Position in chronology
Adad-nerari II 4
Written in modern English
Adad-nārārī II speaks in the first person: he is radiant, heroic, a warrior, a raging lion, foremost and exalted. He is strong king of Assyria, king of the four quarters of the world, crusher of enemies, overwhelmer of cities, and scorcher of foreign mountain lands. He controls those who oppose him and burns with fury against the evil and the wicked. He scorches like the god Gīra and overwhelms like a flood — the text breaks off there, the remainder lost.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') [I am enormously radiant, I am a hero], I am a warrior, [I am a virile] lion, [I am foremost, I am exalted, (and) I am raging]. (2') Adad-nārārī (II), strong king, king of [Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), the one who defeats his enemies, am I]. The king capable in battle, overwhelmer [of cities, (and) the one who scorches the mountains of (foreign) lands, am I]. The virile warrior, [the one who controls those opposed to him, (and the one) who is inflamed against the evil] and the wicked, am I. I scorch] like the god Gīra, [I overwhelm like the deluge, ...], (and) I…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
[...] qar-ra-da-ku la-[ab-ba-ku ...] / [m]dIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN dan-nu MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [aš-šur MAN kib-rat 4-i mu-né-er a-ia-bi-šu a-na-ku] / MAN le-ʾu-ú MURUB₄ sa-[pi-in URU.MEŠ mu-šaḫ-me-ṭí KUR-e ša KUR.MEŠ a-na-ku] / zi-ka-ru qar-du [mu-la-iṭ áš-ṭu-te-šú ḫi-it-muṭ rag-gi] / u ṣe-ni ki-ma dGIŠ.BAR [a-ḫa-maṭ ki-ma a-bu-be a-sa-pan ...-ša-te] / mu-né-ḫa ul i-šu [ki-ma GU₄.AMAR da-pi-na-ku ki-ma GÍR] /…
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 Q006023.
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/Q006023/..
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/Q006023/.
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