Tiglath-pileser III 21

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003434

Translation · reference

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Continued from text no. 20 (1') ... [...] without ... [... I utterly demolished ...] of sixteen dis[tricts of the land Bīt-Ḫumrî (Israel). I carried off (to Assyria) ...] capti[ves from ...], (5´) 226 [captives from ..., ...] captives [from ...], 400 [(and ...) captives from ...], 656 cap[tives from the city Sa..., ...] (altogether) 13,520 [people, ...], (10´) with their belongings. [I ... the cities Arumâ (and) Marum, (...) which are] sit[uated in] rugged mountains. (12') Mitinti of the land Ash[kelon neglected the loyalty oath (sworn by) the great gods (... and)] rev[olted] against me. He…

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/Q003434/

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Transliteration

ša x [...]1 / ša la x [...] / ša 16 ⸢na⸣-[ge-e ša KUR.É-ḫu-um-ri-a? ...]2 / šal-⸢la⸣-[at ...] / 2 ME 26 [...] / ⸢šal⸣-la-⸢at⸣ [...] / 4 ME [...] / 6 ME 56 šal-[la-at URU.sa-...]3 / 13 LIM 5 ME 20 [...] / a-di mar-ši-ti-šú-nu [... ša ina]4 / KUR-e mar-ṣu-ti šit-[ku-na-at šu-bat-su-nu ...] / mmi-ti-in-ti KUR.⸢as⸣-[qa-lu-na-a-a ina a-de-e DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ iḫ-ṭi (...)]5 / it-ti-ia ⸢it*⸣-ta-[bal-kit…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003434.

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/Q003434/..
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/Q003434/.

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