A.kirk Grayson Assyrian Rulers of Early First Millenium I (1114-858)

ASSYRIAN
RULERS
OF T H E E A R L Y F I R S T M I L L E N N I U M BC
I (1114-859 BC)
THE
ROYAL
INSCRIPTIONS
EDITORIAL
OF
MESOPOTAMIA
BOARD
A. Kirk Grayson (Toronto)

Director and Editor-in-Charge of Assyrian Periods
Lou is D. Levi ne (Toronto)

Ted
hnicai Adviser
Ronald F.G. Sweet (Toronto)

Editor-in-Chief
Veysel Donbaz (Istanbul)

Paul Garelii (Paris)
Dietz O. Edzard (Munich)

Editoren-Charge of Early Periods
Fawzi Rashid (Baghdad)

John A. Brinkman (Chicago)
Editor-in-Charge of Babylonian
Liane Jakob-Rost (Berlin)
Periods
Grant Frame (Toronto)
Assistant Director
Volumes Published
ASSYRIAN
PERIODS
1 Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (TO 1115 BC)
A. KIRK GRAYSON
2 Assyrian Rulers
of
the Early First Millennium BC
I (1114-859 BC)
A. KIRK GRAYSON
EARLY
PERIODS
4 Old Babylonian Period
(2003-1595 BC)
DOUGLASFRAYNE
SUPPLEMENTS
1 Royal Inscriptions on Clay Cones from Ashur now in Istanbul
V. DONBAZ and A. KIRK GRAYSON
THE
ROYAL
INSCRIPTIONS
ASSYRIAN
PERIODS
OF
MESOPOTAMIA
/ VOLUME
Assyrian Rulers
of the Early
First Millennium BC
I (1114-859 BC)
A . KIRK
UNIVERSITY
GRAYSON
OF T O R O N T O
Toronto Buffalo London
PRESS
University of Toronto Press 1991

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Grayson, A. Kirk (Albert Kirk), 1935Assyrian rulers of the early first millennium BC
I (1114-859 BC)
(The Royal inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian periods; v. 2)
Scores of inscriptions on microfiche (5) in pocket.
ISBN 0-8020-5965-1
1. Assyria - Kings and rulers - Sources.
2. Assyria - History - Sources. 3. Akkadian language - Texts.
4. Surneri an language - Texts. 5. Cuneiform inscriptions. Akkadian.
6. Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian.
I. Title. II. Series.
PJ3815.G73 1991
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C91-094395-8
The research and publication of this volume

have been supported by
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
and the University of Toronto.
To
Ronald Morton Smith
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Contents
Forcword / ix
Preface / xi
Editorial Notes / xiii
Bibliographical Abbreviations / xv
Other Abbreviations / xx
Object Signatures / xxi
Introduction / 3
Tiglath-pileser I (1114-1076 BC) A.0.87 / 5
Aard-api1-Ekur (1075-1074 BC) A.0.88 / 85
Aur-b1-ka1a (1073-1056 BC) A.0.89 / 86
Erlba-Adad II (1055-1054 BC) A.0.90 / 113
am-Adad IV (1053-1050 BC) A.0.91 / 117
Ashurnasirpal I (1049-1031 BC) A.0.92 / 122
Shalmaneser n (1030-1019 BC) A.0.93 / 124
Aur-nrr IV (1018-1013 BC) A.0.94 / 125
Aur-rabi II (1012-972 BC) A.0.95 / 125
Aur-ra-ii II (971-967 BC) A.0.96 / 126
Tiglath-pileser li (966-935 BC) A.0.97 / 129
Aur-dn II (934-912 BC) A.0.98 / 131
Adad-nrr II (911-891 BC) A.0.99 / 142
Tukultl-Ninurta II (890-884 BC) A.0.100 / 163
Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) A.0.101 / 189
Unidentified Fragments A.0.0.1013-1018 / 394
Clay C o n e Fragments f r o m Nineveh A.0.0.1019-1026 / 396
Minor Variants and Comments / 399
Index of Museum Numbers / 411
Index of Excavation Numbers / 421
Concordances of Selected Publications / 423
Scores of Inscriptions (microfiches) / 1-457
(the microfiches are in an envelope at the back of the book)
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Foreword
The ancient kings of Mesopotamia ruled one of the two great literate civilizations that set the course of
the earliest history of the ancient Near East. Their temples and tombs do not waken vivid images in the
minds of the modern reader or television viewer, as do those of the other great centre of early Near
Eastern civilization, Egypt. But their cities, some with such familiar names as Babylon, Nineveh, and Ur,
have been excavated over the past century and a half, according to the standards of the time, and have
yielded an abundance of records of the boasted accomplishments of these kings. These are the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, mostly telling of building projects and battles, all done ad maiorem gloriam
deorum.
The inscriptions, in a cuneiform script, are found on objects of various kinds including tablets, prisms,
and vases of clay or steles, doorpost sockets, and sculpted wall panels of stone. Inscribed bricks are very
common. A tiny cylinder seal, often known only from its impression on a clay tablet, or an engraved gem
may give the name and titles of a king. The languages are Sumerian and Akkadian, the latter usually in
its Babylonian dialect but with varying admixtures of the Assyrian dialect in documents from the north,
in the region around modern Mosul.
The objects on which the inscriptions are found are now for the most part scattered around the world
in various museums, although inscriptions cut on the face of rocks or on stone building blocks are often
still in situ. The principal museums with collections of these kinds of antiquities are in Baghdad, Istanbul,
Berlin, Paris, London, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The dispersal of the inscribed objects around the
world makes their systematic study difficult, and the difficulty is compounded by the practical inaccessibility of many of the journals and monographs in which studies of the inscriptions have been published over the past century and more.
The purpose of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project is to make these texts available to layman and specialist alike by publishing standard editions, with English translations, in a series of volumes.
To carry out this purpose an international editorial board has been formed and a staff of researchers and
support staff assembled. This process began in the late 1970s with funding from the University of
Toronto. In 1981 the Project was awarded full funding by the Negotiated Grants Section of the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The unique features of these editions are:
1. Complete corpora of inscriptions are edited, not just selections.
2. Every inscription is collated against the original when humanly possible.
3. In the case of texts conflated from several exemplars, a full transliteration
(in the 'score' format) is published on microfiches included with the volume.
4. To ensure accuracy the camera-ready copy is prepared by Project staff.
Toronto
September 1990
R.F.G. SWEET
Editor-in-Chief
Preface
In the preface to RIMA 1 I have already indicated in detail those who assisted in the creation and continuing support of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project. For the present volume, I wish to
thank Douglas Frayne for preparing preliminary editions of some of the texts of Tiglath-pileser i. Grant
Frame was also good enough to assist here and Hannes Galter read and made some astute observations
on these early texts. Regarding collations, while I have collated most of the texts myself over the years,
more recently fresh collations were done by Grant Frame, Douglas Frayne, and Hannes Galter, and to
these scholars I express my gratitude. I wish to thank Samuel Paley for useful information on the texts of
Ashurnasirpal from Calah, in particular the Standard Inscription (A.0.101.23).
The RIM team provided invaluable support for the research and publication of this book and I wish to
express my appreciation to all of them. Katherine Glaser, Project Manager, watched the procedure with
concern and in particular at the final stage carefully checked the entire manuscript. Hope Grau initially
entered the early texts in the computer with her usual exactitude. Linda Wilding entered the remaining
texts, proofed the printouts, and added corrections at several stages throughout the preparation of the
book. Ronald Westerby prepared the list of abbreviations and indexes, in the process discovering inconsistencies which needed correction. The computer system was designed by Louis Levine in co-operation
with Mario Ruggiero. Part-time assistance has been provided by Lynne George.
Acknowledgment of professional advice and help on the style and format must go to Lorraine Ourom
of the University of Toronto Press.
A penultimate manuscript was read by Wilfred Lambert, who made numerous astute comments, particularly on the transliterations and translations which have been used. Mario Fales read the manuscript at
the same stage and also offered detailed criticisms and improvements. To both these scholars I am grateful for the time and care they have taken.
I wish to thank the various museums and authorities who have co-operated in the research for this
book. First I am grateful to the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to publish various texts in
this volume. Specifically I wish to thank the staff of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities in that
museum, especially Christopher Walker, Julian Reade, Terence Mitchell, Irving Finkel, and John Curtis,
whose continuing co-operation has been invaluable. To the director of the Archaeological Museum in
Istanbul I express my thanks for full co-operation, and 1 thank Veysel Donbaz for the generosity with
which he has assisted us in the preparation of this volume. In Berlin the staff of the Vorderasiatisches
Museum, in particular its director Liane Jakob-Rost as well as Evelyn Klengel-Brandt and Joachim Marzahn, have been extremely helpful to all of the RIM staff and extended to us every courtesy and assistance, for which we are grateful. I am also indebted to the Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage of the
Republic of Iraq, its president, Muayad Said Damerji, and his staff, specifically Bahijah Khalil Ismail,
Fawzi Rashid, and Rasmiya Rashid Jassim, for their assistance.
For permission to collate texts in their museums we are grateful to the Muse du Louvre in Paris, the
Yale Babylonian Collection under William Hallo, the University Museum Tablet Collection in Philadelphia under Erie Leichty, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (specifically Roger Moorey), the Birmingham
City Museum, and the Tablet Collection of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, under
John A. Brinkman.
My appreciation goes out once again to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada and the University of Toronto for providing the funding necessary to conduct the research and to
publish this volume.
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Last, but by no means least, I wish yet again to record my gratitude for the ongoing support and encouragement of my family: Eunice, my wife, Vera and Sally, my two daughters, and now Rachel Anne
Mariek, my granddaughter.
Toronto
July 1990
A.K.G.
Editorial Notes
A detailed presentation of the principles, policies, and procedures of the Project will be found in the Editorial Manual (Toronto, 1983). However, the following summary should prove sufficient for the immediate needs of most readers of the present volume. The corpus of inscriptions has been divided into three
sub-series: Assyrian Periods, Babylonian Periods, and Early Periods. The following description applies to
all three. The purpose of the publication is to present complete groups of texts in reliable editions. It is
not intended to provide analytical or synthetic studies, but rather to lay the foundation for such studies.
Thus the heart of each volume is the edition of the texts; extensive discussions of the contents of the text
are excluded. If such studies are developed by individuals in the course of editing the texts, it is intended
that they be published elsewhere. Hand-copies and photographs are not included; if such are thought
necessary by an editor, they will be published outside the main series. To a certain extent the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia: Supplements series may be able to accommodate such publications.
The term 'exemplar' is used in these editions to refer to a single inscription found on one object. The
term 'text' refers to an inscription that existed in antiquity and may be represented in a number of more
or less duplicate exemplars. In these editions exemplars of one text are edited together as a 'master text,'
with a single transliteration and translation. Variants and other details about the exemplars are provided
in two apparatus critici. Further information about these is given below. When there is difficulty in deciding on the grouping of inscriptions under specific texts, more information is given in the editions. The editorial principle is that, regardless of how inscriptions are arranged and published, the reader must be provided with full information on what each exemplar contains.
The Project employs the resources of modern computer technology. A text is entered on the computer
at the earliest stage when the preliminary edition is prepared. Thereafter a series of editing and proofing
stages occur until the material is transferred directly onto the photocompositor to produce camera-ready
copy for publication. The fact that the material is entered on the computer only once, and is regularly
corrected and improved thereafter, greatly reduces the possibility of typographical errors. During the editing process the computer is used for a variety of other purposes, such as preparing concordances of words
to assist in the identification of fragments.
The system of numbering the texts throughout the series requires some explanation. The first letter
stands for the general period: A - Assyrian Periods, B = Babylonian Periods, and E = Early Periods.
The number following this stands for the dynasty. In Assyrian Periods this is always 0 (zero) since the
question of dynasty number is inapplicable. Details regarding the dynasty numbers for the other two subseries will be found in the relevant volumes. In the third position appears the ruler number; once again,
the details for each period will be found in the relevant sub-series. In the fourth position is the text
number. Texts are arranged and numbered according to principles stated in each volume. In the fifth position is the exemplar number, where applicable. Thus A.0.77.1.13 is to be interpreted as follows: A =
Assyrian Periods; 0 = Dynasty Inapplicable; 77 = Shalmaneser i; 1 = Text 1; 13 = Exemplar 13.
Texts which cannot be assigned definitely to a particular ruler are given text numbers beginning at 1001
(thus clearly distinguishing them from identified texts) and placed under a ruler according to the following
principles. If at all possible, such a text is placed under the most probable ruler. In cases where a text can
only be placed in a general period of several rulers, it is assigned to the ruler who is numerically in the
middle. Fragments which cannot be identified at all are placed at the end of the book and given a ruler
number of zero. Some private inscriptions which give information relevant for establishing royal names
and titles e.g. 'servant seals' are included and have been given numbers beginning at 2001.
Each text edition is normally supplied with a brief introduction containing general information. This is
followed, if there is more than one exemplar, by a catalogue containing basic information about all
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Editorial Notes
exemplars. This includes museum and excavation numbers, provenance, dimensions of the object (in the
case of broken objects the symbol 4- is added), lines preserved, and indication of whether or not the inscription has been collated (c = collated with the original, p = collated with a photo, and n - not collated; a column with this information has cpn at its head). The next section is normally a commentary
containing further technical information and notes. The bibliography then follows. Items are arranged
chronologically, earliest to latest, with notes in parentheses after each item. These notes indicate the exemplars with which the item is concerned and the nature of the publication, using the following key
words: provenance, photo, copy, edition, translation, and study. Some standard reference works are not
normally cited, although they are fundamental in the collecting and editing of these texts, viz. the bibliographies by R. Caplice et al., entitled Keilschriftbibliographie and published in Orientalia; the annotated bibliography by Borger, HKL 1-3; the dictionaries von Soden, AHw and CAD; and the study of epithets by Seux, ERAS.
In the editions proper, each page gives all the information the vast majority of readers will need in
order to understand the text transliterated on that page. In the left-hand column is the transliteration, in
the right-hand column the English translation, and at the bottom of the page an apparatus criticus of major variants found in the different exemplars of the text. In some volumes a distinction is made between
major and minor variants, the major variants being placed at the bottom of the page and the minor variants at the back of the book. Major and minor variants are essentially non-orthographic and orthographic
variants respectively. An exception is proper nouns, orthographic variants of which can be particularly
significant; these are normally included on the page as major variants. In the apparatus criticus, the text
line numbers are in bold face, followed after a period by the exemplar number(s) in normal typeface.
Complete transliterations of all exemplars in the style of musical scores will be found on microfiches accompanying the volume. There the reader who finds the notes on variants insufficient may check the full
reading of any exemplar. Such scores are not normally given, however, for bricks and seal inscriptions.
Lines are numbered in succession, and no indication of reverse or column numbers is normally given
except 1) in a summary form in a commentary, 2) if a text is broken, or 3) in the case of multi-column inscriptions, if there are several hundreds of lines. If a text is divided into sections by horizontal lines, such
lines are drawn across the transliterations and translations.
In the transliterations, lower case Roman is used for Sumerian and lower case italics for Akkadian.
Logograms in Akkadian texts appear in small capitals. Italics in the translation indicate either an uncertain translation or a word in the original language. The system of sign values in Borger, Zeichenliste, is
followed. Akkadian is usually left in transliteration with logograms uninterpreted. When, however, it is
transcribed and logograms are interpreted, the system of von Soden, AHw, is followed. This happens, for
example, in restorations. Further technical details about the system of transliteration are given in the Editorial Manual.
Toronto
July 1990
R.F.G. SWEET
Editor-in-Chief
Bibliographical Abbreviations
AAA
AAAS
AfK
AfO
A f O Beih.
AHw
AJSL
Andrae, AAT
Andrae, Coloured Ceramics
Andrae, Festungswerke
Andrae, Stelen reih en
Andrae, WEA 2
ANEP 2
A NET 3
AnOr
AnSt
AOAT
Arch.
Arch, Anz,
Arnaud, Emar 6/3
Aro, Infinitiv
ARRIM
Asher-Greve, Genien und Krieger
ATAT 2
Bagh. For.
Bagh. Mitt.
Bar nett, Assyrian Sculpture
Barnett and Falkner, Tigl.
BASOR
Bezold, Cat.
Bezold, HKA
BiOr
BM Guide
Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology. Liverpool, 1908-48

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Archiv fr Keilschriftforschung, vols. 1-2. Berlin, 1923-25
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American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. Chicago, 1884-1941
W. Andrae, Der Anu-Adad Tempel in Assur ( = WVDOG 10). Leipzig, 1922
W. Andrae, Coloured Ceramics from Ashur and Earlier Ancient Assyrian Wall-Paintings.
London, 1925
W. Andrae, Die Festungswerke von Assur ( = WVDOG 23). Leipzig, 1913
W. Andrae, Die Stelenreihen in Assur ( = WVDOG 24). Leipzig, 1913
W. Andrae, Das wiedererstandene Assur, 2. Auflage. Munich, 1977
J.B. Pritchard (ed.), The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament, 2nd
edition. Princeton, 1969
J.B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd edition.
Princeton, 1969
Analecta Orientalia. Rome, 1931Anatolian Studies. London, 1951Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1968Archaeologia. London, 1888-1966
Archologischer Anzeiger. Berlin, 1888-1981
D. Arnaud, Textes sumriens et accadiens, tome 3: texte ( = Recherches au pays d'Astata, Emar
6). Paris, 1986
J. Aro, Die akkadischen Infinitiv-konstruktionen ( = Studia Orientalia 26). Helsinki, 1961
Annual Review of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project. Toronto, 1983J.M. Asher-Greve and G.J. Selz, Genien und Krieger aus Nimrd: Neuassyrische Reliefs
Assurnasirpals n. und Tiglat-Pilesars in. Zurich, 1980
H. Gressmann (ed.), Altorientalische Texte zum Alten Testament, 2. Auflage. Berlin and
Leipzig, 1926
Baghdader Forschungen. Mainz am Rhein, 1979Baghdader Mitteilungen. Berlin, 1960R.D. Barnett, Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum. Toronto, 1975
R.D. Barnett and M. Falkner, The Sculptures of Aur-nasir-ap1i II (883-859 B.C.) Tiglathpileser HI (745-727 B.C.) Esarhaddon (681-669 B.C.) from the Central and South-West Palaces
at Nimrud. London, 1962
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. New Haven, 1919C. Bezold, Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British
Museum, 5 vols. London, 1889-99
C. Bezold, Historische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur ( = Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse, 8. Abhandlung). Heidelberg, 1915
Bibliotheca Orientalis. Leiden, 1943British Museum. A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities, 3rd edition. London,
1 CP")
Bhl, Leiden Coll.

Brker-Klhn, Bildstelen
Borger, Asarh.
Borger, BAL 1
F.M.T. Bhl, Medcelingen uit de Leidischc Vcrzameling van spijkerschrift-Inscripties, 3 vols.

Amsterdam, 1933-36
Brker-Klhn, Altvorderasiatische Bildstelen und vergleichbare Felsreliefs ( = Bagh. For. 4).
Mainz am Rhein, 1982
R. Borger, Die Inschriften Asarhaddons, Knigs von Assyrien ( = AfO Beih. 9). Graz, 1956
R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestcke, 3 vols. Rome, 1963
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Borger, EAK 1
Borger, HKL
Borger, Zeichenliste
Brinkman, PKB
Budge, Rise and Progress
Budge, Sculptures
CAD
CAH
Collon, First Impressions
CRAIB
CRRA
CT
Damas. Mitt.
Deimel Festschrift
Delaporte, Louvre 2
DLZ
Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA
van Driel, Aur
DV
Ebeling, KAR
Ebeling, LKA
Ebeling, SVAT
Ellis, Foundation Deposits
Engel, Dmonen
Fa les, ARIN
Faies, Censimenti
Fales, Cento Lettere Neo-Assire 1
Frankena, Tku1tu
Frankfort, Cylinder Seals
FuB
Gadd, Stones
Goldziher Memorial
Grayson, ARI
Grayson, Chronicles
Grayson, RIMA 1
Grayson and Redford,
Papyrus and Tablet
Grgoire, MVN 10
Hall, Sculpture
Haller, Grber
Haller, Heiligtmer
HUCA
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v. Chr. ( = Handbuch der Orientalistik Ergnzungsband 5/1/1). Leiden, 1961
R, Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur, 3 vols. Berlin, 1967-75
R. Borger, Assyrisch-Babylonische Zeichenliste, 2. Auflage ( - A O A T 33/33A). NeukirchenVluyn, 1981
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Rome, 1968
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E.A.W. Budge, Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, Reign of Ashur-nasir-pal, 885-860
B.C. London, 1914
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oriental, tome II: Aquisitions. Paris, 1923
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London, 1968
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den schriftlichen Quellen. Mnchengladbach, 1987
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Historical Analysis. Rome, 1981
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Rome, 1973
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1-45. Venice, 1983
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Assur vereerde goden. Leiden, 1954
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Near East. London, 1939
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Recovery and their Original Positions. London, 1936
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Locust Valley, 1975
A.K. Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC). Toronto,
1987
A.K. Grayson and D.B. Redford (eds.), Papyrus and Tablet. Englewood Cliffs, 1973
J.-P. Grgoire, Inscriptions et archives administratives cuniformes, Ie partie. Rome, 1981
H.R. Hall, Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum. Paris and Brussels, 1928
A. Haller, Die Grber und Grfte von Assur ( = WVDOG 65). Berlin, 1954
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67). Berlin, 1955
Hebrew Union College Annual. Cincinnati, 1924-
xviii Bibliographical Abbreviations

JANES
JAOS
JCS
Jeremias, HAOG
JESHO
JHS
J NES
Johns, ADD
JRAS
JSOR
JSS
KB
Kessler, Nordmesopotamien
King, AKA
King, Bronze Reliefs
King, Cat,
Koldewey, Tempel
Koldewey, WEB
Kpper, Nomades
Lambert, BWL
Lambert and Millard, Cat.
Landsberger, Fauna
Landsberger, Sam ; al
Langdon, OECT 1
Layard, Discoveries
Layard, ICC
Le Gac, Asn.
L.ehmann-Haupt, Mat,
Lenormant, Choix
Luckenbill, ARAB
Mailowan, Nimrud
MAOG
Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1
MDOG
Meissner, IAK
Meitzer, Concluding Formulae
Messerschmidt, KAH 1
de Meyer (ed.), Tell
ed-Dr 3
Millard, Fekherye
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OECT
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Preusser, Palste
PSBA
1R
3 R
RA
Rassam, Asshur
RHA
RI M
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RIMS
RLA
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Rost, Tigl.
Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23
RSO
RT
Salvini, Nairi
Salvini, Tell Barri/Kahat
Saporetti, Eponimi
Scheil, Tn.
Schott, Vorarbeiten
Schrder, Sebeneh-su
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xviii Bibliographical Abbreviations

S. Smith, EHA
von Soden, SAH G
von Soden and Rllig, Syllabar3
Speleers, Recueil
Stearns, AfO Beih. 15
Stephens, YOS 9
TCL
Thompson, Century
Thureau-Dangin, TCL 3
TSBA
TSTS 1
TUAT
VAS
Wfler, AOAT 26
Walker, CBI
Weidner, IAK
Weidner, Tn.
Weissbach, Miscellen
Winckler, AOF
Winckler, Sammlung 1
Winckler, Sar.
WO
WVDOG
WZKM
YNER
YOS
ZA
ZK
S. Smith, Early History of Assyria to 1000 B.C. London, 1928

A. Falkenstein and W. von Soden, Sumerische und akkadische Hymnen und Gebete. Zurich
and Stuttgart, 1953
W. von Soden and W. Rllig, Das akkadische Syllabar, 3. Auflage ( = AnOr 42). Rome 1976
L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions de l'Asie antrieure des Muses Royaux du Cinquantenaire
Bruxelles. Textes sumriens, babyloniens et assyriens. Brussels, 1925
J.B. Stearns, Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal il ( = AfO Beih. 15). Graz, 1961
F.J. Stephens, Votive and Historical Texts from Babylonia and Assyria. New Haven, 1937
Textes cuniformes du Muse du Louvre, Dpartement des Antiquits Orientales. Paris, 1910R.C. Thompson and R.W. Hutchinson, A Century of Exploration at Nineveh. London, 1929
F. Thureau-Dangin, Une relation de la huitime campagne de Sargon (714 av. J.-C.) ( = Textes
cuniformes du Muse du Louvre). Paris, 1912
Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology. London, 1872-93
J.W. Wevers and D.B. Redford (eds.), Essays on the Ancicnt Semitic World ( = Toronto
Semitic Texts and Studies 1). Toronto, 1970
O. Kaiser (ed.), Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Gtersloh, 1982Vorderasialische Schriftdenkmler der Kniglichen Museen zu Berlin. Leipzig and Berlin,
1907M. Wfler, Nicht-assyrer neuassyrischer Darstellungen ( = AOAT 26). Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1975
C.B.F. Walker, Cuneiform Brick Inscriptions in the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, the City of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, the City of Bristol Museum and
Art Gallery. London, 1981
E. Ebeling, B. Meissner, and E. Weidner, Die Inschriften der altassyrischen Knige ( = Altorientalische Bibliothek 1). Leipzig, 1926
E. Weidner, Die Inschriften Tukulti-Ninurtas I und seiner Nachfolger ( = AfO Beih. 12). Graz,
1959
F.H. Weissbach, Babylonische Miscellen ( = WVDOG 4). Leipzig, 1903
H. Winckler, Altorientalische Forschungen, 3 vols. Leipzig, 1893-1905
H. Winckler, Sammlung von Keilschrifttexten 1: Die Inschriften Tiglath-Pilesers i. Leipzig,
1893
H. Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargons nach den Papierabklatschen und Originalen, neu
herausgegeben, 2 vols. Leipzig, 1889
Die Welt des Orients. Wuppertal, Stuttgart, and Gttingen, 1947Wissenschaftliche Verffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. Leipzig and Berlin,
1901Wiener Zeitschrift fr die Kunde des Morgenlandes. Vienna, 1887Yale Near Eastern Researches. New Haven and London, 1967Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts. New Haven, 1915Zeitschrift fr Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete. Berlin, 1886Zeitschrift fr Keilschriftforschung und verwandte Gebiete, vols. 1-2. Leipzig, 1884-85
Other Abbreviations
Ad 11.
Asb.
Asn.
c
c.
cm
col(s).
DN
dupl.
ed(s).
ex(s).
%(s).
frgm.
GN
masc.
n
n(n).
no(s).
NS
obv.
P
P(P)pl(s).
PN
reg.
rev.
RN
Sar.
Senn.
Shalm.
A.
Tigl.
TN.
var(s).
vol(s).
Adad-nrr!
Ashurbanipal
Ashurnasirpal
collated
circa
centimetrc(s)
column(s)
divine name
duplicate
editor(s)
exemp1ar(s)
figure(s)
fragment
geographical name
masculine
not collated
note(s)
number(s)
New Series
obverse
collated from photo
page(s)
plate(s)
personal name
registration
reverse
royal name
Sargon
Sennacherib
Shalmaneser
ain-Adad
Tiglath-pilcscr
Tuku1t-Ninurta
variant(s)
volume(s)
1) Between object numbers indicates physical join

2) After dimensions indicates part of object missing
Indicates fragments from same object but no physical join
Object Signatures
When the same signature is used for more than one group, the first group in this list is
meant unless otherwise indicated. For example, 'A' always means the Istanbul collection
unless stated otherwise.
A
AO
Ash
Ass
Ass ph
Bab ph
B
BCM
BM
Bu
DT
ES
FM
GE
IM
K
Ki
L
LA
LBAF
LKA
MFAB
MMA
N 111
ND
O
Rm
ROM
SF
Sm
Th
UM
VA
VA Ass
VA Bab
VAT
WAG
YBC
1) Assur collection of the Arkeoloji Miizeleri, Istanbul

2) Asiatic collection of the Oriental Institute, Chicago
Collection of Antiquits Orientales of the Muse du Louvre, Paris
Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Prefix of excavation numbers from the German excavations at Aur
Prefix of excavation photos from the German excavations at Aur
Prefix of excavation photos from the German excavations at Babylon
Collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
Birmingham City Museum
British Museum, London
E.A.W. Budge collection of the British Museum, London
Daily Telegraph collection of the British Museum, London
Eski Sark Eserleri Mzesi of the Arkeoloji Miizeleri, Istanbul
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Gosudarstwiennyj Ermitage, Leningrad
Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum, London
L.W. King collection of the British Museum, London
1) Lycklama Collection (now in Muse de la Castre, Cannes)
2) Cincinnati Art Museum
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Lands of the Bible Archaeology Foundation
Prefix of inventory numbers of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Muse Napoleon ni, Muse du Louvre, Paris
Prefix of excavation numbers from the British excavations at Nimrud, Iraq
Objects in the Section du Proche Orient of the Muses Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
H. Rassam collection of the British Museum, London
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Museum Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem
G. Smith collection of the British Museum, London
R.C. Thompson collection of the British Museum, London
University Museum, Philadelphia
Vorderasiatische Museum, Berlin
Aur collection of the Vorderasiatische Museum, Berlin
Babylon collection of the Vorderasiatische Museum, Berlin
Tablets in the collection of the Vorderasiatische Museum, Berlin
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Babylonian collection of the Yale University Library, New Haven
ASSYRIAN
RULERS
OF T H E E A R L Y F I R S T M I L L E N N I U M BC
I (1114-859 BC)
Introduction
With the royal inscriptions published in this volume we step upon the threshold of Assyrian invasion of
the biblical and classical worlds, the periods of intense interest to the nineteenth-century explorers and decipherers and still of great interest today. The first king included here, Tiglath-pileser i, led his triumphant
armies to the Mediterranean and thus prepared the way in the first millennium for contacts with Palestine,
Egypt, Anatolia, and points farther west.1
The fortunes of Assyria during this time went from one extreme to another, ranging from the peaks of
military might under Tiglath-pileser i at the beginning and Ashurnasirpal 11 at the end, to the valley of
despair during a long period between these kings. Among the numerous protagonists a leading role was
played by the semi-nomadic Aramaeans, a people familiar from the Bible, and much of the armed conflict
narrated in these texts concerns the prolonged clash between Assyrians and Aramaeans from the twelfth
to ninth centuries BC. A fitting conclusion to Assyria's struggle for mastery over south-western Asia in
these early days of the Neo-Assyrian empire is the creation of a new capital, Calah (Nimrud), by Ashurnasirpal H who celebrated his triumph with a gigantic banquet to which thousands of subjects from all
corners of the empire were invited.2 Ironically, the more powerful Assyria became in the military, political, and economic realms, the more she came under the influence of Babylonian culture. 3
The relative and absolute chronology of Assyrian kings for this period is well known and the numbers
assigned to them in this volume follow their order in the Assyrian King List.4 The quantity of royal inscriptions increases significantly during the centuries spanned in this volume and the detail provided by
them increases in proportion; but there are still other sources of importance, not least of which are the
chronicles, king lists, and eponym lists.
A general description of Assyrian royal inscriptions, including their literary form and the types of objects upon which they were inscribed, has already been provided in the first volume of this series.5 There
it was observed that there were three basic types, commemorative texts, dedicatory texts, and labels, and
that beginning with the reign of Tiglath-pileser I, true annals, a form of commemorative text, appeared. 6
By the end of the epoch covered in the following pages some annals have become so lengthy that they
were inscribed on a sequence of monumental sculptured stones erected in palaces and temples.7
The evolution of Assyrian military strategy, political organization, and imperial administration is manifest throughout the pages in this volume. The reconstruction and prosperity of Assyrian land and people
and the addition of new land and people are recurring themes.8 Gradually Assyrian monarchs became so
confident of control over some of their expanded holdings that they only led 'show of strength' campaigns
through them from time to time. 9 The seeds of imperial rule through division into provinces were sown in
the reign of Adad-nrr n and were sprouting by the time of Ashurnasirpal n. Indeed, the ideology of
the military campaign itself was transformed from a sporadic razzia to an annual event for which a cause
or purpose was stated. 10 But with these signs of growing power and territorial control appear also the beginnings of an inner cancer, states and rulers which are nominally under the Assyrian king's authority but
1
For a history of the period see Grayson, CAH 3/1 pp.
238-81.
2
Sec A.0.101,30.
3
See the introduction to the reign of Tiglath-pileser I (A.0.87).
4
See Grayson, RIMA 1 p. 3 and nn. 2-3.
s See RIMA 1 pp. 3-4.
6
For further details see the introduction to the reign of
Tiglath-pileser i (A.0.87).
On the 'annals series', see the introduction to the reign of

Ashurnasirpal n (A.0.101).
8
See the introduction to the reign of Tiglath-pileser I (A.0.87).
9
See the introductions to the reigns of Adad-nrr it,
Tukulii-Ninurta n, and Ashurnasirpal H (A.0.99-101).
10
See the introduction to the reign of Tukultl-Ninurta n
(A.0.100).
Introduction
regard themselves as independent. 11 The Assyrian passion for hunting wild animals, either to kill or to
round up to form herds in Assyria, comes to the fore in this period. 12
The texts edited in this volume, unlike portions of those in the first volume of this series, have never
been edited together in a systematic manner. Indeed, for most of the texts no edition since the early 1900s
has been published at all. Weidner edited and commented upon many of the earlier texts and Borger and
Schramm between them have provided excellent bibliographies and studies of the corpus as a whole.
Some years ago I published translations of most of the texts in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions 2 (1976). Recent research on the Assur texts by Pedersn, Archives 1 and 2 (1985-86), has shed light on the provenance of some of the royal inscriptions. This scholar has more data on the Aur material, based on his
research using the Aur excavation records. Unfortunately attempts to collaborate with him in the
preparation of RIMA 1 and 2 have not come to fruition and these data have been unavailable to us.
The editorial procedures for the RIM series are outlined in the Editorial Notes by R.F.G. Sweet, and
their special application to the volumes of the Assyrian Periods has been noted in RIMA 1 p. 4 (bottom
of page). Two points made there must be stressed. First, provenances of texts are quoted more or less verbatim from published sources and I take no responsibility for their accuracy or consistency; I have had no
access to unpublished excavation records. Second, inscriptions on bricks and seals are given abbreviated
catalogues and bibliographies; in some cases the number of exemplars can be endless and common sense
must prevail. Problems of translation into English have been noted in ibid. p. 5 (top of page). The texts
in this volume are essentially in the Babylonian dialect (so-called Standard Babylonian), although often
with Assyrianisms. Thus, when there is a choice of reading either as a Babylonian or an Assyrian form,
the former has been chosen. The usefulness of the computer in such a large editorial project has already
been emphasized (see RIMA 1 pp. 5-6), and it has continued to be of great assistance in identifying many
fragments in this volume. Details will be found in the appropriate editions. The lack of palaeographical
studies for Assyrian royal inscriptions has been observed before (RIMA 1 p. 6), and a new element is a
special type of script and clay tablet texture for some tablets from this period. 13
As in volume 1, the bibliographies provide complete references to works directly relevant to the inscriptions. I have not attempted to cite the many histories and related studies by various scholars which form
the necessary background to such an undertaking.
11
Cf. A.0.96.2001 and A.0.101.2004-2007.

See the introduction to the reign of Tiglath-pileser i
(A.0.87).
12
13
See the introduction to the reign of Tiglath-pileser i
(A.0.87).
Tiglath-pileser i
A.0.87
The reign of Tiglath-pileser i (1114-1076 BC) marks a new rise in

Assyria's political and military fortunes, with Assyrian armies marching farther afield than ever before, from Babylonia in the south-east to
Lebanon in the west. Not since the time of Tukultl-Ninurta i has there
been such a powerful and influential monarch on the throne. These
warlike achievements were accompanied, as usual in Assyria, by
economic and cultural advances, and indeed the cultural transformations during Tiglath-pileser i's reign were both profound and prolonged, having permanent effect on Assyrian culture in the first
millennium.
The extent of Tiglath-pileser's conquests and political control has
been studied in detail recently by J.N. Postgate (AfO 32 [1985]
pp. 95-101). Among the most dangerous opponents of Assyria in the
epoch were the Aramaeans, and in the royal inscriptions edited here
they play a prominent role as arch-enemies of the Assyrian monarch.
The major conflicts took place in the earlier part of the reign, a period
to which most of the royal inscriptions date (see the introduction to
A.0.87.1). Later on Tiglath-pileser began to lose ground to the
Aramaeans, a fact not recorded in his royal texts but briefly noted in
an Assyrian chronicle fragment (Grayson, Chronicles p. 189), where
we read that Assyria was captured and its people fled to the mountains
to save their lives.
As to the cultural developments, considerable scribal activity took
place at Assur, with much influence evident from Babylonia. Serious
attention was devoted to collecting, copying, and editing libraries of
cuneiform documents. The diverse nature of the texts (lexical, divinatory, literary, etc.) found in these libraries seems to have been as
comprehensive as that of the texts found in later Assyrian libraries,
although the precise extent of these collections still remains to be
established (see Weidner, AfO 16 [1952-53] pp. 197-215 and more recently Pedersn, Archives [1985-86]). Among the various categories of
texts are collections of palace edicts (Weidner, AfO 17 [1954-56]
pp. 257-93 and Grayson, ARI 1 304-306), Middle Assyrian laws
(Meek in Pritchard, ANET 3 pp. 180-88, and Weidner, AfO 12
[1937-39] pp. 46-54), and Assyrian chronicles (Grayson, Chronicles
pp. 184-89). There is a passage in the Synchronistic History regarding
Tiglath-pileser's relations with Babylonia (Grayson, Chronicles
pp. 164-65 ii 14'-24'); he appears in several king lists (Grayson, RLA 6
pp. 86-135); and fragments of an eponym list for his reign have been
preserved (Grayson, ARI 2 p. 44 194). There is also a psalm in praise
of the king (Ebeling, LKA no. 63) and a statue of a Tiglath-pileser,
probably the first, is listed in the Address Book of the Gods at Aur
(Schroeder, KAY 42 i 12 and see Frankena, Tkultu pp. 112 and 123).
5
Tiglath-pileser I A.0.87.1
Many cuneiform tablets from the time of Tiglath-pileser i and the
early part of the first millennium have certain features which immediately show that they are of this period. The surface of such a tablet is
ivory in colour while the inner core is red, so that the red shows
through in the wedges where a stylus penetrates the surface (cf.
A.0.87.1001). Or conversely some tablets have a white core with a red
slip (cf. A.0.87.7). The overall effect is aesthetically attractive. The
other feature is that some cuneiform signs have forms which are peculiar to these tablets. For details see Weidner, AfO 16 (1952-53) pp.
201-206 and Lambert, AfO 18 (1957-58) pp. 38-40. Tablets with these
features have sometimes been loosely called Tiglath-pileser i library
texts', but any time between c. 1200-850 BC is possible.
Turning to the royal inscriptions, which are our concern here, there
is also a major development: the first appearance of real annals. A
gradual emergence of forerunners to this text genre began much earlier, as scribes added more and more military details to commemorative texts (see RIMA 1 p. 4), and by the time of Tiglath-pileser fullfledged annals began to be written. For details see the introduction to
A.0.87.1 and for a thorough analysis of the royal inscriptions as a
whole see Borger, EAK 1 pp. 112-34.
The building enterprises of Tiglath-pileser i were concentrated on
the cities of Assur and Nineveh (see Reade in Fales, ARIN pp. 145-49
for a study of this king's monumental works). At Assur he undertook
major restoration and expansion of both the Anu-Adad temple
(A.0.87.1, 22, and 23) and the royal palace (A.0.87.4-5, 8, 18-20, and
29). He also repaired the wall of New City at Aur (A.0.87.3). As to
Nineveh, his main concerns were the Istar temple (A.0.87.12) and the
royal palace (A.0.87.2 and 10-11). He also worked on the city wall
and a garden and canal leading from the River Husir (A.0.87.10), the
latter activity involving construction of a quay wall (A.0.87.24-27).
Some new and significant themes appear in the annals of Tiglathpileser I and these are repeated, sometimes verbatim, in the annals of
the subsequent major monarchs whose texts are edited in this volume.
These themes are the king's concern for the reconstruction and prosperity of his land and people; the addition of new lands and people to
Assyria; the expansion of cultivated land; the importation and planting of exotic trees; the gathering of flocks and herds of wild animals
which are brought to Assyria; the hunting and killing of wild animals;
and the increase in the number of chariots and horses. Details on
these matters are given in the introduction to A.0.87.1.
Technical details about a few texts and fragments require comment.
Some texts on bricks (Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23 nos, 88-92 =
Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1 nos. 264-67 and 341) mentioning
Tiglath-pileser should be ascribed to the third king of that name; see
Weidner, AfO 3 (1926) p. 5 n. 6 and Galter, ZA 76 (1986) p. 304.
Some fragmentary inscriptions on pieces of clay cone have been included tentatively under Aur-ra-ii i rather than Tiglath-pileser i
(see RIMA 1 pp. 324-25 A.0.86.1004 and 1006). Following is a list of
fragments on pieces of clay tablets which probably come from this
general time period but do not seem to be royal: BM 98534 (Th
1905-4-9,40); Nougayrol, RA 60 (1966) pp. 72-74; K 13840 (Bezold,
Cat. 3 p. 1343; Winckler, OLZ 1 [1898] 73; King, AKA pp. 125-26
n. 3; and Grayson, ARI 2 p. 1 n. 8); and 79-7-8,5 (Bezold, Cat. 4
p. 1699; Winckler, OLZ 1 [1898] 75).
7 Tiglath-pileser I A.0.87.1
1
This text, on numerous clay octagonal prisms and fragments (mainly
from Aur), is famous as the inscription used in the 'test case' by the
Royal Asiatic Society to prove that Babylonian-Assyrian cuneiform
had truly been deciphered. Since that time (1857) major advances have
been made in the understanding of cuneiform inscriptions and
numerous further exemplars have been discovered. All of the exemplars come from Aur with one apparent exception (exemplar 20, for
which the building section is not preserved). The text itself is the first
real example of Assyrian 'annals' in that military events are narrated
in chronological order with a clear division between years, although
the campaigns are not yet dated or even numbered. The gradual
development towards this form of royal inscription can be noted in
the reigns of Adad-nrr i (cf. RIMA 1 p. 128), Shalmaneser i (cf.
RIMA 1 p. 180), and Tukultl-Ninurta i (cf. RIMA 1 p. 231). The division of the campaigns is clearly marked by inserting the name of the
king with some epithets between the previous and following campaigns
and, further, by drawing horizontal lines (paragraph divisions) across
the clay at the beginning and end of these insertions. Annals now become a common form of Assyrian royal inscription. This text is (as
are all annals), in effect, a collection of individual campaign reports
and it can be assumed that such separate accounts existed, although
none have been discovered before the reign of Ashurnasirpal n
(A.0.101.18-20).
The text begins (i 1-14) with an invocation to various deities, a new
motif which reappears in identical words in A.0.87.2. Similar invocations begin inscriptions of Aur-bi-ka1a (A.0.89.7), Adad-nrr n
(A.0.99.2), TukultT-Ninurta n (A.0.100.1), Ashurnasirpal n (A.0.101.8,
17, 19-20, and 47), and Shalmaneser in (see RIMA 3, forthcoming).
This is followed by a lengthy passage (i 15-61) describing the prowess
of the king, a forerunner of the much more succinct passages introducing each new campaign as mentioned earlier. The military narrative
takes up the bulk of the text (i 62 - vi 54) and describes several campaigns. This is followed by another new motif, a passage describing
hunting (vi 55-84). Such passages reappear in later texts, often with
verbatim agreement (A.0.89.1 rev. 7'-11', A.0.89.3 lines 7-9', A.0.89.7
iv 1-33, A.0.98.1 lines 68-72, A.0.99.2 lines 122-27, A.0.100.5 lines
134-35, A.0.101.1 iii 48-49, A.0.101.2 lines 31-37, and A.0.101.30
lines 84-101).
The next passage (vi 85 - vii 35) is yet another innovation for it
describes in detail the king's concern for the reconstruction and prosperity of his land and people. Echoes of this same theme reappear in
later texts in this volume. Ashurnasirpal n (A.0.101.28 v 7-12,
A.0.101.29 lines 9-17', and A.0.101.30 lines 53-77) summarizes his
work on temples and palaces at Calah (Nimrud) in a manner similar
to Tiglath-pileser's general description of his work on the temples at
Aur. Construction of palaces and fortifications throughout the land
is also recorded in the texts of Aur-dn n (A.0.98.1 lines 60-64),
Adad-nrrn (A.0.99.2 line 120), Tukultl-Ninurta n (A.0.100.5 line
132), and Ashurnasirpal n (A.0.101.30 lines 78-83). The ploughing
of fields is also mentioned in texts of Aur-dn n (A.0.98.1 lines
64-67), Adad-nrr ii (A.0.99.2 lines 120-21), and Tukult-Ninurta ii
(A.0.100.5 lines 132-33). The gathering of flocks and herds of wild
beasts is similarly a motif in the inscriptions of Assur-bel-kala
(A.0.89.7 iv 1-33), Adad-nrr n (A.0.99.2 lines 122-27), and
Ashurnasirpal n (A.0.101.2 lines 31-37, 30 lines 84-101). The importation and planting of exotic trees is also described by Ashurnasirpal n
(A.0.101.30 lines 36-52). Tiglath-pileser's claim that he increased the
number of chariots and horses is echoed by Asur-dn II (A.0.98.1
lines 66-67), Adad-nrr II (A.0.99.2 line 121), and Tukultl-Ninurta n
(A.0.100.5 lines 130-31). Tiglath-pileser concludes this passage by
boasting of adding lands and people to Assyria, a boast repeated on
their own behalf by Tukultl-Ninurta n (A.0.100.5 line 133) and
Ashurnasirpal n (A.0.101.30 lines 100-101).
Curiously, it is at this late point in the text that the king's genealogy
appears (vii 36-59), just before the building section. This is a reflection of an older, much clumsier text format from the time of
Shalmaneser i (RIMA 1 pp. 184-85 lines 107-111).
The building passage concerns work on the Anu-Adad temple at
Assur (vii 60 - viii 49). The text notes that amT-Adad HI had earlier
worked on the same structure (cf. RIMA 1 pp. 80-81 A.0.59.10011002). It also informs us that Aur-dn i tore it down and that it was
never rebuilt until Tiglath-pileser's reign. It is odd that he does not
mention the fact that Aur-ra-ii i rebuilt the Anu-Adad temple
(RIMA 1 pp. 316-18 A.0.86.7-8). Other references to Tiglath-pileser's
work on the Anu-Adad temple are found in A.0.87.3 lines 16-18,
A.0.87.4 lines 24-26 and 59-66, A.0.87.10 lines 28-31, A.0.87.13 lines
10'-11\ A.0.87.22 lines 3-4, A.0.87.23 lines 3-4, and A.0.87.1011 lines
r-4\
As to date, A.0.87.1 is probably the earliest preserved version of the
annals and A.0.87.2-4 are successively later.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
VA 8255
IM no number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Assur
provenance
Lines
preserved
22980
6905-09
South corner of west

ziqqurrat of Anu-Adad
temple, eA5v
i 1 94
ii 1-102
1 103
Anu-Adad temple
BM 91033
K 1 6 2 1 a - 13871 +
16923
BM 91034
K 1619a H-1633
K 1620+ 13714 +
13781 + 13788,
K 1740 + 6711 +
13715 + 13716 +
13717+ 13836 +
13844+ 13869 +
14153,
K 1803, K 1804,
K 2749 + 14204,
K 6706, K 13882,
K 13883, K 14212
K 1622+ 1623 +
1624+ 1627 +
iv 1-101
v 1-100
vi 1-105
vii 1-114
viii 1-90
As ex. 1
As ex. 1
A s ex. 1
A s ex, 1
i82-94
ii 1-3, 20-30,
cpn
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Aur
provenance
Rm 4, K 1625,
K 1626,
K 1 6 2 8 + 1632,
K 1629 + 6707,
K 1630,
91-102
iii 1 - 2 , 2 3 - 8 3 ,
88-103
K 6363 + Sm 1889,
K 6709, K 6710,
K 13646 + 8 1 - 7 - 2 7 , 7 9 ,
Sm 785 + Rm 2,93,
R m 576, 7 9 - 7 - 8 , 1 1 ,
K 17665
90-100
v 19-33, 8 7 - 9 8
vi 10-22, 7 6 - 9 5
vii 51-56, 7 6 - 8 0 ,
95-114
iv 1 - 4 , 2 3 - 2 9 ,
3 2 - 4 6 , 52-81,
viii 17-29, 58-63,

78-88
i 44-94
E 7890 +
V A T 11242
ii 1-6, 58-102
iii 1-9
vii 66-114
viii 5 1 - 9 0
1000
VA 5637
Unlocated
7428
Southern prothyse
of Anu-Adad
temple, iC5i
1123
Recent fill over

Shalm. floor in
room Ki, SE,
Anu-Adad temple
10
Lines
preserved
Istanbul
n o number
5807 + 6847
3297
Front of outer
front of SW
court wing in
iv 99-101
v 1-31
vi 4 - 1 7
vii 2 - 4 5
viii 5 27
i 53-70
ii 56-87
iii 55-81
iv 6 4 - 8 3
i 3-18
ii 18-67
iii 23-51
fill over rock

surface, near S,
A n u - A d a d temple
6816
1112, 3296
Clay fill over

middle corridor
near Q, Anu-
iii 5 - 2 3 , 102-103
iv 1-23
v 3-21
A d a d temple
12
Istanbul
13181
3406
no number
Private house,
i 57-84
eC7ti
ii 68-95
13
A 78+101
7378a + b + c
1112, 3299
A s ex. 9
iv 4 8 - 7 0
14
Istanbul
no number
7564b
2019 CS,),
iii
A 91
7429
South corner of
N 2 4, on rock
surface, AnuAdad temple
A s ex. 9
v 56-79
15
2020 (S 2 ),
3299
1123, 3298
10-29
iv 13-28
vi 22-37
vii 31-48
16
A 102
7588
2019 (Si),
2020 (S 3 ),
3302
17
A 109
6236
875, 3295
N W front of old
ziqqurrat, on
rock surface,
Anu-Adad temple
South corner of
Shalm. court at
floor level,
SE slope of old
west ziqqurrat,
viii ? - ?
vi 104-105
vii 1-13, 94 110
iv 2 2 - 3 0
v 24 46
18
Istanbul
no number
19
Istanbul
i74-94
no number
ii 1 - 4
viii 8 5 - 9 0
iii 9 4 - 1 0 3
iv 1 - 7
20
BM 99051
21
A 89
6702
3295
Ki 1 9 0 4 - 1 0 - 9 , 8 0
Nineveh(!?)
i 27-45
ii 3 6 - 5 0
v 1-10
7565
1123, 3303, 3304
South corner of
i 54-68
N 2 , on rock
ii 63-75
surface, AnuAdad temple, eB5nt

22
A 103
13265
3461
Private house,
eC7
vi 53-66
vii 60-68
cpn
10
Registration
Ass
Ass ph
number
number
number
A 90
7470a+ b
1123, 3298
24
A 106
7502
1123, 3299
25
VA 7515
1793
26
Unlocated
7564a
27
A 684
5462
1123, 2019, 2020,

3299, 3301
875, 3294, 5462
28
Unlocated
18431
6461
29
A 104
5423
696, 875(?), 3294
30
V A T 9616
7599a
1145, 3302
31
Unlocated
7553, 7553a,
7553b
1123, 3298, 3301
32
33
34
Unlocated
Unlocated
A 98
7599b
7567
1123, 3299
7278
3302
35
Unlocated
18435a
5716
36
7579
1123, 3301
37
38
39
Istanbul
no number
Unlocated
A 638
Unlocated
7558
7547
842b
1123, 3302
1123, 3299
40
Unlocated
7562
3301
41
Istanbul
no number
7574
3300
42
A 3572
15241
4541
Ex.
Museum
number
23
1123, 3302
Aur
provenance
Lines
preserved
Recent fill
over Pi,
i75-88
ii 2-11
Anu-Adad temple
Middle of old
north ziqqurrat,
on rock surface,
Anu-Adad temple
Under west wall of
Parthian gate room,
Anu-Adad temple,
iC5i
As ex. 14
SW slope of new
west ziqqurrat, on
ruins of old,
Anu-Adad temple
Top layer of
breach in east
tomb, Anu-Adad
temple, iD4iv
North corner of
new west ziqqurrat
On libben, AnuAdad temple, eC5ii
As ex. 24
As ex. 16
As ex. 24
Old north ziqqurrat,
upper beginning of
ravine, Anu-Adad
temple
SW corner of east
tomb, Anu-Adad
temple, iD4iv
As ex. 24
As ex, 24
In plaster strip
of pillar room in
Parthian temple
A, iB5i
South corner of
N2, on rock
surface, Anu-Adad
temple, eB5m
NW edge of middle
corridor in fill,
Anu-Adad temple
cpn
v 31-42
vi 29-40
iii 79-94
iv 78-90
iv 33-43
v 37 -42
iii 22-41
iii 48-63
Illegible traces of
another col. on left
iii 50-61
iii 55-67
iii 62-81
iv 63-73
vii 49-53
iii 73-78
iv 91-99
v 90-100
vi 24-58
vii 8 - 4 9
viii 35-44
viii 50-52
viii 52-59
iv 101
v 1 22
vi 3-26
vii 33-42
See commentary
See commentary
v 43-55
COMMENTARY
The master text is a conflation of exs. 1 and 2. These
are two well-preserved exs., virtually identical in text
with each other, and bearing the same date. The few
breaks in one ex. can usually be restored from the
other. Ex. 3 is also a well-preserved ex. but it has major variations, often erroneous, from exs. 1 and 2 as
well as from the other exs. Ex. 3 was written a day
later than exs. 1 and 2. The line numbering o f this edition follows that o f King (who used ex. 3 as his main
text since he did not have exs. 1 and 2) in order to

avoid unnecessary confusion. Unfortunately, this results
in iii 2 being an excessively long line since most of the
line was omitted by ex. 3.
The sign SAG = ru 'head, t o p , beginning' is inscribed at the top of the first col. and separated f r o m
the first line of text by a horizontal line in all preserved
exs. (1-5). This is, of course, to help the scribe to find
quickly the beginning of the text.
There are many special problems with the numerous
exs. which require comment. Ex. 2, although used with
ex. 1 as the master text, is very worn in two places
(v 40 to about v 70, and vi 58-75) and much of its text
here can be read only with the help o f the other exs. As
stated earlier, ex. 3 was the main text used by King and
recently Lambert joined the tiny fragment K 16923
( = iii 38-47) to this prism. We are grateful to him for
this information.
Exs. 4-5 have at least parts of virtually every line,
and ex. 6 has major portions of most lines. But all of
these three exs. have major lacunae within lines. The
three exs. were in fact put together with plaster in the
early days in the British Museum from numerous fragments and the reconstruction and positioning of the
fragments is not always reliable. In the case of ex. 4,
only the numbers K 1619a + 1633 (BM 91034) are given
but in fact there are several unnumbered fragments embedded in the plaster. Some of these fragments are certainly in the wrong position and a few probably did not
ever belong to this prism. Particularly uncertain is the
position of the various fragments for v 78-91. On the
other hand, although many of the fragments used to
reconstruct ex. 5 do not physically join, they probably
all came from the same prism and this reconstruction is
therefore probably reliable. Turning to the last of the
reconstructed prisms in the British Museum, ex. 6, the
case is rather different again. Many of the fragments do
not physically join but, unlike ex. 5, it is not as certain
that they all really belong to the same prism. They are,
however, used in this edition as though they did.
Lambert suggested that the tiny piece K 17665
(iv 52-55) might belong to this prism and we have included it. We are grateful to him for this information.
Ex. 7 consists of two fragments, one in Istanbul and
one in East Berlin (definitely a prism, not a tablet, fragment despite the ' V A T signature), which almost certainly join. Gaiter originally made this proposal on the
basis of notes made by Frayne, and Frame subsequently
examined both fragments with Gaiter's proposal in
mind and confirmed it.
Several prism fragments (exs. 9-18, 21-24, 26-27, 29,
31-34, and 36-41) were published only in a summary
fashion, frequently with photographs, by Andrae,
A A T . Andrae suggested, in some cases, which fragments might belong together (there are no physical
joins). But such suggestions are always uncertain unless
one can examine each piece in detail and since the originals are now in various locations, and some cannot
even be located, we have treated each fragment as a
separate ex.
According to Andrae, A A T , ex. 9 preserves the lines
indicated in our catalogue. However, we have been unable to locate the original and in the photo (Ass ph
1123) only portions of the inscription can be read. The
col. equivalent to i 53-70 is not visible at all ('...' in our
scores). The col. equivalent to ii 56-87 is partially legible but in doubtful points we have put
in the
scores. The col. equivalent to iii 55-81 is almost fully
legible. The col. equivalent to iv 64-83 is in shadow
and illegible ('...' in our scores).

