Sargon II 096
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11 | (1) Sargon (II), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, completely built the temple of the lord, the god Nabû, (located) inside the city of Nineveh from its foundations to its crenellations for the sake of ensuring his good health (and) and prolonging his life. | |
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1É EN dMUATI “temple of the lord, the god Nabû”: Or possibly É <d>EN dMUATI “temple of <the god> Bēl (and) the god Nabû”? Cf. text no. 95 line 3 É dAG u dAMAR.UTU, “temple of the gods Nabû and Marduk.”
2The copy by R. Campbell Thompson (Arch. 79 [1929] pl. XLV) has ZI.MEŠ-šú, while Walker, CBI p. 119 has NAM.MEŠ-šú. The signs ZI and NAM are very similar and the former reading is used here since in similar places TI (or TI.LA or TIN) is followed by ZI (or ZI.MEŠ), not by NAM (or NAM.MEŠ).
3Omission of -šú, “its,” after gaba-dib-bi, “crenellations” on the brick from LXIX, 7 (Thompson).
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.