Sargon II 068 (Q006549)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 068 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006549 |
| Collection | unlocated; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Qalat Sherqat (Assur) |
| Coordinates | 35.4581, 43.2620 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] 11–44 | To the god Aššur, his lord: Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, built (this structure) for the sake of his life. |
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 | a-na {d}a-šur EN-šu₂ | |
| 2 | {m}MAN-GIN MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 3 | MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI{ki} | |
| 4 | a-na TI-šu₂ DU₃-uš |
Sources & licences
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