Names

  • Sargon II 005

Numbers

  • Q006486

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  • wall slab (with reliefs)
  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Khorsabad (Dur-Šarrukin)
  • Royal Inscription

Sargon II 005

Obverse
Continued from several unpreserved slabs

Continued from several unpreserved slabs

1'1'

[...] x x x [x (x)] x x x x [...]

(1') [... I offe]red [before them ... geese (and) ducks. I appealed to them (the gods)] in order to bring about the defeat of Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-Baladan), descendant of Yakīn, of Chalde[an] extraction, [the (very) image of an evil gallû-demon;] I prayed t[o the]m [with supplications and entre]aties. After I had carried out in full the festival of the great lord, the god Marduk, [...]

2'2'

[KUR.GI.MUŠEN.MEŠ UZ.TUR.MUŠEN.MEŠ ma-ḫar-šú-un aq]-⸢qí⸣ áš-šú šá-kan BAD₅.BAD₅ <m>dAMAR.UTU-A-SUM.NA DUMU mia-ki-ni NUMUN LÚ.⸢kal-di⸣ [ḫi-ri-iṣ GAL₅.LÁ lem-ni am-ḫur-šú-nu-ti-ma]

3'3'

[i-na su-pe-e ù te]-⸢me⸣-qi ⸢ma⸣-[ḫar-šu]-⸢un⸣ ut-nin ul-tu i-sin-ni EN GAL-i dAMAR.UTU ú-šal-li-mu x [...]1

Continued on several unpreserved slabs

Continued on several unpreserved slabs

1Text no. 2 line 371 has LA A after d[AMAR.UTU ú-šal]-⸢li⸣-mu.

Created by Grant Frame and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2019. Adapted for RINAP Online by Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny and lemmatized by Giulia Lentini, Nathan Morello, and Jamie Novotny, 2019, for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0.