Sargon II 017

Obverse
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dnin-ši- EN -me- pa-ti-qu

(1) O god Ninšiku (Ea), the lord of wisdom who fashions absolutely everything, make your springs open up for Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, the one who constructed your cella. (5) Send forth (water from) his wells (and) provide water in great abundance for his meadowland(s). Determine as his fate wide intelligence (and) broad understanding. Bring his undertaking(s) to completion so that he might attain his desire.

22

kal gim-ri a-na mMAN-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR -šur.KI

33

GÌR.NÍTA .DINGIR.RA.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI

44

ba-nu-u ku-me-ka nag-bi-ka šu-up-ta-a

55

šu-bi-la kùp-pi-šú ma-a-mi ḫi-iṣ-bi u ṭuḫ-di1

66

šum-ki-ra ta-mir-tuš uz-nu DAGAL- ḫa-si-su

77

pal-ka-a ši-i-mi ši-ma-tuš

88

e-piš-tuš šul-li-ma lik-šu-da ni-iz-mat-su

1Or “its (the city’s) wells ... its meadowland(s).”


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.