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Sargon II 047
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Sargon (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent for (the god) Aššur, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; king who ruled the four quarters (of the world), from east to west, and set governors (over them). (7b) At that time, I built a city on the outskirts of Nineveh, at the foot of Mount Muṣri, (10) and named it Dūr-Šarrukīn. (11b) I erected dwelling(s) for the gods Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, (and) Ninurta, the great gods, inside it. (14) I built inside it palatial halls using (lit.: “of”) elephant ivory, ebony, (15) boxwood, musukkannu-wood, cedar, cypress, (and)…
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/Q006528/
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Transliteration
É.GAL mMAN-GIN / GAR dBAD ÉNSI aš-šur / MAN KAL MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / MAN šá TA ṣi-ta-an / a-di šil-la-an kib-rat LÍMMU / i-be-lu-ma iš-tak-ka-nu / LÚ.GAR-nu-te ina u₄-me-šú-ma / ina re-bit NINA.KI GÌR.II / KUR.mu-uṣ-ri KUR-i / URU DÙ-ma URU*.BÀD-MAN-GIN / MU-šu ab-bi šu-bat d30 / dUTU dIŠKUR dMAŠ DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ / ina qer-bi-šu ad-di / É.GAL.MEŠ ZÚ AM.SI* GIŠ.ESI / GIŠ.TÚG GIŠ.mu-suk-ka*-ni /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006528.
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/Q006528/.
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