Sargon II 047


Obverse
o 1o 1	É.GAL ^mMAN-GIN	(1) Palace of Sargon (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent for (the god) Aššur, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; king who ruled the four quarters (of the world), from east to west, and set governors (over them).
o 22	GAR ^dBAD ÉNSI aš-šur
o 33	MAN KAL MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ
o 44	MAN šá TA ṣi-ta-an
o 55	a-di šil-la-an kib-rat LÍMMU
o 66	i-be-lu-ma iš-tak-ka-nu
o 77	LÚ.GAR-nu-te ina u₄-me-šú-ma	(7b) At that time, I built a city on the outskirts of Nineveh, at the foot of Mount Muṣri, (10) and named it Dūr-Šarrukīn.
o 88	ina re-bit NINA.KI GÌR.II
o 99	KUR.mu-uṣ-ri KUR-i
o 1010	URU DÙ-ma URU^*.BÀD-MAN-GIN
o 1111	MU-šu ab-bi šu-bat ^d30	(11b) I erected dwelling(s) for the gods Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, (and) Ninurta, the great gods, inside it.
o 1212	^dUTU ^dIŠKUR ^dMAŠ DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ
o 1313	ina qer-bi-šu ad-di
o 1414	É.GAL.MEŠ ZÚ AM.SI^* GIŠ.ESI	(14) I built inside it palatial halls using (lit.: “of”) elephant ivory, ebony, (15) boxwood, musukkannu-wood, cedar, cypress, (and) da[pr]ānu-juniper. I then wrote my name upon tablet(s) of gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, lapis lazuli, (and) alabaster and placed (them) in its foundations.
o 1515	GIŠ.TÚG GIŠ.mu-suk-ka^*-ni
Reverse
r 16r 16	⸢GIŠ⸣.ere-⸢IGI⸣ GIŠ.ŠUR.MÌN ⸢GIŠ.dup-ra⸣-ni1
r 1717	ina ⸢qer⸣-bi-šu DÙ-ma
r 1818	ina DUB KÙ.GI KÙ.BABBAR URUDU
r 1919	AN.NA A.BÁR NA₄.ZA.GÌN
r 2020	NA₄.GIŠ.NU₁₁.GAL ni-bit MU-ia
r 2121	SAR-ma ina UŠ₈-šú ú-kin
r 2222	NUN EGIR an-ḫu-su lu-diš	(22) May a future prince renovate its dilapidated sections, write his own commemorative inscription, and set (it) with my commemorative inscription. (The god) Aššur will (then) listen to his prayers.
r 2323	NA₄.NA.RÚ.A-šú SAR-ma
r 2424	KI ⸢NA₄⸣.NA.RÚ.A-ía liš-kun^*
r 2525	aš-šur ⸢ik^?⸣-ri-bi-šú ŠE.GA

1The copies by J. Oppert, D.G. Lyon, and H. Winckler have dáp-, not ⸢dup⸣-, but examination of the tablet would suggest the latter reading.

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.