Tukulti-Ninurta I 12

Obverse
11

mGIŠ.tukul-ti-

(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, son of Shalmaneser (I), (who was) also king of Assyria.

22

dnin-urta

33

MAN KIŠ MAN dan-nu

44

MAN KUR -šur

55

A dSILIM.MA-MAŠ

66

MAN KUR -šur-ma

77

u₄-ma É dINANNA

(7) At that time, (as for) the temple of the Assyrian Ištar, my lady, which Ilu-šūma, my ancestor, a ruler (who came before me), had previously built, that temple had become dilapidated and I cleared away its dilapidated section(s). I changed its site.

88

-šu-ri-te

99

NIN-ia šá mDINGIR-šúm-ma

1010

a-bi ru-ba-ú

1111

ina pa-na e-pu-šu

1212

É šu-ú

1313

e-na-aḫ-ma

1414

an-ḫu-su

1515

ú--kir₆

1616

qa-qar-šu

1717

ú-še--ni

1818

É šu-ḫu-ri

(18) As an addition, I built a šaḫūru-house and (lofty) towers. I established a throne-dais for the abode of the goddess Ištar, my lady. I built (it) from its foundations to its crenellations.

1919

ù na-ma-ri

2020

ki-ma a-tar-te-ma

2121

ab-ni BÁRA.MAḪ

2222

ana ri-mit dINANNA

2323

GAŠAN-ia ad-di

2424

-tu -še-šú

2525

a-di gaba-dib-bi-šú

2626

e-pu-


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/Q005848/.