Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta I 08
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') [...] loved one of the god [...] the great [gods], support [...] (the king whom) they always allowed to exercise rule [in the (four) quarters (of the world) and who conquered all of those (rulers) who did not bow down to him, capturer of enemy lands, extender of borders], strong [king], loved one of the great gods, of [lordly] lineage [whose priesthood in Ekur and whose rule over all of the people the god Enlil from of old made great, am I; son of Sha]lmaneser (I), king of Assyria, (and) son of [Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also king of Assyria]. (6') [When (the god) Aššur, my lord ...]…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[...] x na-mad ⸢d⸣[...] / [... DINGIR.MEŠ] GAL.MEŠ tu-⸢kúl⸣-[ti ...] / [ša ina kib-ra]-⸢ti⸣ ul-te-li-ṭu-⸢ma⸣ [kúl-la-at la ma-gi-ri-šú qa-su ik-šu-du ṣa-bit KUR.KUR KÚR.MEŠ] / [mu-re-piš mì-iṣ-ri MAN dan]-nu na-mad DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ NUMUN [be-lu-ti šá iš-tu ul-la-a SANGA-su-nu i-na é-kur ù šá-pi-ru-su-nu i-na kiš-šat UN.MEŠ] / [dBAD ú-šèr-bu-ú a-na-ku A d]⸢sál⸣-ma-nu-SAG MAN KUR aš-šur A…
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 Q005844.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based 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/Q005844/..
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/Q005844/.
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