Tukulti-Ninurta I 19 (Q005855)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Tukulti-Ninurta I 19 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005855 |
| 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 [0:2] 11–22 | Tukultī-Ninurta, king of the universe, strong king, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters, sun(god) of all people; son of Shalmaneser (I), king of Assyria; son of Adad-nārārī (I) (who was) also king of Assyria: |
| Obverse [2:7] 33–77 | At that time the ancient wall of my city, Aššur, which kings who preceded me had previously built, had become dilapidated and old. I cleared away its debris, renewed and restored that wall. I dug a large moat around the wall — a large moat which no king who preceded me had previously built. The bottom of the moat I cut into bedrock with copper picks. Twenty mušaru down I reached water level. In that wall I deposited my clay inscription. |
| Obverse [7:8] 88–88 | May a later prince restore it (and) return my clay inscription to its place. (Then) the god Aššur will listen to his prayers. |
| Obverse [8:10] 99–1010 | As for the one who removes my inscriptions and my name: May the god Aššur, my lord, overthrow his sovereignty (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 | {d}{giš}tukul-ti-{d}nin-urta MAN KIŠ MAN dan-nu MAN KUR aš-šur | |
| 2 | MAN kib-rat 4-i {d}šam-šu kiš-šat UN.MEŠ A {d}sal₂-ma-nu-SAG | |
| 3 | MAN KUR {d}a-šur A 10-ERIM.TAH₂ MAN KUR {d}a-šur-ma e-nu-ma BAD₃ URU-ia {d}a-šur | |
| 4 | mah-ru-u₂ ša₂ i-na pa-na MAN.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-šu e-na-ah-ma | |
| 5 | la-be-ru-u₂-ta il-lik an-hu-su u₂-ne₂-kir₆ BAD₃ ša₂-a-tu ud-di-iš | |
| 6 | a-na aš₂-ri-šu u₂-ter hi-ri-ṣa GAL-a ša₂ i-na pa-na MAN.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia la-a e-pu-šu | |
| 7 | hi-ri-ṣa GAL-a a-na li-me-et BAD₃ lu ah-ri dan-na-su ki-ṣir KUR-i i-na NIG₂.GUL.MEŠ-at URUDU lu-pe-ṣi-id | |
| 8 | 20 mu-ša₂-ri a-na šu-pa-lu A.MEŠ na-ag-be lu ak-šud u₃ i-na BAD₃ ša₂-a-tu ti-me-ni-ia aš₂-ku-un NUN-u₂ EGIR-u₂ | |
| 9 | an-hu-su lu-di-iš ti-me-ni-ia a-na aš₂-ri-šu lu-ter {d}a-šur ik-ri-be-šu i-še-em-me mu-ne₂-kir₆ | |
| 10 | šiṭ-ri-ia u₃ MU-ia {d}a-šur EN MAN-su lis-kip MU-šu u₃ NUMUN-<šu> ina KUR lu-hal-liq |
Sources & licences
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