Names

  • Aššur-bel-kala 05

Numbers

  • Q005986
  • Aššur-bel-kala 05

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Details

  • Middle Assyrian
  • Written ca. 1073-1056
  • Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
  • Royal Inscription
  • Ashur-bel-kala

Aššur-bel-kala 05 [via RIAO/RIA3]

Obverse
Lacuna
1'1'

[...] x [...]

(1') (Too broken for translation)


2'2'

[i-na šur-ru MAN-ti-ia (i-na maḫ-re-e BALA-ia) ša i-na] GIŠ.GU.ZA LUGAL-[te ra-bi- ú-ši-bu]

(2') [In my accession year (and in my first regnal year) after I sat on the thron]e of (my) ro[yal majesty in a grandiose manner, with the exalted strength of (the god) Aššur, my lord, who goes before me, with the ...] of the god Ninu[rta, who goes at my right hand, with the martial spirit of the god Adad, who goes at] my left hand, [I mustered my] chariots [and troops. Difficult roads ... which for the] passage of my chariots and troops [were not suitable, routes which were impassable, whose barriers even the] winged birds of the sky [could not pass, the barriers through which no king or ruler who] came before me had marched, [... I took that road ...], their rugged paths [and difficult passes, the terraces of their mountains with] bronze picks, I [hacked out a good way for the passage of my chariotry]. I [marched] right through those [mountains. I crossed over the ...ubda (and) Samanuna Rivers. I entered] the land Urarṭu (Uruaṭri). [The lands ...] BARgun, Meld[i, ... I brought about] their extensive defeat [... like] a cloud upon them [...] I reorganized. In order to [... on] stakes over their cities [I hung them ...].

3'3'

[i-na e-mu-qe ṣi-ra-a-te ša da-šur EN-ia a-lik pa-ni-ia i-na? ...]-x ša dnin-urta [a-lik im-ni-ia?]

4'4'

[i-na lìb-be qar-di ša dIŠKUR a-lik? šu-me]-li-ia GIŠ.GIGIR.[MEŠ ù ERIM.ḪI.A.MEŠ-ia ad-ke]

5'5'

[ger-ri.MEŠ pa-áš-qu-te? ... ša a-na me]-tiq GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ ù ERIM.[ḪI.A.MEŠ la ša-ak-nu?]

6'6'

[pìr-ke la e-ti-qu pe-re-ek-šu-un? MUŠEN].MEŠ AN-e mut-tap-ri-šu-[te la e-ti-qu]

7'7'

[pe-rík-šu-un ša LUGAL ia-um-ma NUN-ú a-lik?] pa-ni-ia la il-li-[ku ...]

8'8'

[ger-ra šu-a-tu aṣ-bat? ...] ar-ḫa-ni-šu-nu mar-[ṣu-te -re-be-te]

9'9'

[pa-áš-qa-te si-mi-la-at KUR-šu-nu? i-na] ak-kúl-<lat> ZABAR lu-ú [aḫ-si]

10'10'

[a-na me-tiq GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ ú-ṭí-ib ḫur-ša-ni.MEŠ ša-tu]-nu a-na pe-er-ke ab-[bal-kit]

11'11'

[x-x-ub-da ÍD.sa-ma-nu-na lu-ú e-bir? a-na ]-reb KUR.ú-ru-aṭ-ri [e-ru-ub]

12'12'

[...] KUR.BAR-gu-un KUR.-el-di [...]

13'13'

[... di-ik]-ta-šu-nu ma-ʾa-ta lu [a-duk ...]

14'14'

[... ki]-ma im-ba-ri UGU-šu-[nu ...]

15'15'

[... a-na] -ut-te aṣ-bat -šu [...]

16'16'

[... i-na] ga-ši-še UGU URU-šu-[nu lu-ú a-lu-ul ...]


17'17'

[...] x pa-na NUN-ú [...]

(17') (Too broken for translation)

18'18'

[...] x-ni ú-ka-[...]

19'19'

[...] x-su-x [...]

20'20'

[...] x [...]

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/Q005986/.