Sargon II 070 (Q006551)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 070 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006551 |
| Collection | unlocated |
| Language | Sumerian |
| 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 baked bricks made from a (ritually) pure kiln (and) made the processional way of the courtyard of Eḫursaggalkurkurra (“House, the Great Mountain of the Lands”) shine like daylight. |
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 | AN.ŠAR₂ ad-da dingir-didli lugal-a-ni-ir | |
| 2 | LUGAL-u₂-kin lugal ki-šar₂-ra lugal ma-da aš-šur{ki}ke₄ | |
| 3 | (GIR₃.NITA₂) (TIN.TIR{ki}) lugal ki-in-gi uri{ki}bi | |
| 4 | sig₄ al-ur₃-ra udun ku₃-ga ši-ni-du₈-du₈ | |
| 5 | gir₃-gin kisal e₂-ḫur-sag-gal-kur-kur-ra | |
| 6 | u₄-gin₇ ba-an-zalag₂ |
Sources & licences
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