(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
(gods in blue)
BIT-HABAN, PARSHUMASH, MANNAEA, URARTU;
THE HEROIC MAN WHO DEFEATED HUMBANIGASH, KING OF ELAM;
WHO MADE THE EXTENSIVE BIT-HUMRIYA (HOUSE OF OMRI) TOTTER,
(semi-divine king with Ashur’s protection from above)
THE DEFEAT OF MUSRU IN RAPIHU; BOUND TO ASHUR,
WHO CONQUERED THE TAMUDI;
WHO CAUGHT THE IONIANS IN THE SEA LIKE A BIRD-CATCHER;
ALSO BIT-BURTASHA, KIAKKI AND AMRISH, THEIR RULERS;
WHO DROVE AWAY MITÂ (MIDAS), KING OF MUSHKU;
WHO PLUNDERED HAMATH AND CARCHEMISH;
GREAT HAND CONQUERED, THE DEVASTATOR OF URARTU, MUSASIR;
THE URARTIANS BY THE TERROR OF HIS WEAPONS,
KILLED BY HIS OWN HANDS;
WHO DESTROYED THE PEOPLES OF HARHAR,
WHO GATHERED THE MANNAEANS, ELLIPI;
WHO CHANGED THE ABODE OF PÂPA, LALLUKNU;
WHO FLAYED THE SKIN OF ASHUR-LÊ’I, THEIR GOVERNOR;
(Ashur)
WHO IMPOSED THE YOKE OF ASHUR ON SHURDÂ;
FROM MELIDU, HIS ROYAL CITY;
THE FEARSOME ONSLAUGHT, WHO HAD NO FEAR OF BATTLE.
Neo Babylonian on clay, Nimrod, Assyria, 722-705 BC, 1 partial 8-facetted prism, 6,2×12,0 cm remaining, 8 lines in cuneiform script.
Context: 1 fragment of a cylinder with the same inscription, also in Neo Babylonian, is known.
Commentary: The present MS is related to the clay cylinders from Khorsabad, but they are in Assyrian. These cylinders were written in Nimrud, Assyria, for being sent to Babylonian cities to be deposited in foundation deposits in buildings in Babylonia.
This was Sargon II, conqueror of the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.
2 Kings 17: 5-11
5– Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 – In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 – For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 – And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 – And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10 – And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11 – And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: – 2 Kings 17:5-11