Position in chronology
Ashurnasirpal II 049
Translation · reference
High confidence(o 1) [Ashur]nasirpal (II), strong king, king [...], unrivalled king of the world, [...], the attentive ruler who [...] heaven (and) netherworld, [...] those insubmissive to him [...], exalted priest, [...] the deities Aššur (and) Adad [...] whose priesthood in [the temples they established forever ...], [(...)] shepherd [...] (r 1') [...] ... [...] may [a future ruler] restore [its dilapidated section(s) (and) restore my] inscribed name [to its place]. The gods Aššur (and) Adad, [the great] lords, [(...) will (then) listen to his prayers]. (r 7') As for the one who erases my inscription [and writes his (own) name, ... may the deities Aššur, Adad, (and)] Ištar, the great gods [...].
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/Q004503/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[maš-šur]-⸢PAP⸣-A MAN dan-nu MAN [...] / [...] MAN KIŠ la šá-<na>-an x [...] / [NUN]-ú na-a-du šá x [...] / AN-e KI-tim i-x [...] / la ma-gi-ri-šú x [...] / SANGA-ú ṣi-⸢ru⸣ [...] / aš-šur dIŠKUR [...] / SANGA-su ⸢i⸣-[na ...] / LÚ.⸢SIPA⸣ [...] / na-[...] / x [...] / x x [...] / ŠÈG.MEŠ [...] / x x x [...] / lu-ud-diš MU šaṭ-[ra ...] / aš-šur dIŠKUR EN.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] / šá MU šaṭ-ra i-pa-⸢ši⸣-[ṭu ...] / dINANNA DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...]
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 Q004503.
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/Q004503/..
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/Q004503/.
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