Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 32
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 1Duplicate of text no. 14:10–text no. 15:4 (1) [I received] the payment of Kuštašpi of the land Kummuḫu, Raḫiānu (Rezin) of the land Damascus, Menahem of the city Samaria, Hiram of the city Tyre, Sibitti-Biʾil of the city Byblos, Uriaikki of the land Que, Pisīris of the city Carchemish, Ēnī-il of the city Hamath, Panammû of the city Samʾal, (5) Tarḫu-lara of the land Gurgum, Sulumal of the land Melid, Dadīlu of the city Kasku, Uassurme of the land Tabal, Ušḫitti of the land (A)tuna, Urpallâ of the land Tuḫana, Tuḫamme of the city Ištunda, Urimmi of the city Ḫubišna (Ḫubušnu), (and) Zabibê,…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ma-da-at-tu ša mku-uš-ta-áš-pi KUR.ku-um-mu-ḫa-a-a mra-ḫi-a-nu KUR.ša-ANŠE.NÍTA.MEŠ-šu-a-a / mme-ni-ḫi-me URU.sa-me-ri-i-na-a-a mḫi-ru-um-mu URU.ṣur-ra-a-a msi-bi-it-ti-bi-ʾi-li1 / URU.gu-ub-la-a-a mú-ri-ia-ik-ki KUR.qu-ú-a-a mpi-si-ri-is URU.gar-ga-miš-a-a / me-ni-ìl URU.ḫa-am-ma-ta-a-a mpa-na-am-mu-ú URU.sa-am-ʾa-la-a-a / mtar-ḫu-la-ra KUR.gúr-gu-ma-a-a msu-lu-ma-al KUR.me-lid-da-a-a /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003445.
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/Q003445/..
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/Q003445/.
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