Tablet of Sargon's 8th
campaign
Assur
Neo-Assyrian period (714 BC)
Baked clay
H 37 cm; L 24 cm
AO 5372
Description
"In the form of a letter to the god Assur, this tablet relates
the eighth military campaign led by Sargon II against, among others,
the kingdom of Urartu, which englobed Armenia and Kurdistan. The
text, of 430 lines, tells how the king led the operations and
captured the holy town of Musasir."
- Louvre