Sargon II 123
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11 | (1) For the god Marduk, great lord, compassionate god who dwells in Esagila, lord of Babylon, his lord: | |
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44 | (4) Sargon (II), strong king, king of Assyria, king of the world, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, the one who provides for Esagila and Ezida, thought of (re)building the (city) wall Imgur-Enlil. | |
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1111 | (11b) He then had bricks made and constructed a quay-wall of baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln, (laid) in (both) refined and crude bitumen, along the bank of the Euphrates River, (15) in deep water. He then made the (city) wall Imgur-Enlil and the (city) wall Nēmet-Enlil as secure upon it as the base of a mountain. | |
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2121 | (21) May the god Marduk, great lord, look upon this work of mine (with pleasure) and may he grant (a long) life to Sargon, the prince who provides for him. May his reign be as firm as the foundation of Babylon. | |
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1Exs. 10, 16, and 868D insert i-te-e KÁ.GAL d15 after ina, “beside the gate of the goddess Ištar, on the bank of the Euphrates River” for “along the bank of the Euphrates River.” Exs. 7, 17, 868E, 869A, and 869D are all damaged but likely have the same insertion; they have ⸢i-te-e KÁ.GAL⸣ [...], [x x]-e KÁ.GAL d15, ⸢i?⸣-te-⸢e⸣ [...], i-⸢te⸣-[e] KÁ.GAL d⸢15⸣, and ⸢i?⸣-te-e ⸢KÁ⸣.GAL x x respectively.
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.