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Adad-narari I 03
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Adad-nārārī (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, son of Arik-dīn-ili, king of Assyria, son of Enlil-nārārī, (who was) also king of Assyria. (4) When Šattuara, king of the land Ḫanigalbat, rebelled against me and committed hostilities, I seized him by the command of (the god) Aššur, my lord, the one who comes to my aid, and the great gods who decide in my favor, and I brought him to my city, Aššur. I made him take an oath and allowed him to return to his land. Annually, as long as (he) lived, I regularly received his audience gift within my city, Aššur. (15) After his…
Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005740/
Why it matters
Transliteration
mdIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ LUGAL KIŠ LUGAL dan-nu / LUGAL KUR aš-šur DUMU GÍD-DI-DINGIR / LUGAL KUR aš-šur DUMU dEN.LÍL-ERIM-TÁḪ / LUGAL KUR aš-šur-ma e-nu-ma mšá-at-tu-a-⸢ra⸣ / LUGAL KUR.ḫa-⸢ni-gal⸣-bat it-ti-ia / ik-ki-ru-ma za-e-⸢ru⸣-ti e-⸢pu⸣-šu / i-na qí-bi-⸢it aš⸣-šur ⸢EN⸣-ia / a-lik re-ṣi-⸢ia⸣ ù DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ / ma-lik da-mi-iq-⸢ti⸣-ia aṣ-ba-su-ma / a-na URU-ia aš-šur ub-la-aš-šu /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q005740.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q005740/..
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005740/.
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