Names

  • Sargon II 114

Numbers

  • Q006595

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  • cylinder
  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Arslantepe (Melidu)
  • Royal Inscription

Sargon II 114

Obverse
Lacuna

Lacuna

1'1'

[... ki-ma ku-]-e.MUŠEN [za-ra-] LUGAL?-ti-šú -kun-[ma ...]

(1') [Together with his allies (and) his battle troops], he pitc[hed] his [roy]al [tent in a bend of the river (lit.: “between rivers”) like a cran]e [and assembled his military camp].

2'2'

[... šá-a-šú ga]-du .mun-[daḫ-ṣe-šu ...]

(2') [At the command of the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk, I had a causeway constructed (lit.: “trodden down”) across his canals and I caught him, toge]ther with [his] fig[hting men, like a flying eagle in a net. I spr]ead out l[ike m]alt (spread for drying) [the corpses of his vanguard and of the Aḫlamû, the people of the steppe who go at] his [side], an[d I filled the surroundings of his city (with them). The city Dūr-Yakīn his treasure house (and) the cities Iqbi-Bēl, Kapru, Bīt-Zabidāya], Šāt-iddina, Zarāte, Raqqatu, E[kuššu, Ḫursaggalla, Dūr-Bēl-āliya, Dūr-Enlil, Bīt-Qiblāte, Nēmed-Sîn, Limītu, (and) Mād-akālša, (a total of) fifteen fortified cities, together with the se]ttlements in their environs, I [turned] into (ruin) mounds. [I carried off as booty at the same time (both) the people young (and) old who lived in the district and the gods who helped them; I did not allow a (single) person to escape].

3'3'

[... i-de-e]-šu ki-[ma] ŠE.MUNU₆ [áš]-ṭe-e-ma [...]

4'4'

[... URU].šá-at-SUM.NA URU.za-ra-a-te URU.raq-qa-tum URU.e-[ku--šú ...]

5'5'

[... a-di] URU.MEŠ ša li-me-ti-šú-un ti-la-niš ú-[še-me ...]

6'6'

[... ZIMBIR].KI NIBRU.KI .[DINGIR].RA.KI bár-sipa.KI ša [i-na la an-ni-šú-nu ...]

(6') [(As for) the citizens of (the cities) Sippar], Nippur, B[abylo]n, (and) Borsippa who [through no fault of their own had been held captive in them (the fifteen cities), I put an end to their imprisonment and let them see the light (of day). (With regard to) their fields, which long ago, while] the land [was in disord]er, the Sutians had taken aw[ay and appropriated for their own, I struck down (those) Sutians, the people of the steppe, with the sword]. I (re)assigned to t[hem (the citizens) their territories, (whose boundaries) had been forgotten (and)] fallen into disuse [during the troub]led period in the land. [I (re)-established the freedom (from obligations) of (the cities) Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Larsa, Kullab, Kissik, (and) Nēmed-Laguda. Moreover], I returned [their gods that had been carried off as booty] to their cult centers and [I restored their] regular offeri[ngs that had been discontinued].

7'7'

[... i-na i-ši]-ti ma-a-ti .su-ti-i e-ki-mu-[ú-ma ...]

8'8'

[... ša i-na di]-li-iḫ-ti KUR ib-baṭ-lu ú-šad-gil pa-nu--[šú-un ...]

9'9'

[... DINGIR.MEŠ-šú-nu šal-lu-ti] a-na ma-ḫa-zi-šú-nu ú-ter-ma sat-tuk-[ki-šú-nu ...]

10'10'

[... UN.MEŠ KUR].kúm-mu-ḫi ki-šit-ti qa-ti-ia -[reb-šú ú-šar-me ...]

(10') [I restored the land Bīt-Yakīn and reorganized (its administration). I settled] th[ere people from the land Ku]mmuḫu that I had conquered, [and I had (them) occupy its (Bīt-Yakīn’s) abandoned regions. I divided up that land into equal parts and assigned (them) to the authority of a eunuch of mine, the] governor of Babylon, and a(nother) e[unuch of mine, the governor of the Gambulu (tribe)].

11'11'

[... .šu-ut SAG-ia ].GAR KUR .DINGIR.RA.KI ù .šu-[ut SAG-ia ...]

12'12'

[... nu-um]-mur pa-ni ḫa-diš e-ru-um-ma [...]

(12') Happily, [with a joyful heart (and) a radian]t face, I entered [Babylon, the cult center of the Enlil of the gods (Marduk); I grasped hold of the hands of the great lord, the god Marduk, and brought (him) safely along the road to the akītu-house. (With regard to) 154 talents, 26 minas, (and) 10 shekels of red gold, 1,604 talents (and) 20 minas of pure silver, copper], (and) iron in im[measurable] quantities, [...].

13'13'

[...] par-zil-lu ša ni-ba la [i-šu-ú ...]

14'14'

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

Lacuna

Lacuna


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.

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