Names

  • Sargon II 1008

Numbers

  • Q006638

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Details

  • lion colossus
  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Royal Inscription

Sargon II 1008

Obverse
Lacuna

Lacuna

1'1'

[... ip?-pat?]-qu-[ma? ...]

(1') [... were cas]t [and ...] ced[ar ... l]ion colossi [... moun]tain [sheep as august] protective spirit[s ...] I fashioned and t[o ...] that I had conquered [...]

2'2'

[... GIŠ?].ere-⸢IGI*⸣ [...]1

3'3'

[... ur?]-maḫ*-ḫe*-e* [...]2

4'4'

[... UDU.MEŠ? šad?]-di* dLAMMA* [MAḪ.MEŠ? ...]3

5'5'

[...] ap-⸢tiq⸣-ma a-[na? ...]

6'6'

[...] ki*-šit-ti ŠU*.II*-⸢ia?⸣ [...]4

7'7'

[...] SI IS x ḪI x [...]5

(7') [...] ... [...] to ... [...]

8'8'

[...] a-na DA ṢI [...]6

Lacuna

Lacuna

1-⸢IGI*⸣: A.H. Layard’s copy has AŠ [...] for ⸢IGI⸣ [...].

2A.H. Layard’s copy for this line has [...] GIM IM [...].

3A.H. Layard’s copy for this line has [...] KAB/ḪÚB dKID [...].

4A.H. Layard’s copy for this line has [...] U LU šit-ti ⸢KUR APIN?⸣ [...], where the LU is in the Babylonian form of that sign.

5As noted by E. Frahm (Sanherib p. 123), the traces copied by A.H. Layard would seem unlikely to fit ú-šá-as-ḫi-ra of text no. 9 line 79.

6As noted by E. Frahm (Sanherib p. 123), a reading a-na da-ṣi, “in order to treat unjustly,” might be possible here.

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.