Position in chronology
Eriba-Adad II 2
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) [Erība-Adad (II)], king of the world, king of Assyria, son of [Aššur-bēl-kala, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tiglath-pileser (I)], (who was) also [king of the universe (and) king of] Assyria, the valiant man [... the encircler of the] insubmissive who defeats [his enemies ..., at whose strong belligerent attack the quarters (of the world)] are in dire [distress, ...] ... [...]
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
One of the few surviving inscriptions of Eriba-Adad II, attesting his place in the Tiglath-pileser I dynastic line and the standard titulary — 'king of the world, king of Assyria' — used to legitimise Middle Assyrian royal power.
Transliteration
[mSU-dIŠKUR?] ⸢MAN⸣ KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur A [maš-šur-EN-ka-la? ...] / [MAN KIŠ MAN] ⸢KUR⸣ [aš]-šur-ma eṭ-lu qar-[du ...] / [mu-šap-ri-id la] ka-ni-še ⸢mu-né⸣-[er a-ia-bi-šu ...] / [ša a-na ti-ib MÈ-šú dan-ni UB.MEŠ] ⸢ul⸣-ta-⸢nap⸣-[ša-qa ...] / [...] x PA x [...] / [...] x x [...]
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 Q005999.
Attribution
Image: BM 123467 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P422546). source
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/Q005999/.
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