Tiglath-pileser III 22

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003435

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Parallel to text no. 21 (1') [...] ... [...] ... [...] I en[veloped] him [like] a (dense) fog [... I] ut[terly demolished ... of sixteen] districts of the land Bīt-Ḫum[rî (Israel). I carried off (to Assyria) ... captives from the city ...]barâ, 625 captives from the city ...a[..., ... (5´) ... captives from the city] Ḫinatuna, 650 captives from the city Ku[..., ... captives from the city Ya]ṭbite, 656 captives from the city Sa...[..., ..., with their belongings. I ...] the cities Arumâ (and) Marum [...]. (8'b) [Mitinti of the land] Ashkelon [neglected] the loyalty oat[h (sworn by) the great…

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/Q003435/

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Transliteration

[...] x x [...] ti [...] / [... GIM] im-ba-⸢ri as?⸣-[ḫu-up]-šú [...] / [... ša 16] na-ge-e šá KUR.É-⸢ḫu?-um?⸣-[ri?-a?] qa-[aq-qa-riš? am-nu? ...]1 / [...]-ba-ra-a 6 ME 25 ⸢šal⸣-lat ⸢URU⸣.[x]-a-[...]2 / [... URU].ḫi-na-tú-na 6 ME 50 šal-lat ⸢URU.ku⸣-[...] / [... URU.ia]-aṭ-bi-te 6 ME 56 šal-lat URU.sa-x-[...]3 / [...] URU.a-ru-ma-a URU.⸢ma⸣-ru-um [...] / [... mmi-ti-in-ti KUR].as-qa-lu-na-a-a ina…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003435.

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/Q003435/..
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/Q003435/.

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