Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser I 05
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') built [...] the labūnu-house [...] I strengthened. With boxwood, [which by the command of the gods Aššur and Anu, the great gods, my lords], I had cut down (and) [carried off] from Mount Lebanon, [... I installed/built ...] I bu[ilt (it) fr]om its foundations to its crenellations. [...] I bu[ilt the labūnu-house that is] opposite it with tamarisk. [... I] entirely [surrounded (it)] in [its] entiret[y with] slabs of gišnugallu-alabaster. [I …] its walls and [... surrounded (them) with] knobbed nails of bronze to (enhance) its appearance. [...]. (10') [...] within that terrace and to [...…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[...] ⸢e⸣-pu-⸢uš⸣ [...] / [...] x É la-bu-ni [...] / [...] ú-la-bi-in i-na GIŠ.tas-ka-ri-⸢ni⸣ [... ša i-na si-qir da-šur u da-nim] / [DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia iš]-⸢tu⸣ KUR-e lab-na-a-ni ak-ki-su-ú-[ni áš-ši-an-ni] / [... iš]-tu uš-še-ša a-di gaba-dib-bi-ša ar-[ṣip ...] / [É la-bu-ni ša] pu-ti-šu i-na GIŠ.ṭar-pe-ʾe ar-[ṣip ...] / [ina a]-⸢gur⸣-ri ša NA₄.GIŠ.NU₁₁.GAL a-na si-ḫír-⸢ti⸣-[ša al-mi…
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 Q005930.
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/Q005930/..
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/Q005930/.
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