Ashurnasirpal II 070 (Q004524)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Tell Abu Marya (Apqu-ša-Adad) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurnasirpal II 070 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004524 |
| Collection | Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Tell Abu Marya (Apqu-ša-Adad) |
| Coordinates | 36.4297, 42.5973 |
English translation
By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] 11–66 | Palace of Ashurnasirpal, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II) (who was) also king of Assyria; conqueror of all lands, (who) has subdued (everything) from east to west: |
| Obverse [6:9] 77–99 | I laid the foundation of a palace for my royal residence in the city Apqu with tablets of silver (and) gold. |
| Obverse [9:11] 1010–1111 | O later prince, do not erase my inscribed name! (Then) Aššur, the great lord, will listen to your (lit. “his”) prayers. |
| Obverse [11:18] 1212–1818 | As for the one who erases my inscribed name (and) uses my monumental inscriptions for his own ends: may Aššur, the great lord, smash his weapon(s), take away from him his throne, (and) destroy his name (and) his seed from the land. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | E₂.GAL {m}AŠ-PAP-A MAN ŠU₂ | |
| 2 | MAN KUR AŠ A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN KUR AŠ | |
| 3 | A 10-ERIM.TAH₂ MAN KUR AŠ-ma | |
| 4 | ka-šid KUR.MEŠ DU₃-ši-na | |
| 5 | TA {d}UTU.E₃ {d}UTU.E₃ EN {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A | |
| 6 | ana GIR₃.MEŠ-šu₂ u₂-šak-ni-šu₂ | |
| 7 | E₂.GAL {uru}ap-ki | |
| 8 | ana šu-bat MAN-ti-a ina ṭup-pi | |
| 9 | KU₃.BABBAR KU₃.GI UŠ₈-ša₂ ŠUB | |
| 10 | NUN EGIR-u MU SAR | |
| 11 | NU ta-pa-šiṭ AŠ EN GAL | |
| 12 | ŠUD₃-šu₂ ŠE.GA ša₂ MU | |
| 13 | SAR i-pa-ši-ṭu | |
| 14 | NA.RU₂.A-a šu₂-a-tu₂ | |
| 15 | ana šip-ri ša₂ ŠA₃-šu₂ DU₃-šu₂ | |
| 16 | AŠ EN GAL {giš}TUKUL-šu₂ liš-ber | |
| 17 | {giš}AŠ.TI-šu₂ KAR-šu₂ MU-šu₂ | |
| 18 | NUMUN-šu₂ ina KUR lu-ZAH₂ |
Sources & licences
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