Subject: Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World; Akkadian Monumental Inscriptions; Building and Display Inscriptions; Neo-Assyrian Inscriptions
The Cylinder Inscription (2.118H)
(lines 19–20)1
(Sargon) who subjugated the extensive land of Bīt-Ḫumria (Israel), …
Commentary
Discovered at Khorsabad, the text is inscribed on four barrel cylinders (two in the Louvre at Paris and two in the British Museum in London). The inscription commemorates the founding of Sargon’s new capital at Dūr-Šarrukīn.