Sargon II 085 (Q006566)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 085 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006566 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] 1'1'–2'2' | Not sufficiently preserved to allow translation. |
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | [... from] the beginning of [my] rei[gn ...] |
| Obverse [3:7] 4'4'–7'7' | [In accordance with my heart’s desire, I built a city at the foot of Mount Muṣri, a mountain upstream from the city Nineveh, and] n[amed it Dūr-Šarru]kīn. I had [the gods Ea, Sîn, Šamaš, Nabû, Adad, Ninurta, and their great spouses] created [inside Eḫursaggalkurkurra] and [I installed (them)] in[side it (Dūr-Šarrukīn) on (their) eternal dais(es). I built inside it palatial halls using (lit.: “of”) elephant ivory, ebony, boxwood, musukkannu-wood, cedar, cypress, daprānu-juniper, juniper, and] terebinth to be [my royal] resi[dence and ...] I had [enemy people whom I had captured] dw[ell inside it] (as safely) as in meadowland [and I considered it as (one of) the cultic centers of Assyria]. |
| Obverse [7:11] 8'8'–11'11' | [(...) With the support of the great gods, I advanced and] ruled [the people (from) the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea as] if (they were) one (people). [I made uncompliant] land[s (and) insubmissive mountain regions bow down at my feet. I dispersed the forces of Ḫumbanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš I), the Elamite. I destroyed the lands Karalla, Šurda, (and) Kišesim (and) the city Ḫarḫar; I did not leave any offspring of the land Med]ia as far as the border of Mount Bik[ni and the land Ellipi. I settled in their midst people of the land Ḫatti (Syria) that I had conquered. I set eunuchs of mine as provincial governors over them] and had (them) pu[ll my yoke. I subjugated the lands Mannea, Andia, (and) Zikirtu. I counted] a[s booty Urzana, king of the city Muṣaṣir, together with the people of his land (and)] his deities [Ḫaldi (and) Bagbartu]. |
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' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x x x [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢SAG LUGAL⸣-[ti-ia ...] | |
| 4' | [... {uru}BAD₃-{m}LUGAL]-⸢GI⸣.NA ⸢az⸣-[ku-ra ...] | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢u₂⸣-ša₂-⸢lid⸣-ma ⸢i-na⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [...] {⸢giš⸣}bu-uṭ-ni a-na ⸢mu⸣-[šab ...] | |
| 7' | [...] (x) par-(x)-ga-niš u₂-⸢šar-bi⸣-[iṣ-ma ...] | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢ki⸣-i iš-ten₂ a-⸢bel⸣-ma KUR.MEŠ [...] | |
| 9' | [... {kur}ma-da]-a-a a-di pa-aṭ {kur}bi-ik-[ni ...] | |
| 10' | [... aš₂-tak]-⸢kan-ma⸣ u₂-šal-⸢di⸣-[da ...] | |
| 11' | [...] ⸢DINGIR.MEŠ⸣-šu₂ ⸢a⸣-[na ...] |
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