Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta I 44add
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), strong king, king of all of the people, ruler, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, the foremost purification priest, ruler of rulers, the able favourite of the god Enlil, true shepherd, king (whose) decree cannot be rivalled, designate of the god Anu, the one who understands, the wise one, who reaches the utmost boundaries of wisdom, the beloved of the god Niššiku (Ea), the pure one, worthy representative of kingship (lit. “scepter and crown”), designate of the god Sîn, root of lordliness, attentive ruler, creature of the god Šamaš (and) his offspring, king of kings,…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
⸢mGIŠ.tukul⸣-ti-dnin-urta MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ UN.MEŠ / NUN-ú ŠID daš-šur i-šip-pu reš-tu-ú / ma-lik ma-li-ki le-u-ú mi-gir dBAD / re-iu-ú ⸢ki⸣-i-nu MAN ši-mat la šá-na-an / ni-bit da-⸢nim pi-it⸣ ḫa-si-si er-šu / ga-me-er pa-aṭ né-me-qi na-mad dníš-ši-ku / el-lu si-mat GIŠ.GIDRU ù a-⸢ge⸣-e ni-bit d30 / šu-ru-uš be-lu-ti NUN-ú na-a-du ti-⸢ri-iṣ⸣ / qa-at dšam-ši UTUL MAN MAN.MEŠ uz-zu dan-nu / MAN…
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 Q009243.
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/Q009243/..
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/Q009243/.
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