Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 135
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of 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: (I am the one) who built and constructed the temple of the goddess Ištar of Nineveh.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
Records Ashurnasirpal II's claim to have built the temple of Ištar of Nineveh, anchoring his legitimacy in divine patronage and a three-generation royal genealogy reaching back to Adad-nārārī II.
Transliteration
É.GAL mAŠ-PAP-A MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ-ma šá É dINANNA / šá URU.NINA DÙ-uš-ma ar-ṣip
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 Q004589.
Attribution
Image: BM 090465 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P428064). 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/Q004589/.
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