Ex. 10 has been collated both from the original in
Istanbul and from the excavation photo. In a few
places more is visible on the photo than is now
preserved on the original. In such cases we have followed the photo. After ii 61 there are illegible traces of
several more lines.
On ex. 13 the equivalent of col. v that is preserved is
largely illegible and there are several illegible lines before v 56. Despite the statement in Andrae, A A T p. 34
about the lines preserved on ex. 14 (Ass 7564b), our
catalogue gives the correct lines preserved. Ex. 15 is
badly worn and difficult to read. Only the coL
equivalent to vi 22-37 is relatively legible. The col.
equivalent to vii 31-48 is often illegible and the final
col., which must be part of viii, cannot be read
sufficiently for any precise identification.
What is called 'ex. 25* in this edition is a real problem. This designation in fact covers several tiny fragments, only one of which is large enough to decipher
and use in a meaningful way. This is what appears in
our scores. The others are just broken bits with odd
signs and they probably represent more than one prism.
Schroeder referred to these as 4 C and numbered them
'C 1 ', 'C 2 \ 'C 3 \ etc. These are cited in the vars. as 'Cn'
but are not included in the scores.
Ex. 30 is a prism, not a tablet, fragment despite the
'VAT* signature and Schroeder's (KAH 2 no. 160E) label as a TontafeP.
Ex. 31 presents problems. Originally there seem to
have been three separate prism fragments. None of the
originals has been located. Ass 7553a is on Ass ph 1123
and 3298, and a photo of it is also published in
Andrae, A A T pi. xiv. Ass 7553b is on Ass ph 3301 and
a photo of it is also published in Andrae, A A T pi. xv.
N o photo of Ass 7553, published or unpublished, has
been found. Andrae, A A T p. 34 lists 'Ass 7553' as having the following lines: iii 67-83, iv 63-73, and
vii 49-53. From the photos it is clear that Ass 7553a
has iii 62-81 and these have been entered in the scores.
The photos of Ass 7553b, both published and unpublished, are virtually illegible but the fragment clcarly
has parts of eleven lines. Therefore, this is presumably
iv 63-73 and three dots ('...') have been entered in the
scores for this ex. in these lines. Thus, a third fragment, Ass 7553, must have existed with the lines
vii 49-53 and three dots ('...') have been entered in the
scores for this ex. in these lines.
The original of ex. 33 could not be located but the
photos published in Andrae, A A T are quite legible.
Ex. 39 has not been located, nor has an excavation
photo been found. It is not on Ass ph 3293 or 3299.
Thus, it could be collated only from the photo, partially illegible, published by Andrae, A A T pi. xv. The
line numbers given in our catalogue are from Andrae,
A A T p. 34 but for the portions that cannot be read
from the photo, three dots ('...') are given in the scores.
More precisely, the col. equivalent to iv 101 - v 22 is
virtually illegible. The col. equivalent to vi 3-26 is almost completely legible. The col. equivalent to
12
vii 3 3 - 4 2 is partially legible.

Ex. 40 has not been located. Since the traces in the
p h o t o published in Andrae, A A T pi. x v are virtually illegible and the fragment is insignificant, it has not been
used in this edition. Ex. 41 has been collated from the
original and a p h o t o but it is far t o o worn to read or
identify.
The text is divided by horizontal lines into paragraphs and all exs., where preserved, agree u p o n these
divisions with a few exceptions. In exs. 2 and 4 - 5 a line

has been drawn between ii 57 and 58. In exs. 1 - 2 , 4,
and 6 a line is drawn after umaeru in v 29.
Borger (Zeichenliste p. 119 no. 280) has noted a
gradual change in the form of the sign for TAG/K/Q in
the inscriptions of Tigl. i. In A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 TAG/K/Q is used,
but in some of his other texts a var. form he designates
TG/K/Q appears.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1853 Layard, Discoveries p. 581 (ex. 3, 4, 5, or 6, provenance)
1861 1 R pis. 9-16 (exs, 3-6, copy)
1861 Fox Talbot, et al., JRAS 18 pp. 150-219 (exs. 3-6, translation)
1893 Winckler, Sammlung 1 pp. 1-25 (exs. 3-4, copy)
1897 Rassam, Asshur p. 20 (exs. 3-6, provenance)
1902 King, AKA pp. 27-108 (exs. 3-6, copy, edition), xliii (ex.
3, photo), and xlvii (ex. 4, photo) (for other early translations see King, AKA p. 27 n. 1)
1904-1906 Streck, ZA 18 pp. 162-82 and ZA 19 p. 260 (exs.
3-6, study)
1909 Andrae, AAT pp. 32-34 (exs. 9-18, 21-24, 26-27, 29-34,
36-41, provenance), pis. xm-xv (exs. 9-18, 21-24, 26-27,
29-34, 36-41, photo) and xvi (exs. 3-4, photo)
1914 King, Cat. p. 20 no. 116 (ex. 20, study)
1921 Unger, Babylonisches Schrifttum (Leipzig) p. 18 fig. 30
(ex. 1, photo)
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 160 (exs. 8, 25, 28, 30, 35, study)
1925 Budge, Rise and Progress pi. after p. 100 (ex. 3, photo)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 216-67 (exs. 3-6, translation)
1939 Andrae, Handbuch der Archologie 6/1 pl. 151 3 (ex. 1,
photo)
1955 von Soden, Orientalia NS 24 p. 384 and n. 1 (study)

1957-58 Weidner, AfO 18 p. 342 n. 6 (study)
1959 Weidner, Tn. nos. 47, 52, 59, and 69 (partial edition)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. 108-34 (study)
1967 Borger, HKL 1 pp. 217-18 (study)
1967 Salvini, Nairi pp. 29 (iv 7-10), 32 (v 29-32), 51-52 (iv
71-83, 96-101, v 22-32), and 81-82 (iv 8-17, 22) (edition)
1968 Ellis, Foundation Deposits pp. 109-10, 113, and 138
(study)
1974-77 Borger, AfO 25 pp. 161-65 (ex. 1, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXVII 1 (exs. 1, 3-6, 8-18, 20-41,
translation)
1977 Andrae, WEA 2 p. 187 (ex. 1, photo)
1980 Millard, JAOS 100 p. 369 (ex. 20, provenance)
1981 Anonymous, Iraq 43 pp. 172-73 (ex. 2, provenance)
1982 Behijah Ismail, AfO Beih. 19 p. 199 (ex. 2, provenance)
1984 Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA no. 300 (ex. 42, copy)
1985 Miglus, MDOG 117 p. 29 (ex. 1, provenance)
1985 Russell, Iraq 47 p. 71 (v 44-50, edition)
1986 Pedersn, Archives 2 p. 13 n. 9 (exs. 8, 25, provenance)
1988 Pedersn, OLZ 83 548 (ex. 42, study)
TEXT
Col. i
1) a-ur EN GAI mu-te-r ki-at DINGIR.MFS
2) na-din GI.GIDRU a-ge-e mu-kin MAN-?/
3) en-l be-lu MAN gi-mir a-nun~na-ki
4)
a-bu
5)
6)
DINGIR.ME EN KUR.KUR
7)
8)
9)
sa-al-pat a~a-be mu-e-eb-ru se-ni

D
IKUR ur-a-nu ra-hi-is kib-rat KR.ME
10)
KUR.ME AB. MES-//
30 er-u EN a-ge-e
a-qu- DM.GUR8
UTU DI. KUD AN KL-//
ha--t
11) nin-urta qar-du -gi lem-ni a-a-bi

12) mu-em-su- mal lb-bi
13)
INANNA SAG-// DINGIR.ME be-lit
te-e-e
14) mu-ar-ri-hat MURUB4.ME-/E
i 5.3-5 The number 30 is written p&fr* rather than

. Cf. Postgate, Oriens Antiquus 13 (1974) p. 66.
i 1-14) God Aur, great lord, who properly administers all the gods, grantor of sceptre and
crown, sustainer of sovereignty; god Enlil, lord,
king of all the Anunnaku gods, father of the
gods, lord of the lands; (i 5) god Sn, wise one,
lord of the lunar disk, lofty divine crescent; god
ama, judge of heaven (and) underworld, who
espies the enemy's treachery, who exposes the
wicked; god Adad, hero, who storms over hostile
regions, (i 10) mountains, (and) seas; god
Ninurta, valiant one, slayer of criminal and foe,
fulfiller of hearts' desires; goddess Istar, foremost
among the gods, mistress of tumult, who adorns
battles;
i 10 See Borger, EAK 1 pp. 121-22.
DINGIR.ME
GAL.MES
mU-Ut-tb-bi-lU-Ut AN
KI-
a ti-bu-u-nu GIS.LAL --mu

mu-r-bu- ar-ru-ut
m
Gi. tukul-ti-mLA--r-ra NUN na-ra-me
bi-b! iib-bi-ku-un SIPA-ia na-a-di
a i-na ke-e-ni b-bi-ku-un tu-ta-a-u
a-ga-a si-i-ra tu-up-pi-ra-u a-na UAN-U(
KUR en-h7 GAL-e u-kn-na-u
a-a-re-du-ta si-ru-ta qar-du-ta
ta-qi-a-u -ma-at EN-ti-u
a-na k-u-te
NUMUN SANGA-I-SU
i 15-27) Great gods, managers of heaven (and)

underworld, whose attack means conflict and
strife, who make great the sovereignty of Tiglathpileser, beloved prince, your select one, attentive
shepherd, (i 20) whom you chose in the steadfastness of your hearts; upon him you set the exalted
crown, you grandly established him for sovereignty over the land of the god Enlil, to him
you granted leadership, supremacy, (and) valour,
you pronounced forever his destiny of dominion
(i 25) as powerful and (the destiny) of his priestly
progeny for service in Ehursagkurkurra;
a-na man-za-az -hur-sag-kur-kur-ra

a-na da-ri ta-qu-ra
G i . tukuI-ti-iBLA--r-ra LUGAL dan-nu
LUGAL KI la-a -na-an LUGAL kib-rat 4-/
m
LUGAL D
mal-ki. M E S
EN EN.ME UTUL
MAN
M A N . MES
i-ip-pu na-a^-du d i-na si-qir DUTU

GI.GIDRU K-?U na-ad-na-a-u-ma
UN.ME
ba-û-lat en-l ul-ta-pi-ru

gi-mir-ta SIPA-iu ke-e-nu a si-qir-u
UGU ma-li-ki. MES n-bu-
-tam-mu si-ru a a-ur GI.TUKUL.ME-SW
--hi-lu-ma a-na mu-'u-ru-u kib-rat 4-i
MU-U a-na da-ri i-qu-ru sa-bit
pu-lu-gi n-su-te sa ZAG.ZAG
e-li sap-!is ut-mu n-par5-du-
sa me-lam-mu-u UB.ME -sah-ha-pu
nab-iu ur-ru-hu ki-ma ti-ik
ri-ih-si a-na KUR nu-kr-te uz(*)-nu-nu-ma
i-na si-qr en-ll ma-hi-ra la-a i-u-
-am-qi-tu g-ir da-ur
d
a-ur DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
mu-r-bu-
WGAL-ti-a
a ki-u-ta da-na-na a-na i-qi-ia
i-ru-ku-ni mi-sir KUR-ti-u-nu
ru-up-pu-a iq-bu-ni GI. TUKUL.ME-5W-U
dan-nu-t a-bu-ub tam-ha-ri
qa-ti lu-at-me-hu
KUR.KUR.ME KUR.ME
ma-ha-zi mal-ki. ME KR.ME-/ da-ur

a-pl-ma m-is-ri-te-u-nu
-ke-ni-i it-ti 1 u-i LUGAL.MES-/
u-ut TG.SAGU al-ta-na-an-ma
li--ta it-nun-ta UGU-u-nu
al-ta-ka-an
GABA.RI-^ -na MURUB4
i 28-45) Tiglath-pileser, strong king, unrivalled

king of the universe, king of the four quarters,
(i 30) king of all princes, lord of lords, chief
herdsman, king of kings, attentive purification
priest, to whom by command of the god ama
the holy sceptre was given and who had complete
authority over the people, subjects of the god
Enlil, faithful shepherd, whose name (i 35) was
called over the princes, exalted bishop, whose
weapons the god Aur has sharpened and whose
name he has pronounced eternally for control of
the four quarters, capturer of distant districts to
borders (i 40) above and below, radiant day
whose brilliance overwhelms the regions, splendid
flame which covers the hostile land like a rain
storm and, by the command of the god Enlil,
having no rival defeats the enemy of the god
Aur;
i 46-61) The god Aur (and) the great gods who

magnify my sovereignty, who granted as my lot
power and strength, commanded me to extend the
border of their land. They placed in my hands
their (i 50) mighty weapons, deluge in battle. I
gained control over lands, mountains, towns, and
princes who were hostile to Assur and I subdued
their districts, (i 55) I vied with 60 crowned heads
and achieved victory over them in battle. I have
neither rival in strife nor equal in conflict. I added
territory to Assyria (and) people to its population.
I extended the border of my land and ruled over
all their lands.
a-ni-na i-na M la-a i-a-a-ku
i 20 Where is the end of this relative clause? I have assumed,

with Borger (EAK 1 p. 122), that the main clause resumes in
i 21 but Luckenbill thought in i 23. i 34-38.5, 18 Both exs.
are very fragmentary but it is clear that they omit much of this
passage, probably SIPAW'W . . . iquru 'faithful shepherd ... of
the four quarters', inclusive, i 34.3 omits a i-qr-u. i 37 -hi-lu-ma for uaîuma: see the note to iv 47. i 43 uz-: the
sign is SUD. For the reading see von Soden and Rllig,
Syllabar no. 215.
14
uGu KUR da-sur ma-a-ta UGU UN.ME-&7
UN.MES lu-rad-di mi-sir KUR-ti-ia
-re-pi-ma gi-mir KUR.KUR-u-nu a-pl
i-na ur-ru LUGAL-ti-ia 20 LIM LU. MES
KUR mu-ka-a-ia.MES 5 LUGAL. MES-ni-u-nu
sa 50 MU.ME KUR al-zi
KUR pu-ru-lum-zi na-a- GUN

ma-da-at-te a a-ur EN-ia is-ba-tu-ni
LUGAL ia-um-ma i-na tam-ha-ri GABA-su-nu
ia-a -n-hu a-na da-na-ni-u-nu
it-ka-lu-ma ur-du-ni KUR kat-mu-hi
is-ba-tu i-na GJukul-ti a-ur EN-ia
GI.GIGIR.ME qu-ra-di-ia.ME lul-te-r
EGIR-A ul -qi KUR
ka-si-ia-ra
A. nam-ra-si iu-u ab-bal-kit

it-ti 20 LIM RIN.MES muq-tab-li-su-nu
5 LUGAL. ME-SW-RTW i-na KUR
kat-mu-hi
lu al-ta-na-an a-bi-ik-ta-su-nu
lu -kun al-ma-at qu-ra-di-u-nu
i-na mit-hu-us tu-a-ri ki-ma ra-hi-si
lu-ke-mir .MEs-u-nu hur-ri
ba-ma-a-te sa KUR-/ lu -r-di
SAG.DU.ME-u-nu lu-na-ki-sa i-da-at
URU.ME-IW-RTW ki-ma ka-re-e lu-e-pi-ik
al-la-su-nu bu-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu
a-na la-a mi-na -e-sa-a 6 LIM
si-te-et um-ma-na-te-u-nu sa i-na pa-an
GIS.TUKUL.ME-IF p-pr--du
i 62-88) In my accession year: 20,000 Musku with

their five kings, who had held for 50 years the
lands Alzu (i 65) and Purulumzu bearers of
tribute and tithe to the god Aur, my lord
(the Musku), whom no king had ever repelled in
battle, being confident of their strength they came
down (and) (i 70) captured the land Katmuhu.
With the support of the god Aur, my lord, I put
my chariotry and army in readiness (and), not
waiting for my rear guard, I traversed the rough
terrain of Mount Kaiiari. I fought with their
20,000 men-at-arms (i 75) and five kings in the
land Katmuhu. I brought about their defeat. Like
a storm demon I piled up the corpses of their
warriors on the battlefield (and) made their blood
flow into the hollows (i 80) and plains of the
mountains. I cut off their heads (and) stacked
them like grain piles around their cities. I brought
out their booty, property, (and) possessions
without number. I took (i 85) the remaining 6,000
of their troops who had fled from my weapons
(and) submitted to me and regarded them as people of my land.
GR.ME-/7
is-ba-tu al-qa-u-nu-ti-ma
a-na UN.ME KUR-ti-ia am-nu-u-nu-ti
i-na U4-mi-u-ma a-na KUR kat-mu-hi la magi-ri
a GUN ma-da-ta a-na da-ur EN-IU
ik-lu- lu al-lik KUR kat-mu-hi
a-na si-hr-ti-a ak-ud
al-la-su-nu bu-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu
-e-sa-a URU.MEs-u-nu i-na IZI.ME
Col. ii
1) -ru-up ap-pl aq-qur si-te-et
2) KUR kat-mu-hi a i-na pa-an GI.TUKUL.ME-/T
3) ip-pr-i-du a-na URU e-re-e
4) a GR am-ma-te sa ID.IDIGNA
5) lu e-be-ru URU a-na dan-nu-ti-su-nu
6) lu i-ku-nu GI.GIGIR.ME qu-ra-di-ia. MES
7) lu al-qe KUR- mar-sa gir-re-te-su-nu
8) pa--qa-a-te i-na aq-ql-lat URUDU.MES
i 89 - ii 35) At that time I marched to the insubmissive land Katmuhu which had withheld tribute
and impost from the god Assur, my lord. I conquered the entire land of Katmuhu. I brought out
their booty, property, (and) possessions. Their cities (ii 1) I burnt, razed, (and) destroyed. The
remainder of the (inhabitants of the) land
Katmuhu, who had fled from my weapons (and)
(ii 5) crossed over to the city ereu which is on
the opposite bank of the Tigris, made that city
their stronghold. Taking my chariots and warriors
I hacked through the rough mountain range and
difficult paths with copper picks and made a good
way for the passage of (ii 10) my chariots and
troops. I crossed the Tigris (and) conquered their
fortified city, ereu. 1 spread out like grain
i 62 i-na ur-ru LUGAI -ti-ia 'In my accession year': see RIMA 1

p. 5 and n, 5. i 63 5 LUGAL.ME-ni-u-nu 'with their five
kings' appears only in ex. 3, It is omitted by all other preserved exs. i 68 -n-hu: see the note to iv 47. i 71 and iii 41
lul-te-fir: uturu is a root commonly used of weapons and
people. See CAD 4 (b) pp. 359-63 sub eru v 12 and AHw p.
255. i 72 ark ul qi: cf. Borger, Asarh. p. 44 note to line 64.
i 80 KUR-i can be plural. See ii 41. ii 2.7
um-ma-na-te-u-nu
'their troops' for KUR kat-mu-hi 'the land Katmuhu'. ii 3.3 ere-e-e.
9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
22)
23)
lu ah-si hu--la a-na me-te-eq

GI.GIGIR.MEs-ia um-ma-na-te-ia lu-t-ib
D.IDIGNA lu e-bir URU e-re-e
URU dan-nu-ti-u-nu ak-ud
RIN.ME muq-tab-li-u-nu i-na q-reb tamha-ri
ki-ma ser-ma-i lu-me-si
.ME-u-nu hur-ri ba-ma-a-te a KUR-
lu-r-di i-na u^-mi-u-ma um-ma-na-at
KUR pap-he-e a a-na u-zu-ub
n-ra-ru-ut-te sa KUR kat-mu-hi
il-li-ku--ni it-ti um-ma-na-at
KUR kat-mu-hi-ma k-ma u--be u-na-U
pa-gar muq-tab-li-u-nu a-na gu-ru-na-a-te
i-na gi-sal-lat KUR-/ lu-q-ri-n
al-ma-at qu-ra-di-u-nu D na-a-me
24)
a-na D.IDIGNA lu
-e-si
heaps (the corpses of) their men-at-arms in the

battle. I made (ii 15) their blood flow in the hollows and plains of the mountains. At that time I
laid low like sheep, with the army of (ii 20) the
land Katmuhu, the army of the Paph which had
come to the aid and assistance of the land
Katmuhu. I built up mounds with the corpses of
their men-at-arms on mountain ledges. I allowed
the River Nme to carry the bodies of their warriors out to the Tigris. I captured in battle their
king, (ii 25) Kili-Teshub, son of Kali-Teshub, who
is called Errupi. I carried off his wives, his natural
sons, his clan, 180 (ii 30) copper kettles, five
bronze bath-tubs, together with their gods, gold
and silver, the best of their property. I brought
out their booty. I burnt, razed, (and) destroyed
that city and its palace.
25) mki-li-dte-ub DUMU ka-li-te-ub

26) a mer-ru-pi i-sa-si--u-ni
27) LUGAL-u-nu i-na q-reb tam-ha-ri qa-ti
28)
k-ud
DAM.ME-5W DUMU.ME
29) nab-ni-it lib-bi-u el-la-su 3 u-i

30) ruq-qi URUDU.ME 5 nr-ma-ak ZABAR
31)
it-ti DINGIR.ME-5W-/2W K.GI K.BABBAR.ME
32) du-muq nam-kur-r-u-nu -a-a

33) al-la-su-nu -e-sa-a
34)
URU u-a-tu
.GAL-SU i-na IZI.ME
35) -ru-up ap-pl aq-qur

36)
37)
38)
39)
40)
URU ur-ra-t-na- URU dan-nu-ti-u-nu

a i-na KUR pa-na-ri na-du-
pu-ul-hu a-di-ru me-lam a-ur EN-ia
i-hp-u-nu-ti-ma a-na u-zu-ub
nap-a-te-u-nu DINGIR.ME-SW-/ bu-a-u-nu
i-u-
41) a-na g-sal-lat KUR-/ a-qu-ti
42)
ki-ma
MUEN ip-pr-u
GI.GIGIR.ME
43) um-ma-na-te-ia.ME lu al-qe D.IDIGNA lu

e-bir
44) ma-di-dte-ub DUMU ha-at-tu-hi LUGAL
45) a URU ur-ra-t-na-
46) i-na KUR-u-ma GR.ME-// is-bat
4 7 ) D U M U . M E nab-ni-it lb-bi-u kim-ti-u
48) a-na li-tu-ut-te as-bat
ii 13.3, 5 hur-/a-ni 'mountains' for tam-ha-ri 'battle',

ii 15.3 D.IDIGNA Tigris' for hur-ri 'gullies', ii 15 KUR-/' can be
plural. See ii 41. ii 20 bu seems to be a kind of sheep. Note
u-W- = im-me-ru, MSL 8/2 p. 73 line 32; UDU u-b-e,
Johns, ADD 4 p. 384b (several citations); and see von Soden,
AHw p. 1255a sub sum III. The other references in MA royal
inscriptions are: RIMA 1 p. 192 line 13 (correct the translation); A.0.87.1 ii 20, 80, v 94, and vi 5. Less probable
translations are: 'grain', Marcus, Orientalia NS 46 (1977)
pp. 101-102; 'reed(?)', CAD 11/1 (N) pp. 205-206.
ii 36-57) With regard to the city Urratinas, their

stronghold situated in the land Panaru, the terror,
fear, (and) splendour of the god Aur, my lord,
overwhelmed them. To save (ii 40) their lives they
took their gods (and) possessions and flew like
birds to ledges on high mountains. Taking my
chariotry and army I crossed the Tigris. adiTeub, son of Hattuhu, king (ii 45) of the city
Urratinas, submitted to me in his own land. I
took his natural sons and his family as hostages.
He brought to me as tribute and tax 60 copper
kettles, bronze vats, (ii 50) and large bronze
bath-tubs, together with 120 men, cattle, and
sheep. I accepted his (tribute), spared him (and)
preserved his life, (ii 55) I imposed upon him
ii 21-23.2, 4, 6 omit ana gurunte ... qurdunu 'I built up

... ledges', ii 22 KUR-I can be plural. See ii 41. ii 33 After
allassunu ex. 3 inserts bu-a-a-[u-n]u, ex. 10 bu-a-u-nu
'their (booty and) possessions', ii 40.3 omits bu-a-u-nu 'their
possessions'. There seems to be room in the break in ex. 5 for
bu-a-u-nu. ii 45.3 adds at the end of the line a-na la k[a(1)...] and ex. 10 has urratinas [...]-&. Should one restore a-na la
k[a-a-d\-u ( to avoid (my) conquering him'? ii 46.10 KUR-eu-ma '(in) his own mountains' rather than '(in) his own land'.
16
1 u-i ruq-qi URUDU.ME nam-har ZABAR
nr-ma-ak
ZABAR GAL.ME-Ie
it-ti 2 u~i a-mi-lu-te.ME GU4.ME

se-ni GUN ma-da-at-ta
i-a-a am-hur-su e-t-r-u
na-pi-ta-u ag-mil ni-ir EN-ti-ia
DUGUD UGU-5W a-na sa-at
UD.ME
-kn
KUR kat-mu-hi DAGAL-T a-na si-hr-ti-a

ak-ud a-na GR.ME-/A -e-ek-ni-i
i-na u4-mi-u-ma 1 nam-har ZABAR 1 nrma-ak
ZABAR a ki-it-ti ma-da-at-ti
Sa KUR kat-mu-hi a-na a-ur EN-/ a-qi
1 u-i ruq-qi URUDU.ME it-ti DINGIR.ME-Mnu
a-na d iKUR GA-/a -ruk
i-na u-mur
Gi.TUKUL.MES-/a
forever the heavy yoke of my dominion. completely conquered the extensive land Katmuhu and
subdued it.
ez-zu-te a da-
ur EN
da-na-na me-tel-lu-ta i-ru-ka
i-na 30 GI.GIGIR.ME-Z? a-li-kt i-di
ga-mar~ri-ia er-hu-te qu-ra-di-ia. MES
a mit-hu-us db-de-e li-tam-du
lu al-qe a-na KUR i-di ap-su-te
la-a ma-gi-ri lu al-lik KUR.ME
dan-nu-ti A. nam-ra-si
DG.GA i-na GIS.GIGIR.ME-/A mar-sa
i-na
GR .MES-a
lu e-te-tiq i-na KUR a-ru-ma
A. pa--qi sa a-na me-teq GIS.GIGIR.MES-/^
la na-tu- GI.GIGIR.ME lu e-zib
pa-an qu-ra-di-ia as-bat
ki-ma ib-be er-he-ku-ma i-na gi-sal-lat KUR-i
pa--qa-a-te al-t-i e-te-ti-q
KUR i-di ki-ma DU6 a-bu-be -hu-up
RIN.ME muq-tab-li-u-nu i-na q-reb tamha-ri
ki-ma u-be u-na-il al-la-su-nu
bu-a-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu -lul
nap-har URU-u-nu i-na IZI.ME aq-mu
U-i-tL MES GUN ma-da-ta
UGU-u-nu -kn
m
Gi. tukul-ti-WLK--r-ra et-lu qar-du

mu-pe-ti du-rug KUR.MES-/
mu-k-ni la-a ma-gi-ri sa-pi-nu
gi-mir al-tu-ti
ii 53.2, 4 omit tiru 'spared him', ii 57-58.2 has a horizontal

line between these lines, ii 66 gamarria is attested in all preserved exs. (1-5, 7, 21) and is therefore not an error. It seems
to refer to an elite group of troops and perhaps should be
connected with kimarru in Thureau-Dangin, TCL 3 line 230.
ii 58-62) At that time I donated to the god Aur

one bronze vat (and) one bronze bath-tub from
the booty and tribute of the land Katmuhu. I
gave to the god Adad, who loves me, 60 copper
kettles together with their gods.
ii 63-84) With the onslaught of my fierce weapons

by means of which the god Aur, the lord, gave
me strength and excellence I took my warriors
trained for successful combat (ii 65) with thirty of
my chariots escorting my aggressive shock troops.
1 marched to the land Idi (where) rebellious
(and) insubmissive people (lived), (ii 70) Riding in
my chariot when the way was smooth and going
by foot when the way was rough, 1 passed
through the rough terrain of mighty mountains.
In Mount Aruma, a difficult area which was impassable for my chariots, I abandoned my
chariotry. (ii 75) Taking the lead of my warriors I
slithered victoriously with the aggressiveness of a
viper over the perilous mountain ledges. I destroyed the land Idi (so that it looked) like ruin
hills (created by) the deluge. Their warriors (ii 80)
I laid low in battle like sheep. I carried off their
booty, possessions, and property. I burned all
their cities. I imposed upon them (the obligation
to provide) hostages, tribute, and taxes.
ii 85-88) Tiglath-pileser, valiant man, opener of

remote regions in the mountains, subduer of the
insubmissive, overwhelmer of all fierce (enemies):
Cf. von Soden, AHw p. 276a and CAD 8 (K) pp. 371-72.
ii 79-81.1-2, 4, 7, 12 omit these lines Their warriors ...
property,' The master text is a conflation of exs. 3 and 5 the
only exs. preserved for these lines, ii 80 Su-be: see the note to
ii 20.
89) KUR u-ba-ri-i ap-su-te la-a ma-gi-r
90) ak-ud KUR al-zi
91) KUR pu-ru-lum-zi sa GUN -su-nu
92) ma-da-ta-u-nu -m-si-ku-ni
93) ni-ir EN-ti-ia DUGUD vGv-u-nu
94) -kn UU-m-ma GUN ma-da-ta
95) a-na URU-/A a-ur a-na mah-ri-ia
96) li-tar-ru--ni ki-ma a i-na qar-du-ti-ia-ma
97) a a-ur EN GIS.TUKUL dan-na mu-k-ni
98) la-a ma-gi-ri qa-ti -at-me-hu-ma
99) mi-sir KUR-ti-u a-na ru-pu-i
100) iq-ba-a 4 UM KUR kas-ka-a.ME
101) KUR -ru-ma-ia.ME RIN.ME KUR ha-at-te-e
102) la~a ma-gi-ri sa i-na da-na-ni-u-nu
C o l iii
1)
URU.ME-// a KUR u-bar-te da-gil
2) pa-an a-ur EN-ia is-ba-tu a-la-ki a-na KUR
u-bar-te lu i-mu- me-lam qar-du-ti-ia se-hi-ip-u-nu-ti-ma M e-du-ru GR.ME-/T isba-tu
3) a-di nam-kur-ri-u-nu 2 u-i
4) GI.GIGIR.ME si-mit-ti ni-ri-u-nu
5) al-qa-u-nu-ti-ma a-na UN.ME
6) KUR-ti-ia am-nu-u-nu-ti
ii 89 - iii 6) I conquered the rebellious and insubmissive ubaru. I imposed the heavy yoke of
my dominion upon the lands Alzu and Purulumzu
which had abandoned (the practice of paying)
tribute and tax so that annually they send tribute
and tax (ii 95) into my presence at my city Assur.
As soon as with my valour, by means of which
the god Assur, my lord, had placed in my hand
the strong weapon which subdues the insubmissive, (ii 100) he commanded me to extend the
border of his land, 4,000 Kasku (and) Urumu, insubmissive troops of Hatti who had seized by
force (iii 1) the cities of the land ubartu which
were vassals of the god Aur, my lord heard
of my coming to the land ubartu. The splendour
of my valour overwhelmed them and, fearing battle, they submitted to me. I took them, together
with their property and 120 chariots (and) harnessed horses, and regarded them as people of my
land.
I)
8)
9)
10)
i-na it-mur qar-du-ti-ia 2-te-ia

a-na KUR kat-mu-hi lu- al-lik nap-har
vRV.ME-u-nu ak-ud al-la-su-nu
bu-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu a-na la-a mi-na
-lul
II)
URU.ME-5TT-RTW i-na IZI.ME
iii 7-31) With my valorous onslaught I marched a

second time to the land Katmuhu. I conquered all
their cities (and) (iii 10) carried off their booty,
possessions, (and) property without number. I
burnt, razed, (and) destroyed their cities. The
remainder of their troops, which had taken fright
at my fierce weapons and (iii 15) had been
cowered by my strong and belligerent attack, took
to secure heights in rough mountainous terrain in
order to save their lives. I climbed up after them
to the peaks of high mountains and perilous
mountain ledges (iii 20) where a man could not
walk. They waged war, combat, and battle with
me (and) I brought about their defeat, (iii 25)
Like a storm demon I piled up the corpses of
their warriors on mountain ledges (and) made
their blood flow into the hollows and plains of the
mountains. I brought down their booty, possessions, (and) property from the heights of the
mighty mountains. (Thus) I became lord of the
entire land of Katmuhu and added (it) to the
borders of my land.
-ru-up
12) ap-pl aq-qur si-te-et

13) um-ma-na-te-u-nu sa i-na pa-an
GI. TUKUL. ME -
14)
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
ez-zu-te ip-la-hu-ma ti-ib M-ia

dan-na e-du-ru a-na u-zu-ub
nap--te-u-nu gab-â-a-ni dan-nu-te
a KUR-? A. rnar-sa lu- is-ba-tu
a-na ik-kt hur-a-ni a-qu-ti
gi-sal-lat KUR-/ pa--qa-a-e
a a-na ki-bi-is L la-a na-tu-
21)
EGiR-u-nu lu e-li GI.TUKUL MURUB4
22)
23)
24)
25)
26)
27)
28)
29)
m it-ti-ia lu- e-pu-u

a-bi-ik-ta-u-nu lu- -kun al-ma-at
qu-ra-di-u-nu i-na gi-sal-lat KUR
ki-ma ra-hi-si lu-ke-mir vs.ME-su-nu
hur-ri ba-ma-a-te a KUR-/
lu-r-di al-la-su-nu bu-a-a-u-nu
nam-kur-u-nu it-ti gab-â-a-ni
a KUR-E dan-nu-te lu-e-ri-da
ii 90.3, 5 -k-ni 'I subdued' for ak-ud 'I conquered',

ii 101.4 it-ru-id, MES. iii 2 This long line is actually inscribed
on about three lines in most exs. See the commentary.
iii 2.3 omits a-la-ki... is-ba-tu 'heard of my coming ...

submitted to me', iii 10.3 omits ana l mna 'without number',
iii 29.3 [dan-n]u-ti Sa KUR-/ for a KUR-E dan-nu-te '(from the)
18
KUR kat-mu-hi a-na pat gim-ri-a a-pl-ma

a-na mi-sir KUR-ti-ia -te-er
m
Gi. tukul-ti-iBYLA--r-ra LUGAL dan-nu

u-u-kat la-a ma-gi-ri sa-pi-nu
qa-bal tar-gi4-gU
iii 32-34) Tiglath-pileser, strong king, snare for

the insubmissive, overwhelmer in battle with criminals:
i-na e-mu-qi si-ra-te a a-ur EN-ia

a-na KUR ha-ri-a um-ma-na-at.MES
KUR pap-he-e.MEs DAGAL-ti hur-a-ni
a-qu-ti sa a-ar-u-nu LUGAL ia-um-ma
la i-ba-â da-sur EN a-na a-la-ki
iq-ba-a GI.GIGIR.ME um-ma-na-te-ia
lul-te-r bir-ti KUR et-ni
KUR a-ia A. nam-ra-si lu as-bat
KUR. MES a-qu-ti sa ki-ma zi-qip GR
sam-tu sa a-na me-ti-iq GIS.GIGIR.MES-^
la-a na-tu- GI.GIGIR.ME i-na la-ba-ni
lu-u e-mi-id KUR.MES pa--qu-te
lu e-te-ti-iq kl-lat KUR pap-he-e. MES
iii 35-65) With the exalted strength of the god

Aur, my lord, the god Aur, (my) lord, (iii 40)
commanded me to march to the land H aria and
the army of the extensive Paph in high mountains where no other king had ever gone. Putting
my chariotry and army in readiness I took a
rugged route between Mount Etnu and Mount
Aia. In the high mountains, which thrust up like
pointed daggers and which (iii 45) were impassable for my chariots, I put the chariots on (the
soldiers') necks (and thereby) passed through the
difficult mountain range. All of the Paph, their
extensive army, joined together and aggressively
(iii 50) they took up a position to wage war, combat, and battle in Mount Azu. I fought with them
in rough mountainous terrain (and) brought about
their defeat. I built up mounds with the bodies of
their warriors in the plains of the mountain (and)
made (iii 55) the blood of their warriors flow into
the hollows and plains of the mountain. I stormed
the cities which were on mountain ledges (and)
conquered 25 cities of the land Haria which lies at
the foot of Mounts Aia, uira, Etnu, (iii 60)
ezzu, e1gu, Arzanibiu, Urusu, and Anitku. I
carried off* their booty, possessions, (and) property. I burnt, razed, (and) destroyed their cities.
um-ma-na-te-u-nu
DAGAL. ME-TE lul-tk-si-
ru-ma
a-na e-pe GIS.TUKUL.MES MURUB4 M
i-na KUR a-zu da-ap~ni-i lu iz-zi-zu-ni-ma

i-na KUR-E A. nam-ra-si it-te-su-nu
am-da-hi-is db-da-u-nu -kun
al-ma-at qu-ra-di-u-nu i-na ba-ma-at KUR-/
a-na gu-ru-na-a-te lu-q-ri-in
.ME qu-ra-di-u-nu hur-ri ba-ma-a-te
sa KUR-/ lu-sr-di a-na URU. MES-/
sa i-na gi-sal-lat KUR-/ sa-ak-nu sam-ris

lu- as-ni-iq 25 URU. MEs-ni sa KUR ha-ri-a
sa i-na GR KUR a-ia KUR su-i-ra KUR et-ni
KUR e-ez-zu KUR e-el-gu KUR ar-za-ni-bi-
KUR -ru-su KUR a-ni-it-ku
sa-al-û-ni ak-ud al-la-su-nu
bu-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu -lul
URU.ME-su-nu i-na IZI.ME -ru-up
ap-pl aq-qur
KUR a-da-u ti-ib ta-ha-zi-ia dan-na
lu- e-du-ru-ma a-ar-u-nu lu -ma-e-ru
a-na gi-sal-lat KUR-/ a-qu-ti
ki-ma MUEN ip-pr-u me-lam a-ur EN-ia
is-hp-u-nu-ti-ma
ur-du-ni GR.ME-/T is-ba-tu
GUN ma-da-ta UGU-u-nu -kn
iii 66-72) (The people of) the land Adaus were

frightened by my strong belligerent attack and
abandoned their territory. They flew like birds to
ledges on high mountains. (But) the splendour of
the god Assur, my lord, overwhelmed them and
they came back down and submitted to me. I imposed upon them tribute and impost.
KUR sa-ra-u KUR am-ma-u

a i-tu u4-um sa-a-te ka-na-a
la-a i-du- ki-ma DU6 a-bu-be
iii 73-87) 1 destroyed the lands Saraus (and)

Ammau, which from ancient times (iii 75) had
not known submission, (so that they looked) like
secure (heights) of the mountains', iii 37b-39a DAGAL-// ... la

i-ba-â 'in high mountains ... gone' appears only in exs. 3, 5,
and 10. It is omitted by all other preserved exs. iii 41 lul-tefir: see the note to i 71. iii 60.2-6, 9, 28-30 e-e-zu.
76) s-hu-up it-t um-ma-na-te-u-nu DAGAL.MESte
77) i-na KUR a-ru-ma al-ta-na-an-ma
78) db-da-u-nu -kun al-ma-at
79) muq-tab-li-u-nu i-na gi-sal-lat KUR-/ ki-ma
ser-ma-e
80) lu -m-si VRV.ME-u-nu ak-ud
81 ) DINGIR. ME-u-nu -a-a al-la-su-nu
82) bu-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu -e-sa-a
83)
URU.ME-5W-/7W i-na IZI.ME
-ru-up
84) ap-pl aq-qur a-na DUe kar-me

85) -er ni-ir EN -ti-ia DUGUD
86) UGU-u-nu -kn pa-an a-ur EN-ia
87) -ad-gil-u-nu-ti
ruin hills (created by) the deluge. I fought with

their extensive army in Mount Aruma and
brought about their defeat, (iii 80) I spread out
like grain heaps the corpses of their men-at-arms
on mountain ledges. I conquered their cities, took
their gods, and brought out their booty, possessions, (and) property. I burnt, razed, (and) destroyed their cities (and) (iii 85) turned them into
rain hills. I imposed the heavy yoke of my dominion upon them (and) made them vassals of the
god Aur, my lord.
88)
89)
90)
91)
KUR i-su-a KUR da-ri-a ap-su-te

la-a ma-gi-ri ak-ud GUN
ma-da-ta VGV-u-nu -kn
pa-an a-ur EN-ia -ad-gil-u-nu-t
iii 88-91) I conquered the rebellious and insubmissive lands of Isua (and) Daria. I imposed upon
them tribute and impost (and) made them vassals
of the god Aur, my lord.
92)
i-na a-a-re-du-ti-ia-ma
iii 92 - iv 4) With my prowess, with which I conquered enemies, I took my chariotry and army
(and) (iii 95) crossed the Lower Zab. I conquered
the lands Murattas (and) Saradaus which are
within the rough terrain of Mounts Asaniu (and)
Atuma. I butchered their troops like sheep. 1 conquered (iii 100) their fortified city Murattas within
the first third of the day after sunrise. I brought
out their gods, their possessions, their property,
120 copper kettles, (iv 1) 30 talents of copper
bars, the outstanding property of their palace,
their booty. I burnt, razed, (and) destroyed that
city.
a KR.ME-/7
93) ak-u-du GI.GIGIR.ME um-ma-na-te-ia. MES

94) lu al-qe D za-ban u-pa-la-a
95) lu e-bir KUR mu-rat-ta KUR sa-ra-da-u
96) sa q-reb KUR a-sa-ni- KUR a-tu-ma
97) A. nam-ra-si ak-ud
98) um-ma-na-te-u-nu ki-ma ze-er-qe
99) -n-ki-is URU mu-rat-ta
100) URU dan-nu-ti-u-nu a-di ANABI-ti u4-me
101) a dUTu na-pa-hi ak-ud
102) DINGIR.ME-u-nu bu-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu
103) 2 u-i ruq-qi URUDU.ME
Col. iv
1) 30 GUN URUDU.ME a-bar-ta bu-e ta-tur
2) i.GAL-l-u-nu al-la-su-nu
3) -e-sa-a URU u-a-tu i-na IZI.ME
4) -ru-up ap-pl aq-qur
5) i-na U4-mi-u-ma URUDU.ME a-a-tu
6) a-na DIKUR ra-H-mi-a a-qi
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
i-na e-mu-qi si-ra-te a a-ur EN-ia

a-na KUR su-gi a KUR hab-hi la-a ka-ni-su-ut
a-ur EN-ia lu al-lik it-ti 6 LIM

um-ma-na-te-u-nu KUR hi-me KUR lu-hi
KUR ar-ri-ir-gi KUR a-la-mu-un
KUR nim-ni kl-lat KUR pap-he-e
13)
DAGAL. ME-// i-na KUR
hi-ri-hi
iii 76.3 omits DAGAL. ME-te '(their) extensive (army)1,

iii 79.3 omits i-na gi-sal-la KUR-/ 'on mountain ledges'.
iii 94.3-5 za-ba. iii 103.3 1 u-i '60' instead of 2 u-i T20\
iv 4-5 One would expect a horizontal line between these lines
to denote the beginning of a new paragraph. Cf. ii 57-58,
ex. 2 (in note). See Borger, EAK 1 p. 114. However, no such
line appears in any of the preserved exs. iv 6.3 after ISKUR
iv 5-6) At that time I gave that copper to the god

Adad, who loves me.
iv 7-31) With the exalted power of the god Aur,
my lord, I marched to the land Sugu of the land
Habhu, (people) insubmissive to the god Assur,
my lord. I fought on foot with 6,000 of (iv 10)
their troops from the lands Himu, Lhu, Arrirgu,
Alamun, Nimnu, and all of the extensive Paph.
(I fought) (iv 15) with all those lands in Mount
inserts EN GAL DINGIR '(Adad), the great lord, the god (who
loves me)', iv 6.4 after DIKUR inserts EN-ia '(Adad) my lord'
and omits ra-î-mi-ia 'who loves me1, iv 7.3 i-na gi-pi e-mu-qi
a VSWR EN-ia 'With the mighty power of the god Assur, my
lord', iv 10.11 lu--hi. iv 13b-15.1-2 omit i-na KUR hi-ri-hi
... KUR.KUR-5W-/7I/ \ \ fought) with all those lands ... daggers.'
20
A. nam-ra-si sa ki-ma zi-qip GR
am-tu it-ti kl-lat KUR.KUR-5W-TW
i-na GR.ME-/R lu-
am-da-hi-is
a-bi-ik-ta-u-nu lu -kun
RIN.ME muq-tab-li-u-nu i-na gi-sal-lat
KUR-/
a-na gu-ru-na-a-te lu-q-ri-in

.MES-u-nu KUR hi-ri-ha
ki-ma na-ba-si lu as-ru-up
KUR su-gi a-na si-hr-ti-a ak-ud
25 DINGIR.ME-u-nu al-la-su-nu
bu-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu -e-sa-a
nap-har URU.ME-u-nu i-na IZI.ME
-ru-up ap-pl aq-qur
si-te-et um-ma-na-te-u-nu GR.ME-/A
is-ba-tu a-re-em-u-nu-ti
GUN ma-da-ta UGU-u-nu
-kn it-ti da-gil pa-an
a-ur EN-ia am-nu-u-nu-ti
Hirihu, rough terrain which thrust up like pointed

daggers. I brought about their defeat. I built up
mounds with the (corpses of) their men-at-arms
on mountain ledges (and) with (iv 20) their blood
I dyed Mount Hirihu red like wool. I conquered
the entire land of Sugu. I brought out 25 of their
gods, their booty, their possessions, (and) their
property. I burnt, razed, (and) destroyed (iv 25)
all of their cities. The remainder of their troops
submitted to me (and) I had mercy on them. I imposed upon them tribute and impost (and) regarded them as vassals of the god Aur, my lord.
iv 32-39) At that time I donated the 25 gods of

those lands, my own booty which I had taken, to
be door-keepers of the temple of the goddess
Ninlil, beloved chief spouse of the god Assur, my
lord, (the temple of) the gods Anu (and) Adad,
(the temple of) the Assyrian Istar, the temples of
my city, Aur, and the goddesses of my land.
i-na U4-mi-u-ma 25 DINGIR.ME-/ a

KUR.KUR.ME
i-na-ti-na ki-it-ti qa-ti-ia

a al-qa-a a-na -tu->u-ut ^NIN, LL
hi-ir-te GAL-te na-mad-di da-ur EN-ia
a-nim d iKUR ÎNANNA -u-ri-te

.KUR.ME-TF URU-/T a-Ur
DINANNA.ME KUR-t-
lu- -ru-uk
iv 40-42) Tiglath-pileser, strong king, conqueror
of enemy regions, rival of all kings:
Gi. tukul-ti-iBLA--r-ra MAN dan-nu

ka-id kib-rat KR.ME a-ni-nu
gi-mir
D MAN.ME
i-na Ut-mi-u i-na e-mu-qi si-ra-te

a a-ur EN-ia i-na an-ni ke-e-ni
a DUTU qu-ra-di i-na GIlAukul-ti
DINGIR.ME GAL.ME a i-na kib-rat
A4
mi-e-ri ul-tal-li-tu-ma mu-n-ha

i-na MURUB4 a-ni-na i-na M la-a i-u-
iv 20.3, 5, 11, 14 .ME qu-ra-di-su-nu 'the blood of their

warriors', iv 23.1-2, 4 omit al-la-su-nu 'their booty',
iv 25.1-2, 4 omit nap-har 'all', iv 36.1-2, 4, 6, and probably
26 omit this line '(the temple of) the gods Anu ... Istar'. It is
preserved only in exs. 3 and 5. iv 40-42.1-2, 4 omit this
paragraph, iv 47 mu-n-ha: the derivation and reading of
munehha is uncertain. In addition to this reference, it occurs
in the following Assyrian royal inscriptions (written either
mu-n-ha or mu-n-eh-ha): RIMA 1 p. 247 line 14 (correct to
mu-n-ha); p. 266 line 18; RIMA 2 A.0.99.2 line 18; 1 R 31
iv 23; AfO 9 p. 93 iii 27; 1 R 30 iii 29; and several times in
texts of Sargon II (see the dictionaries for references). Note n-hu in A.0.87.1 i 68 which clearly must derive from nyu 'to
turn away' and nu-u[h-h]u in A.0.89.4 ob v. 4 which surely
must come from the same root. In light of these latter two
iv 43 - v 21) At that time, with the exalted might

of the god Aur, my lord, with the firm approval
(through divination) (iv 45) of the god ama, the
warrior, with the support of the great gods with
which I have ruled properly in the four quarters
and have no rival in battle nor equal in conflict,
references, I think that munehhu must also derive from n-u.

