Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser I 25
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of Tiglath-pileser (I), strong king, king of the world, [king of Assyria], son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), [(who was) also] strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria [(...)]: (brick) belonging to the facing of (the quay wall) of the Ḫusur River, [...].
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
Records Tiglath-pileser I's construction work on the Ḫusur River quay wall at Aššur, attesting royal investment in urban hydraulic infrastructure in the early Assyrian Empire.
Transliteration
É.GAL mGIŠ.TUKUL-A-é-šár-ra MAN KAL MAN KIŠ [MAN KUR aš-šur] / A aš-šur-SAG-i-ši MAN KAL MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur [...] / ša ki-sir-te ÍD.ḫu-si-ir [...]
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 Q005950.
Attribution
Image: BM 137472 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P428603). 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/Q005950/.
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