Tukulti-Ninurta I 04 (Q005840)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Tukulti-Ninurta I 04 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005840 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Qalat Sherqat (Assur) |
| Coordinates | 35.4581, 43.2620 |
English translation
By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] 1'1'–5'5' | in (their/its) entirety, king [...] who with his fierce valor made [...] passable and the mountain peaks [... with the support] of Aššur he victoriously passed over them with regularity and to the land [...]. He always received in Aššur the regular tribute of the forty kings of the lands Nairi and the lands on the coast of the [Upper] Sea [...]: |
| Obverse [5:10] 6'6'–10'10' | [At that time in the sacred area of] my [city] Aššur on the north side, terrain and house-plots [...] I erected [with] limestone and bricks. I removed its earth. Within [...] I built and completed for the palace of the sovereignty of the lands. The face of Aššur, the god Anu, and the god [...] the people ... forever. May a later prince restore it. [...] |
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' | ⸢a-di⸣ ZAG gim-ri MAN ⸢mu⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | ša ina me-ziz qar-du-ti-šu x [...] | |
| 3' | ana kib-si iš-ku-nu-ma zi-qit₂ hur-[ša₂-ni ... i-na {giš}tukul]-⸢ti⸣ aš-šur | |
| 4' | UGU-šu-nu šal-ṭi₂-iš e-te-ti-qu-ma ana {kur}[...] x | |
| 5' | 40-a MAN.MEŠ KUR.KUR na-i-ri u₃ KUR.KUR a-ah tam-di [AN.TA ...]-šu-ma | |
| 6' | GUN-su-nu da-ri-ta ina {uru}aš-šur im-da-ha-ru [... i-na u₄-me-šu-ma i-na eš₁₅-re-et URU]-ia aš-šur | |
| 7' | ana mu-hur-ti il-ta-ni qa-qa-ra-ti u₃ E₂.⸢HI⸣.[A ... i-na pe]-⸢e⸣-li | |
| 8' | u₃ SIG₄.MEŠ u₂-be-li-iṭ qa-qar-šu u₂-šam₃-sik ina qer-⸢bi⸣ [...] ⸢e⸣-pu-uš-ma | |
| 9' | ana E₂.GAL LUGAL-ut KUR.KUR u₂-šek₂-lil IGI aš-šur {d}a-nu u {d}[...] x UN.MEŠ | |
| 10' | ana da-riš lu iṣ-ṣi-ru NUN ar-ku-u₂ an-hu-sa lu-diš [...] |
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