This is the view of von Soden, AHw p. 673a (sub munehhu),
and cf. p. 784a (sub nû) and p. 806b (sub nuû). Also note
Seux, ERAS pp. 118-19 and 345. Borger, BAL1 pp. 130-31
and Zeichenliste p. 225 has objected to creating aleph readings
for the H signs (e.g. E3 for eh, >A for ha, etc.) in MA and NA
texts and I agree with him. (Cf. --hi-lu-ma for uaîluma in
i 37.) But a derivation from nhu 'to be appeased, etc.' given
in the CAD is, to my mind, unconvincing. In CAD 10/2 (M)
p. 203 sub munihhu it is stated that the consistent writings
with ii 'suggest that the word derives from nahu and not from
n&u\ in spite of AKA p. 35 i 68 ( = A.0.87.1 i 68) -n-hu
which they (CAD 11/2 [N] p. 200a) derive from n'u. The
CAD (11/2 [N] p. 317) does not know what to do with AfO 6
p. 80:4 ( = A.0.89.4 obv. 4) and calls it 'uncert.'
49) a-na KUR.KUR na-i-ri MAN.MEl-ni n-su-te
d
5 0 ) Sa a-ah A.AB.BA e-le-ni-ti Sa Sa-la-mu Sam-Si
51) S ka-na-Sa la-a i-du-
52) a-ur EN -ma-H-ra-n-ma al-lik
53) tu-ud-di mar-su-ti n-re-be-ti
54) Sup-Su-qa-a-te Sa i-na mah-ra
55) LUGAL ia-um-ma lb-ba-Su-nu la-a -du-
56) ar-hi ed-lu-te du-ur-gi
57) la-a pe-tu-te -e-ti-iq
58) KUR e-la-ma KUR a-ma-da-na KUR el-hi-iS
59) KUR Se-ra-be-li KUR tar-hu-na
60) KUR ter-ka-hu-li KUR ki-is-ra
61) KUR tar-ha-na-be KUR e-lu-la
62) KUR ha-S-ta-ra-e KUR Sa-hi-Sa-ra
63) KUR -be-ra KUR mi-li-ad-ru-ni
64) KUR Su-li-an-zi KUR nu-ba-na-a-Se
65) KUR Se-e-e 16 KUR.ME-ni dan-nu-te
66)
A. DG.GA i-na GI.GIGIR.ME-//
mar-sa
67) i-na aq-ql-lai URUDU.ME lu ah-si

68)
-ru-mi
GI.ME KUR-/
lu ak-ki-is
69) ti-tur-ra-a-te.MES a-na me-ti-iq GI.GIGIR.ME-
ia
70) um-ma-na-te-ia lu -t-ib
71) ID pu-rat-ta lu- e-bir LUGAL
KUR
tum*-me
72) LUGAL KUR tu-nu-be LUGAL KUR tu-a-li
73)
LUGAL KUR
74)
LUGAL KUR
dar-da-ri LUGAL KUR -zu-la

un-za-mu-ni LUGAL KUR an-di-a-bi
75) LUGAL KUR pi-la-dar-ni LUGAL KUR a-dur-gi-ni

76) LUGAL KUR ku-li-bar-zi-ni LUGAL KUR si-ni-
bir-ni
77)
LUGAL KUR
78)
LUGAL KUR
hi-mu-a LUGAL KUR pa-i-te-ri

-i-ra-am LUGAL KUR Su-ru-ri-a
79) LUGAL KUR a-ba-e-ni LUGAL KUR a-da-e-ni

80) LUGAL KUR ki-ri-ni LUGAL KUR al-ba-ia
-gi-na LUGAL KUR na-za-bi-a

a-bar-si--ni LUGAL KUR da-ie-e-ni
23 LUGAL.ME-WW KUR. KUR na-i-ri
81)
LUGAL KUR
82)
LUGAL KUR
83)
PAP
84) i-na q-reb KUR. KUR-Su-nu-ma GI.GIGIR.ME-
Su-nu
85) um-ma-na-te-Su-nu
86)
a-na
e-peS
ul-tk-si-ru-ma
GIS.TUKUL MURUB4 M
87) lu it-bu-ni i-na Su-mur GIS.TUKUL.MES-ia

88) ez-zu-te as-ni-qa-Su-nu-ti
8 9 ) Sa-gal-ti um-ma-na-te-Su-nu DAGAL.MES
90) ki-ma ri-hi-il-ti DIKUR
91) lu S-kun Sal-ma-at qu-ra-di-Su-nu
92) i-na se-ri ba-ma-at KUR-/ i-da-at
93) URU.MEs-Su-nu ki-ma ser-ma-Se
94) lu-me-si 2 Su-Si GI. GIGIR. ME-Su-n u
95) ha-lup(*)-ta i-na q-reb tam-ha-ri
iv 49.3 omits na-i-ri. iv 50.3 omits a a-la-mu dam-i 'in the

west', iv 52.13 EN-r/ji 'my lord*, iv 69.3, 5 omit
GIS.GIGIR. ME-FTF 'my chariots and*, iv 83 PAP 'altogether'
at the command of the god Aur, (my) lord, I

marched to the lands Nairi whose distant kings,
(iv 50) on the shore of the Upper Sea in the west,
had not known submission. I pushed through
rugged paths and perilous passes, the interior of
which (iv 55) no king had previously known,
blocked trails (and) unopened remote regions.
Mounts Elama, Amadnu, E1hi, erabe1i,
Tarhuna, (iv 60) Terkahuli, Kisra, Tarhanabe,
Elula, Hatarae, ahiara, Ubera, Miliadruni,
u1ianzi, Nubanse, (iv 65) and e, 16 mighty
mountains (I rode) my chariot over smooth
terrain and I hacked out the rough terrain with
copper picks. I cut down urumu-trees which grow
in the mountains, (iv 70) (thereby) constructed
good bridges for the passage of my chariots and
army, (and) crossed the Euphrates. The king of
the land Tummu, the king of the land Tunubu,
the king of the land Tualu, the king of the land
Dardaru, the king of the land Uzula, the king of
the land Unzamunu, the king of the land
Andiabu, (iv 75) the king of the land Piladarnu,
the king of the land Adurginu, the king of the
land Kulibarzinu, the king of the land inibirnu,
the king of the land Himua, the king of the land
Paiteru, the king of the land Uiram, the king of
the land ururia, the king of the land Abaenu,
the king of the land Adaenu, (iv 80) the king of
the land Kirinu, the king of the land Albaia, the
king of the land Ugina, the king of the land
Nazabia, the king of the land Abarsiunu, the king
of the land Dainu, altogether 23 kings of the
lands Nairi (iv 85) combined their chariotry and
army in their lands (and) advanced to wage war,
strife, and combat. With the onslaught of my
fierce weapons I approached them (and) destroyed
their extensive army (iv 90) like a storm of the
god Adad. I laid out like grain heaps the corpses
of their warriors in the open country, the plains
of the mountains, and the environs of their cities.
I seized (iv 95) in battle 120 of their chariots with
equipment (and) 60 kings of the lands Nairi, including those who had come to their aid, (iv 100)
I chased at arrowpoint as far as the Upper Sea. 1
conquered their great towns (and) brought out
(v 1) their booty, possessions, (and) property. I
burnt, razed, (and) destroyed their cities (and)
turned them into ruin hills. I brought back (v 5)
extensive herds of horses, mules, (and) donkeys
the livestock of their pastures without
appears only in ex. 3. It is omitted in all other preserved exs.

(1-2, 4-5). iv 86.3 a-na e-pe MURUB4 ta-ha-zi (omits
GIS.TUKUL).
22
96)
97)
98)
99)
100)
101)
Col.
1)
2)
3)
4)
Tiglath-pileser I A,0.87.1
lu-te-me-eh 1 u-i LUGAL.MES-H/
KUR. KUR na-i-ri a-di sa a-na
n-ra-ru-te-u-nu il-li-ku-ni
i-na zi-qit mul-mul-li-ia a-di A.AB.BA
e-le-ni-te lu ar-di-u-nu-ti
ma-ha-zi-u~nu GAL.ME ak-ud
v
al-la-su-nu bu-a-a-u-nu nam-kur-u-nu
-e-sa-a URU.ME-u-nu i-na IZI.ME
-ru-up ap-pl aq-qur
a-na DU6 kar-mi -ter
5)
SU-gl-lat ANE.KUR.RA.ME DAGAL.ME
6)
1)
8)
9)
10)
11 )
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
17)
18)
pa-re-e a-ga-li mar-it

qer-be-te-u-nu a-na la-a ma-n-e
-ter-ra nap-har LUGAL.ME-ni
KUR.KUR na-i-ri bal-tu-su-nu qa-ti
ik-ud a-na LUGAL.ME-A/ a-a-tu-nu
re-e-ma ar-a-u-nu-ti-ma
na-pi-ta-u-nu e-t-ir al-lu-su-nu
ka-mu-su-nu i-na ma-har DUTU EN-ia
ap-tu-ur ma-mi-it DINGIR.ME-F
GAL.ME a-na ar-kt UD.MES a-na ut-uni
sa-a-te a-na R-ut-te -tam-mi-u-nu-ti
DUMU.MES nab-ni-it WGAL-ti-u-nu
a-na li-tu-te as-bat
19)
1 LIM 2 ME ANE.KUR.RA.ME 2 LIM GU4.ME
number. I captured all of the kings of the lands

Nairi alive. I had mercy (v 10) on those kings and
spared their lives. I released them from their
bonds and fetters in the presence of the god
ama, my lord, and made them swear by my
(v 15) great gods an oath of eternal vassaldom. I
took their natural, royal, sons as hostages. I imposed upon them a tribute of 1,200 horses (and)
2,000 cattle. I allowed them to return to their
lands.
20) ma-da-at-ta UGU-u-nu -kn

21) a-na KUR.KUR.ME-5U-/ZW -ma-e-er-u-nu-ti
22)
23)
24)
25)
26)
27)
28)
29)
30)
31)
32)
se-e-ni LUGAL KUR da-ie-e-ni

sa a-na a-ur EN-ia la-a ka-an-su
al-lu-su ka-mu-su a-na URU-ia
d
a-sur ub-la-su re-e-ma
ar-a-u-ma i-tu URU-/A da-ur
da-lil DINGIR.ME GAL.MES
a-na da-la-a-li a-na na-pi-i-ti
-ma~e-er-u KUR. KUR na-i-ri
DAGAL. MES-te a-na pat gim-ri-i-na a-pl
nap-har LVGAL.MES-u-nu
a-na GR.MEs-ia -k-ni
v 22-32) I brought Sni, king of the land Dainu,

who had not been submissive to the god Assur,
my lord, in bonds and fetters to my city Aur. 1
had mercy on him and let him leave my city
Aur alive in order to proclaim the glory of the
great gods. (Thus) I became lord of the vast lands
of Nairi in their entirety. Indeed all their kings I
subdued.
33)
34)
35)
36)
37)
38)
i-na ta-lu-uk gir-ri-ma u-a-tu

a-na URU mi-U-di-a sa KUR ha-ni-gal-bat
ap-su-te la-a ma-gi-ri al-lik
ti-ib UE-ia dan-na e-du-ru-ma
GR.ME-/FF is-ba-tu
a-re-em-su-nu-ti
URU u-a-tu ul ak-ud li-i-t-u-nu
v 33-41) In the course of that campaign I

marched to the rebellious and insubmissive city
Milidia of the land Hanigalbat. Frightened by my
strong belligerent attack they submitted to me and
I had mercy on them. I did not storm that city
(but) I took hostages. I imposed upon them as
iv 97,2 omits KUR. KUR na-i-ri (of the lands Nairi'.

iv 98.2 erroneously omits il-li-ku-ni 'had come',
iv 99.3-4 omit zi-q '(arrow)point'. v 4.1-2, 4, 11, 20 omit
this line '(and) turned them into ruin hills'. It is preserved in
exs. 3 , 5 , and 8. v 5.4 Although ex. 4 is broken, there is
clearly not enough room to restore ANSF.KUR.RA.MES 'horses'.
Scribal error, v 25-26 re-e-ma ar-a-Su-ma 'I had mercy on
him' appears only in ex. 3. It is omitted by all preserved exs.

(1-2, 4, 8). v 29.1-2, 4, 6 have a horizontal line after
umaeru. v 34 'Milidia of the land IJanigalbat': although all
preserved exs. (1-5, 24) have 'the land Hanigalbat' this must
be an error for 'the great land Hatti* (see A.0.87.4 line 31). See
Goetze, MAOG 4 (1928-29) pp. 64-65; Weidner, Ugaritica 6
p. 530; and Hawkins, RLA 4 p. 153 sub Hatti 3.1.
as-bat 1 ANSE kur-ba-ni Sa a-ba-ri
ma-da-at-ta MU-Sm-ma
a-na la Su-pr-ke-e UGU-u-nu -kn
uninterrupted annual tribute one homer of lead

ore.
Gi. tukul-ti-i&TLK--r-ra nab-lu ha-am-tu

u-zu-zu a-bu-ub tam-ha-ri
v 42-43) Tiglath-pileser,
flame, deluge in battle:
i-na GI Jukul-ti a-Sur EN-ia GI.GIGIR.ME

qu-ra-di-la.UB lu- al-qe mu-ud-ba-ra
as-bat a-na ah-la-m-i
v 44-63) With the support of the god Aur, my

lord, I took my chariots and warriors (and) set off
for the desert. I marched against the ahlamAramaeans, enemies of the god Aur, my lord,
(v 50) I plundered from the edge of the land Suhu
to the city Carchemish of the land Hatti in a single day. I massacred them (and) carried back their
booty, possessions, and goods without number.
The rest of their troops, (v 55) who fled from the
weapons of the god Assur, my lord, crossed the
Euphrates. I crossed the Euphrates after them on
rafts (made of inflated) goatskins, (v 60) I conquered six of their cities at the foot of Mount
Beri, burnt, razed, (and) destroyed (them, and)
brought their booty, possessions, and goods to
my city Aur.
KUR ar-ma-ia.UES KR.ME-W/ a-ur EN-ia
lu- al-lik i-tu tar-si KUR su-hi

a-di URU kar-ga-mi sa KUR ha-at-te
i-na 1 -en u*-me ah-bu-ut
di-ik-ta-u-nu a-duk al-la-su-nu
bu-Sa-a-Su-nu mar-i-su-nu
a-na la-a mi-na -ter-ra
si-te-et um-ma-na-te-u-nu
a i-na pa-an GIS.TUKUL.MES sa a-ur ENAa
ppr-i-du D pu-rat-ta lu e-be-ru
ar-ki-Su-nu
i-na GI.M.ME KU.DUH.I.A
D pu-rat-ta lu e-be-er
6 VR\J.UE-su~nu sa GR KUR b-e-ri
ak-ud i-na IZI.ME -ru-up
ap-ptl aq-qur al-la-su-nu bu-Sa-Su-nu
mar-Si-su-nu a-na URU-/A a~ur
ub-la
darting
(and)
furious
GJukul'ti-WLA--r-ra ka-bi-is al-tu-te

mu-em-qt la ma-gi-ri mu-ar-bi-bu
ka-li mul-tar-hi
v 64-66) Tiglath-pileser, who treads upon dangerous people, who lays low the insubmissive,
pacifier of all the rebellious:
a-na ka-ad KUR mu-us-ri a-ur EN

-ma-H-ra-ni-ma bir-ti KUR e-la-mu-ni
KUR ta-la KUR ha-ru-sa lu as-bat
KUR mu-us-ri a-na si-hir-ti-Sa ak-ud
qu-ra-di-u-nu -em-qit
URU.ME-Su-nu i-na IZI.ME -ru-up ap-pl
aq-qur um-ma-na-at KUR qu-ma-n-e
a-na re-su-ut KUR mu-us-ri
lu il-li-ku-ni i-na KUR-E it-te-u-nu
lu am-da-hi-is a-bi-ik-ta-u-nu lu -kun
a-na 1 -en URU URU a-ri-ni sa GR KUR a-i-sa
lu- e-si-ir-Su-nu-ti GR. MES-ia
is-ba-tu URU Su-a-tu e-ti-ir
li-i-t.ME GUN ma-da-at-ta
UGU-u-nu -k(n
v 67-81) The god Assur, the lord, commanded me

to conquer the land Musri and I took the way
between Mounts Elamuni, Tala, and Harusa.
(v 70) I conquered all the land Musri (and) laid
low their warriors. I burnt, razed, (and) destroyed
their cities. The troops of the Qumnu (v 75)
came to the aid of the land Musri. I fought with
them in the mountains, (and) brought about their
defeat. I confined them to one city, the city Arinu
which is at the foot of Mount Aisa. They submitted to me (and) I spared that city. I imposed upon
them hostages, tribute, (and) impost.
v 45-46.1 omits mu-ud-ba-ra as-bat '(and) set off for the

desert'. It appears in all other preserved exs. (2-5).
v 46 ahlam is a word meaning 'nomad, barbarian' in
Assyrian royal inscriptions of the twelfth to ninth centuries
BC. Originally, of course, it was a gentilic but this is
obviously not the case in our inscriptions where gentilics are
always preceded by KUR and generally followed by MES.

Neither KUR nor MES appears with ahlam in texts of this
volume with the following exceptions: A.0.87.4 line 34 (KUR)
and A.0.99.2 line 33 (KUR). Cf. Brinkman, PKB p. 277
n. 1799. v 55.3, 5 (GIS.TUKUL.MES) ez-zu-te 'fierce weapons',
v 74.3 na-ra-ru-ut for re-su-ut. v 77.4 a-ri-in-ni.
24
i-na UA-mi-u-ma kl-lat KUR qu-ma-n-e
sa a-na re-su-ut KUR mu-us-ri i-a-ak-nu
nap-har KUR.KUR.MES-^W-A/W lu id-ku--ni
a-na e-pe GIS.TUKUL.MES qab-li M
lu iz-z't-zu-ni i-na su-mur GIS.TUKUL.ME-/A
ez-zu-te it-ti 20 LIM um-ma-na-te-u-nu
DAGAL. MES i-na KUR ta-la lu am-da-hi-is-ma
a-bi-ik-a-u-nu lu -kun
ki-sir-u-nu gap-a lu-pe-r-ir
a-di KUR ha-ru-sa sa pa-an KUR mu-us-ri
ab-ku-su-nu lu ar-du-ud sal-ma-at
qu-ra-di-u-nu i-na gi-sal-lat KUR-/
ki-ma u--be us-na-il
.ME-u-nu hur-ri ba-ma-a-te sa KUR-/
lu-sr-di ma-ha-zi-su-nu GAL. MES
ak-ud i-na IZI.ME -ru-up
ap-pl aq-qur a-na DU kar-me -er
v 82-98) At that time all the Qumnu, who had

agreed to assist the land Musri, mustered their entire territories and took up a position (v 85) to do
battle and conflict. With the onslaught of my
fierce weapons I fought with their 20,000 extensive troops at Mount Tala (and) brought about
their defeat, (v 90) I broke up their mighty force
(and) pursued them in their retreat as far as
Mount Harusa which is before the land Musri. I
spread out the corpses of their warriors on mountain ledges like sheep (and) made (v 95) their
blood flow into the hollows and plains of the
mountains. I conquered their great towns, burnt,
razed, (and) destroyed (them) and turned (them)
into ruin hills.
99) URU hu-nu-sa URU dan-nu-ti-u-nu

100) ki-ma DU6 a-bu-be -hu-up
Col. vi
1) it-ti um-ma-na-te-u-nu gap-sa-a-te
2) i-na URU KUR-? am-ri lu- am-da-hi-is
3) a-bi-ik-ta-u-nu lu -kun
4) RIN.ME muq-tab-li-u-nu i-na q-reb hura-a-ni
5) ki-ma u--be lu u-na-il SAG. DU. MEs-u-nu
6) ki-ma ze-er-qe -n-ki-is
7) .ME-su-nu hur-ri ba-ma-a-te KUR-/
8) lu-r-di URU u-a-tu ak-ud
9) DiNGiR.ME-5M-rtw -a-a al-la-su-nu bu-au-nu nam-kur-u-nu
10) -e-sa-a URU i-na IZI.ME -ru-up
11) 3 BD.ME-sw a i-na a-gr-ri
12) ra-s-bu si-hir-ti URU-u
13) ap-pl aq-qur a-na DU6 kar-me
14) -ter NA4.ME si-pa i-na muh-hi-u
v 99 - vi 21) I overwhelmed the city Hunusu,

their fortified city, (so that it looked) like a ruin
hill (created by) the deluge. Violently I fought
(vi 1) with their mighty army in city and mountain (and) brought about their defeat, (vi 5) I laid
low their men-at-arms in the mountains like
sheep. Like lambs I cut off their heads (and) made
their blood flow into the hollows and plains of the
mountains. (Thus) I conquered that city. I took
their gods (and) (vi 10) brought out their booty,
possessions, (and) property. I burnt the city. The
three walls which were constructed with baked
brick and the entire city I razed, destroyed,
turned into a ruin hill and (vi 15) strewed spustones over it. I made bronze lightning bolts (and)
inscribed on them (a description of) the conquest
of the lands which with the god Aur, my lord, I
conquered (and a warning) not to occupy that city
and not to rebuild its wall. On that (site) I built a
house of baked brick and put inside those bronze
lightning bolts.
82)
83)
84)
85)
86)
87)
88)
89)
90)
91)
92)
93)
94)
95)
96)
97)
98)
15) az-ru NIM.GR ZABAR e-pu-u
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
ki-it-ti KUR.KUR.ME sa i-na a-ur EN-ia

ak-u-du URU u-a-tu a-na la-a sa-ba-te
BD-u la-a ra-sa-pi i-na muh-hi
al-tu-ur a a-gr-ri i-na muh-hi-u
ar-sip NIM.GR ZABAR a-tu-nu
i-na lb-bi -e-i-ib
22) i-na GI. tukul-ti a-ur EN-ia GIS.GIGIR.MES
23) qu-ra-di-ia. MES lu al-qe URU kip-u-na

24) URU LUGAL-ti-u-nu lu al-mi LUGAL KUR qu-
v 82 i-na u^-mi-u-ma 'At that time' appears only in ex. 3. It

is omitted in exs. 1-2 and C 2 and, although exs. 4-5 are
broken, for reasons of space it was probably omitted in those
exs. as well, v 90 Although ex. 6 is broken at this point, the
limited space suggests it omitted the entire line: 'I broke up
their mighty force', v 94 bu 'sheep': see the note to ii 20.
vi 22-38) With the support of the god Assur, my

lord, I took my chariotry and warriors (and) surrounded the city Kipsuna, their royal city. The
v 94.3 lu -m-si for u-na-it, vi 5 bu 'sheep': see the note

to ii 20. vi 9.3, 5, 39 omit aNa-su-nu 'their booty1.
vi 11.3, 5 3 BD.MEs-u-nu GAL.MES 'their three great walls',
vi 16.3 ^DINGIRT-/V/ 'my god' for da-ur 'the god Aur'.
vi 24.2-5 omit KUR 'land of (the Qumnu)'.
ma-n-e
25) ti-ib MB-ia dan-na e-du-ur-ma
26) GR.ME-/A is-bat URU u-a-tu e-ti-ir
27)
BD-U GAT-a
28)
29)
30)
31)
32)
33)
34)
35)
36)
37)
38)
sa a-gr-ri a-na na-pa-li aq-ba-u-ma

i-tu u-e-u a-di gaba-dih-bi-u
ip-pl a-na DU6 -ter
5 u-i qi-in-na-a-te EN.ME hi-i-t
a b-bi-u a a-na a-ur EN-ia la-a ka-an-u
is-su-ha am-hur-u I--LME-U
as-bat GUN ma-da-ta
UGU a pa-na ut-ter i-na muh-hi-u
-kun KUR qu-ma-n-e DAGAWT
a-na pat gim-ri-a ak-ud a-na GR.MES-/
u-k-ni
a-sa-ia-te-u
39)
U.NGIN 42 KUR.KUR.ME
40)
41 )
42)
43)
44)
45)
46)
47)
48)
i-tu e-ber-ta-an D za-ban u-pa-li-i

i-id-di hur-a-a-ni n-su-te
a-di e-ber-ta-an D pu-rat-te
KUR ha-at-te-e A.AB.BA e-le-ni-ti
a a-la-mu am-e i-tu ri-i LUGAL-ti-ia
a-di 5 BALA-/a qa-a-ti ik-ud
pa-a 1 -en -e-e-kin-u-nu-t
li-tMES-u-nu as-bat GUN
ma-da-ta VGV-u-nu -kn
mal-ki-i-na
king of the land of the Qumnu (vi 25) was

frightened of my strong and belligerent attack and
submitted to me. I spared that city. I ordered him
to destroy his great wall and towers of baked
brick, (vi 30) He destroyed from top to bottom
and turned it into a ruin hill. He deported (and) I
received from him 300 families, rebels in his midst
who were not submissive to the god Assur, my
lord. I took hostages from him. I imposed upon
him a tribute and impost (vi 35) which was larger
than before. I conquered completely the extensive
Qumnu (and) subdued (them).
vi 39-48) Altogether I conquered 42 lands and

their rulers from the other side of the Lower Zab
in distant mountainous regions to the other side
of the Euphrates, people of Hatti, and the Upper
Sea in the west from my accession year to my
fifth regnal year. I subdued them to one authority, took hostages from them, (and) imposed
upon them tribute and impost.
49) e-zi-ib har-ra-na-at KR.ME ma-da-a-tu

50) sa a-na li-ta-te-ia la-a qe-er-ba
5 1 ) A. DG.GA i-na G i . G i G i R . M E - / a mar-sa
52) -na GR. MES-/T ar-ki-u-nu
53) lu at-tal-lak GR.ME KR.ME
54) i-na KUR-ti-ia lu- ap-ru-us
vi 49-54) (This) is apart from the numerous

foreign campaigns which do not appear in the (account of) my victories (and) upon which I pursued my enemies by chariot in favourable terrain
and on foot in rough terrain. I prevented the
enemies from setting foot in my land.
55) m G i . tukul-ti-WLA--r-ra et-lu qar-du

56) ta-me-eh GI.BAN la-a -na-an
57) mu-gam-me-ru bu-û-ur se-ri
vi 55-57) Tiglath-pileser, valiant man, armed with

the unrivalled bow, expert in the hunt:
58)
59)
60)
61)
62)
63)
64)
65)
66)
67)
ez-zu-te GI.BAN-su-nu sir-ta

a-na i-di EN -ti-ia i-ru-ku
i-na si-qir nin-urta ra-'i-m-ia
4 pu-hal AM.ME dan-nu-te u-tu-ru-te
i-na hu-rib-te i-na KUR mi-ta-ni
i-na URU a-ra-zi-qi a pa-an
KUR ha-at-te i-na GI.BAN-/ dan-na-te
u-ku-ud AN.BAR mul-mul h ia
zaq-tu-te na-pi-ta-u-nu u seq ti
nin-urta
DIGI.DU GT.TUKUL.ME-W-^?W
vi 26.3, 5 na-pi-ta-u 'his life* for URU u-a-tu 'that city',

vi 32.24 omits b-bi-u sa 'in his midst', vi 37.3, 5 for pat
gim-ri-a ak-ud have si-hr-ti-a '(I) entirely (subdued the
extensive Qumnu at my feet).' vi 40.3, 5, 35 za-be for zaban. vi 46.1-2, 4-5, 35 omit this line 'I subdued them to one
authority'. It is preserved only in ex. 3. All other exs. are
vi 58-69) The gods Ninurta and Nergal gave me

their fierce weapons and their exalted bow for my
lordly arms. By the command of the god Ninurta,
who loves me, with my strong bow, iron arrowheads, and sharp arrows, 1 slew four extraordinarily strong wild virile bulls in the desert, in the
land Mittani, and at the city Araziqu which is before the land Hatti. I brought their hides and
horns to my city Assur.
broken here, vi 57 bu->u-ur: all preserved exs. (1-2, 4, 22)

clearly have bu- as one expects. King had only ex. 4 for this
sign which he read as a broken MU. However, collation shows
that the traces in ex. 4 can be read rbu^-. vi 63.2-4, 22 mita-a-ni.
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KU.ME-SM-RTW SI.ME-5W-/W
URU-/T a-ur ub-la
a-na
10 AM. si. MES pu-ha-li dan-nu-ti

i-na KUR.KASKAL-ni i-di D ha-bur
lu a-duk 4 AM.SI.ME bal-tu-te
iu-sa-bi-ta
KUS.MES-SW-KW
Z. ME-U-nU t-t AM.SI.MES-/72ff

bal-tu-te a-na URU-ia da-ur ub-la
i-na si-qir dnin-urta ra-î-mi-ia
2 u-i UR.MAH.ME i-na lb-bi-ia ek-di
i-na qit-ru-ub mi-it-lu-ti-ia
i-na GR.MES-/V7 lu a-duk
8 ME UR.MAH.ME i-na
GI.GIGIR-/0
i-na pat-tu-te -em-q

bu-ul kkan gi-mir-ta MUEN AN-E
mut-tap-ri-sa e-em ni-sik GI.MES-/O
lu- at-ta-di
85) i-tu KR.ME-ut a-ur pat gim-ri-u-nu
86) a-pe-lu ÎNANNA -u-ri-te
87)
NIN-/ DMAR.TU DEN.LIBIR.RA
88)
D 1 0 - t e ,HI.A.MES DINGIR.ME-A7/
89)
90)
91)
92)
93)
an-hu-te sa URU-/A da-ur e-pu-u

-k-lil te-ru-bat .HI.A.ME-,SW-/W
-kun DIN GIR. MES GAL. MES EN.ME-FF
a-na lb-bi -e-rib
lb-bi uiNGiR-ti-u-nu -t-ib
94) .GAL.ME-/6 U-bat LUGAL-H

95) a ma-ha-za-ni GAL.ME-/^
96) a i-di KUR-ti-ia gab-be a i-tu

97)
tar-si AD.ME-/? i-na MU.MES-^
98) dan-na-te um-da-i-ra-ma e-na-ha-ma

99) P-ab-ta DV-U -k-lil
100) BD.ME KUR-//-?
an-u-te
101) ak-e-er GI.APIN.ME i-na nap-har KUR da-ur

102) gab-be -r-ki-is ta-ab-ka
103) a E.IM.ME a-na a
AD.UE-ia
104) lu -ter lu at-bu-uk

105) su-gul-lat ANE.KUR.RA.ME GU4.ME ANE.ME
Col. vii
1) sa i-na GIs.tukul-ti da-ur EN-ia
2) i-na KUR. KUR. MES sa a-pe-lu-i-na-ti
3) ki-it-ti qa-ti-ia
4) al-qa-a ak-sur su-gul-lat
5) na-a-li. MES DRA.MA.ME ar-mi.MES
6) tu-ra-hi. MES a da-ur DMA
7)
DINGIR.ME GA.ME-/FF e-pe bU-Û-T
8)
9)
i-qi-u-ni i-na q-reb hur--ni

a-qu-ti -tam-me-hu
vi 93.3, 5 insert GAL-te after DINGIR-//'-SW-/W '(their) great

(divinity)*, vi 96.3 omits gab-be '(my) entire (land)'.
vi 70-75) I killed ten strong bull elephants in the

land Harrn and the region of the River Habur
(and) four live elephants I captured. I brought the
hides and tusks (of the dead elephants) with the
live elephants to my city Assur.
vi 76-84) By the command of the god Ninurta,

who loves me, 1 killed on foot 120 lions with my
wildly outstanding assault. In addition, 800 lions I
felled from my light chariot. I have brought down
every kind of wild beast and winged bird of the
heavens whenever I have shot an arrow.
vi 85 - vii 16) After I had gained complete dominion over the enemies of the god Aur, I rebuilt
(and) (vi 90) completed the dilapidated (portions
of) the temple of the Assyrian Itar, my mistress,
the temple of the god Amurru, the temple of the
god Bel-labira, the temple of the Ten Gods, the
temples of the gods of my city Aur. I put in
place the entrances to their temples (and) brought
the great gods, my lords, inside. (Thus) did I
please their divinity. I rebuilt (and) completed the
palaces, the royal residences (vi 95) of the great
towns in the (various) districts of my entire land
which since the time of my forefathers during
hard years had been abandoned and had fallen
into ruin and decay. I repaired (vi 100) the weakened fortifications of my land. I caused plows to
be hitched up all over Assyria and (thereby) piled
up more grain than my forefathers. I formed
(vi 105) herds of horses, oxen, (and) asses from
the booty I took when I gained dominion over
lands (vii 1) with the support of the god Aur,
my lord. In addition I got control of (and)
formed herds of (vii 5) nailu-ztx,
aialu-eer,
gazelles, (and) ibex which the gods Aur and
Ninurta, the gods who love me, had given me in
the course of the hunt in high mountain ranges. I
(vii 11) numbered them like flocks of sheep. I
sacrificed yearly to the god Assur, my lord, the
young born to them as voluntary offerings together with my pure sacrifices.
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
su-gulda-te-u-nu ak-sur
mi-nu-su-nu ki-ma sa mar-sit
se-ni.ME-ma lu- am-nu
pu-ha-di e-lu. MES nab-ni-it
lb-bi-u-nu a na bi-ib-lat b-bi-ia
15)
it-ti SISKUR.MES-ia KU.MES
16) MU-m-ma a-na a-ur EN-/*? lu ai-ta-qi

17) GI e-re-na GIS tas-ka-ri-na
18) GIS al-la-ka-ni-i i-na KUR.KUR.MES
19) a a-pe-lu-i-na-ti
GI.ME
20) a-tu-nu sa i-na LUGAL.MEs-ni

21 ) AD. ME-/T mah-ru-te ma-am-ma
22) la z-qu-pu al-qa-am-ma
23)
i-na GI.KIRI6.ME KUR-ti-ia
24)
az-qu-up
vii 17-27) I took cedar, box-tree, Kanish oak

from the lands over which I had gained dominion
such trees which none among previous kings,
my forefathers, had ever planted and I planted
(them) in the orchards of my land. I took rare orchard fruit which is not found in my land (and
therewith) filled the orchards of Assyria.
GURUN GI.KIRI6
25) aq-ra a i-na KVR-tl-ia la--u

26) al-qa-a GI.KIRI6.ME KUR da-ur
27) lu- u-me-li
28)
29)
30)
31)
GI. GIGIR. ME si-im-da-at ni-ri

a-na e-muq KUR-ti-ia UGU a pa-na
lu -ter lu -r-ki-is
UGU KUR a-ur ma-a-ia
32)
33)
UGU UN.MES-.YA UN. MES lu-rad-di

UZU.ME UN.ME-/A -t-ib
vii 28-35) I had in harness for the forces of my

land more chariots and teams of horses than ever
before. To Assyria I added land and to its people
I added people. I brought contentment to my people (and) provided them with a secure abode.
34) ub-ta n-eh-ta

35) -e-i-ib-u-nu-ti
36)
37)
38)
39)
40)
41 )
Gi.tukut-ti-mii,A--dr-ra NUN si-ru

a a-ur nin-urta a-na bi-ib-lat
lb-bi-u it-tar-ru-u-ma
ar-ki KR.ME-M a-ur
pat gim-ri-u-nu it-tal-la-ku-ma
-k-ni-u gi-mir mul-tar-hi
42) A d a-u r- s AG- i-i LUGAL dan-ni ka-id

43) KUR. KUR KTJR. MES mu-k-ni-u
44) gi-mir al-tu-ti
vii 36-41) Tiglath-pileser, exalted prince, the one

whom the gods Aur and Ninurta have continually guided wherever he wished (to go) and who
pursued each and every one of the enemies of the
god Assur and laid low all the rebellious;
vii 42-44) Son of Aur-ra-ii (i), strong king,

conqueror of enemy lands, subduer of all fierce
(enemies);
45)
46)
47)
48)
A A a mmu-tk-kil-nusku a a-ur EN GAL

i-na -tu-ut ku-un lb-bi-u
ih-u-hu-u-ma a-na SIPA-ut
KUR a-ur ki-ni-i ib-bu-u
vii 45-48) Grandson of Mutakkil-Nusku, whom

the god Aur, the great lord, chose through the
selection of his steadfast heart and firmly appointed to the shepherdship of Assyria;
49)
50)
51)
52)
IBILA ke-e-nu a ma-ur-da-a-an

na- GI.GIDRU Kt-te mul-ta-pi-ru
te-n-et en-ll a ep-et qa-ti-u
na-dan zi-bi-u
53)
UGU DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
vii 49-54) Legitimate heir of Aur-dn (i), bearer

of the holy sceptre, commander of the subjects of
the god Enlil, the one whose deeds and offerings
are pleasing to the great gods, and who lived to a
ripe old age;
-t-bu-ma
vii 16.1, 4, 8, 35 omit mi-m-ma 'yearly'. It appears in exs. 3

and 5 (all other exs. broken), vii 17-27.3, 5, 8 omit this
paragraph, vii 24b-26a.35 does not omit this passage.
Schroeder mistakenly omitted these lines in his copy,

vii 41.2-4 -m-qi-tu for -k-ni-u.
28
54) e-bu-ta la-be-ru-ta il-li-ku

55)
56)
57)
58)
59)
lb-lb-bi sa mdnin-urta-iBiLA--kur
LUGAL da-pi-ni na-mad da-sur
sa nu-ba-lu-su ki-ma -ri-ni
UGU KUR-ti-u u-pr-ru-ru-ma
um-ma-na-at KUR a-ur ki-ni-i ir-te-e -
60) i-na UA-mi-u-ma da-nim

61)
iKUR
DINGIR. ME G AL. MES EN.ME-/0
62) sa i-na pa-na
am-i~diKVR NSI da-sur
63)
DUMU i-me-dda-gan
64)
e-pu-su
NSI da-sur-m
6 ME 4 1 MU.ME
65) il-lik e-na-ah

66) mda-ur-da-a-an LUGAL KUR a-ur
67)
DUMU D MA-IBILA--kur LUGAL KUR
a-ur-ma
68) a-a-tu ip-pu-ul ul e-pu-us

69) 1 u-i MU. MES-TE u-u-u
70) ul i-na-du-
71) i-na sur-ru LUGAL-ti-ia da-nu
D
72)
73)
74)
75)
76)
77)
78)
79)
80)
81)
82)
GA-mu SANGA-ti-ia
e-pa- at-ma-ni-u-nu
iq-bu-ni SIG4.ME al-bi-in
qaq-qar-u -me-si
dan-na-su ak-ud u-e-e-u
i-na UGU ki-sir KUR-/ dan-ni ad-di
-ra a-a-tu a-na si-hir-ti-u
i-na SIG4.ME ki-ma ka-nu-ni -pu-uk
50 ti-ib-ki a-na u-pa-li
-t-bi i-na muh-hi-u
83)
u-e
IKUR DINGIR. MES GAL.ME EN.ME-/?
da-nim
DIKUR DINGIR.ME GAL.MES
EN.ME-/A
84) a pu-li ad-di

85) i-tu u-e-u a-di gaba-dib-bi-u
86) e-pu-u UGU mah-re-e ut-ter
87) 2 si-qur-ra-a-te GAL. ME-te
88) sa a-na si-mat DINGIR-ti-u-nu GAL-te
89) u-lu-ka lu ab-ni
90) K at-ma-na qu-u-da
91) u-bat hi-da-te-u-nu
92) mu-ab ta-i-il-ti-u-nu
93) a ki-ma MUL AN-E u-pu-
94) i-na i-pr L.iTiM-rti/-r/
95) ma-a>-di nu-su-qu
96) ak-pu-ud a-na-ah nt-u
97) -k-lil q-reb-u
98) ki-ma lb-bi AN-e -be-en-ni
99) i-ga-ra-te-u ki-ma a-ru-ur
100) si-it MUL.ME -si-im
vii 62-64 Cf. RIMA 1 pp. 80-81 A.0.59.1001. vii 83.3 omits
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES EN.ME-7T 'the great gods, my lords'.
vii 55-59) Offspring of Ninurta-apil-ekur, martial

sovereign, loved one of the god Aur, whose
wings were spread like an eagle's over his land
and who faithfully tended the people of Assyria:
vii 60-70) At that time the temple of the gods

Anu and Adad, the great gods, my lords, which
am-Adad (m), vice-regent of Aur, son of
Ime-Dagan (n) (who was) also vice-regent of the
god Assur, had previously built, (after) 641 years
had passed it had become dilapidated and Aurdn (i), king of Assyria, son of Ninurta-apil-Ekur
(who was) also king of Assyria, tore down this
temple but did not rebuild (it) and for 60 years its
foundation had not been relaid.
vii 71-114) In my accession year the gods Anu

and Adad, the great gods, my lords, who love my
priesthood, (vii 75) commanded me to rebuild
their shrine. I made bricks. I delineated this area,
dug down to the bottom of its foundation pit,
(and) laid its foundation upon bedrock, (vii 80) I
piled up this entire area with bricks like an oven,
making it 50 layers of brick deep. I laid thereon
the limestone foundation of the temple of the
gods Anu and Adad, the great gods, my lords,
(vii 85) I rebuilt it from top to bottom and made
it bigger than before. I constructed two large
ziqqurrats which were appropriate for their great
divinity. I planned (and) laboriously rebuilt (and)
completed (vii 90) the pure temple, the holy
shrine, their joyful abode, their happy dwelling
which stands out like the stars of heaven and
which represents the choicest skills of the building
trade. Its interior I decorated like the interior of
heaven, (vii 100) I decorated its walls as splendidly as the brilliance of rising stars. I raised its
towers and its ziqqurrats to the sky and made fast
its parapets with baked brick. I installed inside
(vii 105) a conduit (suitable for the conduct) of
the rites of their great divinity. I brought the gods
Anu and Adad, the great gods, my lords, (vii 110)
inside (and) set them on their exalted thrones.
(Thus) did I please their great divinity.
101) -r-rih na-me-re-e-u
102) si-qur-ra-te-u a-na AN-e
103) u-e-qi-ma gaba-dib-b-u
104) i-na a-gr-ri -re-ki-is
105) e-lal-la-a
106) pa-ra-as T>mGiR-ti-u-nu
107) GAL-ti i-na q-reb-u
108) ad-di
109) da-na
DIKUR DINGIR.ME GAL.MES EN.MES-O
110) a-na lb-bi -e-ri-ib

111) i-na ub-ti-u-nu sr-ti
112) -e-i-ib-u-nu-ti
113) lb-bi DINGIR-ti-u-nu GAL-
114) -(i-ib
C o l . viii
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
ha-am-ri a DIKUR EN-ia

a mam-i-diKUR NSI a-ur
DUMU i-me-dda-gan NSI da-ur-ma
e-pu-u e-na-ah-ma P-a-bit
a-ar-u -me-si i-tu u-e-u
a-di gaba-dib-bi-u i-na a-gr-ri
ar-si-ip UGU mah-re-e
-si-im -r-id
9)
10)
i-na lb-bi-u siSKUR.ME-te K.ME-re

a-na DIKUR EN-/T lu at-ta-qi
i-na U4-mi-u-ma NA4.Z NA4 hal-ta

NA 4 .KA.GI.NA i-na
KUR.ME-ni
sa KUR.KUR na-i-ri a i-na GIUukul-ti da-ur

EN-ia
ak u-du lu- -a-a
i-na ha-am-ri a IKUR EN-ia
a-na sa-at u*-me -kn
ki-ma a-na-ku K at-ma-na si-i-ra
a-na mu-ab a-nim diKUR DINGIR.MES
GAL.ME
EN.ME-/ff ak-pu-du-ma la a-pr-ku-

a-na e-pe-i a-hi la-a ad-du-
ha-an-ti -k-li-lu-ma
b-b DINGIR-t-U-nU GAL-t
-t-bu da-nu diKUR
ki-ni-i li-sah-ru-ni-ma
ni-i qa-ti-ia li-ra-mu
te-me-eq ik-ri-be-ia li-me-
zu-ni ta-ah-du-te a-na-at
nu-uh-e ma-re-e a-na BALA.MES-/7
li-ru-ku i-na MURUB4 ME
al-mi lit-tar-ru--ni
vii 105-1083 omits i installed

divinity.' vii 109,3, 6 omit
EN.ME-z 'my lords', viii 1.3 omits EN-/C 'my lord'.
viii 13.3, 5 omit GIsJukul-ti 'the support o f . viii 16.3, 5 -
viii 1-10) The hamru-temple of the god Adad, my

lord which am-Adad (m), vice-regent of
Assur, son of Isme-Dagan (n) (who was) also
vice-regent of the god Assur, had built was dilapidated and in ruins. I delineated its site (and)
rebuilt it from top to bottom with baked brick. I
adorned it and made it stronger than before. Inside I offered pure sacrifices to the god Adad, my
lord.
viii 11-16) At that time I transported obsidian,

haltu-stone, and haematite from the mountains of
the lands Nairi, which I conquered with the support of the god Aur, my lord. 1 deposited
(them) in the hamru-temple of the god Adad, my
lord, forever.
viii 17-38) Because I made plans without ceasing

and (viii 20) was not slack in the work (but)
quickly completed the pure temple, the exalted
shrine, for the abode of the gods Anu and Adad,
the great gods, my lords, and (thereby) pleased
their great divinity: may the gods Anu and Adad
faithfully have mercy upon me, (viii 25) may they
love my prayers, may they heed my fervent petitions, may they grant abundant rain and extraordinarily rich years during my reign; (viii 30) may
they lead me about safely in battle and strife; may
they subdue under me all enemy lands, rebellious
mountain regions, and rulers hostile to me;
(viii 35) may they pronounce a favourable blessing
over me and my priestly progeny; and may they
ku-urt for -kin. viii 29-33.2, 4 omit 'may they lead ... hostile
to me'.
30
nap-har
KUR.KUR KR.MES-/T KUR.MES
ap-su-te mal-ki.MES za-e-ri-ia

a-na
GR.ME-/T
a-na
ia-a-i
lu-k-ni-u
firmly place my priesthood in the presence of the

god Aur and their great divinity forever like a
mountain.
NUMUN SANGA-//-/T
k-rb-ta ta-ab-ta lk-ru-bu-ni-ma

SANGA-// i-na ma-har a-ur DINGIR-ti-u-nu
GAL-/ a-na
ah-rat
UD.ME
ki-ma KUR-/ ki-ni lu-r--du

li-ta-at qur-di-ia ir-nin-tu
am-har-ri-ia uk-nu-u KR.ME
za-e-ru-ut a-ur a a-nu DIKUR
a-na i-rk-ti i-ru-ku--ni
i-na NA4 . NA. R. A. ME-Z7 tem-me-ni-ia
al-tu-ur i-na e a-nim d iKUR
DINGIR.ME GAL.ME EN.ME-/FF
a-na sa-at UD.ME -kun

m
am-i-IKUR
NA4.NA.R.A.ME a
a-bi-ia
.ME ap-u-u
UDU.SISKUR
viii 39-49) 1 wrote on my monumental and clay

inscriptions my heroic victories, my successful
battles, (and) the suppression of the enemies (and)
foes of the god Aur which the gods Anu and
Adad granted me. I deposited (them) in the temple of the gods Anu and Adad, (viii 45) the great
gods, my lords, forever. In addition, the monumental inscriptions of am-Adad (III) my forefather I anointed with oil, made sacrifices, (and)
returned them to their places.
aq-qi a-na -ri-u-nu -ter

a-na ar-kt UD.ME a-na u4-um sa-a-te
a-na
ma-te-ma
e-nu-ma
NUN EGIR-W
a-mm d iKUR
GAL.ME EN.ME-K7
DINGIR.ME
si-qur-ra-a-tu
a-i-na -al-ba-ru-ma
e-na-hu an-hu-su-nu lu-ud-di
NA 4 .NA.R.A.ME-/<7
tem-me-ni.ME-ia
.ME lip-u-u UDU.SISKUR l-q-qi

a-na -ri-u-nu u--ter
MU-5M it-ti mu-ia lil-tu-ur
ki-ma ia-a-ti-ma a-nu DIKUR
viii 50-62) In the future, in days to come, may a

later prince, when the temple of the gods Anu
and Adad, the great gods, my lords, and those
ziqqurrats become old and (viii 55) dilapidated,
restore their weakened (portions). May he anoint
with oil my monumental and clay inscriptions,
make sacrifices, (and) return (them) to their
places. His name let him write with mine. (Then)
like me may the gods Anu and Adad, the great
gods, my lords, guide him well in joy and success.
DINGIR.ME GAL.ME EN.ME-/7 HFL DG.GA
nb-bi
ka-ad ir-nin-te DG.GA-/ Ut-tar-ru-u
a NA 4 . NA . R . A . ME - i tem-me-ni.
i-hap-pu- i-sa-pa-riu
a-na
A.ME
i-na IZI.ME
i-na
ME-/a
i-na-du-
i-ql-lu-
SAHAR.ME i-ka-ta-mu
i-na AZAG
a-ar la-ma-ri pi-i-ri i-na-ki~mu

MU at-ra i-pa-i-tu-ma
MU-5w i-a-ta-ru mi-im-ma
lem-na i-ha-sa-sa-ma
a-napa-an NA 4 .NA.R.A.ME-/A
-ap-ra-ku
viii 31.1 omits nap-har 'all (enemy lands)', viii 37.4 omits
GAL-// '(their) great (divinity)', viii 46.4 -ktn for -kun.
viii 52 e-nu-ma 'when' appears only in ex. 3. It is omitted by
all other preserved exs. (1-2, 4-5, and probably 37).
viii 57.2 omits line, 'may he anoint with oil (my monumental
viii 63-73) He w h o breaks ( o r ) erases m y m o n u mental or clay inscriptions, throws (them) into
water, burns (them), covers (them) with earth,
secretly stores (them) in a Taboo House where
they cannot be seen, (who) erases my inscribed
name and writes his (own) name, or (who) conceives of anything injurious and puts it into effect
to the disadvantage of my monumental inscriptions:
and clay inscriptions), make sacrifices*, viii 59.1 omits line,

'His name let him write with mine', viii 61.2, 4 omit
DINGIR. MES GAL.MES EN.MES-/o 'the great g o d s , m y lords',
viii 61.3, 5, 7 omit EN.MES-/r 'my lords*, viii 73.4 mistakenly

omits line.
74)
a-nu
DIKUR DINGIR.MF GAL.MES EN.MES-/7
vi 74-88) May the gods Anu and Adad, the great

gods, my lords, glare at him angrily and inflict
upon him an evil curse. May they overthrow his
sovereignty. May they tear out the foundations of
his royal throne. May they terminate his noble
line, (viii 80) May they smash his weapons, bring
about the defeat of his army, and make him sit in
bonds before his enemies. May the god Adad
strike his land with terrible lightning (and) inflict
his land with (viii 85) distress, famine, want,
(and) plague. May he command that he not live
one day longer. May he destroy his name (and)
his seed from the land.
ez-zi-i li-kil-mu-u-ma
ar-ra-ta ma-ru-u-ta li-ru-ru-u
LUGAL-S lS-k-pU
SUHU GI.GU.ZA LVGAL-t-U
U-SU-hu
pr-ê EN-t-u li-bal-lu-

GIS.TUKUL.ME-5W
lu--ab-bi-ru
a-bi-ik-ti um-ma-n-u li-ku-nu

i-na pa-an KR.MES-U ka-mi
lu-e-i-bu-u
IKUR i-na NIM.GR
HUL-te KUR-5W
li-ib-rq
su-un-qa bu-bu-ta hu-ah-ha

.ME a-na KUR-//-SW
lid-di
1 -en UA-ma la TI-su liq-bi

MU-u NUMUN-u i-na KUR-ti lu--hal-liq
viii 89-90) Month of Kuzallu, twenty-eighth day,
eponymy of Ina-ilia-allak, chief cup-bearer
Crabshakeh).
ITI ku-zal-lu UD 28.kM l-mu

î-na-vwGm-ia-al-lak
GAL BI.LUL.ME
2
This annalistic text is preserved on several clay tablet fragments, some
from Asur and some from Nineveh. The introductory and military
narrative is parallel to but different from other texts of Tiglathpileser I (A.0.87.1 and 3-4). The building section is missing from all
except one exemplar but obviously the Assur inscriptions would have
described work at Assur, the Nineveh inscriptions work at Nineveh.
The one exemplar which, although badly preserved, gives an indication of the nature of the building is from Nineveh and it probably
narrates work on the same palace described in A.0.87.10-11. This text
was written after A.0.87.1.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Excavation
Photo
Dimensions
Lines
Ex.
number
number
number
Provenance
(cm)
preserved
K 28Q4( + )2815 +
Nneveh(?)
K 2804: 9 x 6 . 3 +
K 2804: 2 5 - 3 4 , l'-9'
K 2815 + : 1 3 x 8 . 9 +
K28I5 + : I-Il,
81-2-4,220
cpn
c
r-10"
K 2806
Nineveh(?)
12.8x18.2 +
17-37, 3 - 9 '
V A T 9899( + ) 1 0 3 3 2
V A T 9899: 1 3 x 11 +
V A T 9899: 1 - 2 2
V A T 10332: 6 x 4 . 4 +
V A T 10332: 9 - 1 6
Aur
9.5x6.5 +
17-30
Nineveh(?)
5.2x5.7 +
5-7
A 662
A s s 22251
A s s ph S 6 8 4 4
K 156
K 12009
viii 89.1-2, 4, 7, 1 9 UD 2 8 . K M 'twenty-eighth day',

viii 8 9 . 3 U D 2 9 . K M 'twenty-ninth day'.
viii
89.5
UD 2 6 ( ? ) . K M
'twenty-sixth day'.
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COMMENTARY
The text is reconstructed from several fragments of clay

tablets and there is no ex. which is complete. There can
be little doubt, however, that all represent the same
text, apart from the building narrative, since they have
in c o m m o n an inscription which is parallel to, but with
unique vars. from, A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 (as well as A . 0 . 8 7 . 3 and
4). Because there is no complete ex. the master text is a
conflation of all sources available for a given line. Vars.
are, o f course, noted in the usual manner and the
reader w h o is interested in more details can check the
scores. The line numbering is, inevitably, arbitrary.
The parallels with other texts of Tigl. i are: 1 - 6
(A.0.87.1 i 1-14); 7 - 1 0 (A.0.87.1 i 15-27); 11-16
(A.0.87.1 i 28-45); 17 ( A . 0 . 8 7 . 3 line 5 a n d A . 0 . 8 7 . 4
lines 13-14); 18-20 ( A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 lines 18-19); 2 1 - 2 2
( A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 lines 20-21); 2 3 - 2 4 ( A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 lines 22-23);
2 5 - 2 7 ( A . 0 . 8 7 . 3 lines 6 - 1 5 a n d A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 lines 15-17);
5 - 7 ' ( A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 vi 4 0 - 4 8 ) .
E x . 1 consists of t w o f r a g m e n t s (K 2804 a n d
K 2815 + ) which d o n o t physically j o i n but m a y c o m e
f r o m the s a m e tablet, as observed by Borger a n d
W i s e m a n , since they c o m p l e m e n t each o t h e r in lines
preserved with n o o v e r l a p p i n g . However, the matter is
very uncertain since the script size is different as is the

thickness of each fragment. O n the other hand, t w o
other fragments (K 2806 = ex. 2 and K 12009 = ex. 5)
represent distinct exs. T w o fragments ( V A T 9899 and
V A T 10332) which do not physically join but almost
certainly come from the same tablet make up ex. 3.
The provenance of the fragments and the nature o f
the building enterprise described are puzzles. Ex. 4
definitely comes from Assur and so, presumably, does
ex. 3. The remaining fragments (exs. 1 - 2 , and 5) all
bear Kuyunjik signatures and therefore probably came
from Nineveh, although this is never absolutely certain
without independent confirmation. This being so, the
building enterprise described should be different for the
exs. from Aur and Nineveh. Unfortunately the narrative of the building work is totally missing f r o m the
Aur fragments and only fragmentarily preserved in
ex. i . The clue here is, 1 believe, in line 5", where a
palace (or part thereof) is mentioned ( n o t , perhaps, the
Step Gate see the note t o that line) which indicates
this text probably concerned the palace at Nineveh
described in A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 0 - 1 1 . T h e m e n t i o n in line 9 of the
Temple of Itar is probably a passing reference.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1870 3 R pi. 5 nos. 2 and 5 (exs. 1-2, copy)
1893 Winckler, Sammlung 1 pp. 27-28 (exs. 1-2, copy)
1902 King, AKA pp. 116-20 (ex. 2, edition) and 125-26 (ex. 1,
edition)
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 nos. 71a and 160 (ex. 3, vars.)
1926-27 Luckenbill, AJSL 43 p. 222 (ex. 2, study)

