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Ashurnasirpal II 017
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) (The god) Aššur, the great lord, king of all the great gods; the god Anu, foremost in strength, the one who decrees destinies; the god Ea, king of the apsû, lord of wisdom (and) understanding; the god Sîn, wise one, lord of the lunar disk, lofty luminary; the god Marduk, sage, lord god of oracles; the god Adad, strong, almighty among the gods, exalted; the god Ninurta, hero, warrior of the gods, the one who lays low the wicked; the god Nusku, bearer of the holy scepter, circumspect god; the goddess Mullissu, spouse of the god Enlil, mother of the great gods; the god Nergal, perfect one,…
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/Q004471/
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Transliteration
aš-šur EN GAL-ú MAN gim-rat DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ / da-nu geš-ru reš-tu-ú mu-šim / dNAM.MEŠ dé-a MAN ap-si-i / EN né-me-qi ḫa-si-su d30 er-šu EN a-ge-e ⸢LAL⸣-ú / nam-ri-ri dAMAR.UTU* ap-ak-lu DINGIR EN ti-ri-te / dIŠKUR geš-ru kaš-kaš-ši DINGIR.DINGIR ṣi-ru dMAŠ qar-du qar-ra-di DINGIR.MEŠ mu-šam-qit lem-nu-te / dnusku na-ši GIŠ.GIDRU KÙ-te DINGIR mu-<ul>-tal-lu dNIN.LÍL ḫi-ir-ti dBAD / ⸢AMA⸣…
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 Q004471.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q004471/..
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/Q004471/.
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