Position in chronology
Aššur-bel-kala 02
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1') (Too broken for translation) (i 2') [Son of Aššur]-rēša-iš[i (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria], subduer of [the insubmissive ...]; (i 4') [Son of] Mutakkil-Nusku, [(who was) also king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria], his priestly progeny [...] the king of kings, the lord of lords, [...], the eternal royal seed, [...]. (i 8') In my accession year [(and) in my first regnal year, after I sat on the thro]ne of [(my) royal majesty in a grandiose manner], with the exalted strength [of (the god) Aššur, my lord, who goes before me, with the ... of the god…
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/Q005983/
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Transliteration
[...].MEŠ ḫa-[...] / [DUMU da-šur]-SAG-i-⸢ši⸣ [MAN KIŠ MAN dan-ni MAN KUR da-šur] / [mu]-⸢šék⸣-niš [la ma-gi-ri ...] / [DUMU] mu-tàk-kil-dnusku [MAN KIŠ MAN dan-ni MAN KUR da-šur-ma] / ⸢NUMUN⸣ ŠID-ti-šu i-⸢na?⸣ [...] / LUGAL MAN.MEŠ EN ⸢EN⸣.[MEŠ ...] / NUMUN da-ru-ú ša ⸢LUGAL?⸣-[ti? ...] / i-na šur-ru MAN-ti-ia [i-na maḫ-re-e BALA-ia ša i-na GIŠ.GU].⸢ZA?⸣ [MAN-te ra-bi-iš ú-ši-bu] / i-na e-mu-qe…
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 Q005983.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q005983/..
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/Q005983/.
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