Sargon II 088 (Q006569)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 088 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006569 |
| 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 [0:1] 1'1'–1'1' | to/for [...] |
| Obverse [1:3] 2'2'–3'3' | who makes restit[ution for the wrongful damage suffered by them; ...; who abolished corvée duty for (the cities) Dēr], Ur, [Eridu, Larsa, Kullaba, Kissik, (and) Nēmed-Laguda (...)]; |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | (most) capable of all rulers, w[ho extended his protection over the city Ḫarrān and recorded its exemption (from obligations) as if (its people were) people of the gods Anu and Dagān]; |
| Obverse [4:10] 5'5'–10'10' | the valiant man who brought about the d[efeat of Ḫumbanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš I), the Elamite; who destroyed the land Karalla], the land Šurda, the city Kišesim, the city Ḫar[ḫar, the land Media, (and) the land Ellipi, (and) imposed the yoke of the god Aššur upon (them)]; who laid waste to the land Urarṭu, [plundered the city Muṣaṣir, slaughtered the lands Andia (and) Zikirtu, (and) pacified the land Mannea]; who made the rulers of the la[nd Hamath, the city Carchemish, and the land Kummuḫu] tremble (and) [plundered the land Kammanu; who deported Gunzinānu] from [the city Melid, his (Gunzinānu’s) royal city, and set officials over all of their lands]; who did aw[ay with the kingship of Tarḫu-lara of the city Marqasa ...]; |
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' | a-na (x) [...] | |
| 2' | mu-šal-⸢li⸣-[mu ḫi-bil₂-ti-šu₂-un ... mu-ša₂-aš₂-šik₂ tup-šik-ki BAD₃.AN{ki]} | |
| 3' | URI₂{⸢ki⸣} [eridu{ki} ARARMA{ki} kul-la-ba{ki} ki-sik{ki} ne₂-med-{d}la-gu-da{ki} ...] | |
| 4' | le-ʾi DU₃ mal-⸢ki ša₂⸣ [UGU {uru}ḫar-ra-na AN.DUL₃-la-šu it-ru-ṣu-ma ki-i ṣa-ab {d}a-nim u {d}da-gan iš-ṭu-ru za-kut-su] | |
| 5' | eṭ-lu qar-du ša₂-kin ⸢taḫ⸣-[te-e {m}{d}ḫum-ba-ni-ga-aš₂ {lu₂}ELAM.MA{ki}i mu-ab-bit {kur}kar-al-la] | |
| 6' | {kur}šur-da {uru}ki-še-si {uru}ḫar-[ḫar {kur}ma-da-a-a {kur}el-li-pi e-mid-du ni-ir {d}aš-šur] | |
| 7' | mu-šaḫ-rib {kur}ur-ar-⸢ṭi⸣ [ša₂-lil {uru}mu-ṣa-ṣir ša₂-giš {kur}an-di-a {kur}zi-kir-tu mu-šap-ši-ḫu {kur}man-na-a-a] | |
| 8' | mu-ri-ib mal-ki {⸢kur⸣}[a-ma-at-ti {uru}gar-ga-miš {kur}kum₂-mu-ḫi na-pi-iʾ {kur}kam-ma-ni ša {m}gu-un-zi-na-nu] | |
| 9' | iš-tu ⸢qe₂⸣-[reb {uru}me-lid-di URU LUGAL-ti-šu₂ is-su-ḫu-ma UGU gi-mir KUR.MEŠ-šu₂-nu iš-tak-ka-nu {lu₂}ša₂-ak-nu-ti] | |
| 10' | ⸢mu-nak⸣-[kir LUGAL-ut {m}tar-ḫu-la-ra {lu₂}{uru}mar-qa-sa-a-a ...] |
Sources & licences
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