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Adad-nerari III 05
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Adad-nārārī (III), great king], strong [king], king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), [king of the world, king of Assyria, son of] Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world): (3) I mustered (my) [chariotry, troops] and armed forces and [gave the order to march] to the land Ḫatti. I crossed the Euphrates River in flood. (5) I went down [to the city Paqarḫu]buni. Attār-šumki, [son of Abi-rāmu, together with eight kin]gs of the land Ḫatti, who had rebelled and [trusted in their strength] – the awesome radiance of the god Aššur, my lord, [overwhelmed…
Source: 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/Q004753/
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Transliteration
[m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL MAN] dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur A mšam-ši-10 / [MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur A] ⸢msál⸣-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN kib-rat LÍMMU-ti / [GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ ERIM.ḪI.A.MEŠ] ⸢KARAŠ⸣ lu-ú ad-ke a-na KUR.ḫat-⸢ti⸣ / [a-na DU-ki lu aq-bi] ⸢ÍD⸣.A.RAD ina mi-⸢li⸣-šá e-⸢bir⸣ / [a-na URU.pa-qi-ra-ḫu]-bu-na a-ta-rad ma-tar-šúm-⸢ki⸣ / [A mAD-ra-me a-di 8 MAN].⸢MEŠ⸣-ni šá ⸢KUR.ḫat⸣-ti šá i-si-ḫu-⸢ma⸣ / [a-na…
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 Q004753.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) (RIMA 3), Toronto, 1996. Updated version based on K. Radner, "The Stele of Adad-nērāri III and Nergal-ēreš from Dūr-Katlimmu (Tell Šaiḫ Ḥamad)," AoF 39 (2012) pp. 265-277. Adapted and lemmatized by Nathan Morello (2020) 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/Q004753/..
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/Q004753/.
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