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Sargon II Babylonian 5 (Q006327)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, unclear · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSargon II Babylonian 5
IDQ006327
LanguageSumerian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
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English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon6 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:14] 11–1414For the goddess Inanna, lady of Uruk, who dwells in Eanna, the august, supreme lady, his lady: Sargon (II), king of the world, viceroy of Babylon, king of Sumer (and) Akkad, shepherd of the land of Assyria, had baked bricks made (and) made the processional way of Eanna shine like daylight.

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)
1{d}inanna
2nin unug{ki}ga-ta
3dur₂ mar e₂-an-na
4gašan mah buluŋ₃-ŋa₂
5nin-a-ni-ir
6{d}LUGAL-(GI.NA)
7lugal ki-šar₂-ra
8šagina kan₄-diŋir-ra{ki}a
9lugal ki-in-gi uri{ki}
10sipad ma-da-aš-šur{ki}ke₄
11šeg₁₂ al-ur₃-ra
12u₃-me-ni-du₃-du₃
13ŋiri₃-gin e₂-an-na
14ud-gin₇ bi₂-in-zalag₂

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