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Tiglath-pileser III 40
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High confidence(1) Palace of Tiglath-pileser (III), great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the fou[r] quarters (of the world), the one chosen by the glance of the god Enlil. (3b) From the beginning of my reign until my seventeenth palû, I captured the (tribes) Ituʾu, Rubuʾu, Ḫamarānu (Ḫamrānu), Luḫuʾātu, (5) Nabātu, Ḫindiru (Ḫindaru), Ruʾuʾa, Liʾtaʾu, Marusu, Puqudu, [Ara]means, as many as there were on the banks of the Tigris, [Euph]rates, Surappu, (and) Uqnû Rivers, [as far as the] Lower [S]ea of the Rising Sun. (10) I annexed (those…
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/Q003453/
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Transliteration
É.GAL mtukul-ti-A-é-šár-ra MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI / MAN KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI MAN KUR šu-me-ri ù URI.KI MAN kib-rat ⸢LÍMMU⸣-[ti] / am-ru ni-iš IGI.⸢II*⸣ dBAD ul-tu SAG MAN-ti-ia a-di 17 BALA.MEŠ-⸢ia⸣1 / ⸢LÚ⸣.i-tú-ʾu LÚ.ru-bu-ʾu LÚ.ḫa-mar-a-ni LÚ.lu-ḫu-ú-a-tú2 / [LÚ].na-ba-tu LÚ.ḫi-in-di-ru LÚ.ru-ʾu-ú-a3 / [LÚ].⸢li⸣-iʾ-ta-a-ú LÚ.ma-ru-su LÚ.pu-qu-du / [LÚ.a-ru]-mu ma-la ba-šu-ú šá…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003453.
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/Q003453/..
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/Q003453/.
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