Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta II 1002
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] … [... the land S]ūḫu, includ[ing … the city T]īl-bāri, [... the city Dū]r-Kurigalzu, [...] at (his) feet. [...] the god [...]
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/Q006049/
Why it matters
Fragmentary royal inscription of Tukulti-Ninurta II attesting Assyrian claims over Sūḫu and Dūr-Kurigalzu, tracing the mid-Euphrates frontier his son Aššurnaṣirpal II would later consolidate.
Transliteration
[...] x-te [...] / [... KUR].⸢su⸣-ḫi a-⸢di⸣ [...] / [... URU].⸢DU₆⸣-ba-a-ri x [...] / [... URU].⸢BÀD⸣-ku-ri-gal-zi x [...] / [...] x ana GÌR.II.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] / [...] x DINGIR? [...]
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 Q006049.
Attribution
Image: BM 123497 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P422573). 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/Q006049/.
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