Names

  • Sargon II 070

Numbers

  • Q006551

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Details

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

Sargon II 070

Obverse
11

AN.ŠÁR ad-da dingir-didli lugal-a-ni-ir

(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 baked bricks made from a (ritually) pure kiln (and) made the processional way of the courtyard of Eḫursaggalkurkurra (“House, the Great Mountain of the Lands”) shine like daylight.

22

LUGAL-ú-kin lugal ki-šár-ra lugal ma-da -šur.KI-ke₄

33

GÌR.NÍTA TIN.TIR.KI lugal ki-in-gi uri.KI-bi

44

sig₄ al-ùr-ra udun -ga ši-ni-du₈-du₈

55

gìr-gin kisal é-ḫur-sag-gal-kur-kur-ra

66

u₄-gin₇ ba-an-zálag


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.