Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser I 09
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') [...] to the city Šu[...] their [...] in [...] they killed in [...] against them [...] of the land Addauš [...] the vice-regent (of a god) of the city Šu[...] of the land Addauš [...] ... city and land [...] to the land Addauš, I/he entered. [...] ... [...]
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[...] ⸢a⸣-na URU.⸢šu⸣-[...] / [...]-šu-nu i-na x [...] / [...] i-du-ku i-na x [...] / [...] x a-na muḫ-ḫi-šu-nu [...] / [...] ša KUR.a-da-uš [...] / [...]-a EN.URU ša URU.šu-[...] / [...]-x-ia ša KUR.a-da-uš x [...] / [...]-li-i URU ù ṣe-ra [...] / [...] x a-na KUR.a-da-uš e-ru-[ub ...] / [...] x [...] x ṣa ni [...] / [...] 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 Q005934.
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/Q005934/..
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/Q005934/.
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