Sargon II Babylonian 1


Obverse
11	ana ^dAMAR.UTU EN GAL-i	(1) For the god Marduk, great lord, compassionate god who dwells in Esagil, lord of Babylon, his lord:
22	DINGIR reme-ni-i
33	a-šib é-sag-gíl EN TIN.TIR.KI UMUN-šú
44	LUGAL-GIN LUGAL dan-nu	(4) Sargon (II), mighty king, king of Assyria, king of the world, viceroy of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, thought of (re)building the (city) wall Imgur-Enlil.
55	LUGAL KUR-aš-šur.KI LUGAL ŠÚ
66	GÌR.NÍTA TIN.TIR.KI
77	LUGAL KUR-šu-me-ru u URI.KI
88	za-nin é-sag-íl
99	ù é-zi-da
1010	ana DÙ-eš BÀD im-gur-^den-líl
1111	GEŠTU-šú GÁL-ma ú-šal-bi-in-ma	(11b) He had bricks made and constructed a quay-wall of baked bricks fired in a (ritually) pure kiln, (laid) in (both) refined and crude bitumen, along the bank of the Euphrates River, in deep water. He founded the (city) wall Imgur-Enlil and the (city) wall Nēmetti-Enlil (as secure) upon it as a mountain range.
1212	a-gur-ru ki-ru KÙ-tim
1313	ina kup-ru ù ESIR
1414	ina GÚ ÍD.pu-rat-ti
1515	ina qé-reb an-za-nun-ze-e
1616	KAR ib-ni-ma
1717	BÀD im-gur-^d50
1818	ù BÀD né-met-^d50
1919	ki-ma ši-pik KUR-i
2020	ú-šar-šid ṣe-ru-uš-šú
2121	šip-ri šá-a-šú ^dAMAR.UTU EN GAL-ú	(21) May the god Marduk, great lord, look upon this work (with pleasure) and may he bestow a (long) life on Sargon, the prince who provides for him! May his reign be as firm as the foundation of Babylon!
2222	lip-pa-lis-ma a-na LUGAL-GIN
2323	NUN za-nin-šú liš-ruk TIN
2424	ki-ma te-me-en TIN.TIR.KI
2525	li-ku-nu BALA.MEŠ-šú

Based on Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) (RIMB 2; Toronto, 1995). Digitized, lemmatized, and updated by Alexa Bartelmus, 2015-16, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based 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. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/ribo/Q006323/.