Sargon II 040

Obverse
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E ÁŠ GU RU Ú1

(1) I surrounded (and) conquered ...

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al*-me KUR-ud2

1A. Fuchs (Khorsabad p. 279) tentatively suggests that the line might have read originally URU.áš/ma-gu-ru-ú, but points out that neither place is attested.

2al*-: P.E. Botta’s copy omits one wedge head.


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.