Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 052
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') conqueror [from the passes of land Ḫabr]uri to the land Gilzā[nu]; I [conquered from the source of] the Subnat River to [the land Šubr]ia (and) the interior of the land Nirbu; I subdued the land Lāqê, to its [fu]ll extent, (and) the land Sūḫu, including the city Rapiqu; [I brought] within the boundaries [of my land] (the territory stretching) from the passes of Mount Babi[te] to land Ḫašmar, the land Zamua, in [its] entirety, [from] the opposite bank of the Lower Zab [to] Tīl-Abāri, which is upstream from the land Z[abban, to Tīl-ša]-Abtāni and Tīl-ša-Za[bdāni; the cities Ḫiri]mmu (and)…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[... ka]-ši-id [...] / [iš-tu né-re-bi šá KUR.ḫab]-⸢ru⸣-ri a-di KUR.⸢gíl?-za⸣-[ni] / [TA SAG e-ni] ÍD.su-ub-na-at a-di / [KUR.šub-re]-e KUR.ni-ir-bi šá be-ta-ni qa-a-ti / [ik-šud] KUR.la-qe-e a-na paṭaṭ / [gim]-⸢ri⸣-šá KUR.su-ḫi a-di URU.ra-pi-qi a-na / [GÌR].MEŠ-a ú-še-ek-ni-šá TA né-re-be šá KUR.ba-⸢bi⸣-[ti] / [a]-⸢di⸣ KUR.ḫa-áš-mar KUR.za-mu-a ana si-ḫír-⸢ti⸣-[šá] / [iš-tu] ⸢e⸣-ber-ta-an…
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 Q004506.
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/Q004506/..
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/Q004506/.
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