Sargon II's Prism A
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Material | Clay |
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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
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- http://www.isaiah666.com/sargon_annals.pdf Palestine
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References
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