Sargon II 057


Obverse
Fragment A		Fragment A
(Frgm._A)
Frgm._A 11	[...] x [(x)] x x [...]	(Frgm._A 1) No translation possible.
Frgm._A 22	[...] x [(x)] x [...]	(Frgm._A 1) No translation possible.
Fragment B		Fragment B
(Frgm._B)
Frgm._B 11	[...] IM ḪA x ⸢ÁŠ^?⸣ MA [...]1	(Frgm._B 1) [...] ... [... the city] Ḫarḫar ... [...]
Frgm._B 22	[... URU].⸢ḫar-ḫar^*⸣ mu-si-[...]2	(Frgm._B 1) [...] ... [... the city] Ḫarḫar ... [...]
Fragment C		Fragment C
(Frgm._C)
Frgm._C 11	[...] ⸢^{d^?}⸣a-⸢šur MAN dan^?-nu^?⸣ [...]	(Frgm._C 1) [...] the god Aššur, strong king [...] land Hamath [...]
Frgm._C 22	[...] (x) KUR.⸢a⸣-ma-at-ti [...]
Fragment D		Fragment D
(Frgm._D)
Frgm._D 11	É.⸢GAL⸣ ^m[LUGAL-GIN ...]	(Frgm._D 1) Palace of [Sargon (II) ...] favorite of the [great] god[s ...]
Frgm._D 22	mi-gir DINGIR.[MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ...]
Fragment E		Fragment E
(Frgm._E)
Frgm._E 11	[...]-⸢ti⸣-ia [...]	(Frgm._E 1) [...] my [...] ... [...]
Frgm._E 22	[...] x E SI [...]	(Frgm._E 1) [...] my [...] ... [...]
Fragment F		Fragment F
(Frgm._F)
Frgm._F 11	[...] i-na qer-bi x [...]	(Frgm._F 1) [...] inside [...] upon [...]
Frgm._F 22	[...] ḪA UGU [...]	(Frgm._F 1) [...] inside [...] upon [...]
Fragment G		Fragment G
(Frgm._G)
Frgm._G 11	[...] x ⸢AB^?⸣ x [...]	(Frgm._G 1) No translation possible.
Frgm._G 22	[...] x SI ⸢IḪ⸣ [...]	(Frgm._G 1) No translation possible.
Fragment H		Fragment H
(Frgm._H)
Frgm._H 11	[...] SA A x [...]	(Frgm._H 1) [...] ... [...] the land Ma... [...]
Frgm._H 22	[...] KUR.ma-x [...]	(Frgm._H 1) [...] ... [...] the land Ma... [...]
Fragment I		Fragment I
(Frgm._I)
Frgm._I 11	[...] x ⸢UŠ^?⸣ [...]	(Frgm._I 1) No translation possible.
Fragment J		Fragment J
(Frgm._J)
Frgm._J 11	[...] ⸢^mLUGAL-GIN^?⸣ [...]	(Frgm._J 1) [...] Sarg[on ...]
Fragment K		Fragment K
(Frgm._K)
Frgm._K 11	[...] re-eš [(...)]	(Frgm._K 1) [...] head [...] ... [(...)]
Frgm._K 22	[...] x ⸢IM/ʾu⸣ [(...)]	(Frgm._K 1) [...] head [...] ... [(...)]
Fragment L		Fragment L
(Frgm._L)
Frgm._L 11	[...] ⸢ḪI⸣ [...]	(Frgm._L 1) No translation possible.
Fragment M		Fragment M
(Frgm._M)
Frgm._M 11	[...] x LUGAL x [...]3	(Frgm._M 1) [...] king [...]

1Possibly im-ḫa-⸢ṣu^?⸣-ma, “they smote and.”

2-ḫar^*: Copy by P.E. Botta has -ḪI-PA. Ḫarḫar appears as an epigraph on a wall relief from Room II of Sargon’s palace at Khorsabad (text no. 23).

3The trace after LUGAL would fit ⸢KAL⸣ or ⸢dan⸣-[nu], among various other possibilities.

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.