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Tiglath-pileser III 53
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Tiglath-[pilese]r (III), [great] king, [...], conqueror of [...], con[queror of the (tribes) It]uʾu, Rubuʾu, [...]. I defeated [...] (5) (No translation possible) (14) I filled Mount Ḫauranu (Hauran) with [...]. (15) I carried off [...] (and) ... thousand sheep. I conquered [...]. Moreover, as for her (Samsi?), the terrifying radiance of (the god) [Aššur, my lord, overwhelmed her and ...]. I spared her so (she would) praise (the victory of the god Aššur). [... I set up ...] as governors. (18b) At that time, [I ...] Ninurta-ilāya, the provincial governor of [...]. I built (and) completed…
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/Q003466/
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Transliteration
mtukul-[ti-A-é-šár]-⸢ra⸣ MAN [GAL ...] / ⸢ka-šid⸣ [...] / ⸢ka⸣-[šid LÚ.i]-⸢tu⸣-ʾu LÚ.ru-bu-ʾu [...]1 / [...] a-dúk / (traces) / (traces) / (traces) / (traces) / (traces) / (traces) / (traces) / [...]-šìr/ḫir [...] DIŠ pa-x-⸢ia?⸣-u [...] / [...] x x-⸢šú⸣ [...] ⸢ni/sa⸣-x-⸢ru⸣2 / [...] KUR.ḫa-u-⸢ra⸣-nu ⸢KUR⸣ ú-ma-li / [...] x ⸢LIM UDU⸣.MEŠ šal-⸢la⸣-su-⸢nu⸣ áš-⸢lu-la⸣ / [...] x KUR-ud ⸢ù⸣ ši-i…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003466.
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/Q003466/..
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/Q003466/.
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