Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 10
Translation · reference
High confidenceAfter gap, continued from text no. 9 (1') [I captured the cities ..., Alin]zirānu, [Tašliana, (and) Tirḫim, as far as Mount] Sinie (Sinia), (and) I added (them) [to the province of the chief] cupbearer. (4') [(As for) the land ..., from] the cities Ququsanšu (and) [Barzunna to the cities Ḫa]rbisinna, [Abbissâ, (and) Tasa, as far as the land Uluruš], (which is) above the bank [of the Tigris River, the land Lusia — the land of (the metal) lead — the land Ama]dīnu, [..., the cities Qilissa], Ezzēda, Continued in text no. 11
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/Q003423/
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Transliteration
[... URU.a-li-in]-⸢zi-ra⸣-a-⸢nu⸣1 / [URU.taš-li-a-na URU.tir-ḫi-im a-di] ⸢KUR.si-ni-e⸣ / [KUR-i ak-šud ina UGU NAM LÚ.GAL].⸢BI.LUL⸣ x x x2 / [... TA] ⸢URU⸣.qu-qu-sa-an-šú / [URU.ba-ar-zu-un-na a-di URU.ḫa]-⸢ar⸣-bi-si-na / [URU.ab-bi-sa-a URU.ta-sa a-di KUR.ú-lu-ru-uš] ⸢UGU⸣ pi-a-ti3 / [ša ÍD.IDIGNA KUR.lu-si-a KUR A.BÁR KUR.a-ma]-di-i-nu / [... URU.qi-li-is-sa] ⸢URU⸣.ez-ze-e-da
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003423.
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/Q003423/..
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/Q003423/.
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