Position in chronology
Aššur-bel-kala 07
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(i 1) [The god Aššur, the great lord], the king of all of the great gods; [the god ...], the king of destinies, the father of the gods, [...]; the god Ea [...], the king of the apsû, [...], the lofty gods, [...]: (i 12) [Aššur-bēl-kala ..., (the one) who acts] with the support of [the god Aššur, ...] people [...] Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē, the king of Akkad, [...] (ii 1) 1,000 troops of the land [...] he uprooted 4,000 hostages from them and brought (them) down into Assyria [...] to the land [...] and [...] Kislīmu (IX) [...]. (ii 11) In that (same) year, in Duʾūzu (IV), the city [...] of the land…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[aš-šur EN GAL] MAN gim-rat DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ-te / (traces) / [...] MAN NAM.MEŠ a-bu DINGIR.MEŠ [...] / [...] dé-a [...] MAN ap-si-i [...] / (traces) / [...] DINGIR.MEŠ šá-qu-tu / (traces) / (traces) / šá [...] / ina GIŠ.tukul-ti [...] / ⸢UN⸣.MEŠ [...] / [...] / ⸢dAMAR.UTU-SUM⸣-ŠEŠ.MEŠ MAN KUR URI.KI [...] / (traces) / 1 LIM ERIM.MEŠ KUR.x [...] šap-[...] / 4 LIM šal-la-su-nu is-su-ḫa a-na KUR…
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 Q005988.
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/Q005988/..
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/Q005988/.
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