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Tiglath-pileser I 15
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) With the aid of the gods Aššur, Šamaš, (and) Adad, the great gods, my lords, I, Tiglath-pileser (I), king of Assyria, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), king of Assyria, son of Mutakkil-Nusku, (who was) also king of Assyria, (I) the conqueror from the Great Sea of the land Amurru and the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s), (and) marched to the Naʾiri land(s) three times.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
ina re-ṣu-te šá aš-šur / dUTU dIŠKUR DINGIR.MEŠ / GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-a / ana-ku mtukul-ti-A-é-šár-ra / MAN KUR AŠ A mAŠ-SAG-i-ši / MAN KUR AŠ A mmu-tàk-kil-d⸢nusku⸣ / MAN KUR AŠ-ma ka-šid ⸢iš⸣-[tu?] / tam-di GAL-te šá KUR.a-mur-ri / u tam-di šá KUR.na-i-ri / 3-šú ana KUR.na-i-ri DU
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 Q005940.
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/Q005940/..
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/Q005940/.
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