Position in chronology
Aššur-reša-iši I 03
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [..., the god]s who sup[port me, ... Mutakki]l-Nusku, king of [Assyria ...] designation of [my] kingship [...]. (4') [... in an ea]rthquake, during the time of Aššu[r-dān (I), ...] I rai[sed ...] layers of brick [...]. (6'b) [In the future, in dis]tant [days], when th[ose] towers [...]
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/Q005901/
Why it matters
Preserves a fragmentary Middle Assyrian royal building inscription invoking Mutakkil-Nusku and Aššur-dān I, offering rare epigraphic testimony to the dynastic sequence and temple-restoration ideology of the 13th-century Assyrian court.
Transliteration
[... DINGIR].⸢MEŠ⸣ tik-⸢le⸣-[ia ...] / [... mu-tàk]-⸢kil⸣-dnusku MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [aš-šur ...] / [...] x-ia ni-ba-at ⸢MAN⸣-[ti-ia ...] / [...] ⸢ri⸣-be šá tar-ṣi maš-⸢šur-dan⸣ [...] / [...] ⸢ti⸣-ib-ki.MEŠ lu ul-⸢li⸣ [...] / [... ṣa]-⸢a⸣-te e-nu-ma na-me-ru šá-⸢tu⸣-[nu ...]
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 Q005901.
Attribution
Image: BM 123465 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P422544). source
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/Q005901/.
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