Sargon II 069 (Q006550)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 069 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006550 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; unlocated; 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 [0:6] 11–66 | To (the god) Aššur, the father of the gods, his lord: Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, had bricks made and made the processional way of the courtyard of Eḫursaggalkurkurra (“House, the Great Mountain of the Lands”) shine like daylight with baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln. |
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 AN.ŠAR₂ AD DINGIR.MEŠ be-li₂-šu₂ | |
| 2 | {m}MAN-GIN LUGAL ŠU₂ LUGAL KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 3 | GIR₃.NITA₂ KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} LUGAL KUR EME.GI₇ u URI{ki} | |
| 4 | u₂-šal-bi-in-ma a-gur-ri u₂-tu₂-ni KU₃-tim | |
| 5 | tal-lak-ti ki-sal e₂-ḫur-sag-gal-kur-kur-ra | |
| 6 | GIM u₄-me u₂-nam-mir |
Sources & licences
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