Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 070
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also king of Assyria; the conqueror of all lands (who) made (all rulers) from east to west bow down at his feet: (7) (As for) the palace of the city Apku, I laid its foundations for the residence of my royal majesty, (together) with tablets of silver (and) gold. (10) O future ruler, do not erase (my) inscribed name! (The god) Aššur, the great lord, will (then) listen to your (text: “his”) prayers. (12b) As for the one who erases (my) inscribed…
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/Q004524/
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Transliteration
É.GAL mAŠ-PAP-A MAN ŠÚ / MAN KUR AŠ A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN KUR AŠ / A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KUR AŠ-ma / ka-šid KUR.MEŠ DÙ-ši-na / TA dUTU.È EN dUTU.ŠÚ.A / ana GÌR.MEŠ-šú ú-šak-ni-šú / É.GAL URU.ap-ki / ana šu-bat MAN-ti-a ina ṭup-pi / KÙ.BABBAR KÙ.GI UŠ₈-šá ŠUB / NUN EGIR-u MU SAR / NU ta-pa-šiṭ AŠ EN GAL / ŠÙD-šú ŠE.GA šá MU / SAR i-pa-ši-ṭu / NA.RÚ.A-a šú-a-tú / ana šip-ri šá ŠÀ-šú DÙ-šú / AŠ EN GAL GIŠ.TUKUL-šú liš-ber / GIŠ.AŠ.TI-šú KAR-šú MU-šú / NUMUN-šú ina KUR lu-ZÁḪ
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 Q004524.
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/Q004524/..
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/Q004524/.
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