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Ashurnasirpal II 031
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; the valiant man who acts with the support of (the god) Aššur, his lord, and who has no rival among the rulers of the four quarters (of the world); marvelous shepherd, fearless in battle, mighty flood-tide which has no opponent, the king who made (the territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the Tigris River to…
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/Q004485/
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Transliteration
maš-šur-PAP-A MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma eṭ-lu qar-du šá ina GIŠ.tukul-ti / aš-šur EN-šu DU.DU-ku-ma ina mal-ki.MEŠ šá kib-rat LÍMMU-ta šá-nin-šu / la-a i-šú-ú LÚ.SIPA tab-ra-a-te la-a e-di-ru GIŠ.LAL e-du-ú gap-šú / šá ma-ḫi-ra la-a i-šu-ú MAN šá TA KUR e-ber-ta-an…
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 Q004485.
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/Q004485/..
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/Q004485/.
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