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Aššur-nadin-apli 1
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Aššur-nādin-apli, appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur, strong king, king of all of the people, ruler, king of kings; the faithful shepherd to whom the just scepter was given by the command of the gods Aššur, Enlil, and Šamaš and whose important name was called for the return of the land; the king under the protective hand of the god Anu and select of the god Enlil, chosen of the gods Aššur and Šamaš, am I; son of Tukultī-Ninurta (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur; (and) son of Shalmaneser (I), (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil (and)…
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/Q005891/
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Transliteration
⸢m⸣daš-šur-na-din-IBILA / GAR dEN.LÍL ŠID daš-šur / LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL KIŠ UN.MEŠ / NUN-ú LUGAL LUGAL.MEŠ / SIPA-ú ki-nu ša ina qí-bi-it da-šur₄ / dEN.LÍL ù dšá-maš GIŠ.GIDRU iš-re-tu / na-ad-na-ta-šu-ma si-qir-šu DUGUD / a-na ta-ar ma-a-ti né-bu-ú / LUGAL ti-ri-iṣ qa-at da-nim / ù bi-bíl ŠÀ dEN.LÍL / ni-ši-it da-šur₄ ù dšá-maš a-na-ku / DUMU GIŠ.tukul-ti-dnin-urta GAR dEN.LÍL / ŠID da-šur₄ DUMU…
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 Q005891.
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/Q005891/..
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/Q005891/.
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