Names

  • Sargon II 075

Numbers

  • Q006556

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  • prism
  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Nimrud (Kalhu)
  • Royal Inscription

Sargon II 075

Obverse
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1'1'

[...] É [...]

(1') [...] and pie[ces (of aromatic woods) ...] insi[de ...] ... [...] I settled [...]

2'2'

⸢ù⸣ ḫi-⸢bi?⸣-[iš?-ti? ...]

3'3'

⸢i⸣-na qé-⸢reb?⸣ [...]

4'4'

⸢ú⸣-šá-ʾ-x [...]

5'5'

⸢ú⸣-šar-ma-a x [...]

6'6'

É.GAL.MEŠ ZÚ AM.SI ⸢GIŠ⸣.[ESI GIŠ.TÚG]

(6') [I built] insi[de it] palatial halls using (lit.: “of”) elephant ivory, [ebony, boxwood], musukkannu-wood, ceda[r, cypress], daprānu-juniper, juniper, and [terebinth to] be my royal residence. (10´) [As]syrians, who had grown up [... wi]th [enemy] people [whom] I [had cap]tured, in [...] ... [...] cult centers of Assyria [...] (15´) ... the gods [...] the sea [...] all toget[her ... I imposed the yoke] of m[y] lordship [upon them (and) they (now) pull] my yoke [...]

7'7'

GIŠ.MES.MÁ.KAN.NA GIŠ.⸢EREN⸣ [GIŠ.ŠUR.MÌN]

8'8'

GIŠ.dup-ra-ni ŠIM.LI ⸢ù⸣ [GIŠ.bu-uṭ-ni]

9'9'

[a]-⸢na⸣ mu-šab LUGAL-ti-ia qer-⸢bu⸣-[uš-šu ab-ni-ma]

10'10'

[(LÚ).aš?]-šur.KI-a-a-ú tar-bit [...]

11'11'

[it]-ti te-ne-še-e-ti [na-ki-ri]

12'12'

[ki]-⸢šit⸣-ti qa-ti-ia i-⸢na⸣ [...]

13'13'

[x] 90? ⸢Ú⸣ KA ⸢BI?⸣ [...]

14'14'

[x] x ma-ḫa-zi KUR aš-šur.⸢KI⸣ [...]

15'15'

[i?]-na MU-ti DINGIR.MEŠ [...]

16'16'

[(x)] x A.AB.BA AN x [...]

17'17'

[(x)] x mit-ḫa-[riš ...]

18'18'

[ni-ir] be-lu-ti-⸢ia⸣ [e-mid-su-nu-ti]

19'19'

[i-šu]-⸢ṭu⸣ ab-šá-a-⸢ni⸣ [...]

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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.