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| ==Old Assyrian Sargon legend== | == Old Assyrian Sargon legend == |
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| {{ image.jpg?200|}} | {{ :oa_sargon_html_m69742d04.png?direct&300|}}\\ Artifact: Clay tablet\\ Provenience: Kültepe\\ Period: Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1835 BC)\\ Current location: Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi, Ankara (Kt j/k 0097)\\ Text genre, language: Literary; Akkadian\\ \\ |
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| //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ | Description: The fame of the Old Akkadian king Sargon even reached the Assyrian merchants settled in the lower town of Kültepe/Kaneš. This is a unique composition, written with the Old Assyrian script and dialect. Some authors take this text at face value and read it as a “laudatory royal inscription,” whereas others see it as a “parody of inscriptions or legends about Sargon”, full of wordplays and puns, //e.g.// so is Sargon's running referred by the time it takes to dissolve an inscription on a clay brick when thrown into water. Upon defeat of the various cities Sargon states that he daily had to slaughter 7000 animals to feed his troops. His warriors take part in a large feast, but the meat does not suffice. So, the ox of the host needed to be slaughtered. [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P390626|CDLI page]]\\ |
| //Provenience//: Kültepe\\ | |
| //Period//: Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)\\ | |
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| //Text genre, language//: Literary; Akkadian\\ | |
| [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P390626|CDLI page]]\\ | |
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| //Description//: The fame of the Old Akkadian king Sargon even reached the merchants' archives in the Karum Kanesh. This unique composition uses many puns and wordplays, so, e.g., is Sargon's running referred by the time it takes to dissolve inscription on a clay brick when thrown into water. The king as fast runner is a topic also known from the Ur III-king Shulgi. Upon defeat of the various cities Sargon states that he daily had to slaughter 7000 animals to feed his troops. His warriors take part in a large feast, but the meat does not suffice. So, the ox of the host needed to be slaughtered. | \\ Lineart: //Archivum Anatolicum// 3, 152-153 |
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| //Lineart//: Archivum Anatolicum 2, 152-3 | \\ Editions: Günbattı, C. 1997. “Kültepe'den Akadli Sargon'a âit bir tablet,” Archivum Anatolicum 3, 131 - 155; Van de Mieroop, M. 2000. “Sargon of Agade and his successors in Anatolia,” Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici Fasc. 42/1, 133 - 59. A. Cavigneaux, “Les soirées sargoniques des marchands assyriens, » in A. Kolde, A. Lukinovich & A.-L. Rey, //Mélanges offerts à André Hurst//, Genève, 2005, p. 595-602 ; Dercksen, J. G. Adad is King ! The Sargon Text from Kültepe (with an appendix on //MARV// 4, 138; and 140), //JEOL// 39, p. 107-129; Foster, B. //Before the Muses. An Anthology of Akkadian Literature//, Third Edition, Bethesda, 2005, p. 71-75; Alster, B. & Oshima, T. 2007, Sargonic Dinner at Kaneš: The Old Assyrian Sargon Legend, //Iraq// 69, p. 1-20; Westenholz, J. G., Notes on the Old Assyrian Sargon Legend, //Iraq// 69, 2007, p. 21-27. |
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| //Edition(s)//: Günbattı, C. 1997. "Kültepe'den Akadli Sargon'a âit bir tablet," //Archivum Anatolicum// 3, 131 - 55; Van de Mieroop, M. 2000. "Sargon of Agade and his successors in Anatolia," //Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici// Fasc. 42/1, 133 - 59. | \\ //Photo//: F. Kulakoğlu & S. Kangal, //Anatolia’s Prologue, Kültepe Kanesh Karum. Assyrians in Istanbul//, Kayseri, 2010, p. 324, no. 409; //Archivum Anatolicum// 3, p. 154-155. |
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