Position in chronology
Adad-nerari II 8
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Adad-nārārī (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-dān (II), [king of the world], king of Assyria, son of Tigla[th-piles]er (II), [(who was) also] king of the world (and) [king of Assyria].
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/Q006027/
Why it matters
Standard titulary of Adad-nārārī II anchoring his legitimacy through two generations of royal descent, attesting the formulaic language by which Assyrian kings asserted dynastic continuity around 900 BCE.
Transliteration
É.GAL m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL-ú / MAN dan-nu MAN ⸢KIŠ⸣ MAN KUR aš-šur / DUMU maš-šur-KAL-an [MAN KIŠ] MAN KUR aš-šur / DUMU mGIŠ.tukul-⸢ti⸣-[A-é-šár]-⸢ra⸣ / MAN KIŠ [MAN KUR aš-šur-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 Q006027.
Attribution
Image: UM 33-04-144 (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) — from Šibaniba (mod. Tell Billa) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P461697). 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/Q006027/.
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