Tukulti-Ninurta I 19
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11 | (1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), sun(god) of all of the people; son of Shalmaneser (I), king of Assyria; (and) son of Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also king of Assyria. | |
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33 | MAN KUR da-šur A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN <<A>> KUR da-šur-ma e-nu-ma BÀD URU-ia da-šur | (3b) At that time, (as for) the ancient wall of my city, Aššur, which the kings who came before me had previously built, it had become dilapidated and old. I cleared away its dilapidated section(s). I renovated (and) restored that wall. |
44 | maḫ-ru-ú šá i-na pa-na MAN.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-šu e-na-aḫ-ma | |
55 | la-be-ru-ú-ta il-lik an-ḫu-su ú-né-kir₆ BÀD šá-a-tu ud-di-iš | |
66 | a-na áš-ri-šu ú-ter ḫi-ri-ṣa GAL-a šá i-na pa-na MAN.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia la-a e-pu-šu | (6b) A large moat, which no king who came before me had previously built: I dug a large moat around the wall. (To establish) its foundation pit, I smashed through bedrock with copper picks. I reached the water table twenty mūšaru down. Moreover, I deposited my foundation inscription in that wall. |
77 | ḫi-ri-ṣa GAL-a a-na li-me-et BÀD lu aḫ-ri dan-na-su ki-ṣir KUR-i i-na NÍG.GUL.MEŠ-at URUDU lu-pe-ṣi-id | |
88 | 20 mu-šá-ri a-na šu-pa-lu A.MEŠ na-ag-be lu ak-šud ù i-na BÀD šá-a-tu ti-me-ni-ia áš-ku-un NUN-ú EGIR-ú | (8b) May a future ruler renovate its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my foundation inscription to its place. The god Aššur will (then) listen to his prayers. |
99 | an-ḫu-su lu-di-iš ti-me-ni-ia a-na áš-ri-šu lu-ter da-šur ik-ri-be-šu i-še-em-me mu-né-kir₆ | (9b) (As for) the one who removes my inscriptions and my name, may the god Aššur, my lord, overthrow his kingship (and) make his name and (his) seed disappear from the land. |
1010 | šiṭ-ri-ia ù MU-ia da-šur EN MAN-su lis-kip MU-šu ù NUMUN-<šu> ina KUR lu-ḫal-liq |
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/Q005855/.