Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta I 22
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(39) At that time, the god Aššur-Enlil, my lord, requested of me a cult center on the bank opposite my city and he commanded me to build his sanctuary. Beside the desired object of the gods (the city Aššur), I built a large cult center, the abode of my royal majesty, (and) I called it Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta. Inside it, I completed the temple(s) of the deities Aššur, Adad, Šamaš, Ninurta, Nusku, Nergal, Sebetti, and Ištar, the great gods, my lords. (45b) I made the Pattu-mēšari (canal) flow as a wide (stream) to its sanctuaries. From the produce of the waters of that canal, I arranged for…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
ina u₄-mi-šu-ma e-ber-ti URU-ia da-šur-dBAD EN ma-ḫa-za / e-ri-šá-ni-ma e-peš at-ma-ni-šú iq-ba-a / i-ta-at ba-it DINGIR.MEŠ ma-ḫa-za GAL-a šu-bat MAN-ti-ia / ab-ni URU.kar-mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dMAŠ MU-šu ab-bi / ina qer-bi-šú É da-šur dIŠKUR dUTU dnin-urta dnusku / dU.GUR dIMIN.BI ù diš₈-tár DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia / ú-šék-lil pa-at-tu-me-šá-ri a-na iš-re-ti-šú / uš-pél-ki ina ḫi-ṣi-ib A.MEŠ…
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 Q005858.
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/Q005858/..
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/Q005858/.
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