Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 033
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] attentive [ruler, ...] all of the lands, [..., son of] Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of the world, king [of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also king of the world and king of Assyria]; (5') conqueror from the opposite bank of the T[igris] River [...]. I ascended Mount Amanus (and) [... beams of cedar. (...)] I erected [the im]age of my royal majesty therein. [I …] the land Ḫatti i[n its entirety]. I [made] (the territory stretching) from the city Carchemish of the land Ḫatti, the land Lāqê i[n its entirety], the land Sūḫu, including the land Rapiqu, [bow down] at my feet.…
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/Q004487/
Why it matters
Claims Assyrian dominion from Carchemish through the Euphrates lands of Lāqê, Sūḫu, and Rapiqu — pinning the westward reach of Ashurnasirpal II's campaigns to specific named territories in the mid-ninth century BCE.
Transliteration
[...] x x [...] / [NUN]-ú n-⸢a⸣-[du ...] / [KUR].⸢KUR⸣.MEŠ DÙ-[ši-na ...] / [A] mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dMAŠ MAN ⸢ŠÚ MAN⸣ [KUR aš-šur ...] / ⸢ka⸣-šid TA e-ber-ti ÍD.x [...] / [a]-⸢na⸣ KUR-e ḫa-ma-ni e-li GIŠ.[ÙR.MEŠ ...] / [ṣa]-lam MAN-ti-ia ina lìb-bi áš-qup KUR.ḫat-te a-⸢na⸣ [si-ḫir-ti-ša ...] / ⸢TA⸣ URU.gar-ga-miš šá KUR.ḫat-te KUR.la-qe-e ⸢a⸣-[na si-ḫir-ti-ša] / KUR.su-ḫi a-di KUR.ra-pi-qi a-na…
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 Q004487.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P395614). source
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/Q004487/.
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