Position in chronology
Adad-nerari III 08
Written in modern English
This is the palace of Adad-nārārī III — great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria. From his youth, the god Aššur, king of the Igīgū gods, singled him out, handed him unrivalled power, made his rule feel like medicine to the people of Assyria, and set his throne in place. He is the devoted priest who never stops supplying the temple Ešarra and upholding the rites of Ekur, who marches to war backed by his lord Aššur, and brings the rulers of all four corners of the world to heel. His conquests reach from Mount Siluna in the east, through the lands of Namri — and here the inscription breaks off.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of Adad-nārārī (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; the king in whose youth (the god) Aššur, king of the Igīgū gods, chose, entrusted him with unrivalled rulership, made his shepherdship pleasing like a healing drug to the people of Assyria, (and) established his throne; the holy priest who unceasingly provides for Ešarra (and) maintains the rites of Ekur, the one who campaigns with the support of (the god) Aššur, his lord, and subdues the rulers of the four quarters (of the world); (5b) the conqueror from Mount Siluna in the east, the lands Namri,…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
É.GAL m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ MAN šá ina TUR-šú aš-šur MAN dí-gì-gì ut-tu-šú-ma mal-kut / la šá-na-an ú-mal-lu-ú qa-tuš-šú SIPA-su GIM Ú TI UGU UN.MEŠ KUR aš-šur ú-ṭí-bu-ma / ú-šar-ši-du GIŠ.GU.ZA-šú SANGA KÙ za-nin é-šár-ra la mu-par-ku-ú mu-kil GARZA É.KUR / šá ina GIŠ.tukul-ti aš-šur EN-šú DU.DU-ku-ma mal-ki šá kib-rat LÍMMU-ti / ú-šék-ni-šú a-na GÌR.II.MEŠ-šú ka-šid…
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 Q004756.
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/Q004756/..
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/Q004756/.
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