Names

  • Sargon II 085

Numbers

  • Q006566

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Details

  • prismatic cylinder
  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Royal Inscription

Sargon II 085

Obverse
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1'1'

[...] x [...]

(1') Not sufficiently preserved to allow translation.

2'2'

[...] x x x [...]

3'3'

[...] SAG LUGAL-[ti-ia ...]

(3') [... from] the beginning of [my] rei[gn ...]

4'4'

[... URU.BÀD-mLUGAL]-GI.NA az-[ku-ra ...]

(4') [In accordance with my heart’s desire, I built a city at the foot of Mount Muṣri, a mountain upstream from the city Nineveh, and] n[amed it Dūr-Šarru]kīn. I had [the gods Ea, Sîn, Šamaš, Nabû, Adad, Ninurta, and their great spouses] created [inside Eḫursaggalkurkurra] and [I installed (them)] in[side it (Dūr-Šarrukīn) on (their) eternal dais(es). I built inside it palatial halls using (lit.: “of”) elephant ivory, ebony, boxwood, musukkannu-wood, cedar, cypress, daprānu-juniper, juniper, and] terebinth to be [my royal] resi[dence and ...] I had [enemy people whom I had captured] dw[ell inside it] (as safely) as in meadowland [and I considered it as (one of) the cultic centers of Assyria].

5'5'

[...] ú-šá-lid-ma i-na [...]

6'6'

[...] GIŠ.bu-uṭ-ni a-na mu-[šab ...]

7'7'

[...] (x) par-(x)-ga-niš ú-šar-bi-[iṣ-ma ...]

8'8'

[...] ki-i -tén a-bel-ma KUR.MEŠ [...]

(8') [(...) With the support of the great gods, I advanced and] ruled [the people (from) the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea as] if (they were) one (people). [I made uncompliant] land[s (and) insubmissive mountain regions bow down at my feet. I dispersed the forces of Ḫumbanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš I), the Elamite. I destroyed the lands Karalla, Šurda, (and) Kišesim (and) the city Ḫarḫar; I did not leave any offspring of the land Med]ia as far as the border of Mount Bik[ni and the land Ellipi. I settled in their midst people of the land Ḫatti (Syria) that I had conquered. I set eunuchs of mine as provincial governors over them] and had (them) pu[ll my yoke. I subjugated the lands Mannea, Andia, (and) Zikirtu. I counted] a[s booty Urzana, king of the city Muṣaṣir, together with the people of his land (and)] his deities [Ḫaldi (and) Bagbartu].

9'9'

[... KUR.ma-da]-a-a a-di pa-aṭ KUR.bi-ik-[ni ...]

10'10'

[... áš-tak]-kan?-ma ú-šal-di-[da ...]

11'11'

[...] DINGIR.MEŠ-šú a?-[na ...]

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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.