Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 30
Translation · reference
High confidenceDuplicate of text no. 13:5–7 (1) as far as Mount Saue — which abut[s] Mount Leba[n]on — Mount Baʾali-ṣapūna as far as Mount Amma[nā]na — the boxwood mountain — [Mount] Saue in its entirety, the province of the city Kār-Adad, the city Ḫatarik[ka], the province of the city Nuqudina, the land Ḫasu[atti, together with cities] in its environs, the city Arâ, [...]
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/Q003443/
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Transliteration
a-di KUR.sa-ú-e KUR-e ša ina KUR.lab-na-[na]-ma it-tak-ki-⸢pu-ú⸣-[ni] / KUR.ba-ʾa-li-ṣa-⸢pu⸣-na a-di KUR.am-ma-[na]-⸢na⸣ KUR GIŠ.TÚG KUR.sa-⸢ú-e⸣ [KUR-e] / a-na gi-mir-ti-šu NAM URU.kar-d⸢IŠKUR⸣ URU.ḫa-ta-⸢rik⸣-[ka] / NAM URU.nu-qu-di-na KUR.ḫa-su-[at-ti a-di URU.MEŠ-ni] / ša si-ḫir-ti-šú URU.a-ra-a [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003443.
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/Q003443/..
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/Q003443/.
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