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Ashurnasirpal II 020
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [(The god) Aššur, the great lord, king of] all of the [great] gods; [the god Anu, king of the Ig]īgū and [Anunnakū gods; (lord of the lands,) the god Enlil], exalted one, father of the gods, [(creator of all); the god E]a, king of the [apsû, lord of wisdom (and) understanding; the god Sîn], wise one, king of the lunar disk, [lofty luminary; the god Adad], the exceptionally strong, [lord of abundance; the god Ša]maš, judge of heaven [and netherworld, commander of all; the god] Marduk, sage, [lord] god [of oracles; the god Ninurta], warrior of the Igīgū and [Anunnakū gods; the god] Nergal,…
Source: 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/Q004474/
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Transliteration
[aš-šur EN GAL-ú MAN] ⸢gim⸣-rat DINGIR.[MEŠ GAL.MEŠ] / [da-nu MAN di]-⸢gi⸣-gi u [da-nun-na-ki (dEN KUR.KUR.MEŠ)] / [dBAD ṣi-i]-ru a-bu DINGIR.[MEŠ (ba-nu-ú DÙ-ma)] / [dé]-a MAN ⸢ZU⸣.[AB EN né-me-qi ḫa-si-su] / [d30] ⸢er⸣-šu MAN ⸢a⸣-[ge-e LAL-ú nam-ri-ri] / [dIŠKUR] geš-ru šu-[tu-ru EN ḪÉ.GÁL] / [dšá]-maš DI.KU₅ AN-⸢e⸣ [u KI-tim mu-ma-ʾe-er gi-im-ri] / [d]⸢AMAR⸣.UTU ap-kal ⸢d⸣[EN ti-ri-te] /…
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 Q004474.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q004474/..
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/Q004474/.
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