Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta II 06
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of the world, king of Assyria], son of Adad-nārārī (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-dān (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria; [...] to its full extent. The king who [...] (the territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the Tigris River to the land Ḫatti, [...] the Naʾiri lands to their (text: “its”) full extent, the land Sūḫu, including [the city Rapiqu, [(...); he] captured [... from the passes of] the land Ḫabruri to the land Gilzānu, Apâ, king of the city Ḫubuškia, [... H]e conquered (the territory…
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/Q006036/
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Transliteration
[...] A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A aš-šur-KAL-an MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ-ma / [...] ⸢gim⸣-ri-šá MAN ša TA <e>-ber-ta-an ÍD.ḪAL.ḪAL a-di KUR.ḫat-te / [...] ša KUR.KUR.na-i-ri a-na paṭ gim-ri-šá KUR.su-ḫi a-di / [...] KUR.ḫab-ru-ri a-di KUR.gíl-za-a-ni ma-pa-a MAN URU.ḫu-ub-uš-ki-a / [... iṣ?]-bat TA né-re-be ša KUR.ba-bi-te a-di / [...] ⸢si⸣-ḫír-ti-šá TA ÍD.za-ba-KI.TA / [...] el-la-an za-ban…
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 Q006036.
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/Q006036/..
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/Q006036/.
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