Palace of Sargon, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters (of the world), favorite of the great gods;

the king who with the support of the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk ruled all together from the land Yadnana (Cyprus), which is in the middle of the Western Sea, as far as Egypt and the land Musku, the wide land Amurru, the land Ḫatti (Syria) in its entirety, all of the land Gutium, the distant Medes (who live) on the border of Mount Bikni, the lands Ellipi (and) (10) Rāši on the border of the land Elam, all the Arameans who live beside the Tigris, Surappu, (and) Uqnû Rivers, as far as the cities Dunni-Šamaš, Bubê, (and) Tīl-Ḫumba on the border of the land Elam, the land Karduniaš (Babylonia) from one end to the other (lit.: “above and below”), (15) all of Chaldea, as much as there is (of it), (and) the land Bīt-Yakīn, which is on the shore of the sea, as far as the border of Dilmun; (who) set eunuchs of his as provincial governors over them and imposed the yoke of his lordship upon them.