Tiglath-pileser III 2006
Obverse | ||
11 | (1) To Tiglath-pil[eser, ... magnificent] king of the lands, [...]: | |
22 | MAN KUR.KUR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [šar-ḫi? ...]1 | |
33 | mki-di-te-e GAR.⸢KUR⸣ [...]2 | (3) Kīdītê, provincial gove[rnor of ...] and of (the city) Arrapḫa [...], protégé of Ti[glath-pileser, king of Assyria, (...) ...] for the palace of j[oy ...] ... [... dedicated/built]. |
44 | ù ar-rap-ḫa-ia [...] | |
55 | ti-ri-iṣ ŠU.II <m>GIŠ.⸢tukul⸣-[ti-A-é-šár-ra? MAN? KUR? AŠ? (...)] | |
66 | ||
77 | x x [...] | |
Lacuna? |
1The title šar mātāti šarḫu (“magnificent king of the lands”) is attested only in the inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III. According to Seux, ERAS pp. 315–316, the title šar mātāti (“king of the lands”) without šarḫu or with other attributes is attested only for Achaemenid and Seleucid kings.
2The reading of the line is not absolutely certain, although the standard structure of votive inscriptions suggests that this line probably opens with a personal name and his titles. For the name Kīdītê, cf. Saporetti, Onomastica 1 p. 290 sub *KĪDĪTU; and Hölscher, Personennamen p. 123 sub Kīdītu. An alternative, but less likely, possibility is that this line refers to the object being built/dedicated, and thus might be read as ana ki-di-te-e šá x [...] “for the exterior surface of ... [...]”; cf. Beckman, ARRIM 5 (1987) p. 2 no. 2.
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/Q004178/.