Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 118
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, 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, (and) king of Assyria.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
Preserves the tripartite titulary — 'appointee of Enlil, vice-regent of Aššur, king of the world' — through which Ashurnasirpal II anchored his authority in both divine appointment and dynastic descent across three generations.
Transliteration
maš-šur-PAP-A GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / DUMU GIŠ.tukul-ti-dMAŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / DUMU mdIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur-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 Q004572.
Attribution
Image: BM 122667 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P422440). 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/Q004572/.
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