Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 018
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [In my accession year (and) in my first regnal year, after] I sat on [the throne of my royal majesty] in a grandiose manner, I mus[tered (my) chariot]ry (and) [extensiv]e troops. I [co]nquered inaccessible fortresses round about. I rec[eived] a tribute of horses from the land Gilzānu. ... [Because] horses were not (continually) brought in hither to me I [became angry and] marched to the cities Ḫarira (and) Ḫalḫalauš, which (were under the authority) of the guilty rulers. Those I conquered in the eponymy of Ashurnasirpal (II) (882) . I took out their property, booty, possessions, (and)…
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/Q004472/
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Transliteration
[...] / GAL-iš ú-ši-bu ⸢GIŠ.GIGIR⸣.MEŠ ERIM.ḪI.A.MEŠ-te [DAGAL.MEŠ]-te ⸢ad⸣-[ke] / ⸢ḫa⸣-al-ṣu-te la-ma-ri pat-te-pat-[te] ⸢ak-šud⸣ MÁŠ.MEŠ ⸢šá ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ⸣ / iš-tu KUR.gíl-za-ni ⸢am⸣-[ḫur] ni x [x (x)] ⸢ḫar⸣ ina gi-né-⸢e ú⸣-[kin? aš-šu?] / ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ a-na bit-te la ú-[še-ri]-⸢bu⸣-ni al-[la-bi-ib-ma?] a-na / URU.ḫa-ri-ra URU.ḫal-ḫa-la-uš ⸢šá EN⸣.MEŠ-ni [EN.MEŠ] ḫi-i-ṭí ⸢al-lik⸣ / šu-a-tu…
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 Q004472.
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/Q004472/..
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/Q004472/.
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