1957-58 Weidner and Kcher, AfO 18 pp. 359-60 and pi. 30
('Text III') (exs. 1-4, copy, edition)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. 109-10 and 114-16 ('Tontafel A')
(exs. 1-5, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXVII 2 (exs. 1-5, translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
[aur blu rab mutir kiat ilni ndin

hatt\
a-ge-e mu-kn L U G A L - J 7 / I
[enlil bl(1)] ki-u-ti [ar gi-mi]r a-[nunnaki
abu DINGIR. ME] DEN KUR. KUR
3)
[sn ... p]u-qu-du

qU-[]
4)
6)
DUB NAM.ME-? [... a]-
M.GUR 8
[ama daiin same erseti MHt] ^sa^-al-pat

a-a-[bi] mu-e-eb-ru se-ni [adad urnu rhis
kibrt]
5)
KR.ME KUR.MES AB. ME - t e
[nin~u]rta qar-du a-gi Uem-nH [u] a-a-bi

[mu]-em-su- mal lb-bi
[itar SA]G-ti DINGIR.ME [blit te-e]-e mur-ri-hat MURUB4.ME-TE
2 [hl[1)] kiti', Borger, EAK 1 p. 114 plausibly suggests this

reading. In A.0.87.1 i 3 it is just blu.
1-6) [God Aur, great lord, who properly administers all the gods, grantor of sceptre] and crown,
sustainer of sovereignty; [god Enlil, lord] of the
universe, [king] of all the A[nunnaku gods, father
of the gods], lord of the lands; [god Sn, ...], entrusted with the Tablet of Destinies, [...] lofty
divine crescent; [god ama, judge of heaven and
underworld, who espies] the enemy's treachery,
who exposes the wicked; [god Adad, hero, who
storms over] hostile [regions], mountains, (and)
seas; [god Ninu]rta, valiant one, slayer of criminal [and] foe, fulfiller of hearts' desires; [goddess
Istar], foremost among the gods, [mistress of]
tumult, who adorns battles;
7)
8)
9)
[ilni GAL].TME mu-ut-tab-bP-[lu-ut

same
Ki-t]i sa ti-bu-[u-n]u GIS.LAL --mu
[muerb arrt mGi.tukul-ti]-rimLA^--r-ra
NUN-e na-r[a-m]e bi-bil lb-b-ku-un
SIPA-F na-a-du [a ina kni libbku]-un tuta-a-u a-ga-a [si-r]a tu-up-pi-ra-u a-] na1
MAN-W^ KUR en-ll
GAL-?5 t[u-k\n-na-u
a-
a-re-du-^ta qar-du-ta ta-qi-a-u

10) [mat bltu ana kit] NUMUN SANGAti-u a-na man-za-az -hur-sag-kur-kur-ra
[ana dri ta]-qu-ra
11)
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
tukuI-ti-iBiLA-ri-[r-ra arru dannu ar

kia l ann] MAN kl-lat kib-rat 4 M A N
DU mal-k[LME ...]
i-ip-pu na->-[du sa ina siqir ama hat tu
elletu n]a-ad-na-ta-m-ma UN.ME bu-^-u I[lat eniil ultapiru]
gi-mir-ta SIPA-/[H knu eli ma-li-k]i n-bu-
-tam-mu si-ru [a aur kakku]
['\a-r(m)-lu-ma [ana muûrt kibrat arbaH
MU-]W a-na da-ri i-^qu^-ru sa-b[it pulugg
neste]
[a ZA]G.ZAG e-li ^^ [apli m neperd a
me-]am-mu-u UB.ME îD-[sah]-ha-p[u
nablu urruhu]
[a ki-m]a ti-iq [rihsi ana mat nukurte
uznunuma] -na rs-qif i~en-lP [...]
Gi.
7-10) [Great gods], managers of [heaven and underworld], whose attack means conflict and strife,
[who make great the sovereignty of Tiglath]pileser, beloved prince, your select one, attentive
shepherd, [whom] you chose [in the steadfastness
of] your [hearts]; upon him you set the exalted
crown, you grandly established him for sovereignty over the land of the god Enlil, to him
you granted leadership (and) valour, [you] pronounced [forever his destiny of dominion as
powerful] and (the destiny) of his priestly progeny
for service in Ehursagkurkurra;
11-16) Tig1ath-pi1e[ser, strong king, unrivalled
king of the universe], king of all the four quarters, king of all princes, [...], attentive purification priest, [to whom by command of the god
ama the holy sceptre] was given and who [had]
complete [authority over] the people, subjects [of
the god Enlil, faithful] shepherd, whose name was
called [over the princes], exalted bishop, [whose
weapons the god Assur has] sharpened and whose
[name] he has pronounced eternally [for control
of the four quarters], capturer [of distant districts
to] borders above and [below, radiant day] whose
brilliance overwhelms the regions, [splendid flame
which covers the hostile land] like a rain [storm
and], by the command of the god Enlil, [(having
no rival) defeats the enemy of the god Aur];
17) [... da-\ar A mu-[takkil-nusku
...]
17) [Son of Aur-ra-ii (i), king of the universe,

king of Ass]yria, son of Mu[takki1-Nusku who
was also king of the universe and king of
Assyria]:
18) [...] ia-bi-ia i-na GiJtukuP-ti
18-20) [...] my father, with the support of the

god Aur, my lord, [I defeated] 12,000 troops of
the extensive MuSku. [The remaining] troops I
uprooted (and) brought down into my land.
(Thus) I became lord of [the entire land of the
Muku] (and) added (it) to the borders of my
land.
Ififl 12 RLIM~1 RIN.HI.A.ME KUR
a-ûr ENmU-k,ME
DAGAL.ME
19) [akud (...) stt RIN.ME]-te-u-nu as-su-ha

a-na ^q-reb kur-ti-ia -e-r-da
20) [... a-p]l a-na ^mi-sir KUR"I-ti-ia -te-er
21) [... l ma]-gi-ri -k-ni 4 LIM TKUR -ru Ima-a-ia.ME

22) T K U R 1 a-b-e-la-a-ia.MES RIN.MES KUR hate-e [l kni] al-qa-a a-na UN.ME[ mt-]a
am-nu
21-22) I subdued [the rebellious and] insubmissive

[Subaru]. I took 4,000 Urumu (and) Abeslu, [insubmissive] troops of Hatti, (and) regarded them
as people of my [land].
9 It appears from the spacing in ex. 1 that this text, unlike

A.0.87.1 i 23, omits srta 'supremacy*. 17 Restore from
A.0.87.3 line 5 and A.0.87.4 lines 13-14. 18 Nothing certain
can be restored at the beginning. Weidner's suggestion has no
parallel as noted in Grayson, ARI 2 p. 20 n. 100. 19 Restored

from A.0.87.1 i 85 as suggested by Weidner, AfO 18 p. 360
n. 27. 22 la kni: see A.0.87.4 lines 20-21.
34
23) KUR lu-lu-mi-i a-na si-hr-ti-a falO-Sud 25

DiNGiR.MES-ni-u-nu [ana
...]
24) [itar aur-t]e DINGIR.ME-! a URU-ia aur RDIINANNA. MES HFOFI KUR-tibial a-qi
NG.G[A-51-/IU] a-na DIKUR EN-W -^ru^-uk
25) [ina tukulti aur] EN-ia KUR, KUR na-i-ri

DAGAL.MES -tU KUR tUffl4-me a-^dP KUR
da-e-e-ni
26) RÎ A.AB.BA e-le-n-te [SA almu ami(1)
ak-\ud
30 LUGAL.ME-/?/-5W-U a-na
G[R.ME-]Z -k-ni -na ap-pi-u-nu

27) ki-ma GU4 se[r-r]e-ta at-ta-di a-na URU-/#
[aur a]-qa-u-nu l[i-(unu a]s-bat GUN
la-mar-ta UGU-u-nu -kn
23-24) I conquered the entire land of the

Lullumu. I gave 25 of their gods [to the deities
Ninlil, Anu, Adad, and the Assyrian Istar], the
gods of my city Assur and the goddesses of my
land. I gave [their] property to the god Adad, my
lord.
25-27) [With the support of the god Assur], my
lord, I conquered the extensive lands Nairi from
the land Tummu to the land Dainu and the
Upper Sea [in the west], I subdued 30 of their
kings. Like oxen I attached to their noses ropes
(and) took them to my city [Aur]. I took [hostages from them]. I imposed upon them tribute
and impost.
28) [ahlam armaa.M]E -tu t\ar~si mt sh]

a-di URU kar-ga-mi sa KUR ha-at-te i-na 1
u4-me ah-bu-ut EGIR-u-nu ~i-na \ GI.M.ME
29) [a KU].DUH.I. A D~T pu-rai-a e-bir 6
URU.ME-r//i-[5W-W a p KUR b]-e-ri
ak-ud al-^la^-su-nu bu-a-u-nu mar-isu-nu a-na URU-O a-ur ub-la
28-29) I plundered [the r/2/r/77w-Aramaeans] from

the edge [of the land Suhu] to the city
Carchemish of the land Hatti in a single day. I
crossed the Euphrates after them in rafts (made
of inflated) goatskins. I conquered six of [their]
cities [at the foot of Mount] Beri. I brought their
booty, possessions, and goods to my city Assur.
30) [... qu-ma-n]i-i a-d KUR m-eh-r ak-ud
30-36) [... the Qumn]u as far as the land Mehru

I conquered. I overwhelmed the city Hunusu,
[their fortified city], turned (it) into a ruin hill,
and strewed sf/?w-stones over it. [...] their great
royal [city] like a flood [I passed through] (and)
turned (it) into a ruin hill. When the goddess Istar
[...] to my city [Assur ...] the 7rmau who relied
upon force and violence [(...) with ...] and siege
engines I conquered it. 2,000 of their captives [...]
them. 20,000 troops of the [extensive] Qum[nu,
which I had defeated, I uprooted] (and) brought
down [into] my land, above and below.
I~URU~I hu-nu-sa
31) [... s]-hu-up a-na DU kar-mi -ter

NA4.ME si-Tpa i-na~ muh-h-u a[z-ru)
32) [... l M]AN-ti-u-nu GAL-a a-bu-^bP-i[
ab\1)] â-na Due"1 kar-me -ter-^ru(1)^ /nu-a di~iNANNA fafi-[...]
33) [...] x a-na URU-ia ^[aur ...](-)KIR-ma-
a a-na i-ip-si da-na-n it-k[a-Iu]
34) [(.) ina ...] r~i n-^p^-e ak-u-su 2 LIM
al-la-^siP-[nu]
35) [...]-x-ik-û-nu-tP 20 ~LIM~i RIN.HI.A.ME
KUR qu-m[a-n-]
36) [... assuha ana qereb] 1 KUR W/-' a e]-i
ap-li 1 -e -[ri-da]
37) [...Hri G U [ n ( ? )
Lacuna
V) [...] x [...]
2')
3')
...]
[...
t]ud[a()...]
[...]-/! at-tal-la-rku(1)i
Lacuna
1-4') No translation warranted.
[...] x a x [...]
23-24 For the restoration see Borger, EAK I p. 115. 26 For

the restoration see A.0.87.1 iv 50, vi 44, and Borger, EAK 1
p. 115 n. 3. 27 The reconstruction of this line follows Borger,
EAK 1 p. 115 and is supported by the improved reading of the
last traces in ex. 4. Thus the problem Weidner saw in reconciling the various exs. is resolved. 28-29 For the restoration
see A.0.87.1 v 48, 57-58, and Weidner, AfO 18 p. 360 n. 27.
30.1 m-eh-ri. 30.2 rme^-eh-ri. 32 Restored on analogy with

RIMA 1 p. 134 lines 58-59. 33 KIR can be read G/K/QIR or
B/PIS/S. Cf. L kar-ma-û. Rost, Tigl. p. 56:7. 34 Restore
something similar to A.0.101.1 iii 111. 35-36 For the
restoration see Borger, EAK 1 p. 116. 37 Restored from
line 27. 3'.2 [...] x a x [...] Borger, EAK 1 p. 116 suggests [...
t]atf)-a rfi-[sH(?) ...].
35
4')
[ . . . ] la-a x [ . . . ] x x x 4 0 GIS.X [ . . . ]
5')
[... itu ebertn ]D za-be u-pa-li-i a-di re~i[ber-ta-a]n(*}) HD"! pu^rat-t^

{mat hatte u tmti elnte a S]ILIM-mu am i-na 10 BALA . M [E -/F q]a-ti [l ikucJ]
[p itn uekinunti Ut-\u-nu as-bat GUN
ta-mar-ta U[GU-u-nu] r(?p-kn
[eli mt asur mta eli niia ni lu urad-d]i
ub-ta n-eh-ta -e-i-ib- [un ti\
5-8') [Altogether I conquered ... from the other

side of] the Lower Zab to the other [side] of the
Euphrates, [the Hittites, and the Upper Sea in]
the west in [my] ten regnal years. [I subdued them
to one authority], took [hostages from] them,
(and) imposed upon [them] tribute and impost.
[To Assyria I] added [land and to its people 1]
added [people], I provided [them] with a secure
abode.
[...] x * 1 dis*-tr
9') [ ] the temple of the goddess Istar

Lacuna
l"-4") [... I deposited my clay] and monumental
inscriptions.
6')
7)
8')
9')
[...]
Lacuna
1") [...] x x mi x [...]
2") [...] x-sa-a-tu x [...]
3") [...] ma-ha-ra ul x [...]
4")
[ . . . ] X NA 4 .NA.R.A.ME- [ . . . ]
5")
[...] ^MAL-lum i-i sr-t[e(1) ...}-a âl-ba-nP-ma

[ennahu rub ark anhssu lu-u)d-di
N A 4 . N A . R . A . M E - / f r ^ i [te-m]e-ni-ia li-murma
[...] x EN-ti-ia r&(?)i a-u[r u] nn-urta ana i-rk-te
[... UDU.SIS]KUR liq-qi a-na -ri-u-nu lu te-er
[... ina tb lib-b] ka-ad ir-nin-te DG.GAi li-it-tar-ru-u
6")
7")
8")
9")
10") [...
5"-9") [In the future, in days to come, may a later

prince, when] this palace, the exalted house, its
[...] becomes old and [dilapidated], restore [its
weakened (portions)]. May he see my clay and
monumental inscriptions, [read about the might]
of my dominion which the gods Assur [and]
Ninurta gave to me, [may he anoint them with
oil], make sacrifices (and) return (them) to their
places. [His name let him write with mine. (Then)
like me] may [the gods Aur and Ninurta] properly guide him [in joy] (and) success.
md
n]in-urta-svu-IBILA svKKAi-ma GAL
10") [Month of ..., ...th day, eponymy of ...,

grand vizier, son of] Ninurta-ndin-ap1i, (who
was) also grand vizier.
GAL-e
3
This annalistic text, on several clay tablets found at Aur, describes
the campaigns in a brief fashion similar to A.0.87.2 and 4. Since some
campaigns are added to those described in A.0.87.1 and 2 it must be
later than those texts. The building section concerns work on the wall
of Assur.
4' While it is tempting to try and read here a parallel to

A.0.87.1 vi 39 (since 5r-T are parallel to A.0.87.1 vi 40-48) cf. Borger, EAK 1 p. 128 the traces do not support a
suitable reading. Moreover, the line drawn across the tablet
between 4' and 5' clearly marks 4' as the end of the preceding
passage. 5-8' For the restorations see A.0.87.1 vi 40-48,
vii 32-35, and Borger, EAK 1 pp. 109-110. 5"-9" For the
restorations see Borger, EAK 1 p. 109. 5" Collation shows

that in the break between [e(?) ...] and a (f[e(?) consists of
the beginning of one wedge) there is room for three or more
signs. Borger, EAK 1 p. 109 suggested restoring a form of
mullu 'Step Gate' but this edition follows King; cf. A.0.87.1
viii 17.
36
Tiglath-pileser i A.0.87.3
CATALOGUE
Ex,
1
2
3
Museum
number
Ass
number
Private possession
V A T 9360
V A T 9422
21105a
4463o
Aur
provenance
A
ph
number
S 6457
K 420-21
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
fA6v
14.3 x 8.4 +
N W wall of temple
9.5x5.8 +
1-51
1-27
1-14, 43-51
cpn
P
court in old
fill on the
pavement, h D 3 v
VAT 13564
VAT 13565
VAT 9624
21105b
21105c
8193
S 6457
S 6457
fA6v
7x4.4 +
fA6v
10.2x6.8 +
1145
5X5 +
Unlocated
1-9, 4 2 - 5 0
10-26
1-6, 50-51
16-44
COMMENTARY
Ex. 1, in private possession, has not been located but
has been collated from photographs kindly provided by
Walker from the file in the British Museum. Weidner
originally included this ex. in his edition using photographs supplied by Wiseman from the British Museum.
A s Weidner observed, the obv. (lines 1-26) is badly
worn and much o f it can only be read with the aid of
the other exs. or parallel passages. Another problem is
that several lines ( 2 - 3 , 5, 25, 34, 38, and 44) obviously
ran over the edge but n o photograph o f this portion of
the tablet was available to us. The master text is ex. 1
but in the badly damaged portion (lines 1-26) ex. 2 has

frequently been used and occasionally other exs.
Readers interested in the details may consult the scores.
The copy by Schroeder in K A H 2 no. 68 is a conflation o f exs. 2 - 6 with restoration from parallel texts.
It is, therefore, quite unreliable as collation has shown.
Ex. 7 is known to us only through the publications
listed in the bibliography. At the time of Weidner's edition it was in his private possession but its present location is unknown.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1900 Scheil, RT 22 p. 157 (ex. 7, copy)
1901-1906 Winckler, AOF 3 p. 247 (ex. 7, copy)
1904-1905 Streck, ZA 18 p. 186 (ex. 7, study)
1917 Olmstead, JAOS 37 p. 171 (ex. 7, study)
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 68 (exs. 2-6, copy)
1925 Schtz, JSOR 9 pp. 105-109 (exs. 2-7, edition)
1926 Schroeder, JSOR 10 pp. 290-92 (exs. 2-7, study)
1957-58 Weidner, AfO 18 pp. 343-47 (Text i') (exs. 1-7,
photo, edition)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. 110 and 116-18 (Tontafel B') (exs.
1-7, study)
1968 Ellis, Foundation Deposits pp. 100 and 192 (exs. 1-7,
study)
1967 Salvini, Nairi pp. 53-54 (lines 6-11 edition)
1969 Oppenheim, ANET 3 pp. 274-75 (translation)
1982 Miglus, ZA 72 p. 269 (study)
1984 Borger, TUAT 1/4 pp. 356-57 (lines 16-35, translation)
1985 Pedersn, Archives 1 p. 81 (exs. 2, 4-5, provenance)
1985 Russell, Iraq 47 p. 71 (lines 29-35, edition)
TEXT
1)
[MGI. tukuI-t]i-iBiLA--r-ra
2)
MAN KUR a-ur

I MAN I kl-lat kib-rat 4-i et-lu qar-du a i-na
GIs.tukul-ti a-ur
3)
nn-urta
4)
tal-la-ku
-am-qi-tu ge-ri-u
5)
DUMU a-ur-$AG-i-i
MAN KAL MAN KIS
DINGIR. MES GAL. MES EN. ME-W t-
MAN KI MAN KUR Ra-
ur DUMU mu-tk-kil-nusku
KUR a-ur-ma
MAN KI MAN
1-4) [Tig1ath]-pi1eser, strong king, king of the

universe, king of Assyria, king of all the four
quarters, valiant man who acts with the support
of the gods Aur and Ninurta, the great gods, his
lords, (and thereby) has felled his foes;
5) Son of Aur-ra-ii (i), king of the universe,

king of Assyria, son of Mutakkil-Nusku (who
was) also king of the universe (and) king of
Assyria;
6)
7)
8)
9)
i-na siq-ri a-ur EN-ia i-tu e-[ber]-^ta^-an

ID za-be u-pa-li-i a-di ATAB.BA e-le^-ni-te
a siLiM-mw dam-i qa-a-ti lu ik-ud
3-su a-na KUR. KUR na-i-ri lu al-lik
FDAGALIME s-te
KUR.KUR na-i~P-ri Ris-tu KUR tum^-me^ a-di
KUR RDA-IEI-E-NI
KUR hi-mu-a
ucP
a-di KUR pa-i-te-ri y lu ak-
3 0 LUGAL.MES-/2/ a KUR.KUR na-i-ri
a-na
6-15) By the command of the god Aur, my

lord, I conquered from the other side of the
Lower Zab to the Upper Sea in the west. Thrice I
marched to the lands Nairi (and) conquered the
extensive lands Nairi from the land Tummu to the
land Dainu, Himua and to the land Paiteru. I
subdued 30 kings of the lands Nairi. I took hostages from them, received their tribute of teams
of horses in harness, (and) imposed upon them
tax and impost.
GR.II L.MES-IA
-k-ni U-t-u-nu a-^bat

ANSE 1. KUR. RA. MES
si-im-da-at GIS ni-^P-ri ma-da-ta-su-nu amhur

GUN ta-mar-ta vGu-u-nu -kn
-na KUR lab-na-ni r/wi al-lik GIS.R.TMES"!
sa GIS e-re-ni
a-na
da-nim
DIKUR TDINGIR.MES GALI.MES
EN.ME-MF
ak-ki-is -a-a a-na KUR a-mur-ri e-ti-îq^

KUR a-mur-ri a-na si-hr-ti-a ak-ud
^ma^-da-âP-ta a KUR gu-bal KUR si-du-ni
KUR ar-ma-da
lu am-hur i-na Gi.M.MES-te sa KUR ar-mada-ia
tu ar-kab 3 DANNA A. i-tu KUR ar-ma-da
a MURUB4 A.AB.BA a-di URU sa-mu-ri
16-25) I marched to Mount Lebanon. I cut down

(and) carried off cedar beams for the temple of
the gods Anu and Adad, the great gods, my
lords. I continued to the land Amurru (and) conquered the entire land Amurru. I received tribute
from the lands Byblos, Sidon, (and) Arvad. I
rode in boats of the people of Arvad (and)
travelled successfully a distance of three double
hours from the city Arvad, an island, to the city
Samuru which is in the land Amurru. I killed at
sea a nhiru, which is called a sea-horse.
a KUR
a-mur-ri
lu ak-ta-r na-hi-ra a ANSE.KUR.RA a
A.AB.BA
1-qab-bi--i u-nP i-na qa-bal A.AB.BA lu adu-uk

Rwi i-na ta-ia-ar-ti-ia KUR ha-at-te a-na sihr-ti-a
lu â(ip-[pl(1) ...] li-f(PME GUN ma-da-ta
gi.[r.me]
26-28) Finally, upon my return I became [lord\ of

the entire land Hatti [...] (and) [imposed] upon
Ini-Teub, king of the land Hatti, hostages, tax,
tribute, and (impost consisting of) cedar beams.
[a GI e]-re-ni i-na UGU m-nidte-ub MAN

KUR ha-at-t[e lu a-kun]
[...]-u ID pu-rat-ta EGIR ah-la-m-i
KUR ar-ma-ia. ME a-na KUR ha-at-te a-at-ta
2-u
10.2 i-tum4-me instead of i-tu KUR tum^-me, error caused

by auto-dictation. Of. note to line 25.7. 21 Weidner has mat
amu[rri] at the end of the line but this does not exist in any of
the preserved exs. (1, 5, 7). 21.2 UR[U for KUR. 22.2 URU for
KUR. 24 rihiru: See the commentary to A.0.87.4. 25.7 lu du-uk\ cf. note to line 10.2. 27 For the reading at the beginning of the line see Borger, EAK 1 p. 117. 28 Ini-Teub (also
in A.0.87.4 line 30): this reading of the name follows Haw-
29-35) I have crossed the Euphrates [...] times,

twice in one year, in pursuit of the ahlamAramaeans, to the land Hatti. I brought about
kins, RLA 4 p. 153 sub Hatti 3.3, and cf. Iraq 36 (1974) pp.
69-71. Note the orthography i-ni-DN in Arnaud, Emar 6/3
no. 18 line 1; no. 77 line 1; no. 201 lines 1, 19, 23, and 35;
no. 202 line 1; references courtesy of Fales. Landsberger,
Samâl p. 33 n. 67, suggested reading either this or NiniTesub. Weidner, AfO 18 p. 354 read Ili-Tesub. 29 ahlami2:
See the note to A.0.87.1 iv 46-47. 30.1 has 2-u, as does
A.0.87.4 line 34. The reading of the numeral in ex. 7 (which
38
[lu] ê^-te-bir is-tu GR KUR lab-na-ni URU
ta-ad-mar
[I]7 KUR a-mur-r a-na-at sa KUR su--hi
a-d URU ra-p-qi sa KUR kar-du-ni-
db-da-u-nu d-kun al-la-su-nu mar-i-sunu
a-na URU-r/a~i da-ur ub-la
their defeat from the foot of Mount Lebanon, the

city Tadmar of the land Amurru, Anat of the
land Suhu, as far as Rapiqu of Kardunia. I
brought their booty (and) possessions to my city
Aur.
î-na U4-me-u-ma^ BD sa URU-ia a-ur a
At that time the wall of my city Assur, of

New City, (the wall) which Aur-ndin-ahh,
vice-regent of the god Asur, king, my forefather
who preceded me, had previously built upon
this wall, from the great tower of the Tigris Gate
to the ...s and to the wall of Inner City, I piled
up earth like a ruin hill (and thereby) reinforced
(it). I constructed anew a strong wall in front of
it. I built (and) completed it from top to bottom.
I deposited my monumental inscriptions therein.
36-44)
URU GIBIL
Ra i-na pa^-na ma-ur-SUM-E.ME ID aur MAN a-b

i~a-lk pa^-ni-ia e-pu-u BD u-a-tu i-tu asa-i-te
^GAi-te a^ K DIDIGNA a-di i-ma-ra-a-te
a-di BD r&n URU.-URU i-p-ik
SAH AR. MES
ki-ma DU6 i-na muh-hi-u -pu-uk -de-nin

J~BD~I dan-na a-na GIBIL-ut-te i-na mah-ri-u
ar-sip
i-tu u-e-u a-di gaba-dib-bi-u e-pu-u
-k-lil NA4. NA. R. A. ME-ia i-na qer-bi-u
-kun
45-49) In the future, in days to come, may a later

prince, when this wall becomes old and dilapidated, restore its weakened (portions). May he restore my inscribed name to its place. (Then) the
god Aur, the great lord, will listen to his
prayers.
a-na EGIR u4-me a-na u4-um sa-a-te e-nu-ma

BAD U-
-al-ba-ru-ma e-na-hu NUN EGIR-W

'an -hu-^su lu-ud-di u-mi at-ra a-na ri-u
lu-te-er a-ur EN GAL-U ik-ri-bi-u
i-e-em-me
"ITI ku-zal-lu
UD 13.KMI li-mu
DUMU RA5-5WR-IBILA-SI(?).S"! GAL
50-51) Month of Kuzallu, thirteenth day, eponymy of Ninuiia, son of Aur-ap1u-lir, chief of
revenue officers.
n-nu-a-ia
i~ma-kD-
5/. MES
4
This is one of the most interesting but difficult texts of Tiglath-pileser.
It is interesting because it gives a wide summary of his military campaigns. It includes the first narrative of the conquest of Babylonia
(lines 37-40 and 44-51), thus dating it later than A.0.87.1-3 in which
there is no mention of this campaign. The building section is also
cannot be collated) is a problem. Scheirs copy shows [x] 2-su

but Winckler's copy has 12-sw. I suspect there was a small hole
in the tablet before 2 which Winckler incorrectly read as a
Winkelhaken. Thus ex. 7 probably has 2-u. 30 a-at-ta 2-u:
'twice in one year' (cf. A.0.87.4 line 34); Weidner's translation
'twice a year' (jhrlich zweimal), which would reduce the number of years to fourteen, was based on the belief that Tigl. i
could not have reigned so long (see AfO 6 [1930-31] p. 92
n. 81). This objection has now been removed and the

expression probably refers to a double crossing in only one
year. See Borger, EAK 1 p. 117 and cf. Tadmor, JCS 12
(1958) pp. 29-30 n. 64 and Brinkman, PKB p. 127 n. 747.
51 -rsi(?).sT = ttir is preserved only in ex. 1. The name of
the eponym's father is otherwise unattested. The reading was
proposed by Borger, EAK p. 117.
interesting because it provides a very detailed description of work on
various parts of the palace at Assur. The first work described is on the
'house of the sahrtf and the 'house of the labniC (lines 52-66, cf.
A.0.89.7 v 4-6), the latter made of terebinth (cf. A.0.87.5 lines 1-3).
The next passage (lines 67-71), perhaps the most interesting, concerns
the creation of animal figurines and setting them up at the palace entrance (cf. A.0.87.5 lines W - \ 4 ' and further A.0.87.8 lines 4'-6',
A.0.87.11 lines 9*-18', and A.0.89.7 v 16-19). Fragments of these
figurines with traces of inscriptions were found by the German excavators at the palace entrance and the text is edited as A.0.87.17. A similar animal figurine bears an inscription of Aur-b1-ka1a (A.0.89.11).
The next building section (lines 72-76) describes the construction, beside the palace, of a 'palace of weapons' with boxwood (cf. A.0.87.8
and 29). The narrative concludes (lines 77-89) with the construction of
the palace itself, which is described as the 'cedar palace' and named
Egallugalsarrakurkurra. Various woods were used in its creation (see
the introduction to A.0.89.7). Also of interest in this text are the concluding remarks in the building section in which it is stated that the
palace was the residence of the king, not the gods. The gods could
visit the king in his palace but they could not reside there.
As interesting as this text is, it is also very difficult. It consists in
large part of long and complicated sentences, particularly in the building section, where the writer and the reader tend to lose themselves
(cf. Borger, EAK 1 pp. 131-32 and van Driel, Assur p. 110). An entirely different kind of difficulty is the state of the sources for this text.
The text has been reconstructed from numerous fragments of clay tablets, as well as three stone tablets and one clay prism fragment, all
from Assur. Weidner originally put this text together with his usual ingenuity and skill and, while this edition largely follows his reconstruction, some changes have been made. The Ninevite texts, which
are very similar, have been edited with A.0.87.10 and 11 where they
really belong. Three of the exemplars (22-24) included here are probably of a different date with a different building description (see the
commentary). The remaining majority of exemplars are later in date
than A.0.87.3.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Aur
provenance
VAT 9489 +
9557
VAT 14399
5838 + 5879
843, 1137-38
14786
4203
3
4
5
6
7
VAT 10444
VAT 13562
A 644
A 111
V A T 9639
1548+ 1567 +
1576
A 33
4312 + 4428 +
4530 +4533k
Ex.
number
1
2
ES 7171
4330f(?)
6138
18274
18641
Dimensions
Object
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
VAT 9489: dE5v

VAT 9557: cB6i
fC9i
Clay tablet
10.5x7.7 +
1-12, 93 94
Clay tablet
6x8.4 +
12-25
887 (K 209)
5866
6448-50
City area
In fill, iB4iv
Under lower edge of
foundation, iC5iSE
Clay
Clay
Clay
Clay
Clay
10.3x9 +
6x4.5 +
7.3X4 +
6.2x7.5 +
12-26
11-18
14-23
17-25, 84-93
9-11, 21-25,
33-36, 47-50,
62-65, 78-80
c
c
c
c
21-31, 72-85
22-91
564-67,
(K 179-80
424-25, 429
453, 459)
Northern N E corner
of temple
4312: N W side of temple
court on pavement
4428: north in temple
court, hD3v
4530 + 4533k: NW front
of temple court, hD3v
tablet
tablet
tablet
tablet
prism
Clay tablet
Clay tablet
10.8x6.8 +
40
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Aur
provenance
A 2126
VAT 9496
8569
6469a
1260, 1362
959
BM 115693
(1922-8-12,68)
VAT 9650 +
13563
VAT 9484
18438
6317 18
2880
19334
ES 6698
17
18
Object
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
Dump
SW, above old temple,
eB5vSW
Clay tablet
Clay tablet
3.8 x 2.7 f
11.5x8.3 +
24-28
26-41
Under upper edge of stone

foundation in B, D4vSE
On west massive, gA4n
Stone tablet
Clay tablet
6.2x4.2 +
27-34
5882
On the libben terrace,

gB4vSE
Clay tablet
8.5x7.5 +
30-40, 73-79
977
159, 555-56
Stone tablet
A 672
A 674
A 668
5165
10314
14306
696
1613
3981
Northern prothyse,
pavement, temple A
h 5 En
City area
Second test trench level,
dB8t
19
20
A 690
Unlocated
19569
1070
6372
159, 536
21
22
V A T 10749
V A T 9646
23
V A T 9636
4565
459
24
Unlocated
14809 +
4203, 4317
Ex.
JO
11
12
13
14
15
16
Southern prothyse,
27-67
cpn
n p
33-47, 62-75
Clay tablet
Clay tablet
Clay tablet
7.5x6.4 +
4.8x4.2 +
7.8x4.6 +
Clay tablet
Stone tablet
5x5.5 +
47-53
49-51
Clay tablet
Clay tablet
9x6.2 +
6x7.8 +
Clay tablet
8 . 7 x 12.8 +
67-75
17-19, 22-27,
87-91
14-17, 24-36,
41-51
35-44
35-39
41-47, 52-59
temple A
Hole in kiln, temple,

hD3v
City area
Clay tablet
15-17, 24-30,
Clay tablet
Clay tablet
41-51
48-51, 55-59
1-12, 92-93
15134
25
26
K 10042
Private
possession
4.3x4.5 +
8.3x8.1
p/n
COMMENTARY
This text was originally reconstructed by Weidner from
a variety o f fragmentary inscriptions. Weidner included
fragments from both Aur and Nineveh but, since the
Ninevite inscriptions clearly belong to a different text,
these have been treated separately as A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 0 and 11.
The vast majority of the Aur fragments are of clay
tablets, but three (exs. 12, 15, and 20) are of stone tablets and one (ex. 7) is o f a six-sided prism. A m o n g the
clay tablets it is possible that exs. 1 and 3 - 4 c o m e from
the same tablet, as Weidner suggested. But exs. 8 and
21 cannot also c o m e from this tablet, as Weidner also
suggested, since they overlap in line 75. Of the stone
fragments, exs. 15 and 20 could be from the same object but neither can be from the same stone as ex. 12
since they overlap.
N o ex. has a complete text and, in fact, most exs.
really have only parts of various lines. Thus the text
presented here, based o n Weidner's work, is frequently
a conflation o f two or more exs. for any given line. It
would be impractical to give a complete list of the
sources for each line. The interested reader is referred
to the scores.
Ex. 22 omits the section (lines 2 0 - 2 1 ) in which the
conquest of the U r u m u and Abeslu is described and, if
the omission is not simply scribal error, this suggests a
different text with a different date.
Exs. 2 3 - 2 4 vary considerably from the master text.
They both omit three sections (lines 18-23) near the beginning in which the conquests of the Muku, Urumu,
and Lullumu are described. Ex. 23 further omits (ex. 24
is not preserved in the relevant portions) the description

of the plunder of Enzatu and other cities (see the note
to lines 31-33) and the conquest of the East Tigris region (lines 37-40). The same exs., 23-24, vary from the
master text by placing the description of the invasion of
Babylonia (lines 44-51) before the section narrating the
campaign to Suhu (lines 4 1 - 4 3 ) . After these two sections ex. 23 stops, as does ex. 24 according to Weidner
(uncollated), and only illegible traces of a date appear
after a blank gap in ex. 23. Thus neither ex. had a
building section and they were in fact patterns (Vorlage) for inscriptions t o which the building portions
were to be added. The obv. o f ex. 24 was collated from
photos; the rev. could not be collated.
Ex. 25 is a minuscule fragment but enough is
preserved to confirm that it belongs to this text. Since it
has traces of the building section it must come f r o m
Assur despite its Kuyunjik number (cf. Borger, E A K 1
p. 130).
The lines drawn across the transliteration in this edition are lines which appear on the clay tablet fragments, indicating as usual meaningful sections. The exs.
on the stone tablets and o n the prism fragment have n o
such lines, although they have faint rulings after each
line of text. The scribe w h o wrote ex. 2 mistakenly
omitted the ruling between lines 19-20. Ex. 26 has a
horizontal line dividing l - 8 a (ending ipelu gimra 'become lord of all') from the following.
Weidner gave the Aur no. of ex. 4 as 4330f but
from records in Berlin this appears to be incorrect.
Tiglath-pileser i A. 0.87.1541
A s to the prism fragment, ex, 7, here are the details
of what is preserved on each col.: i - 9 - 1 1 ; ii =
21-25; iii = 33-36; iv = 47-50; v = 62-65; vi =
7 8 - 8 0 . At the top of col. ii there are illegible traces of a
line (before the equivalent of line 22) which Weidner
thought might be of line 19. This would mean it had
omitted lines 20-21 (as ex. 22, see above). But the
traces are illegible and presumably are of line 21.
Ex. 12 could not be collated against the original
very small photo. The ob v. has not been collated at all.

Only the rev. of ex. 18 has been collated. The sole
source of information about the obv. is Weidner, w h o
said that it had the second half of lines 4 1 - 4 7 and gave
vars. Thus in our scores three dots appear in these lines
for this ex. except where we have Weidner's vars.
The first part of the inscription is, as usual, in Babylonian dialect but the building section is in Assyrian dialect (cf. Borger, EAK 1 p. 130).
stone fragment. The rev. was collated, however, from a
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1893-97 Winckler, AOF 1 pp. 387-89 (ex. 25, edition)
1904 Andrae, MDOG 22 p. 20 (ex. 20, provenance)
1922 BM Guide p. 66 (ex. 12, study)
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 nos. 63, 66, 69, 71, 71a, and 73 (exs.
1-3, 6-8, 11-13, 18, 21-24, copy)
1925 Schotz, JSOR 9 pp. 106-109 (edition)
1926 Schroeder, JSOR 10 pp. 287-92 (edition)
1926 Meissner, IAK pp. 30-31 n. 2 (edition)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 272-312, (translation)
1926-27 Luckenbill, AJSL 43 pp. 221-22 (study)
1934 Landsberger, Fauna pp. 142-43 (study)
1957-58 Weidner and Kcher, AfO 18 pp. 347-59 and pis.
xxvi-xxix ('Text II') (exs. 1-24, copy, edition)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. 110, 118-20, and 131-33 (Tontafel
C ) (exs. 1-25, study)
1967 Salvini, Nairi pp. 53-83 (study)

study)
1969 van Driel, Assur pp. 110 and 166 (study)
1969 Oppenheim, ANET 3 p. 275 (translation)
1975 Grayson, Chronicles pp. 247-48 (exs. 1-25, study)
1984 Borger, TUAT 1/4 p. 357 (lines 24-36, translation)
1984 Postgate, Sumer 40 pp. 155-56 (lines 37-40, edition)
1985 Russell, Iraq 47 p. 71 (lines 41-43, edition)
1985-86 Pedersn, Archives 1 p. 39 no. 22 (ex. 11); 2 p. 13 n.
9 (ex. 8), p. 21 no. 32 (ex. 9), p. 24 no. 94 (ex. 23), and
p. 76 (ex. 14) (provenance)
1986 Miglus, MDOG 118 pp. 209-10 (study)
1988 Finkel, ARRIM 6 pp. 13-14 (ex. 26, copy)
1990 Donbaz, ARRIM 8 p. 3 (exs. 5, 10, 19, copy)
TEXT
1)
Gi. tukul-ti-mtA--r-ra
LUGAL dan-nu
LU-
GAL 1 KI ] LUGAL KU[R (lur]
2)
3)
4)
LUGAL kl-lat kib-rat 4-i mu-la-it gi-mir targi-gl

a-ah-tu za-nin -kur bi-bf fb-bi a-ur et-lu
qar-du ge-ru la pa-du-
sa i-na GI.tukul-ti a-ur nin-urta
DINGIR. MES GAL.MES EN.ME-SW
t-tal-la-kU-ma
5)
-am-qi-tu ge-ri-u NUN-M na-du sa i-na siqir DUTU qu-ra-di

6) i-u URU.K.DINGIR.RA.KI a KUR ak-ka-di-i
a-di [A.AB.BJA e-le-ni-te sa KUR a-mur-ri
7) A.AB.BA sa KUR na-i-ri i-na ta--nin-t[i
d]a-na-ni qa-a-su ik-u-du--ma
8) i-pe-lu gim-ra gi-gi-nu- dan-[nu sa i-n]a tiib GIS.TUKUL.MES-U ez~zu--te
9) tu-bu-qa-at er-bit-ta us-ra-ab-bu-ma i-hi-il-lu
da-ad-mu al-tu-ti na-ki-ru-ut da-sur
10) a-ar tq-ru-ub-ti a-na hal-te -kn-u-nu-ma
Zi-qi-qi-i um-mi
11) dap-pa-a-nu am-ru nap-har [m]al-ki.ME
a kib-ra-a-te TM^-SM ez-z[u e]-vdiP-ru-ma
2-8 For the restorations see A.0.87.10 lines 1-9.
1-12) Tiglath-pileser, strong king, king of the

universe, king of [Assyria], king of all the four
quarters, encircler of all criminals, pious, provider
for Ekur, select of the god Aur, valiant young
man, merciless mighty man who acts with the
support of the gods Aur and Ninurta, the great
gods, his lords, and (thereby) has felled his foes,
attentive prince who, by the command of the god
Samas the warrior, has conquered by means of
conflict and might from Babylon of the land
Akkad to the Upper Sea of the land Amurru and
the sea of the lands Nairi and become lord of all,
strong gigin who by the attack of his fierce
weapons has caused the four corners (of the
world) to quake so that the habitations convulsed
indeed on the battlefield he has put in their
graves the dangerous enemies of the god Assur
and turned them into ghosts storm-trooper
whose fierce battle all princes of the (four) quarters dreaded so that they took to hiding places
[like] bats and scurried off to inaccessible regions
[like jerboa];
42
[kima ]u-ti-ni s-ba-tu tu-b[u-qe-ti kima
arrab \h-tal-la-l[u\ *eri-se-et la ba-H
[DUM]U da-ur-s[AG-ii ar kiati ar mt]
a-ur~i
DUMU mu-tk-kil-dnusku [ar kiati M]AN
KUR a-ur-ma
13-14) Son of Aur-r[a-ii (i), king of the

universe, king of] Assyria, son of MutakkilNusku (who was) also [king of the universe (and)]
king of Assyria:
3-su a-na KUR.KUR n[a-i-ri lu]- al-lik

DAGAL.ME KU[R.KUR naHrl i-tu KUR tum*me
a-di KUR da-ie-ni KUR [hi]-mu-a KUR pa-i-teri KUR hab-hi
lu ak-ud ANE.KUR.RA.ME si-i[m-da-a]t GIS
ni-i-ri ma-da-at-ta-u-nu lu am-hur
15-17) Thrice I marched to the lands N[airi] (and)

conquered the extensive lands [Nairi] from
Tummu to the lands Dainu, Himua, Paiteru, and
Habhu. I received their tribute of teams of horses
in harness.
12 UM RIN.HI. A.ME-at K[UR mu-ki.ME]S

DAGAL.ME i-na q-reb ta-h[a-zi\ qa-a-ti lu
ik-ud
al-ma-at qu-ra-di-[u-nu muqtab]-li i-na ziq mul-mul-[li eli] pi-rik na-me-e lu-me-es-si
18-19) I conquered 12,000 of the troops of

land of the extensive [Musku] in battle. I laid
by means of the bow (lit. 'at arrowpoint')
corpses of their fighting men right through
plain.
4 LIM KUR -\rumi\,UEl KUR a-b-e-laa. MES [ummnt] KUR ha-at-teê

la-a ka-ni-e al-qa-a [assuha a]-na UN.MES
KUR-ti-ia am~nu
20-21) I took (and) [uprooted] 4,000 U[rumu]

(and) Abeslu, insubmissive [troops] of Hatti,
(and) regarded them as people of my land.
KUR lu-lu-me-e a-na si-hr-ti- KUR sa-lu-a

KUR qum-me-ni KUR kat-mu-hi
KUR al-zi a-na pat gim-ri-i-na lu-i ak-ud
22-23) I completely conquered the entire land of

the Lullumu, the lands Salua, Qummnu,
Katmuhu, and Alzu.
i-na q-bit a-nim DIKUR DINGIR. MES

GAL.MES I~ENI.ME-/A â^-na KUR-E lab-na-ni
lu al-lik
GIS. R. MES Sa GIS e-re-ni ^^-na da-nim [
24-30) By the command of the gods Anu and

Adad, the great gods, my lords, I marched to
Mount Lebanon. I cut down (and) carried off
cedar beams for the temple of the gods Anu [and
Adad], the great gods, my lords. I continued to
the land Amurru (and) conquered the entire land
[Amur]ru. I received tribute from the city Arvad
(and) the lands Byblos (and) Sidon (and) a crocodile (and) a large female monkey of the sea
coast. Finally, upon my return I became lord of
the entire land Hatti (and) imposed upon IniTeub, king of the land Hatti, tax, tribute, and
(impost consisting of) cedar beams.
adad] DINGIR.ME GAL.MES EN.MES-/T
[ak-k]i-iss -[] a-na KUR a-mur-ri lu e-tiq

KUR [a-mur]-ri a-na si-h[r-ta f]u ak-ud
ma-da-at-ta sa URU ar-ma-d[a mt g]u-bal
KUR si-du-n[i nam-s]U'ha pa-gu-ta GAL-[ti] sa
a-ah
A.AB.BA
lu am-hur [i\-na ta-ia-ar-ti-i[a] KUR ha-at-te

a-na si-hr-ti-a lu a-pl
[GU]N ma-da-at-ta GI.R.ME sa GIS e-[reni] i-na UGU m-ni^t^-[ub] LUGAL [K]UR
ha-at-te lu -kun

18-23 omitted in exs. 23-24. 20-21 omitted in ex. 22.
27 Weidner says exs. 23-24 omit KUR gu-bal KUR si-du-ni but
both exs. are broken here. 27 \nam-s\u-ha ... GAL-[//]: cf.
the
out
the
the
A.0.89.7 iv 29. For -[//], Schroeder gives traces in his copy of

ex. 11 (KAH 2 no. 69), but none are now visible. 28-30 For
the restorations see A.0.87.10 lines 33-35. 30 Regarding the
old erroneous reading hatte rabte 'Great Hatti' see Hawkins,
RLA 4 p. 153 and Iraq 36 (1974) pp. 70-71.
43
Tiglath-pileser i A. 0.8 7.15
a-na URU m-li-d-a s KUR ha-at-te GAL-te

lu- al-lik ma-da-at-ta sa al-lu-ma-ri
lu am-hur URU en-za-ta a KUR i-su-a KUR
su-uh-me
[ak]-ud ral-la-su-nu as-su-ha a-na KUR-tiia ub-la
31-33) I marched to the city Milidia of the great

land Hatti. I received the tribute of Allumaru. I
conquered the city Enzatu of the land Iua and
the land Suhmu. I uprooted prisoners (from) their
(midst and) brought (them) to my land.
28-u EGIR KUR ah-la-me-e KUR ar-ma-a-
34-36) I have crossed the Euphrates twenty-eight

times, twice in one year, in pursuit of the
ahlamu-Aramaeans. I brought about their defeat
from the city Tadmar of the land Amurru, Anat
of the land Suhu, as far as the city Rapiqu of
Kardunia. I brought their booty (and) possessions to my city Aur.
/A.ME D pu-rat-ta
MU I.KM 2-u lu
e-te-bir
i-tu URU ta-ad-mar s KUR a-mur-ri URU ana-at sa KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi
KUR kar-du-nidb-da-u-nu lu -kun
al-la-su-nu mar-i-su-nu a-na URU-MF a-ur
ub-la
a-na KUR kar-du-ni- lu- al-lik is-tu e-berta-an D za-ba su-pa-le-e
URU ar-ma-an A.GR.URU-sa-//rn a-di URU
lu-ub-di lu ak-ud D ra-da-na
lu- e-te-bir URU. MES-W sa GR KUR ka-mul-la
KUR ka-til-la lu ak-sud
al-la-su-nu bu--u-nu lu -e-sa-a a-na
URU-/A a-ur lu- ub-la
37-40) 1 marched to Kardunia. I conquered from

the other side of the Lower Zab, the city Arman
of Ugar-Sallu, as far as the city Lubdu. I crossed
over the River Radnu. I conquered the cities at
the foot of Mounts Kamulla (and) Kati11a. I took
out their booty (and) possessions (and) brought
them to my city Assur.
i-na ger-ri-ia an-ni-im-ma a-na KUR su-hi lu-ti

al-lik URU sa-pi-ra-ta sa MURUB4 D pu-rat-te
a-di URU hi-im-da-ni URU.MES-ni gab-ba sa
KUR su-hi lu ak-ud al-la-su-nu lu -lu-ul
DINGIR.MEi-ni-u-nu ma-du-te NG.GA.MEsu-nu lu --a a-na URU-/A a-ur lu ub-la
41-43) On this campaign of mine I marched to

the land Suhu. I conquered (from) the city
Sapiratu, an island in the Euphrates, as far as the
city Hindnu (Himdnu), all the cities of the land
Suhu. I took prisoners from them, carried off
their numerous gods and their property, (and)
brought (them) to my city Assur.
i-na q-bit nin-urta GA-I[O] a-na KUR kardu-ni- lu- al-lik

VKV.BkD-mku-ri-gal-zu URU si-pr--dUTU
URU si-pr-a-da-nu-ni-te
URU. K. DINGIR.RA. KI URU -pe-e Sa GR am-
44-51) By the command of the god Ninurta, who

loves me, I marched to Kardunia. I conquered
the
cities
Dr-Kuriga1zu,
Sippar-of-ama,
Sippar-of-Anunltu, Babylon, Opis, which is on
the far side of the Tigris, the great towns of Kardunias together with their fortresses. I brought
about the defeat of their multitudes (and) took
prisoners without number from them. I captured
the palaces of Babylon which belonged to
Marduk-ndin-ahh, king of Kardunia, (and)
burnt them. In the eponymy of Aur-umu-ri
(and) in the eponymy of Ninuiia, twice, I drew
up a battle line of chariots against Marduk-
ma-a-te sa D.IDIGNA ma-ha-zi GAL.MES
sa KUR kar-du-ni- a-di hal-sa-ni-u-nu lu-

ak-ud di-ik-ta-u-nu ma-Ja-ta
lu- -kun al-la-su-nu a-na la me-na lu lu-ul .GAL.ME a URU, K.DINGIR.RA.KI
MDAMAR.UTU-SUM-A-/U MAN KUR kar-du-ni lu- ak-ud i-na IZI.MES lu -ru-up i-na
n
a-ur-Mv-KAM
31-33.23 has only a-na URU mi-li-di-a [a ... m]a-da-at-ta a

m
[/-...] and probably (considering size of lacuna) omitted all
of URU enzata ... bla 'I conquered the city Enzatu ... to my
land.' 35.11-12 su--hi. 37-40 omitted in ex. 23. 41.23 omits
ina girria annmma 'On this campaign'. (There is room in the
break only for â-na^.) 42.23-24 hi-in-da-ni.
42.23
UR[U.MES-W . . . ] GI.KIRI6.ME-W-W ak-[kis
...]
al-la-
su-nu lu a-[lu-ul]
I cut [down] their orchards [...(and)]
carried off their booty.' 45.9 URU z[-]m-br-[a-ama\.
46.23 omits sa pe ammte a dqlat 'On the other bank of
the Tigris'. 48.7, 23 lu a-duk for lu- -kun. 49.23 [...] MAN
KUR kar-du-ni-
l[u-
. . . ] NG.GA.MES .GAL.MEs-u [...]
king of Kardunia [I conquered (...)] the property of his

palaces [I plundered, I burnt (his palaces)].'
'[...]
44
i-na li-me mni-nu-a-ia 2-u si-di-ir-ta sa
nadin-ahhe, king of Kardunia, (and) defeated

him.
GI.GIGIR.ME
i-tu mdAMAR.UTu-suM-r-A/ MAN KUR kar-duni- -ku-un a-duk-û^

e-nu-ma a-hu-ru sa pa-an la-bu-ni a
m
Gi.TUKUL- d MA a-bi iD a-ur e-pu-u
u-a-tu a-na si-^hr^-ti-u .GAJU a-di puta-ti-u a ku-tal-li-u
a a-hu-ri-ma la-be-ru-te a pa-an la-buni a ma~ur-$xm-a-hi
a-bi ID a-ur NUN-W a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-u
-n-krt a-hu-ri
a-tu-nu a-na GIBIL-ut-te ad-d u-e-u-nu Ina NA4 pe-e-li ki-ma ki-sir Kum-i
-r-id
ra-pe-e
15 GR.ME -ri-ik
5 Vi GR.ME ~
6.TA.M -na GR.ME
GI bu-ut-ni a pu-ti-u -lab-bi-in
i-na GIS e-re-ni GI.R.ME a i-na si-qir aur a-nim
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES EN.ME-/T
a-na KUR lab-na-ni al-li-ku-ma ak-ki-su--ni

