Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 029
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') the compassionate [god to whom it is good to pray ...]; (2') [Ashurnasirpal (II)], unrivalled king [of the world, king of all the four quarters (of the world), sun(god) of all people, chosen of the gods Enlil and] Ninurta, beloved of [the gods Anu (and) Dagān, destructive weapon of the great gods, the pious], beloved of your heart, ruler, [your favorite, whose priesthood is pleasing to your great divinity (and)] whose reign you established, [valiant] man [...] shepherdship of his land ... [...] my [kingship], my dominion, (and) my power which [...] I am capable, I am wise, [...]. (9')…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[...] RÉM-ú [...] / [...] MAN la šá-na-an [...] / [...] dMAŠ na-ra-am [...] / [...] na-ra-am ŠÀ-ka NUN [...] / [...] tu-šar-ši-du BALA-šú eṭ-[lu ...] / [...] SIPA-ti KUR-šu ra-biš ib-[...] / [... MAN]-ti EN-ti kiš-šú-ti šá [...] / [...] le-ʾa-a-ku er-šá-ku [...] / [...] KUR aš-šur NUN-ú a-lik pa-[ni-a ...] / [... ab]-⸢ni?⸣ UN.MEŠ ki-šit-ti [...] / [... si-ḫír]-ti-⸢šá⸣ šá URU.[...] / [...]…
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 Q004483.
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/Q004483/..
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/Q004483/.
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