Middle Assyrian

“(r 1') its inner [...], as far as ... [...] ... [... I bui]lt that [p]alace from it[s] foundations [to its crenellations. I splendidly [decorated (it)] more than before. I surrounded (it) [with knobbed nails of] bronze. [I made magnificent] doors of f[ir], made (them) fast [with bronz]e [bands, (and) installed (them)] in its gate. (r 9') [...] which with the support of the gods Aššur, Anu, Enlil, [... the great gods] who support me, the lands of/which [...] I made replicas in parūtu-alabaster [and basalt of a nāḫiru, which is called a sea-horse (and) which by the command of the gods Ninurta…”

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/Q005936/

Lists fourteen conquered cities in the lands of Qumanî and Ḫabḫu — territories whose rulers had withheld tribute from Aššur — supplying rare toponymic evidence for Assyrian expansion into the northern periphery under Tiglath-pileser I.

“(Obverse, fragmentary) [... the land Kardun]iash (Babylonia) [...] [... I] brou[ght to my city] Aššur [...] [...]-irdi, cities of the land Qum[mēnu (...)], [which] withheld [...], which [had held back] tribute and impos[ts from the god Aššur, my lord, which from most ancient days] had not known submission, into whose midst no king wh[o preceded] me had ever gone — I mustered [my ch]ariots and my troops. [...] ... the city Matqi'u ... (remainder broken)”

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Documents Tiglath-pileser I's campaigns from the Naʾiri lands to Carchemish and down to Rapiqu, tracing the westward and southward reach of Assyrian military power in the late second millennium BCE.

“(1') I marched to the Naʾiri lands [three times (and) conquered] from [the land Tumme to the land Daiaeni (...)]. (4') By the command of the gods Aššur and Ninurta, the [great] gods, [my lords], I conquered in a single day (the area) [from the border of the land Sūḫu] to the city Carchemish of the land Ḫa[tti. I crossed] the Euphrates River as though it were [a canal]. I burned with fire, de[stroyed, (and) demolished] seventeen of their cities, from [the city Tadmar of the land Amurru, (Anat of the land Sūḫu), as far as Rapiqu of Karduniaš (Babylonia). I brought their booty], their hostages,…”

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/Q005938/

“(1') [(...) Tigla]th-pileser (I) [...] conqueror of lands [... king of] the world, king of Assyria [...]”

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/Q005939/

“(1) With the aid of the gods Aššur, Šamaš, (and) Adad, the great gods, my lords, I, Tiglath-pileser (I), king of Assyria, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), king of Assyria, son of Mutakkil-Nusku, (who was) also king of Assyria, (I) the conqueror from the Great Sea of the land Amurru and the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s), (and) marched to the Naʾiri land(s) three times.”

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/Q005940/

“(1) Tiglath-pileser (I), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), conqueror of the Naʾiri lands from the land Tumme to the land Daiaeni, conqueror of the land Ḫabḫu to the Great Sea.”

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/Q005941/

“(1) Palace of Tiglath-[pileser (I), king of] Assyria, conqueror [from] Babylon [of the land Akkad] to Mount Lebanon [to the Great] Sea [of the land Amurru and] the Sea [of the Naʾiri land(s), builder of] the Cedar [Palace].”

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/Q005942/

“(1) To the goddess Tašmētu, his lady: Aššur-išmânni, the scribe, son of Aššur-dayyān, dedicated (this) for his life.”

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/Q005981/