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11 | (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. | |
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3434 | (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). | |
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5959 | (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. | |
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6868 | (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. | |
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8080 | (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/.