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Tukulti-Ninurta I 43add
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), sun(god) of all of the people, exalted priest, chosen of (the god) Aššur and Enlil, attentive ruler, creature of the gods Anu and Ea, the capable, the ferocious, loved one of the gods Šamaš and Adad, valiant dragon, favourite of the gods Marduk and Zababa, exceeding in strength, the strong one whose support is the god Ninurta — the hero of weapons — loved one of the divine power (manifest in) the goddess Ištar’s banquet, true shepherd, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the Upper…
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/Q009242/
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Transliteration
⸢mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dnin-urta MAN KIŠ MAN dan-nu MAN KUR aš-šur.KI⸣ / MAN kib-rat 4*-i dšam-⸢šu⸣ kiš-šat UN.MEŠ / SANGA-ú ṣi-i-ru ni-šit daš-šur ù ⸢d⸣BAD / ru-bu-ú na-a-du ti-ri-iṣ ⸢qa⸣-at da-nim ù dé-a / le-e-ú ek-du na-mad dšá-maš ù dIŠKUR / ú-šúm-gal-lu ⸢qar-du mi-gir⸣ dAMAR.UTU ù dza-ba₄-ba₄ / šu-tùq du-un-ni geš-ru šá tu-kúl-ta-šu dnin-urta / ur-šá-an GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ na-mad li-it DINGIR.MEŠ…
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 Q009242.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted and lemmatized by Nathan Morello (2020) 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/Q009242/..
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/Q009242/.
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