Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser I 08
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') No translation warranted. (4') [... which by the command of] the gods Ninurta and Nergal, the great gods, [my lords], I had killed [with a harpoon of my own making in the Great Sea] of the land Amurru [(...)] I stationed (them) on the right [and] left of the entrance (gate) of my [royal majes]ty. I [fashioned (...)] bands of silver and gold [...] this weapon with wisdom [I manufactured ...]. The palace [...] the gods [...] I inscribed my [commemorative] inscriptions [and deposited them therein]. (12') [In the future, in days to come, may a future ruler], when [that] palace [becomes old and dilapidated, restore its dilapidated section(s), either with] boxwood or [...]
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/Q005933/
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Transliteration
[...] ⸢a⸣-na a-⸢ma?⸣-[...] / [...] li? ⸢tu?⸣ še? ku ⸢me?⸣ [...] / [...] x-ra-da-a an-⸢nu?⸣-[...] / [... ša i-na siq-ri] dMAŠ ù d⸢IGI.DU⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢GAL⸣.[MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia i-na A.AB.BA] / [GAL-te] ša ⸢KUR⸣.a-mur-⸢ri⸣ a-du-ku-ni [...] / [ina né-reb LUGAL]-ti-ia ZAG [ù] ⸢GÙB⸣ ú-⸢ša⸣-[zi-iz ...] / [...] me-sir ṣar-⸢pi ù⸣ KÙ.GI ú-[...] / [...] ⸢GIŠ?⸣.TUKUL ši-i i-na ta-⸢šim⸣-ti x [...] / [...] x si x tu…
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 Q005933.
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/Q005933/..
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/Q005933/.
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