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Tukulti-Ninurta II 03
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [(the god) Aššur, king of all the great gods; god Anu, king of the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods]; lord of the lands; the god Enlil, exalted one, [father of the gods; the god Ea, king of the apsû, who decrees destinies; the god Sîn, king of the lunar disk, lord of brilliance]; the god Adad, the exceptionally strong, lo[rd of abundance; the god Šamaš, judge of heaven and netherworld, commander of all; the god Marduk, sage of the gods (and) lord of omens]; the god Ninurta, warrior of the Igīgū and [Anunnakū gods; the god Nergal, perfect one, king of battle; the god Nusku, bearer of the holy…
Source: 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/Q006033/
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Transliteration
[aš-šur MAN gim-rat DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ da-nu MAN dNUN.GAL u da-nun-na-ki] ⸢d⸣EN KUR.KUR dBAD ṣi-i-ru [a-bu DINGIR.MEŠ] / [dé-a MAN ZU.AB mu-šim-mu dNAM.MEŠ d30 šar a-ge-e EN nam-ri-ri] dIŠKUR geš-ru šu-tu-ru ⸢EN⸣ [ḫé-gál-li] / [dšá-maš DI.KU₅ AN-e u KI-te mu-ma-ʾe-er gim-ri? dAMAR.UTU ABGAL DINGIR.MEŠ EN te-re-te?] dMAŠ* qar-rad dNUN.GAL u [da-nun-na-ki] / [dU.GUR gít-ma-lu MAN tam-ḫa-ri dnusku…
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 Q006033.
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/Q006033/..
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/Q006033/.
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