Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 31
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 1Duplicate of text no. 13:7–11 and text no. 14:10 (1) [...] ... both sides of them, the cities in their environs, Mount Sarbūa in its entirety, the cities Ašḫani (and) Yaṭabi, Mount Yaraqu in its entirety, ..., the cities Ellitarbi (and) Zitānu, as far as the city Atinnu, ... [...], (5) the city Bumame — I annexed to Assyria (those) nineteen districts of the city Hamath, together with cities in their environs, which are on the coast of the Sea of the Setting Sun, (and) which had been criminally <and> sinfully seized for Azriyau (Azrī-Iāu). I placed two eunuchs of mine as provincial governors over them. (9) The payment of Kuštašpi of the land Kummuḫu, Raḫiānu (Rezin) of the land Damascus,
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[...]-⸢ni⸣ ki-lal-li-šu-nu / URU.MEŠ-ni ša si-ḫir-ti-šú-nu KUR.sa-ar-bu-ú-a KUR-ú a-na gi-mir-ti-šú / URU.áš-ḫa-ni URU.ia-ṭa-bi KUR.ia-ra-qu KUR-ú a-na gi-mir-ti-šú x-[x]-ri / URU.el-li-ta-ar-bi URU.zi-ta-a-nu a-di lìb-bi URU.a-ti-in-ni x [...] / URU.bu-ma-me 19 na-ge-e ša URU.ḫa-am-ma-at-ti a-di URU.MEŠ-ni / ša si-ḫir-ti-šú-nu (erasure) ša a-ḫi tam-tim ša šùl-mu dUTU-ši / ša i-na ḫi-iṭ-ṭi <ù>…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003444.
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/Q003444/..
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/Q003444/.
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