Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 12
Translation · reference
High confidenceAfter overlap, continued from text no. 11 (1') elephant hides, ivory, red-purple (and) blue-purple wool, multi-colored garments, linen garment[s], numerous [ves]tments [of] their lands, ..., military equipment, a spindle, ..., (and) ... — I received (all of these things) in the city Arpad. (3') [Tutammû, king of the land Unqi], neglected [the loyalty oath (sworn by) the great gods] (and thereby) disregarded his life. On my campaign [... he did not con]sult me. In my fury, (5´) [I ...] of Tutammû, together with [his] nobles, [...] I captured the city Kinalia (Kunalua), his royal city. (6'b) I…
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/Q003425/
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Transliteration
KUŠ AM.SI ZÚ AM.SI SÍG.ZA.GÌN.SA₅ SÍG.ZA.GÌN.MI lu-bul-ti bir-me TÚG.⸢GADA⸣ [lu]-⸢bul⸣-[ti] KUR-šú-nu ma-ʾa-at-tu1 / BI AM A AN GAR MA GIŠ.til-li GIŠ.BAL ḪI ÍA x RAD ina qé-reb URU.ar-pad-da am-ḫur2 / [mtu-ta-am-mu LUGAL KUR.un-qi ina a-de-e DINGIR.MEŠ GAL].MEŠ iḫ-ṭi ⸢i⸣-šiṭ nap-šá-ti-šú ger-⸢ru⸣-a3 / [... la im]-ta-li-ka it-te-ia i-na uz-zi ⸢ŠÀ*-ia*⸣4 / [...] ša mtu-ta-am-mu-ú a-di…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003425.
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/Q003425/..
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/Q003425/.
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