Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 051
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), 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, king of Assyria; valiant man who acts with the support of (the god) Aššur, his lord, and has no rival among the rulers of the four quarters (of the world), marvelous shepherd, fearless in battle, mighty flood-tide which has no opponent, the king who subdues those insubordinate to him, who rules all peoples, the strong male who treads upon…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
maš-šur-PAP-A MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A TUKUL-MAŠ / MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ / MAN KUR AŠ-ma eṭ-lu qar-du šá ina GIŠ.tukul-ti aš-šur EN-šú DU.DU-ma / ina mal-ki.MEŠ šá kib-rat LÍMMU-ta šá-nin-šú la i-šu-ú / LÚ.SIPA tab-ra-a-te la-di-ru GIŠ.LAL e-du-ú gap-šú šá ma-ḫi-ra / la i-šú-ú MAN mu-šá-ak-ni-ìš la kan-šú-te-šú šá nap-ḫar…
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 Q004505.
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/Q004505/..
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/Q004505/.
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