Position in chronology
Sargon II 116
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The god Aššur, the great lord, king of a[ll the] Igīgū gods [and Anunnakū gods ...] ... [...; the god Mardu]k, lord of all, who provides [all] people with food (and) revives the dying [...; the god Nabû], perfect heir, ... lands [...; (5) the god S]în, lord of heaven and netherworld [...; the god Šamaš], great judge of heaven and netherworld [...]; the goddess [Iš]tar, who makes (men) ready for battle [...]; the Sebetti, who go before the gods, [stand] at the side of the king, [their favorite], in the place of battle, and bring about (his) victory; (9) Great gods, managers of heaven 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/Q006597/
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Transliteration
[(x)] ⸢d⸣aš-⸢šur EN⸣ GAL-[ú?] MAN ⸢KIŠ? d?⸣í-gì-gì (traces) / [x (x)] x GA? x x x x [(x)] x LU (traces) / [d]⸢MES?⸣ EN TIL ⸢e?-pir? kiš?-šat? UN?⸣.MEŠ ⸢mu?⸣-bal-liṭ1 (traces) / [dMUATI?] A gít-ma-lu x (x) x BI x [(x)] x KUR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] (traces) / [d]⸢30⸣ e-tel AN-e u ⸢KI?⸣ (traces) / [dUTU] ⸢DI⸣.KU₅.GAL AN-⸢e u KI-tim⸣ (traces) / ⸢d⸣[iš]-tar mu-šak-ṣi-⸢rat?⸣ a-⸢nun?-ti?⸣ (traces) / ⸢d?⸣x x…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006597.
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/Q006597/.
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