Tukulti-Ninurta I 16

Obverse
11

mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dnin-urta

(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, king of kings, lord of lords, ruler of rulers, ruler, lord of all, conqueror of the rebellious those who do not submit (to him and) who are hostile to the god Aššur defeater of the rulers of the land Qutû, as far as the land Meḫri, disperser of the forces of the land Šubarû and the remote Naʾiri lands as far as the border of Makan, 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 the world, king of Assyria; (and) son of Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria.

22

MAN KIŠ MAN dan-nu

33

MAN KUR da-šur

44

MAN MAN.MEŠ EN EN.MEŠ

55

ma-lik ma-li-ki

66

NUN EN gim-ri

77

ka-ši-id

88

mu-ul-tar-ḫi

99

la ma-gi-ri

1010

za-e-ru-ut

1111

da-šur

1212

-ir mal-ki

1313

šá qu-ti-i

1414

a-di KUR.me-eḫ-ri

1515

mu-se-pi-iḫ

1616

el-le-et

1717

KUR.šu-ba-ri-i

1818

ù KUR.KUR na-i-ri

1919

-su-ut

2020

pa-da-ni

2121

a-di pa-aṭ

2222

ma-ka-an

2323

MAN dan-nu

2424

le-ú MURUB₄

2525

šá kib-rat 4

2626

ar-ki dšá-maš

2727

ir-te-ú

2828

a-na-ku

2929

A dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ

3030

MAN KIŠ

3131

MAN KUR -šur

3232

A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KIŠ

3333

MAN KUR -šur-ma

3434

i-na u₄-mi-[šu]-ma

(34) At [that] time, (as for) the temple of the goddess Dinitu, my lady, which former kings had previously built, that temple had become dilapidated and I cleared away its dilapidated section(s) (and) I reached its foundation pit. I built and completed (it) from its foundations to its crenellations. Inside it, I built a lofty dais (and) an awesome sanctuary for the abode of the goddess Dinitu, my lady. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscription (therein).

3535

É ddi-ni-te

3636

NIN-ia

3737

šá LUGAL.MEŠ

3838

maḫ-ru-tu

3939

i-na pa-na

4040

e-pu-šu

4141

É šu-ú

4242

e-na-aḫ-ma

4343

an-ḫu-su

4444

ú--kir₆

4545

dan-na-su ak-šud

4646

É šá-a-tu

4747

-tu -še-šu

4848

a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu

4949

e-pu-

5050

ù ú-še-ek-lil

5151

i-na qer-bi-šu

5252

BÁRA ṣi-i-ra

5353

at-ma-na ra-šub-ba

5454

a-na ri--it

5555

ddi-ni-te NIN-ia

5656

e-pu-

5757

ù na-re-ia

5858

áš-ku-un

5959

NUN ar-ku-ú

(59) May a future ruler renovate its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscribed name to its place. The goddess Dinitu will (then) listen to his prayers.

6060

an-ḫu-su

6161

lu-di-

6262

šu-mi šaṭ-ra

6363

a-na áš-ri-šu

6464

lu-te-er

6565

ddi-ni-tu

6666

ik-ri-be-šu

6767

i-še-em-me

6868

mu--kir₆

(68) (As for) the one who removes my inscription and my name, may the goddess Dinitu, my lady, extinguish his kingship, break his weapon, cause his manhood to dwindle away, (and) hand him over to his enemies.

6969

ši-iṭ-ri-ia

7070

ù MU-ia

7171

ddi-ni-tu

7272

NIN-ti

7373

MAN-su liš-giš

7474

GIŠ.TUKUL-šu liš-be-er

7575

mu-tu-su

7676

a-na ri-ḫu-ti

7777

liš-ku-un

7878

a-na ŠU KÚR.MEŠ-šu

7979

lu-me-li-šu

8080

mub-rum A.ZU

(80) Ubrum, the scribe.


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/Q005852/.