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Ashurnasirpal II 053
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Palace of Ashurnasirpal (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria; conqueror of the Naʾiri lands, to their (text: its) full extent, from the passes of the land Ḫabruri to the land Gilzānu; he conquered from the source of the Subnat River to the land Šubria; I brought within the boundaries of my land (the territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the Tigris River to the land Ḫatti, the land Lāqê, in its entirety,…
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/Q004507/
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Transliteration
É.GAL maš-šur-PAP-A MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur A GIŠ.tukul-ti-dMAŠ MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur A dIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KIŠ MAN KUR AŠ-ma ka-ši-id KUR.KUR na-i-ri / ana paṭaṭ gim-ri-šá iš-tu né-re-bi šá KUR.ḫab-ru-ri a-di KUR.gíl-za-a-ni TA SAG e-ni ÍD.su-ub-na-at a-di KUR.šub-re-e / qa-a-ti ik-šud TA e-ber-ta-an ÍD.IDIGNA a-di KUR.ḫa-at-ti KUR.la-qe-e a-na si-ḫír-ti-šá KUR.su-ḫu a-di…
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 Q004507.
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/Q004507/..
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/Q004507/.
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