Tukulti-Ninurta I 26 (Q005862)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Tukulti-Ninurta I 26 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005862 |
| 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 [0:6] 11–66 | [To] the god Aššur, the great lord, father of the gods, [his lord]: Tukultī-Ninurta, appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Shalmaneser (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-[regent of the god Aššur], son of Adad-nārārī (I) (who was) [also] appointee of the god [Enlil] (and) vice-regent of the god Aššur; |
| Obverse [6:16] 77–1616 | [When] the god Aššur sent [me] to the lands [Nairi and] the lands on the coast of the [Upper] Sea, I swept over with my raging warfare (and) conquered all [the lands] Nairi and the lands on the coast of the Upper Sea. (Thus) I became lord over their forty kings, [subdued (them)] at my feet, and imposed (upon them) corvée. |
| Obverse [16:18] 1717–1818 | At that time |
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]-⸢na⸣ {d}aš-šur EN ⸢GAL⸣ | |
| 2 | a-bu DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢EN⸣-[šu] | |
| 3 | {m}{giš}⸢tukul⸣-ti-{d}⸢nin-urta⸣ | |
| 4 | GAR {d}BAD ŠID {d}aš-⸢šur⸣ | |
| 5 | A {d}sal₂-⸢ma-nu⸣-MAŠ GAR {d}BAD ⸢ŠID⸣ {[d}aš-šur] | |
| 6 | ⸢A⸣ 10-ERIM.TAH₂ GAR {⸢d⸣}[BAD] ŠID {d}aš-⸢šur⸣-[ma] | |
| 7 | [e-nu]-⸢ma⸣ {d}a-⸢šur a⸣-na KUR.⸢KUR⸣ [na-i-ri] | |
| 8 | [u] KUR.KUR a-ah A.AB.BA ⸢e⸣-[le-ni-ti] | |
| 9 | ⸢u₂⸣-ma-ʾe-⸢ra⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 10 | i-na šu-⸢mur ta-ha-zi⸣-[ia] | |
| 11 | a-ba-ʾa kul₂-la-⸢at⸣ [KUR.KUR] | |
| 12 | na-i-ri u₃ KUR.KUR a-⸢ah⸣ | |
| 13 | A.AB.BA e-le-ni-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 14 | qa-ti ik-šu-[ud] | |
| 15 | 40-a ⸢LUGAL⸣.MEŠ-šu-nu a-bel₂ ana GIR₃-⸢ia⸣ [u₂-šek₂-niš₂] | |
| 16 | u₃ tup-ši-ka ⸢e⸣-[mi-id] | |
| 17 | ⸢i⸣-na u₄-me-šu-⸢ma⸣ [...] | |
| 18 | [...] x x [...] |
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