Position in chronology
Tukulti-Ninurta II 15
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), strong king, king of the world, [king of] Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II) strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-dān (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
Preserves Tukulti-Ninurta II's three-generation royal genealogy, anchoring his legitimacy to Adad-nārārī II and Aššur-dān II within the standard titulary of early Neo-Assyrian kingship.
Transliteration
É.GAL mGISKIM-dMAŠ MAN dan-nu MAN ⸢KIŠ⸣ [MAN] KUR AŠ / A m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ MAN KUR AŠ / A mAŠ-KAL-an MAN KIŠ MAN KUR AŠ-ma
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 Q006045.
Attribution
Image: BM 115708 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P428457). 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/Q006045/.
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