Position in chronology
Sargon II 016
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(1) O god Ninurta, the one endowed with (lit.: “lord of”) power, whose strength is supreme, with regard to S[ar]gon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Su[me]r and Akkad, the one who constructed your cella, make him attain old age. May he be fully satisfied with (his) good fortune. (5) Establish his reign firmly [in]side Esagila and Ešarra. Keep his thoroughbred horses in good order (and) his (chariot) teams in good condition. Grant him [un]equaled strength (and) manly might. Mobilize his weapons so that he might strike down his foes.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
dnin-⸢urta⸣ EN a-ba-ri šá šu-tú-qat dan-nu-su / ⸢a-na⸣ m⸢MAN⸣-GIN MAN ⸢ŠÚ⸣ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI / MAN KUR ⸢EME.GI₇ ù⸣ URI.KI ⸢ba⸣-nu-ú ku-mi-ka1 / ši-bu-tam šuk-ši-su* liš-ba-a bu-ʾa-a-ri2 / [ina] qé-reb ⸢é⸣-sag-⸢íl⸣ u é-šár-ra ki-in BALA-šú3 / mur-ni-is-qí-šú šu-te-⸢ši-ra⸣ šul-li-ma ṣi-in-di-šú4 / ⸢šu⸣-ut-lim-šú e-mu-⸢qan⸣ [la] ⸢šá⸣-na-an dun-nu ⸢zik⸣-ru-ti / ⸢GIŠ⸣.TUKUL.MEŠ-šú šu-ut-bi-ma li-na-ar ga-re-šú
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006497.
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/Q006497/.
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