-i-an-ni
GI.R.ME SIG5.ME
a-nim d iKUR DINGIR.ME GAL.MES

EN.ME-/F -ka-i-nu--ni -na si-te-et
GI e-re-ni a-hu-ri a-tu-nu i-tu u-e-u
a-di gaba-dib-be-u ar-sip
i-na a-gr-ri a NA4.AD.BAR a-na si-hr-ti-u
al-mi la-bu-ni a pu-ti-u
i-na GI bu-ut-ni i-tu u-e-u a-di gaba-dibbe-u ar-sip i-na a-gr-ri a NA4 pe-e-li
pa-se-e a-na si-hr-t-u al-mi E.GAL-/T u-a-ti
i-na GI e-re-ni
GI bu-ut-ni ar-sip -k-lil -r-rih -si-im
na-rhD~ra
52-58) At that time the house of the ahru,

which is in front of the house of the labnu,
which Tukultl-Ninurta (i) my forefather, viceregent of Assur, had built I entirely cleared
away this house and the wall as far as its surfaces
at the back of the house of the old ahru, which
is in front of the house of the labnu (and) which
Aur-ndin-ahh my forefather, vice-regent of
Aur, a prince who preceded me, had built. I
founded anew the house of those sahru (and)
made their foundation of limestone like bedrock.
I made it fifteen 'feet* longer and five and one-half
'feet' wider. I reinforced the hall of terebinth on
(both) sides, (each) six by six 'feet'.
59-66) With cedar and beams, which by the command of the gods Aur and Anu, the great gods,
my lords - (after) I had marched to Mount
Lebanon I had cut down, carried off, (and) installed (these) excellent beams in the temple of the
gods Anu and Adad, the great gods, my lords:
with the remains of the cedar I constructed the
house of those ahru from top to bottom. I entirely surrounded it with basalt slabs. I constructed the house of the labnu, before (which) it
(stands), of terebinth from top to bottom. I entirely surrounded it with white limestone slabs.
(Thus) I constructed, completed, (and) decorated
this palace in a splendid fashion with cedar and
terebinth.
[(rabte) a mt a]-mur-ri a-du-ku-ni bur-hi-i

ba-al-(a a i-tu KUR lu-ma-
[...]-te am-mi-te a KUR hab-hi na-su--ni
tam-i-li-u-nu sa NA4.AD.BAR e-pu-u
[ina nrib arr]-ti-ia im-na u-me-la -azi-iz
67-71) I made replicas in basalt of a nahiru,

which is called a sea-horse (and) 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, (and) of a live burhi which was
brought from the mountain/land Lumas [...] on
the other side of the land Habhu. I stationed
(them) on the right and left at my [royal entrance] .
GI tas-ka-ri-n[\ a i-tu GI.R.ME a G[I]

fl-re-ni ak-ki-su--ni -i-an-ni
72-76) Finally, with boxwood, [which] I had cut

down (and) carried off with the cedar beams, I
a ANSE.KUR.RA a A.AB.BA
i-qa-
hi-u--ni pa-ri-an-gi ep-et qa-ti-ia

-na siq-ri DMA d i G i . D u DINGIR.ME
GAL.ME EN.ME-/A -ia A.AB.BA
53 a-di: either 'as far as' or 'together with'. 53 pu-ta-t-u:

difficult. Weidner, AfO 18 p. 355 suggested 'pillars' or 'niches'
but cf. von Soden, AHW p. 884 sub ptu B4; van Driel,
Aur p. 110. 70 Engel, Dmonen pp. 73 and 136-38 restores

[a bat]-te.
45
[ina] î-t^-at .GAL GIS e-re-ni a-a-ti H.GAL

GIS.TUKUL.MES a-na mul-ta-H-t
[E]N-ti-ia e-pu-u u-e-a i-na a-gr-ri a
NA4.GI.NUU.GAL a-na si-hr-ti-a
lu- al-mi i-tu u-e-a a-di gaba-dib-be-a
i-na GI tas-ka-ri-ni ar-sip
-k-lil NA4 . N A. R. A. ME-J0 al-tu-ur i-na
qer-be-i-na -kun
built a palace of weapons for my lordly leisure

beside this cedar palace. I entirely surrounded its
foundation with slabs of g/f/zwgaZ/w-alabaster.
(Thus) I constructed (and) completed it from top
to bottom with boxwood. I inscribed my monumental inscriptions (and) deposited (them) therein.
.GAL GI e-re-ni i-i i-na pi-it ha-[si-s]i nikil ib-bi e-pu-us
77-89) This cedar palace I built with understanding and skill (and) called it Egallugalarrakurkurra, 'Palace of the King of All [Lands]'. I
[made it fitting] for my royal residence for eternity. As the former palaces into which princes
who preceded me, older kings down to my time,
who constructed such palaces and (made them
fitting) for royal [residences for eternity], would
invite inside the god Aur, my lord, and the
[great] gods at the festivals of their city and make
sacrifices [...] (as) those palaces were not consecrated or designated as divine residences [but
when a prince/king] built a palace, his gods
would come inside (and) he would present therein
sacrifices [to] the gods: as the numerous palaces,
[which] the kings who preceded me did not consecrate or designate as divine residences, this
cedar palace, first/one year, palace of the god
Assur, my lord, and the great gods [...] eternity,
sacrifices were made before them (although) this
palace was [not] consecrated or designated as a
divine [residence] the king and his [...] dwell
therein.
-gal-lugal-r-ra-kur-kur-ra
.GAL LUGAL
ki-[at KUR.M]E MU-a ab-be a-na u-bat

MAN-ti-ia
a da-ra-a-ti -s[i(1)-im(1)] ki-i pi-i
.GAL.ME-MA mah-ra-a-te a NUN. MES
a-lik pa-rii-ia RP-[n]a MAN.MEs-ni la-be-ru-t[e
a-d\i muh-hi-ia a .GAL.ME&-ma
er-si-pu-ma a-na [u-ba]t MAN-ti-u-nu d[aru]-u -na i-si-na-at URU-u-nu
R ~a-ur EN DINGIR.M[E GAL].ME a-na
fb-
bi-î-na^ i-qa-ru--ma UDU.SISKUR.MES

[]-na-qu-
.GAL.MES i-na-ti-na la
qa-u-da-ma a-na u-bat DINGIR-/7
[la] a-ak-na [...] .GAL-/T e-pu-u
DINGIR. ME-nu-u a-na lib-be il-lu-ku
UDU. SISKUR. ME [ana D]INGIR.ME-W i-na
lb-
bi-ma i-a-kan k[i]-i pi-i .GAL.ME-te-ma

ma-da-a-te [LUG]AL.ME a-lik pa-ni-ia la qa-i-d[u]-i-na-ma a-na u-bat DINGIR-H'
la i-ku-nu [(...)] ^^.GAL GI e-re-ni a-a-ti
MU 1.KM .[GAL a]-ur EN DINGIR.MES
GAL.MES
[...]-x da-ru- UDU.SISKUR.ME a-napa-ni-unu i-[na-qu]- .GAL-lum i-i

[la qa-]u-da-at Va-na\ [ubat il]-ti la a-akna-at LUGAL TW'I [...].ÛES^-U î-na lb-bi
-bu
[...] x e-nu-ma .GAL GIS e-re-ni [f]
[... -\al-ba-ru-ma e-na-h[u (...) tas-k]a(1)ri-nu
[... ina q]er-be-i-na
[... rub] EGIR-W [...] a-ur [...] i-e-me
ITI hi-bur a tar-si ITI.GAN UD 18.KM l[i-mu
m
t]k-lak-a-na-a-ur
87 MU I.KM: see the note to A.0.87.3 line 30 and cf. van

Driel, Assur p. 166. 90-93 Cf. A.0.87.11 lines 19'-26'.
90-93a) [In the future, in days to come, may a]

later [prince], when [this] cedar palace [...] becomes old and dilapidated, [restore its weakened
portions either] with boxwood, [or ...] within
them [...]
93b) (Then) the god Assur will listen to [his
prayers].
94) Month of Hibur, equivalent of the (Babylonian) month Kislev, eighteenth day, [eponymy]
of [Ta]klak-ana-Aur.
91 [tas-k]a)-ri-nu: preserved only in exs. 6 and 22, the traces

before -ri-nu are not of e but could be of ka. Cf. line 72.
46
Tiglath-pileser i A. 0.8 7.15 46
5
This text, on a clay tablet fragment from Assur, describes work on the
palace at Assur and is very similar to, but not a duplicate of,
A.0.87.4. Only part of the reverse of the tablet is preserved and
doubtless the missing obverse had an introduction similar to A.0.87.4.
COMMENTARY
The preserved passage is in the Assyrian dialect like the
building passage in A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 .
Restorations are based largely on A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 (cf.
Borger, E A K 1 p. 132) but, since there is considerable
variation, may not be accurate in detail. Parallel or duplicate passages are (the numbers in parentheses refer to
lines in A.0.87.4): 2' (54), 3'-4' (58-60), 5' (62 and 64),
6' (63b-64a), 7' (63a), 8' (66), 9' ( A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 0 lines 6 8 - 6 9

and A.0.87.11 rev. 70, l l ' - 1 2 ' a (69b-70), and 12'b-14'
(67-69a).
The fragment ( V A T 9540, Ass 18723, A s s ph 5845)
measures 1 0 x 8 . 8 + cm. It was found in the till of the
'railway embankment', i D 4 v N W , and the inscription
has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 67 (copy)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 291 and 298 (translation)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. 130 and 132 (study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXVII 5 (translation)
1986 Pedersn, Archives 2 p. 28 no. 152 (provenance)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [...]
W-pu-u[s...]
2') [...]xte-w-/i/[...]
3') [...] -la-bi-in i-na GIS tas-ka-ri-n[i ... sa Ina
siqir aur u anim]
4') [iini rabti blia i-t]u KUR-E lab-na-a-ni
ak-ki-su--[ni aPanni[
5') [... is]-tu u-e-a a-di gaba-dib-bi-a ar-[sip
...]
6')
7')
8')
9')
[bit labuni a] pu-ti-u i-na GIS lar-pe-ê ar[sip ...]

[ina a-gu]r-ri a NA4.GI.NUI I.GAL a-na si-hrt[i-a almi ekalla uati arsip]
[ueklil -r-ri]h -si-im .GAR8.ME-57 [...]
[...] sik-kt kar-ri a-na s-ma-te-a [almi ...]
Lacuna
l'-9') built [...] the house of the labnu [...] I
strengthened. With boxwood, [which by the command of the gods Assur and Anu, the great gods,
my lords], I had cut down (and) [carried off] from
Mount Lebanon, [... I installed/built
...] from
top to bottom I constructed [... the house of the
labnu], before (which) it (stands), I constructed
with tamarisk. [... I] entirely [surrounded it with]
slabs of ginugallu-alabaster. [I constructed, completed, (and)] decorated [this palace in a splendid
fashion]. Its walls and [... I surrounded with]
knobbed nails to enhance its appearance.
10') [...] q-reb tam-le-e u-a-tu a-na a-x-[...]

11') [...]-te bur-hi-i bal-ta a i-tu KUR lu-ma-[a
...-te ammte]
12') [a mat habhi na-su-]-ni na-hi-ra a
ANE.KUR.RA a A.AB.BA [iqqabbni]
10'-14') [...] within this terrace and to [... I made

replicas in ... of a] live burhi which [was
brought] from the mountain/land Luma[s ... on
the other side of the land Habhu (and) of] a
nahiru, which [is called] a sea-horse (and) which
8' Instead one might restore from A.0.87.10 line 87 and

A.0.87.11 rev. 6: [eli mahr -r-r]h -si-im 'I decorated (it)
in a fashion [more splendid than ever].'
47

13')
[pariangi epet] fqa^-ti-ia a

[ilnu rabtu]
14')
[blia
MA
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.
Lacuna
iGi.DU
na A]TAB.BA GALI-IE a TKUR
a-mur-
m [...]
Lacuna
6
This is a small fragment of a clay tablet from Assur on which is
preserved the beginnings of the first few lines of an introduction to a
text of Tiglath-pileser i. Some of the epithets preserved are unique for
this king and the original text was clearly different from the other
Assur texts.
COMMENTARY
The fragment ( V A T 9497, Ass 10766, A s s ph 1934) measures 5 . 5 x 4 . 5 +
It was found in the city area and the inscription has been collated.
cm.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

TEXT
1)
2)
Gi.tukul-ti-im[LA-earra arru dannu ar

kiati ar mat aur]
MAN kl-lat ki[b-rat arba i ...]
3)
a i-na RE(?)-S[W(?)-WR(?)
1-7) Tig1ath-pi1[eser, strong king, king of the

universe, king of Assyria], king of all the [four]
quarters, [...] who with the aid [of ...], the king
who the Deluge of [...] approach of [battle ...]
the god Girru (fire god) encircler [of ...] whose
command
Lacuna
...]
4) MAN a a-bu-u[b ...]

5) qi-it-ru-u[b ...]
6) DGIBIL6(NE.G) m[u-Ia-it(1) ...]
7) []tf ^si-t pi-P-[u ...]
Lacuna
7
This tiny fragment of a clay tablet from Assur comes from a text of
Tiglath-pileser i in which the Babylonian conquest was described in a
manner different from that in A.0.87.4 and 10.
1-2 Cf. A.0.87.3 lines 1-2 and similar texts. 3 Cf. A.0.87.15
line 1. 5 Cf. A.0.87.10 line 13. 6 Cf. Seux, ERAS p. 149
n. 16 and pp. 181-82. Also note A.0.87.4 line 2 and A.0.87.10

line 2.
48
COMMENTARY
Note the parallel passages A.0.87.4 lines 46-51 and
with a red slip (see the introduction to this reign).
A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 0 lines 4 7 - 5 3 . These parallels strongly indicate

an identification of the fragment with Tigl. I. Such an
identification is buttressed by the distinctive form of the
signs, the Tiglath-pileser i* script, and the texture of
clay which consists of an ivory-white centre covered
The fragment (A 635, A s s 17861, K 209, A s s ph

5664) measures 4 . 9 x 4 + cm and the inscription has
been collated. N o specific provenance at Aur is
known.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1957-58 Weidner, Af< ) 18 p. 359 n. 25 (study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXVII 7 (study)
1990 Donbaz, ARRIM 8 p. 3 (copy)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [...] x
KUR [.
2')
[ . . . ] X URU.K,4.DINGI[R.RA.KI . . . ]
3')
4')
5')
[... kardu]-n - iu a[k-ud ...]

[...] rH.GAL-SU lu A [ K ( ? ) - . . . ]
[...]-u-nu /-r OL [ . . . ]
6')
[...]X-S[*/...]
7')
U l
x [...]
Lacuna
8
This fragmentary text, on pieces of a clay tablet from Assur, has
remains of a description of the manufacturing of animal figurines (see
the introduction to A . 0 . 8 7 , 4 ) and other decorative creations for the
palace. Specific reference is made to the part of the palace constructed
of boxwood.
COMMENTARY
The fragmentary text is preserved on several pieces
joined by Veysel Donbaz: A 646 (Ass 17874b) + A 661
(Ass 17874a) + A 2512 (Ass 17874c)( + )Ass 17874d.
P h o t o s of all the fragments appear o n Ass ph 5664
and, although the original of Ass 17874d could not be
4' A[K(?)-...]: possibly a[k-ud\ or a[q-qur].
located, it obviously joins the other fragments. The inscription has been collated. N o specific provenance at
A s i u r is known. The tablet has the same characteristic
form of script and clay texture noted for A . 0 . 8 7 . 7 .
49
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXVII 8 (study)
1990 Donbaz, ARRIM 8 p. 4 (copy)
TEXT
Lacuna
1-30 No translation warranted.
Lacuna
10 [...] vai-na a-m[a!)-...]
20 [...] //(?) rtu(?p e(?) ku m[e(1)...]
30 [...] x-ra-da-a an-n[u(1)-...]
d
[ . . . a ina siqr]
50
60
G[AL.ME biia ina mt]

[rabti] a TKUR" a-mur-^rP a-du-ku-ni [...]
[ina nrib arr]-ti-ia ZAG \ G]B -[a-zi-iz
me-sir
4'-110 [- 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 at my royal
[entrance]. I [fashioned (...)] bands of silver and
gold [...] this weapon with wisdom [I manufactured ...]. The palace [...] the gods [...] I inscribed my [monumental] inscriptions [and deposited them therein].
MA d fiGi.DU~i DINGIR.MES
40
70
[...]
80
[... G]I(?).TUKUL i-i i-na ta-im
sar-^p
K.GI W-[...]
90
[...] x si x tu [...]
\-ti x [ . . . ]
1O0 {...] .GAL [X] DINGIR.M[E(?) . . . ]
110 [ N A4. NA. R. A. M]E-// al-tu-u[r ...]
12-140 [In the future, in days to come, may a

later prince], when [this] palace [becomes old and
dilapidated, restore its weakened portions either
with] boxwood or [...]
Lacuna
120 {ana arkt m ana Um ste e-nu]-ma .GALl[um ]

130 [ualbarma ennahu l ta]s(7)-ka-r-nu
[ft?...]
140 [...] x x x [...]
Lacuna
9
This text is found on a clay tablet fragment from Assur and it is virtually certain that it is a fragment of an otherwise unknown text of
Tiglath-pileser i.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (VAT 9511, Ass 12901, Ass ph 3235) was
found in the city area. It measures 5.1 x 6 + cm and the
inscription has been collated. It has the same characteristic form of script and clay texture as A . 0 . 8 7 . 7 . The
4'-6' cf. A.0.87.4 lines 68-71. 7' sarpu = 'silver* in MA; see
CAD 16 ($) pp. 113-14 sub b. 12-13' cf. A.0.87.11 lines W-2V.
strongest indicator that it is from a text of Tigl. I is the

place-name Adau which is attested almost exclusively
in inscriptions of that king.
50
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1957-58 Weidner, AfO 18 p. 342 (study)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 p. 121 (study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 L X X X V I I 9 (translation)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') I...
21 [...
3') [...
4') [...
5') [...
6') [...
7') [...
80 [...
9') [...
10') [...
m
[...
Lacuna
Lacuna
fa^-na URU
-su-nu i-na x [...]
i-du-ku i-na x [...]
x a-na muh-hi-u-nu [...]
sa KUR a-da-us [...]
l ' - l l ' ) [...] to the city u[...] their [...] in [...]

they killed in [...] against them [...] of the land
Adau [...] the city-ruler of the city u[...] of the
land Adaus [...] ... city and country [...] to the
land Adaus I/he entered. [...] ... [...]
Lacuna
-a EN.URU sa URU & - [ . . . ]
-x-ia sa KUR a-da-u x [ ]

-ii-i URU se-ra [...]
x a-na KUR a-da-u e-ru-[ub
x [...] x sa ni [...]
X [...]
10
The following text, on clay tablets from Nineveh, has an introduction
closely parallel to A.0.87.4 and a description of various building
works at Nineveh. A second text from Nineveh, A.0.87.11, has a
different description of building operations but its introduction is almost an exact duplicate of this text and so has been edited here (as
'exemplar 2') for convenience. This introduction, (lines 1-53), as just
stated, is closely parallel to A.0.87.4, except that it does not include
the campaigns against Milidia and the Aramaeans (A.0.87.4 lines
31-36). Moreover, the campaigns against the Musku, Urumu, and
Lullumu (A.0.87.4 lines 18-23) are found only in exemplar 2, not in
exemplar 1 (the other exemplars are not preserved here).
The building operations at Nineveh concern the city wall (lines
54-62) and the palace of Aur-ra-ii i (lines 63-70 and possibly
A.0.87.11, cf. RIMA 1 p. 315 A.O.86.5). The final construction passage (lines 71-88) describes work on a garden and canal (cf.
A.0.87.24-27) and a palace beside the Istar temple.
51
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
BM 122622 +
122623+ 123361
1930-5-8,11-12 t
1932-12-10,304
Possibly chamber i
in SE wall and
chamber iv in SW
wall, Asn. palace.
Cf. A A A 18, pp. 84-86
2 4 . 5 X 17 +
1-94
16.4x16
7.2x6.6
6.2x7.3
5.1x4.1
4x3.2 +
4x4 +
3x4.5 +
6-28
1-13, 94
10-18, 82-93
2 - 8 , 94
45-51, 64-70
13-16, 79-85
46-63
Sm 1874
K 2805
BM 122632
BM 121067
BM 134564
1930-5-8,21
1929-10-12,63
1932-12-12,559
79-7-8,280
Bu 89-4-26,28
NT. xxv. 3
+
+
+
+
COMMENTARY
The master text (ex. 1) is the only reasonably complete
inscription. 'Ex. 2' is, in reality, the introductory portion o f A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 1 , which has been edited here for convenience. Ex. 2 is badly worn and many readings are
possible only by comparison with other exs. or parallel
texts. The remaining exs. are just fragments and it is
not absolutely certain that they all belong to one text.
However, they certainly do not belong to A.0.87.4, a
closely parallel text, since they share major vars. from
that text and, when preserved, the building sections
concern Nineveh, indeed many of them (exs. 4 - 6 ) are
definitely from Nineveh and the remainder (exs. 3, 7 - 8 )
at least have Kuyunjik registration numbers.
Ex. 6 is a tiny fragment with traces on the rev. which
duplicate the master text (lines 64-70). On the obv. are
traces in which Kardunias is mentioned twice. Millard,
followed by Grayson (ARI 2 LXXXVII 14), thought this
represented a unique text of this king. However, the
traces can be identified with lines 45-51 of the master
text. The only problem with this is the line ruling in
ex. 6 which appears after a-duk in line 49. This suggests
a variation in this inscription but does not justify regarding it as unique.
Ex. 8 is also a tiny fragment and, while most of its

traces match the master text, it is awkward trying to fit
into lines 6 0 - 6 2 the traces which it preserves, It is just
possible, then, that it represents a description of a
diffrent building project.
There are many small breaks in ex. 1 which necessitate the use of other exs. to construct the master text.
Details follow (the ex. numbers are in parentheses): 1
(1, 3), 2 - 4 (1, 3, 5), 5 - 7 (1, 3), 8 (1, 3, 5), 9 (1, 3),
10-11 (1-2), 12-15 (1), 16-20 (1-2), 21-27 (2), 2 8 - 6 3
(1), 64 (1, 6), 65-81 (1), 82-93 (1, 4), and 94 (1, 3, 5).
The introduction (lines 1-53) is a very close parallel
of the introduction to A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 (lines 1-51) and restorations are from the latter unless stated otherwise. The
major variations from A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 have been mentioned in
the introduction to our text but also note that ex. 2
omits the line ruling between lines 8 - 9 , thus regarding
lines 1-15 as one section (as does A.0.87.4). The parallel passages are (the line numbers in A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 are in
parentheses): 1-15 (1-12), 16 (13-14), 17-20 (15-17),
2 1 - 2 3 (18-19), 2 4 - 2 5 (20-21), 26-27 (22-23), 2 8 - 3 5
(24-30), 3 6 - 4 0 (37-40), 4 1 - 4 4 (41-43), and 45-53
(44-51).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1870
1893
1896
1898
1902
3 R pi. 5 no. 1 (ex. 3, copy)

Winckler, Sammlung 1 p. 26 (ex. 3, copy)
Bezold, Cat. 4 pp. 1722 and 1919 (exs. 7-8, study)
Winckler, OLZ 1 76-77 (exs. 7-8, study)
King, AKA pp. 109-13 (exs. 2-3, copy, edition) and
125-26 n. 3 (exs. 7-8, study)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 272-81 (ex. 3, translation)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 pp. 84-86 (ex, 1?, provenance)
1957-58 Weidner and Kcher, AfO 18 pp. 347-59 (exs. 1-3,
edition)
1959-60 Weidner and Kcher, AfO 19 pp. 141-43 and pis.
X X V I I I - X X X (ex. 1, copy, edition)

1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. 110-33 (exs. 1-3, study)
study)
1968 Lambert and Millard, Cat. pp. 7, 14-15, and 78 (exs. 1,
4-6, study)
1970 Millard, Iraq 32 pp. 167-68, 171, and pis. xxxv-xxxvi
(exs. 4-6, copy)
1972 Grayson, ARI 1 p. 156 (ex. 6, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 i.xxxvn 4, 10, and 14 (exs. 1-6, transla-
tion) and p. 1 n. 8 (exs. 7-8, study)
52
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
[tukult]^miLA^--r-ra LUGAL dan-nu r LuGAL~I KI[ ar mt assur]

[ar] kl-lat [kib\-rat 4-i mu-la-it gi-mir [targigtl
[ahtu] za-nin [-ku]r bi-bfl lb-bi a-ur et-lu
[qardu (geru la pad)]
[sa ina GI]Ltukul-ti [aur] r i nin-urta
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES-FT? EN.ME-5W
5)
6)
it-ta[l-la-ku-ma] îP-am-qi-tu ge-ri-u NUN-U

na-a-[du]
NFTFI i-na si-qir DUTU qu-ra-di i-tu
URU.K.DINGIR.RA.KI a KUR.URI. [KL]
7)
8)
9)
[ad] A.AB.BA e-le-ni-te a [K]UR a-^muf-ri

tam-di a KUR.KUR na-i-r[i]
[ina ta\^nirP-te qa-a-su ik-u-du-ma i-pe-lu
gim-r[a]
[gi-g]i-nu- dan-nu a i-na ti-ib
GIS.TUKUL. ME-SW eZ~ZU~te
10) rtu-bu^-qa-at 4-ta u-ra-bu-ma i-hi-lu da-adMU. ME
11) rfi al-tu-t na-ki-ru-ut a-ur a-ar tq-ruub-te a-na hal-te

12) [i(1)-i(1)]-mu-u-nu-ma zi-qi-qi-i um-mi daap-pa-nu am-ru
13) [a] ri-na^ qit-ru-ub tam-ha-re-e-u ek-du-te
mal-ki. MES a UB.ME
1-8) [Tig1ath]-pi1eser, strong king, king of the

universe, [king of Assyria, king] of all the four
q u a r t e r s , encircler of all [criminals, pious], provider for [Eku]r, select of the god Aur, [valiant]
young man [(merciless mighty man) who] acts
[with] the support of the gods [Aur] and
Ninurta, the great gods, his lords, [and] (thereby)
has felled his foes, attentive prince who, by the
command of the god ama the warrior, has conquered by means of conflict from Babylon of the
land Akkad [to] the Upper Sea of the land
Amurru and the sea of the lands Nairi and become l o r d o f all;
9-15) strong gigtn, who by the attack of his

fierce weapons has caused the four corners (of the
world) to quake so that the habitations convulsed
indeed on the battlefield he has put in their
graves the dangerous enemies of the god Aur
and turned them into ghosts storm-trooper, at
the approach of whose ferocious onslaught, the
princes of the (four) quarters dreaded his fierce
battle and took to hiding places like bats and
scurried off to inaccessible regions like jerboa;
14) ta-ha-su ez-za e-du-ru-ma ki-ma u-ti-ni sba-tu tu-bu-qe-ti

15) ki-ma ar-ra-be ih-tal-la-lu er-se-et la-a ba-H
16)
DUMU a-ur-SAG-i-i
d
LUGAL KI TLUGAL-! KUR
a-i~ur DUMU" mu-tk-kil-nusku

LUGAL KUR a-ur-ma
LUGAL KI
16) son of Aur-ra-ii (i), king of the universe,

king of Assyria, son of Mutakkil-Nusku (who
Assyria:
17) T3i-5W a-na KUR.KUR na-i-ri lu âlAik

DAGAL^.ME KUR.KUR rta--r -tU KUR tUftl4rme^
18) [adi KU]R rda-ii-e-ni R lu ak-u-ud KUR
hafri-hi be-i~ta~i-nu KUR hi-mu-a
19) KUR p[a]-fP-te-ri R foi ak-ud
[A]NE.KUR.TRA.ME si-inP-da-at GI ni-ri
20) ma-da-ta-u-nu flu^-[(u)] am-hu-ûr^
17-20) thrice 1 marched to the lands Nairi (and)

conquered the extensive lands Nairi from Tummu
[to] the land Dainu. I conquered the interior of
the land Habhu, the lands Himua (and) Paiteru. I
received their tribute of teams of horses in harness.
8 There is riot enough room (in ex. 1 the main ex.) to restore
all of ina taninte u danni qssu from the parallel A.0.87.4
line 7. There is only room for about five signs before
ikuduma and thus the reconstruction of the beginning of the
line may be faulty. 11-13.2 This ex, departs widely from the
other exs.: âl-tu-te KR.ME (1) dâ-ur [x (x) x x x]-^ma^
zi-qi-qi-i rum-mi -um(?.)-gal(1) dan^-nu ki-x-[x x x x x] a
nap-fhaif)i mal-ki.ME rjfr(?) U B L M E changing the

translation to 4 - indeed [...] the dangerous enemies of the god
Aur and turned them into ghosts strong dragon ... [...]
whose (fierce battle) all the princes of the (four) quarters
(dreaded)'. 12 [i0)-i(7)]-mu-u-nu-ma: the parallel A.0.87.4
line 10 has uknunma\ for the suggested restoration see the
references cited by von Soden, AHw p. 1225b sub II 3.

[12 LIM RIN.HI.A.ME]-tf KUR WWS-7.ME
rfa-a(?) ka-ni-e(1p /-rncP q-reb ^tarr0-[har

[qt] r/^(?)i ik-û^-ud
qu-^ra-di-ui-nu
rmuq^-tab-^li i-ncH zi-[qit]
[mulmull] ê-lP pi-ri-ik ^na-me-^ lu-m-[s\
[4 LIM KUR -ru]-mcP-a-ia.MES KUR a-^be-lai-a-fia.MEiP {ummnt mat hatte]
[{l knie) al-q]a âs^-su-ha [a-n]a(1)
53
21-23) I conquered [12,000 of the] troops of the

land of the insubmissive Muku in battle. I laid
out by means of the bow (lit. 'at arrowpoint')
their fighting men right through the plain.
24-25) I took (and) uprooted [4,000 Uru]mu (and)

Abeslu, [(insubmissive) Hittite troops, (and) regarded them as belonging to my] land.
RKUR(?)-R/(?)I-[/A amnu]
[mt sa(1)]-^lu(1)-a KUR lu-* lu -me-e a-^na

si-[hirta]
[...]
I KUR al-zi luîP [akud\
26-27) [I] [conquered the land Sa]lua, the entire

land of the Lullumu, [the lands ...] and Alzu.
î-na 1 q-bit da-ur da-nim d[adad ilni
28-35) By the command of the gods Aur, Anu,

and [Adad], the great [gods], my lords, 1 marched
to Mount Lebanon. I cut down (and) carried off
cedar beams for the temple of the gods Anu and
Adad, the great gods, my lords. I continued to
the land Amurru (and) conquered the entire land
Amurru. 1 received tribute from the city Arvad
(and) the lands Byblos (and) Sidon. Upon my return I became lord of the entire land Hatti (and)
imposed upon Ini-Tesub, king of the land Hatti,
tax, tribute, a n d (impost c o n s i s t i n g of) cedar
beams.
GA]L.ME-E EN.ME-ZT
a-na KUR-E KUR lab-na-ni lu al-l[ik

GI.R.ME] a GI e-re-ni
a-na
a-nim
IKUR DI[NGIR.ME
GA]L.ME-/^ EN.ME-IH
ak-ki-is -a-a a-na KUR a-mur^rP e-tiq

KUR (a)-mur-ri a-na si-hr-ti^cP
ak-ud ma-da-ta a URU ar-ma-da KUR gu-bal
KUR si-du-ni
lu am-hur i-na ta-ia-ar-ti-ia KUR ha-at-te a-na
pat gim-ri-a
a-p-l GUN ma-da-ta GI.HJR1.[ME] N&N
GI e-re-ni
i-na UGU m-ni-dte-ub LUGAL KUR ha-at-^t^
[(lu) -k]u-un
[a-n]a KUR kar-du-ni- Vlu I al-lik i-tu URU
tr--an a e-ber-ta-an
[]D za-ba u-t~ba~i-le-e URU âf-ma-an
A.GR.URU-SA-TF/-/M
[a)-di URU u-ub-di lu ak-ûcP D ra-da-na

lu- e-be-er
[U]RU.ME-M a GR KUR ka-til-^la iP GR
KUR ka-mul-la lu ak-ud

[a]l-la-su-nu bu-a-u-nu [l]u-e-si-a a-na
a-ur ub-la
[/-/i]a ger-ri-ia an-tnP-ma a-na KUR su-hi lu
al-lik i-tu URU sa-bi-ri~rte~
[a MU]RUB 4 D rpu-raO-te
URU.ME-W a GR
an-na-te GR am-ma-a-te
21-27 omitted in ex, 1 and preserved only in ex. 2.

24-25 There is not enough room in ex. 2 (the only preserved
ex.) in the break at the end of line 24 and the beginning of
line 25 to restore everything from the parallel A.0.87.4 lines
20-21 and la knie 'insubmissive* was probably omitted.
36-40) I marched to Kardunia. I conquered from

the city Tursan on the other side of the Lower
Zab, the city Arman of Ugar-Sallu, as far as the
city Lubdu. I crossed over the River Radnu. I
conquered the cities at the foot of Mount Kati11a
(and) the foot of Mount Kamulla. I took out their
booty (and) possessions (and) brought them to my
city Aur.
41-44) On this campaign of mine I marched to

the land Suhu, I conquered from the city Sabiritu,
an island in the Euphrates, the cities on this bank
and the far bank [as far as the city H]indnu. I
27 There is not enough room at the beginning in ex. 2 (the

only preserved ex.) to restore both Qummeni and Katmuhu
from the parallel A.0.87.4 line 22 and no doubt one of the
place-names was omitted.
54
[adi URU he]-en-da-na r lu ak^-sud UN.MESu-nu as-su-[h]
uprooted their people, carried off their [gods],

(and) brought (all of) them to my city Assur.
[DINGIR.MES-/?]i-su-nu [lu] -a-a a-na URU-/
a-ur uh-t~la~
[ina gi-b]it nin-urta ra-H-mi-ia-a-te-ia a-na

KUR ^kar-du-nP-
[lu al-l\k URU.BAD-mku-ri-gal-zu URU sipar5'-drviv^
URU si-par5~s-da-nu-ni-te
[URU.K.DING]IR.RA.KI URU ^p^-e
ma-a-
ha-^zP GAL.ME-re
[a KUR kar-d]u-ni- a-di hal-sa-ni-u-i nu >
lu- ak-ud
[di-ik-t]a-u-nu ma-a-aJ-ta lu a-duk âP-lasu-n[u a-n]a la mi-na
[l alul] r^.GAL.ME a
URU. K. DINGIR.RA. KI a NIRD" !
[marduk-sv]u-
TE.ME"!
45-53) [By the] command of the god Ninurta,

who loves me, I marched to Kardunia. I conquered the cities Dr-Kuriga1zu, Sippar-of-ama,
Sippar-of-Anuntu, Babylon, Opis, the great
towns of [Kard]unia together with their fortresses. I brought about the defeat of their multitudes (and) took prisoners without number from
them. I burnt the palaces of Babylon which
belonged to [Marduk-n]din-ahh, [king of
Kard]unia. [... I plundered]
the numerous
palaces. [/ drew up a battle line of chariots]
against Marduk-ndin-ahh, king of Kardunias,
[(and) defeated him].
[ar mat kar-d]u-ni- i-na IZI.ME lu [-ruup x xx]

[x x x] r.GALi.ME-te-5tt ma-a-a^-da-t[e l
aiul(1) u sidirta a(1)]
[narkabti(1) i-t]u MDAMAR.UTu-suM-a-W
MAN KUR Rkar-du^-[ni- akun adku]
[ina muma dru a UR]U nl-nu-a R&FI x
[...]
[rub likpa-n]i-ia e-pu-u e-na-a[h-ma ...]

[aaru] ViP-m-si dan-na-su ak-u-ud x
[....M]E [ . . . ]
[.., B]D u-a-tu ad-di 9Vi SIG4.ME [kebber]

[dru ua]-tu a-na si-hr-ti-u i-tu ru^-e-u
a-di gab[a]^dib-bP-[u]
[ipik] ep-rLMES ki-\ ma I DUI a-na li-mi-ti-u
-pu-u[k]
[... t]i-ip-ki(*).MES a-na u-ba-li i-na e-p-ri
-ka-ti-im
[...] ina DUB URU [eii mah-r]e-e -^dan^-[n]in
ut-te-er
[... ]a-qa-a a^-n[a x x (x)] A.TME(?)i X i-na
I NA4 1 pi-li a-gr-ri ak-ser
[ekallu] a ma-ur-[s]G-i-i a-bi ID a-ur
rî -pu-u
[]a-a -k-li-lu .GAL-la u-a-tu ar-sip []k-lil
r.GARg'.ME-te-a na-m-ri-a u-a-q[i]-ma
i-na a-gr-ri NA4.MES NA4 sur-ri NA4.ZA.GN
NA4.BABBAR.DILI NA4 pa-^nP-te
45 ra-î-mi-ia-a-te-ia: an anomalous form. Is it in error for

ra-H-mi-ia ia-a-tel 51-52 The parallel A.0.87.4 lines 49-50 is
not exactly the same and in particular there is no room to
54-62) [At that time the wall of] the city Nineveh
which [previously ... a prince who preceded] me,
had built, had become dilapidated [...] I delineated [its area] (and) dug down to the bottom of
its foundation pit. [...] I laid [the foundation of]
this wall (and) [made it the thickness] of nine and
one-half bricks. Around the entire circumference
of [this wall] from top to bottom I piled up earth
like a ruin hill. The lower [...] layers of brick I
covered with earth. I made it stronger (and)
bigger [than before. ...] ... water. 1 covered (it)
with a facing of limestone slabs.
63-70) [The palace] which Aur-ra-ii (i), my

father, vice-regent of the god Aur, had built
(but) not completed this palace I constructed
(and) completed. I raised its walls and towers and
made (them) fast, with a facade of bricks glazed
(the colour of) obsidian, lapis lazuli, pappardilstone, (and) pariw-alabaster. I installed on its
restore the tlmu dates from A.0.87.4. 61-62 The beginning of

these lines is from ex. 8 and the exact position of the traces in
relation to ex. 1 is uncertain.

ki-ma tam-li-te -re-ki-is tam-i-il
GI. GIIMMAR. ME SO SUR-^RD
i-na na-m-ri-a -e-zi-iz sik-kt kar-ri ZABAR
55
towers replicas in obsidian of date palms (and)

surrounded (them) with knobbed nails of bronze.
I made high doors of fir, made (them) fast with
bronze bands, (and) hung (them) in its gateways.
al-mi GI.IG.ME GIS a-[u-h]i si-ra-te D-W ina m-sir ZABAR
-re-ki-is i-na K[.M]E-S? -re-et-te

i-na a-ah am-e-e u-a-tu [GI.KIR]I6 a-na
mul-ta-a?-it
EN-ti-ia -qu-up [D pattu(1) i]-tu D hu-sir
tu ah-ra-a
i-na q-reb Gi.KiRie u-a-tu r/î [...] x si-teet A.ME a-tu-nu
a-na ta-mer-ti URU a-na I tam^-k[i-r]i -e-li

i-na q-reb GI.KIRI6
u-a-tu .GAL-l[a x) x la-a x-x-ti-ia e-pu-u

ki-iMa da-fna(1)-ni(1)i a da-u[r] ri
D
MA DINGIR.MES ra-î-mu
SANGA \-[t]i-ia 'iP-at-li-mu-ni-ma [(x)] Hna~ ib-be -sir

[...] x [a]n-na-ma [...] x-u JGMJ~la *
UGU^ tam-le-e a i-da-at
[bt] Rii%-tr NI[N-/]A fa NUN1-W a-lik [p]a-
ni-ia e-pu-u
~e~i-na-ah-ma [m]u-tk-kil-nusku a-b[i] ID
a-ur
[...] x [...] x e-rta-ah-ma FI.GAL-la u-a-tu
[a idt bt is-t]r NIN-ia x-x tam-la-a ana si-hr-ftP-[...]
^me(1)^-eh-rat
sa DINGIR a e-~na~-hu-ma x x x [... k]i-ma
ka-nu-ni
[apuk ...] a-na -ri-u -^ter mus^-[]a-la
[...] t~ar~-si-ip .GAL-/A u-bat wGAL-ti-îa^
[...] x an-ni-ma e-rpu ]-u i-tu u-e-a a-di
gaba-dib-bi-[a]
[a r-s]-ip UGU mah-re-e -r-ri-ih -si-im
71-88) Beside this terrace I planted a garden for

my lordly leisure. I excavated a [canal] from the
River Husir (and) [directed it] into this garden. I
brought up the remainder of that water to the city
plain for irrigation. Within this garden I built a
palace, ... I portrayed therein the victory and
might which the gods Aur and Ninurta, the
gods who love my priesthood, had granted me.
[...] the palace which is upon the terrace, which is
beside [the temple of] the goddess Istar, my mistress which a prince who preceded me had
built (and when) it became dilapidated MutakkilNusku, my father, vice-regent of the god Assur,
[rebuilt it ...] had become dilapidated. This
palace [which is beside the temple of the goddess
It]ar, my mistress, the ... and the terrace [I] entirely [rebuilt]. Opposite the temple which had become dilapidated [I piled up this entire area with
bricks] like an oven. [...] I restored. The house of
the Step Gate [...] I constructed. The palace, my
royal dwelling, [...] ... I built. I constructed it
from top to bottom (and) decorated (it) in a
fashion more splendid than ever. I inscribed my
monumental inscriptions (and) deposited (them) in
these palace walls.
NA4.NA.R.A.ME-IA al-tu-ur i-na BD
.GAL.ME- -tu-nu
-ku-un
a-na ar-kt UD.ME a-na u4-um sa-a-te e-numa BD .GAL.ME
[a-tu]-^nu^ -al-ba-ru-ma e-na-hu NUN-M

ar-ku-
[an-h]u-su-nu lu--û(D-di-i
NA4.NA.R.A.ME-/A
li-mur-ma
[lu-m]es-s .ME lip-u-u UDU.SISKUR liq-qi

a-na -ri-u-nu lu-ter
a-ur EN GAL-W i%-tr mw-at URU ni-nu-a

ik-ri-be-u i-e-mu-û i
69-70 See the introduction to A.0.101.51. 79.7 Instead of

NUN-W or any form of rub&u there are two broken signs, the
first of which looks like R AZ~. 82 The restoration and
89-93) In the future, in days to come, may a later

prince, when these palace walls become old and
dilapidated, restore their weakened (portions).
May he see my monumental inscriptions, identify
(them), anoint (them) with oil, make sacrifices,
(and) return (them) to their places. (Then) the god
Aur, the great lord, and the goddess Istar, mistress of Nineveh, will listen to his prayers.
reconstruction of the beginning of the line is on analogy with

lines 78-79 and is not entirely certain. 83-84 Cf. A.0.87.1
vii 79-80.
56
94)
[ i T i . . . . ] - x UD 18.KAM
U-m[u
. . . ] ME
su-teg-e
94) [Month of ...], eighteenth day, eponymy [of

...] of the Sutu.
11
This text, on a broken clay tablet from Nineveh, has an introduction
which is a duplicate of A.0.87.10 (where it is edited as 'ex. 20 and a
building section in which work on a palace at Nineveh is described.
Despite the broken state of the text, much of it can be restored from
parallel passages in A.0.87.4 and 10. Indeed, the same palace (which
seems to be called Egallugalublimmuba) may be the subject of
A.0.87.10 (lines 63-70).
COMMENTARY
The piece of clay tablet, Sm 1874, o n which this text is found measures
16.4 X 1 6 + cm. The text has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King AKA pp. 113-16 (copy, edition)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. 132-33 (Tontafel c Ex. B') (study)
TEXT
(For the obverse see A.0.87.10)
Reverse
Lacuna
10
[] X GIS [>] RJFI-[...]
20
3')
4')
[...] x ni x x-ri-ti Sa ^nP-x x [...]

I..]-u Sa be-ta-nu a-^dP e-HP [... ]
[...]-ri-te sa a-na x [(x)] ^ku/lu/iP a i-^da^-
[...]
50
60
70
80
[... ]jGAL~\-lum i-i i-^tiP u-e-[a adi

gabadibba]
[ar-silp UGU mah-re-e -r^rif ' [ussim]
[sikkt karri ZA]BAR al-mi GI.IG.ME GI a[u-hi srte pu\
Tina msir ZABA]R
ra^-ki-is5 i-na K-a [rette]
A.0.87.10 line 94 The number of the day in ex. 3 is 18 and in

ex. 1, despite slight damage, it is also clearly 18 (against
Kcher who saw 17). Ex. 5 has in the very bottom corner of
the rev. [...] ME su-te9-e which must be part of the title of the
tmu, a title otherwise unknown for tmus of this reign.

Lacuna
rev. 1-80 its inner [...] as far as ... [...] ... [...]
This palace I constructed from top to bottom
(and) [decorated] (it) in a fashion more splendid
than ever. I surrounded (it) [with knobbed nails
of] bronze. [I made high] doors of fir, made
(them) fast with bronze [bands, (and) hung
(them)] in its gateway.
A.0.87.11 line 3' Cf. RIMA 1 p. 192 line 34. A.0.87.11 lines
5-6' Restored from A.0.87.10 lines 86-87. A.0.87.11 lines
7'-8' Restored from A.0.87.10 lines 68-70. A.0.87.11 lines
7-8' See the introduction to A.0.101.51.

90
[...] a i-na GIl.tukul-ti a-ur a-nim SAD
1CT) [lni GAL]-7TI tik-li-na* [x] x

[KUR(?)] . KUR.ME-te sa x [x x]
11') [...]-lu-rui-nu [...] x qa-tix [...] x [...]

12') [ilni(1) rabti(1) EN(?).M]E-/A W-[...] xarx
[. ] x [...]
13') [...] rbur~-hi-i [balta a i]-tu KUR [luma
14') [...] x x tam-[i-tunu] RFAFI NA4 pa-* ru--[te
...]
15') [...] re-pu(*p-u [ina nrib] LUGAL-t[i-ia imna

u umla(1)]
16') [uziz]-ma NA4.R NA.RLH.[A.(ME)H7fi alf(u-ur1 [...]
17') [...] x-/ i-na ta-i-[l\a-at lb-[bi...]
180 [egallugalublimmu(1)]-rba^ .GAL LUGAL kibrat 4-[i uma abbi(1)]
57
rev. 9* 18'> [...] which with the support of the

gods Assur, Anu, Enlil, [... the great gods], my
sustainers, the lands of/which [...] I made replicas
in /?rata-a1abaster [and basalt of a nhiru, which
is called a sea-horse (and) 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, (and) of a live] burhis [which was
brought] from the mountain/land [Luma ... on
the other side of the land Habhu. I stationed
(them) on the right and left at my] royal [entrance]. [...] I inscribed my monumental inscriptions (and) [deposited (them)] joyfully [in ... I
called it Egallugalublimmubja, 'Palace of the King
of the Four Quarters'.
rev. 19-260 [In the future, in] days to come,

[may a later prince], when [this palace becomes
old and] dilapidated, [restore its weakened portions] either with cedar, [or ...], or tamarisk [...]
... May [he see] my monumental inscriptions,
[identify (them), anoint (them) with oil], make
sacrifices, (and) [return (them)] to [their places.
(Then) the god Assur, the great lord, and] the
goddess Istar, mistress of [Nineveh, will listen to
his prayers].
190 [ana arkt m ana] u4-um sa-a-te e-nu-ma

r~i.[GAL-/w/w ]
20') [ualbarma e]-^na^-hu lu- GI Re-re-nu^
[...]
210
220
23')
240
[l ...]-x lu- GI tar-pu-[û ...]

[] x TAR ME ta ir ta x [...]
[...] RNA4"I.NA.R.A.ME-/TF l[i-murm]
[lumessi amna lipu UD]U.SISKUR-G liq-qi
rd-[na arunu lutr]
250 [aur blu rab] R^N DINANNA be-lat U[RU
ninua]
260 [ikribu iemm]
12
This broken text, preserved on two clay tablet fragments from
Nineveh, describes some military campaigns which are otherwise unknown and work on the Istar temple. The work on this structure by
three earlier kings, amI-Adad i (RIMA 1 pp. 51-55 A.0.39.2),
Aur-uba11it i (RIMA 1 pp. 115-16 A.0.73.1001), and Shalmaneser i
(RIMA 1 pp. 205-225 A.0.77.17-19, 29, and A.0.77.1003-1004), is
briefly mentioned.
10' [KUR(?)].KUR.ME-e: See Schott, ZA 44 (1938) p. 177 n. 2.

