Sargon II 055 (Q006536)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Khorsabad (Dur-Šarrukin) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 055 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006536 |
| Collection | Louvre Museum, Paris, France; unlocated |
| 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 [0:7] 11–77 | Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, built the temple of the gods Sîn (and) Šamaš, his lords, that is inside the city Dūr-Šarrukīn from its foundations to its crenellations (5) for the sake of his life, the firm establishment of his reign, the success of the harvest of Assyria, (and) the well-being of Assyria. |
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-GIN MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 2 | E₂ {d}30 {d}UTU EN.MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 3 | ša₂ ŠA₃ {uru}BAD₃-{m}MAN-GIN | |
| 4 | TA UŠ₈-šu₂ a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu₂ | |
| 5 | ana TI-šu₂ GIN BALA.MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 6 | SI.SA₂ e-bur KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 7 | ša₂-lam KUR aš-šur DU₃-uš |
Sources & licences
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