Tukulti-Ninurta II 02
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o 1o 1 | (1) [(The god) Aššur, king of al]l the [great] gods; [the god Anu, king of] the Igīgū and Anun[nakū gods; lord of the lands, the god Enlil, exalted one], father of the god[s; the god Ea, king of the a]psû, the one who decre[es destinies; the god Sîn, king of the lunar d]isk, lord of [brilliance; the god Adad, the] exceptionally [stron]g, lord of [abundance; the god Šamaš, ju]dge of heaven and netherworld, [commander of all; the god Marduk], sage of the gods (and) [lord of omens; the god Ninurta], warrior of the Igīgū and Anun[nakū gods; god] Nergal, perfect one, [king of battle]; the god Nusku, bearer of the holy scepter, [circumspect god]; the goddess Mullissu, spouse of the god Enlil, [mother of the great gods]; (and) the goddess Ištar, foremost in heaven and netherworld, w[ho is consummate in the canons of combat]. | |
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o 1313 | dINANNA SAG-ti AN-e u KI-te ⸢ša⸣ [pa-ra-aṣ qar-du-te šuk-lu-lat] | |
o 1414 | (14) the great gods, who decree destinies, [...], whose attack means conflict (and) strife, [who make great the kingship of] Tukultī-Ninurta (II), [...] beloved, [their] se[lect one, ...]; (the gods) who [faithfully noticed me] in [my mother's womb (and) altered my] b[irth to be a lordly birth]; | |
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o 1616 | mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dMAŠ [...] | |
o 1717 | na-ram bi-[bíl lìb-bi-šu-un ...] | |
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r 1'1' | e-nu-ma BÀD ša URU.⸢bal?⸣-til? ⸢ša⸣ [...] | (r 1') At that time, the wall of Baltil (Aššur) — which [...], a ruler who had come before [me], had built — [had become dilapidated, (...)] I delineated its area, (and) reached its foundation pit. I built (and) comp[leted (it) from its foundation(s)] to its crenellations (and) decorated (it) more splendidly [than before. I wrote out my] commemorative inscription (and) deposited (it) [in]side it. |
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r 6'6' | (r 6'b) [May] a future ruler [restore its dilapidated section(s)]. May he find my commemorative inscription and re[ad (it), anoint (it) with oil], make an offering, (and) return (it) to its place. [(The god) Aššur, the great lord, and the goddess Ištar, lady] of Nineveh, [will (then) listen to his] prayers (and) [will make him achieve success in wars with kings] on the battlefield. | |
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r 12'12' | [ITI.x UD.x.KÁM] ⸢li⸣-mu maš-šur-la-ki-nu-[ba-ša] | (r 12') [Month of ..., ...th day], eponymy of Aššur-lā-kīnu-[ubāša (890)]. |
Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q006032/.