Sargon II 019


Obverse
11	^dIŠKUR GÚ.GAL AN-e u KI-tim mu-nam-me-ru	(1) O god Adad, the canal inspector of heaven and netherworld, who illuminates the daises, with regard to 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, bring him at the right times rain from the sky (and) (5) floods from the depths. Pile up grain and oil in his meadowland(s). Have his people dwell (as safely) as in a meadow in great prosperity. Establish the foundation of his throne firmly (and) prolong his reign.
22	BÁRA.MEŠ a-na ^mMAN-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI GÌR.NÍTA
33	KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ ù URI.KI ba-nu-u
44	ku-me-ka uk-ki-ip-šú ŠÈG.MEŠ ina AN.MEŠ
55	ILLU.MEŠ ina nag-bi áš-na-an u piš-šá-tú
66	gúr-ri-na ta-mir-tuš ba-ʾu-la-te-e-šú1
77	ina ḪÉ.NUN ù^* ṭuḫ-di šur-bi-ṣa a-bur-riš2
88	iš-di GIŠ.GU.ZA-šú ki-in šul-bi-ra BALA-šú

1Or “its (the city’s) meadowland(s).”

2ù^*: Copy has ŠI+KU.

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.