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Tiglath-pileser III 07
Translation · reference
High confidenceContinued from text no. 6 (1) [...] the cities Kušianaš, Ḫaršu, Šanaštiku, Kiškitara, Ḫaršaya, Ayubak, [...]. They (the enemy) took to a high mountain peak in the mountainous terrain of Mount Ḫaliḫadri. I pursued them and defeated them. [...] I burned with fire [the ... of the people (...) who] entered the ravines of the mountains. I surrounded (and) captured the city Uzḫari of the land Bīt-Zatti. (3b) [I ...] Kākî, [king of ...]. I surrounded, captured, (and) plund[ered (... and)] the city Kitpattia (Kitpat) of the land Bīt-Abdadāni, which Tunaku had seized. (5) [...] I rebuilt [the city]…
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/Q003420/
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Transliteration
[... URU].ku-ši-a-na-áš URU.ḫa-ar-šú URU.šá-na-áš-ti-ku URU.kiš-ki-ta-ra URU.ḫa-ar-šá-a-a URU.a-a-ú-ba-ak / [...] KUR-e ša KUR.ḫa-li-ḫa-ad-ri ŠU.SI KUR-e šá-qi-tu iṣ-ba-tu ar-ki-šú-nu ar-de-e-ma BAD₅.BAD₅-šu-nu áš-kun / [...] ḫur-ri KUR-e e-ru-bu ina dGIŠ.BAR aq-mu URU.uz-ḫa-ri ša KUR.É-za-at-ti al-me ak-šud mka-ki-i / [...] URU.ki-it-pa-at-ti-a ša KUR.É-ab-da-da-ni ša mtu-na-ku e-ki-mu al-me…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003420.
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/Q003420/..
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/Q003420/.
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