Tiglath-pileser III 17

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003430

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Continued from text no. 16 (1) I conquered (and) defeated the lands [Uppuria, Bustus], Ariarma — the land of roosters — Saksuk[ni, Araquttu, Karzibra, Gukinnana, (and) Bīt-Sagbat, Mount Silḫazi, which] they call [the fort]ress of the Babylonian(s), [... (and) I carried off] their booty. I carried off [..., their horses, their mules, their Bactrian camels, their oxen], (and) their sheep and goats, without number. [I destroyed, devastated, (and) burned with fire their] cit[ies; I reduced (them) to mounds and ruins]. (5) [I annexed to Assyria the lands Namri, Bīt-Sangibūti, Bīt-Ḫamban], Sumurzu,…

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/Q003430/

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Transliteration

[KUR.ú-pa-ri-a KUR.bu-us-tu-us] ⸢KUR⸣.a-ri-ar-ma KUR DAR.LUGAL.MEŠ.MUŠEN KUR.sa-ak-su-⸢uk⸣-[ni KUR.a-ra-qu-ut-tu KUR.kar-zi-ib-ra KUR.gu-kin-na-na]1 / [KUR.É-sa-ag-ba-at KUR.si-il-ḫa-zi ša dan]-nu-tu* ša DUMU KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI i-qab-bu-⸢šú⸣-[u-ni ...]2 / [...] ⸢ak⸣-šud di-ik-ta-šú-nu a-duk šal-la-su-nu [áš-lu-la ...]3 / [ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ-šú-nu ANŠE.GÌR.NUN.NA-šú-nu ANŠE.ud-ra-a-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 Q003430.

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/Q003430/..
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/Q003430/.

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