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Sargon II 072 (Q006553)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSargon II 072
IDQ006553
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates35.4581, 43.2620

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)

Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-H2, 2026-10-18), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
A
1'x x x x x
2'x x x
3'x am-šu₂-uh... I smear(low confidence: few signs survive)
4'x-su-nutheir(very low confidence: a guess)
5'x i-na E₂ {d}AMAR.UTU e₂-kur-ri-šu₂-nu a-na da-ra-tiin the temple of the god Marduk, their Ekurrīšunu, forever.
6'ul-ziz x {m}ki-ba-ba ša {URU}har-harKibaba of Harhar(lower confidence: line is broken)
7'x ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ {ANŠE}pa-re-e am-hurI received [x] horses and chariots.
8'x {URU}har-har u₂-zu-un-šu₂-un... the city Ḫarhar, they know.(lower confidence: line is broken)
9'x {m}da-al-ta-a u₂-rab-bu-u₂ e-li-šu₂-un[The ... of Daltâ] will increase.(lower confidence: line is broken)
10'x x ŠA₃-šu₂-untherein(low confidence: few signs survive)
11'x ir-šu-u₂ til-la-a-ti[x] completed tillati.(lower confidence: line is broken)
12'x x RI BIT SU x x
13'x x qi-ša₂-a-ti[... q]išāti(low confidence: few signs survive)
14'x u₂-mal-x xhe fills(very low confidence: a guess)
15'x-ia a-tu-ram-maI returned , and(lower confidence: line is broken)
16'x u₂-ṣab-bi-su ak-x xhe spoke to him ...(lower confidence: line is broken)
17'x {URU}kar-{m}LUGAL-GI.NA x x x x x[... K]ar-Šarrukin(lower confidence: line is broken)
18'x e-pu-uš-ma x x xdid and(low confidence: few signs survive)
19'x x x x x x
B
1'x x x x x x
2'x x x MEŠ x x x[......]s(low confidence: few signs survive)
3'x x x x x
4'x AN KAL x... heavy rain ...(low confidence: few signs survive)
5'x GA ŠA₂ x x... of(very low confidence: a guess)
6'x x PA NA x x x... the man ...(low confidence: few signs survive)
7'x x x x
8'x u₂-terhe returned.(very low confidence: a guess)
9'x x x x x x
10'x x x x x
11'x A x NA x... man ...(low confidence: few signs survive)
12'x x x x
13'x
14'x
15'x KI x
16'x TI x
17'x x x

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