Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta I 28
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, son of Shalmaneser (I), king of Assyria: Booty of Kardu(niaš) (Babylonia). As for the one who removes my inscription (and) my name, may (the god) Aššur (and) the god Adad make his name disappear from the land. (4) This seal was given as a gift from Assyria to Akkad. I, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, after six hundred years conquered Babylon and took it out from the property of Babylon. (8) Property of Šagarakti-Šuriaš, king of the world. (9) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, son of Shalmane(ser) (I), king of Assyria: [Booty] of Karduniaš…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[d]⸢GISKIM⸣-MAŠ MAN ŠÁR A dSILIM-nu-MAŠ MAN KUR aš-šur / KUR-⸢ti⸣ KUR.kár-du-<ni-ši> mu-né*-kir₆ SAR-ia MU-ia / aš-šur dIŠKUR MU-šú KUR-su lu-ḫal-li-qu / NA₄.KIŠIB an-nu-u TA KUR aš-šur ana KUR URI.KI šá-ri-ik ta-din / ana-ku md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN KUR aš-šur / ina 6 ME MU.MEŠ KÁ.DINGIR KUR-ud-ma / TA NÍG.GA KÁ.DINGIR us-se-ṣi-áš-šú / NÍG.GA ša-ga-ra-ak-ti-šur*-ia-aš LUGAL KIŠ / dGISKIM-MAŠ MAN ŠÁR…
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 Q005864.
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/Q005864/..
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/Q005864/.
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