Sargon II 102
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| 1'1' | x x x [...] | |
| 2'2' | (2') [He plotted] evil. He made (them) [act in unison and he prepared for battle]. | |
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| 4'4' | ia-a-ti ⸢m⸣[LUGAL-GI.NA ...] | (4') [He spo]ke [deceitfully], words complaining about me, [Sargon ... and] I became enr[aged]. |
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| 8'8' | (8') I threw him, together with [his family], his wife, his sons, (and) [his] d[aughters], in iron fetters, [and] I brought t[hem] to Assyria. I se[t] a eunuch [of mine] as provincial governor over the citizens of that city (and) [made (the city)] (part of) the territory of Assyria. | |
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| 15'15' | i-na 5 BALA-ia m⸢ul-lu⸣-[su-nu (x x)] | (15') In my fifth regnal year, Ullu[sunu (…)] |
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1The restorations are based upon text no. 7 line 34 and text no. 63 i´ 14´.
2For the restoration, see text no. 82 vii 29´´ (K 1668b+).
3For tēkītu/tēqītu, see SAD 2 p. 81. For the restoration, see text no. 1 line 101 and text no. 7 line 38.
4Or ú-šá-aṣ-ri-iḫ [MÈ ...], “He made preparations [for battle ...]”: see Tadmor, JCS 12 (1958) p. 22 and pp. 22–23 n. 7 and text no. 7 line 127.
5Cf. text no. 1 line 73 and text no. 4 line 15´.
6DAM-: The text has SAL-LA-.
7For the restoration, see for example text no. 1 lines 103 and 163, text no. 2 lines 98 and 191–192, and text no. 8 lines 11 and 26.
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.