Sargon II 020


Obverse
11	ka-⸢bit⸣-ti be-le-e-ti ⸢šá⸣-qu-tu ^dnin-gal	(1) O most honored of ladies, exalted goddess Ningal, with regard to Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, the one who constructed your cella, intercede for him in the presence of the god Sîn, your beloved husband. (5) Say good thing(s) about him for the [firm] establishment of his reign. May he (Sîn) determine as his fate good health (and) a long life (lit.: “distant days”). May his (Sargon’s) descendants rule every inhabited region forever.
22	a-na ^mMAN-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-⸢šur⸣.KI ⸢GÌR.NÍTA⸣ KÁ^*.DINGIR.RA.KI1
33	MAN KUR ⸢EME.GI₇ ù⸣ URI.⸢KI⸣ ba-nu-⸢ú⸣ ku-mi-i-ki
44	i-na ma-ḫar ^d30 ḫa-ʾi-ri na-⸢ra-me-ka⸣ ab-bu-su2
55	a-mat MUNUS.⸢SIG₅⸣-šú ti-iz-⸢ka⸣-ri ⸢šá⸣ [ku]-⸢un⸣-ni BALA-šú3
66	ba-laṭ na-piš-ti UD.MEŠ SÙ.MEŠ li-⸢ši-im⸣ ši-ma-tuš
77	li-pu-šú a-na ar-kàt u₄-me li-be-lu ⸢kal⸣ da-ad-me

1KÁ^*: Copy has NAB.

2One expects nāramiki abbūssu ṣabtī (or similar).

3With regard to the reading [ku]-⸢un⸣-ni, cf. Leichty, RINAP 4 p. 98 no. 43 rev. 15´ and Borger, Asarh. p. 120, commentary to 80-7-19,44 rev. 15.

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.