Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 138
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Adad-nārārī (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur: (4) (As for) the five towers from the towers of the Kalkal Gate to the towers of the gates [(which one uses) when entering]the forecourt of the god Nunnamnir, [...] … [...] …
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
maš-šur-PAP-A GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur / A tukul-ti-dMAŠ GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur / A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur / 5 ⸢na-me⸣-ru iš-⸢tu⸣ na-me-ri / ša KÁ dkal-kal-⸢la?⸣ a-di na-me-⸢ri⸣ / ša KÁ.GAL.ME a-na ⸢KISAL? d?nun?-nam?-nir?⸣ / [...] (traces) / [...] (traces)
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 Q004592.
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/Q004592/..
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/Q004592/.
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