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Aššur-dan II 1
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Aššur-dān (II)], strong [king], king of the world, king of Assyria, designate of (the god) Aššur, [whose] name (the god) Aššur called [... from] of old, into [whose] grasp [(the god) Aššur] placed [a just scepter and] an exalted crown, [whom (the god) Aššur ...] grandly established [for kingship over] Assyria; (5) [son of Tiglath-pileser (II), king of the world, king of As]syria, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (II), (who was) also king of the universe (and) king of Assyria. (6) [In my accession year (and) in] my [fir]st regnal year, when [I sat on] the throne of my royal majesty [in a grandiose…
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/Q006013/
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Transliteration
[maš-šur-KAL-an LUGAL dan]-nu LUGAL KIŠ LUGAL KUR aš-šur ni-bit aš-šur / [ša ... ul-tu] ul-la-a aš-šur MU-šu ib-bu-ú / [ša ... ù] a-ga-a ṣi-i-ru ú-šat-me-ḫu / [ša ... a-na MAN-ut] x KUR aš-šur ra-bi-iš ú-kín-nu-šu / [DUMU GIŠ.tukul-ti-A-é-šár-ra LUGAL KIŠ LUGAL KUR aš]-šur DUMU aš-šur-SAG-i-ši MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma / [i-na šur-rat MAN-ti-ia i-na maḫ]-⸢re⸣-e BALA.MEŠ-ia ša i-na GIŠ.GU.ZA…
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 Q006013.
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/Q006013/..
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/Q006013/.
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