Tiglath-pileser III 18

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003431

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After gap, continued from text no. 17 (1) I captured (and) defeated the cities [...], Ḫista, Ḫarbisinna, Barbaz, (and) Tasa, as far as the Uluruš River. I carried off 8,650 people, [... hors]es, 300 mules, 660 asses, 1,350 oxen, (and) 19,000 sheep. (Those cities) I destroyed, devastated, (and) burned with fire. [...] I annexed their [...] to Assyria, rebuilt those cities, (and) settled therein the people of (foreign) lands conquered by me. [...] (and) set up [the weapon of (the god) Aššur], my [lord], therein. I added it (the area) to the province of the land Naʾiri. (4b) [I captured (and)…

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/Q003431/

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Transliteration

[...] URU.ḫi-is-ta URU.ḫa-ra-bi-si-na URU.ba-ar-ba-az URU.ta-sa a-di ÍD.ú-lu-ru-uš ak-šud di-ik-ta-šú-nu a-duk 8 LIM 6 ME 50 UN.MEŠ / [... ANŠE.KUR].⸢RA⸣.MEŠ 3 ME ANŠE.GÌR.NUN.NA.MEŠ 6 ME 60 ANŠE.MEŠ 1 LIM 3 ME 50 GU₄.MEŠ 19 LIM UDU.MEŠ áš-lu-la ap-pul aq-qur ina IZI áš-ru-up1 / [...]-x-šú-nu a-na mi-ṣir KUR aš-šur GUR-ra URU.MEŠ-ni šu-a-tu-nu a-na eš-šu-ti DÙ-uš UN.MEŠ KUR.KUR ki-šit-ti ŠU.II-ia…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003431.

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/Q003431/..
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/Q003431/.

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