Position in chronology
Aššur-reša-iši I 06
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Palace of Aššur-rēša]-iši (I), [designate of the god] Anu, [the one who puts the] insubordinate to flight, [the one who lays] low [all of the] rebellious, [strong king, king of the world, king of] Assyria, [son of Mutakkil]-Nusku, [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/Q005904/
Why it matters
Attests Aššur-rēša-iši I's royal titulary — 'designate of Anu, king of the world' — fixing the ideological vocabulary through which Middle Assyrian kings claimed cosmic authority a generation before Tiglath-pileser I's conquests.
Transliteration
[É.GAL maš-šur-SAG]-⸢i⸣-ši / [ni-bi-it d]AN / [mu-šap]-⸢ri?⸣-id / [la ka]-⸢ni⸣-še / [mu-šam]-qít / [ka-liš] ⸢mul⸣-tar-ḫi / [MAN KALA MAN KIŠ MAN] KUR aš-šur / [A mu-tàk-kil-d]nusku / [MAN KUR] ⸢aš-šur⸣
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 Q005904.
Attribution
Image: BM 137494 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P428625). 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/Q005904/.
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