x x x [...] / [KUR.GI.MUŠEN.MEŠ UZ.TUR.MUŠEN.MEŠ ma-ḫar-šú-un aq]-⸢qí⸣ áš-šú šá-kan BAD₅.BAD₅ <m>dAMAR.UTU-A-SUM.NA DUMU mia-ki-ni NUMUN LÚ.⸢kal-di⸣ [ḫi-ri-iṣ GAL₅.LÁ lem-ni am-ḫur-šú-nu-ti-ma] / [i-na su-pe-e ù te]-⸢me⸣-qi ⸢ma⸣-[ḫar-šu]-⸢un⸣ ut-nin ul-tu i-sin-ni EN GAL-i dAMAR.UTU ú-šal-li-mu x [...]1

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006486.

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/Q006486/.

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