Position in chronology
Aššur-dan II 2
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [had sold] all [their sons and daughters]. By the command [of (the god) Aššur, my lord, I took prisoners]. I inflicted [upon them a] major [defeat] (and then) I carried off [their] booty, [possessions, property, herds, (and) flocks] and [brought them to my city, Aššur. ...]. (6') The land Uluzu...[..., which previously had paid tribute] to my ancestor(s), [... they captured …] for themselves; [(...) by the command/with the support] of (the god) Aššur, my lord, [I mustered] (my) chariots [(and) troops. ... I inflicted] upon them a major defeat. I destroyed, devastated, (and) [burned with…
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/Q006014/
Why it matters
Transliteration
kúl-⸢la?⸣-[at? DUMU.MEŠ-šu-nu DUMU.MUNUS.MEŠ-šu-nu a-na KÙ.BABBAR.MEŠ BÚR.MEŠ-ú-ni] / i-na ⸢si⸣-[qir aš-šur EN-ia a-na ḫu-ub-ta-ni lu aḫ-tab-ta di-ik-ta-šú-nu] / ma-ʾa-[at-ta ...] / a-duk šal-[la-su-nu NÍG.ŠU.MEŠ-šu-nu NÍG.GA-šú-nu GU₄.MEŠ-šú-nu UDU ṣe-ni.MEŠ-šu-nu] / áš-lu-ul-⸢ma⸣ [a-na URU-ia aš-šur ub-la ...] / KUR.ú-lu-zu-x [...] / a-na a-bi-ia [...] / a-na ra-ma-ni-šu-[nu ú-ṣab-bi-tu-ú-ni…
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 Q006014.
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/Q006014/..
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/Q006014/.
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