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-==Sargon's letter to Ashur==
+==Sargon's Letter to Ashur==
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 //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\
 //Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 5372)\\
-//Text genre, language//: Royal; Akkadian\\
+//Text genre, language//: Royal inscription; Akkadian\\
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 The text demonstrates one of the underlying assumptions of Neo-Assyrian expansionism: that it was for the pleasure and the benefit of the Assyrian gods, watched over by them and reported on to them.
-The letter was addressed not only to the god but also to the people of Assur and the city itself. It is usually presumed, after an influential suggestion by Oppenheim (1960: 143), that the letter was read aloud as an element of a public victory ceremony, although there is no external evidence of such a practice. Although fragments of letters to gods by Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal have also been found, this is the only complete example of the genre.
+The letter was addressed not only to the god but also to the people of Assur and the city itself. It is usually presumed, after an influential suggestion by Oppenheim (1960: 143), that the letter was read aloud as an element of a public victory ceremony, although there is no external evidence of such a practice. Although fragments of letters to gods by Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal have also been found, this is the only complete example of the genre. (Eva Miller, University of Oxford)
 //Lineart//: TCL 3, 5372
-//Edition(s)//:
+//Edition(s)//: Thureau-Dangin, François. TCL 3. 1912.
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