Sargon II 046
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o 1o 1 | (1) Palace of Sargon (II), appointee of the god Enlil, nešakku-priest of the god Aššur, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; (5) king who ruled the four quarters (of the world), from east to west, and set governors (over them). | |
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o 44 | ||
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | ||
o 88 | ||
o 99 | (9b) In accordance with my heart’s desire, I built a city at the foot of Mount Muṣri and named it Dūr-Šarrukīn. | |
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o 1414 | (14) I erected dwelling(s) for the gods Ea, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, and Ninurta inside it. The god Ninšiku (Ea), the creator of everything, fashioned images of their great divine majesties and they occupied (their) daises. | |
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r 2222 | (22) I built inside it (the city) palatial halls using (lit.: “of”) elephant ivory, ebony, boxwood, musukkannu-wood, cedar, cypress, daprānu-juniper, (25) juniper, and terebinth. I then fashioned a bīt ḫilāni, a replica of a Hittite palace, in front of their gates (30) and roofed them with beams of cedar (and) cypress. I wrote my name upon tablet(s) of gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, lapis lazuli, (and) alabaster and placed (them) in their foundations. | |
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r 3737 | (37) (As for) the one who alters the work of my hands (or) effaces my own representation(s), may (the god) Aššur, the great lord, make his name (and) his descendant(s) disappear from the land. | |
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1Possibly <ina> GÌR.II, but the ina is also omitted in text no. 44 line 26, text no. 45 line 9, and text no. 47 line 8.
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.