Tiglath-pileser I 08 (Q005933)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Tiglath-pileser I 08 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005933 |
| 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 [0:3] 1'1'–3'3' | No translation warranted. |
| Obverse [3:11] 4'4'–11'11' | [... which by the command of] the gods Ninurta and Nergal, the great gods, [my lords], I had killed [with a harpoon of my own making in the Great Sea] of the land Amurru [(...)] I stationed (them) on the right [and] left at my royal [entrance]. I [fashioned (...)] bands of silver and gold [...] this weapon with wisdom [I manufactured ...]. The palace [...] the gods [...] I inscribed my [monumental] inscriptions [and deposited them therein]. |
| Obverse [11:14] 12'12'–14'14' | [In the future, in days to come, may a later prince], when [this] palace [becomes old and dilapidated, restore its weakened portions either with] boxwood or [...] |
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 a-⸢ma⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | [...] li ⸢tu⸣ še ku ⸢me⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] x-ra-da-a an-⸢nu⸣-[...] | |
| 4' | [... ša i-na siq-ri] {d}MAŠ u₃ {d}⸢IGI.DU⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢GAL⸣.[MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia i-na A.AB.BA] | |
| 5' | [GAL-te] ša {⸢kur⸣}a-mur-⸢ri⸣ a-du-ku-ni [...] | |
| 6' | [ina ne₂-reb LUGAL]-ti-ia ZAG [u₃] ⸢GUB₃⸣ u₂-⸢ša⸣-[zi-iz ...] | |
| 7' | [...] me-sir ṣar-⸢pi u₃⸣ KU₃.GI u₂-[...] | |
| 8' | [...] {⸢giš⸣}TUKUL ši-i i-na ta-⸢šim⸣-ti x [...] | |
| 9' | [...] x si x tu [...] | |
| 10' | [...] E₂.GAL [x] DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | |
| 11' | [... {na₄}NA.RU₂.A].⸢MEŠ⸣-ia al-ṭu-⸢ur⸣ [...] | |
| 12' | [a-na ar-kat₃ UD.MEŠ a-na u₄-um ṣa-a-te e-nu]-ma E₂.GAL-⸢lum⸣ [ši-i] | |
| 13' | [u₂-šal-ba-ru-ma e-na-hu lu-u₂] ⸢tas⸣-ka-ri-nu ⸢u₃⸣ [lu ...] | |
| 14' | [...] x x x [...] |
Sources & licences
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