Sargon II 075 (Q006556)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud (Kalhu) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 075 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006556 |
| Collection | unlocated |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Nimrud (Kalhu) |
| Coordinates | 36.0992, 43.3275 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] 1'1'–5'5' | [...] and pie[ces (of aromatic woods) ...] insi[de ...] ... [...] I settled [...] |
| Obverse [5:19] 6'6'–19'19' | [I built] insi[de it] palatial halls using (lit.: “of”) elephant ivory, [ebony, boxwood], musukkannu-wood, ceda[r, cypress], daprānu-juniper, juniper, and [terebinth to] be my royal residence. (10´) [As]syrians, who had grown up [... wi]th [enemy] people [whom] I [had cap]tured, in [...] ... [...] cult centers of Assyria [...] (15´) ... the gods [...] the sea [...] all toget[her ... I imposed the yoke] of m[y] lordship [upon them (and) they (now) pull] my yoke [...] |
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' | [...] E₂ [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢u₃⸣ ḫi-⸢bi⸣-[iš-ti ...] | |
| 3' | ⸢i⸣-na qe₂-⸢reb⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | ⸢u₂⸣-ša₂-ʾ-x [...] | |
| 5' | ⸢u₂⸣-šar-ma-a x [...] | |
| 6' | E₂.GAL.MEŠ ZU₂ AM.SI {⸢giš⸣}[ESI {giš}TUG₂] | |
| 7' | {giš}MES.MA₂.KAN.NA {giš}⸢EREN⸣ {[giš}ŠUR.MIN₃] | |
| 8' | {giš}dup-ra-ni {šim}LI ⸢u₃⸣ {[giš}bu-uṭ-ni] | |
| 9' | [a]-⸢na⸣ mu-šab LUGAL-ti-ia qer-⸢bu⸣-[uš-šu ab-ni-ma] | |
| 10' | {[(lu₂)}aš]-šur{ki}a-a-u₂ tar-bit [...] | |
| 11' | [it]-ti te-ne-še-e-ti [na-ki-ri] | |
| 12' | [ki]-⸢šit⸣-ti qa-ti-ia i-⸢na⸣ [...] | |
| 13' | [x] 90 ⸢U₂⸣ KA ⸢BI⸣ [...] | |
| 14' | [x] x ma-ḫa-zi KUR aš-šur{⸢ki⸣} [...] | |
| 15' | [i]-na MU-ti DINGIR.MEŠ [...] | |
| 16' | [(x)] x A.AB.BA AN x [...] | |
| 17' | [(x)] x mit-ḫa-[riš ...] | |
| 18' | [ni-ir] be-lu-ti-⸢ia⸣ [e-mid-su-nu-ti] | |
| 19' | [i-šu]-⸢ṭu⸣ ab-ša₂-a-⸢ni⸣ [...] |
Sources & licences
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