Position in chronology
Sargon II 101
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] ... [...] I settled th[em ...] (3') [...] Assyria ... [... the city Q]arqar [...]
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/Q006582/
Why it matters
One of Sargon II's royal inscriptions attesting Assyrian military activity near Qarqar — a site already famous as the battlefield of 853 BCE — extending the documentary record of Assyrian westward campaigns in the late eighth century.
Transliteration
[...] x x [...] / [...] ⸢ú⸣-še-šib-⸢šu⸣-[nu-ti ...] / [...] ⸢KUR⸣ aš-šur E LA ⸢A?⸣ [...] / [... URU].⸢qar⸣-qar [...] / [...] x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006582.
Attribution
Image: K 22030 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P420200). source
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/Q006582/.
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