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Aššur-bel-kala 08 (Q005989)

Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE

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DesignationAššur-bel-kala 08
IDQ005989
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodMiddle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66[A]ššur-bēl-kala, great king, king of [the universe, ..., king of] all the four quarters, loved one of Aššur, [... son of Tiglath]-pileser (I) [..., son of Aššur]-rēša-īši (I) [...]
Obverse [6:10] o 77–[By the command of] the gods Aššur, Anu [...]
Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3'(Too broken for translation)
Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4'[...] Month of Ulūlu, fifth day, eponymy [of ...]

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)
o
1{[m}{d}aš]-⸢šur⸣-EN-ka-la ⸢LUGAL GAL LUGAL⸣ [KIŠ ...]
2[LUGAL] ⸢kul₂⸣-lat kib-rat 4-i na-mad aš-šur x [...]
3[...] x [...]-⸢ni⸣-šu gi-x [...]
4[...] x ⸢tu⸣ ik gal [...]
5[DUMU {m}{giš}tukul-ti]-⸢IBILA⸣-e₂-šar-ra [...]
6[DUMU {m}a-šur]-SAG-⸢i-ši⸣ [...]
7[i-na si-qir] {⸢d⸣}[aš]-⸢šur⸣ a-⸢nu⸣ [...]
r
1'[...] x [...]
2'[...] x-mi-ra [...]
3'[...] ⸢am⸣-mar lib₃-be x [...]
4'[...] {iti}KIN UD.5.KAM₂ ⸢li⸣-[mu ...]

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