Sargon II's Prisms
Appearance
Sargon II's Prism A | |
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Material | Clay |
Size | 6.4 x 4.4 cm |
Writing | Akkadian cuneiform |
Created | c.710 BC |
Discovered | Mid 19th century. Combined identification in [1903] |
Present location | British Museum |
Identification | K.1671 + K.1668a |
Sargon II's Prism A is an Assyrian tablet inscription describing Sargon II's (722 to 705 BC) campaigns. The first fragment discovered, K 1668, was discovered in Nineveh in the Library of Ashurbanipal.[1]
An excerpt of the text as translated by Luckenbill as below:
"... Palestine, Judah, Edom, Moab ...".
See also
External links
- The Prism in the British Museum
- The Assyrian Eponym Canon, George Smith, 1875, page 129
- Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcunei00brituoft
- "Full text of "Die keilschrifttexte Sargons"". archive.org. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
- http://www.isaiah666.com/sargon_annals.pdf Palestine
- "Babylonian and Assyrian Historical Texts" (PDF). 4 September 2006. pp. 287–288. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
- Mazar, A.; Mathias, G.; Studies, I.J. (2001). Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 260. ISBN 9781841272030. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
References
- ^ "Full text of "Assyrian historiography, a source study"". archive.org. Retrieved 2015-11-15.