Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta II 02
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) [(The god) Aššur, king of al]l the [great] gods; [the god Anu, king of] the Igīgū and Anun[nakū gods; lord of the lands, the god Enlil, exalted one], father of the god[s; the god Ea, king of the a]psû, the one who decre[es destinies; the god Sîn, king of the lunar d]isk, lord of [brilliance; the god Adad, the] exceptionally [stron]g, lord of [abundance; the god Šamaš, ju]dge 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 Anun[nakū gods; god] Nergal, perfect one, [king of battle]; the god…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[aš-šur MAN] ⸢gim⸣-rat DINGIR.MEŠ [GAL.MEŠ] / [da-nu MAN] ⸢d⸣NUN.GAL u da-nun-[na-ki] / [dEN KUR.KUR dBAD ṣi-i-ru] a-bu DINGIR.[MEŠ] / [dé-a MAN] ⸢ZU⸣.AB mu-šim-[mu dNAM.MEŠ] / [d30 MAN 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]…
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 Q006032.
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/Q006032/..
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/Q006032/.
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