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Tiglath-pileser I 15 (Q005940)

Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Tigris Tunnel · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE

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DesignationTiglath-pileser I 15
IDQ005940
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodMiddle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotTigris Tunnel
Coordinates38.5297, 40.5475

English translation

By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:10] 11–1010With the aid of the gods Aššur, Šamaš, (and) Adad, the great gods, my lords, I, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), king of Assyria, son of Mutakkil-Nusku, (who was) also king of Assyria, (I) the conqueror from the Great Sea of the land Amurru and the sea of the land(s) Nairi, marched thrice to the land(s) Nairi.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1ina re-ṣu-te ša₂ aš-šur
2{d}UTU {d}IŠKUR DINGIR.MEŠ
3GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-a
4ana-ku {m}tukul-ti-A-e₂-šar₂-ra
5MAN KUR AŠ A {m}AŠ-SAG-i-ši
6MAN KUR AŠ A {m}mu-tak₃-kil-{d}⸢nusku⸣
7MAN KUR AŠ-ma ka-šid ⸢iš⸣-[tu]
8tam-di GAL-te ša₂ {kur}a-mur-ri
9u tam-di ša₂ {kur}na-i-ri
103-šu₂ ana {kur}na-i-ri DU

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