Tiglath-pileser III 23

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003436

Translation · reference

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After gap, continued from text nos. 21 and 22 (1) [...] which [are] without num[ber ...] ... the city Atu[...] the (tribe) Qabiʾi [...] ... [... (5) ... the fortress] of Labbanat [... Arameans] on the banks of [... River(s), ...] the (tribe) Bū[du ...] Continued in text no. 24

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/Q003436/

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Transliteration

[...] ⸢ša⸣ la ni-[ba ...] / [...] x URU.a-tú-[...] / [... LÚ].⸢qa-ab⸣-ʾe-e [...] / [...] x x ša in-[...] / [... URU.bir-tu] ša ⸢la-ab⸣-ba-na-at [...]1 / [... LÚ.a-ru-mu] šá šid-di [...] / [...] ⸢LÚ⸣.bu-[ú-du ...]

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003436.

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/Q003436/..
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/Q003436/.

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