Position in chronology
Aššur-bel-kala 06
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') [...] ... [...] (2') [He dispatched merchants (and) they acquired burḫiš, dromedaries, (and)] tešēnus. [He formed (herds) of dromedaries, bred (them), (and) displayed] herds of them [to the people of his land]. (4') [The king] of Egypt sent a large [female monkey], a crocodile, [(and) a “river-man,” beasts of the Great Sea. He displayed (them) to the people of his land]. (6') [By the] command of the gods Aššur, Anu, and A[dad, the great gods, my lords, ...] in pursuit of the Arameans, which twice in one year [I crossed the Euphrates River]. I brought about their [defeat from the city…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
[...] x [...] / [... tama-ra-a-te].MEŠ ⸢te-še⸣-[ni.MEŠ ...] / [... su-gul]-⸢la⸣-te-šu-nu [...] / [... pa-gu-ta] GAL-ta ⸢nam-su⸣-[ḫa ...] / [...] ⸢KUR⸣.mu-uṣ-re-e ⸢ú⸣-[še-bi-la ...] / [i-na si]-⸢qir⸣ da-šur da-nim ù d⸢IŠKUR?⸣ [...] / [...] ⸢EGIR⸣ KUR.a-ra-me ša MU 1.KÁM ⸢2?⸣-[šu ÍD.pu-rat-ta lu-ú e-te-bir iš-tu?] / [URU.a]-⸢na⸣-at ša KUR.su-ḫi ù ⸢URU⸣.[tad-mar ù a-di URU.ra-pí-qi ša…
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 Q005987.
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/Q005987/..
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/Q005987/.
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