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Sargon I 2001 (Q005644)

Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE

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DesignationSargon I 2001
IDQ005644
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodOld Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates35.4581, 43.2620

English translation

By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:17] 11–1717When divine Sargon (was) vice-regent of Aššur, Ḫadītum (or Ḫattītum), wife of Bēlam-nāda, dedicated (this) to the Assyrian Ištar, her mistress. She put (the symbol of the) pudendum into (the Ištar temple) for the life of her husband, her (own) life, and the life of her children.

Transliteration (ATF)

From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1i-⸢nu-me⸣
2{d}LUGAL-GIN
3ENSI₂ a-šur₃
4a-na {d}INANNA
5a-šu-ri-tim
6NIN.A.NI
7ha-TI-tum
8DAM EN-na-⸢da⸣
9ta-ak-ru-ub
10a-na ba-la₂-aṭ
11mu-ti-ša
12ba-la₂-ṭi₃-ša
13u₃
14ba-la₂-aṭ
15še₂-ri-ša
16TEŠ₂
17tu₃-še₂-ri-ib

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