Eriba-Adad II 1

• mSU-dIŠKUR — Logographic writing of the royal name Eriba-Adad (literally 'Adad has replaced/compensated'); here Eriba-Adad II (king of Assyria, c. 1056–1054 BCE), distinguished from Eriba-Adad I (c. 1390–1364 BCE) by the regnal context.
• bi-⸢bíl⸣ [lìb-bi] — bībil libbi = 'heart's desire / beloved'; partially broken; restoration standard for Assyrian royal titulary.
• SANGA-ú — šangû = 'priest / temple administrator'; the restoration [SANGA-ú] here gives the epithet 'pure priest (of Aššur),' a common royal title; the sign is broken and the reading is restored.
• ti-ri-iṣ qa-at dMAŠ — tiriṣ qāt Ninurta = 'chosen/elect of the hand of Ninurta'; tiriṣ (also written tirṣu) means 'chosen, appointed'; dMAŠ = Ninurta.
• IGI.MEŠ dBAD — IGI.MEŠ = 'eyes'; dBAD = Enlil (logographic); 'pride/object-of-gaze of the eyes of Enlil' is a royal epithet attested in several Middle Assyrian texts.
• giš-gi-nu-⸢ú dan⸣-nu — giš-ginû dannu = 'strong/mighty giš-ginû'; giš-ginû (also gišginû) is a weapon type, possibly a type of spear or lance; the exact typology is debated in secondary literature.
• al-ṭu-te — alṭūtu (< alāṭu?) = 'fierce ones'; the word is used both as an epithet of the king and as a description of enemies; its precise morphological derivation is discussed but generally rendered 'fierce/ferocious.'
• UB.MEŠ ⸢ul-ta-nap⸣-ša-qa — UB.MEŠ = kibāru / ūbū = 'regions/corners (of the world)'; ul-ta-nap-ša-qa is the Gtn stem of našāqu 'to press / to kiss (the feet)'; alternatively 'to reach, to attain'; the reading of ⸢ul-ta-nap⸣ is partially broken and uncertain.
• [i-ḫi-il-lu] — iḫillu (< aḫālu?) = 'they quake/tremble'; fully restored from parallel; cannot be verified from the photograph.

Visual examination of the photograph: The tablet (K.2693, British Museum) is photographed from multiple angles. The obverse (upper centre image) shows several lines of dense Neo-Assyrian cuneiform, largely legible in the upper portion but becoming more damaged and eroded toward the lower edges. The wedge impressions are moderately clear in the top half of the obverse; individual signs can be traced but not read at high confidence at this image resolution and scale. The reverse (lower centre) shows only faint traces of writing in a few lines near the top, with the remainder largely blank or too eroded to read; the surface appears considerably more damaged than the obverse. Side views show the tablet's thickness and minor chipping. The museum label 'K.2693' is visible on the left edge. Overall, the photo broadly corroborates the presence of multiple lines of royal titulary text on the obverse consistent with the transliteration, but individual sign verification is not possible at this resolution — especially for the heavily restored passages in square brackets. The transliteration is provided by ORACC (Q005998) and belongs to the corpus of Eriba-Adad II royal inscriptions; the titulary formulae are standard for Middle Assyrian royal building or dedicatory texts. Extensive restorations are required due to breakage along the right edge of the tablet, visible in the photo. The giš-ginû weapon epithet and the mountain-subduing topos are well paralleled in contemporary Assyrian royal inscriptions (cf. RIMA 1).