Sargon II 091

Obverse
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1'1'

[...] x x [...]

(1') [...] ... [...].

2'2'

[... BALA].MEŠ-šú GIŠ.GIDRU GIŠ.⸢GU⸣.[ZA LUGAL-ti-šu x x] NUMUN UR x [...]

(2') [... to change/remove] his [reign], scepter, (and) [his royal] thr[one ...] ... [...]

3'3'

[...] ⸢GÚ⸣ ÍD.mar-ra-ti [x x x x x] la i-šá-[a ...]

(3') [... s]hore of the sea [...] did not have [...]

4'4'

[...] ⸢BU?⸣ RI a-na i-di-šú ⸢ú⸣-[ter?-(x)]-⸢šu?⸣ [(x)] it-ta-[kil ...]

(4') [...] … he [made hi]m side with him; he put his [trust ...]

5'5'

[...] x-šú-nu mu-tum ḫi-it-⸢lu-pu⸣-ma i-rat [...]

(5') [...] their [...] clothed in death and the breast [...]

6'6'

[...] x gi-mir LÚ.kal-di lem-ni x [...]

(6') [...] all the evil Chaldeans [...]

7'7'

[...] x ú-rap-pi-⸢iš⸣ [...]

(7') [...] he extended [...]

8'8'

[... ḫal-ṣa?]-⸢ni⸣-šú ú-dan-nin mar-ṣi-iš ú-šá-x [...]

(8') [...] he strengthened his [fortress]es. He had [...] with (great) difficulty [...]

9'9'

[... ša (...) lem-ni?]-iš i-be-lu-ma be-lut KUR ù ⸢UN?⸣.[MEŠ ...]1

(9') [... who (…)] ruled [evil]ly [(...)] and [...] the lordship of the land and p[eople ...]

10'10'

[...] ger-ri šup-šu-qa-ma NI [...]2

(10') [...] the roads are very difficult and [...]

11'11'

[...] x-ti A.MEŠ ir-tu-šú A x [...]

(11') [...] he fixed [its foundations in the dep]th of the water [...]

12'12'

[... ki-ma?] ⸢šu?-pu-uk⸣ KUR-i dan-ni [...]

(12') [... as] the base of a mighty mountain [...]

13'13'

[...] x x ERIM.ḪI.A x [...]

(13') [...] ... soldiers [...]

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1Possibly “[... who] ruled [evil]ly [for twelve years] and [exercised] rulership over the land and p[eople ...]”; cf. text no. 1 lines 267–268, text no. 2 lines 295–296, text no. 7 line 124, and Tadmor, JCS 12 (1958) p. 100.

2Or ⸢IR⸣ [...] instead of NI [...].

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.