Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 034
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of 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, and 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), the king who subdued (the territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the Tigris River to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea, the land Lāqê, in its entirety,…
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/Q004488/
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Transliteration
É.GAL maš-šur-PAP-A MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-ni MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN GAL-e MAN dan-ni MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL-e / MAN dan-ni 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-ni-in-šú la-a i-šú-ú MAN šá TA e-ber-ta-an / ÍD.IDIGNA a-di KUR.lab-na-na / ú A.AB.BA GAL-te KUR.la-qe-e / ana…
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 Q004488.
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/Q004488/..
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/Q004488/.
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