Names

  • Sargon II 069

Numbers

  • Q006550

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  • brick
  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
  • Royal Inscription

Sargon II 069

Obverse
11

a-na AN.ŠÁR AD DINGIR.MEŠ be--šú

(1) To (the god) Aššur, the father of the gods, his lord: Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, had bricks made and made the processional way of the courtyard of Eḫursaggalkurkurra (“House, the Great Mountain of the Lands”) shine like daylight with baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln.

22

mMAN-GIN LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR -šur.KI1

33

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

44

ú-šal-bi-in-ma a-gur-ri ú--ni -tim

55

tal-lak-ti ki-sal é-ḫur-sag-gal-kur-kur-ra

66

GIM u₄-me ú-nam-mir

1Exs. 10 and 14 have LUGAL-ú-kin for mMAN-GIN.


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.