Three inscribed terracotta cylinders that were found at Karkemish in 2015 by the Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition provide a new inscription of Sargon II dealing with the conquest and occupation of the city by the Assyrians. Among other things, this text narrates the construction of a royal palace in Karkemish and suggests that Sargon may have been planning to make the city on the Euphrates a sort of western capital of the Assyrians, from which to administer and control the western and north-western territories of the Empire.

A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish / Gianni Marchesi. - In: JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES. - ISSN 0022-2968. - STAMPA. - 78:(2019), pp. 1-24. [10.1086/703190]

A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish

Gianni Marchesi
2019

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Three inscribed terracotta cylinders that were found at Karkemish in 2015 by the Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition provide a new inscription of Sargon II dealing with the conquest and occupation of the city by the Assyrians. Among other things, this text narrates the construction of a royal palace in Karkemish and suggests that Sargon may have been planning to make the city on the Euphrates a sort of western capital of the Assyrians, from which to administer and control the western and north-western territories of the Empire.
2019
A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish / Gianni Marchesi. - In: JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES. - ISSN 0022-2968. - STAMPA. - 78:(2019), pp. 1-24. [10.1086/703190]
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