Position in chronology
Adad-nerari II 4
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [I am enormously radiant, I am a hero], I am a warrior, [I am a virile] lion, [I am foremost, I am exalted, (and) I am raging]. (2') Adad-nārārī (II), strong king, king of [Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), the one who defeats his enemies, am I]. The king capable in battle, overwhelmer [of cities, (and) the one who scorches the mountains of (foreign) lands, am I]. The virile warrior, [the one who controls those opposed to him, (and the one) who is inflamed against the evil] and the wicked, am I. I scorch] like the god Gīra, [I overwhelm like the deluge, ...], (and) I…
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/Q006023/
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Transliteration
[...] qar-ra-da-ku la-[ab-ba-ku ...] / [m]dIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN dan-nu MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [aš-šur MAN kib-rat 4-i mu-né-er a-ia-bi-šu a-na-ku] / MAN le-ʾu-ú MURUB₄ sa-[pi-in URU.MEŠ mu-šaḫ-me-ṭí KUR-e ša KUR.MEŠ a-na-ku] / zi-ka-ru qar-du [mu-la-iṭ áš-ṭu-te-šú ḫi-it-muṭ rag-gi] / u ṣe-ni ki-ma dGIŠ.BAR [a-ḫa-maṭ ki-ma a-bu-be a-sa-pan ...-ša-te] / mu-né-ḫa ul i-šu [ki-ma GU₄.AMAR da-pi-na-ku ki-ma GÍR] /…
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 Q006023.
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/Q006023/..
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/Q006023/.
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