Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 109
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, [son of] Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also king of Assyria: property of the Bīt-Kidmuri of the city Kalḫu.
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/Q004563/
Why it matters
Labels temple property as belonging to the Bīt-Kidmuri at Kalḫu, anchoring the institutional landholdings of Ashurnasirpal II's newly built capital to his dynastic lineage across three generations.
Transliteration
É.GAL mAŠ-PAP-A MAN KUR AŠ A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN KUR AŠ / [A] 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KUR AŠ-ma / NÍG.GA É-dkid₉-mu-ri šá URU.kal-ḫi
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 Q004563.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P424863). 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/Q004563/.
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