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Tiglath-pileser III 25 (Q003438)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud (Kalhu) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationTiglath-pileser III 25
IDQ003438
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotNimrud (Kalhu)
Coordinates36.0992, 43.3275

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap1 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:4] 1'1'–4'4'[I built in Kalḫu a cedar palace ...] for my [lord]ly residence [and a bīt-ḫilāni, a replica of a palace of the land Ḫatti (Syria-Palestine), for] my pleasure. I made [the dimensions of its site ... large cubits] in length (and) sixty large cubits in width larger [than] the former palaces of [my] ancestors by (re)claiming (land) from the Tigris River (by filling it in). [...]

Transliteration (ATF)

From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1'[E₂.GAL {giš}EREN ...] ana mu-šab [EN]-ti-ia [u₃ E₂ ḫi-it-la-an-ni tam-šil E₂.GAL]
2'{[kur}ḫat-ti ana] mul-ta-ʾu-ti-ia [ina qe₂-reb {uru}kal-ḫi DU₃-uš x KUŠ₃ GAL-tu₂]
3'šid-du 60 KUŠ₃ GAL-tu₂ pu-u₂-tu [mi-šiḫ-ti qaq-qa-ri-ša UGU]
4'E₂.GAL.MEŠ AD.MEŠ-[ia] maḫ-ra-a-te ul-tu lib₃-bi {id₂}IDIGNA u₂-<ša₂>-tir-ma aṣ-ṣa-ba-ta [...]

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