Tukulti-Ninurta I 08

Obverse
Lacuna
1'1'

[...] x na-mad d[...]

(1') [...] loved one of the god [...] the great [gods], support [...] (the king whom) they always allowed to exercise rule [in the (four) quarters (of the world) and who conquered all of those (rulers) who did not bow down to him, capturer of enemy lands, extender of borders], strong [king], loved one of the great gods, of [lordly] lineage [whose priesthood in Ekur and whose rule over all of the people the god Enlil from of old made great, am I; son of Sha]lmaneser (I), king of Assyria, (and) son of [Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also king of Assyria].

2'2'

[... DINGIR.MEŠ] GAL.MEŠ tu-kúl-[ti ...]

3'3'

[ša ina kib-ra]-ti ul-te-li-ṭu-ma [kúl-la-at la ma-gi-ri-šú qa-su ik-šu-du ṣa-bit KUR.KUR KÚR.MEŠ]

4'4'

[mu-re-piš -iṣ-ri MAN dan]-nu na-mad DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ NUMUN [be-lu-ti šá -tu ul-la-a SANGA-su-nu i-na é-kur ù šá-pi-ru-su-nu i-na kiš-šat UN.MEŠ]

5'5'

[dBAD ú-šèr-bu-ú a-na-ku A d]sál-ma-nu-SAG MAN KUR -šur A [d10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KUR -šur-ma]

6'6'

[e-nu-ma -šur EN ...] šu-ma ib-bu-ni ù ṣi-[... -tu tul-si-na-a KUR-i la-áš-qi be-ri-it URU.šá-si-la]

(6') [When (the god) Aššur, my lord ...] named me and [... from (Mount) Tulsinâ, the ... mountain, (the region) between the cities Šasilu (and) Mašḫat-šarri on the opposite bank of the] Lower [Zab], from (Mount) Zuq[uški and Mount Lal]ar, [the district of the wide land Qutû, the lands Uqumanî and Elḫunia to the lands Šarnida (and) Meḫri], the lands Papḫû, Katmuḫi, Bušše, (and) Mumme, [and the entirety of Mount Kāšiāru, the lands Alzi, (A)madani, Niḫani, Alaya, Tepurzi, and Purulumzi], all of the [wide] land Šubarû [to the border of the Naʾiri lands and the border of Makan ...] (when those regions) I conquered [...].

7'7'

[URU.maš-ḫaṭ-MAN e-be-er-ti ÍD.za-be]-šu-pa-li -tu zu-qu-[-ki ù KUR.la-la]-ar? [ši-id-di KUR.qu-ti-i DAGAL-ti KUR.ú-qu-ma-ni KUR.el-ḫu-ni-a]

8'8'

[a-di šar-ni-da KUR.me-eḫ]-ri KUR.pap-ḫi KUR.kat-mu-ḫi KUR.bu--še KUR.mu-um-mi [ù si-ḫi-ir-ti KUR.ka-ši-ia-ri KUR.al-zi KUR.ma-da-ni KUR.ni-ḫa-ni KUR.a-la-ia]

9'9'

[KUR.te-pur₁₃-zi ù KUR.pu-ru-lum]-zi kúl-la-at KUR.šu-ba-ri-i [DAGAL-ti a-di pa-aṭ na-i-ri ù pa-aṭ ma-ka-an ...]

10'10'

[...] x qa-ti ik-šu-du

11'11'

[... NUN ma-ḫi-ir ṭa]-te?-šu-nu SIPA pa--su-nu

(11'b) [The ruler who accepts] their gifts, the shepherd who has charge over them, [and the herdsman who properly administers them, am I].

12'12'

[ù ú-tul-lu mul-te-šìr-šu-nu a-na-ku]

13'13'

[... e-na-aḫ-ma la-be-ru-ta] il-lik an-<ḫu>-su

(13') [At that time, (as for) , it had become dilapidated and old. I cleared away] its dilapidated section(s) [(and) I reached its foundation pit. I completed (it) from its foundations to its crenellations. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscription (therein)].

14'14'

[ú--kir₆ dan-na-su ak-šud -tu -še-šu a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu e-pu- ù na-re-ia -ku-un NUN EGIR an-ḫu-su lu]-di- šu- šaṭ-ra

(14'b) [May a future ruler reno]vate [its dilapidated section(s) (and) return] my inscribed name [to its place. The god Aššur] will (then) listen to [his prayers].

15'15'

[a-na -ri-šu lu-ter -šur ik-ri-be-šu] i-še-[me]

Lacuna?


Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q005844/.