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  • Tukulti-Ninurta I 14

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  • Q005850
  • Tukulti-Ninurta I 14

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  • Middle Assyrian
  • Written ca. ca. 1233-1197
  • Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
  • Royal Inscription
  • Tukulti-Ninurta I

Tukulti-Ninurta I 14 [via RIAO/RIA2]

Obverse
11

mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dnin-urta

(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, chosen of (the god) Aššur, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, true shepherd, loved one of the goddess Ištar, subduer of the land Qutû to (its) full extent; son of Shalmaneser (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur; (and) son of Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur.

22

MAN KIŠ MAN dan-nu MAN KUR -šur

33

ni-šit -šur ŠID -šur

44

SIPA ki-nu na-mad dINANNA

55

mu-šék-níš KUR.qu-ti-i

66

a-di pa-aṭ gim-ri

77

A dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ ŠID -šur

88

A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ ŠID -šur-ma

99

u₄-ma É ddi-ni-te

(9) At that time, (as for) the temple of the goddess Dinitu, my lady, which the kings who came before me had previously built, that temple had been dilapidated, crumbled, and in ruin since the reign of Adad-nārārī (I), the vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, my ancestor.

1010

NIN-ia šá i-na pa-na

1111

MAN.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia

1212

e-pu-šu É šu-ú

1313

-tu BALA.MEŠ m10-ERIM.TÁḪ

1414

ŠID -šur a-bi-ia

1515

e-na-aḫ-ma im-qut

1616

iḫ-ṭa-bit i-na u₄-me-šu-ma

(16b) At that time, at the beginning of my reign, I cleared away its earth (and) I reached its foundation pit. I built th(at) holy temple, her joyful dwelling, the perfect shrine, (and) her restful dais, which (I made) more outstanding than before. I completed (it) from its foundations to its crenellations. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscriptions (therein).

1717

i-na šur-ru LUGAL-ti-ia

1818

ep-ri-šu ú--kir₆

1919

dan-na-su ak-šud

2020

É šu-bat ḫi-da-te-šá

2121

É.AN.NA šuk-lu-la

2222

BÁRA ta--eḫ-ti-šá

2323

šá UGU maḫ-ri-i

2424

qud-me-šá šu-tu-ru

2525

-ma -tu -še-šu

2626

a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu

2727

ú-šék-lil u na-re-ia

2828

-ku-un NUN EGIR u₄-ma

(28) May a future ruler, when that temple becomes old and dilapidated, renovate (it and) make (it) resplendent. May he anoint my commemorative inscriptions with oil, make offerings, (and) return (them) to their places. The goddess Dinitu will (then) listen to his prayers.

2929

É šu-ú ú-šal-ba-ru-ma

3030

e-na-ḫu lu-diš lu--me-er

3131

na-re-ia Ì

3232

li-ip-šu-

3333

ni-qa-a li-qi

3434

ana -ri-šu-nu

3535

lu-te-er

3636

ddi-ni-tu

3737

ik-ri-be-šu i-še-me

3838

mu--kir₆ šiṭ-ri-ia

(38) (As for) the one who removes my inscriptions and my name, may the goddess Dinitu, my lady, break his weapon (and) hand him over to his enemies.

3939

ù MU-ia ddi-ni-tu

4040

NIN GIŠ.TUKUL-šu

4141

liš-be-er

4242

ana ŠU KÚR.MEŠ-šu

4343

lu-me-li-šu


Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based 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/Q005850/.