Ashurnasirpal II 116

~875 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q004570

Translation — scholar edition

RIAo

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(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria.

Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).

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Why it matters

One of the royal inscriptions establishing Ashurnasirpal II's three-generation Assyrian lineage, a formulaic claim that grounded his legitimacy in an unbroken line of world-kings.

Transliteration

mAŠ-PAP-A MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / A mTUKUL-MAŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / A m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ-ma

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 Q004570.

Attribution

Image: BM 123495 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P422571). 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/Q004570/.

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