Names

  • Tiglath-pileser I 08

Numbers

  • Q005933
  • Tiglath-pileser I 08

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Details

  • Middle Assyrian
  • Written ca. 1114-1076
  • Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
  • Royal Inscription
  • Tiglath-pileser I

Tiglath-pileser I 08

Obverse
Lacuna
1'1'

[...] ⸢a⸣-na a-⸢ma?⸣-[...]

(1') No translation warranted.

2'2'

[...] li? ⸢tu?⸣ še? ku ⸢me?⸣ [...]

3'3'

[...] x-ra-da-a an-⸢nu?⸣-[...]

4'4'

[... ša i-na siq-ri] dMAŠ ù d⸢IGI.DU⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢GAL⸣.[MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia i-na A.AB.BA]

(4') [... which by the command of] the gods Ninurta and Nergal, the great gods, [my lords], I had killed [with a harpoon of my own making in the Great Sea] of the land Amurru [(...)] I stationed (them) on the right [and] left of the entrance (gate) of my [royal majes]ty. I [fashioned (...)] bands of silver and gold [...] this weapon with wisdom [I manufactured ...]. The palace [...] the gods [...] I inscribed my [commemorative] inscriptions [and deposited them therein].

5'5'

[GAL-te] ša ⸢KUR⸣.a-mur-⸢ri⸣ a-du-ku-ni [...]

6'6'

[ina né-reb LUGAL]-ti-ia ZAG [ù] ⸢GÙB⸣ ú-⸢ša⸣-[zi-iz ...]

7'7'

[...] me-sir ṣar-⸢pi ù⸣ KÙ.GI ú-[...]

8'8'

[...] ⸢GIŠ?⸣.TUKUL ši-i i-na ta-⸢šim⸣-ti x [...]

9'9'

[...] x si x tu [...]

10'10'

[...] É.GAL [x] DINGIR.⸢MEŠ?⸣ [...]

11'11'

[... NA₄.NA.RÚ.A].⸢MEŠ⸣-ia al-ṭu-⸢ur⸣ [...]

12'12'

[a-na ar-kàt UD.MEŠ a-na u₄-um ṣa-a-te e-nu]-ma É.GAL-⸢lum⸣ [ši-i]

(12') [In the future, in days to come, may a future ruler], when [that] palace [becomes old and dilapidated, restore its dilapidated section(s), either with] boxwood or [...]

13'13'

[ú-šal-ba-ru-ma e-na-ḫu lu-ú] ⸢tas?⸣-ka-ri-nu ⸢ù⸣ [lu ...]

14'14'

[...] x x 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/Q005933/.