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Tiglath-pileser III 47
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Tiglath-piles[er (III), great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of Babylon, king of] Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters (of the world); valiant man who, with the help of (the god) Aššur, his lord, [smashed like pots] all [who were unsubmissive to him], swept over (them) like [the] Deluge, and considered (them) as (mere) ghosts; the king who [marched about] at the command of the gods Aššur, Šamaš, and Marduk, the great gods, [and] exercised authority over lands fr[om the Bi]tter Sea of Bīt-Yakīn, as far as Mount Bikni in the east, up to the Sea…
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/Q003460/
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Transliteration
É.GAL mtukul-ti-A-é-šár-[ra LUGAL GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur LUGAL KÁ.DINGIR.KI LUGAL KUR] ⸢šu-me⸣-ri u URI.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-ti1 / GURUŠ qar-du ša ina tu-kul-ti aš-⸢šur EN-šú kul-lat⸣ [la ma-gi-ri-šu GIM ḫaṣ-bat-ti ú-daq-qi-qu a]-⸢bu⸣-biš is-pu-nu-ma zi-qi-qiš im-nu-ú / LUGAL šá ina zi-kir aš-šur dšá-maš u dAMAR.UTU DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ [DU.MEŠ-ma] ⸢ul⸣-[tu ÍD].mar-ra-ti ša…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003460.
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/Q003460/..
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/Q003460/.
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