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Sargon II 109
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [the victorious one who is perfect in strength and power (and) who subjugated the insubmissive Medes; who slaughtered the people of the land Ḫarḫar (and) enlarged] the territory of Assyria; [who gathered (back together) the scattered land Mannea (and) brought order to the disturbed land Ellipi; who established (his) kingship over both (these) lands and made] his name [glo]rious; (3') [... Since the (first) day of my reign], there has been [no ruler who could equal me] and [I have met no one who could overpower (me) in war or battle. Pisīri(s) of the city Carchemish sinned against the…
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/Q006590/
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Transliteration
[ma-a-ʾu ga-mir dun-ni ù a-ba-ri mu-šék-niš KUR.ma-da-a-a la kan-šu-te šá-a-giš UN.MEŠ KUR.ḫar-ḫar.KI mu-šar-bu-ú] ⸢mi-ṣir⸣ KUR aš-šur.⸢KI⸣1 / [mu-pa-ḫir KUR.ma-an-na-a-a sa-ap-ḫi mu-ta-qí-in KUR.el-li-pí dal-ḫi ša LUGAL-ut KUR.KUR ki-lal-la-an ú-kin-nu-ma ú-šar]-ri-ḫu zi-kir-šú / [... ina u₄-um be-lu-ti-ia mal-ku gaba-ra-a-a ul] ib-ši-⸢ma⸣2 / [ina e-peš MURUB₄ u MÈ ul a-mu-ra mu-né-ḫu…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006590.
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/Q006590/.
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