Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 06
Translation · reference
High confidenceContinued from text no. 5 (1) I restored and [...] Assyria to [...]. I built a city [... Inside (it), I founded] a palace for [my] royal residence. [...]. I named it [..., set up] the weapon of (the god) Aššur, my lord, th[erein, (and) settled the people of (foreign) lands conquered by me therein. I imposed upon them tax (and) tribute], (and) considered them as inhabitants of Assyria. (4b) [I fashioned (on a stele) my royal] image [and the image(s) of the great gods, my lords, inscribed on it the mighty victories (lit. “victory and might”)] (5) that I had [achieved again and again] over…
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/Q003419/
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Transliteration
a-na eš-šu-te ak-šer-ma KUR aš-šur a-na [...] / URU DÙ-uš É.GAL mu-šab LUGAL-ti-[ia i-na lìb-bi ad-di ...]1 / 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 ú-še-šib GUN ma-da-at-tu ú-kin-šu-nu-ti]2 / it-ti UN.MEŠ KUR aš-šur am-nu-šú-nu-ti ALAM [LUGAL-ti-ia u ALAM DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia DÙ-uš li-i-tu ù da-na-nu]3 / ša i-na zík-ri aš-šur…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003419.
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/Q003419/..
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/Q003419/.
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