Aššur-bel-kala 05 (Q005986)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Aššur-bel-kala 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005986 |
| 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 [0:2] 1'1'–2'2' | (Too broken for translation) |
| Obverse [1:16] 2'2'–16'16' | [In my accession year (and in my first regnal year) after I nobly ascended the] royal throne, [with the exalted strength of the god Aššur, my lord, who goes before me, with the ...] of the god Ninu[rta, who goes at my right hand, with the martial spirit of the god Adad, who goes at] my left hand, [I mustered my] chariots [and troops. Difficult roads ... which for the] passage of my chariots and troops [were not suitable, routes which were impassable, whose barriers even the] winged birds of the sky [could not pass, the barriers through which no king or prince who] preceded me had marched [... I took that road ...], their rugged paths [and difficult passes, the terraces of their mountains — with] bronze picks I [hacked out a good way for the passage of my chariotry]. I [marched] right through those [mountains. I crossed over the Rivers ...ubdu (Iand) Samanunu. I entered] the land Uruaṭri. [The lands ...] Mašgun (or Bargun), Mildu ... [I brought about] their extensive defeat [... like] a cloud upon them [...] I reorganized. In order to [... on] stakes over their cities [I hung them ...] |
| Obverse [16:20] 17'17'–20'20' | (Too broken for translation) |
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' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | [i-na šur-ru MAN-ti-ia (i-na mah-re-e BALA-ia) ša i-na] {giš}GU.ZA ⸢LUGAL⸣-[te ra-bi-iš u₂-ši-bu] | |
| 3' | [i-na e-mu-qe ṣi-ra-a-te ša {d}a-šur EN-ia a-lik pa-ni-ia i-na ...]-x ša {d}nin-⸢urta⸣ [a-lik im-ni-ia] | |
| 4' | [i-na lib₃-be qar-di ša {d}IŠKUR a-lik šu-me]-⸢li⸣-ia {giš}GIGIR.[MEŠ u₃ ERIM.HI.A.MEŠ-ia ad-ke] | |
| 5' | [ger-ri.MEŠ pa-aš₂-qu-te ... ša a-na me]-⸢tiq⸣ {giš}GIGIR.MEŠ u₃ ERIM.[HI.A.MEŠ la ša-ak-nu] | |
| 6' | [pir₃-ke la e-ti-qu pe-re-ek-šu-un MUŠEN].⸢MEŠ⸣ AN-e mut-tap-ri-⸢šu⸣-[te la e-ti-qu] | |
| 7' | [pe-rik₂-šu-un ša LUGAL ia-um-ma NUN-u₂ a-lik] pa-ni-ia la il-li-[ku ...] | |
| 8' | [ger-ra šu-a-tu aṣ-bat ...] ar-ha-ni-šu-nu mar-[ṣu-te ne₂-re-be-te] | |
| 9' | [pa-aš₂-qa-te si-mi-la-at KUR-šu-nu i-na] ak-kul₂-<lat> ZABAR lu-⸢u₂⸣ [ah-si] | |
| 10' | [a-na me-tiq {giš}GIGIR.MEŠ u₂-ṭi₂-ib hur-ša-ni.MEŠ ša-tu]-nu a-na pe-er-ke ⸢ab⸣-[bal-kit] | |
| 11' | [x-x-ub-da {id₂}sa-ma-nu-na lu-u₂ e-bir a-na qe₂]-reb {kur}u₂-ru-aṭ-ri [e-ru-ub] | |
| 12' | [...] {⸢kur⸣}BAR-gu-un {kur}me₂-el-⸢di⸣ [...] | |
| 13' | [... di-ik]-ta-šu-nu ma-ʾa-ta ⸢lu⸣ [a-duk ...] | |
| 14' | [... ki]-⸢ma⸣ im-ba-ri UGU-šu-[nu ...] | |
| 15' | [... a-na] ⸢eš⸣-ut-te aṣ-bat aš-šu [...] | |
| 16' | [... i-na] ⸢ga⸣-ši-še UGU URU-⸢šu⸣-[nu lu-u₂ a-lu-ul ...] | |
| 17' | [...] x pa-na NUN-u₂ [...] | |
| 18' | [...] x-ni u₂-⸢ka⸣-[...] | |
| 19' | [...] x-su-x [...] | |
| 20' | [...] x [...] |
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