Sargon II 2008


Obverse
11	[ana ^dU.GUR] SAG DINGIR.DINGIR la a-dir GIŠ.TUKUL šá-aš-me	(1) [For the god Nergal], foremost of the gods, who does not fear (any) battle weapon, [... most pow]erful of the gods, who does not pardon those who are evil, [who dwells in Ešaḫ]ul (“House of the Happy Heart”) that is inside the city Mēturna (Mê-Turnat), the great lord, his lord:
22	[... kaš]-kaš DINGIR.DINGIR la ŠU ḪUL.ME
33	[a-šib é-šà]-⸢ḫúl⸣ šá qé-reb URU.me-tur₇-ni EN GAL EN-šú
44	[^m... GAR^?] ⸢KUR⸣.na-i-ri LÚ.SAG ^mMAN-GIN MAN KUR AŠ	(4) [PN, governor of the l]and Na’iri (and) eunuch of Sargon (II), king of Assyria, made (this object) by the craft [of the gods Ninzadim and Ninku]ra [out of a block of lapis-l]azuli hewn from its mountain (quarry) and he set (it) up for the sake of ensuring his good health, [prolonging his days], his happiness, capturing his enemies, [the absence] of relentless illness, [and m]aking his heart joyful.
55	[ina tak-kas NA₄.ZA].⸢GÌN⸣ ḫi-ip KUR-šú ina ši^*-pir1
66	[^dnin-zadim u ^dnin-kur]-ra ⸢DÙ⸣-ma ana TIN ZI.ME-šú
77	[GÍD.(DA^?) UD.MEŠ-šú^?] DÙG ŠÀ-šú KUR ḪUL.ME-šú
88	[NU/la GÁL-e] TU.RA la ga-me-lu
99	[ù šu]-lu-uṣ ŠÀ-šú GIN

1ši^*: The sign appears to be U-AŠ.

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.