An eye-stone in the J. Rosen collection bears a short dedicatory inscription of Sargon to the goddess the Lady of Nineveh. The piece was purchased on the antiquities market and thus its original provenance it not known. It is placed with the inscriptions from Nineveh solely because it is dedicated to the Lady of Nineveh.
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H. Galter (ARRIM 5 [1987] p. 12) states that the stone is possibly sardonyx, while U. Kasten states that it is agate (information courtesy of W.W. Hallo). The edition presented below is taken from the publication by Galter and has been confirmed by Hallo.
The writing SUM-⸢ìš⸣ in line 3 is unusual and is presumably intended to stand for a form of the verb qâšu, although one would expect BA-ìš.
A tiny clay fragment in the Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum may bear an inscription recording the end of Sargon's first campaign (721) and the beginning of his second campaign (720); cf. text no. 1 lines 23–24. The piece was identified by W.G. Lambert (see Lambert, Cat. p. 69).
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A fragment of one side of a clay tablet in the collection of the Oriental Institute, Chicago, preserves part of the end of an account of Sargon's conquest of Carchemish and the beginning of an account of the campaign against the Mannean Ullusunu. The inscription assigns these campaigns to Sargon's fourth and fifth regnal years respectively. It thus follows the numbering of the Aššur Prism (text no. 63) and the Nineveh Prism (text no. 82), rather than that of the Khorsabad Annals (text nos. 1 and 2) and the Najafabad Stele (text no. 117), which assign these to Sargon's fifth and sixth regnal years (717 and 716) respectively. For the dating of these campaigns, see the introduction to the present volume and Tadmor, JCS 12 (1958) pp. 23 and 94–95. H. Tadmor (ibid. p. 22) has suggested that the fragment "seems to be the only known specimen of Sargon's Annals on a clay-tablet." It is not impossible that the text originally on the tablet duplicated all or part what was on the Aššur and Nineveh prisms for these campaigns and all three were treated in A. Fuchs' recent edition (SAAS 8). Since no part of the text of this fragment overlaps any part of those prisms that is actually preserved and since this tablet is unlikely to have contained the whole text originally on either prism, it is treated separately from those texts here.
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The provenance of the fragment is not known. H. Tadmor reports that the piece "was acquired in 1928 by the late Prof. Chiera from a local dealer in Mosul" (JCS 12 [1958] p. 22 n. 2). The piece may have come from the neighboring site of Nineveh, although this remains mere speculation. The inscription has been collated from the original and the restorations, for the most part, follow those proposed by H. Tadmor and A. Fuchs.
As noted in the introduction, the text on this fragment may be a duplicate of at least part of what was originally on the Nineveh and Aššur prisms. It would presumably have been found around the middle of the second column of the Nineveh prism (text no. 82 ii) and at some point above the first preserved column of the Assur prism (text no. 63 i´).
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