Sargon II 005 (Q006486)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Khorsabad (Dur-Šarrukin) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 005 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006486 |
| Collection | Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Khorsabad (Dur-Šarrukin) |
| Coordinates | 36.5100, 43.2283 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] 1'1'–3'3' | [... I offe]red [before them ... geese (and) ducks. I appealed to them (the gods)] in order to bring about the defeat of Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-Baladan), descendant of Yakīn, of Chalde[an] extraction, [the (very) image of an evil gallû-demon;] I prayed t[o the]m [with supplications and entre]aties. After I had carried out in full the festival of the great lord, the god Marduk, [...] |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [...] x x x [x (x)] x x x x [...] | |
| 2' | [KUR.GI{mušen.}MEŠ UZ.TUR{mušen.}MEŠ ma-ḫar-šu₂-un aq]-⸢qi₂⸣ aš₂-šu₂ ša₂-kan BAD₅.BAD₅ {<m>}{d}AMAR.UTU-A-SUM.NA DUMU {m}ia-ki-ni NUMUN {lu₂}⸢kal-di⸣ [ḫi-ri-iṣ GAL₅.LA₂ lem-ni am-ḫur-šu₂-nu-ti-ma] | |
| 3' | [i-na su-pe-e u₃ te]-⸢me⸣-qi ⸢ma⸣-[ḫar-šu]-⸢un⸣ ut-nin ul-tu i-sin-ni EN GAL-i {d}AMAR.UTU u₂-šal-li-mu x [...] |
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