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Tiglath-pileser III 27
Translation · reference
High confidenceDuplicate of text no. 14:8–text no. 15:3 (1) [I settled] (captives) in the province of the city Tuʾi[mmu]. I settled [555 captive highlanders (lit. “Gutians”) of the city Bīt-Sangibū]ti in the city Tīl-karme. I considered [them] as inhabitants of Assyria, (and) [imposed upon them corvée labor like that of the Assyrians]. (2b) [The payment] of Kuštašpi of the city Kummuḫu, Raḫiānu (Rezin) of the land Damascu[s, Menahem of the city Samaria, Hiram of the city Tyre, Sibit]ti-Biʾil of the city Byblos, Uriaikki of the land Qu[e, Pisīris of the city Carchemish, Ēnī-il of the city Hamath, Pa]nammû of…
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/Q003440/
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Transliteration
i-na NAM URU.tu-ʾi-[im-me ú-še-šib 5 ME 55 šal-la-at KUR.qu-te-e URU.É-sa-an-gi-bu]-⸢ti i-na⸣ URU.DU₆-kar-me ú-še-šib / it-ti UN.MEŠ KUR aš-šur am-nu-[šú-nu-ti il-ku tup-šik-ku ki-i šá áš-šú-ri e-mid-su-nu-ti ma-da-at-tu] ša <m>ku-uš-ta-áš-pi URU.ku-um-mu-ḫa-a-a / mra-ḫi-a-nu KUR.šá-ANŠE.NÍTA-šu-[a-a mme-ni-ḫi-im-me URU.sa-me-ri-na-a-a mḫi-ru-um-mu URU.ṣur-a-a msi-bi-it]-⸢ti⸣-bi-ʾi-li…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003440.
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/Q003440/..
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/Q003440/.
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