Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 49
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [I ut]terly [defeated him and took his entire camp away from him. He became frightened of the terrifying radiance of my weapons], mounted [a mare in order to save his life, escaped during the night] <to> Mount Sizir, a [rugged] mountain, [and ascended] (it). (3') I confined [Sarduri of the land Urarṭu to the city Ṭurušpâ, his city], and [inflicted] a gre[at] defeat upon him [before his city gates. I fashioned my royal image and erected] (it) in front of the city Ṭuru[špâ]. (5') [For a distance of seventy leagues], I proudly march[ed through the extensive land of Urarṭu, from] one end to…
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/Q003462/
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Transliteration
[... BAD₅.BAD₅-šú SÌG-ma ana] ⸢la⸣ ma-né-⸢e⸣ [nap-ḫar KARAŠ-šú e-kim-šú]1 / [na-mur-rat GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-ia ip-làḫ-ma a-na šu-zu-ub ZI.MEŠ-šú ina MUNUS.ANŠE.KUR.RA] ⸢U₅⸣-ma <ana> KUR.si-zi-ir KUR-i [mar-ṣu mu-ši-tíš iḫ-liq-ma e-li]2 / [msa-ar-du-ri KUR.ú-ar-ra-ṭa-a-a i-na URU.ṭu-ru-uš-pa-a URU-šú] ⸢e-sir⸣-šú-ma di-ik-ta-šú ma-ʾa-[at-tu ina IGI KÁ.GAL.MEŠ-šú a-duk] / [ṣa-lam LUGAL-ti-ia DÙ-uš-ma] ina…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003462.
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/Q003462/..
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/Q003462/.
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