Sargon II 048
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| 1'1' | (1') I named [it Dūr-Šarrukīn. I erected dwelling(s) for the gods Ea], Sîn, Šamaš, A[dad, (and) Ninurta, the great gods], my lords, ins[ide it]. I had images of [their great] divi[ne majesties] skillfully made an[d installed (them) on] (their) etern[al] dais(es). | |
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| 6'6' | (6'b) [I built inside it (the city) palatial halls using (lit.: “of”) elephant ivory], ebony, boxwood, m[usukkann]u-wood, [cedar, cypress, daprānu-juniper, juniper, and terebinth]. | |
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1The translation assumes that URU.BÀD-mLUGAL-GI.NA was found in the previous line (see text no. 45 line 11).
2-liš*: The text has DIŠ.
3The translation assumes that following this line was GIŠ.ŠUR.MÌN GIŠ.dup-ra-ni GIŠ.ŠIM.LI u GIŠ.bu-uṭ-ni ina qer-bi-šú DÙ-ma (see text no. 45 lines 21–22).
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.