Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 2003
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) On the life of the god Šamaš, the goddess Ereškigal, (and) the Anunnakū gods, the great gods of the netherworld, the destiny of a (mortal) life took Yabâ, the queen, into death and she went the way of her (text: “his”) ancestors. (5) (As for) anyone in the future — whether (she be) a queen who sits on a throne or a palace lady who is beloved by the king — who removes me from my tomb, or places anybody else with me, and (10) lays her (text: “his”) hand on my jewelry with evil intent (or) opens the seal of that tomb, above (on the earth), under the rays of the sun, may her (text: “his”)…
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/Q003619/
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Transliteration
MU dUTU dereš-ki-gal da-nun-a-ki / DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ šá KI-ti fia-ba-a / MUNUS.É.GAL ina mu-te NAM ZI-ti / ik-šú-da-še-ma ur-ḫu AD.MEŠ-šú ta-lik / man-nu EGIR-ú lu MUNUS.É.GAL / šá ina GIŠ.GU.ZA tu-šá-ba lu MUNUS.ERIM.MEŠ É.GAL / na-ra-an-te MAN šá ul-tú KI.MAḪ-ia / i-da-ka-in-ni lu mam-ma šá-nu-u-⸢ma⸣ / it-ti-ia i-šá-kan-nu ù a-na / šu-ku-ti-ia qa-su ina ḪUL-te LAL-ṣu / šá NA₄.KIŠIB šá KI.MAḪ…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003619.
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/Q003619/..
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/Q003619/.
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