Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 2006
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To Tiglath-pil[eser, ... magnificent] king of the lands, [...]: (3) Kīdītê, provincial gove[rnor of ...] and of (the city) Arrapḫa [...], protégé of Ti[glath-pileser, king of Assyria, (...) ...] for the palace of j[oy ...] ... [... dedicated/built]. Lacuna?
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/Q004178/
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Transliteration
a-na mGIŠ.tukul-ti-A-[é-šár-ra ...] / MAN KUR.KUR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [šar-ḫi? ...]1 / mki-di-te-e GAR.⸢KUR⸣ [...]2 / ù ar-rap-ḫa-ia [...] / ti-ri-iṣ ŠU.II <m>GIŠ.⸢tukul⸣-[ti-A-é-šár-ra? MAN? KUR? AŠ? (...)] / a-na É.GAL ḫu-⸢ud?⸣ [lìb-bi ...] / x x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q004178.
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/Q004178/..
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/Q004178/.
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