A stele of Sargon II at Tell Tayinat
The delivery of a basalt fragment to the Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi by a farmer who had found it at Tell Tayinat drew our attention to four other basalt fragments inscribed with cuneiform from Tell Tayinat that are currently in the collection of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2015
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Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
Year: 2015, Volume: 105, Issue: 1, Pages: 54-68 |
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| Summary: | The delivery of a basalt fragment to the Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi by a farmer who had found it at Tell Tayinat drew our attention to four other basalt fragments inscribed with cuneiform from Tell Tayinat that are currently in the collection of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. We are grateful to Heather Snow for sharing unpublished records that she assembled in the course of researching her monograph in preparation on the finds of the University of Chicago’s Syrian-Hittite Expedition and to the Shelby White Foundation for funding the future publication of this monograph; to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto for their funding of the Tayinat Archaeological Project; to the Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi’s Director Nilüfer Sezgin and our representative Ömer Çelik for access to the fragment in their collection; to Tayinat Archaeological Project photographer Jennifer Jackson for photographing and creating the PTM file of that fragment; to the Oriental Institute’s registrar Helen McDonald for access to the fragments in their collection; to Walter Farber for discussing aspects of the Chicago inscriptions with us; and to Grant Frame for reading a draft of this article. Abbreviations follow RlA, with the following addition: RINAP 1 = H. Tadmor/S. Yamada, The royal inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 1 (Winona Lake 2011). In the normalization of logograms, we have tried to follow the lemmatization of the RINAP project (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap). Our study of the five basalt fragments has identified them as pieces of a hitherto unrecognized stele of Sargon II. In this article, we describe the fragments; explain why they derive from a single monumental stele; edit the cuneiform text inscribed on the fragments; discuss reasons for attributing the stele to Sargon II; and, finally, consider why Sargon II may have erected it at Tell Tayinat. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-1150 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/za-2015-0006 |