Position in chronology
Sargon II 2008
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [For the god Nergal], foremost of the gods, who does not fear (any) battle weapon, [... most pow]erful of the gods, who does not pardon those who are evil, [who dwells in Ešaḫ]ul (“House of the Happy Heart”) that is inside the city Mēturna (Mê-Turnat), the great lord, his lord: (4) [PN, governor of the l]and Na’iri (and) eunuch of Sargon (II), king of Assyria, made (this object) by the craft [of the gods Ninzadim and Ninku]ra [out of a block of lapis-l]azuli hewn from its mountain (quarry) and he set (it) up for the sake of ensuring his good health, [prolonging his days], his happiness, capturing his enemies, [the absence] of relentless illness, [and m]aking his heart joyful.
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/Q006650/
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Transliteration
[ana dU.GUR] SAG DINGIR.DINGIR la a-dir GIŠ.TUKUL šá-aš-me / [... kaš]-kaš DINGIR.DINGIR la ŠU ḪUL.ME / [a-šib é-šà]-⸢ḫúl⸣ šá qé-reb URU.me-tur₇-ni EN GAL EN-šú / [m... GAR?] ⸢KUR⸣.na-i-ri LÚ.SAG mMAN-GIN MAN KUR AŠ / [ina tak-kas NA₄.ZA].⸢GÌN⸣ ḫi-ip KUR-šú ina ši*-pir1 / [dnin-zadim u dnin-kur]-ra ⸢DÙ⸣-ma ana TIN ZI.ME-šú / [GÍD.(DA?) UD.MEŠ-šú?] DÙG ŠÀ-šú KUR ḪUL.ME-šú / [NU/la GÁL-e] TU.RA la ga-me-lu / [ù šu]-lu-uṣ ŠÀ-šú GIN
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006650.
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/Q006650/.
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