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Tukulti-Ninurta II 05
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) I [entered] the mountains of the Naʾiri lands. I crossed Mount Sueia. I changed [direction] (and), on my return march, from the Naʾiri lands [I burned] fire [(...)] the city Ki[...]. I [uprooted] his sons, his daughters, his wives, the property of his palace, (and) his horses [and brought them to my city, Aššur]. (4) With the support of (the god) Aššur, my lord, I overwhelmed the lands, all of them, with my fear. Bi[..., ...].... of Ammi-Ba[ʾal], wrote to me: “With regard to Bialasi, I have sent my forces against him. [They pursued him and] he went from the city Udu to the city…
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/Q006035/
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Transliteration
[ina?] ⸢KUR⸣-e šá KUR.KUR.na-i-ri ⸢KU₄? KUR?⸣.su?-e?-ia? at-ta-bal-kàt [...] x [...] / ⸢ú-šá⸣-áš-ni ina ta-ia-ár-ti-ia ⸢ša⸣ iš-tu KUR.KUR.na-i-ri URU.⸢ki?⸣-[...] x ina ⸢IZI?⸣ [áš-ru-up? (...)] / DUMU.MEŠ-šú DUMU.MUNUS.MEŠ-šú DAM.MEŠ-šú NÍG.GA É.GAL-lì-šú ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ-šú a-⸢su⸣-[ḫa ...] x x x x [...] / ina GIŠ.tukul-ti aš-šur EN-ia KUR.KUR.MEŠ DÙ-ši-⸢na⸣ pu-ul-ḫi ú-sa-ḫi-pi-ši-na mbi-x-[x…
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 Q006035.
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/Q006035/..
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/Q006035/.
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