Chapter 00 · 1400 – 1077 BCE
Middle Assyrian
Aššur's first imperial expansion.
~1300 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Tiglath-pileser I 21
A fragmentary royal inscription of Tiglath-pileser I referencing the 'Great Sea of Amurru' (the Mediterranean) — one of the earliest Assyrian textual claims to have reached the western sea.
“(12') Palace of Tiglath-pil[eser (I), ...] the Great Sea of the land [Amurru ...] ... [...]”
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/Q005946/
Read the full tablet entry~1300 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Tiglath-pileser I 22
“(1) Tiglath-pileser (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, built and constructed the temple of the gods Anu and Adad, his lords.”
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/Q005947/
Read the full tablet entry~1300 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Tiglath-pileser I 23
“(1) Tiglath-pileser (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, built and constructed the temple of the god Adad, his lord.”
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/Q005948/
Read the full tablet entry~1300 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Tiglath-pileser I 24
Brick inscription stamping Tiglath-pileser I's ownership of a Ḫusur River quay wall — evidence that Assyrian royal building programmes extended to urban hydraulic infrastructure, not only temples and palaces.
“(1) Palace of Tiglath-pileser (I), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Mutakkil-Nusku, (who was) also strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria: (brick) belonging to the facing of (the quay wall) of the [Ḫusur] River.”
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/Q005949/
Read the full tablet entry~1300 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Tiglath-pileser I 25
Records Tiglath-pileser I's construction work on the Ḫusur River quay wall at Aššur, attesting royal investment in urban hydraulic infrastructure in the early Assyrian Empire.
“(1) Palace of Tiglath-pileser (I), strong king, king of the world, [king of Assyria], son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), [(who was) also] strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria [(...)]: (brick) belonging to the facing of (the quay wall) of the Ḫusur River, [...].”
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/Q005950/
Read the full tablet entry~1300 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Tiglath-pileser I 26
Records Tiglath-pileser I's construction work on the Ḫusur River quay wall at Aššur, adding a brick-by-brick datum to the archaeology of Assyrian royal building programmes in the late second millennium.
“(1) Palace of Tiglath-pil[eser (I), ...]: (brick) belonging to the facing of (the quay wall) of the [Ḫusur] River, from (its) summit to (its) [...].”
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/Q005951/
Read the full tablet entry~1300 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Tiglath-pileser I 27
“(1) Palace of Tiglath-pileser (I), king of the world, king of Assyria: (brick) belonging to the facing of (the quay wall) of the [Ḫusur] River, at the garden of [Nineveh].”
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/Q005952/
Read the full tablet entry~1300 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Tiglath-pileser I 28
“(1) Palace of Tiglath-pileser (I), 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/Q005953/
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