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Ashurnasirpal II 067
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, [son of Tukultī-Ni]nurta (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of [Adad-nārārī (II), appointee of the god En]lil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, (4) the one who conquered (everything) from [(...)] the slopes of the mountains of the Lullumê, the interior of the land Ḫabḫu, the land Zamua, (and) the land Ḫašmar, a[ll of them, to the land Amu]rru, Mount Amanus, and Mount Lebanon, as far as the Great Sea; [I counted (all of this territory) as within the boundar](ies) of m[y] land.…
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/Q004521/
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Transliteration
maš-šur-PAP-A GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur / [DUMU GIŠ.tukul-ti-d]⸢MAŠ⸣ GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur / DUMU [mdIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ GAR d]⸢BAD⸣ ŠID aš-šur / ka-šid iš-⸢tu⸣ [(...)] ši-di KUR.lul-lu-mì-i / KUR.⸢ḫab⸣-ḫi šá be-ta-ni KUR.za-mu-a / KUR.ḫa-áš-mar ⸢DÙ⸣-[ši-na? a-di? KUR.a]-⸢mur?⸣-ri KUR.ḫa-ma-ni / u KUR.lab-⸢na⸣-ni a-di tam-di GAL-⸢ti⸣ / [a-na mi]-⸢ṣir?⸣ KUR-⸢ia?⸣ [am-nu?]-⸢ma⸣ / MU-šàm-ma GUN-su-nu DUGUD /…
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 Q004521.
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/Q004521/..
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/Q004521/.
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