Sargon II 053 (Q006534)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Khorsabad (Dur-Šarrukin) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 053 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006534 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK; unlocated; Louvre Museum, Paris, France; Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Rome, Italy ; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Archaeology Museum, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA; Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Sumerian |
| 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 [0:5] 11–55 | Sargon (II), king of the world, built a city (and) named it Dūr-Šarrukīn. He constructed inside it its palace that has no equal. |
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 | {m}MAN-(GI.NA) lugal ki-šar₂-ra | |
| 2 | uru an-du₃ {uru}BAD₃-MAN-GIN | |
| 3 | mu-bi bi₂-in-sa₄-a | |
| 4 | e₂-gal-bi gaba-ri nu-tuku | |
| 5 | ša₃-bi-ta mu-un-na-dim₂ |
Sources & licences
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