Tiglath-pileser III 24


Obverse
	Continued from text no. 23	Continued from text no. 23
11	[i]-na rak-su-ti e-⸢bir⸣ šá LÚ.a-ri-mi DÙ-šú-[nu ...]	(1) I crossed [o]n rafts. [I ...] all of the Arameans [... I carried off ..., ...] thousand and 9,000 people, [...] thousand and 500 oxen, [...]. I destroyed, devastated, (and) burned with fire [...]. The terrifying radiance of (the god) Aššur, my lord, overwhelmed the chief[tains of the Chaldeans ...] and [they ...]. (5) They (the chieftains) came [before me] and kissed my feet.
22	[x (x)] LIM 9 LIM UN.MEŠ [x (x)] LIM 5 ME GU₄.NÍTA.MEŠ [...]
33	⸢ap⸣-pul aq-qur i-na IZI áš-ru-up LÚ.ra-⸢aʾ⸣-[sa-a-ni ša KUR.kal-di ...]1
44	na-⸢mur^*⸣-rat aš-šur EN-ia is-ḫup-šú-nu-ti-ma [...]2
55	il-li-ku-⸢nim^*⸣-ma ú-na-áš-ši-qu GÌR.II-ia [...]3	(5b) [...] the temple personnel of Esagil, Ezida, (and) E[meslam ... brought] before me the (sacrificial) remnants of the gods Bēl (Marduk), Nabû, (and) Nergal [...]
66	LÚ.KU₄ É šá é-sag-íl é-zi-da ⸢é^*⸣-[mes-lam ...]4
77	re-ḫat EN ^dAG ^dU.GUR a-di maḫ-ri-ia ⸢ú⸣-[bi-lu-ni ...]
	After gap, continued in text no. 25	After gap, continued in text no. 25

1LÚ.ra-⸢aʾ⸣-[sa-a-ni ša KUR.kal-di] “chief[tains of the Chaldeans]”: The restoration is based on text no. 39 line 14 and other parallel passages in Tiglath-pileser III’s summary inscriptions.

2-⸢mur^*⸣-: Layard, MS A has ÁŠ.

3-⸢nim^*⸣-: The copy in Layard, MS A is garbled, as the sign omits the first part of the sign, the winkelhaken.

4⸢é^*⸣-: The copy in Layard, MS A is garbled, as the sign appears to have three horizontal wedges, rather than the expected two horizontal wedges.

Created by Hayim Tadmor, Shigeo Yamada, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, for the NEH-funded RINAP Project at the University of Pennsylvania. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003437/.