11-16' Restored from A.0.87.4 lines 67-71. Since our text is
about work at Nineveh and A.0.87.4 is about work at Aur
there are vars. (e.g. partu instead of atbaru) and the
restorations may not be exactly correct. See, for example,
Engel, Dmonen p. 138. 14' The traces preserved for the first
two signs are very faint but do not support a reading na]-su-
ni. 15' For -fptfi- the text has -r/i-. 16' There is hardly room
to restore MES. IT Cf. RIMA 1 p. 185 lines 147-48. 18' For
the restorations see Borger, EAK 1 p. 132. 18'~19' The line
ruling was mistakenly omitted by King. 20' Cf. Borger, EAK
I p. 133 and Grayson, ARI 2 p. 35 n. 166. 21' tar-pu-[>u ...]:
the reading was suggested by J.N. Postgate and confirmed by
collation. 23 -26' Restored from A.0.87.10 lines 91-93.
58
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
1
2
K 2807
Bu 9 1 - 5 - 9 , 1 9 6
10x10+
7,5x8+
l r -31'
5'-29'
c~
c
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
1893 Winckler, Sammlung 1 p. 29 (ex. 1, copy)
1898 Winckler, OLZ 1 108 (ex. 1, study, correct <K 2804' to
'K 2807')
1901-1906 Winckler, AOF 3 p. 246 (ex. 2, copy)
1902 King, AKA pp. 121-25 (exs. 1-2, edition)
1904-1905 Streck, ZA 18 pp. 182-86 (exs. 1-2, study)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 317 and 323-26 (exs. 1-2,

translation)
1957-58 Weidner, AfO 18 p. 342 (exs. 1-2, study)
TEXT
Lacuna
10 [... kardu(1)]-ni-[...]
2') [... ana lia] da-^suri u[b-la (.,.)]
Lacuna
1'~20 [... Kardu]nias
city] Assur.
3')
3'-160 [ the city ...]irdi, cities of the land

Qum [menu ... which ...] held, which [had
withheld] tribute and impost [from the god Aur%
my lord, which from ancient times had not]
known submission, into the midst of which no
king [who preceded] me had marched [...] my
chariots and troops I mustered. [...] the cities
Matqiu, Sudru[n], [...], Arruhundu, Sqa, [...],
Initi, the other Sqa, [...t]un, uria, and
Na[...]hirdi, cities of the land f1ab[hu ...], the cities La, Hiritu, [...], altogether 14 cities I conquered. [I burnt, razed, (and) destroyed (them),
(and)] brought their booty, possessions, [and
goods to] my [city] Assur.
[...]-ir-di URU.ME-/7/ a KUR q[um-me-ni(1)

(...)]
40
5')
60
[... i-k]aNu-ni sa GUN ta-ma[r-ta]

[ana aur blia ikl(1) a itu m ste(?) l
i-d]u- ka-na-a a MAN a-ia-u[m-ma]
[lik pa-ni-i]a a-na lb-be-u-nu la il-li-k[u]
70
[ . . . GI].GIGIR.MES RIN.HI.A.ME-/7
80
90
Iff)
110
120
130
[...] x URU ma-at-qi- URU su-ud-ru-ûn^

[.. UR]U r-ru-hu-un-du URU sa-a-qa
[... UR]U i-ni-i-ti URU sa-a-qa-ma
l^-t]u-un URU u-ri-a
URU na-[...-h]i(1)-ir-di URU.ME-ni
a KUR ha[b-hi(1) ... UR]U lu--a URU hi-rii-tu
140
[...1 X U.NIGIN 14 URU.ME-N/
ad-k[\
[...] I brought [... to my
ak-u-ud
150 UM iti arup abbul aqqur al-]a-su-nu bua-u-nu

160 [u marssunu ana l-i]a a-ur ub-la
17')
18')
19')
20')
21')
22')
230
.
.
.
.
.
ana mt lu-I\u-m-e al-lik

UR]U ma ul qi-u URU an-da-ri-a
a(1)-d\a-u a GR.ME an-na-te
z]a-ba ap-le-e ak-u-ud
mat lu-lu\-m-e DAGAL-ta KUR a-da-u
. ana G]R.ME-/O -k-ni
[mr beiutiia kabta ana sa-a]t

nu -kn
UD.ME UGU-W-
4-5' Restored from A.0.87.1 i 90-91, iii 74-75, and iv 51,

10' sa-a-qa-ma: the enclitic -ma is used to differentiate
between two people, two gods, or two places with the same
name. See von Soden, AHw p. 570a and Borger, EAK 1
17-230 [... to the land of the Lu11]umu I

marched. [...] the cities Matqiu, Andaria, [...
/i]daus, which is on this side of the Lower Zab, I
conquered. [... the land of] the extensive
[Lu11u]mu and the land Adaus [...] I subdued. I
imposed upon them forever [the heavy yoke of
my dominion].
p. 121 n. 1 and to their references add Johns, ADD no. 349

line 11. 15'-16' Restored from A.0.87.1 v 60-63.
17-23' Restored from A.0.87.4 lines 22-23 and A.0.87.10
lines 26-27. 23' Restored from A.0.87.1 ii 54-55.
24') [ina mma bt itar blat ni-nu]-â nin-jo1

a mam-i-diKUR
25') [...] â^-lk pa-ni-ia ud-di-u
26') [ualbarma(1) e-n]a-ah ma-ur--TI.LA
27) [ab(1) uddi() e-n]a-ah mdl-ma-nu-SAG
28') [ab(1) uddi(1) e-na-a]h-ma tam-la-u
29') [...] r^r-tr wm4a
3(X) [,..] ra^-na GIBIL-WM[?]
31') [ -r-r]h(1) -ra[d-di]
Lacuna
59
24-31') [At that time the temple of the goddess

Istar, mistress of Ninev]eh, my mistress, which
am-Adad (i), [...] my predecessor, had restored
[it became old and] dilapidated (and) Auruballit (i), [my forefather, restored (it but) again]
it became dilapidated (and) Shalmaneser (r), [my
forefather, restored (it) once again it had] become dilapidated and its terrace [...] the goddess
Istar, my mistress, [ . . . I built] anew. [... I made]
splendid, I added,
Lacuna
13
This broken text, preserved on a clay tablet fragment from Nineveh,
contains descriptions of three campaigns of this king, all of which are
known in slightly different versions from other texts.
COMMENTARY
The fragment, BM 122630 ( 1 9 3 0 - 5 - 8 , 1 9 ) , measures
7 . 5 x 8 . 7 f cm and the inscription has been collated.
Restorations are from parallel passages: l'-3' ( A . 0 . 8 7 . 2
lines 25-27, A . 0 . 8 7 . 3 lines 6 - 1 5 , A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 lines 15-17,
and A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 0 lines 17-20), 4'-9' (A.0.87.1 v 44-63 and

A . 0 . 8 7 . 2 lines 28-29), and 10-13' (A.0.87.3 lines 16-25,
A . 0 . 8 7 . 4 lines 24-30, and A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 0 lines 28-35).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1968 Lambert and Millard, Cat. p. 14 (study)
1970 Millard, Iraq 32 pi. xxxiv and p. 168 (copy, study)
1976 Grayson, AR 2 LXXXVII 13 (translation)
TEXT
Lacuna
10 [...] Tkur(?)-i [...]
20
[ . . . ] x x x x ia x [ . . . ]
30 [3-u a-n]a KUR. KUR na-i-ri al-lik i-t[u
tumme adi daini akud (...)]
40
50
60
70
i-na~I si-qir da-ur R ^MA DINGIR.MES

[rabti blia itu tarsi mt suhi]
a-di URU kar-ga-mi a KUR h[a-at-te ina 1
me]
ak-ud D pu-(ra)-ta ki-ma X [...]
17 VRU.MES-ni-u-nu i-tu [tadmar a mt
A.0.87.12 lines 24-31' For the restorations see especially

RIMA 1 pp. 205-207 A.0.77.17. A.0.87.13 line T There is not
Lacuna
r - 3 0 [Thrice] I marched to the lands Nairi (and)
[conquered] from [Tummu to the land Dainu
4 - 9 0 By the command of the gods Aur and

Ninurta, the [great] gods, [my lords], I conquered
[from the edge of the land Suhu] to the city
Carchemish of the land Ha[tti in a single day. I
crossed] the Euphrates as though it were [a
canal]. Seventeen of their cities, from [the city
enough room to restore the entire phrase from A.0.87.4 lines

35-36.
60
8')
90
100
amurri (anat sa mt shi) adi rapiqi sa mt
kardunia]
i-na IZI.ME -ru-up a[b-bul aqqur allassunu]
li-t.ME-u-nu m[ar-i-su-nu ana tia aur
ubla]
i-na q-bit
allik]
iKUR
Tadmar of the land Amurru, (Anat of the land

Suhu), as far as Rapiqu of Kardunia], I burnt,
[razed, (and) destroyed. I brought their booty],
their hostages, and [their goods to my city Aur].
GA-i[a ana ad labnni
1 1 0 GI.RR^.ME a GI.E[REN ana bit anim
10-130 By the command of the god Adad, who

loves me, [I marched to Mount Lebanon. I cut
down (and) carried off] cedar beams [for the temple of the gods Anu and Adad, the great gods,
my lords]. I continued [to the land Amurru (and)
conquered the entire] land Amurru. [I received
tribute from] the lands Epinu, [...]
Lacuna
adad ilni rabti blia akkis a ana mt

amurri]
120 e-tiq KUR a-mur-r[i ana sihirta akud madatta a]
130 KUR e-pi-^ni KUR1 [... lu amhur ...]
Lacuna
14
This fragmentary text, on a piece of stone octagonal prism (bored
vertically) found at Nineveh, contains the name Tiglath-pileser. There
is no indication which king of this name is intended.
COMMENTARY
W e have been unable to locate the fragment. According
to T h o m p s o n it is 13.5 cm high and each face 8.3 cm
wide. He gives the provenance at the Istar temple as

Q.O.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 107 and pi. LXXXIII no. 270
(copy, edition)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 p. I l l (study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ixxxvn 15 (translation)
TEXT
Lacuna
m
10
[(...)
G i . t u k u l - t ] i - i B i L A - - r - r [ a ...]
20
[... N]G ka-id
KUR.KUR.ME[S . . . ]
30 [... ar] KI MAN KUR a-u[r ...]

Lacuna
I I ' There is not enough room for the entire restoration and
our text must have been abbreviated.
Lacuna
1-30 [(...) Tig1a]th-pi1eser [...] conqueror of lands
[... king of] the universe, king of Assyria [...]
Lacuna
61
15
This text is inscribed on a rock face near the source of the Tigris. It is
at the point where the river (Sebeneh-Su) emerges from a tunnel. On
the right of the inscription an image of the king has been engraved.
Inscriptions of Shalmaneser in also appear in this location. The inscription seems to have been engraved to commemorate the successful
completion of the third campaign against Nairi. It is unusual for an
Assyrian royal inscription to begin 'With the aid of
The text has
been collated from the photo published by Lehmann-Haupt.
Ashurnasirpal II records (A.0.101.1 i 104-105) discovery of images
of Tiglath-pileser (i) and Tukult-Ninurta (n) at the source of the River
Subnat (Sebeneh-Su); cf. Lehmann-Haupt, Mat. p. 56 and Hawkins,
AnSt 19 (1969) pp. 119-20.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA p. 127 n. 1 (edition and citation of older
literature)
1906 Lehmann-Haupt, Mat. pp. 16-18 no. 7 (photo, edition)
1964-66 Michel, WO 3 p. 149 (study)

1969 Oppenheim, ANET 3 p. 275 (translation)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 Lxxxvn 16 (translation)
1981 Hawkins (apud Reade) in Fales, ARIN pl. 1 (photo)
1982 Brker-Klhn, Bildstelen no. 130 (photo, study)
TEXT
1)
ina re-su-te a-ur
2)
1-10) With the aid of the gods Aur, ama,

(and) Adad, the great gods, my lords, I, Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, son of Aur-ra-ii (i),
king of Assyria, son of Mutakkil-Nusku, (who
was) also king of Assyria, (I) the conqueror from
the Great Sea of the land Amurru and the sea of
the land(s) Nairi, marched thrice to the land(s)
Nairi.
UTU DIKUR DINGIR.MES
3)
GAL.ME EN.ME-a
4)
ana-ku
5)
MAN KUR AS A
6)
MAN KUR AS A
1)
8)
MAN KUR A-MA ka-id /[S-ta(?)]

tam-d GAL-TE KUR a-mur-ri
tukul-ti-A--r-ra
M
A-SAG-/-S/
m
mu-tak-kil-dnus[ku]
9) u tam-d KUR na-i-ri

10) 3- ana KUR na-i-ri DU
16
This text is on a rock face at Yoncali in the Melazzert region, north of
Lake Van, and commemorates successful campaigning in Nairi and
Habhu. It has been collated from the photo published by LehmannHaupt.
7-9 The phrase i[-tu(*!)] ... u is awkward. The u (not EN: adi)
is clear from Lehmann-Haupt's collation and the photograph
of the squeeze which he published. The /[-M(?)] is of course
not so certain. This is possibly a clumsy abbreviation of a

longer phrase. Cf. A.0.87.17.
62
T i g l a t h - p i l e s e r i A . 0 . 87.1562
1906 Lehmann-Haupt, Mat. pp. 15-16 no. 6 (photo edition,

citation of older literature)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 268-70 (translation)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 Lxxxvn 17 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
Gi.tukul-ti-iBLA--r-ra
MAN dan-nu MAN KI MAN KUR a-ur
MAN kib-rat 4-i
ka-id KUR.KUR na-i-ri
i-tu KUR tu-um-mi
a-\d\i KUR da-ie-ni ka-id
TkurI hab-hi a-di A.AB.BA GAL-te
1-7) Tiglath-pileser, strong king, king of the

universe, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters, conqueror of the lands Nairi from the land
Tummu to the land Dainu, conqueror of the
land Habhu to the Great Sea.
17
In 1905 Andrae's expedition to Assur discovered a large number of
stone fragments of small sculptures and slabs with traces of inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser i. Since these were discovered at the entrance
to this king's palace, they are probably the exotic creatures described
in his texts as being set up at the palace entrance. See the introduction
to A.0.87.4 for references. Andrae distinguished four different texts
among these fragments. One is edited here and the remaining three are
discussed under A.0.87.18-20. The edition presented here is highly hypothetical, as explained in the commentary, but it is clear that in addition to containing a brief statement about the king's conquests, it concerned the work on the cedar palace (see A.0.87.4).
COMMENTARY
In M D O G 26 (1905) pp. 5 2 - 5 6 Andrae gave a brief
description of the inscribed material. Subsequently
Weidner identified o n A s s ph 3112 further fragments.
Unfortunately we have not been able to locate any o f
the original objects with the inscriptions discussed by
Andrae and Weidner. Thus, we can only glean whatever possible from Andrae's description, assisted by
Weidner's later work.
Andrae said the numerous fragments represented
four different texts. Of these he gave a relatively detailed description and translation of only one, and
Weidner reconstructed a hypothetical transliteration o f
this which included t w o fragments (Ass 12694 and
12722) he had identified on Ass ph 3112. The inscrip-
tions o n these fragments have been collated from the

photo. We have, for lack o f better information, accepted Weidner's reconstruction and edited it here as
A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 7 . But it must be emphasized that this text, in
both form and detail, is very uncertain. The remaining
fragments have been treated under A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 8 - 2 0 .
In addition to the two fragments Ass 12694 and Ass
12722 o n Ass ph 3112 used for this text by Weidner,
other fragments mentioned by Andrae which may contain remains o f this text are: Ass 4106, 4184I-m, and
4211a. The last fragment is given the specific provenance 'fD4in above and near the tunnel', while for Ass
4106 and 41841-m it is 'fD4ni north o f the Old Palace'.
63
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 L x x x v n 18 (translation)
1977 Andrae, WE A 2 p. 192 (study)
1905 Andrae, MDOG 26 pp. 52-53 and 55-56 (edition)

1955 Preusser, Palste p. 18 and n. 68 (study)
1957-58 Weidner, AfO 18 pp. 357-58 (edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
RIL.GAL m Gi. tukul-t[i-apil-earra
ar mt a-
1-4) (Property of) the palace of Tiglath-[pileser,

king of] Assyria, conqueror [from] Babylon [of
the land Akkad] to Mount Lebanon [to the Great]
Sea [of the land Amurru and] the sea [of the
land(s) Nairi, builder of] the cedar [palace].
\ur ka-i-i[d]
[i-t]u URU. TK.DINGIR"!. [RA.KI a mt
akkad] FFI-TF/ KUR-E lab-na-ni
[adi A].rAB~L [BA rabte a mat amurri u]
A.AB.BA
4)
[a mt ncPiri bni ekal GI] e-re-ni
18-20
As explained in the edition of A.0.87.17, among the numerous fragments of inscribed stone discovered at the entrance to this king's
palace at Aur, four texts were distinguished by Andrae, MDOG 26
(1905) pp. 52-56. One of these texts was edited as A.0.87.17 and the
remainder are discussed here as A.0.87.18-20. Since the texts were
never fully published and we have been unable to locate the originals
or photos, no edition can be given. In fact we can only present here a
summary of what Andrae says. One of the three texts, including Ass
4279a, had several lines with [ur-s]AG-i-i in the third line.
Another, including Ass 4292g, was a two-line inscription which referred to the 'Cedar Palace'. A third, which included 4212b, 4193v,
and 4184n, had in the last line: NA 4 .AD.BAR D(?)-W5 ina n-r[i-b\
MAN (? ) - ti-i T made (replicas in) basalt (... I stationed them on the
right and left) of my royal entrance.' Cf. A.0.87.4 lines 70-71.
Andrae gives the following Assur excavation numbers, including the
few already cited: Ass 4151b, 4184n and t, 4193v, 4199a, 4212b,
4279a, and 4292g.
Preusser, Palste p. 18 n. 68, cites other excavation numbers: Ass
4140, 4150, 4184, 4193, 4211, 4233, 4236, and 4236a. Finally, Ass ph
3112, on which Weidner identified two fragments of A.0.87.17, has
two other fragments, Ass 12614 and Ass 12719, with inscribed traces
which could be of texts of Tiglath-pileser. Ass 12614 has only the sign
A. Ass 12719 has: [(...) m Gi.tukult-apil--r]-rra[1)i MAN dan-nu [...]
and illegible traces of a second line.
21
This broken text appears in a collection of royal inscriptions copied on
a clay tablet fragment (K 2838+ 13656) from Nineveh. The top of the
tablet is broken off and the first section preserved, lines 1-1T, is a text
64
of Ashurnasirpal n (A.0.101.53). The second section, lines 12-14', is
the text edited here and it is almost certainly a text of Tiglath-pileser i
(cf. A.0.87.17). Traces of a third section are preserved on the reverse
but not enough text is extant to ascribe it to any king.
COMMENTARY
section m a y be of
For the sake of completeness
section is given here:
T h e traces of the third
t h a n T i g l . i.
tion
of
this
text earlier
translitra-
17')
[...}
18') x
[...]
19-27')
150 .G[AL ...]
(traces)
Lacuna
160 dUTu [...]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 L e G a c , A s n . p p . 1 6 9 - 7 0 ( c o p y )
1961 B o r g e r , E A K 1 p . I l l
1954-59 Michel, W O 2 p. 313 (study)
1976 G r a y s o n , A R I 2 LXXXVII 19 ( t r a n s l a t i o n )
(study)
TEXT
12') .GAL mtukul-ti-rK-{earra ...]
130 A.AB.BA QKL-te KUR [...]
140 ma-x-[...]
12'-14') (Property of) the palace of Tiglath-pil[eser

...] the Great Sea of the land [Amurru ...] ... [...]
22
This text is inscribed on several paving bricks found in the fountain
courtyard (eC5v) of the Anu-Adad Temple at Aur and briefly commemorates work there. Bricks with a similar inscription, but mentioning only the Adad shrine, were found with them and are edited as
A.0.87.23. There may have been bricks with a text recording work
only on the Anu shrine, but these were not discovered.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
cpn
VA Ass 3251b
2264-65
3459
703
c
c
1
2
3
Istanbul no number
Unlocated
5683e
5683 f
5683a
Unlocated
5683x
704
5
6
7
8
9
10
ES 9452
E$ 9451
11
VA Ass 3251e
VA
VA
VA
VA
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
3251a
3251c
3251d
4315
5603
6277a-d
7472
..77f
p
c
c
c
c
c
c
8825a
65 Tiglath-pileser i A.0.87.2001
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1984 Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1 nos. 247-51 and 260 (exs.
1,7-11, study)
1909 Andrae, AAT pp. 31-32 and pi. xix (exs. 1-4, photo,
copy, edition)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 313 (exs. 1-4, translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
D U M U a-ur-SAG-i-i I D a-ur-ma
d
a-nim i K U R E N . M E - S W
Gi. tukul-ti-iBiLA--r-ra
1-4) Tiglath-pileser, vice-regent of Aur, son of

Aur-ra-ii (i) (who was) also vice-regent of
Assur, built and reconstructed the temple of the
gods Anu and Adad, his lords.
SID a-ur
Dt-u-ma ik-si-ir
23
This text is inscribed on numerous paving bricks from the fountain
courtyard (eC5v) of the Anu-Adad Temple at Aur. Several of the
bricks were actually found in that location among bricks bearing the
text A.0.87.22. See the introduction to that text for further comment.
CATALOGUE
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Unlocated
VA Ass 3251h
Unlocated
5683 b
5683c
5683d
2260
2264
2271
BM 90252
(1979-12-20,154)
5
6
7
E 9450
5611
8
9
ES 9449
VA Ass 3251 f
VA Ass 4309d
VA Ass 3251g
5640
5683
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
Ex.
1
2
3
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
325 Ii
3251k
32511
3251m
325In
4311b
3251s
5703a-c
5703c + d
7418
74
cpn
P
c
P
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1861 1 R pi. 6 no. 5 (ex. 4, copy)
1902 King, AKA p. 127 (ex. 4, copy, edition)
1909 Andrae, AAT pp. 31-32 and pi. xix (ex. 1, copy; ex. 2,
photo)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 314 (exs. 1-3, translation)

1981 Walker, CB no. 137 (ex. 4, edition)
1984 M a r z a h n a n d R o s t , Z i e g e l n
1 nos. 252-59 and
261-63
(exs. 2, 7-16, study)

1985 Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23 nos. 85-87 (exs. 8, 15-16,
copy)
66
TEXT
1)
2)
"GI. tukul-ti-i&ih--r-ra
siD as-sur DUMU as-sur-sAG-i-si
3)
d-i
ID a-ur "IKUR
EN-
4)
Dt-u-ma ik-si-ir
1-4) Tiglath-pileser, vice-regent of Aur, son of

Aur-ra-i (i), vice-regent of Aur, built and
reconstructed the temple of the god Adad, his
lord.
24
Various texts of this king are attested on bricks and brick fragments
from Nineveh. All of the bricks were discovered by Thompson at the
beginning of the century, and he copied and edited the inscriptions in
subsequent years. More recently, Walker has systematically gone
through the majority of these bricks (all he could find in England,
mainly in the British Museum). The inscriptions represent five different
texts (A.0.87.24-28). The first two texts (A.0.87.24-25), and possibly
the third and fourth (A.0.87.26-27), concern work on the quay wall
facing the River Husir. The fifth text (A.0.87.28) has only the titles of
the king.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Registration
Thompson
Ex.
number
number
number
BM 137477
1929-10-12,189
Arch. 79 no. 54 B
2
3
4
BM 137489
BM 137492
Unlocated
1932-12-10,33
1932 12-10,36
A A A 19 no. 283
A A A 19 no. 288
Arch. 79 no. 54 A
cpn
~
c
c
n
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 T h o m p s o n , A r c h . 79 p. 122 a n d p i . XLIII n o s . 54A-B ( e x s .
1 9 3 2 T h o m p s o n , A A A 19 p . 115 a n d p i . LXXXVIII n o s . 2 8 3 a n d
288 (exs. 2-3, copy, study)
1 9 5 9 - 6 0 W e i d n e r , A f O 19 p p . 1 4 2 - 4 3 ( e x s . 1 - 4 , s t u d y )
1967 Borger, HKL 1 pp. 526, 528, and 536 (exs. 1-4, study)
1, 4, copy, study)
1 9 7 6 G r a y s o n , A R I 2 LXXXVII 2 2 ( e x s . 1 - 4 , t r a n s l a t i o n )
1981 Walker, CBI no. 138 (exs, 1-4, edition)
TEXT
.GAL
Gi.tkul-tl-A--r-ra
MAN KAL MAN KI MAN KUR Q-Ur

A a-ur-sAG-i-i
MAN KAL MAN KI MAN KUR -Ur
A mu-tk-kil-nusku
MAN KAI MAN KI MAN KUR -Ur-ma
a ki-[sirte]
sa D [husir]
1-8) (Property of) the palace of Tiglath-pileser,

strong king, king of the universe, king of Assyria,
son of Aur-ra-ii (i), strong king, king of the
universe, king of Assyria, son of Mutakkil-Nusku
(who was) also strong king, king of the universe
(and) king of Assyria: (brick) belonging to the
facing of (the quay wall) of the River [Husir].
25
This text is attested on four inscribed bricks and brick fragments from
Nineveh and concerns work on the quay wall facing the River Husir.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Thompson
number
1
2
3
4
BM 137472
Unlocated
Unlocated
BCM A44 '87
1929-10-12,184
Arch. 79 no.
Duplicate of
A A A 19 no.
A A A 18 no.
cpn
55
no. 55
281
34
c~~
n
n
c
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 pi. XLIII no. 55 (exs. 1-2, copy)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 98 and pi. xix no. 34 (ex. 4,
copy, edition)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pi. LXXXVIII no. 281 (ex. 3, copy)
1959-60 Weidner, AfO 19 pp. 142-43 (study)

1981 Walker, CBI no. 139 (ex. 1, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
.GAL MGI. TVKUL-A--r-ra MAN KAL MAN KI

strong king, king of the universe, [king of
Assyria], son of Aur-ra-ii [(who was) also]
strong king, king of the universe (and) king of
Assyria [(...)]: (brick) belonging to the facing of
(the quay wall) of the River Husir [...]
Isar mai aur]

A a-ur-sAG-i-i MAN KAL MAN KIS MAN KUR
a-ur [... ]
sa ki-sir-te D hu-si-ir [...]
26
This broken text is inscribed on the edge of a brick fragment from
Nineveh and concerns work on the facing of the quay wall of the
River Husir(?).
COMMENTARY
The brick is BM 137488 ( 1 9 3 2 - 1 2 - 1 0 , 3 1 ) and the inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 T h o m p s o n ,
AAA
19 p .
115 a n d
(copy, edition)
pi. LXXXVIII n o
287

1981 Walker, CBI no. 140 (edition)
68
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
.GAL m Gi.tukul-ti-A-[earra ...]
1-3) (Property of) the palace of Tig1ath-pi1[eser

...]: (brick) belonging to the facing of (the quay
wall) of the River [ffusir], from the top to the
[-]
ki-siMe [D husir(1)]
fii-tu i r-i a-na e-[...]
27
This text is inscribed on three bricks or brick fragments from Nineveh
and concerns work on the quay wall facing the River Husir(?) and
protecting a garden, presumably a royal garden.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Thompson
number
cpn
1
2
3
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
A A A 19 no. 284
A A A 19 no. 285
Arch. 79 no. 117
n
n
n
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch 79 pi. XLVI no. 117 (ex. 3, copy)
1932 Thompson, A A A 19 p. 115 and pi. LXXXVIII nos. 284-85
(exs. 1-2, copy, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
. GAL mGiSKm-A--r-ra
MAN KI MAN KUR Ct-Ur
ki-sir-te s D [husr(1))
4)
Gi.KIRIE URU [ninua(1)]

king of the universe (and) king of Assyria:
(brick) belonging to the facing of (the quay wall)
of the River [ffusir] at the garden of the city
[Nineveh].
28
Only the name and titles of the king appear in this text inscribed on
the edge of bricks from Nineveh and Aur.
69
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Ass
number
I
2
3
BM 137479
B C M 360 '79
BCM A45 '87
1929-10-12,191
_
_
4
5
6
7
VA
VA
VA
VA
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
4305a
4306c
4306a
4306b
Ass ph
number
20999
5936a + b
12705
12733
_
-
_
3107
4178
Publication
reference
cpn
Arch. 79 no. 53
A A A 18 no. 28
A A A 18 no. 27
c
c
c
VAS
VAS
VAS
VAS
c
c
c
c
23
23
23
23
no.
no.
no.
no.
147
149
150
152
COMMENTARY
T h e r e a r e s o m e m i n o r v a r s . : l i n e 1 mGis.[tukult-...],
l i n e 2 AS f o r
a-ur.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1984 M a r z a h n a n d R o s t , Z i e g e l n 1 n o s . 3 9 9 a n d 4 0 1 - 4 0 3 ( e x s .
1 9 2 9 T h o m p s o n , A r c h . 7 9 p . 122 a n d p i . XLIII n o . 5 3 (ex. 1,
4 - 7 , study)
c o p y , edition)
1931 T h o m p s o n , A A A
1985 R o s t a n d M a r z a h n , V A S 2 3 n o s . 147, 149, 150, a n d 152
18 p . 9 8 a n d pl. x i x n o s . 2 7 - 2 8 ( e x s .
(exs. 4 - 7 , copy)
2 - 3 , copy, edition)
1976 G r a y s o n , A R l 2 LXXXVII 2 4 ( e x s , 1 - 3 , t r a n s l a t i o n )
1986 G a l t e r , Z A 7 6 p . 3 0 4 ( e x s . 4 ^ 7 , s t u d y )
1981 W a l k e r , C B n o . 141 ( e x s . 1 - 3 , e d i t i o n )
TEXT
1)
2)
. GAL
tukul-ti-A--r-ra
M A N KI M A N K U R

king of the universe, king of Assyria.
Q-Ur
29
This label appears on numerous, largely fragmentary, stone slabs
found in Tiglath-pileser's palace at Aur.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
cpn
1
2
3
ES 9525(?)
ES 9560(?)
E$ 9549(?)
160
224
225
c
c
c
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
E $ 9566(?)
Un1ocaieU
Unlocated
ES 4689
E$ 5950
ES 6234
254
1515
c
n
n
ES 9527
11
12
13
14
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
15
16
9528
9529
9530
9531
9532
9533
562
_
_
_
_
P
P
P
P
c
P
525
P
P
P
70
Ex.
17
18
19
Museum
number
Ass
number
ES 9534
E$ 9535
220
ES 9536
E 9537
ES 9538
ES 9539
ES 9540
ES 9541
25
26
ES 9542
ES 9543
27
28
29
30
31
ES 9544
ES 9545
20
21
22
23
24
32
33
ES
ES
ES
ES
9546
9547
9548
9551
ES 9552
34
35
36
37
ES
ES
ES
E$
38
39
40
ES 9558
E$ 9560
41
42
43
44
45
9554
9555
9556
9557
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
ES 9561
ES 9562
ES 9563
E$ 9564
46
47
ES
ES
ES
ES
9565
9566
9568
9569
48
49
50
ES 9570
ES 9571
Unlocated
1553
cpn
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
n
COMMENTARY
Most of the fragments have been collated only f r o m
photos and it is possible that examination o f the originals would yield several joins. Ex. 6 is known only
from the publication by Scheil, who included it a m o n g

'brick* inscriptions. According to Scheil's copy this ex.
omits mGi. in line 1 and has -A- for -IBILA-.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1900
1903
1904
1904
1904
Scheil, RT 22 p.
Andrae, MDOG
Andrae, MDOG
Andrae, MDOG
Andrae, MDOG
37
20
21
22
25
(ex. 6, copy)
p. 29 (ex. 1, provenance)
p. 11 (exs. 2, 4, provenance)
p. 37 (ex. 5, provenance)
pp. 17-18 (exs. 5, 50, provenance)
1911
1926
1955
1961
1976
Messerschmidt, KAH 1 no. 22 (exs. 1, 3, 5, copy)

Luckenbill, ARAB 1 822 no. 2 (exs. 1, 3, 5, translation)
Preusser, Palste p. 18 (exs. 1-4, provenance)
Borger, EAK 1 p. I l l (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXVII 25 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
.GAL mGi.tukul-ti-BiLA--r-ra
MAN KUR a-ur GIS tas-ka-ri-ni

king of Assyria: (slab) belonging to the house of
boxwood.
30
A tile (of clay?) found at Aur (Ass 197) bore the name of the king,
Tiglath-pileser. The object was discovered in the Old Palace in secondary use in the eastern wall of a room east of the Tiled Room'. Unfortunately we have not been able to locate the tile.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1903 Koldewey, MDOG 20 pp. 28-29 (provenance)
1904 Andrae, MDOG 21 pp. 11-12 (provenance)
1001
This fragmentary inscription on a piece of clay tablet, for which there
is no provenance, is from the annals of a late Middle Assyrian or
early Neo-Assyrian king and the most probable candidate is Tiglathpileser I.
COMMENTARY
A detailed study of this fragment and the arguments in
favour of its probable ascription to Tigl. i have been
presented in the original publication by Grayson. In
summary, the reasons are:
1) The content is a close parallel to a passage in
A.0.87.1 vi 58 - vii 30.
2) The inner clay of the tablet is red covered by a white
slip (see p. 6).
3) The inscription has sign forms typical o f the period
and especially of the reign of Tigl. i (see p. 6).
The text is a very brief summary of the activities of
the king. The first section (1-2') concerns a building
operation. The second section (3'-4') speaks of the
reconstruction of palaces' cf. A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 vi 94ff,
A . 0 . 9 8 . 1 line 64, A . 0 . 9 9 . 2 line 120, and A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 5 line
132. The third section (5') mentions ploughs cf.

A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 vi 101, A . 0 . 9 8 . 1 lines 6 4 - 6 5 , A . 0 . 9 9 . 2 lines
120-21, and A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 5 line 132. The fourth section (6')
mentions chariots - cf. A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 vii 28-30, A.0.98.1
line 66, and A . 0 . 9 9 . 2 line 121. The fifth section (7'-8')
talks about herds of animals cf. A.0.87.1 vi 105fF
and A . 0 . 9 9 . 2 lines 126-27. The sixth section ( 9 ' - l l ' )
speaks of various woods cf. A.0.87,1 vii 17ff. The
seventh section (12-14') describes a hunting expedition
- cf. A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 vi 58ff, A . 0 . 9 8 . 1 lines 6 8 - 7 2 , A . 0 . 9 9 . 2
lines 122ff, and A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 5 lines 134-35. The eighth and
last preserved section (15') is too broken to identify the
content.
The fragment, BM 135910, measures c. 6 x 9 +
and the inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1975 Grayson, Iraq 37 pp. 71-74 (copy, edition)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 1 n. 8 (study)
cm
TEXT
Lacuna
r ) h [...]
2') i-na K x [...]
l'-15') No translation warranted.
3')
4')
.GAL.MES u-[bat arrte ...]

ar-si-ip [... ]
5')
GI.APIN.ME
6')
GI.GIGIR.ME si-im-d[a-at
7')
8')
su-gul-la-a-at x [...]
a a-pe-lu-i-[na-ti...]
i-na i-di [matiia ...]

nri...]
9') GIS e-re-ra gi to-[w(?)-r/(?) ...]

10') a i-na KUR-ti-i[a ...]
11') GI.ME 5a-rW-[rtM ...]
12') nin~urta
IGI.DU [...]
13') u-tu-ru-te [u-ut() qarni(1) ...]

14')
16 mu~r[t baitte sa rmni(1) ...]
15') [x x x].me x [...]
Lacuna
1002
This fragmentary inscription is on a piece of clay tablet found at
Nineveh. It represents a piece of an annalistic text of a king who was
possibly Tiglath-pileser i or a slightly later successor.
COMMENTARY
Both the content and the form of the script of this
fragmentary inscription indicate that it is probably o f
the time of Tigl. i. The script exhibits the characteristics
of the period (see p. 6). The content has parallels in the
annals of this king. The first section (l'-3') is t o o broken for identification but the second section (4-5')
seems to be a hunting passage cf. A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 vi 58tf,
A.0.98.1
lines 6 8 - 7 2 , A . 0 . 9 9 . 2 lines 122ff, and
A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 5 lines 134-35. Similarly the one section on the
rev. (rev. 4 - 6 ' ) which can be deciphered speaks of Victories' in a style reminiscent of the annals o f Tigl. i
13' See A.0.99.2 line 125 and cf. Borger, EAK 1 p. 137.
14' Cf. A.0.89.7 iv 6.
cf. A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 viii 39. The third, and last, preserved section on the obv. ( 6 - 9 0 speaks of events 'At the beginning [of my reign]'. The word urrtu first appears in
Assyrian royal inscriptions after Tigl. i while urru is
used in texts of Tigl. i (e.g. A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 i 62) and this suggests that our fragment might be a little later than the
reign of Tigl, i.
The fragment, BM 123387 (Th 1932-12-10,330),
measures c. 6 x 6 . 5 + cm and the inscription has been
collated. The provenance at Nineveh is the Istar Temple, EE.10.113.
73
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1968 Lambert and Miliard Cat. p. 21 (study)
TEXT
Obverse
Lacuna
1') x x [...]
2') a-am-[...]
3') -ki-[in ...]
4;)
50
MA DL[GI.DU . . . ]
na-ah-[...]
6')
i-na ur-rat [...]
T)
LUGAL-te
[...]
8') ana d u.ouR [...]

90 uGu KR a-[ur .,,]
IV) a-na g/-[m/r(?) ...]
11') KR a-ur x [...]
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
n
x [...]
2') u-[...]
3') a-na r^-[w(?)
...]
4f)
LUGAL a ii-ta-[at ..,]
50
RA DA PAP SU KL(?) [ . . . ]
60
UN.MES KUR a-ur e-x [...]
70 [...]-ma [...]
80 [ . . . ] x x [ . . . ]
Lacuna
1003
This is a fragment, on a piece of clay tablet, from Nineveh, of the annals of a king of the period from the eleventh to ninth centuries BC
and it just might be of Tiglath-pileser i.
C O M M E N T A R Y
While this fragmentary text is clearly a piece of an annalistic text of the late M A or early N A period, there is
no certainty about which king. The word mudbaru (7')
is first attested in Assyrian royal inscriptions with Tigl.
i (A.0.87.1 v 45) and thus the fragment has been placed
here very tentatively.

The fragment, BM 123391 (Th 1932-12-10,334),
measures c. 4 x 7 4- cm and the inscription has been collated. The provenance at Nineveh is the Itar Temple
CC. + 1 . 1 0 3 .
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
Lacuna
l1) [...] x [...]
T)
3')
4')
5')
V-IT) No translation warranted.
[...] x [...]
[... W )
x [...]
[....m]e(?)-/i/[a(?) ...]
[...]-x-u-nu [...]
6') [...]-c diS-tr r\u-itmia(') ...]

7') [...] mu-ud-ba-r [...]
8') [...]-x-te-u-nu lu a [...]
9') [...] di-ik-ta-u-nu [...]
10') [...] re-zi-ib sar-b[i-i...}
11') [... (x + )]16me SAL.[...]
12') [...] rn-r-o-r?M(?)"i [...]
Lacuna
1004
This is a tiny fragment on a piece of a clay tablet, presumably from
Nineveh, and may be the remains of a text of Tiglath-pileser i.
C O M M E N T A R Y
The fragment (K 2842) might be the upper right corner
o f a tablet but it is not certain because the top edge is
not clearly preserved. It measures 5 x 3 + cm a n d the
inscription has been collated. There is no obvious physical join with any known K tablet o f Tiglath-pileser i.
1891 Bezold, Cat. 2 p. 480 (study)
1902 King, AKA pp. 125-26 n. 3 (study)
TEXT
1) [(...) mtuku1t-apil-l-r-[ra(1)]
2) [... sarru] dan-nu
3) [... ar mt] a-ur.KI
4) [...] xen-l
Lacuna
1-4) No translation warranted.
75
1005
Two insignificant and largely illegible fragmentary inscriptions on
pieces of clay tablets from Nineveh might be attributed to this king
and are listed here as A.0.87.1005-1006. Not enough of either can be
deciphered to warrant an edition.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (K 4468) measures 3 . 2 x 5 . 5 + cm and the
inscription has been collated. The piece is covered by a
white slip but the clay underneath is not red as in some

other tablets o f the same period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1990 Millard, ARRIM 8 (copy)

1898 Winckler, OLZ 1 69 (study)
1006
See the introduction to A.0.87.1005.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 98572, Th 1905-4-9,78) measures
5 x 8 + cm and the inscription has been collated. The
script is like that o f many inscriptions from the tenth
and ninth centuries B C . In obv. 12' [... &SR-S]R(?)-TI.LA

A [...] reminds one of A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 2 line 26' although this
fragment is from a different text.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1914 King, Cat. p. 58 (study)

1990 Millard, ARRIM 8 (copy)
1007
Four fragmentary inscriptions (A.0.87.1007-1010) on broken clay
cones from Aur may all be exemplars of the same text of Tiglathpileser I. However, it is difficult to match the traces line by line and so
they are edited here separately. The attribution to Tiglath-pileser i is
suggested by the fact that the structure, the name of which is not
preserved, was worked upon by Ilu-summa, Shalmaneser (i), and
Aur-dn (i). This can only be the Old or Assyrian Istar Temple since
texts of Ilu-summa speak only of this structure (see RIMA 1 pp. 15-18
76
A.0.32). The other known builders of the temple are Sargon i, PuzurAur in, Adad-nrr1 i, Shalmaneser i, Tukultl-Ninurta i, and
Tiglath-pileser i. This conclusion agrees with Saporetti, Eponimi
p. 152, who placed the eponymy Aur-kna-a11im about the time of
Tiglath-pileser i.
C O M M E N T A R Y
T h e inscription (A 3449, A s s 6719) has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1939-41 Weidner AfO 13 p. 312 (study)
1984 Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA no. 115 (copy, edition)
T E X T
Lacuna
V) [... temmri-]a -ku-u[n ,..]
20 [...] x x DINGIR-m-ma I[D aur ...]
30 [...] a-ur-da-a-an ID a-ur-ma a-ri[a aru
(lu) umi
(space)
40
IIT]I kal-mar-tu
50
[l]i-mu ma-ur-ke-na-al-lim [(...)]

[DUM]U a-ur--ma-ni [(...)]
60
UD 18.KM [ ( . . . ) ]
1008
C O M M E N T A R Y
The inscription (A 3588, A s s 16474) has been collated.
1988 Deller, JAOS 108 p. 516 (study)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [...] x x a(1) x [...]
2') [... ual\-rh-ru-ma e-na-hu x [...]
3') [...] MU ml-ma-nu-up ro a-ur [...]
4') [...] a-ur-ma a-na -ri-u lu -ter [...]
5') [...] i-na KAL-te lu -k[in(1) ...]
1009
C O M M E N T A R Y
T h e inscription ( A 3611, A s s 18474) has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

TEXT
Lacuna
V) [...] x [...]
2') [ . . . ] x e ( ? ) x [ . . . ]
3') [... DINGIR]^-um-ma ID a-[ur ...]
4') [... aur-da-a-a]n ID a-ur-ma a-na -r{iu (lu) utr]
5') [...] x i-na KAL-te lu [ukn(1)]
1010
COMMENTARY
The inscription (A 3529, A s s 11601) is in 'archaic' script and has been collated.
77
78
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [... itu u\-i-u [adi gabadibbu ...]
2') [... temmnia] a-[kun ...]
3')
l'~4') No translation warranted.
[... ]NSI a-[ur ...]
4') [... ana arf\-u [lutr ...]

Lacuna
1011
This curious text fragment is inscribed on a broken brick from Aur.
The form of the inscription is odd since texts on bricks normally begin
with the royal name or 'palace of followed by the royal name or, occasionally, with a dedication to a deity. Thus in the edition I have suggested that one or more lines are missing from the top although there
is now no physical evidence of a break. But even if there were such a
lacuna, the form is still unusual. The identity of the king is also a
problem. Adad-nrrT's name appears in line 3' but, as I pointed out
in RIMA 1 p. 177, commentary to A.0.76.47, an identification with
this king, although possible, poses problems. First, there is no other
record that Adad-nrr i (or Adad-nrr Ii or in for that matter)
worked on the Anu-Adad temple at Assur (line 2'). Second, the position of the royal name in the inscription suggests he is being referred
to as a previous builder (although the indicative rather than subjunctive form of epus argues against this). Assuming this to be the case,
only two other kings after Adad-nrrl i are possible candidates.
Aur-ra-ii i worked on this temple (RIMA 1 pp. 316-18
A.0.86.7-8) but he called it 'the temple of Adad and A n u \ citing the
divine names in reverse order to this text. Thus the most likely attribution is Tiglath-pileser i, who did extensive work on the temple and
called it 'the temple of Anu and Adad' as this text does. But this
identification is far from certain.
COMMENTARY
The inscription ( V A Ass 3238c) has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1984 Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1 no. 165 (study)
1985 Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23 no. 36 (copy)
79
TEXT
Lacuna(?)
Y)
su-ur-ru
GI.I[G(?) . . . ]
2')
r"i a-nim ri [adad (...)]
3')
[ MD ]RIKURI-RIN.TAH [ID(?) ctur
4') [e]-rpu-us [(...)]

Lacuna(?)
(...)]
Lacuna(?)
1-4') centre/interior of the doorway [...] of the
temple of the gods Anu and [Adad (...)] Adadnrrl (i), vice-[regent of Aur (...)], built. [(...)]
Lacuna(?)
1012
This broken text is inscribed on two brick fragments from Nineveh.
The royal name in the first line could be either Tiglath-pileser (i) or
Tukultl-Ninurta (II).
COMMENTARY
W e have not been able to locate and collate the brick fragments. Thompson
gave the provenance as 'Chamber n, N . E . wall' in the 'Asn. Palace'.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 98 and pi. xix no. 25 (copy, provenance)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
Gis.tukul-[th...]
A d [...]
n-u[...]
x [...]
1013
A badly preserved stele (Ass 15269) from the row of steles at Aur
has a few traces of cuneiform signs but nothing certain can be read.
On the basis of the position of the stele in relation to adjacent
identified steles, Andrae suggested it was of Ashurnasirpal II. But such
a stele of that king has been recovered (A.0.101.108) and Herzfeld
preferred identification, on the basis of style, with Tiglath-pileser i.
80
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen pp. 30-35 and pl. xvn no. 16

(photo, copy, study)
1920 Herzfeld, OLZ 23 209 (study)

1014
This broken text is inscribed on a clay tablet fragment found at Aur.
It is a school copy of an inscription from an object dedicated to the
goddess NinliL Of all the kings whose texts are edited in this volume,
only Tiglath-pileser I is known to have worked on the Ninlil shrine at
Aur (see A.0.87.1 iv 32-39).
COMMENTARY
T h e tablet f r a g m e n t (A 760, Ass 13199, Ass p h 3948) m e a s u r e s c. 6 x 2 . 5 c m
a n d the inscription h a s been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1985 Donbaz, Akkadica 42 pp. 11 and 23 (copy, edition)
TEXT
1)
ana
2)
GAL-TE NIN-SW
3)
NIN.LL NIN [ . . . ]
MD
[...]
GAR BAD ID [aur
(...)]
Lacuna
l-2a) To the goddess Ninlil, mistress of [...]

great, his mistress:
2b-3) [ Tiglath-pileser], appointee of the god Enlil,
vice-regent of [Aur, (...) has dedicated (this ...)]
Lacuna
1015
There are several bits of inscriptions on clay tablet fragments from
Nineveh which should belong to about this time and are listed as
A.0.87.1015-1021. Not enough is preserved of any of them to warrant
an edition. All of them, including A.0.87.1015 (Rm 573), are in the
British Museum and have been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1901-1906 Winckler, AOF 3 p. 245 (copy)
1904-1905 Streck, ZA 18 p. 185 (study)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. I l l and 121 (study)

1967 Borger, HKL 1 p. 629 (study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 1 n. 8 c (study)
1016
Regarding this broken text on a clay tablet fragment (BM 128069
1929-10-12,725) see the introduction to A.0.87.1015.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1970 Millard, Iraq 32 pi. xxxv (copy)
1017
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1970 Millard, Iraq 32 pi. xxxiv (copy)
1018
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1970 Millard, Iraq 32 pi. xxxv (copy)
1019
82
Tiglath-pileseriA.0.87.1002
BIBLIOGRAPHY

1970 Millard, Iraq 32 pi. xxxvn (copy)
1020
Regarding this broken text on a clay tablet fragment (BM 134585 =
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p . 2 n . 9 (study)
1021
Regarding this broken text on a clay tablet fragment (BM 134821 =
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1022
This broken text, from about this time, is on a black stone fragment
from Kuyunjik and published by Layard, but which cannot now be located. Not enough is preserved to warrant an edition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1851 Layard, ICC pi. 75F (copy)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 1 n. 8 f (study)
1023
Two broken inscriptions, from about this time, on stone fragments
found at Nineveh may be duplicates of one another, but this being
uncertain, they are listed as separate texts, A.0.87.1023 and 1024.
105
Neither object could be located and not enough is preserved to warrant editions.
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 119 and pi. Xil no. 11 (copy)
1024
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 98 and pi. xvni no. 20 (copy)
1025
This broken text is on a clay cone fragment from Nineveh (BM 1 2 8 1 7 4
= 1 9 2 9 - 1 0 - 1 2 , 8 3 0 ) and should belong to this general period. Not
enough is preserved to warrant an edition.
2001
This private dedicatory text was inscribed on a small brick (Ass 5169,
c. 25.5 x20 cm) found at Aur. Aur-imnni is a Umu of the reign
of Tiglath-pileser i (see Saporetti, Eponimi p. 160). The brick has not
been located or the inscription collated.
1924-25 Delitzsch and Schroeder, AfK 2 p. 69 (copy, edition)

84
TEXT
3)
a-na ta-me-t TNIN1-5W

a-ur-i-ma-ni DUB.SAR
DUMU û-ur-T)i. KUD
4)
a-na
5)
^qH-i
1)
2)
TI.LA-SW
1 - 5 ) TO t h e g o d d e s s
Aur-imnni,
Tamtu,
the scribe,
d e d i c a t e d (this) f o r his l i f e .
son
his m i s t r e s s ,
of
has
Aur-daiin,
Asared-apil-Ekur
A.0.88
No royal inscriptions are preserved for this rather obscure king who
ruled only two years (1075-1074 BC). At one time his name was read
Ninurta-apil-Ekur, being regarded as the second monarch with this
name, and a text fragment from Aur (edited in RIMA 1 p. 303 as
A.0.82.1) was attributed to him. The correct reading was established
by king lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135). The broken eponym
list mentioned in the introduction to the reign of Tiglath-pileser i also
has traces of the names of the eponyms for the reign (see Grayson,
ARI 2 p. 45 204).
85
Assur-bel-kala
A.0.89
Despite the setback which Assyria suffered at the hands of the

Aramaeans later in the reign of Tiglath-pileser i (and which probably
lasted during the shadowy reign of Aard-api1-Ekur), the Middle
Assyrian Empire was revived briefly by Aur-bl-kala (1073-1056
BC). This monarch boasts in his royal inscriptions of military expeditions as far east and south as Babylonia and as far west as the
Lebanon. Babylonia became in fact a vassal state of Assyria and the
Egyptians were so impressed by this Asiatic power that, according to
Aur-bl-kala, the pharaoh sent to the Assyrian king exotic animals
as gifts. But the Aramaean pressure continued, as revealed in a
significant passage of the Broken Obelisk (A.0.89.7 column iii) where
numerous clashes between Assyrian and Aramaean forces are
recorded. Most if not all of Aur-b1-ka1a's royal inscriptions date
very early in his reign, which suggests that the Aramaeans gradually
gained the upper hand later in his period of rule. This suggestion is
supported by the dramatic decline in Assyrian power evident in subsequent reigns.
Among the royal inscriptions preserved for Aur-b1-ka1a, most are
annalistic texts (A.0.89.1-9). The earliest in date is A.0.89.1 while the
latest seems to be A.0.89.7, which probably dates to the fifth or sixth
regnal year, or a little later. Most of the texts come from Aur, indicating that Aur-b1-ka1a concentrated his building projects there.
Unfortunately the various passages describing these works are badly
damaged or totally missing, with the exception of the building section
in A.0.89.7. But this latter passage more than compensates for the loss
since it describes work on several different structures at Aur: palaces, the moat, gates (cf. A.0.89.3), the city wall, a canal, a garden,
and the quay by the Tigris Gate. In the same text (A.0.89.7) the construction of palaces at Apqu, Sqa, and Sikkatu is narrated. Only two
fragments of annals from Nineveh are preserved (A.0.89.8-9) and the
building section is missing from both so that it is unknown what work
Aur-b1-ka1a did in that city.
From chronicles (see Grayson, Chronicles p. 165 ii 25-37' and
pp. 180-81 lines 4-11) considerably more detail about Aur-b1-ka1a's
relations with Babylonia is available. This monarch also appears, of
course, in various king lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135) and
there is a hymn addressed by him to the god Adad (see Strong, JRAS
[1892] pp. 342-44 and Borger, EAK 1 p. 138).
86
87
Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.7
1
The annals of Aur-bl-kala are attested on several fragments of clay
tablets, one clay cone fragment, and a stone stele. Most of the tablets
were found at A s s u r , but some come from Nineveh as does, apparently, the stele. The stele, commonly called the 'Broken Obelisk', is
edited below as A.0.89.7. The clay tablet and cone fragments preserve
the remains of various versions of the annals which have been edited
below as A.0.89.1-6 and 8-9. A.0.89.1 is the earliest of the annalistic
texts.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Ass
Ass ph
Asur
Ex.
number
number
number
provenance
AM
6556
960-61
VAT 9627
4533r
459, 566-67(?)
Near Anu-Adad temple between

south corner of ziqqurrat and
west corner of temple, eA5v;
Pedersn, MA library, M2
NW side of Aur temple
courtyard, hD3v; Pedersn, Aur
temple library and archive, N1
K 2817
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
8.7x7.7+
Obv. 1-19'
Rev. r-16'
c~~
8.2x7.3 4
Obv. 2'-16r
8x4+
Obv. 6-11'
cpn
COMMENTARY
The annals of Aur-bl-kala are preserved on a large
stone stele, commonly called the 'Broken Obelisk'
(A.0.89.7), probably from Nineveh; numerous fragments of clay tablets (A.0.89.1-2, 4 - 6 , and 8-9) from
both ASur and Nineveh; and a clay cone fragment
(A.0.89.3) from Assur. The identification of all of these
inscriptions with Aur-b1-ka1a has involved meticulous
research, mainly by Weidner and Borger, and thanks to
their work there is scarcely any doubt now that the
Broken Obelisk and the various pieces of annals on clay
fragments edited here belong to this king.
But the exact text division of the inscriptions on clay
tablet fragments is still a difficult matter which cannot
be settled until more material is available. In this edition I have been more cautious than Weidner, who
tried to identify most fragments as parts of one text.
Borger already noted that more texts were involved
than allowed by Weidner and 1 believe that the fragments possibly represent several texts. The reasons
behind this new division are the following.
A.0.89.1 (three exs.) and A.0.89.2 (five exs.) cannot
be the same text. They have no duplicate passages and
one ex, of A.0.89.1 (ex. 1) has a description of hunting
on the rev. (rev. 7-10', previously unpublished) which
is similar to, but not a duplicate of, a passage in
A.0.89.2 (iii 29-35'). Yet another version of this hunting passage is found in A.0.89.6 (lines 2-5') and so it
must be part of a third text. A fragment from Nineveh
(A.0.89.9) has a narrative (lines 3-10') describing a

campaign west of the Euphrates which is similar to, but
not a duplicate of, a passage in A.0.89.6 (lines 6-15').
Thus A.0.89.9 has been regarded as a separate, fourth
text. A fifth text is clearly represented by A.0.89.5,
which has a description of the campaign to Uruatri
(2-11') which is a duplicate of a passage in A.0.89.2
(i 8-18') but then contains an abbreviated version
(A.0.89.5 lines 12-16') of the campaign described in
more detail in A.0.89.2 (i 19'-36').
Introductory titles and genealogies are preserved on
two texts, one from Nineveh (A.0.89.8) and one from
Aur (A.0.89.4). In theory A.0.89.8 could be the introductory portion of A.0.89.9 while A.0.89.4 could be
the same for any of A.0.89.1, 2, 5, or 6.
This division of the clay tablet fragments may in future prove unsubstantiated; but for the moment it is, I
believe, the best we can do. Weidner (AfO 6 p. 79) argued that A.0.89.2.4 (Ass 17184) and A.0.89.5 (Ass
17148) were fragments of the same tablet on the basis
of their having approximately the same provenance and
the similarity of script and colour of the clay. None of
these factors are compelling reasons although it is just
possible that Weidner is correct.
Interrelated with the division of the fragments into
texts is the chronology of the texts. A.0.89.1 is clearly
earlier than A.0.89.2. In the latter text a second campaign against Mari (ii 5') is described, while in A.0.89.1
ii
Aur-b1-ka1aA.0.89.7110
(obv. 14') the campaign against Mari is by implication

the first. In the concluding portion of A . 0 . 8 9 . 2 (iii 22')
the fourth regnal year is cited, which means that this
text was written in that year, or possibly the fifth year.
A . 0 . 8 9 . 3 may have been composed about the same time
as A . 0 . 8 9 . 2 , since 'the second year' is mentioned in a
hunting passage in A . 0 . 8 9 . 3 (line 70 and A . 0 . 8 9 . 2
(iii 320. A b o u t the same date must be ascribed to
A . 0 . 8 9 . 4 (or at least ex. 1 o f that text) for it (i.e. ex. 1)
is dated in the e p o n y m y o f Aur-rm-niu. This eponymy appears in A . 0 . 8 9 . 7 (iii 3), where it seems to be
about the fourth year mentioned (cf. Borger, EAK 1 p.
140 and Brinkman, PKB p. 142 n. 859). In turn
A . 0 . 8 9 . 7 must be at least a year later than A . 0 . 8 9 . 4 ,
since events in an eponymy after Aur-rem-niu are
narrated.
certain. However, if one assumes that texts with short

descriptions of events are later than texts with longer
descriptions of the same events (a very uncertain assumption), this would mean that A . 0 . 8 9 . 5 would be
later than A . 0 . 8 9 . 2 .
Let us turn n o w t o special items regarding A . 0 . 8 9 . 1 .
All three exs. are in very fragmentary condition and the
readings and reconstruction of lines are o f t e n very uncertain. Weidner's copy and edition seem to suggest
that exs. 1 and 2 join but this is impossible since they
overlap in obv. 10-11'. Ex. 3 has a Kuyunjik registration number and therefore may come from Nineveh
but, since the building section is not preserved, this
cannot be confirmed. The master text is a conflation of
all three exs., where preserved. Readers interested in details can consult the scores.
The relative chronology o f the remaining texts is un-
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1893
1902
1922
1926
1935
Winckler, Sammlung 1 p. 29 (ex. 3, copy)

King, AKA pp. 120-21 (ex. 3, copy, edition)
Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 77 (ex. 2, copy)
Luckenbill, ARAB 1 434-35 (ex. 2, translation)
Weidner, AnOr 12 pp. 336-38 (ex. 1, study)
1961 Borger, EAK 1 pp. 138 and 143 (exs. 1-3, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ixxxix 1 (exs. 1-3, translation)
1985-86 Pedersn, Archives 1 p. 39; 2 p. 24 no. 83 (exs. 1-2,
provenance)
TEXT
Obverse
Lacuna
10 [ . . . ] X K U R M ? K [ x ]
20 [...] x [x x] x [...] x-ia UGU x ru na [x]
30 [...] X URU-u [...J x // MES a H tu
40 [..*] hal-sa-ni-u-nu l^]-a-nu-ti(1)-u-nu
sa
KR hi-me
50 [...] a-mi-lu-ta [...] x sa ki-ma MUL.MES
AN-E
60
70
80
90
1O0
110
[...] nap-har URU.MES-SW- sa KUR hi-me

[ . . . ] / e-zib
L.ME EN.MES URU.ME-SW-A2W
a-ku-u[s]
[...] i-na UGU URU.ME-u-nu ma-[dte(1)
almQt(1) ummnt]-u-nu a i-na tu-a-ri
[...] i-na GI.TUKUL.ME -am-qi-tu a-na x
[...]-ir-0-/e.ME ar-sip
muq-tab-li RIN.MES GIS.TUKUL.~MES~I [ . . . ana
/f]-ra(?p mi-na -n-pfl
gi-mil KUR-7 a a-[...] kuE-u-nu a x (x)
ap-puû-ta
obv. 1' KUR A/(?)-x-[xJ: this might be Himme (see obv. 4') but
the signs are too broken to be certain, obv. 5' Cf. A.0.101.1
i 88 and iii 43 (Asn. n). obv. 8' The reconstruction and
Lacuna
l'-llO [...] of the land gimme [...] against/upon
... [...] his city [...] ... [...] their fortresses, their
[..,], of the land Himme, [I conquered and
destroyed /plundered]. Men and [sheep] which,
like the stars of heaven, [had no number, / carried o f f ] . All of their cities, of the land Himme, [I
conquered and destroyedJ. I did not leave [a single warrior alive]. I flayed the men, their cityrulers, [...]. Over against their numerous cities I
built [into mounds the corpses of] their [warriors]
which I had felled with the sword in the
battlefield [...]. Soldiers, armed troops, [...]
without number I blinded. (Thus) I achieved
vengeance for my land which [...] ... their
blood/corpses ...
restoration of this line is very uncertain. After URU.ME-u-n

ex. 3 has a broken sign which begins with a horizontal wedge
and thus cannot be m[a-...].
12'-13') I marched to the land Habhu. The cities

Hasa, [...] from the city Asku ... [...], cities of
the land Habhu, I conquered. I [carried off ...] to
my city Aur.
12') a-na KUR hab-hi al-lik URU ha-sa [...] x x ultu URU as-ku-x
13') [...] URU.MEs-ni sa KUR hab-hi ak-rucP [...]
fa~i-na URU-ia a-ur u[b-la]
14')
15')
16')
17')
180
89
GI.tukul-ti-me-er MAN KUR m[-ri...] x

GAL-e e-r[u-ub(?)]
[...] i-na qi-b[it] a-ur [blia ...] al-lik KUR
m-r[i]
[...] x x [...]-ru~i-nu as-su-[ha]
[...] x-na(1) sa DIS x x x
[..;] x & i x x I(x)]
14-16') Tuku1t-Mr, king of the land M[ari ...]

great, entered. [...] By the command of the god
Aur, [my lord], I marched [to the land Mari
(...)]. The land Mar[i ...] I uprooted their [people].
17-19') (Too broken for translation)
19') [ . . . ] x x 5 - u - n u lu e-[x-(x))
Lacuna
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
rev. l'-30 (Too broken for translation)
Lacuna
V) [...] x [.]
2')
U]X5MX[...]
3')
4')
[..,] x lu bur su x [...]

