Tiglath-pileser I 05 (Q005930)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Tiglath-pileser I 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005930 |
| 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 [0:9] 1'1'–9'9' | built [...] the house of the labūnu [...] I strengthened. With boxwood, [which by the command of the gods Aššur and Anu, the great gods, my lords], I had cut down (and) [carried off] from Mount Lebanon, [... I installed/built ...] from top to bottom I constructed [... the house of the labūnu], before (which) it (stands), I constructed with tamarisk. [... I] entirely [surrounded it with] slabs of gišnugallu-alabaster. [I constructed, completed, (and)] decorated [this palace in a splendid fashion]. Its walls and [... I surrounded with] knobbed nails to enhance its appearance. |
| Obverse [9:14] 10'10'–14'14' | [...] within this terrace and to [... I made replicas in ... of a] live burḫiš which [was brought] from the mountain/land Luma[š ... on the other side of the land Ḫabḫu (and) of] a nāḫiru, which [is called] a sea-horse (and) which the gods Ninurta and Nergal, [the great gods, my lords, allowed me to kill with a harpoon of] my own [making in] the Great Sea of the land Amurru. |
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' | [...] ⸢e⸣-pu-⸢uš⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x E₂ la-bu-ni [...] | |
| 3' | [...] u₂-la-bi-in i-na {giš}tas-ka-ri-⸢ni⸣ [... ša i-na si-qir {d}a-šur u {d}a-nim] | |
| 4' | [DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia iš]-⸢tu⸣ KUR-e lab-na-a-ni ak-ki-su-u₂-[ni aš₂-ši-an-ni] | |
| 5' | [... iš]-tu uš-še-ša a-di gaba-dib-bi-ša ar-[ṣip ...] | |
| 6' | [E₂ la-bu-ni ša] pu-ti-šu i-na {giš}ṭar-pe-ʾe ar-[ṣip ...] | |
| 7' | [ina a]-⸢gur⸣-ri ša {na₄}{giš}NU₁₁.GAL a-na si-hir₂-⸢ti⸣-[ša al-mi E₂.GAL-la šu-a-ti ar-ṣip] | |
| 8' | [u₂-šek₂-lil u₂-šer₃]-⸢rih⸣ u₂-si-im E₂.GAR₈.MEŠ-ša u₃ [...] | |
| 9' | [...] sik-kat₃ kar-ri a-na si₂-ma-te-ša [al-mi ...] | |
| 10' | [...] qe₂-reb tam-le-e šu-a-tu u₃ a-na a-x-[...] | |
| 11' | [...]-te bur-hi-iš bal-ṭa ša iš-tu {kur}lu-ma-[aš ...-te am-mi-te] | |
| 12' | [ša {kur}hab-hi na-ṣu-u₂]-ni na-hi-ra ša ANŠE.KUR.RA ša A.AB.BA [i-qa-bi-šu-u₂-ni] | |
| 13' | [pa-ri-an-gi ep-šet] ⸢qa⸣-ti-ia ša {d}MAŠ u₃ {d}IGI.DU [DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ] | |
| 14' | [EN.MEŠ-ia i-na A].⸢AB.BA GAL⸣-te ša {⸢kur}a-mur-ri⸣ [...] |
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