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Sargon II 080 (Q006561)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud (Kalhu) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSargon II 080
IDQ006561
CollectionIraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotNimrud (Kalhu)
Coordinates36.0992, 43.3275

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] 11–11Palace of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria.
Obverse [1:4] 22–44He had the series Enūma Anu Enlil written on an elephant ivory writing board and he deposited (it) inside his palace in the city Dūr-Šarrukīn.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1E₂.GAL {m}MAN-GI.NA MAN kiš-ša₂-ti
2MAN KUR aš-šur{ki} DIŠ UD AN {d}EN.LIL₂.LA₂ EŠ₂.GAR₃
3ina {giš}LE.U₅.UM ZU₂ AM.SI u₂-ša₂-aš₂-ṭir-ma
4ina qe₂-reb E₂.GAL-šu₂ ina {⸢uru⸣}BAD₃-MAN-GIN u₂-kin

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