[...] -qu-up-u-nu-rti[iyi
rev. 4') [...] I planted/erected them.
5')
6')
[...]-Su li-ia-ra(1)-riHT K.GI rD-u~i

[...] a x-ri-a-u ak-si-ir
rev. 5-60 [ with ...] ///v-wood (white cedar),

(and) gold I made. [...] ... I blocked up.
7')
8')
9')
1O0
11')
[... ]--ta MU-am-ma EGIR-u-nu

[... DM]A DIGI.DU sa SANGA-ti-ia i-ra-mu
[...].ME a-duk DUK ANE.EDIN.NA.ME
[... it-t]i -ma-mi x an-n-e
[...]-ia e(1)-tap-pa-
rev. 7'-ll') [...] annually, after them [...] the gods

Ninurta and Nergal, who love my priesthood,
[gave to me the wild beasts]. I killed [...] wild
asses [...] with these animals my [...] I was
doing/making.
12') [...] x i-i-ma lu(1) i[b]-ba-la-ka-u

13') [...] ba(1) KAL LUGAL x [...] x-er-u
rev. 12-13') [...] ... and keep rebelling [...] king

[...]
14') [. .] x x [...]
150 [. .] x-ma [...]
16') [. .] x [...]
rev. 14-16') (Too broken for translation)
2
This version of the annals on clay tablets from Aur is later in time
than A.0.89.1, as explained there. In this text earlier campaigns narrated in A.0.89.1 are described. In addition, a second campaign
against Mari (ii 5') and a second campaign against Himme (iii 150 are
narrated. For further details on the annals see the commentary to
A.0.89.1.
rev, 1-4' The verb in line 4' indicates that this passage
described the planting of (exotic) trees (see the introduction to
A.0.87.1) or the erection of statues (cf. A.0.101.1 iii 89). rev.
7-8' Hunting passages of the period (see the introduction to
A.0.87.1) usually begin immediately with Ninurta and Nergal.

rev. 10' Cf. A.0.89.7 iv 31-34a and the note. rev. 12 13' The
reading and interpretation of these lines is very uncertain.
90
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Aur
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
A 696
17132
5173
Ruins of old Assyrian

Aur temple, iB3iv
22x13.4+
VAT 9657
7.8x7.2+
i ]'-36'
iii V-35'
i 6'-18'
11.6x6.9+
ii r - i r
i 7-27'
6.8x5.8+
iii 6'-22'
5.6x5.1+
iii 30-35'
VAT 9486
6796b
957
VAT 9590
17184
5328
VAT 9601
20570
6372
SW of Anu-Adad
temple, eA6n
Western part of gate room
of old Assyrian Aur
temple, iB3iv
City area
cpn
c~
COMMENTARY
The identification o f these exs. as one text and the text's
reconstruction are not entirely certain. A s reconstructed, however, three separate parts of the text are
preserved on the various exs. with lacunae in between.
The three parts have been labelled 'i\ 4 ii\ and 'iii', but
this has nothing to do with columns (none o f the exs. is
divided into columns). The position of the rev. of ex. 2
other exs. It must, however, appear before iii since iii

has concluding portions of the text, and so it is labelled
ii and put between i and iii. The master text, for purposes o f line numbering, is ex. 1, except for part ii
where, of course, it is ex. 2. The actual reconstruction
of the master text is based on all exs. where preserved.
The reader interested in details can check the scores.
is uncertain since it is not duplicated by any of the
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1922 Sehr oeder, KAH 2 nos. 75 and 144 (exs. 3, 5, copy)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 334 (ex. 3, translation)
1930-31 Weidner, AfO 6 pp. 78-93 (exs. 1, 3-4, copy, edition)
1935 Weidner, AnOr 12 pp. 336-38 (ex. 2, study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXIX 1 (exs. 1-5, translation)
TEXT
'Coi. r
Lacuna
1') [...].ME ha-[...]
Lacuna
i 10 (Too broken for translation)
[mar aur]-SAG-i-[i ar kiati arri danni

ar mt aur]
[mu-]k-ni [l mgir ...]
i 2-30 [Son of Aur]-ra-i[i (i), king of the

universe, strong king, king of Assyria], subduer
of [the insubmissive ...];
5')
[mr] mu-tk-kil-nusku [ar kiati arri

dann ar mat aurma]
[NUM]UN ID-ti-u i-n[a(1) ...]
60
LUGAL MAN.MES EN E[N.ME . . . ]
i 4-70 [Son of] Mutakkil-Nusku, [(who was) also

king of the universe, strong king, king of Assyria]
his priestly progeny [ ] king of kings, lord of
lords, [...], eternal royal seed [...]:
7')
NUMUN da-ru- sa L[UGAL(?)-//(?) ...]
80
i-na ur-ru MAN-ti-ia [ina mahr palia a ina

GI.GU].TZA(?)1 [arrte rab ibu]
20
30
4')
i r Cf. A.0.89.10 line 3. i 5' See Borger, EAK 1 p. 143.

i These must be titles of Aur-b1-ka1a - cf. Borger,
EAK 1 p. 143; Seux, ERAS p. 55 n. 63; Grayson, ARI 2 p. 47
i 8'-180 In my accession year [(and) in my first

regnal year, after I nobly ascended the royal]
n. 200. i 7 See Borger, EAK 1 p. 143. i 8' Cf. A.0.89.5 line

2' and the note to A.0.87.1 i 62.
9')
i-na e-mu-qe si-ra-a-t[e a aur biia lik

priia ina(1) ... sa ninurta]
10') a-lik im-ni-ia i-na lb-be qar-di a d i[KUR
lik umlia(1)]
1 T) GI.GIGIR.MES R I N . H I . A . M E a [ d - k ger]/.ME pa--qu-te
[...]
12') []A a-na me-teq GI.GGIR.ME

RIN.[HI.A.ME l a]-ak-[nu p]r-ke la-a e-ti13')
14')
15')
16')
17')
18')
[qu]
pe-re-ek-u-un MUEN.ME AN-e [muttaprit]
la-a e-ti-qu pe-r[k-uri]
a LUGAL ia-um-ma NUN-W [Qlik] fpa-nP-ia
l[a]-a il-li-ku T-X-[...]
ger-ra u-a-tu as-bat KUR hi-ni-[... ad] iaa-at-ku-un ni.ME$-[unu marste nrebt]
pa--qa-te si-mi-la-at YVK-u-nu []-na akkl-lat ZABAR lu a[h-si]
a-na me-teq Gi.GiGiR.ME-/a -t-ib rhur(1)^[a]-ni.MES a-t[u-nu] a-na pr-ke ab-bal-kit
[D] x-x-ub-da D sa-ma-nu-na lu- e-^bif ana q-r[eb mt uruatr rub]
19') URU qu-qi-a-ba URU a-mu-r ra-(1)^-ka URU

du-na-a-x [...]
20') URU e-ri-du-un URU i-ta-ia-un URU ik-ki-a
URU X [ . . . ]
21') URU su-su-ku URU al-la-gi-du URU tar-ra-ba

URU zur-zu-ra [...]
22') URU li-gu-nu URU i-ku-ut-nu URU e-li-da URU
i-ta-am-ni-a URU a-ra-[...]
23') URU a-ri-nu-un URU sa-sal-hi-a URU ha-ru-ru
U]
24') [URU] x-si--ru URU pa-ni-ra-su URU pa-ni[...]
25') [U]RU hi-ri-i-tu URU u1-mi-i URU na~ba-la
91
throne, with the exalted strength [of the god

Aur, my lord, who goes before me, with the ...
of the god Ninurta], who goes at my right hand,
with the martial spirit of the god Ad[ad, 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 prince
who preceded me had marched [...] I took that
road. Mounts Hini[... and] Iatkun, [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 Rivers [...]ubdu (and) Samanunu. [I entered the land Uruatri].
i 19'-36') The
cities
Quqiaba,
Amuraska,
Dunaa[...],
Eridun, Itaiaun, Ikkia,
[...],
Susuku, Sallagidu, Tarraba, Zurzura, [...],
Ligunu, Ikutnu, Elida, Itamnia, Ara[...],
Arinun, Sasalhia, Haruru, [...]siuru, Panirasu,
Pani[..., Hi]ritu, U1mi, Nabala, [...], Hippu,
Hararia, Aparunu, [...], Ziqunu, Hardia, E1aqu,
[...]alu, Iabliunu, [...i]1tu, GETIN-na, Masgun (or
Bargun) [...], Iabliunu, [...], all the cities of [...]
their booty, possessions [...] their cities [I burnt
.,.] I covered [with ...] cities, villages, [...] on the
bank of [the River] Hariia [...]
Lacuna
U[RU . . . ]
26') [UR]U hi-ip-pu URU ha-ra-ri-a URU a-pa-ru-nu

UR[U . . . ]
27') [URU z]i-qu-nu URU ha-ar-di-a URU e-la-quu[ ...]

28') [URU ...]-x-a-lu URU ia-ab-li--nu URU X - [ . . . ]
29')
[URU . . . - ] l - t U URU.GETIN-RTTF URU.MA-X-[...]
30')
[URU . . . ] x URU ia-ab-li--nu
31') [...]-ku
URU X - [ . . . ]
^fcP nap-(iar URU.ME-W sa x [...]
32') [...] x al-la-su-nu bu-a-[u-nu ...]

i 9 - W Cf. A.0.89.5 lines 3'-4'. i ll'-lS'a Cf. A.0.89.5 lines
4'b-8'a. i 12' Cf. A.0.99.2 line 82; A.0.101.1 ii 60-61;
A.0.101.19 line 61 etc. i 13'. 1 The lacuna is too small for a
syllabic writing of muapriti (as in A.0.89.5 line 6); the
logogram DAL.DAL.MES was probably used. Cf. Weidner, AfO
6 p. 82 n. 33. i 14-18' For ex. 1 in these lines some traces
copied by Weidner in the break on the right side are no longer
preserved on the original. Nevertheless we have included the
traces in the scores, i 15'b-18' Cf. A.0.89.5 lines 813-11'. i
15'b Note the writing ITI.ME for arhn 'paths' not 'months', i
15r For the restoration of nrebte see A.0.87.1 iv 53. Borger,

EAK 1 p. 143, suggests instead hla. i 23-28' The exact
reconstruction of the text is uncertain since the two preserved
exemplars, exs. 1 and 3, are badly broken and vary in the
order of listing at least one place-name. Iabliunu appears in i
28' in ex. 1 and so it is given in the master text, but in ex. 3
(which breaks off at i 27') the following line appears between i
22-23' and i 25': URU ia-ab-li--nu URU rf[ff-...]. The interested
reader can consult the scores for full details.
92
33') [...] URU.ME-ni-u-nu Una I[ZI arup ...]

34') [...]-x-z/ -tam-me-rer(iyi [...]
35') [ . . . ] URU.ME-/?/ kap-ra-a-n[i ...]
36') [...] o riDn ha-ri-ia [...]
Lacuna
'Col. if
Lacuna
1') [...]-r/z/(?H(?)i [x] x-sa-n-u [...]
2') [...] um(1)-u-[x] KI NUMUN(?).ME a-n[a(7)
...]
3')
Lacuna
ii l'-40 [...] ... progeny [... A]ur-ete11u, son of
the king, son of Sa[...] them. Their heads [I cut
off-A
a\-ur-e-tel-lu DUMU MAN DUMU

r5a(?P-[...]
[... s\u)-nu-te SAG.DU.ME-te-u-n[u ...]
[...
4')
a-nu-te-ia a-na
5')
[(...)]
6')
[ ( . . . ) ] LUGAL.ME u R u
KUR m-r[i...]
qat-na-a-ia.ME
LU[GAL(?) . . . ]
7)
8')
9')
[...-]//(?) ki-im-te a ab-ba-r(1p [...]

[...] x-u dam(?).ME-5W la X [...]
[... i]-na i-id-di -ga-[ri...]
IV)
[...]
a-di
ELUE-U x
ii 5-110 [()] A second time [I marched] to the

land Mar[i ...]. The kings of the people of the
city Qatnu, the king(s) [of ...] the family whose
fathers [...], his [...] and his wives [...] at the edge
of the plain [...] together with his brothers [...]
Lacuna
[...]
11') [...] x x x [...]

Lacuna
'Col. iii'
Lacuna
10 ibx [...]
20 f a x [... 1
3') a-na e-nu-[...]
40 lu i-ak-nu [...]
50 i-na e-rnu-qe si-[ra-a-te sa aur blia ...]
6') it-te-u-nu l[u amdahis ...]
T) ma-â-at-ta a KU[R . . . ] HRINT.HI. A.ME R/Î
[... U R U . . . ]
8')
ak-u-su al-la-su [buu ... hubta m]a-a-da

lu -l[u-ul\
9') al-ma-at qu-ra-d[i-u ... ]
10') .MEs-u-nu hur-ri na-at-b[a-ki ad l
umalli...]
Lacuna
iii 1-140 .. [..] which [...] to [...] were placed
[...]. With the exalted strength [of the god Aur,
my lord, ... I fought] with them [...] extensive
[...] of the land [...] troops [...] I conquered him.
His booty, [possessions, ...] extensive [booty] I
carried off. The corpses of [his] warriors [... I
filled] the hollows and ravines [of the mountains]
with their blood [...] the heads of the troops, the
weapons [...], him I flayed in the house of ... [...
(and) impaled his corpse] on a stake. [I made] a
colossal royal statue of myself (and) wrote
thereon (a description of) my royal victories [...]
11') SAG.DU.ME RIN.ME GI.TUKUL.M[E . . . ] X U
li ri du x [...]
120 u-a-tu i-na a-sa-[... lu] a-ku-us i-na g[a-ii(t) ... uzaqqip(1)]
130 sa-lam MAN-//-/T ur-b[a-a pu li-ta-a]t MAN ti-ia
140 i-na qer-bi-u al-t[u-ur
150 a-nu-ut-te-ia a-na KUR hi-im-m[ l allk ...]
160 a KUR MA-gu-un ak-[ud(1) hursu(1)
K].BABBAR aMa-su b[u-a-u l alul ana
iii 15-210 A second time [I marched] to the land

Himme [...] of the land Masgun (or Bargun) I
conquered. [I carried off gold\> silver, his booty
(and) [possessions]. I entered [...] I [traversed]
ii 1 - 4 ' The identity of the guilty men mentioned in this

passage and their crime is unknown but it appears their
punishment was decapitation, ii 3' The name ASSur-etellu is
otherwise unknown, iii 5' Cf. i 9'. iii 12' Weidner restored
a-sa-[ak-ki...] 'Taboo House' but, as observed in CAD 1/2

(A) p. 327, this context would be 'atypical', iii 13-14' Cf. iii
2(y-21; A.0.89.3 lines 2' and 4'. iii 16' MA can be read mas- or
bar-.
93
17') e-ru-ub KUR hi-ru-a a[b-balkit URU] iP-runi- a K[UR himme]

18') a i-na na-gab KUR-e n[a-du ... ana mteq
narkabt-]a la na-tu-
19') al-lik URU u-a-tu a[l-mi akud allassu
buu ana l mi]-na
20') i-e-si-a URU u-[a-tu ina iti arup salam
arrtia pu]
210 li-ta-at MAS-ti-ia [ina qerbu altur ...]
Mount Hirua (and) marched [to the city] Urunia

of the land [Himme], which is situated in the
heart of the mountains, [ragged mountains which]
were impassable [for] my [chariots]. I [surrounded] that city [(and) conquered it]. I brought
forth [its booty and possessions without] number
(and) [burnt] that city. [I made a royal statue of
myself (and) wrote thereon] (a description of) my
royal victories [...]
22') i-na 4-te a-at-te â i-na^ [kuss arrte

ibu ...]
240 -e-zi-iz i-na [...]
250 NUN-M a-lik pa-[ni-ia ...]
260 a-na si-hr-t-S[u ...]
iii 22;-26') In the fourth year after [I ascended the

royal throne], I made [a royal statue of myself] in
gold (and) erected (it) [in Earra, the house of my
succour, before Assur, my lord]. When [the ...
which] a prince who preceded [me had built became dilapidated, I] entirely [reconstructed (it) ...]
270 KASKAL.ME-A/ KUR a-r[i-me madte zirt

aur a na mat ...]
280 ah-tab-ba-tu [...]
iii 27-28') On [numerous] campaigns against the

land of the Ar[amaeans, the enemies of Assur,
who in the land ...] I continually plundered [...]
29') dMA \palil a angt iramm bl sri

uatlimnimma ep bv?ur iqbnimma]
30') 5 u-i UR.MA[H.ME ... ina mziz q\ar-du-t\ia ...]
310 6(?) pu-hal G[U4.ME dan-n]u-te u-ut qar-ni x
[... ina narkabtia(1) (...)]
320 i-na GR. [n-ia lasmti ina] a-ni-im-ma
iii 29-350 The gods Ninurta and [Nergal, who

love my priesthood, gave to me the wild beasts
and commanded me to hunt]. 300 lions [... with
my fierce] valour [...] six strong [wild] virile
[bulls] with horns [... from my ... chariot] and on
[my swift] feet, [in my] second regnal year, [...
with my] sharp [arrows] I [... The remainder of
the numerous animals] and the winged birds of
the sky, [wild game which I acquired, their names
are not written with these] animals, [their
numbers are not written with these numbers],
Lacuna
23') a K.GI e-pu-u[
BA[LA-I ... ina
...]
mulmultia]
330 na-ah-zu-te i-x-[... stt umme ma>di(1)]

34') MUEN.M[E] AN-E mut-tap-r[i-a bu?ur sri
ept qtia]
350 [umtu-n]u it-ti -ma-m[e ann la atr]
Lacuna
3
This fragmentary version of the annals, on a piece of clay cone from
Assur, preserves two passages. The first passage (lines 1-90 is a condensed narrative of the campaigns described in more detail in A.0.89.2
iii 13-35'. The second passage contains a description of the reconstruction of a gate, presumably the Step Gate (see RIMA 1 pp. 90-92
A.0.61.1 and 3), previously worked upon by Puzur-Aur in and a
later king whose name is broken.
Mi IT Cf. A.0.89.3 line 3'. iii 18' na-gab: Cf. the references in
CAD 11/1 (N) p. I l l sub nagbu B c. iii 2(T-21' See the note
to iii 13-14'. iii 23' In the translation I have suggested a
restoration based on A.0.89.3 line 5'. This seems plausible
since A.0.89.3 follows closely the order of events as narrated

in iii 13-35'. iii 27'-28' Cf. A.0.89.3 line 6'. iii 31' 6(?): the
numeral might be 5. iii 32-33' Cf. A.O.89.3 line 8'.
iii 33'b-35' Cf. A.0.89.7 iv 31-34a and the note.
94
COMMENTARY
Regarding the annals see the commentary to A . 0 . 8 9 . 1 .
foundation o f t h e Istar temple,
The clay cone fragment (VA Ass 2269, Ass 9008, Ass
ph 1327) was found on the south slope of the stone
8 . 5 x 7 . 8 + cm and the inscription has been collated.
eC6in.
It
measures
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1930-31 Weidner, AfO 6 pp. 86-88 and 91 (copy,
ARI 2 Lxxxix 3 (translation)

edition)
1976 Grayson
TEXT
Lacuna
Lacuna
1') [...] x x (x)-a-te lu am-rda(W-[has(?) ...]
r-9*) [...] I fought [...] I made a colossal [royal
2') [salam arrtia ur]-bcP-a d t - u li-ta-at
statue of myself (and) wrote] thereon (a descripMAN-/7-7 i-na fqer-[bu altur (...)]
tion of) my royal victories. [...] I traversed
3') [... ad hirua] ab-bal-kit URU -ru-ni-a
[Mount Hirua, conquered and burnt] the city
Urunias of the land Himme. I made a royal statue
KR hi-m-me [...]
of myself (and) [wrote thereon (a description of)
4') [...] sa-lam MAN-//-/T D-U li-ta-at LUGAL-t[imy] royal victories. [I made (another) royal statue
ia ina qerbu altur]
of myself (and) erected (it) in E]arra, the house
5') [... pu ina -]r-ra tu-kl-ti-ia i-napa-ni
of my succour, before Aur, my lord. [...] On
a-ur E[s-ia uziz (...)]
numerous [campaigns against the Ar]amaeans, the
6') [,.. harrant mat a-r]i-me ma-da-a-te za-i-ruenemies of Aur, who in the land [... I continuut a-ur sa i-na KUR [... ahtabbatu (...)]
ally plundered ... 300 lions ...] with my fierce
7') \...-t]e -na me-ziz qar-du-ti-ia i-na 2-e
valour, in [my] second regnal year [... with] my
BA[LA-ia ...]
sharp arrows [... their names] are not written with
8') [... ina mu]l-mu-li-ia na-ah-zv-te [...]
these animals [...]
9') [... umtunu i]t-ti -ma-mi an-n-e la-a
at-ru [...]
10') [ina umiuma abullu ... a (...) puzur-a-\ur
DUMU a-ur-RIN-TH e-p e-na-ah ma[wr-...]
11') [mi]-lu it-bal-i KA.GAL i-a-ti a-[na sihirta
12') [...] a-na u*-um sa-a-te NUN-M [ark ...]

13') [ana a-r]i-u-nu lu-ter a[-ur ikribu
iemme munekkir itria u umia ...]
14') [... kussu] li-ki-mu-[u ...]
Lacuna
2' For the restorations see line 4' and A.0.89.2 iii 13-14'.
3' Cf. A.0.89.2 iii 17'. 4' Cf. line 2' and A.0.89.2 iii 20'-21'.
5' Cf. A.0.89.2 iii 23-24'. 6' Cf. A.0.89.2 iii 27-28'. 7' Cf.
A.0.89.2 iii 3a. 8' Cf. A.0.89.2 iii 32^33'. The last preserved
part of line 8' is erased. 9' Cf. A.0.89.7 iv 31-34a and the
note. 10' There is no evidence on which royal name to restore
10-11') [At that time the ... Gate - Puzur-A]ur

(III), son of Aur-nrr (i) had built (it and
when) it became dilapidated A[ur-... rebuilt (it)
it had again become dilapidated], the flood had
washed it away. [I completely reconstructed] this
gate.
12-13'a) [In the future], in days to come, [may a
later] prince [when this gate becomes old and dilapidated, restore its weakened portions]. May he
restore [my monumental inscriptions to] their
[places]. (Then) A[ur will listen to his prayers].
13T?-14') [As for the one who removes my inscription and my name]: May [Aur
take away
from him [his throne].
Lacuna
at the end of the line. Borger, EAK 1 p. 144 suggests ASurb1-nieu. 11' For the end of the line cf. A.0.89.2 iii 26' and
Borger, EAK 1 p. 144. 14' Cf. RIMA 1 p. 238 vi 5, p. 246
line 117, and passim in Asn. II and later. See Meitzer, Concluding Formulae 2 pp. 450-51.
95
4
This introduction to annals of Aur-bl-kala is preserved on two clay
tablet fragments from Aur. As explained in the commentary to
A.0.89.1, it could be part of any of the Aur annals fragments
(A.0.89.1, 2, 5, or 6). It would have been followed by the king's
genealogy (cf. A.0.89.2 i l'-7').
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Aur
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
Unlocated
16308k
4777
0.4-0.5 metre deep, late

Assyrian level, forecourt of
Aur temple, iD3v;
Pedersn, M A archive, M5
Obv. 1-14
Rev. 1'
n~~
V A T 11240
18268
Fill, iC4ivM
4.2x3.3+
O b v . 1-7
cpn
COMMENTARY
Ex. 1 (rev. 1') is dated to the fourth or fifth regnal year see Brinkman, PKB
p. 142 n. 859.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXIX 1 (exs. 1-2, translation)
1985 Pedersn, Archives 1 p. 56 (ex. 1 provenance)
1915-19 Ebeling, KAR no. 126 Fragment 2 (ex. 2, copy)

1917 Schroeder, OLZ 20 305 (ex. 2, study)
1930-31 Weidner, AfO 6 pp. 78-93 (exs. 1-2, copy, edition)
TEXT
Obverse
1) ~mâ-ur-EN-ka-l[a arru rab ar K]I LUGAL
KUR a-ur
2) [L]UGAL la-a a-na-a[n ar kullat kibrt
arb&i(7) za]-nin -kur bi-bl lb-bi a-ur
3) [GR].ARAD EN KUR.KUR.ME [a ina tukulti
aur(1) it-t]al-la-ku i-sa-pa-nu ge-^rP-u
4)
[a ]a-ur DBAD [... ep]-e-tu-u ti-bu la-a
nu-u[h-h]u
5) [a b]e-lu-ut KUR da-[ur ana qtu
umel(1)]-lu mu-h[ar-mif]
6) [nap-ha]r KUR.KUR.ME [nakrti(1) ina it]
RDNGIBIL6(NE.GI) mu-l[a-it l mgirJ(7)]
1-14) Asur-b1-ka1[a, great king, king of the]

universe, king of Assyria, unrivalled king, [king
of all the four quarters], provider for Ekur, select
of the god Aur, appointee of the Lord of the
Lands, [who] acts [with the support of the god
Aur] in laying low his enemies, [whose] deeds
the gods Aur (and) Enlil [...], the unconquerable attacker [the one to whom was entrusted]
dominion of Assyria, the one who disintegrates
[all enemy] lands [with the fire of] Girru (fire
god), controller [of the insubmissive], the one
who breaks up [the forces of the rebellious], the
1 arru rab is perhaps a better restoration than sarru dannu.

Cf. A.0.89.8 line 1; A.0.89.11 line 2; and see Borger, EAK 1
pp. 142-43 and Seux, ERAS pp. 296 and 300. 3 Cf. akkanak
aur bel mtati 'appointee of Aur, lord of lands' in
A.0.101.40 line 9. 'Lord of lands' was originally a title of Enlil

and so this epithet is similar to sakkanak enlil 'appointee of
EnliP. 4 nuhhu: See the note to A.0.87.1 iv 47. 5 Cf. RIMA
1 p. 233 i 7-8~
96
7)
[mu]-pa-ri-[ir kisr multarhi mu]-n-er

[aiibu]
8) [a ... i-n\a~ad-di ut-ta-^ka \-[ru ...]
9)
[...-b]uxl..]
10) [a ... ina qab(1)]-li -sah-hi-pu gi-mir mal-
one who defeats [his enemies, ...] throws down, is

changed [the one who ... in battle] has overwhelmed all princes, [... the one who ...] has conquered the [lands] of all [people from Babylon of
the land Akka]d to the Upper Sea [of the land
Amurru and the sea of the lands Nair]i, [the one
who ...]
has become lord of all;
/.M[E]
11) [a ... mtti] a ki-a-i at '

12) [ws(?) /sta bbiI a mt ak-ka]-de-e a-d
A.AB.BA
13) [sa
amurri u tmti a mat na-i-r]i qa-assu ik-u-d[u]
14) [sa ...] tq-rin-^te D-pe-lu gm-ra
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
V) [ITI ... UD X.KAM lmu]
u
Lacuna
Lacuna
rev. 1') [Month of
Aur-rm-niu.
a-ur-kGA-UN.ME-
...th day, eponymy of]
5
This is yet another fragmentary version of the annals on a piece of
clay tablet from Aur. The first preserved portion (2-11') duplicates
the narrative of the campaign towards Uruafri found in A.0.89.2
(i 8-18'). The next section (12-16') is an abbreviated version of the
campaign described in A.0.89.2 i 19'-36', while the final section
(17-2(y) is too broken for any identification.
COMMENTARY
Regarding the annals see the commentary to A.0.89.1.
north-east part of the gate room of the Old Assyrian
The clay tablet fragment ( V A T 9595, Ass 17148, Ass

p h 5328) measures 9 . 4 x 5 . 9 + cm and was found in the
Aur temple, iB3iv. Cf. the provenances of A . 0 . 8 9 . 2

exs. 1 a n d 4. The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 333 (translation)
1930-31 Weidner, AfO 6 pp. 78-93 (edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXIX 1 (translation)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [...] x
Lacuna
1') (Too broken for translation)
2')
2-16') [In my accession year (and in my first
[ina urru arrtia (ina mahr palia) sa ina]
A.0.89.4 line 7 [mu]-n-er. See Seux, ERAS p. 198.

A.0.89.4 line 10 See Seux, ERAS p. 257.
A.0.89.4 lines 11-13 Cf. A.0.89.7 iv 37b-39 and Borger,

EAK 1 p. 141. A.0.89.5 lines 2-11' For restorations and
regnal year) after I nobly ascended the] royal

throne, [with the exalted strength of the god
Aur, 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 prince who]
preceded me had marched [... / 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 Rivers
...ubdu
(and) Samanunu. I entered] the land Uruatri.
[The lands ...] Magun (or Bargun), Mildu ... [I
brought about] their extensive defeat [... like] a
cloud upon them [...] I reorganized. In order to
[... on] stakes over their cities [I hung them ...]
GI.GU.ZA L[UGAL-/E rab ibu]
3')
4')
5')
[ina emq srte a aur blia lik pnia

ina(1) ...]-x a nin-u[rta lik imnia(1)]
[ina libbe qardi a adad lik(1) um-\i-ia
GI.GIGIR. [ME U ummntia adki]
[gerrpaqte(1) ... a ana me-te]q
GI.GIGIR.ME RIN.[HI.A.ME l akn
6')
7)
8')
9')
10')
11')
12')
13')
14')
15')
16')
97
(?)]
[perk l tiq perekun(1) MUEN.ME] AN-E

mut-tap-ri-[u-te l tiq]
[perekun a arru aiiumma rub 1ik (?)]
pa-ni-ia la il-li-[ku ...]
[gerra utu asbat(1) ...] ar-ha-ni-u-nu mar[su-te nrebte]
\paqte simmilt adunu(1) ina] ak-kl(lat} ZABAR lu-TiP [a)jsi]
[ana mteq narkabtia utb hurnunu atu]-nu a-na pe-er-ke a[b-balkit]
[x-x-ubda samanuna l bir(1) ana q]-reb
KUR -ru-at-r [rub]
[... K]UR AA-gu-un KR mi-il-d[i
[... di-ik]-ta-u-nu ma->a-ta l[u adk ...]
[... ki-m]a im-ba-ri vG\j-u-{nu ...]
[... ana e]-ut-te as-bat a-u [...]
[... ina g]a-i-e UGU URU-[u-nu l lul...]
17-20') (Too broken for translation)

Lacuna
17') [...] x pa-na NUN-W [...]
18') [...]x-wtf-ifc[a-...]
19') [...] X-5M-X [...]
20') [...] x [...]
Lacuna
6
This annals fragment on a piece of clay tablet from Aur has the
remains of five paragraphs. The first and last paragraphs are too broken for identification. In the second and third paragraphs (lines 2-5')
is a hunting narrative very similar to A.0.89.7 iv 26-30 although the
division into two paragraphs suggests there was some variation from
A.0.89.7. The fourth paragraph (lines 6'-15') has a description of a
campaign west of the Euphrates (involving presumably conquest of the
city Pitru) and is very similar to, but not an exact duplicate of, a passage in A.0.89.9 (lines 3'-10'). Restorations have been made on analogy with that text as well as with a text of Tiglath-pileser i (see the
note to lines 7 -9').
commentary see A.0.89.2 i 8-18'. 12' MAS- can be read masor bar-. 15' Cf. Borger, EAK 1 p. 143. Instead of a-u 'in
order to* Weidner suggested ina u-[/tf] 'with [my (own)] hand',
which is also possible.
98
COMMENTARY
eA6u. It measures 10.5 X 9.8 4- cm and the inscription
The clay tablet fragment ( V A T 9539, Ass 6796a, Ass

ph 957) was found south-west of the Anu-Adad temple,
has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1930-31 Weidner, AfO 6 pp. 88-92 (copy, edition)
1970 MillardI, Iraq 32 pp. 168-69 (study)

1976 Graysoin, ARI 2 Lxxxix 4 (translation)
TEXT
Lacuna
n
-]x[...]
Lacuna
10 [...] ... [.]
2')
30
[... udrte].ME rte-ei-[ni.MES ...]

[... sugul-l]a-te-u-nu [...]
2-30 [He despatched merchants (and) they acquired burhi, dromedaries (and)] ten. [He
formed (herds) of dromedaries, bred (them), (and)
displayed] herds of them [to the people of his
land].
40
50
[... paguta] GAL-ta fnam-su^-[ha ...]

[... K]UR mu-us-re-e R*FI-[bila ...]
4 - 5 0 [The king] of Egypt sent a large [female

monkey], a crocodile, [(and) a 'river-man\ beasts
of the Great Sea. He displayed (them) to the people of his land].
60
[ina si-qi]r a-ur a-nim
70
[... EG]IR KUR a-ra-me a MU 1.KM 2(?) I-
6-150 [By the] command of the gods Assur, Anu,

and A[dad, the great gods, my lords, ...] in pursuit of the Aramaeans, which twice in one year [I
crossed the Euphrates]. I brought about their [defeat from the city An]at of the land Suhu and the
city [Tadmar as far as the city Rapiqu of
Kardunia. I brought their] tribute and [tax to my
city Assur. The ...]-daiu, Sutu, [...]miraiu, who
[live] at the foot of Mount [Lebanon ... in] rafts
(made of inflated) goatskins [I crossed the
Euphrates. I conquered the city ... which (is) on]
the opposite bank of [the Euphrates, (on the
River Saggurru). At that time the region of the
A]h1amu which [...] the city Mi[...]
i[KUR(?) . . . ]
[u puratta i tebir itu (?)]

[l a-n]a-at a KUR su-hi UR[U tadmar u adi
l rapiqi a mt kardunia(1)]
90 [da-ab-d\a-u-nu -kun GUN r ^ i [tmarta
ana lia aur bla]
1O0 [...]-â-da-ia.ME su-te9-e.ME[ ...]
80
110 [...-M]I-M-IA.ME a i-na GR KUR [iabnni ...]

120
[ . . . ] X GI.M.ME a KU DUH.I-[e.ME ( . . . )
puratta l tebir !... ]

130 [a] GR.ME am-ma-te n&fi [nr pu]-rra(1)~[at-ti(1) (...) l akud ina muma]
140 [iddi a]h-la-m-i [a ... ]
150 [..] x URU mi-x-[...]
160 [ . . . ] x [ . . . ]
Lacuna
160 U ] ... [...]

Lacuna
In A.0.89.9 line 3' Anu is omitted. 7'-9' The precise

reconstruction of these lines is uncertain. For line 7 cf.
A.0.89.9 line 4'. For the entire passage cf. A.0.87.4 lines
34-36. Regarding 'twice' see the note to A.0.87.3 line 30.
ir-15' Cf. A.0.89.9 lines S'-IO. 12' Cf. A.0.89.7 ii 22.
ir-13' Cf. A.0.89.9 lines 6'b-8'. As Millard, followed by
Kessler, Nordmesopotamien pp. 191-92, observed the event
described here seems to be reflected much later in texts of

Shalm. III, such as 3 R pi. 8 ii 85-86: URU ma-ur-ut~tir-as-bat
GR am-{may-e
D.A.RAD a UGU D sa-gu-ri
L.ME-C
KUR hat-ta-a-a URU pi-it-ru i-qa-bu~-nL Thus the conquered

city in the Assur-bel-kala texts is presumably Pitru. As for
restorations, however, there would hardly seem to be room in
either text for the full description given by Shalm. III.
121 Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.7
7
This text is inscribed on a stone stele, commonly called the 'Broken
Obelisk', which was found at Nineveh but originally must have been
erected in Aur. On the front of the stele, between the first two
columns of the inscription, a relief has been engraved showing the
king, leading prisoners by nose rings, and various divine symbols. The
stele was almost certainly made during the reign of Aur-b1-ka1a as
shown by close parallels between passages in its text and in the annals.
The text itself was never finished for there are blanks in the long hunting passage (col. iv) where the numbers of beasts should have been inscribed, and the left side of the stele is blank. It probably dates to at
least the fifth or sixth regnal year, if not later (see the commentary to
A.0.89.1). Essentially the text is annalistic but the author was not very
good at composition and has extracted passages from various sources,
including Assyrian chronicles, with little attempt to blend them together.
The most striking feature of this text is the lengthy and detailed
description of the hunt (col. iv). Hunting passages begin to appear in
Assyrian royal inscriptions with the texts of Tiglath-pileser i (see the
introduction to A.0.87.1), and this text has many similarities to those
earlier passages, but none of the earlier passages are so long.
The object must originally have come from Aur since the building
description largely concerns projects at this city. It is a matter of great
interest in this text that several different structures, not just one, in
Aur are described as well as construction in three other cities. At
Aur the king rebuilt palace storehouses, 'the house of the ahuru of
Erlba-Adad (i)\ and 'the large terrace on the north side which Aurndin-ahhc had built' (v 1-6). While it is known that Tiglath-pileser i
worked on 'the house of the ahuruy (see A.0.87.4), no building
records of Erlba-Adad i or Aur-ndin-ahhe i or n have been
preserved. Aur-b1-ka1a continued Tiglath-pileser I'S work (A.0.87.3
lines 36-44) on the moat, gates, and wall of Aur (v 7-14). Aurbl-kala also continued work on the various rooms of the palace made
of different woods. The scribes of Tiglath-pileser i (see A.0.87.4 lines
59-66 and 72-76) spoke of boxwood, cedar, and terebinth. In the Broken Obelisk (v 14-15) tamarisk is also mentioned, a wood that occurs
in a fragmentary text of Tiglath-pileser i (A.0.87.5). Also note the
various woods used by Ashurnasirpal II in his palace at Calah
(A.0.101.23 lines 18-19 and 30 lines 25-32). In further emulation of
Tiglath-pileser i (A.0.87.4 lines 67-71), Aur-b1-ka1a placed animal
figurines of stone at the entrances to the palace (v 16-19), one of
which has been recovered (A.0.89.11). Another project at Aur was
the excavation of a canal, which Aur-dan i had earlier made (no
building records of this king have been preserved) and the planting of
a garden (v 20-23). The quay by the Tigris Gate, to which Adadnrr i had dedicated so much effort (RIMA 1 p. 128), was rebuilt
(v 24-27). The large terrace of the 'New Palace' of Tukult-Ninurta i
(see RIMA 1 p. 231) was reconstructed (v 24-31). Palaces were erected
at other cities, namely Sikkatu, Sqa, and Apqu (v 32-37). In the last
place, the palace had been previously created by Aur-ra-ii i (cf.
RIMA 1 p. 319 A.0.86.10).
100
COMMENTARY
Rassam says h e f o u n d this stele (BM

118898
5 6 - 9 - 9 , 5 9 ) , which measures 6 5 . 4 + cm high and 40.6
cm square, at Nineveh in a ditch about halfway
between the palaces of Senn. and Asb. A stone female
torso, with an inscription of Aur-b1-ka1a (A.0.89.10),
was f o u n d in the same ditch. The text, which has been
collated, is divided into five cols.: cols, i and ii are on
the front, col. iii is o n the right side, and cols, iv and v
are on the back. The left side is uninscribed. The condition of the stele's surface has deteriorated badly since
its discovery. A n early, unpublished, copy by George
Smith of the first col. (cf. Weidner, A f O 12 [1937-39]
p. 377a and Borger, EAK 1 pp. 138-39), to which we
have not had direct access, is said to have more text
than the later published copies. In turn, the published
copies have more text than now appears on the original. In this edition we have included the readings from
Smith's copy (as reported by Borger) and from the published copies although no specific notes o f this have
been made since this would involve excessive annotation
and discussion.
The beginning of the first col. (i 1-11) is an invocation o f gods, similar to introductory passages in other
texts in this volume (see the introduction to A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 ) .
The gods may be identical with the symbols engraved
on the stele (see Borger, EAK 1 pp. 138-39). There fol-
lows (i 12ff), as usual, the name and epithets o f the

king.
A s noted in the introduction, the text has been c o m piled by a scribe w h o took little trouble t o blend his
various sources together. The text of the first four cols,
is in third person, but in the fifth col. (the building
description) it is in the first person. Clearly at least t w o
different sources were used here. The unprecedented
concern with precise dates (eponymy and month) for
each event narrated in cols, ii and iii, and the succinct
repetitive phrases describing the encounters with
Aramaeans, are strong evidence that this part o f the
text comes from an otherwise unknown Assyrian chronicle.
The various w o o d s used in the construction of the
palace at Aur (v 14-15) have already been remarked
upon in the introduction. Since each w o o d is preceded
by the word H.GAL 'palace*, some scholars have mistakenly concluded that these are separate buildings. But in
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 2 6 lines 5 8 - 5 9 .GAI appears only once, at the
beginning o f the list of w o o d s . Morever, in A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 2 3
line 21 the singular suffix -sa 'its (doors)' refers to the
.GAL. The plural suffix -unu 'their (doors)' in our text
(v 19) refers to the various rooms or wings of the
palace as does the numeral 'eight' in A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 3 0 line 26.
See Weidner, A f O 18 (1957-58) p. 356b and Schramm,
E A K 2 p. 37.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1861 1 R pi. 28 (cols, iv-v, copy)
1870 3 R pi. 4 no. 1 (col. iii, copy)
1889 Peiser, KB 1 pp. 122-29 (cols, iv-v, edition)
1897 Rassam, Asshur p. 9 (provenance)
1902 King, AKA pp. Ii and 128-49 (photo, edition)
1904-1905 Streck, ZA 18 pp. 186-95 (study)
1914 Bezold, ZA 28 p. 406 (study)
1926-27 Luckenbill, AJSL 43 p. 225 (study)
1928 S. Smith, EHA pi. 17 (between pp. 298-99) (photo)
1936
1961
1968
1976
1980
Gadd, Stones p. 123 (provenance)

Borger, EAK 1 pp. 135-42 (study)
Brinkman, PKB pp. 383-86 (study)
Grayson, AR 2 LXXXIX 2 (translation)
Kessler, Nordmesopotamien pp. 52, 61, 84, and 167
(study)
1982 Brker-Klhn, Bildstelen no. 131 (photo, study)
1982 Miglus, ZA 72 p. 269 and n. 25 (v 24-25, study)
1986 Miglus, MDOG 118 pp. 209-10 (v 2-5, 15-16, study)
TEXT
Col. i
1) faur blu rab] MAN gm-rat DINGIR.MES
GAL.ME-FE
2)
(traces)
3)
[ . . . ] MAN NAM.MES -bU DINGIR.ME [ . . . ]
4)
5-9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
[...] -a [...] MAN ap-si-i [...]

(traces)
[...] DINGIR.MES -qU-tU
(traces)
(traces)
[...]
i 1-11) [God Aur, great lord], king of all the

great gods, [...] king of destinies, father of the
gods, [...]; god Ea [...], king of the aps, [...] the
high gods [...]
i 12-21) [Aur-b-kala
..., who acts] with the
support of [the god Aur ...] people
Marduk-ndin-ahh, king of Akkad [...]
Lacuna
14) ina GIS.tukul-ti [...]

