Tiglath-pileser I 05

Obverse
Lacuna
1'1'

[...] e-pu- [...]

(1') built [...] the labūnu-house [...] I strengthened. With boxwood, [which by the command of the gods Aššur and Anu, the great gods, my lords], I had cut down (and) [carried off] from Mount Lebanon, [... I installed/built ...] I bu[ilt (it) fr]om its foundations to its crenellations. [...] I bu[ilt the labūnu-house that is] opposite it with tamarisk. [... I] entirely [surrounded (it)] in [its] entiret[y with] slabs of gišnugallu-alabaster. [I ] its walls and [... surrounded (them) with] knobbed nails of bronze to (enhance) its appearance. [...].

2'2'

[...] x É la-bu-ni [...]

3'3'

[...] ú-la-bi-in i-na GIŠ.tas-ka-ri-ni [... ša i-na si-qir da-šur u da-nim]

4'4'

[DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia ]-tu KUR-e lab-na-a-ni ak-ki-su-ú-[ni áš-ši-an-ni]

5'5'

[... ]-tu -še-ša a-di gaba-dib-bi-ša ar-[ṣip ...]

6'6'

[É la-bu-ni ša] pu-ti-šu i-na GIŠ.ṭar-pe-ʾe ar-[ṣip ...]

7'7'

[ina a]-gur-ri ša NA₄.GIŠ.NU₁₁.GAL a-na si-ḫír-ti-[ša al-mi É.GAL-la šu-a-ti ar-ṣip]

8'8'

[ú-šék-lil ú-šèr]-riḫ ú-si-im É.GAR₈.MEŠ-ša ù [...]

9'9'

[...] sik-kàt kar-ri a-na -ma-te-ša [al-mi ...]


10'10'

[...] -reb tam-le-e šu-a-tu ù a-na a-x-[...]

(10') [...] within that terrace and to [... I made replicas in ... of a] live burḫiš, which [was brought] from the land Luma[š ... on the other side of the land Ḫabḫu, (and) of] a nāḫiru, which [is called] a sea-horse (and) which the gods Ninurta and Nergal, [the great gods, my lords, allowed me to kill with a harpoon of] my own [making in] the Great Sea of the land Amurru.

11'11'

[...]-te bur-ḫi- bal-ṭa ša -tu KUR.lu-ma-[ ...-te am-mi-te]

12'12'

[ša KUR.ḫab-ḫi na-ṣu-ú]-ni na-ḫi-ra ša ANŠE.KUR.RA ša A.AB.BA [i-qa-bi-šu-ú-ni]

13'13'

[pa-ri-an-gi ep-šet] qa-ti-ia ša dMAŠ ù dIGI.DU [DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ]

14'14'

[EN.MEŠ-ia i-na A].AB.BA GAL-te ša KUR.a-mur-ri [...]

Lacuna


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/Q005930/.