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Ashurnasirpal II 040
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of all of the four quarters (of the world), sun(god) of [all of] the people, ruler, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, the valiant man who acts with the support of the gods Aššur and Šamaš and who has no rival among the rulers of the four quarters (of the world), who treads upon the mountain peaks in all of the mountains, subduer of those insubmissive to (the god) Aššur to the borders above and below, who marches about on mountain paths, (5) who has seen remote and rugged regions, magnificent king of lands,…
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/Q004494/
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Transliteration
maš-šur-PAP-A MAN GAL-ú MAN ⸢dan⸣-nu MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur MAN kúl-lat kib-rat LÍMMU-ta dšam-šu [kiš-šat UN].MEŠ / NUN-ú ŠID aš-šur eṭ-lu qar-du šá ina GIŠ.tukul-ti aš-šur u dšá-maš DU.DU-ma ina ⸢mal⸣-ki šá kib-rat LÍMMU-⸢ta⸣ / šá-nin-šú la-a i-šu-ú mu-ka-bi-is re-še-te šá KUR.MEŠ-e ka-liš ḫur-šá-a-ni ⸢mu-šék⸣-niš / la ma-gi-ru-ut ⸢aš-šur⸣ šá ZAG.ZAG e-liš u šap-liš mu-tal-lik šàm-ga-[a]-ni /…
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 Q004494.
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/Q004494/..
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/Q004494/.
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