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11 | [É.GAL mtukul-ti-A-é-šár-ra LUGAL GAL-u LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL KIŠ LUGAL KUR aš-šur LUGAL KÁ].DINGIR.RA.KI LUGAL KUR šu-me-ri u URI.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-ti1 | (1) [Palace of Tiglath-pileser (III), great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of Bab]ylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters (of the world); [valiant man who, with the help of (the god) Aššur, his lord], smashed [like pots all who were unsubmissive to him], swept over (them) like the Deluge, (and) considered (them) as (mere) ghosts; [the king who marched about at the command of the gods Aššur, Šamaš, and Marduk, the great gods, and] exercised authority over lands [from the Bitter] Sea of Bīt-Yakīn, as far as Mount Bikni in the east, [up to the Sea of the Setting Sun, as far as Egypt, from the horizon to the zen]ith, and exercised kingship over them. |
22 | [GURUŠ qar-du ša ina tu-kul-ti aš-šur EN-šú kul-lat la ma-gi-ri-šu GIM ḫaṣ-bat-ti ú]-⸢daq⸣-qi-qu a-bu-biš is-pu-nu-ma zi-qi-qiš im-nu-u | |
33 | [LUGAL šá ina zi-kir aš-šur dšá-maš u dAMAR.UTU DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ DU.MEŠ-ma ul-tu ÍD.mar-ra]-ti ša É-ia-ki-ni a-di KUR.bi-ik-ni ša KUR dšam-ši | |
44 | [ù tam-tim ša šul-mi dšam-ši a-di KUR.mu-uṣ-ri ul-tu AN.ÚR a-di AN].⸢PA⸣ KUR.KUR.MEŠ i-pe-lu-ma e-pu-šu šar-ru-us-si-in | |
55 | [ul-tu SAG LUGAL-ti-ia a-di 17 BALA.MEŠ-ia KUR.i-tu-ʾu KUR.ru-bu-ʾu LÚ.ḫa]-⸢mar⸣-a-nu LÚ.lu-ḫu-ú-a-tu LÚ.ḫa-tal-lu LÚ.ru-ub-bu | (5) [From the beginning of my reign until my seventeenth palû, I captured the (tribes) Ituʾu, Rubuʾu, Ḫam]arānu (Ḫamrānu), Luḫuʾātu, Ḫatallu, Rubbû, [Rapiqu, Nabātu, Gurūmu, Dunānu, Ubulu, Ruʾuʾa], Liʾtaʾu, Marusu, (and those living in) the cities Dūr-Kurigalzu, [Adinni, the fortresses of Sarragītu (and) Labbanat, all of the Arameans] on the banks of the Tigris, [Euphrates, Surappu, (and) Uqnû Rivers, as far as the Lower Sea of the Rising Sun. I annexed (those areas) to] Assyria (and) [placed a eunuch of mine as provincial governor over them]. |
66 | [LÚ.ra-pi-qu LÚ.na-ba-tu LÚ.gu-ru-mu LÚ.du-na-nu LÚ.ú-bu-lu LÚ.ru-ʾu-ú-a LÚ].⸢li⸣-iʾ-ta-a-ú LÚ.ma-ru-su URU.BÀD-ku-ri-gal-zi | |
77 | [URU.a-di-in-ni URU.bir-tu ša sa-ra-gi-ti URU.bir-tu ša la-ab-na-at LÚ.a-ru-mu DÙ]-⸢šú-nu⸣ ša šid-di ÍD.IDIGNA ⸢ÍD⸣.[A.ŠÌTA] | |
88 | [ù ÍD.su-rap-pi ÍD.uq-né-e a-di tam-tim šap-li-ti ša KUR dšam-ši ak-šud a-na] mi-ṣir KUR aš-šur.KI [ú-ter-ra] | |
99 | [LÚ.šu-ut SAG-ia LÚ.EN.NAM UGU-šú-nu áš-kun i-na ZIMBIR.KI NIBRU.KI KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI bár-sipa.KI] ⸢GÚ.DU₈⸣.[A.KI kiš.KI dil-bat.KI UNUG.KI] | (9b) [In Sippar, Nippur, Babylon, Borsippa], Cuth[a, Kish, Dilbat, (and) Uruk], |
Lacuna |
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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/Q003465/.