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Ashurnasirpal II 042
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Ashurnasir[pal (II), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II)], strong king, king of [the world, king of Assyria], son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria: (2b) conqueror from [the opposite bank of the Tigris River] to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea of the land Amurru [in the west], (who) has conquered the land Ḫatti [in its entirety; (I am the one who) have gained dominion over] (the region stretching) from the source of the S[ubnat Riv]er [to the land Urume (and) the wi]d[e] Naʾiri lands, in to [their…
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/Q004496/
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Transliteration
⸢É.GAL maš-šur-PAP⸣-[A MAN dan-ni MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur A TUKUL-MAŠ] MAN dan-nu ⸢MAN⸣ [KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur] / A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma ka-šid TA [e-ber-ta-an ÍD.ḪAL.ḪAL] EN KUR.lab-⸢na⸣-[ni] / u A.AB.BA GAL-ti šá KUR.a-mur-⸢ri⸣ [šá šùl-mu dšam-ši] KUR.ḫat-te [a-na si-ḫír-te-šú] / ⸢ŠU⸣-su ik-šu-du TA ⸢SAG e⸣-[ni] ⸢ÍD.su⸣-[ub-nat EN KUR.ú-ru-me] / ⸢DAGAL-tú⸣ KUR.KUR na-i-ri ⸢ana paṭ…
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 Q004496.
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/Q004496/..
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/Q004496/.
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