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Tiglath-pileser III 05
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High confidenceAfter gap, continued from text no. 4 (1) [... I] adorned them (statues of the gods) and they (the gods) went (back) to their land. I rebuilt th[ose] cities. I built a city on top of a tell (lit. “a heaped-up ruin mound”) called [Ḫumut]. I b[uilt (and) co]mpleted (it) from its foundations to its parapets. [Inside (it), I founded] a palace for my royal residence. I named it Kār-Aššur, set up the weapon of (the god) Aššur, my lord, therein, (and) settled the people [of (foreign) lands] conquered by me therein. [I] imposed upon them [tax (and) tribute], (and) considered them as inhabitants of…
Source: Tadmor, H. & Yamada, S. 2011. The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria. RINAP 1. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap1/Q003418/
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[... ú]-za-ʾi-in-šú-nu-ti-ma a-na KUR-šu-nu il-li-ku URU.MEŠ šu-a-⸢tu⸣-[nu a-na] eš-šu-ti DÙ-uš i-na UGU DU₆ kam-ri1 / [šá URU.ḫu-mut i]-⸢qab⸣-bu-šu-ni URU DÙ-uš ul-tu uš-še-šu a-di gaba-dib-bé-e-⸢šu ar⸣-[ṣi-ip ú]-šak-lil É.GAL mu-šab LUGAL-ti-ia2 / [i-na lìb-bi ad-di] ⸢URU⸣.kar-aš-šur MU-šu ab-bi GIŠ.TUKUL aš-šur EN-ia i-na lìb-bi ar-me ⸢UN⸣.[MEŠ KUR.KUR] ⸢ki⸣-šit-ti ŠU.II-ia i-na lìb-bi…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003418.
Attribution
Image: Created by Hayim Tadmor, Shigeo Yamada, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, for the NEH-funded RINAP Project at the University of Pennsylvania. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003418/..
Translation excerpted from Tadmor, H. & Yamada, S. 2011. The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria. RINAP 1. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap1/Q003418/.
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