Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta I 33
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, son of Shalmaneser (I), (who was) also king of the world; builder of the temple of the goddess Ištar, my lady, lady of the dedication festival of Nineveh.
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/Q005869/
Why it matters
Attests Tukulti-Ninurta I's claim to universal kingship and his construction of Ištar's temple at Nineveh, linking royal legitimacy directly to divine patronage in mid-13th-century Assyria.
Transliteration
⸢mGIŠ.tukul⸣-ti-dnin-urta MAN KIŠ / A dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KIŠ-ma / DÙ É dINANNA NIN KI.SIKIL? / taš-ri-⸢it?⸣ URU.ni-nu-a
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 Q005869.
Attribution
Image: BM 090234 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P427862). 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/Q005869/.
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