Tukulti-Ninurta I 25
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| r 1r 1 | (traces) [...] | (r 1) [With the support of the gods …, I approached Kaštiliašu, the king of Karduniaš (Babylonia)], to do [battle. I brought about the defeat of his armies and struck down his warriors]. In the midst of that battle, I captured Kaštiliašu, the king of the Kassites. I brought him bound as a captive into the presence of the god Aššur, my lord. I became the lord of Sumer and Akkad to its full extent. I stood over them with joy and excellence. |
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| r 33 | (traces) [...] | |
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| r 99 | (r 9) At that time, the god Aššur, my lord, requested of me a cult center on the bank opposite my city, the desired object of [the gods] (the city Aššur), and he commanded me to build his sanctuary. At the command of the god Aššur, the god who loves me, I built before my city, Aššur, a city for the god Aššur on the opposite bank, beside the Tigris River, in uncultivated plains (and) meadows, where there was neither house nor [dwelling], where no ruin hill(s) or earth had accumulated, and no bricks had been laid. I called it Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta. | |
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| r 1717 | (r 17b) I cut straight as a string through rocky terrain, cleared a way through high difficult mountains with stone chisels, cut a wide path for a stream that supports life in the land (and) that provides abundance, (and) transformed the plains of my city into irrigated fields. From the produce of the waters of that canal, I arranged for eternity the ginû-offerings the god Aššur and the great gods, my lords. | |
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| r 2525 | (r 25) At that time, in my city, Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta, the cult center that I had constructed, I built a holy temple, an awesome sanctuary for the abode of the god Aššur, my lord. I called it Ekurmešarra. Inside it, I completed a great ziggurat as the cult platform of the god Aššur, my lord. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscriptions (therein). | |
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| r 3030 | [u] ⸢na-re-ia⸣ áš-ku-un [...] | |
| r 31-3231-32 | (traces) |
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/Q005861/.