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Tiglath-pileser III 37
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The god Aššur, great lord, the Enlil of the gods, the one who decrees fates; the god Marduk, the one who formulates the designs of all of the lands, [...] ... [...]; the god Nabû, holder of the stylus (and) bearer of the tablet of des[tinies of the gods], the one who reviews ...; the god Šamaš, king of heaven (and) netherworld, creator of the black-headed, [...] of humanity; (5) [the god Sîn], bright (celestial) light, the one who gives scepter (and) crow[n] (to the king), the one who establishes lordship; the god Adad, canal inspector of heaven (and) earth, the one who heaps [up…
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/Q003450/
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Transliteration
da-šur EN ⸢GAL⸣-ú dEN.LÍL.LÁ DINGIR.MEŠ mu-⸢šim⸣ NAM.MEŠ1 / dAMAR.UTU muš-te-⸢šir⸣ ú-ṣu?-rat ka-la KUR.KUR [...] x x x [...]2 / dAG ta-mi-iḫ GI.DUB.BA-e na-ši DUB ši-[mat DINGIR.MEŠ] a-ši-ru x x x / dUTU MAN AN-e ⸢KI⸣-tim DÙ-ú ṣal-mat SAG.DU [...] ab-ra-a-⸢ti⸣ / [d30] na-an-⸢na⸣-ru nam-ru na-din ⸢GIŠ⸣.GIDRU a-⸢ge⸣-[e] mu-kin be-⸢lu⸣-ti / ⸢d⸣IŠKUR GÚ.GAL AN-e KI-tim mu-kám-[mir ṭuḫ]-⸢di⸣ [ḪÉ].GÁL…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003450.
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/Q003450/..
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/Q003450/.
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