Unread Atlas

Home › Tablets › P479239

Nimrud NW Palace I-nn = RIMA 2.0.101.023, ex. nn (P479239)

Official or display, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets

DesignationNimrud NW Palace I-nn = RIMA 2.0.101.023, ex. nn
IDP479239
Museum no.M.71.073.01b (a); unknown (b)
CollectionLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, USA
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreOfficial or display
Find spotKalhu (mod. Nimrūd)
Coordinates36.1022, 43.3385

Transliteration (ATF)

From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)

Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-H2, 2026-10-18), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
surface a
1[x] x x [...]
2_man_ dan-nu _man szu2 man kur_ asz-szur _a_ 1(u)-erin2-tah2 _man gal_-e _man_ dan-nu _man szu2 man kur_ asz-szur-ma et,-lu# [...]strong king, king of the world, ki[ng of Assyria], son of Adad-narari II, great king; strong k[ing, lord of the universe, kin]g of the land Ashur, young man ...
34(asz)#-ta sza2-nin-szu2 la-a _tuku_-u2 _{lu2}sipa_ tab-ra-te la a-di-ru _gesz-la2_ e#-[du-u2 ...]The four of his brothers who had no rival, the shepherd of the tabrātu-priestess, who was not afraid of the yoke, who knew ...
3kisz-szat _ug3-mesz_ i-pe-lu _nita2_ dan-nu mu-kab-bi-is _gu2_ a-a-bi-szu2 da-a-isz# [...]the totality of the people ruled; a strong man, the one who overthrows the neck of his enemies, aright ...
4_gal-mesz en-mesz_-szu2 _du-du_-ku-ma _kur-kur-mesz du3_-szi-na _szu_-su _kur_-ud bar-sza2-[ni ...]the great, his lords, he conquered, and the lands that had become hostile to him he captured; his offspring ...
5li-i-te _ugu du3_-szi-na _kur-kur-mesz_ e-nu-ma asz-szur _en_ na-bu _mu_-ia mu-szar#-[bu-u2 ...]As for the rest of the lands, when Ashur, the lord chosen by my name, the one who makes great ...
6_erin2-hi-a-mesz kur_ lu-ul-lu-me-e _dagal-mesz_ ina qe2-reb tam-ha-ri ina _{gesz}tukul-mesz_ lu u2#-[szam-qit ...]I slaughtered large troops of the land of Lullumê with weapons in battle.
7_kur-kur_ na-i-ri _kur_ hab-hi _kur_ szu-ba-re-e u _kur_ ne2-reb _gin7_ {d}iszkur ra-hi-s,i _ugu_-szu2#-[nu ...]the lands Naʾiri, Habḫu, Šubarû, and the land Nēreb, like the god Adad, furious over them
8_kur_ la-qe-e ana si-hir2-ti-sza2 _kur_ su-hi a-di _iri_ ra-pi-qi ana _giri3-min_-szu2 u2-szek2-ni-sza2 _ta [sag_ ...]the land Laqû in its entirety, the land Suḫu, together with the city Rapiqu, to its feet I made secure. From the top ...
9_ta kur_ ne2-re-be sza2 _kur_ kir3-ru-ri a-di _kur_ gil2-za-ni _ta_ e-ber-tan _i7_ za-ba# [...]From the pass of the land Kirruri to the land Gilzānu, from the opposite bank of the Zab ...
10_iri_ du6-sza2-ab-ta-ni a-di _iri_ hi-ri-mu _iri_ ha-ru-tu _kur_ bi-ra-a-te _kur_ kar-[du-ni-asz2 ...]the city Dušabtānu, together with the city Hirimu, the city Ḫarûtu, a mountain between the mountains of Karduniash ...
11a-di _kur_ hasz-mar a-na _ug3-mesz kur_-ia am-nu ina _kur-kur-mesz_ sza2 a-pe-lu-szi-na-[ni ...2]I counted the people of my land as far as Mount Hašmar. In the lands which I conquered ...
12na-a-du pa-lih2 _dingir-mesz gal-mesz_ u2-szum2-gal-lu ek-du ka-szid _iri-iri_ u hur#-[sza2-ni ...]the one who reveres the great gods, the exalted one, the conqueror of cities and mountains, .
13sza2-lum-ma-te la-a-di-ru _gesz-la2_ ur-sza2-nu la pa-du-u2 mu-rib a-nun-te _man_ ta#-[na-da-a-te ...]“It is good, it is reliable, the hero is unrivaled, the one who brings abundance, the king of rejoicing, ...
14_kur-mesz_-e u _a-ab-ba-mesz_ sza2 ina qi-it-ru-ub _en_-ti-szu2 _man-mesz_-ni ek-du#-[te ...]the lands and seas, which in his lordly majesty were mighty kings, ...
15u2-sza2-asz2-kin2 _iri_ kal-hu mah-ra-a sza2 {disz}{d}szul3-ma-nu-sag _man kur_ asz-szur _nun_ a-lik [...]The former city Kalḫu, which Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria, the prince who marched ...
16_ug3-mesz szu2_-ti _szu2_-ia sza2 _kur-kur-mesz_ sza2 a-pe-lu-szi-na-ni sza2 _kur_ su-hi _kur#_ [...]The people in my hands of the lands that I conquered, of the land Suhu, the land ...
17kur_ za-mu-a ana pat, gim-ri-sza2 _kur_ e2-a-di-ni u _kur_ hat-ti u sza2 {disz}li-bur-na _kur_ pa-ti#-[na-a-a ...]the land Zamua to its full extent, the land Eadini and the land Ḫatti, and of Liburna the land Patina
18lu u2-sza2-pil2 1(disz) me 2(u) tik-pi ina musz-pa-li lu u2-t,a-bi _e2-gal_ {gesz}e-re-ni _e2-[gal_ ...]I had built. I had 1 hundred 20 tikpi-measures of cedar (and) a palace of
19{gesz}tar-pi-'i a-na szu-bat _man_-ti-a ana mul-ta-a'-it _en_-ti-a [...]the tarpiʾu-tree for my royal abode, for my lordly pleasure ...
20u _a-ab-ba-mesz_ sza2 {na4}pi-li _ku3_-e u {na4}pa-ru-te [...]and the seas of gold and papparû-stone
21kar-ri _zabar-mesz_ al-me-si _{gesz}ig-mesz_ {gesz}e-[re-ni ...]I hung bronze chariots, doors of cedar
22ina _ka2-mesz_-sza2 u2-re-ti _ku3-babbar-mesz# [...]At its gates, the urētu-offerings of silver ...
23[...]

Sources & licences

Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.