Position in chronology
Aššur-bel-kala 04
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Aššur-bēl-kal[a, great king, king of the] world, king of Assyria, unrivalled king, [king of all four quarters (of the world)], the one provides for Ekur, select of the god Aššur, appointee of the lord of the lands (Enlil), [(the one) who] acts [with the support of the god Aššur] in laying low his enemies, [whose] deeds the gods Aššur (and) Enlil [...], the unconquerable attacker, [the one to whom was entrusted] dominion of Assyria, the one who disintegrates [all of the enemy] lands [with the fire of] the god Gīra, the controller [of the insubmissive] who breaks up [the forces of the…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
⸢m⸣da-šur-EN-ka-⸢la⸣ [LUGAL GAL LUGAL] ⸢KIŠ⸣ LUGAL KUR da-šur / ⸢LUGAL⸣ la-a ša-na-⸢an⸣ [LUGAL kúl-lat kib-rat 4-i? za]-nin é-kur bi-bíl lìb-bi da-šur / [GÌR].NÍTA EN KUR.KUR.MEŠ [ša i-na GIŠ.tukul-ti da-šur? it]-⸢tal⸣-la-ku i-sa-pa-nu ge-⸢ri⸣-šu / [ša d]a-šur dBAD [... ep]-še-tu-šu ti-bu la-a nu-⸢uḫ-ḫu⸣ / [ša] ⸢be⸣-lu-ut KUR da-⸢šur⸣ [a-na qa-ti-šu ú-me-el?]-lu muš-⸢ḫar⸣-[miṭ] / [nap]-⸢ḫar⸣…
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 Q005985.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q005985/..
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/Q005985/.
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