Position in chronology
Sargon II 107
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(1') [... granted me a reign without eq]ua[l and] exalted [my] good [reputation] t[o the heights]. (2'b) [I continually acted] as provider [for (the cities) Sippar, Nippu]r, Babylon, (and) Borsippa [(and) I made restitution for] the wrongful damage [suffered by the people of privileged status], as many as there were (of them). I [then] restor[ed the exemption (from obligations) of (the city) Baltil (Aššur) and] the city Ḫarrān, which had f[allen into oblivion] in the distant past, [and their privileged position that had laps]ed. (6'b) [...] temple of the god Adad that [...] inside the city [...] Ashurnasirpal, a prince who preced[ed me ...] ... [...]
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[... šá]-⸢na?⸣-[an ...] / [...] ⸢dam-qu ú?-še-ṣu?⸣-u a-⸢na⸣ [...] / [...] ⸢NIBRU⸣.KI ⸢KÁ?.DINGIR? bár-sipa? za-nin?-us-su⸣-[un ...] / [...] (x) mal ba-šú-u ḫi-bil-ta-[šú-nu ...] / [...] ⸢URU⸣.KASKAL šá ul-tú ⸢u₄⸣-me ⸢ul-lu⸣-ti ⸢im⸣-[ma-šu-ma ...] / [... ba-ṭi]-⸢il?⸣-ta ú-ter áš-[ru-uš-šá ...] / [...] ⸢É? d⸣IŠKUR ša qé-reb ⸢URU⸣.[...] / [...] x m⸢aš-šur-PAP?⸣-A ⸢NUN⸣ a-⸢lik⸣ pa-[ni-ia ...] / [...] (traces) [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006588.
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/Q006588/.
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