Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 021
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] … [...] troops [...] … [... I] brought them down [... I inflicted] upon them a major defeat. [(...) I carried off ...] their [possessions (and)] their flocks. [As for] their combat troops, [I cut off] their hands [... (x)] 200 of their fighting men [... I] destroyed [...]. (6') [...] I received [the pay]ment of the kings of lands (and) mountains. Irbibu [... of the city ...ḫ]āni, which was his fortified city, [...] trusted [in his own strength] and rebelled against me. By the command of (the god) Aš[šur, my lord, I marched against him (and)] besieged him. Around his city he had dug…
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/Q004475/
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Transliteration
[...] a du ni x x [...] / [...] ⸢ERIM⸣.MEŠ.ḪI.A.MEŠ x [...] x ⸢ub? an?⸣ [...] / [... u]-še-ri-da-šú-nu-⸢te?⸣ [...] GAZ.MEŠ-šú-nu ⸢ḪI.A.MEŠ⸣ / [...]-šú-nu UDU.ṣe-ni-šú-nu x [... mun]-⸢daḫ-ṣi⸣-[šú]-nu rit-ti-šú-nu / [...]-2 ME ERIM.MEŠ ti-du-ki-šú-nu x [...] ⸢ú⸣-[né]-píl / [... ma]-⸢da⸣-tu šá MAN.MEŠ-ni KUR.KUR.MEŠ KUR.⸢MEŠ-ni⸣ am-ḫur mir-bi-bu / [...]-⸢ḫa?⸣-a-ni šá URU dan-nu-ti-šú [...] / [...…
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 Q004475.
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/Q004475/..
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/Q004475/.
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