Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 2002
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 1(1) To the god Adad, canal inspector of heaven and earth, his lord: Aššur-rēmanni presented (this object) for the life of Tiglath-pileser (III), king of Assyria, his lord, and for his (own) life.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢a-na d⸣IŠKUR ⸢GÚ.GAL⸣ AN-⸢e⸣ KI-tim EN GAL-e UMUN-šú maš-šur-rém-ni / ana ⸢TI m⸣tukul-ti-A-é-šár MAN KUR aš-šur EN-šú u ana TI-šú BA-ìš
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003618.
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/Q003618/..
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/Q003618/.
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