Position in chronology
Aššur-dan II 3
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Aššur-dān (II), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tiglath-pileser (II), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (II), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-rabi (II), (who was) also strong king, king of the world, (and) king of Assyria. (5) When this Craftsman’s Gate — which, in the past, Tiglath-pileser (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Mutakkil-Nusku, (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, a ruler who had come before me, had built —…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
maš-šur-KAL-an MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur / DUMU GIŠ.tukul-ti-A-é-šár-ra MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur / DUMU aš-šur-SAG-i-ši MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur / DUMU aš-šur-GAL MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma / e-nu-ma KÁ.GAL-TIBIRA šu-a-tu / ša i-na pa-an mGIŠ.tukul-ti-A-é-šár-ra ŠID aš-šur / DUMU aš-šur-SAG-i-ši ŠID aš-šur DUMU mu-tàk-kil-dnusku ŠID aš-⸢šur⸣-[ma] / NUN-ú a-lik…
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 Q006015.
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/Q006015/..
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/Q006015/.
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