Sargon II 053
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11 | (1) Sargon (II), king of the world, built a city (and) named it Dūr-Šarrukīn. He constructed inside it its palace that has no equal. | |
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1In view of the -a at the end of line 3, we should possibly take these lines as a subordinate clause and translate them as ”who built a city (and) named it Dūr-Šarrukīn.” The current translation assumes that the scribe had in mind such Akkadian passages as text nos. 52 lines 2b–3 and 54 lines 2–3a.
2é-gal-bi gaba-ri nu-tuku “its palace that has no equal”: Or take this as the name of the palace, as in text no. 2 line 473 and text no. 7 line 159, which have the name written as é-gal-gaba-ri-nu-tuku-a (“Palace That Has No Equal”). Cf. also text no. 52 lines 4–5.
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.