Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 46
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Palace of Tiglath-pileser (III), great king, mighty king], king of the world, king of Assyria, [..., chosen by the glance of] the god Enlil, [...] the one who restores sanctuaries, [whom (5) (the god) Aššur, his lord, commissioned to ..., to wi]den (the borders of) Assyria, (and) to lay flat the land(s) of his enemies. (5b) [From the beginning of my reign until my ... palû, I captured ... (... and) the (tribe) Ḫa]tallu, the land Labdudu, [..., (and) Arameans, as many as there were on the banks of the Tigris and] Euphrates [Rivers. ... I built a city on top of a tell (lit. “a heaped-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/Q003459/
Why it matters
Chronicles Tiglath-pileser III's systematic absorption of Aramean tribes along the Tigris and Euphrates — the demographic and territorial pressure that reshaped the Levantine political map in the 730s BCE.
Transliteration
[É.GAL mtukul-ti-A-é-šár-ra MAN GAL MAN dan-nu] MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI1 / [... am-ru ni-iš IGI.II] dEN.LÍL / [...] mu-diš eš-re-e-ti / [ša ana ... ru-up-pu]-⸢uš⸣ KUR aš-šur.KI sa-pan KUR KÚR.MEŠ-šú2 / [aš-šur EN-šú? ú-ma-ʾe-ru-šú ul-tu SAG MAN-ti-ia a-di x (x) BALA.MEŠ-ia (...) LÚ.ḫa]-⸢tal⸣-lu KUR.lab-du-di3 / [... LÚ.a-ru-mu ma-la ba-šu-ú šá šid-di ÍD.IDIGNA ù ÍD].A.ŠÌTA-ti / [... ak-šud ...…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003459.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P450229). source
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/Q003459/.
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