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Tukulti-Ninurta II 04
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [the god Marduk], sage of [the gods (and) lord of omens; the god Nin]urta, warrior of the Igīgū and Anun[nakū gods; the god Nerga]l, perfect one, [king of battle; the god Nus]ku, bearer of the holy scepter, [circumspect god; the goddess Mill]issu, spouse of the god Enlil, mother of the [great] god[s; (and) the goddess Ištar], foremost in heaven and netherworld, [who is consummate] in the canon[s of combat]. (7') the great [gods], who take firm decisions, [who decree destinies, who ...] ... attent[ive] ruler, [...; (the gods) who] faithful[ly noticed me in] my mother’s womb (and) [altered] my [bi]rth to be a lordly birth; [...] ... people [...] holy ... [... they rightly made perfect my fe]atu[res ...] (r 1') No translation possible.
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/Q006034/
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Transliteration
[dAMAR.UTU] ⸢ABGAL?⸣ [DINGIR.MEŠ EN te-re-te?] / [dnin]-urta qar-rad NUN.GAL.MEŠ ù da-nun-[na-ki] / [dU].⸢GUR⸣ gít-ma-lu [MAN tam-ḫa-ri] / [d]⸢nusku⸣ na-a-áš GIŠ.GIDRU KÙ-ti [DINGIR mul-ta-lu] / [dNIN].⸢LÍL⸣ ḫi-ir-ti dBAD um-mi DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [GAL.MEŠ] / [dINANNA] reš-it-ti AN-e KI-ti šá pa-ra-⸢aṣ⸣ [qar-du-te šuk-lu-lat] / [DINGIR.MEŠ] GAL.MEŠ-te ga-me-ru-ut EŠ.BAR-i [mu-šim-mu dNAM.MEŠ] / [x (x)]…
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 Q006034.
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/Q006034/..
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/Q006034/.
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