Position in chronology
Šamši-Adad V 02
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(iii 1') [...] strong [...]. Upon my return march, [(the people of) ...], his royal city, together with [N] (5´) cities in their environs, abandoned [their cities] in the [face of] the awesomeness of the ferocious weapons of (the god) Aššur and my mighty warfare, which, like [...], know no mercy. They entered [...] (10´) their fortified city. I pursued them. I massacred 650 of them (and) (15´) took away from them 30 of their cavalry, 1 chariot, as well as their possessions, property, oxen, (and) sheep. I destroyed, devastated, (and) burned with fire their cities. (iii 17') On my fifth…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x] x [x x x] / [x x x x x x] x ⸢dan⸣-na [x x x] / [x x x x]-x-nu-ti ina ta-a-a-[ar-ti-ia] / [x x x]-x URU MAN-ti-šú a-di [x] / ⸢URU⸣.MEŠ-ni ⸢šá li-me-tu⸣-šú ul-[tu pa-an] / ⸢ra⸣-šub-bat ⸢GIŠ.TUKUL⸣ aš-šur ⸢ek⸣-du-te [ù e-peš] / MÈ-ia dan-ni šá ki-ma x [x x] / ta-a-a-⸢ra⸣ la i-du-⸢ú⸣ [URU.MEŠ-šú-nu] / ú-maš-še-ru-ú-ma a-na URU.[x x x] / URU dan-nu-⸢ti⸣-šú-nu e-ru-⸢bu⸣ [EGIR-šú-nu] /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q004739.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) (RIMA 3), Toronto, 1996. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2016) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q004739/..
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004739/.
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