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Tiglath-pileser III 39
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Tiglath-pileser (III), great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of Sumer <and> Akkad, king of the fo[ur] quarters (of the world), the one chosen by the glance of the god Enlil; the king who from the rising sun to the setting sun considered all of his enemies as (mere) ghosts and took control of (their) power; the one who exchanges the people of the upper land(s) with (those of) the lower land(s), the one who ousted their rulers (and) installed his governors (in their stead). (4) From the beginning of my reign <until my ...teenth palû>, I exercised…
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/Q003452/
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Transliteration
É.GAL mTUKUL-A-é-šár-ra LUGAL GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ⸢ŠÚ⸣ LUGAL KUR aš-šur LUGAL KUR šu-me-ri <ù> URI.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-[ti] / am-ru ni-iš IGI.II d⸢BAD⸣ LUGAL šá ul-tu ṣi-it dšam-ši a-di e-reb d⸢šam-ši⸣ na-gab za-ma-⸢ni-šu⸣ za-qí-<qí>-iš im-nu-ma / i-be-⸢lu⸣ kiš-šú-tu muš-pél UN.MEŠ KUR AN.TA KI.TA mu-na-ki-ir mal-ki-šú-nu ⸢mu⸣-ki-nu LÚ.GÌR.NÍTA.MEŠ-šú / ul-tu SAG* LUGAL-ti-ia <a-di 10+x…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003452.
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/Q003452/..
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/Q003452/.
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