Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 45
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 1(1') [... (and) the (tribe) Puqu]du, Ara[means, as many as there were on the banks of the Tigris, Euphrates, Surappu], (and) Uqnû [Rivers, ... I placed a] eunuch [of mine as provincial governor over them. ...]
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[... LÚ.pu-qu]-du LÚ.a-⸢ru⸣-[mu ma-la ba-šu-ú ...] / [...] ⸢ÍD⸣.uq-ni-[i ...] / [... LÚ].šu-ut ⸢SAG⸣-[ia LÚ.EN.NAM UGU-šú-nu áš-kun ...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003458.
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/Q003458/..
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/Q003458/.
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