Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser I 11
Translation · reference
High confidence(r 1') its inner [...], as far as ... [...] ... [... I bui]lt that [p]alace from it[s] foundations [to its crenellations. I splendidly [decorated (it)] more than before. I surrounded (it) [with knobbed nails of] bronze. [I made magnificent] doors of f[ir], made (them) fast [with bronz]e [bands, (and) installed (them)] in its gate. (r 9') [...] which with the support of the gods Aššur, Anu, Enlil, [... the great gods] who support me, the lands of/which [...] I made replicas in parūtu-alabaster [and basalt of a nāḫiru, which is called a sea-horse (and) which by the command of the gods Ninurta…
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/Q005936/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[...] x GIŠ.[...] ⸢ú⸣-[...] / [...] x ni x x-ri-ti ša ⸢ni⸣-x x [...] / [...]-šu ša be-ta-nu a-⸢di⸣ e-⸢li⸣ [...] / [...]-ri-te ša a-na x [(x)] ⸢ku/lu/ù⸣ ša i-⸢da⸣-[...] / [... É].⸢GAL⸣-lum ši-i iš-⸢tu⸣ uš-še-⸢ša⸣ [a-di gaba-dib-bi-ša] / [ar]-⸢ṣip⸣ UGU maḫ-re-e ú-šèr-⸢riḫ⸣ [ú-si-im] / [sik-kàt kar-ri] ⸢ZABAR⸣ al-mi GIŠ.IG.MEŠ GIŠ.a-⸢šu⸣-[ḫi ṣi-ra-te DÙ-uš] / [i-na me-sir] ⸢ZABAR⸣ ú-⸢ra⸣-ki-is₅ i-na…
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 Q005936.
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/Q005936/..
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/Q005936/.
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