Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 2001
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [I, Ninurta-bēlu]-uṣur, provincial governor of the city Kār-Shalma[neser], erected solid basalt [lions ...] ... (which are) in the gate[s of] the city Ḫadattu. (4b) Ninurta-bēlu-uṣur, of the city Ṣirani, which is (in the area of) the city Ḫalaḫḫi, which is in front of the city Lipapan in the mountains, (and) my ancestral city: (6b) At that time, I created, built, (and) completed the city Ḫadattu. (8) (As for) a future ruler who repairs its dilapidated section(s but) erases my inscribed name and inscribes his (own) name (in its place), may (the god) Aššur, the great lord, (10) in the assembly of the gods verily order his destruction, ... and his name ...
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/Q003617/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[a-na-ku? mdMAŠ-EN]-⸢PAP⸣ EN.NAM URU.⸢kar-m⸣dSILIM-⸢ma⸣-[nu-MAŠ] / [UR.MAḪ.MEŠ NA₄].⸢AD⸣.BAR ki-ṣir KUR-e [x x (x)] / [...] x x ⸢šá?⸣ ina KÁ.GAL.[MEŠ] ⸢URU.ḫa⸣-da-tú / ul-ziz mdMAŠ-EN-PAP šá URU.ṣi-ra-ni / šá URU.ḫa-laḫ-ḫi šá pa-an URU.li-pa-pa-an / KUR-e ⸢URU⸣ É AD-a ina u₄-me-šú-ma / URU.ḫa-da-tú ab-ni ar-ṣip ú-šak-lil1 / NUN-ú ⸢EGIR⸣ šá an-ḫu-su ud-diš-šú šá MU šaṭ-rù / ⸢i⸣-pa-⸢ši⸣-ṭu-ma MU-šú i-šaṭ-ṭar aš-šur EN GAL-ú / ina ⸢UKKIN⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ ZÁḪ-šú liq-bi ma-aʾ-dà / x la ba? ù? MU-šú ⸢ḫup-pu-šá?⸣ KA-ra-di
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003617.
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/Q003617/..
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/Q003617/.
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