Tukulti-Ninurta I 17 (Q005853)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Tukulti-Ninurta I 17 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005853 |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 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 [0:4] 11–44 | Tukultī-Ninurta, appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Shalmaneser (I), vice-regent of Aššur, son of Adad-nārārī (I) (who was) also vice-regent of Aššur: |
| Obverse [4:29] 55–2929 | At that time the temple of the goddess Nunaittu, my mistress, which kings who preceded me had previously built — that temple had become dilapidated and old. Shalmaneser (I), my father, vice-regent of the god Aššur, had cleared away its debris down to the bottom of its foundation pit. He had laid its foundation (and) rebuilt that temple making it seventy-two layers of brick high. Then (I), Tukultī-Ninurta, appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur, added to them twenty layers of brick (and) installed the beams and doors. I finished the construction of the temple. I erected a dais, seated the goddess Nunaittu, my mistress, on her dais with joy and rejoicing, and deposited my monumental inscription. |
| Obverse [29:35] 3030–3535 | May a later prince restore it (and) return my inscribed name to its place. (Then) the goddess Nunaittu will listen to his prayers. |
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 | {m}{giš}tukul-ti-{d}nin-urta | |
| 2 | GAR {d}BAD ŠID {d}aš-šur | |
| 3 | A {d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ ŠID aš-šur | |
| 4 | A 10-ERIM.TAH₂ ŠID aš-šur-ma | |
| 5 | e-nu-ma E₂ {d}nu-na-i-te | |
| 6 | NIN-ia ša₂ i-na pa-na | |
| 7 | LUGAL.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia | |
| 8 | e-pu-šu E₂ šu-u₂ | |
| 9 | e-na-ah-ma la-be-ru-ta | |
| 10 | il-li-ik | |
| 11 | {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ a-bi | |
| 12 | ŠID {d}aš-šur an-hu-su | |
| 13 | u₂-ne₂-kir₆ da-na-su | |
| 14 | ik-šu-ud uš-še-šu ir-me | |
| 15 | E₂ ša₂-tu e-pu-uš | |
| 16 | 72 ti-ib-ki ul-li | |
| 17 | i-na u₄-me-šu-ma | |
| 18 | {m}{giš}tukul-ti-{d}nin-urta | |
| 19 | GAR {d}BAD ŠID {d}aš-šur | |
| 20 | 20 ti-ib-ki UGU-šu-nu | |
| 21 | u₂-ra-di {giš}gu-šu-ri | |
| 22 | u₃ {giš}IG.MEŠ u₂-ki-in | |
| 23 | E₂ e-pu-uš | |
| 24 | u₂-še-ek-li-il | |
| 25 | BARA₂ ar-me {d}nu-na-i-ta | |
| 26 | NIN i-na hi-da-te | |
| 27 | u₃ ri-ša₂-a-te | |
| 28 | i-na BARA₂-ša₂ u₂-ša₂-ši-ib | |
| 29 | u₃ na-re-ia aš-ku-un | |
| 30 | NUN ar-ku-u₂ | |
| 31 | an-hu-su lu-di-iš | |
| 32 | MU šaṭ-ra ana aš-ri-šu | |
| 33 | lu-te-er {d}nu-na-i-tu | |
| 34 | ik-ri-be-šu | |
| 35 | i-še-me |
Sources & licences
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