Tiglath-pileser III 15

~735 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003428

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 1

High confidence

Continued from text no. 14 (1) (Dadīlu) of the the city Kasku, Uassurme of the land Tabal, Ušḫitti of the land (A)tuna, Urpallâ of the land Tuḫana, Tuḫam[me of the city Ištunda], Urimmi of the city Ḫubišna (Ḫubušnu), (and) Zabibê, queen of the Arabs: gold, silver, tin, iron, elephant hides, ivo[ry], multi-colored garments, linen garments, blue-purple (and) [red]-purple wool, ebony, boxwood, all kinds of precious things from the royal treasure, li[ve] sheep [whose wool] is dyed red-purple, flying birds of the sky whose wings are dyed blue-purple, horses, mules, oxen and she[ep and goats,…

Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 1 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

URU.kas-ka-a-a mú-as-sur-me KUR.ta-bal-a-a muš-ḫi-it-ti KUR.tu-na-a-a mur-pal-la-a KUR.tu-⸢ḫa-na⸣-a-a mtu-⸢ḫa-am⸣-[me URU.iš-tu-un-da-a-a]1 / mú-ri-im-mì-i URU.ḫu-bi-iš-na-a-a fza-⸢bi-bé⸣-e šar-rat KUR.a-ri-bi KÙ.GI KÙ.BABBAR ⸢AN.NA AN.BAR⸣ KUŠ AM.SI ⸢ZÚ⸣ [AM.SI]2 / lu-bul-ti bir-me TÚG.GADA SÍG.ta-⸢kil⸣-tu ⸢SÍG⸣.[ár]-ga-man-nu GIŠ.ESI GIŠ.TÚG mim-ma aq-ru ni-ṣir-ti ⸢LUGAL⸣-ú-ti UDU.NÍTA.MEŠ…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser III or Shalmaneser V, edited by Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada (RINAP 1, 2011). ORACC text Q003428.

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/Q003428/..
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/Q003428/.

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