Position in chronology
Aššur-reša-iši II 2001
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) I, Bēl-ēriš, vice-regent of [...], lover of the god Sa[mnuḫa ...], at the time of Aššur-rabi (II), [king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (I) (I)], [N]+3 years [... (5) Aš]šur for delineation [...], at that time, the god Sa[mnuḫa ...] the bank(s) of the Ḫābūr River, from [... to ...] he took possession. [...] the bank(s) of the Ḫābūr River, the vice-[regent ...]. (10) At that time, the god Samnu[ḫa ...] with his exalted strength, 3,000 [...]. The abandoned canal, which [goes] from the land [... to ...] (and) in which [water] no longer flowed, [...] I constructed a facing for (the quay…
Source: 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/Q006010/
Why it matters
Transliteration
a-na-ku mdEN-APIN LÚ.ŠID ⸢ša⸣ [...] / ra-ʾi-mu ša dsa-[am-nu-ḫa ...] / i-na tar-ṣi maš-šur-GAL [...] / [x]+3 MU.MEŠ ⸢lu⸣ [...] / [aš]-šur a-na ša-ra-⸢mi⸣ [...] / ⸢i-na⸣ u₄-mi-šu-ma d⸢sa⸣-[am-nu-ḫa ...] / šid-di ÍD.ḫa-bur iš-⸢tu?⸣ [...] / i-na qa-ti-šu lu iṣ-bat [...] / šid-di ÍD.ḫa-bur LÚ.⸢ŠID⸣ [...] / i-na u₄-mi-šu-ma dsa-am-nu-[ḫa ...] / i-na Á.MEŠ-šu ṣi-ra-te 3 ⸢LIM⸣ [...] / a-tap-pu na-di-tu…
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 Q006010.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q006010/..
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/Q006010/.
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