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Sargon II 127 (Q006607)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Warka (Uruk) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSargon II 127
IDQ006607
CollectionArkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; unlocated
LanguageSumerian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotWarka (Uruk)
Coordinates31.3245, 45.6388

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:14] 11–1414For the goddess Inanna, lady of Uruk, who dwells in Eanna, the august, supreme lady, (5) his lady: Sargon (II), king of the world, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer (and) Akkad, (10) shepherd of the land of Assyria, had baked bricks made (and) made the processional way of Eanna shine like daylight.

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)
1{d}inanna
2nin unu{ki}ga-ta
3dur₂ mar e₂-an-na
4gašan maḫ bulug₃-ga₂
5nin-a-ni-ir
6{d}LUGAL-(GI.NA)
7lugal ki-šar₂-ra
8(GIR₃.NITA₂) (KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki})a
9lugal ki-in-gi uri{ki}
10sipa ma-da aš-šur{ki}ke₄
11sig₄ al-ur₃-ra
12u₃-me-ni-du₃-du₃
13gir₃-gin e₂-an-na
14u₄-gin₇ bi₂-in-zalag₂

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