Position in chronology
Adad-nerari III 04
Written in modern English
The kings of the land of Hatti, who had grown powerful during the reign of Shamshi-Adad V and had stirred up revolt along the Orontes or Euphrates, learned of Adad-nerari's approach. Attar-šumki, trusting in his own strength, came out to fight — and lost. Adad-nerari routed him, seized his camp, and carried off the treasure of his palace. From Attar-šumki, son of Abi-rame, he then received tribute beyond counting. Several passages surrounding these events are too damaged to read.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') ... [...] they drew the yoke of [my lordly majesty. The kings of the wide land Ḫatti], who, in the time of Šamšī-[Adad (V), my father, had become strong and caused] the lords of the Orontes/Euphrates River [to rebel, ...] he heard [of my approach] and Attār-š[umki, ...] trusting [in his own strength, attacked to wage war and strife. I defeated him (and)] took away his camp. [...] the treasure of [his] palace [I carried off ... Attār-šumki], son of A(bī)-rāme, [...] I received, without number. [...] ... [...]
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
x x x [...] / ⸢i⸣-šu-ṭu ni-ir [EN-ti-ia? ...] / šá ina tar-ṣi mšam-ši-[d10 ...] / EN.MEŠ šá ÍD.A.[RAD ...] / iš-me-ma ma-tar-⸢šúm⸣-[ki ...] / it-ta-kil-ma ana ⸢e⸣-[peš ...] / uš-ma-nu-šú e*-kim [...] / ni-ṣir-ti ⸢É⸣.[GAL-šu ...] / DUMU ma-ra-me ⸢ul⸣ [...] / ana la ma-ni ⸢am-ḫur⸣ [...] / li-[...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q004752.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) (RIMA 3), Toronto, 1996. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2016) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q004752/..
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q004752/.
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