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A fragmentarily persevered clay tablet in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is inscribed with a text of a Middle Assyrian king describing a military campaign. The object is assumed to have come from Aššur. The suggested ascription to Tukultī-Ninurta I, rather than Tiglath-pileser I [/riao/ria3/Tiglath-pileserI/index.html], is based on the archaic form of the script and parallels with other inscriptions of Tukultī-Ninurta I.
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A fragment of a clay cone from Aššur may have an inscription of Tukultī-Ninurta I written on it. Parts of the building report and concluding formulae are preserved. The piece is now in Istanbul (Eski Șark Eserleri Müzesi of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri).
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Two pieces of a stone slab discovered at Aššur are thought to have a building inscription of Tukultī-Ninurta I. The text reports that the Assyrian king renovated the temple of Aššur. It the ascription proves correct, then this text is the only piece of evidence for Tukultī-Ninurta I working on that temple. The current location of the object is not known.
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A fragment of a clay cone from Aššur likely preserves part of a text of Tukultī-Ninurta I; the contents similar, but not identical, to other inscriptions of this king. The object is in the Eski Șark Eserleri Müzesi of the Arkeoloji Müzeleri (Istanbul).
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A fragment of a clay tablet in the Kuyunjik Collection of the British Museum (London) is inscribed with an inscription of a Middle Assyrian king. Because it mentions Babylon, the text may have been written in the name of Tukultī-Ninurta I.
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Two clay cones originating from Aššur preserve part of a building inscription recording the renovation of the Sîn-Šamaš temple. Since only three Assyrian kings are known to have worked on that temple, the text might be assigned to Tukultī-Ninurta I; the other two rulers are Aššur-nārārī I [/riao/ria1/OldAssyrianPeriod/Mittanianhegemony/Ashur-narariII/index.html] and Ashurnasirpal II [/riao/ria4/index.html]. Both pieces are now in Istanbul (Eski Șark Eserleri Müzesi of the Arkeoloji).
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A stone reported to have been discovered by Harford Jones in Babylon in 1801 is inscribed with a text of an Assyrian king, possibly Tukultī-Ninurta I. Despite its find spot, it has been proposed that the object originally came from Aššur and that it had been carried off to Babylon as booty, perhaps when that city fell in 614 BC. The present whereabouts of the stone are not known.
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A clay cone fragment with a text mentioning the land Uqmanu may date from the reign of Tukultī-Ninurta I. The object is now in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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A clay tablet from Aššur preserves part of a Middle Assyrian inscription. Its find spot (in the terrace wall of Tukultī-Ninurta I's palace) suggests a possible attribution to Tukultī-Ninurta I. The object is now housed in the Eski Șark Eserleri Müzesi of the Arkeoloji (Istanbul).
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A minuscule fragment of a stone object excavated at Aššur may preserve a small portion of an inscription of Tukultī-Ninurta I (or some other Middle Assyrian king). The present location of the object is not known.
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A clay tablet reportedly from Nineveh and now in the British Museum (London) has an inscription written in "archaic" script. That text might belong to Tukultī-Ninurta I.
A clay a tablet found at Nineveh contains a Neo-Assyrian copy (note,
especially, the use of the spelling aš+šur unknown from
earlier inscriptions) of a Middle-Assyrian inscription, which was thought - until Grayson's
edition in RIMA 1 - to belong to Aššur-dān I (as text no. 1001) since it
records the conquest of the land Irriya, an event mentioned in the
so-called "Syncronic History" (Grayson, Chronicles no. 21 ii 11) as taking place in that
king's reign.
J. Llop-Raduà (2003, 82-87) notes that Irriya is not otherwise known from
Middle-Assyrian inscriptions (although admittedly very few
inscriptions of Aššur-dān I have survived to our days), and that
the Synchronic History is not a reliable source for
chronology. Furthermore, he suggests to ascribe the text to the reign of
Tukulti-Ninurta I on the basis of an analysis of the
geographical names in the inscription, namely Ulayaš ([...]x-ia-aš,
(line 8') he reads
as [... KUR ú-l]a-ia-aš), Suḫu (lin 9'), Land Šadānu
(line 11'), and Land Šeleni.
The piece is in the Kuyunjik Collection of the British
Museum (London).
An eyestone now in Paris (Lourve) is inscribed with a short inscription of one of Tukultī-Ninurta I's eunuchs: Libūr-zānin-Aššur. The bead was dedicated to the goddess Ištar on behalf of the Assyrian king.
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Nathan Morello & Jamie Novotny
Nathan Morello & Jamie Novotny, 'Texts nos. 1001-1012 and 2001', RIA 2: Inscriptions of Adad-nārārī I to Aššur-rēša-iši I, Th RIA Project, 2024 [http://oracc.org/Tukulti-NinurtaI/Texts1001-1012and2001/]