Position in chronology
Tiglath-pileser III 48
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] ... [...] his [...] ... on dry land [...] I made (them) lay down [their lives. ...] that city, to[gether with ... in] the midst of the sea I swept over them and anni[hilated (them). (5´) ... As for him, terror of my battle array fe]ll [upon him] and his heart pounded. He put on sackcloth ... [... of] ivory, ebony, inlaid with (precious) stones (and) gold, together with ... [...], ivory, fine oil, all types of aromatics, E[gyptian] horses, [... I est]ablished [... I exercised authority] from the city Kašpūna, which is on the shore of the [Upper] Sea, [as far as ... (and) I placed]…
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/Q003461/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[...] x [...] / [...]-x-ma-šu ina na-ba-li [...] / [... ZI.MEŠ-šu-nu] ú-šat-bi-ik URU šu-a-tu ⸢a⸣-[di ...]1 / [... ina] MURUB₄ tam-tim ar-ḫi-su-nu-ti-ma a-di ⸢la⸣ [ba-še-e]2 / [ú-šá-lik ... šu-ú ḫur-ba-šú ta-ḫa-zi-ia UGU-šú im]-⸢qut⸣-ma it-ru-ku ŠÀ.MEŠ-šú TÚG.sa-gu il-la-biš x [...]3 / [...] ZÚ GIŠ.ESI tam-lit NA₄.MEŠ KÙ.GI a-di x [...] / [...] ZÚ AM.SI Ì DÙG.GA ŠIM.ḪI.A DÙ-a-ma ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003461.
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/Q003461/..
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/Q003461/.
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