Position in chronology
Aššur-bel-kala 03
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] I fought [...] I made [a col]ossal [statue of my royal majesty (and) wrote] thereon (a description of) the victories of my royal majesty. [...] I traversed [Mount Ḫirua, conquered and burned with fire] the city Uruniaš of the land Ḫimme. I made a statue of my royal majesty (and) [wrote thereon (a description of)] the victories of [my] royal maje[sty. I made (another) statue of my royal majesty (and) erected (it) in Eš]arra, the house of my succor, before (the god) Aššur, [my] lo[rd. ...] On numerous [campaigns against the Ar]ameans, the enemies of (the god) Aššur, who in the land…
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/Q005984/
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Transliteration
[...] x x (x)-a-te lu am-⸢da?⸣-[ḫaṣ? ...] / [ṣa-lam MAN-ti-ia šur]-⸢ba⸣-a DÙ-uš li-ta-at MAN-ti-ia i-na ⸢qer⸣-[bi-šu al-ṭu-ur (...)] / [... KUR.ḫi-ru-a] ab-bal-kit URU.ú-ru-ni-áš ša KUR.ḫi-im-me [...] / [...] ṣa-lam MAN-ti-ia DÙ-uš li-ta-at LUGAL-⸢ti⸣-[ia i-na qer-bi-šu al-ṭu-ur] / [... DÙ-uš i-na é]-⸢šár⸣-ra É tu-kúl-ti-ia i-na pa-ni aš-šur ⸢EN⸣-[ia ú-še-zi-iz (...)] / [... KASKAL.MEŠ-at…
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 Q005984.
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/Q005984/..
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/Q005984/.
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