Tiglath-pileser III 09

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003422

Translation · reference

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After gap, continued from text no. 8 (1') [... I] bro[ught] (those) people [to Assyria. ...]. (2'b) [In] my [third palû, (the god) Aššur, my lord, encourag]ed me [and ...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [... Sulumal of the land Mel]id, Tarḫu-lara of [the land Gurgu]m, [... (5´) ...] ... in all lands, [they trusted] in one another’s strength, [... With] the power and might of (the god) Aššur, my lord, [I fought] with [them (and) defeated them. ...] I killed their [warriors] (and) I filled the mountain gorges with them (their corpses). I took without number [their] chariots, [...], (and) their [...].…

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/Q003422/

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Transliteration

[...] UN.MEŠ [a-na? KUR? aš-šur.KI? ú?]-ra-[a? ...]1 / [... ina 3 BALA].MEŠ-ia [aš-šur be-lí ú-tak-kil]-an-⸢ni⸣-[ma ...]2 / [...] x ba-ʾa-[...] ⸢e? ma⸣ [...] ⸢ti⸣ [...] DIŠ [...]3 / [... msu-lu-ma-al KUR.me-lid]-⸢da⸣-a-⸢a⸣ mta-ar-ḫu-la-⸢ra⸣ [KUR.gúr-gu]-ma-a-a [...]4 / [...] x ⸢ma⸣-ti-tan a-⸢na⸣ e-muq a-⸢ḫa⸣-meš [it-tak-lu ...]5 / [... ina] li-i-ti ù da-⸢na-ni⸣ ša aš-⸢šur⸣ EN-⸢ia⸣ it-⸢ti⸣-[šú-nu?…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003422.

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/Q003422/..
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/Q003422/.

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