Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 045
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of all the four quarters (of the world), ruler of all of the lands, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also strong king, king of the world, (and) king of Assyria: (13) (As for) the temple of the goddess [Ištar], my lady, I built (and) completed (it) from its foundation(s) to its crenellations. (20) [May] a future ruler [restore its] dilapidated section(s).
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
maš-šur-PAP-A / MAN dan-nu / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / MAN kul-lat / kib-rat / LÍMMU-ti / mur-te-du-u / ka-liš KUR.KUR / A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN dan-nu / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN dan-nu / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ-ma / ⸢É d⸣[INANNA] / ⸢NIN⸣-ia / TA UŠ₈-šú / a-di / gaba-dib-bi-šú / ar-ṣip / ú-šak-⸢lil⸣ / NUN-ú / ⸢EGIR⸣-ú / an-ḫu-[su lu-ud-diš]
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 Q004499.
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/Q004499/..
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/Q004499/.
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