Sargon II 1008 (Q006638)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sargon II 1008 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006638 |
| Collection | unlocated |
| 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 [0:6] 1'1'–6'6' | [... were cas]t [and ...] ced[ar ... l]ion colossi [... moun]tain [sheep as august] protective spirit[s ...] I fashioned and t[o ...] that I had conquered [...] |
| Obverse [6:8] 7'7'–8'8' | [...] ... [...] to ... [...] |
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' | [... ip-pat]-qu-[ma ...] | |
| 2' | [... {giš]}ere-⸢IGI⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [... ur]-maḫ-ḫe-e [...] | |
| 4' | [... UDU.MEŠ šad]-di {d}LAMMA [MAḪ.MEŠ ...] | |
| 5' | [...] ap-⸢tiq⸣-ma a-[na ...] | |
| 6' | [...] ki-šit-ti ŠU.II-⸢ia⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | [...] SI IS x ḪI x [...] | |
| 8' | [...] a-na DA ṢI [...] |
Sources & licences
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