Names

  • Sargon II 037

Numbers

  • Q006518

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Details

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

Sargon II 037

Obverse
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URU.⸢pa?⸣-za-⸢ši URU⸣.ḪAL.ṢU šá KUR.man-na-a-a1

(1) The city Pazaši, a fortress of the land Mannea which is (located) in front of the p[a]ss (leading) to the land Zikirtu.

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šá IGI ⸢né⸣-[re]-bi šá KUR*.zi-kir-ta-a-a2

1⸢pa?⸣-: E. Flandin’s copy and P.E. Botta’s copy (Monument de Ninive 2 pl. 145 and 4 pl. 180c respectively) have -IZ; the photo of the squeeze is unclear, but might suggest -⸢PI⸣. H. Winckler’s copy (Sar. 2 pl. 49 no. 2l) indicates for the beginning of the line URU ⸢IZ? ḪA? ME GUR⸣ ḪAL.ṢU .... The missing horizontal wedge on Flandin’s -ŠI is indicated as being present on Botta’s copy and the squeeze would also suggest -⸢ŠI⸣, rather than -ME for the fourth sign.

2For the beginning of the line, following the URU, H. Winckler’s copy has ki-bi, while his transliteration has “Ki-?-bi” (Sar. 1 p. 191 and 2 pl. 49 no. 2l). The photo of the squeeze would suggest ⸢šá IGI? né⸣-[re]-bi. KUR*: E. Flandin’s copy has ŠE, while P.E. Botta’s copy and H. Winckler’s copy both have KUR; the squeeze is not clear about the matter.

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.