Tukulti-Ninurta I 17

Obverse
11

mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dnin-urta

(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Shalmaneser (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, (and) son of Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur.

22

GAR dBAD ŠID d-šur

33

A dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ ŠID -šur

44

A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ ŠID -šur-ma

55

e-nu-ma É dnu-na-i-te

(5) At that time, (as for) the temple of the goddess Ninuaittu (Nunaittu), my lady, which the kings who came before me had previously built, that temple had become dilapidated and old. Shalmaneser (I), my father, the vice-regent of the god Aššur, cleared away its dilapidated section(s) (and) reached its foundation pit. He laid its foundations (and) built that temple, raising (it) seventy-two layers of brick.

66

NIN-ia šá i-na pa-na

77

LUGAL.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia

88

e-pu-šu É šu-ú

99

e-na-aḫ-ma la-be-ru-ta

1010

il-li-ik

1111

mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ a-bi

1212

ŠID d-šur an-ḫu-su

1313

ú--kir₆ da-na-su

1414

ik-šu-ud -še-šu ir-me

1515

É šá-tu e-pu-

1616

72 ti-ib-ki ul-li

1717

i-na u₄-me-šu-ma

(17) At that time, I, Tukultī-Ninurta (I), the appointee of the god Enlil, the vice-regent of the god Aššur, added twenty layers of brick to them. I installed (its) beams and doors. I built (and) completed th(at) temple. I erected a dais (inside it). During a joyous celebration, I made the goddess Ninuaittu (Nunaittu), my lady, sit on (that new) dais of hers. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscription (therein).

1818

mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dnin-urta

1919

GAR dBAD ŠID d-šur

2020

20 ti-ib-ki UGU-šu-nu

2121

ú-ra-di GIŠ.gu-šu-ri

2222

ù GIŠ.IG.MEŠ ú-ki-in

2323

É e-pu-

2424

ú-še-ek-li-il

2525

BÁRA ar-me dnu-na-i-ta

2626

NIN i-na ḫi-da-te

2727

ù ri-šá-a-te

2828

i-na BÁRA-šá ú-šá-ši-ib

2929

ù na-re-ia -ku-un

3030

NUN ar-ku-ú

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

3131

an-ḫu-su lu-di-

3232

MU šaṭ-ra ana -ri-šu

3333

lu-te-er dnu-na-i-tu

3434

ik-ri-be-šu

3535

i-še-me


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/Q005853/.