Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 1001
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') [... T]ukulti-[Ninurta (II) ...] (2') [...] I reached. [...] the city [...] (3') [...]. I wrote out my commemorative inscription(s) (and) [...] (4') [... to] their [pl]aces [...].
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
One of the surviving manuscript witnesses to an Ashurnasirpal II inscription that names Tukulti-Ninurta II, anchoring the commemorative text within the tradition of Assyrian royal self-presentation at Kalḫu.
Transliteration
[... GIŠ].⸢tukul?⸣-ti-[dMAŠ? ...] / [...] ⸢ak⸣-šud URU.x [...] / [... NA₄.NA]-⸢RÚ⸣.A-ia al-⸢ṭu⸣-[ur ...] / [... a-na] ⸢áš⸣-ri-šu-nu [...]
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 Q004593.
Attribution
Image: BM 128405 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P423153). 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/Q004593/.
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