Tiglath-pileser III 16

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003429

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Continued from text no. 15 (1) (Completely destroyed) (3) [... I carried] off their [bo]oty. [...] He assembled [...] and ... to Mount [...] ... [...] ... [... (5) I] went up af[ter them], defeat[ed] them, (and) carried off their [bo]oty. [I ...] Yabittarru [...] ... [(As for) the rest] of them, who had fled to the land Amāte, a district opposite Mount Rūa, and who ... [...], I went after [them], defeated them, (and) took them away as one (group). (7b) (As for) the people of the land Karzibra, ... [...], they abandoned [...]. I pursued them and in the very course of (that) march I swept over…

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/Q003429/

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Transliteration

[...] / [...] / [... šal]-la-su-nu [áš-lu-la ...] / [...] ⸢ú-paḫ⸣-ḫir-ma a-na ⸢KUR⸣.[...] KUR.x x x ⸢MEŠ⸣ x x ⸢KUR⸣.x [...] ⸢KUR⸣.[...] / ⸢ar⸣-[ki-šú-nu e]-li-ma di-ik-ta-šú-nu [a-duk šal]-la-su-nu áš-lu-la mia-⸢bit*⸣-ta-ar-⸢ru⸣ [...]1 / x ⸢a tu⸣ x [si-it-tu]-ú*-te-šú-nu ša ip-par-ši-du-ma a-na KUR.a-ma-te na-ge-e ša SAG KUR.ru-ú-a KUR-e šá x [...]2 / ⸢ar-ki⸣-[šú-nu] a-lik di-ik-ta-šú-nu a-duk…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003429.

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/Q003429/..
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/Q003429/.

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