Position in chronology
Aššur-dan I 1001
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') (No translation warranted.)
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/Q005896/
Why it matters
One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Aššur-dān I, attesting the titulary and self-presentation of a Middle Assyrian king at the threshold of Assyria's rise to imperial power.
Transliteration
[...] x x [(x)] / [...] x ⸢e⸣ et te [(x)] / [...] x ka-ra-ši-šu áš-⸢ši?⸣ / [...] x-ta-al-qí mi-iṣ-ri / [...] x šá-a-tu / [...] x ⸢ri⸣ e-liš ù šap-liš / [... aš]-⸢ru⸣-up URU.MEŠ-šu a-na šup-pí / [...] x-ia-aš ù KUR.ir-ri-ia / [...] aš-šur ub-la i-na KUR.su-ḫi / [...] x ⸢ak⸣-šud šal-la-su aš-lu-la / [...] ⸢LUGAL⸣.MEŠ šá KUR.šá-da-ni / [...] ⸢a⸣-né-er ù ú-še-ek-ni-iš / [...]-⸢šu⸣ i-na-ru it-te-ia-ma / [...] x ka-bi-ta ù aq-ra / [...]-⸢ia-e-ni⸣ LUGAL KUR.še-li-ni / [...] x im x x
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 Q005896.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P394589). 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/Q005896/.
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