Tiglath-pileser III 14

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003427

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After overlap, continued from text no. 13 (1) [... they plundered (those cities) and] brought (that booty) [to the land Ḫatti (Syria-Palestine), be]fore me. A eunuch of mine, the provincial governor of the land Naʾiri, captured (and) plundered the cities Supurgillu, [..., (and) ...]aš, together with cities in its environs. [He ...] Šiqilâ, a fortress commander. [He captured (and) plundered ... and] brought (that booty) [to the land Ḫat]ti (Syria-Palestine), before me. (3b) [I settled] 600 captives of the city Amlāte of the (tribe) Damūnu (and) 5,400 captives of the city Dēr (Bīt-Dērāya) [in…

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/Q003427/

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Transliteration

[... a-na KUR.ḫat-ti a]-di maḫ-ri-ia ú-bi-lu-ni LÚ.šu-ut SAG.MEŠ-ia LÚ.GAR.KUR KUR.na-ʾi-i-ri URU.su-pur-gi-il-lu1 / [...]-⸢áš a⸣-di URU.MEŠ-ni ša li-me-ti-šú ik-šud šal-la-su-nu iš-lu-la mši-qi-la-a LÚ.GAL bir-ti2 / [... iš-lu-la-am?-ma a-na KUR.ḫat]-ti a-di maḫ-ri-ia ub-la 6 ME šal-la-at URU.am-la-te ša LÚ.da-mu-ni 5 LIM 4 ME šal-la-at URU.BÀD.<AN>3 / [ina URU.ku-na-li-a ...] ⸢URU⸣.ḫu-za-ar-ra…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003427.

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/Q003427/..
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/Q003427/.

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