Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta I 38
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, son of Shalmaneser (I), (who was) also king of the world.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
Attests Tukulti-Ninurta I's titulature 'king of the world' and his dynastic claim through Shalmaneser I, anchoring his legitimacy in hereditary succession at the height of Middle Assyrian imperial expansion.
Transliteration
É.GAL mGIŠ.tukul-ti- / dnin-urta MAN KIŠ / A dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KIŠ-ma
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 Q005874.
Attribution
Image: BM 090808 (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P428362). 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/Q005874/.
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