Position in chronology
Adad-nerari III 2003
Written in modern English
This is the seal inscription of Bēl-tarṣi-ilumma, a eunuch serving Adad-nārārī III, king of the world, and himself governor of the city of Kalḫu and the territories of Ḫamedê, Temeni, and Yaluna. It closes with a personal declaration of faith: he has placed his trust in the god Nabû and asks not to be put to shame.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Seal of Bēl-tarṣi-ilumma, eunuch of Adad-nārārī (III), king of the world, the governor of the city Kalḫu (and) the lands [Ḫamed]ê, Temeni, (and) Yaluna. I have trusted in you, O Nabû, let me not be put to shame!
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
KIŠIB mEN-LAL-DINGIR-ma / šá SAG šá m10-ERIM.TÁḪ / MAN ŠÁR GAR.KUR URU.kal-ḫi / KUR.[ḫa?-me?]-⸢de?⸣ KUR.te-me-ni / [KUR].⸢ia⸣-lu-na / at-kal-ka / a [a?-ba?]-áš dMUATI
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 Q004783.
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/Q004783/..
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/Q004783/.
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