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Tukulti-Ninurta I 06
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, conqueror of the rebellious — those who do not submit (to him and) who are hostile to the god Aššur — defeater of all of the unsubmissive rebels (of) the lands of the Uqumanî and Papḫû, crusher of the land Katmuḫi (and) the troops of the (land) Qutû — difficult mountain (regions) — disperser of the forces of the land Šubarû to (its) full extent, overwhelmer of all the unsubmissive (of) the lands Alzi (and) Purulumzi, the legitimate ruler who marches about in the four quarters (of the world) with the support of the god…
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/Q005842/
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Transliteration
mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dnin-urta MAN KIŠ MAN dan-nu / MAN KUR daš-šur ka-šid mul-tar-ḫi / la ma-gi-ri za-e-ru-ut daš-⸢šur⸣ / né-ir KUR.ú-qu-ma-ni-i / ù pap-ḫi-i la ka-ni-ši pu-ḫur / tar-gi-gi da-iš KUR.kat-mu-ḫi / um-ma-na-at qu-ti-i pu-šuq / ḫur-šá-ni mu-se-pi-iḫ el-le-et / KUR.šu-ba-ri-i a-di pa-aṭ gim-ri / sa-pi-in KUR.al-zi KUR.pu-ru-lum-zi / si-⸢ḫír⸣ la kan-ši NUN ki-nu / šá i-na GIŠ.tukul-ti daš-šur…
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 Q005842.
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/Q005842/..
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/Q005842/.
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