Tukulti-Ninurta I 10
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11 | (1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, chosen of (the god) Aššur, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, attentive shepherd, favorite of the gods Anu and Enlil, whose name the god Aššur and the great gods faithfully called, the one to whom they gave the four quarters (of the world) to administer and the one to whom they entrusted their dominion, [...] the one who encircled enemy lands [above (and)] below, strong king, [capable in] battle, the one who shepherds the [four] quarters (of the world) at the heels of the god [Šamaš], am I; [son of] Shalmaneser (I), [king of] Assyria; [(and) son of] Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also [king of] Assyria. | |
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99 | ú-me-lu-ú [...] ⸢mul-tas⸣-ḫír | |
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1515 | (15) When (the god) Aššur, [my lord], faithfully chose [me to] worship him, [gave me the scepter for] my office of shepherd, [(presented) me in addition the] staff [for my office of herdsman ...; (at that time,)] I conquered the insubmissive [...]. From (Mount) Tulsinâ, the ... [mountain], (the region) between the cities Šasilu and Mašḫaṭ-šarri on the opposite bank of the Lower Zab, from Mounts Zuquški (and) Lalar, the district of the wide land Qutû, the entirety of Mount Kāšiāru (to) the lands Alzi, Amadāni, Niḫani, Alaya, Tepurzi, Purulumzi, all of [the wide land Šu]barû [to the bank of the Euphrates River, (the great gods) allotted these lands to me ...]. | |
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1717 | [(x)] x x x [...] ⸢ši?⸣-[pi?]-ra? | |
1818 | [x].MEŠ? [...] KI-⸢ia?⸣ | |
1919 | [x] x x [...] ba?-ni? | |
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2121 | [KUR?].x x [...] ⸢el⸣-la-at | |
2222 | [x] x x [...] x x DINGIR-ti-[(x)] | |
2323 | [... la] ⸢ka-an⸣-še ŠU ik-šu-ud | |
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4747 | (47) [At that time, in the sacred area of] my city, Aššur, (which stretches) from the ziggurat of the god Adad — my lord — [to the Craftsman’s Gate, on the north] side [... straight] down to its foundation pit, [I reached bedrock ...]. | |
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5050 | [il-ta-ni? ...]-ti | |
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5454 | [(...) ana šu-pa]-lu? dan-na-⸢su⸣ | |
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6363 | (traces) | (63) [May a future ruler renovate its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscribed name to its place]. (The god) Aššur [will (then) list]en to his prayers. |
6464 | [...] aš-šur ik-ri-be-šú | |
6565 | (65b) (As for) the one who removes my inscription and my name, may (the god) Aššur, my lord, extinguish his kingship (and) make [his name (and)] his seed disappear from the land. | |
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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/Q005846/.