Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 152 add
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II) (who was) also great king, strong king, king of the world, (and) king of Assyria; (2) valiant man who acts with the support of Aššur, his lord, and has no rival among the rulers of the four quarters, marvelous shepherd, fearless in battle, mighty flood-tide which has no opponent, (3) the king who subdued (the territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the Tigris to Mount Lebanon and the…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
É.GAL maš-šur-PAP-A MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-⸢nu⸣ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur A ⸢TUKUL⸣-d[...] / ina mal-ki.MEŠ ša kib-rat LÍMMU-ta šá-nin-šú la-a i-⸢šu⸣-ú ⸢LÚ⸣.[SIPA ...] / ⸢EN⸣ KUR.lab-na-na u A.AB.BA GAL-⸢ti⸣ <<TE>> KUR.la-qe-⸢e ana si-ḫír⸣-ti-šá ⸢KUR.su-ḫi⸣ [...] / šá be-ta-a-ni ŠU-su KUR-ud TA ⸢KUR⸣.né-re-be šá KUR.ḫab-⸢ru⸣-ri a-di KUR.gíl-za-a-⸢ni⸣ [...] / a-di URU.DU₆-šá-za-ab-da-a-ni URU.ḫi-ri-mu…
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 Q009484.
Attribution
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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/Q009484/.
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