Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 055
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] among the rulers of the four quarters (of the world) [...] and the Great Sea, he conquered [...] to the west, [he made bow down] to his feet; [ son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), …, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was)] also [(... and) king of] Assyria: property of the temple of the god Ninurta.
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/Q004509/
Why it matters
Dedicates conquered wealth to the god Ninurta, linking Ashurnasirpal II's western campaigns to the theological claim that Assyrian expansion fulfilled divine will — a cornerstone of Neo-Assyrian royal ideology.
Transliteration
[...]-⸢ma⸣ ina mal-ki ša kib-rat LÍMMU-ta / [...] u A.AB.<BA> GAL-ti ŠU-su KUR-ud / [...] x a-di e-reb dšá-maš ana GÌR.II.MEŠ-šú / [ú-šék-ni-šu ... MAN KUR] AŠ-ma NÍG.GA É dMAŠ
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 Q004509.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P425122). 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/Q004509/.
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