Tiglath-pileser III 13

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003426

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After gap, continued from text no. 12 (1) [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] Azriyau (Azrī-Iāu) [... I] seized and [...] ... [...] ... [... I imposed upon them] payment like that of [the Assyrians]. (3b) [...] ... the city Kur... [...] ... [...] his helper(s), the cities El[..., (5) ..., Usn]û, Siʾannu, Ma[...], Kašpūna, [which is] on the sea[coast], together with citi[es ..., as far as Mount Saue — which a]buts [Mount Lebanon] — Mount Ba[ʾali]-ṣapūna, as far as Mount Amma[nā]na — the boxwood mountain — [Mount] Sa[ue in its entirety, the province of the city Kār-Adad, the city Ḫatarikka, the…

Source: Tadmor, H. & Yamada, S. 2011. The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria. RINAP 1. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap1/Q003426/

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Transliteration

[...] áš ú [...] tu a [...] li a a [...]1 / [...] x maz-ri-a-⸢ú⸣ [... ú]-ṣab-bit-ma [...]-ṣa-ti ad-[...]2 / [...]-ú-ti x [...] ma-da-at-tu ki-i šá [aš-šu-ri e-mid-su-nu-ti ...]3 / [...]-ma URU.kur?-x [...]-⸢lu⸣ [...] kit-ri-šú URU.el-[...]4 / [... URU.us-nu]-u URU.si-an-⸢nu⸣ URU.⸢ma⸣-[...] ⸢URU⸣.ka-⸢áš⸣-pu-⸢na⸣ [ša a-ḫi] tam-tim a-di URU.MEŠ-[ni ... a-di KUR.sa-ú-e KUR-e]5 / [ša ina…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003426.

Attribution

Image: Created by Hayim Tadmor, Shigeo Yamada, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, for the NEH-funded RINAP Project at the University of Pennsylvania. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003426/..
Translation excerpted from Tadmor, H. & Yamada, S. 2011. The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria. RINAP 1. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap1/Q003426/.

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