Position in chronology
Adad-narari I 1001
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [..., the son of Ir]ištienni, [...], the grandson of I[...], the offspring of [...: ...]ki, the king of the land [...] rebelled. The wall of the city [...]... and life [...]. Irištienni said: “[...].” (9') With great strength [...], with the mighty weapons [that the goddess Ištar, my lady], the one who goes before me, [had given to me, I entered with] my [firm/wise] heart the land of the Lullumê, w[hich is far off]. Conquest [...] submission [...]. (16') [...] that wall [...] that wall [...]. (20') [(As for) the one who restores my] inscribed [name and my foundation inscriptions, the god Aššur will (then) listen to] his prayers. (21'b) [...] (l.e. 1) The hand of MES[...]
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/Q005787/
Why it matters
Attests Adad-nārārī I's campaign into the Lullumê highlands, placing Assyrian military reach into the Zagros within the generation that transformed Assyria from a vassal into an imperial power.
Transliteration
[...] x x x [...] / [mi-ri]-iš-ti-e-en-ni [...] / [ma]-⸢ar⸣ ma-ri ša mi-x [...] / ⸢le⸣-e-ep-le-e-pí ša [...] / [m?x]-ki LUGAL KUR.x [...] / [ik-ki?]-ir BÀD ša ⸢URU⸣.[...] / ⸢ar/ri⸣-mi-⸢šu⸣-ma ba-la-⸢ṭa?⸣ [...] / um-ma? mi-ri-iš-ti-⸢e?⸣-[en-ni ...] / i-na e-mu-qí da-an-na-⸢ti⸣ [...] / ⸢i-na⸣ ka-ak-ki da-an-nu-⸢ti⸣ [...] / ⸢a⸣-li-ka-at pa-ni-[ia ...] / i-na KUR.lu-ul-lu-ma-a ⸢ša?⸣ [... ina…
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 Q005787.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P452479). 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/Q005787/.
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