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Sargon II 1010 (Q006640)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Europos (Carchemish) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSargon II 1010
IDQ006640
Collectionunlocated
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotEuropos (Carchemish)
Coordinates36.8295, 38.0135

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [1:6] 2'2'–6'6'I shut him up. I received as his tribute silver, g[old, ...], (and horses) trained to the yoke. [I carried off] h[is] daughter [(...)] I demolished [...] and [I erected (...)] an image (of myself) praying to (his) divine majesty [...] to obey (lit.: “hear”) his (the god’s) command, to be in agreement [...] plenty, abundance, affluence, weal[th ...]

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'x x x [(x)] x [...]
2'lu-u₂ e-sir-šu₂ ma-da-ta-šu₂ KU₃.BABBAR ⸢KU₃⸣.[GI ...]
3'LAL-at {giš}ni-ri lu am-ḫur DUMU.MUNUS-⸢su⸣ [...]
4'lu a-qur-ma NU mu-sa-pu-u DINGIR-ti ⸢KI⸣ [...]
5'ana še-me-e qi₂-bit pi-šu₂ ana mit-gu-ri [...]
6'ḪE₂.NUN ṭuḫ-du ḫi-iṣ-ba ḪE₂.⸢GAL₂⸣ [...]
7'ana še-x (x) [x x] x x (x) [...]

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