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Tukulti-Ninurta I 01
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, chosen of (the god) Aššur, vice-regent of the god Aššur, attentive shepherd, favorite of the gods Anu and Enlil, whose name the god Aššur and the great gods faithfully called, the one to whom they gave the four quarters (of the world) to administer and the one to whom they entrusted their dominion, the attentive one, appointee of the gods, the one who gladdens the heart of the god Aššur, the one whose conduct is pleasing to the gods of heaven and the netherworld and who is endowed with excellence, the one who…
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/Q005837/
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Transliteration
⸢mGIŠ⸣.tukul-ti-dnin-urta MAN ⸢KIŠ⸣ / ⸢MAN⸣ dan-nu MAN KUR da-šur ni-šit aš-⸢šur⸣ / ŠID da-šur SIPA na-a-du mi-gir da-⸢nim⸣ / ù dBAD šá da-šur ù DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ / MU-šú ke-níš ib-bu-ú / kib-rat 4 ⸢ana šá⸣-pa-ri ⸢id⸣-di-nu-šú / ù be-lu-si-na ana qa-⸢ti⸣-šú / ú-me-lu-ú na-a-du / šá-kín-ki DINGIR.MEŠ mu-ṭí-ib ŠÀ da-šur / šá al-⸢ka-ka⸣-tu-šú UGU DINGIR.MEŠ / šá AN KI i-ṭí-⸢bu⸣-ma / me-tel-lu-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 Q005837.
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/Q005837/..
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/Q005837/.
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