Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 048
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), [strong] king, [... son of Tuku]ltī-Ninurta (II), [...] the temple [...] … [...] (r 1') ... [...] the god Adad [...] will erase [...].
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
Attests Ashurnasirpal II's invocation of the storm-god Adad as divine enforcer of a royal decree, linking Neo-Assyrian kingship ideology to divine sanction for legal or cultic obligations.
Transliteration
⸢m⸣aš-šur-PAP-A ⸢MAN⸣ [...] / [mGIŠ].⸢tukul⸣-ti-d⸢MAŠ⸣ [...] / [x] É.KUR [...] / [x] x x A x [...] / LU x [...] / dIŠKUR [...] / i-pa-ši-ṭu x [...]
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 Q004502.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P401281). 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/Q004502/.
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