Sargon II 067


Obverse
11	a-na ^daš-šur AD DINGIR.MEŠ EN GAL-e EN-šú	(1) For the god Aššur, the father of the gods, the great lord, his lord:
22	^mMAN-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI MAN KUR ⸢EME.GI₇ u URI^?⸣.[KI]1	(2) Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and A[kkad] renovated Eḫursaggalkurkurra (“House, the Great Mountain of the Lands”), the temple of (the god) Aššur, his lord, by plastering the walls of the towers all around the temple. He fashioned towers, friezes, parapets and glazed sikkatu-cones, and placed (them) all around [it (the temple)].
33	é-ḫur-sag-gal-kur-kur-ra É aš-šur be-lí-šú
44	É.GAR₈.MEŠ na-me-ri si-ḫir-ti É gab-bu ina si-i-ri GIBIL-ìš
55	na-me-ri né-bé-ḫi sa-me-tu u sí-ka-a-ti2
66	šu-ut NA₄ ip-tiq-ma ú-šal-ma-a si-ḫir-⸢ti⸣-[šú^?]
77	a-na TI ZI.MEŠ-šu GÍD UD.MEŠ-šú GIN BALA.MEŠ-šú	(7) He built (these) in the temple of (the god) Aššur, his lord, for the sake of ensuring his good health, prolonging his days, firmly establishing his reign, (and) overthrowing his enemies.
88	sa-kap LÚ.KÚR.MEŠ-šú ina É aš-šur EN-šú DÙ-uš3
99	ITI.NE lim-mu ^mna-as-ḫur-EN LÚ.GAR.KUR URU.si-na-bu4	(9) Month Abu (V), eponymy of Nasḫur-Bēl, the governor of the city Sinabu.

1KUR.⸢EME.GI₇ u URI^?⸣.[KI]: Or KUR.⸢EME.GI₇ ù⸣ [URI.KI]; the traces at the end of ex. 6 are not clear. Ex. 12 has KUR mu-⸢GÌR⸣ [...]. These are the only two exemplars preserving anything of the line after the KUR; it must be noted that unlike the other exemplars, it is not clear that ex. 12 is on a clay cone.

2Cf. CAD N/2 p. 144 “friezes for the towers and the corners, and clay bosses of glazed brick” and Frahm, JCS 51 (1999) p. 81 “(Für) die Türme ... Friese, Mauersockel (sowie) glasierte sikkatu-Nagel.”

3Ex. 2 [i]-na <É> aš-šur, “[i]n <the temple of> Aššur,” or [a]-na aš-šur, “[f]or Aššur.”

4Or ^mna-as-ḫír-EN, “Nasḫir-Bēl”; see PNA 2/2 p. 932.

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.