15) HJNXME [...]
16) [...]
17)
AMAR.UTU-SUML-E.MES MAN
6)
[XX]KUR[...]
7)
rffi [...]
8)
[ . . . ] ITI.GAN
9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
15)
[...]
inarmcn-ti-[...]
ina MU-ma [i]-a-ti ina rn.rSu"* URU [...]
KUR rmus-[ki(1) ...]
[...] ina 1TI.SIG4 li-me ma-ur-[...]
li-ib-[...]-/.MES [...] a-nim
DIKUR a-na ^-[pe-i] a-na URU.-URU
[bla] ina MU-ma i-a-ti ina ITLKLMIN-W
[...] na-a-ku-.ME
[... mat him(l)]-me KUR [...]
ih-ta-bat ina MU-ma si-a-ti ina ITI.GAN
[x x x x x] 1 is *-tu UGU D ha-bur KUR HARr Arn
a-di URU kar-ga-mi ha-at-te ih-ta-bat
[arkunu ina] GI.M.ME KU.DUH.i-e
[puratta l bir ...]
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
22)
23)
24) [...]
Lacuna
Col. iii
1) ina Mu-RNF si-a-ti ina ITL KL MIN-/?7? K ASK AL
KUR a-ri-me ina URU -si-ri sa Rpa^-ha-at
2)
3)
URU [x x x x] im-ta-ha-as
ina MU-ma si-a-ti
ina
a-ri-me
5)
KUR
ina I~URU"F [x x (x)] sa KUR [X X (X)] RSiG^-as
ina
4)
ITL su KASKAL
ITI.G[U 4 ]
[...]
KUR URI.KI
[-1
18-21) (traces)
Lacuna
Col. ii
1) 1 LIM RIN.MES KUR X [...] FL/?-[...]
2) 4 LIM sal-la-su-nu is-su-ha a-na KUR a-ur
3) t-e-ri-rda(1)"> [...]
4) /-[...]
5) a-na KUR [...]
16)
101
li-me mda-ur-GA-UN.ME-u
URU tu-ur-[x]-ta KUR mu-us-ri ik-ta-âcP ina

MU-ma si-a-ti ina ITI.ZZ
GI.GIGIR.ME [.. .]-T.ME is-tu URU.-URU
rifi-[likma] URU x-[x]-in-di-u-la
i 14 Cf. A.0.89.4 line 3, A.0.87.3 lines 2-3, and Borger, EAK

1 p. 139. i 17 Cf. Weidner, AfO 12 (1937-39) p. 377a,
Borger, EAK 1 p. 139, and Brinkman, PKB p. 125 n. 729.
ii 2 - 3 Cf. A.0.87.2 line 19. ii 3 - r ^ ? ) * : cf. Borger, EAK 1
ii 1-10) 1,000 troops of the land [...] 4,000 hostages from them he uprooted and brought down
into Assyria [...] to the land [...] and [...] the
month Kislev [...]
ii 11-12) In that year, in the month Tammuz, the

city [...] of the Mu[fa/ ...]
ii 13-19a) In the month Sivan, eponymy of
Aur-[... he brought ...] to Inner City (Aur) to
rebuild the temple of the gods Anu and Adad. In
that year, in the same month, [...] ... [... the land
Him]me and the land [...] he plundered.
ii 19b-24) In that year, in the month Kislev, [...]
from the River Habur o f / a n d the land Harku (or
Hir/Hur/Kin/Mur-ku) to the city Carchemish of
the land Hatti he plundered. [He crossed the Euphrates after them in] rafts (made of inflated)
goatskins.
Lacuna
iii l-2a) In that year, in the same month, on campaign against the Aramaeans, he fought (with
them) at the city asiru, which is in the district of
the city [...]
iii 2b-3a) In that year, in the month Tammuz, on
campaign against the Aramaeans, he fought (with
them) at the city [...] of the land [...]
iii 3b-4a) In the month Iyyar, eponymy of Aurrm-niu, he conquered the city Tur[...]tu of the
land Musri.
iii 4b-8a) In that year, in the month Shebat, the
chariots and [...] went from Inner City (Aur)
[and] conquered the cities [...]indiulu and
{...]sand, cities which are in the district of the
p. 139 n. 3. King read -f /V/i. ii 20 HAR- can be read har-y hir-,

hur-, kin-, or mur-, ii 22 Cf. A.0.87.1 v 57-58, A.0.87.2 lines
28-29, A.0.89.6 line 12', A.0.89.9 line 7'. iii 3 ITI.G[U4]: so
older editions cf. Borger, EAK 1 p. 139 n. 2.
102
6)
7)
8)
9)
URU x-[x-x-(x)]-sa-an-de-e URU.ME-W
pa-ha-at URU. BAD-ku-ri-gal-zu
k-tal-du mka-d-man-bur-ia-(*) DUMU KIRDAMAR"I. [UTU]-RTII.LA îXH -kn KUR-tiu-nu
is-sab-tu ina uv-ma i-a-ti ina ITI.GU4 KASKAL
KR a-ri-me ina URU pa--za
GR KR kae-ia-ri im-ta-ha-as ina uu-ma
i-a-ti ina ITI.KI.MIN-W7
KASKAL KR a-ri-me ina ri-i URU na-bu-la

[(...)] im-ta-ha-as ina MU-ma i-a-ti
na ITI.SIG4 L.TRINT.ME KUR mu-us-ri [x]
riO-ta-sah na MU-ma i-a-ti
ina ITI.KI.MIN-/77I7 KASKAL KR
a-ri-me
îna^ URU [x]-ti-bu(1)-a UGU D.IDIGNA

im-ta-ha-as ina MU-ma i-a-ti ina ITI.NE
KASKAL KR a-ri-me
ina URU.rME~i-m mli-ur-sa-la-a-ur
pa-ha-at URU i-na-mu im-ta-ha-as
ina Mv-ma i-a-ti ina ITI.KI.MIN-WA URU U^tD-[x]-ra KUR ha-ni-gal-bat it-tas-ha
URU hu-~uP-za MURUB4 KUR ka-i-ia-ri
URU e-re- KUR hab-hu.ME
-kal-[u-ni] ik-ta-ad 3 LIM(?) [al(1)]-la-ta

ui-te-si-a ina MU-ma i-a-ti
ina ITI.KIN KASKAL KR a-ri-me
na
URU
mu-ra-ar-^ri(1)-ir(ip KUR ub-re-e

im-ta-ha-as irta vixj-ma i-a-ti na ITJ. [API]N
a-^ra-ma^ i-tu KUR ma-hi-ra-a-ni
a-d URU RUP~I -pa-a KUR.KASKAL-// ih-ta1~baP
[ . . . ] ITI.GAN //-#WE
DINGIR-SUM-A?F
KASKAL KUR a-ri-me na URU ma-ag-ri-si

KUR []a-ri im-la-ha-as na uu-ma
i-a-ti
ina U I . K I . M I N - M A KASKAL KUR
a-ri-
me ina URU.BD-kat-H-mu im-ta-ha-as

na MV-ma i-a-ti ina ITI.KI.MN-ma [a-ra-m]a
na tar-si URU sa-an-ga-ri-te
[a kid] D pu-rat-[te imtahas ina attimma
i]-a-ti ina ITI.KI.MIN-MA
iii 7 Instead of - the text mistakenly has -GAL. Cf. King,

AKA p. 133 n. 6. iii 7 Itti-Marduk-ba1tti: see Brinkman,
PKB p. 94 n. 490 and p. 143 n. 861. iii 9 kas6-: for the sign
value see von Soden and Rllig, Syllabar p. 24 no. 130.
iii 10 ina ri-i: the meaning of this phrase is still uncertain.
See Grayson, ARI 2 p. 53 n. 229. iii 12 u r u [x]-ti-bu{)-cr. or
-ti-gu-a. Cf. King, AKA p. 134 n. 5. iii 14 -sa-la: so King,
AKA. Older publications had HA.LA = zittu. Cf. Borger, EAK
1 p. 140. iii 17 -ka!-[Iu-ni]: cf. A.0.99.2 line 114, A.0.100.5
city Dr-Kuriga1zu. They captured KadamanBuria, son of Itti-Marduk-ba1tu, governor of

their land.
iii 8b-10a) In that year, in the month Iyyar, on

them) at the city Pauza, which is at the foot of
Mount Kaiiari. In that year, in the same month,
on campaign against the Aramaeans, he fought
(with them) at the head of the city Nabula.
iii 10b-13a) In that year, in the month Sivan, he
uprooted the troops of the land Musri. In that
year, in the same month, on campaign against the
Aramaeans, he fought (with them) at the city
[...]tibua, which is on the Tigris.
iii 13b-17a) In that year, in the month Ab, on
them) at the cities (under the rule) of Lur-sa1aAur, which are in the district of the city
Sinamu. In that year, in the same month, he
uprooted (the inhabitants of) the city [...]ru of
the land Hanigalbat. He conquered the city
Hulzu, which is within Mount Kaiiari, and the
city Eresu, which the people of the land Habhu
held. He brought out 3,000 captives.
iii 17b-19a) In that year, in the month Elul, on
them) at the city Murarr/V of the land ubr.
iii 19b-20a) In
that
year,
in the
month
[Arah]samnu, he plundered the Aramaeans from
the land Mahirnu to the city uppu (or Rupu) of
the land Harrn.
iii 20b-25) In the month Kislev, eponymy of IIIiddina, on campaign against the Aramaeans, he
fought (with them) at the city Magrisu of the land
Iaru. In that year, in the same month, on campaign against the Aramaeans, he fought (with
them) at the city Dr-katlimmu. In that year, in
the same month, [he plundered the Aramae]ans
opposite the city Sangaritu [which is on] the
Euphrates. [In] that [year], in the same month,
[on campaign against the A]ramae[ans], he fought
line 35, A.0.101.19 line 94. See Lewy, OLZ 26 198-99 n. 4

and Borger, EAK 1 p. 140. iii 17 LIM(?) 5[/<?)]-: the two signs
are squeezed together and appear to be GU. Cf. Borger, EAK 1
p. 140. iii 19 ITI.[API]N a-ra-ma1: see Borger, EAK 1 p. 140.
iii 20 SUP- can be read up- or ru-. iii 20 MDINGIR-suM-rttf: it is
just possible that the name should be read Anu-iddina rather
than 11-iddina. See Borger, EAK 1 p. 142. iii 23-26 For the
restorations see Borger, EAK 1 p. 139 n. 2 and p. 140.
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25) [harrna sa mat a]-ri-m[e ina ...]-te im-taha-as
26) [ina attimma si]-a-[ti ina ITI.... harrna sa
mat arim] 1 ina ' KUR gu-i uP-gu-li I sic,-as I
27) [...](-)at-x-f?i-ka^ KUR HA-Â^-NI
28) [... ina] MU-ma i-a-ti ina M.AFIN

29) [... ] -x-iz ra^-di ma-qe-e
30)
[... ina ITI].KI.MiN-ma KASKAL sa KUR
a-ri-me
31) [...] x bu-na-a-ni

32) [...] x ur-â-x [...]
Lacuna
Col. iv
1) nin-urta DIGI.DU sa SANGA-SU i-ra-mu bu-
(with them) [at ...]

iii 26) [in] that [year, in the month ..., on campaign against the Aramaeans], he fought (with
them) in the land Gulgulu.
iii 27) [In that year, in the month ..., he ... the
Aramaeans at the city (...)] at [...]iku of Mount
Hnu.
iii 28-32) In that year, in the month Arahsamnu,
[he ... the Aramaeans ...] together with the
drinking-places. [In that year, in] the same
[month], on campaign against the Aramaeans, [he
fought (with them) at ...] faces [...] ... [...]
Lacuna
KUR e-be-eh
16) KUR -ra-e KUR a-za-me-ri KUR an-kr-na
KUR pi-zi-it-ta
17) KUR UD-za-gi KUR ka-i-ia-ri KUR.ME-K/
KUR a-ur KUR ha-a-na
18) id-di KUR lu-lu-me-e KUR.ME-/
iv l-34a) The gods Ninurta and Nergal, who love

his priesthood, gave to him the hunt and in boats
of the land Arvad he rode (and) killed a nhiru in
the Great Sea. He killed ... superb wild bulls and
cows at the city Araziqu (iv 5) which is before the
land Hatti and at the foot of Mount Lebanon. He
captured ... live calves of wild bulls (and) formed
herds of them. He felled ... elephants with his
bow. He captured ... live elephants (and) brought
(them) to his city Assur. He killed from his ...
chariot (and) on foot with the spear 120 lions
with his (iv 10) wildly vigorous assault. He felled
... lions with the mace. In the high mountains
they (the gods Ninurta and Nergal) commanded
him to do their hunt. At the time of cold, frost,
(and) ice, at the time of the ascension of (iv 15)
Sirius when it is red like molten copper, he arranged (and) formed herds of ... gazelles (and)
ibex (and) ... nailu-deer (and) (iv 20) a/a/w-deer
in Mounts Ebih, Urase, Azameru, Ankurna,
Pizitta, Udzagi, Kaiiari, mountains of Assyria;
Mount Hnu in the district of the land of the
Lullumu; and the mountains of the lands Nairi.
He bred (them) and numbered their offspring like
the offspring of sheep. He killed ... panthers, ...
tigers (midin), ... bears, two wild boars of the
marshes, (and) ... ostriches. He felled ... wild
asses (iv 25) and deer, ... wolves, (and) ...
simkurr. He despatched merchants (and) they acquired burhis, dromedaries, (and) ten. He
formed (herds) of dromedaries, bred (them), (and)
displayed herds of them to the people of his land.
The king of Egypt sent a large female monkey, a
iii 31 King restored [... sa-la]m bunm^n image] in his

likeness', and Borger, EAK 1 p. 140 suggested that this
referred to the erection of this very stele. Another possibility is
that this passage refers to mutilation of the face of an enemy
(cf. the passage in Asb. rcconstructcd in CAD 2 [B] p. 318a),
iv 4 A blank space has been left for the number of animals.

See the commentary. The same thing happens in iv 6-8, II,
19, and 22-25. iv 17 UD-: King, AKA p. 140 n. 4 suggested
changing UD- to pi- but I know of no other reference to this
GN with either reading and thus any emendation is unjustified.
U-Ur EDIN
2)
--at-li-mu-u-ma ina GIS. M. MES M KUR

ar-ma-da-a-ia
3) ir-kab na-hi-ra ina A.AB.BA GAL-te i-du-uk
4) (blank) AM. MES SN.MES u-tu-ru-te ina URU
a-ra-zi-qi
5) pa-an KUR ha-at-te ina GR KUR lab-naa-ni i-duk
6) (blank) mu-ri.UE bal-tu-te AM. MES -saab-bi-ta
I) su-gul-la-a-te-su-nu ik-sur (blank) AM.SI.ME
ina GI.BAN-su
8) -am-qit (blank) AM.si. MES bal-tu-te -saab-bi-ta
9) a-na URU- da-ur ub-la 2 u-i UR.MAH.MES
ina lb-bi-u
1 0 ) ek-di ina qi-it-ru-ub me-et-lu-ti-u ina
GI.GIGIR-SM
pa-at-tu-te
II) ina GR.ME-5M ina GI pa-as-hi i-duk (blank)

UR.MAH.MES
12) ina GIS nr-ja-am-te -am-qit hur--a-nu

-qu--tu
13) e-pe-eis bu-û-ri-u-nu iq-bi--ni-u ina
UD.MES-TF
14) ku-us-si hal-pe-e u-ri-pi ina UD.ME-/ ni-pi-ih

15)
MUL.GAG.SI.S ki-ma
URUDU i-su-du
ina
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KR. KR na-i-ri
19) (blank) ar-me.ME tu-ra-a-hi.MES (blank) naa-Ii. MES
ia-e-lL ME ina sa-di-ra-a-te. MES -te-em-me-eh
su-gul-la-a-te-u-nu ik-sur --lid mar-i-sunu
ki-ma mar-i-it UDU se-e-ni. ME im-nu (blank)
nim-ri.MES
(blank) mi-di-n.MES (blank) a-si.MES 2(?)
crocodile, (and) a 'river-man', beasts of the (iv 30)

Great Sea. He displayed (them) to the people of
his land. The remainder of the numerous animals
and the winged birds of the sky, wild game which
he acquired, their names are not written with
these animals, their numbers are not written with
these numbers.
AH.GI.GI.ME
(blank) G.NUU.MUEN.ME i-duk (blank)

ANE.EDIN. NA. MES
MA.D.ME (blank) UR.BAR.RA.MES (blank)

si-im-kur-ri. ME
-am-qit bur-hi-i ud-ra-a-te. MES te-e-ni.ME
L.DAM.GR.ME
i-pur il-qe--ni ud-ra-a-te. ME ik-sur --lid

su-gul-la-a-te-u-nu UN.ME KUR-II-SW -eeb-ri
pa-gu-ta GAL-ta nam-su-ha L D -ma-a-mi
A.AB.BA
GAL-te MAN KUR mu-us-re-e -e-bi-la UN.ME

KUR-5W -e-eb-ri
si-te-et -ma-a-me ma-ay-di MUEN.ME AN-E
mut-tap-ri-
buû-ur EDIN ep-e-et qa-ti-u MU.MEs-u-nu
it-ti -ma-me
[an-ne]-ê' la at-ru mi-nu-su-nu it-t mi-nute an-ni-te
[la at]-ru e-zib KUR.KUR.MES-FE ki-it-ti qat-U KASKAL.MES KR.ME
[mdtu a A.] DG.GA ina GI.GIGIR-W
mar-sa ina GR.ME-5
[arkunu it]-tal-la-ku-ma dab-da-u-nu iku-nu
[itti ep-]i-u an-na-a-te la -t-ir
KUR.KUR.ME-?
[a kiat ni(1).ME] i-tu URU.K.DINGIR

[mt ak]-ka-di-i
[adi tmti elnte] fcP KUR [a]-mur-ri [u
tamti a]
Lacuna
Col. v
1) a-bu-sa-te .GAL EN-ti-a ri-îs^
2) ha-mi-luh-hi tam-li-a ql-la e-na-hu-ma
3) i-tu u-e-u a-di gaba-dib-bi-u e-pu-ûs
iv 20 ina sadrte utemmeh: the meaning is still uncertain. Cf.

Grayson, ARI 2 p. 55 n. 234. In CAD 15 (S) p. 18b it is
translated: 'he drove(?) ... into roped-off areas' but there is
still no supporting evidence for this kind of interpretation,
iv 21 su-gul-la-: King's copy mistakenly has su-gul-at-. His
transliteration is correct, iv 23 2(7): as King, AKA p. 141 n. 3
observes, the two vertical wedges are inscribed in the middle
of a large space, iv 3I-34a Cf. A.0.89.2 iii 33'b-35'. Also note
iv 34b-39) (This) is apart from (other) lands he

conquered (and) [numerous] foreign campaigns
[upon which he] pursued [his enemies] by chariot
in favourable terrain and on foot in rough terrain
and brought about their defeat (such) are not
written (here) [with] these deeds of his. [He conquered] the lands [of all people] from Babylon of
[the land Ak]kad [to the Upper Sea] of the land
Amurru [and the sea of the lands Nairi].
Lacuna
v 1-19) I rebuilt from top to bottom the

storehouses of my lordly palace which are at the
head of the hamiluhhu and the small terrace (and)
A.0.89.1 rev. 10', A.0.89.3 line 9', and A.0.89.9 lines l'-2\ See
Borger, EAK 1 p. 136. iv 34b-37a Cf. A.0.87.1 vi 49-54 and
Borger, EAK 1 p. 141. iv 37b-39 Cf. A.0.89.4 lines 11-13
and Borger, EAK 1 p. 141. v 2 r hamiluhhi 'the head of the
h.1: the phrase also occurs in an Assyrian ritual. See CAD 6
(H) p. 66a and von Soden, AHw p. 338. Von Soden connects
it with the Hurrian word hawalhu/halahwu which in Nuzi
texts means 'an enclosed area*.
105 Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.2002
6)
-hu-ri msu-diKUR tam-li-a GAL-IVI

pa-an IM.SI.S mdK&/r-suM-E.ME MAN
KUR da-ur
e-pu-u e-na-hu-ma e-pu-u ha-ri-sa
7)
URU-/A da-ur. KI P-ab-tu-ma
4)
5)
SAHAR.MES
im-lu-
-tU K.GAX TIBIRA Ct-d K D.IDGNA ah~rU-US
GI.IG.ME K.GAL TIBIRA ma-ra-a-te
-n-ki-ir
GI.IG.ME GI a-u-hi si-ra-a-te e-pu-u

ina me-ser ZABAR -re-ki-is
BD GAL-7
URU-RA da-ur, KI a-na si-hr-ti-u a-na

GIBIL-ut-te
ar-sip i-pi-ik SAHAR.MES a-rta li-me-ti-u
a-na e-le-nu -pu-uk .GAL GI e-re-ni
.GAL GI.TG .GAL GI bu-Ut-Yl .GAL GI
tar-pe-ê
ina URU-ia da-ur. KI D-WS 2 na-hi-re.ME 4
bur-hi-i.MES
4 UR.MAH.MES NA4.AD.BAR 2
which had become dilapidated. I rebuilt the house

of the ahuru of Erba-Adad (i) and the large terrace (v 5) on the north side which Aur-ndinahh, king of Assyria, had built (and which) had
become dilapidated. I dug out the moat of my
city Assur which had fallen in and become filled
with earth from the Craftsman's Gate to the
Tigris Gate. I removed the worn doors of the
Craftsman's Gate, (v 10) made high doors of fir,
(and) made (them) fast with bronze bands. I completely reconstructed the great wall of my city
Aur. I piled up earth around and on top of it. I
built the palace of cedar, (v 15) boxwood, terebinth, (arid) tamarisk in my city Aur. I made
(replicas of) two nahiru, four burhis, (and) four
lions in basalt, two genii in /?arwta-a1abaster,
(and) two burh is in white limestone and stationed
(them) at their doors.
ALAD.DLAMMA
NA4 pa-ru-te 2 bur-hi-i.MES NA4 pi-li

BABBAR-?
ab-ni-ma ina K.MES-u-nu -e-zi-iz

D mda-ur-KAL-an MAN KUR da-ur ih-ru-
re-e D -a-t P-a-bit-ma
30 MU.ME A.ME
ina lb-bi-
ul il-li-ku re-e D -a-ti -e-e-ni-ma ah-ri
A.ME a-na qer-bi-
ad-di GI.KIRI6.ME -
qu-up
ki-si-ir-ta a-sa-it-te GAL-te K D.IDIGNA
MD
IKUR-RIN. TAH MAN KUR d-Ur e-pU-U
e-na-ah-ma
P-a-bit i-tu UGU A.ME nag-bi- ina ku-up-ri
a-gr-ri 5 GR.ME ul-li tam-li-a GAL-Q
.GAL GIBIL-te pct-an ki-saAa-a-te
J"GI. tukul-ti-dnin-urta MAN KUR da-ur epu-u
a-na i-id-di 1 u 3 ku-ma-a-ni A. e-na-ah-ma
P-a-bit i-tu u-e-u a-di gaba-dib-bi-u arsi-ip
.GAL-la ina URUTGII.KAK ri-i hu-li
URU. -URU a[r-?ip]
.GAL-la GiBiL-ta ina [URU s]a-a-qa e-pu-[u]

.GAL-/A URU fap-q [ma]-ur-SAG-i-i
[x x]
e-pu-u ia-a -[kliI\

rBD"i [...] ri [...]
FL-[...]
Lacuna
v 11 mser siparri 'bronze bands': see the introduction to

A.0.101.51. v 33 [URU s]a-a-qa: see Borger, EAK 1 p. 142.
v 20-31) The canal which Aur-dan (i), king of

Assyria, excavated the source of this canal had
fallen in and for thirty years water had not flowed
therein. I again excavated the source of this canal,
directed water therein (and) planted gardens. The
facing of the great tower of the Tigris Gate,
which Adad-nrr (i) king of Assyria had built,
had become dilapidated and fallen in. I raised (it)
five 'feet* above water level with bitumen and
baked brick. The large terrace of New Palace
which is before the forecourts, which TukultlNinurta (i) king of Assyria had built, had become
dilapidated and fallen in over an area of 63
kumnu. I reconstructed it from top to bottom.
v 32-37) I constructed a palace in the city Sikkatu

which is at the head of the road to Inner City
(Aur). I built a new palace in [the city S]qa.
The palace of the city Apqu, which [A]ur-raii (i) [my father] had built (but) not [completed],
the wall [...] ... [...]
Lacuna
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8
Only portions of the introductory genealogy and part of the date at
the end are preserved in this fragmentary inscription on a piece of clay
tablet from Nineveh. It is possible that A.0.89.9 is a part of this same
text.
COMMENTARY
The clay tablet fragment (BM 122628, 1930-5-8,17)
measures 7.2x9.3+ cm and the inscription has been
fragment is clay, not stone as erroneously

stated by Thompson,
collated. The
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1933 Thompson, AAA 20 pp. 115-16 and pi. LXXXVIII no. 98
(copy, edition)

TEXT
Obverse
1)
[mda]-rur^-EN-ka-la
^LUGAL GAL LUGALI
[kiati...]
[ar k]l-lat kib-rat 4-/ na-mad a-ur x [...]
2)
3)
4)
5)
[...]xri w (?)i/A:ga/[...]
[mr mtukult-mi\LA--ar-ra
6)
[mar
7)
[ina siqir(*!)] ^ ( ? ) i [ ^ ? ) H ^ ? r 1 a-n[u(1)

...]
aur]-SAG-RN-[\I
1-6) [A]ur-b1-ka1a, great king, king of [the

universe,
king of] all the four quarters, loved
one of Aur, [... son of Tig1ath]-pi1eser (i) [...,
son of Aur]-ra-i (i) [...]
[...]
[...]
7) [By the command of\ the gods Aur, A nu [...]
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
1') [ . . . ] x [ . . . ]
21) [...] x-mi-ra [...]
3') [... a]m-mar lb-be x [...]
Lacuna
4r)
rev. 4') [...] Month of Elul, fifth day, eponymy

[of...]
[ . . . ] ITI.KIN UD 5.KM
l[i-mu ...]
obv. 1 Cf. A.0.89.4 line 1 and A.0.89.11. obv. 2 namad

aur: cf. RIMA 1 p. 289 A.0.78.39 line 2, A.0.87.1 vii 56,
Lacuna
rev. 1-3') (Too broken for translation)
Borger, EAK 1 p. 142 n. 1, and Seux, ERAS p. 184.

obv. 7 Cf. A.0.89.6 line 6'. rev. 3' Cf. A.0.101.28 line 5.
107 Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.2002
9
This annals fragment is inscribed on a piece of clay tablet found at
Nineveh. Parts of four paragraphs are preserved but the first and last
are too broken for identification (only the dividing line at the end of
the first is preserved). The second paragraph (lines l'-2') has a hunting
narrative which agrees verbatim, as far as it is preserved, with passages in other texts of Aur-bl-kala (A.0.89.2 iii 33'-35\ A.0.89.3
line 9', and A.0.89.7 iv 31-34). But the version here was almost certainly abbreviated for otherwise the two lines would have been extremely long. The third paragraph (lines 3'-10") has a narrative of a
campaign to the west (involving presumably conquest of the city Pitru
on the Euphrates) and is very similar to, but not an exact duplicate of,
a passage in A.0.89.6 lines 6'-15'. The introduction to A.0.89.9 might
be represented by A.0.89.8.
COMMENTARY
Regarding the annals see the commentary to A.0.89.1.
The clay tablet fragment (BM 134497, 1932-12-
12,492) measures 5.7x5.3+ cm and the inscription has

been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1970 Millard, Iraq 32 pp. 168-69 and pi. xxxm (copy, edition)
TEXT
Lacuna
Lacuna
r)
si-te-et -ma-mi
2')
MU,ME-W-RRTW~I
3')
Una siq~ri da-ur DIKUR [... ark]

KR a-ri-mi.MES sa MU H1.[KM 2-U purata
l tebir(1)]
4')
m[a-tf-di...]
it-ti t~P-[mmi...]
5')
su-te9-e.ME KUR
6')
a i-na GR KUR iab-na-a-ni x [... eleppt]
na-RW-[...]
7')
a KU DUH.I-E.ME MAN [ . . . ]
8') sa UGU D sa-gu-r[a (...) l akud (...)]

9') i-na iiA-me-u-ma Udi [ahlam a ...]
1O0 ma-a-da-at-teJMES x [...]
3' In A.0.89.6 line 6' Anu appears between Aur and

A[dad(?)J. 4' Cf. A.0.89.6 line 7 and the note to lines 7-9'.
1-2') The remainder of the numerous animals

[and the winged birds of the sky, wild game
which he acquired], their names [are not written]
with [these] animals, [their numbers are not written with these numbers].
3-10') By the command of the gods Aur (and)
Adad, [the great gods, my lords, ... in pursuit of]
the Aramaeans, which [twice] in one year [I
crossed the Euphrates]. The Sutu, Naa[...] who
[live] at the foot of Mount Lebanon [... in rafts]
(made of inflated) goatskins [I crossed the
Euphrates. I conquered the city ... which (is) {on
the opposite bank of the Euphrates)], on the
River Saggurru. At that time the region of [the
Ahlamu which ...] numerous [...]
5-10' Cf. A.0.89.6 lines 10M5'. 6b-8' See the note to

A.0.89.6 lines 12' 13'. T Cf. A.0.89.7 ii 22.
108
Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.2002
11') (traces)
Lacuna
11') (traces)
Lacuna
10
This unusual text is inscribed on the back of a stone female torso
found at Nineveh.
COMMENTARY
The statue (BM 124963, 56-9-9,60) was found by Rassam in the same ditch as
the Broken Obelisk (A.0.89.7). The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1861 1 R pi. 6 no. 6 (copy)
1897 Rassam, Asshur p. 9 (provenance)
1902 King, AKA pp. 152-53 (copy, edition)
1926-27 Luckenbill, AJSL 43 p. 222 (study)
1928 Hall, Sculpture pi. LX (photo)
1928
1933
1936
1961
1976
RLA 1 pi. 34a (photo)

Schott, OLZ 36 520 (study)
Gadd, Stones p. 124 (study)
Borger, EAK 1 pp. 138 and 144 (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 ixxxix 6 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
.GAL
-[kala ar kiati arru
dannu ar mt a-\ur
DUMU GI. tukul-ti-A--r-ra MAN I [kiati
arru] ^dan -\nu ar mat aur]
DUMU da-ur-SAG-i-i MAN KI [arru dannu
ar mt] a-ur-ma
a-Iam-ga-a-te an-na-te q-[reb] NA[M.ME]
URU.ME
5)
6)
ub-ru-te.ME ina muh-h si-a-hi e-ta-p[a-]

mu-n-kire it-ri-ia MU4a DIM[IN.BI]
DINGIR.ME
7)
KUR.MAR. TU me-he-es se-ri i-ma-ha-su-u
1-3 While one cannot be certain about the restoration of

epithets, the traces indicate the restorations suggested. Cf.
A.0.90.1 line 1 and Seux, ERAS p. 296. 4-5 This interpretation, originally given in Grayson, ARI 2 p. 59 n. 248, is
still plausible I think. 7 For mehes sri 'snake-bite' see von
1-3) (Property of) the palace of Aur-b1-[ka1a,

king of the universe, strong king, king of
As]syria, son of Tiglath-pileser (i), king of [the
universe], strong [king, king of Assyria], son of
Aur-ra-ii (i) (who was) also king of the
universe, [strong king, king of] Assyria:
4-5) I made these sculptures in the provinces, cities, and garrisons for titillation.
6-7) As for the one who removes my inscriptions
and my name: the divine Sibitti, the gods of the
West, will afflict him with snake-bite.
Soden, AHw p. 642a (sub mehsu 4) and CAD 10/2 (M) p. 61

(sub mihsu 3). I still think this is preferable to 'defeat on the
battlefield', an interpretation which goes back to Luckenbill
(cf. CAD 16 [$] p. 146b and 10/2 [M] p. 61b sub mihsu 4c).
109 Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.2002
11
This text is inscribed on a stone figurine found at Aur. Gadd has
suggested that the small object is a sculpture of a type of murena.
This is probably one of the animal figurines made for Aur-b1-ka1a's
palace (see the introduction to A.0.87.4 and A.0.89.7).
COMMENTARY
The object (E 7850, Ass 5651, Ass ph 708) was f o u n d

in the Aur temple courtyard, hE4i, in what Pedersn
describes as the Aur temple library and archive, N l ,
SW courtyard and surrounding rooms. The figurine is 6

cm long, 3 cm wide, and 3 cm thick. The inscription
has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1905 Andrae, MDOG 28 p. 20 (provenance)
1927 Nassouhi, MAOG 3/1-2 p. 5 no. 1 (photo, copy, edition)
1928 RLA 1 pi. 33a (photo, copy)
1948 Gadd, Iraq 10 pp. 21-25 and pi. vi (photo, study)

1986 Pedersn, Archives 2 p. 12 n. 5 (provenance)
TEXT
1)
2)
a-ur-EN-ka-l[a]
MAN GAL MAN KIS MAN KR a-[ur]
.GAL
1-2) (Property of) the palace of Aur-b1-ka1a,

great king, king of the universe, king of Assyria.
12
Hundreds of fragments of a stone sarcophagus with a five-line inscription of Aur-bl-kala were found in a tomb at Aur. Unfortunately
only the beginning of the inscription has been published. In the same
tomb a complete limestone sarcophagus was also discovered but it was
uninscribed and thus it is unknown to whom it belonged.
COMMENTARY
T h e basalt fragments and the limestone sarcophagus
w e r e f o u n d in T o m b 3. N o further details about t h e
fragments (excavation numbers, p h o t o numbers, dimensions) are k n o w n and we have been unable to locate the
originals for collation. The uninscribed sarcophagus is

Ass 6792 and p h o t o s appear in R L A 1 pi. 33b (between
pp. 208 and 209) and Haller, Grber (see the bibliography).
110
Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.2002
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1914 Andrae MDOG 54 pp. 43-45 (study)

1954 Haller Grber pp. 176-77 and pi. 43 (study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 IXXXIX 8 (translation)
TEXT
1)
.GAL
a-ur-EN-k[a-la ...]
1-5) (Property of the) palace of Aur-be1-k[a1a

...] ...
2-5) ...
13
On a fragmentary stele (VA Ass 2017, Ass 15270) found in the row of
steles at Aur only one sign, LA, is preserved at the end of the first inscribed line. Andrae, followed by Borger, has presented cogent arguments for identifying this stele as belonging to Aur-b1-ka1a. Obviously not enough is preserved to warrant an edition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen pp. 35-36 and pi. xvi no. 17
(photo, study)

1001
Fragmentary remains of an inscription are preserved on a piece of clay
cone from Aur (A 3574, Ass 15436) which I tentatively ascribed to
Aur-b1-ka1a because of [... KU]R(?) pi-zi-ta (line 2') possibly being
the same as KUR pi-zi-it-ta in the Broken Obelisk (A.0.89.7 iv 16).
However, Rllig (and cf. Deller) later suggested Aur-uba1Iit i
although he noted that a spelling [Aur--ba]-lit is otherwise unattested in that king's royal inscriptions. Not enough of the fragment is
preserved to warrant an edition.
Rllig further suggested that another fragmentary inscription on a
clay cone (A 3562, Ass 13243) published by Donbaz and Grayson
(RICCA no. 251) might belong to Aur-b1-ka1a's reign because
Aur-rm-niu, whose name appears in the fragment, was an eponym of his reign. However, I doubt this since the name is not immediately preceded by lmu but by a, indicating that the king Aur-rmniu is being cited as a previous builder.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1984 Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA no. 119 (copy, study)
1985 Rllig, WO 16 p. 167 (study)
Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.2001
111
2001
This is a dedicatory inscription of Tuku1t-Mr, king of Hana, who is
probably identical with the man of the same name who was defeated
by Aur-bl-kala (A.0.89.1 obv. 14'). The text is inscribed on an object (BiM 93077, 82-7-14,1750) found at Sippar. Pinches described the
object as 'an oblong instrument, the greater part of green stone, rather
flat, rounded off at the broader end, and having the edges also
bevelled off. It tapers gradually from the broader end, and is fixed
into an ornamental bronze socket, cast or worked into the form of a
ram's head, the eyes of which are inlaid with some white composition,
the nose terminating in a small ring, from which something formerly
hung. At the end to which the bronze part is fixed, and partly covered
by it, is engraved, upon one of the broader surfaces, six lines of inscription, in two columns.' Millard has suggested that it is a (ceremonial) whetstone. The inscription has been collated, and Lambert also
kindly put his collations at the author's disposal.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1883-84 Pinches, PSBA 6 pp. 13-14 (translation)
1885 Pinches, TSBA 8 pp. 351-53 and pi. between pp. 182-83
(photo, copy, edition)
1885-88 Hommel, Geschichte Babyloniens und Assyriens (Berlin) pp. 558-59 (translation)
1891 Jensen, ZA 6 pp. 343-44 (edition)
1922 BM Guide p. 238 no. 223 (study)
1924 Thureau-Dangin and Dhorme, Syria 5 pp. 279-80 (copy,
edition)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 p. 137 n. 1 (study)
1928 S. Smith, EHA pi. xvin (photo but inscription not visible)
1935 Weidner, Deimel Festschrift p. 336 (study)
1968 Brinkman, PKB p. 138 n. 830 (study)
1970 Millard, Orientalia NS 39 (1970) p. 450 (study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 LXXXIX 10* (translation)
1980 Millard, J AOS 100 p. 369 (study)
1980 Walker and Collon in de Meyer (ed.), Tell ed-D6r 3 p.
104 no. 72 (study)
TEXT
1)
2)
[a]-na DUTU MAN AN

[MGI]. tukul-ti-me-er
3)
[DUMU]
4)
a-na rsi(?).S(?)i KUR-SW
5)
6)
u na-sa-ar
i-q-i
U KI MAN(?)-[W(?)]
MAN KUR
ha-na
DINGIR-NG.BA MAN KUR HA-NA

BALA-SW
1 MAN(?)-[S(?)]: another possible reading is UMUN(?KW(?)-!

'his lord. Lambert observes that the signs look like a dittography of u KI. 4 a-na rsi(?).s(?)i KUR: cf. ana u-te-ur KUR
1-6) To the god ama, king of heaven and underworld, [his] king, Tuku1t-Mr, king of the
land Hana, [son] of I1-iqa, king of the land
Hana, dedicated (this object) for the well-being of
his land and the protection of his reign.
a-ur RIMA 1 p. 312 line 2. Lambert thinks â-lam^ is just

possible for si(?).s(?) I.
112
Aur-b1-ka1a A.0.89.2002
2002
This private text was engraved on a lapis lazuli bead found in Egypt in
a pharaonic tomb and the original date of the piece is very uncertain.
Borger suggested, on palaeographic and orthographic grounds, that
the period of Tiglath-pileser i to Aur-bl-kala seemed most plausible.
Since it is known that the Egyptian pharaoh sent exotic animals to
Aur-bl-kala as gifts (A.0.89.6 lines 4'-5' and A.0.89.7 iv 29-30),
perhaps the object dates to his reign. The bead has not been located
or the inscription collated. For an edition and earlier bibliography see
Borger, EAK 1 pp. 20-22 and Grayson, ARI 2 p. 2 n. 12.
TEXT
1)
S M.GL-DINGIR SUKKAL GAL 1 TIN
Ita-pl-
te DUMU. MUNUS-SW GAL-te
2)
AGA T>t-U s a-Ur DBAD DNIN.LL
DINGIR.ME U-Ut URU bal-tH

3)
L NU KAM NU TM MU DINGIR U LUGAL NU
mj-ma NU TI
1-3) (Property) of Ibai-i1u, chief vizier. For the

life of his eldest daughter, whom he loves, he
made (this object). (Property) of the gods Assur,
Enlil, (and) Ninlil, the gods of the city Baltil
(Assur). No one must covet (it), take (it) away,
(or) swear (falsely) by god and king and take possession of (it).
Euba-Adad ii
A.0.90
Erba-Adad II (1055-1054 BC) is the first in a series of obscure

monarchs who ruled Assyria from the end of the second millennium
to the early part of the first millennium (c. 1 0 5 5 - 9 3 5 BC). Little direct
information is available for any of these kings and their activities but
it is easy to deduce from events preceding and following this dark century that the Aramaeans were now the superior power and occupied
much of what had once been regarded as Assyrian territory.
The only royal inscriptions of Erlba-Adad II preserved are two fragmentary display texts from Nineveh and one label on a stele from
Aur. No information is available about his building enterprisesThere is reference to a certain Erba-Adad in a fragmentary literary
text (BM 98941 = Th 1905-4-9,447 published by King, CT 34 pis.
15-16) and his appointment to the vice-regency (ID-W) of Assur. The
text may have described the removal of Erlba-Adad II from the throne
by am-Adad iv, an event noted in the Assyrian King List (see
J. Lewy, Goldhizer Memorial pp. 3 2 3 - 2 4 n. 4 6 ; Borger, EAK 1 p. 145
and HKL 1 p. 231; and Grayson, ARI 2 p. 63 n. 261). Erba-Adad II
does appear in various king lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135).
1
This text is attested on two fragments of a clay tablet found at
Nineveh. The major preserved portion consists of royal epithets while
the building section and date are badly broken.
COMMENTARY
The two fragments (K 2693 and Rm 2,261) do not actually join but from the point o f view of content, script,
and clay they certainly seem to be from the same tablet.
K 2693 measures 9 . 5 x 9 . 2 + cm and Rm 2,261 measures 3 . 5 x 4 . 5 + cm. The inscription has been collated,
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1901-1906 Winckler, AOF 3 p. 248 (copy)
1904-1905 Streck, ZA 18 pp. 151-52 (study)
1909 Schnabel, OLZ 12 54-55 (study)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 344A-B (translation)
1926
1961
1976
1988
113
Meissner, IAK p. 37 n. 5 (study)

Borger, EAK 1 pp. 144-45 (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 xc 1 (translation)
Millard, ARRIM 6 pp. 33-34 (copy)
114
Erlba-Adad II A.0.90.1
TEXT
Obverse
1) msu-diKUR LUGAL K[I arru dannu ar mat
aur(1)]
2) MAN kl-lat kib-rat 4 bi-b[l libbi aur
ang(1)]
el-lu ti-ri-is qa-at DMA [(arru) n]
3)
IGI.ME DBAD et-lu qar-[du mulaHt]
4)
la ma-gi-^ri mu^-pa-ri-[ru kisri multarhi]
5)
gi-gi-nu-^
darfi-nu a x [...]
6)
al-tu-te
rfcfi
a~\ na ' ti-ib [thazu danni]
7)
1
8) UB.ME ul-ta-nap -a-qa [ihill]
9) hur-a-n[i] al-tu-te [nakiru kma qan]
10) m-he-e zi-qi-qi [umm muaprid]
11) la ka-ni-ê mu-ni-e[r aiibu]
d
d
12) r ei-a x x [...]
13) [...]x[...]
Lacuna
V) [...]x[...]
2') a-ga- x [...]
3') KUR. KUR. MES /-[...]
4') uk-nu-e r(?)i [...]
1-13) Erlba-Adad, king of the universe, [strong

king, king of Assyria], king of all the four quarters, select [of the god Aur], holy [priest], under
the protective hand of the god Ninurta, [(the king
who is) the] choice of the god Enlil, valiant man,
[controller of] the insubmissive, who breaks up
[the forces of the rebellious], strong gigin, who
[...] dangerous people, at whose [strong belligerent] attack the quarters (of the world) are in
dire distress, the mountains [are convulsed], and
[he has turned his] dangerous [enemies] into
ghosts [like reeds in] a tempest, [who puts] the insubordinate [to flight], who defeats [his enemies
(...)] the gods Ea, ... [...]
Lacuna
r-4 1 ) (No translation warranted)
5') DUMU a-ur-EN-[kala ...]

6') DUMU GiSKiM-t[i-apiI-earra ...]
7) [...]x[...]
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
1;) x [...]
2') [...]
3') sa x [...]
4') bur-l..]
5') ID-X-[...]
6') lu n[a0) ...]
7) x [.1
Lacuna
1") x b[a .,.]
T) ka-lak-ku x [...]
3") a-na me-nu-te x [...]
4") u lim(1)-hur-u î-na^ [...]
5") -hur-sag-kur-kur-r[a ...]
5-7*) Son of Aur-b1-[ka1a ...] son of Tiglath[pileser (i) . . . ] . . . [...]

Lacuna
6")
rev. 6") Month of ..., [...th day, eponymy of ...]
i m ! [x] x [...]
1 K[I] not G[AL] is certain. Cf. A.0.90.3 and Seux, ERAS p

309. For the restorations see the note to A.0.89.10 lines 1-3.
2 bi-b[l libbi aur]: see Seux, ERAS p. 60 and n. 86.
2-3 [ang(1)] el-lu: this is a well attested epithet beginning
with Asn. i (see the references in Seux, ERAS p. 287) and a
better restoration than {rub] ellu (so Seux, ERAS p. 252),
Lacuna
rev. l'-7') (No translation warranted)
Lacuna
rev. l"-5") ... [...] storeroom [...] for number [...]

and may he receive his prayer [...] Ehursagkurkurra [...]
which is known only for one Assyrian king, Adn. i.

3-4
[(arru) n] IGI.ME DBAD: cf. Borger, E A K 1 p. 144 and
Seux, ERAS p. 207. 4-5 [mul&i(] ...: see Seux, ERAS p. 149
and n. 16. 7-10 See Seux, ERAS p. 100. 10-11 [muaprid] la
ka-ni-rsei: see Borger, EAK 1 p. 145 and Seux, ERAS p. 220.
11 fmu-n-e[r aiibu]: see Seux, ERAS p. 198.
115 Erlba-Adad II A.0.90.1
2
This fragmentary text, on a piece of clay cone from Nineveh, can almost certainly be ascribed to Erlba-Adad II,
COMMENTARY
found in A.0.90.1 lines 7-8.
The fragment (BM 123467, 1932-12-10,410) was
found in the 'dump* at Nineveh. The text has been collated.
The identification of this fragment with Erlba-Adad n is

based on the epithets which were studied in detail by
Seux. The restorations in this edition are based on that
study and, in particular, note the parallel to line 4
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1968 Lambertt and Millard, Cat. p. 27 (study)
1972 Graysoni, ARI 1 984 and 987 (study)
1976 Graysoni, ARI 2 xc 3 (study)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 102 and pi. LXXII no. 101 (copy)
1967 Seux, ERAS pp. 92 n. 90, 198, and 220 (studly)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
[eriba-dadad(l) M]AN KIS MAN KUR a-ur A

[aur-bl-kala(1) ...]
1-2a) [Erba-Adad], king of the universe, king of

Assyria, son of [Aur-bl-kala, king of the
universe, king of Assyria, son of Tiglath-pileser
(i)] (who was) also [king of the universe (and)
king of] Assyria:
2b-6) Valiant man [... encircler of the] insubmissive, who defeats [his enemies
at whose strong
belligerent attack the quarters (of the world)] are
in dire [distress, ...] ... [...]
Lacuna
[ar kiati ar K]UR [a\-ur-ma e-lu qar-[du
...]
[muaprid la] ka-ni-e rmu^-n[-er aiiabiu
4)
[a ana tib tahazu danni kibrtu u]l-tana[p-a-qa ...]

5) [...] x PA x [ . . . ]
6) [...] x x [...]
Lacuna
3
This text appears on a stone stele found in the row of steles at Assur.
Despite the lack of genealogy, there can be little doubt that this inscription belongs to Erba-Adad n rather than i.
Erlba-Adad II A.0.90.1
116
COMMENTARY
T h e stele ( V A A s s 1197, A s s 17819) is 90 c m high, 68 c m wide, a n d 2 8 c m
thick. T h e text has been collated f r o m the published p h o t o .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen p. 41 and pi. xix no. 27 (photo,
copy, edition)
1948 J. Lewy, Goldziher Memorial p. 323 n. 44 (study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xc 2 (translation)
TEXT
1)
sa-lam
2)
3)
MAN KI
SU-[D]LSKUR
1-3)
u
Monument
of
Eriba-Adad,
king
of
the
ami-Adad iv
A.0.91
None of the sparse remains of royal inscriptions from this reign

(1053-1050 BC) speak of military matters and obviously Assyria's political eclipse was continuing. Sam -A dad iv worked on the Itar temples at Aur (A.0.91.1) and Nineveh (A.0.91.2-3). A fragment published by Thompson (AAA 19 no. 219) is possibly part of a text of
Adad-nrr III. An inscription from Byblos of an official of 'amAdad, king of Assyria' (see ARI 2 p. 64 n. 262) will be included under
am-Adad v. am-Adad iv is included in various king lists (see
Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135).
1
This text is reconstructed from several fragmentary clay cones from
Nineveh. It is possible that more than one text and one building enterprise is represented by these fragments. As reconstructed, this text
concerns work on the towers of the Assyrian Istar temple.
CATALOGUE
Ex
Museum
number
Registration
number
BM 122661
BM 123510
56-9-9,172
56-9-9,179
1930-5-8,94
56-9-9,198
1932-12-10,453
BM 128387
56-9-9,157
1932-12-10,644
BM 122659
1930-5-8,92
1
3
4
5
6
7
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
C 16
7.6 x 8.6 I
6.4x8.9 +
10x7.3 +
5.1 x 7 . 2 +
6.7x7.2 +
15tar temple
CC. + 3.64
IStar temple
MM. Fill
Asn. Palace A.l
Surface
56-9-9,196
Lines
preserved
cp
1-7
1-7
1-6
1 4
8.2x8.5 +
5.8x6.5 +
1-6
9.5x5 +
1-5
5.1x7 +
1-5
1-5
COMMENTARY
The numerous exs. complement each other well except
in line 5 (see the note), and thus they have been treated
as one text. The master text is a conflation and interested readers may check the scores for details. The
copy of ex. 2 published as 3 R pi. 3 no. 9 shows much
more text than is preserved on the original. There is no
evidence of modern deterioration and the copy must include text from other fragments. See the note to line 6.
The copy of ex. 9 published as 3 R pi. 3 no. 1 shows
d
is-tr in the last preserved line (after si-rhrMi-[u] in
the preceding line) but only illegible traces appear on
the original.
117
118
amT-Adad iv A.0.91.1
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1870 3 R pl. 3 nos. 1-2 and 9 (exs. 2, 6, 9, copy)

1902 King, AKA pp. 150-51 (exs. 1-2, 4, edition)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 342-43 (exs. 1-2, 4, edition)
1932 T h o m p s o n ,
AAA
19 pp. 98 and
1961
1967
1968
1976
104 and pis. LXXIII,
LXXV, L x x v i i , a n d LXXX n o s . 118, 151, 172, a n d 2 5 7 ( e x s .
3, 5, 7-8, study, copy)

Borger, EAK 1 pp. 145-46 (exs. 1-6, 8-9, study)
Borger, HKL 1 p. 31 (ex. 7, study)
Lambert and Millard, Cat. pp. 17, 31, and 65 (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 xci 1 (exs. 1-9, translation)
TEXT
1)
5Y7W-.S7-DISKUR MAN
dl-YlU
MAN KI MAN
DUMU GIS. tukul-ti-BLA--r-r[a]
MAN KI
1-3) am-Adad, strong king, king of the

universe, king of Assyria, son of Tiglath-pileser
(i), king of the universe, king of Assyria, son of
Aur-ra-ii (i) (who was) also king of the
universe (and) king of Assyria:
KUR a-ur
2)
MAN KUR a-ur

3)
4)
5)
DUMU a-ur-SAG-i-i
MAN KI MAN KUR as-
sur-m a
e-nu-ma na-me-r[i sa bit istar] -u-ri-te
NiN-ia
sa NUN-I a-lik pa-ni-ia [... ana] si-^hiri-ti-su
ak-e-er
6)
r N A 4 - | . [ N A . R . A . M E ( ? ) ] tsifc-ka-te.MEl
7)
tu-ur i-na qer-bi~u [akun]

[ m ...] rU4i-me 8.KM li-mu [mam-dadad
ar mt(1)] a-ur
4-5) At that time the towers [of the temple of] the
Assyrian [Istar], my mistress, which a prince who
preceded me [had built, had become dilapidated
(and)] I entirely rebuilt them.
6) I inscribed monumental inscriptions and clay
cones (and) [deposited] (them) therein.
7) [Month of ...], eighth day, eponymy of
[am-Adady king of] Assyria.
al-
2
This broken text, on a piece of clay cone from Nineveh, concerns
work on the Istar temple.
COMMENTARY
The fragment ( 5 6 - 9 - 9 , 1 6 9 ) measures 5.7 x 7.1 +
been collated.
cm and the inscription h a s
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1870 3 R pi. 3 no. 11 (copy)
1902 King, AKA p. 150 n. I (study)
1961 Borger, E A K 1 p. 146 (study)
1.8 has MAN GAL 'great king' before MAN KAL 'strong king'.
1.9 has [MAN GA]L 'great king' before MAN dan-nu 'strong
king'. 1.6 omits MAN KI. 5 The end of the line in ex. 6 (only
exs. 3 and 6 are preserved) is a mystery: ex. 3 [... si-h]r-ti-u
ak-e-ert ex. 6 [... sihir-t]i-ri0 a-BI [...]. 6.2 has nothing
preserved at the beginning of the line, despite the copy in 3 R
pi. 3 no. 9. Thus the var. ana m rqti 'for distant days'
(Borger, EAK 1 p. 146 and Grayson, ARI 2 p. 64 n. 264) does
not exist. 7
8.KAM: preserved only in ex. 3. The
writing, instead of UD 8.KAM, is unusual but clear. A reading
UD 28.KM is not possible.
1976 G r a y s o n , A R I 2 x c i 3 (study)
119 amT-Adad iv A.0.91.1

TEXT
1)
2)
3)
[mam-d]IKUR MAN KAL [ar kiati ar mat

aur(1)]
...] ni-it â-ur R^N [ama(1) ...]
...] x-nu GA-am d[...]
4)
...,M]ES-U DUMU GISKIM-A--r-[ra ...]
5)
... i8-t\r URU ni-nu-a NIN-ZA sa

...] x-w(?) i-tr e-na-ah-m[a ...]
6)
1-4) [am]-Adad, strong king, [king of the

universe, king of Assyria ...], chosen of Aur
and [ama, ...] beloved of the gods, [...], his
[lords]; son of Tiglath-pileser (i) [...]:
5-10) [The ... of Ita]r of Nineveh, my mistress,

which [... had previously restored] had again become dilapidated and [... rebuilt it and again] it
had become dilapidated. Now its terrace [...] I
built anew (and) finished (it) [...] ... [...]
Lacuna
[...]
...] x e-na-ah-ma tam-la-u x [...]

... ana e-\u-ut-te ar-sip -[\k-lil U[GU ...]
. . . ] M 3-at ra ka ni sa ut x [ . . . ]
9)
10) ...] x x x x x r/r(?) * / ( ? ) i [ . . , ]
Lacuna
7)
8)
3
This is another fragmentary text, on a piece of clay cone from
Nineveh, concerning work on the Itar temple and it may come from
the same object, although there is no physical join, as A.0.91.2. The
reference to two lions reminds one of texts of Aur-ra-ii i (RIMA 1
pp. 309-313 A.0.86.1 and 2).
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 123468, 1932-12-10,411) measures 8.6x8.5+ cm and was
found in the Itar temple, U. 3. The text has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 104 and pi. LXXIX no. 222 (copy,
edition)
1959 Weidner, Tn. p. 54 (study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xci 4 (study)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [-..] x x [...] x
2')
[... e-na]-ah 2 UR.MAH.MES sa ZAG U GB
3') [...] x dis-tr NIN-77 -al-ba-ru-^mc
4') [...] x a-na -ri-u lu-ter x [x]
5')
[... arrssu l]s-ki-pu
MV-SU NUMUM-[SM]
A.0.91.2 line 2 nit aur u [ama]: cf. Seux, ERAS p. 208.
Lacuna
1-2') [...] ... [... had become] dilapidated. Two
(monumental) lions on right and left [...]
3-4') [When the ...] of the goddess Itar, my mistress, becomes old and [dilapidated], may [a future prince] restore it.
5'-6'a) [As for the one who does not restore it],
may [the gods Aur and Istar] overthrow [his
sovereignty and destroy] his name and [his] seed
[from his land].
120
6')
amT-Adad iv A.0.91.1
[ina mtu luhalliqu ITI ... UD ... lmu
61>) [Month of ..., ...th day, eponymy of ]amAdad, king of Assyria.
5]R/H-/-DIKUR MAN KUR [AS]
4
This dedicatory text appears on a piece of limestone, probably a pestle, found at Assur. A similar dedicatory text is A.0.92.1001.
COMMENTARY
The limestone object (Ass 17558) has not been located
and no photo is available. Thus it has not been col-
lated. Schroeder says it is a

word abattu in line 5 suggests,
'knob* (Knauf) and the

then, that it is a pestle.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xci 2 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
a-na a-ur be-[li-u ...]

am-i-diKUR G[AR enlil iak aur]
A GI.tukul-ti-A-i~-[arra akin enlil iak
aur]
A a-ur-sAG-rP-[ akin enlil iak aurma]
5)
a-bat-tu a-ri-[ik-tu(1) ...]
6)
a-na Ti-u SILIM N[UMUN(?)-SW . . . ]
7)
i-qi e-em te-li[l-te ... ]
1) To_A3Sur, [his] lord, [...]:

2-4) am-Adad, appointee of [Enlil, vice-regent
of Assur], son of Tig1ath-pi1e[ser (i), appointee of
Enlil, vice-regent of Aur], son of Aur-ra-i[i
(i) (who was) also appointee of Enlil and viceregent of Assur] :
5-7) dedicated (this) long pestle [...] for his life,
the well-being of [his] seed, [...]. Whither
purification [...]
8-12) [If someone] takes (it) either to (another)
temple, or [to ...], or to a storehouse, [or to ...
and does not return it] to its place [...]
Lacuna
8)
lu a-na t DINGIR l[u
9)
lu a-na hu-u[r-e ...]
...]
10) i-la-qe M-X-[...]
11 ) [a-n]a a-ri- [... ]

12)
[...]XX[...]
Lacuna
5
This text is on a stele, found in two pieces (VA Ass 2015 = Ass 15259
and 15272). from the row of steles at Assur (hD/Elli).
121 amT-Adad iv A.0.91.1

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1909 Andrae, MDOG 40 pp. 24-25 (provenance, edition)
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen pp. 24-30 and pis. xv and xvi
no. 15 (photo, copy, edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xci 5 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
sa-lam
M
F/72-5/'-DIKUR
MAN KUR a-ur

A MGISKIM-A-e-5ar-ra
MAN KUR a-ur-ma
1-5) Monument of Sam si-Ad ad, king of Assyria,

son of Tiglath-pileser (I) (who was) also king of
Assyria.
Ashurnasirpal i
A.0.92
Confusion is the key word for this reign (1049-1031 BC) since it is not
certain which Ashurnasirpal this is. He is usually regarded as the first
king of this name but a son of Tukultl-Ninurta i called Ashurnasirpal
seems to have been recognized briefly in some quarters as the Assyrian
king between Tukultl-Ninurta i and Aur-ndin-ap1i. No royal inscriptions of this Ashurnasirpal are known, with the possible exception
of a broken stele from the row of steles at Aur (Andrae, Stelenreihen no. 10), and his existence as a king rests only on one exemplar
(which may be in error) of the Assyrian King List (see Weidner, Tn.
p. 42 note to lines 10-11; Borger, EAK 1 p. 98; and Grayson, ARI 1
pp. 134-35 876). For practical purposes, the king whose few royal inscriptions are edited here has been regarded as the first of this name.
A second problem with this king is the attribution of the 'White
Obelisk' since it has been suggested that this object belongs to
Ashurnasirpal i
rather
than
some
other
king,
including
Ashurnasirpal II. In this volume the text has been edited as
A.0.101.18. Apart from the White Obelisk, there is no evidence of
military or building activities of Ashurnasirpal i. There are some
prayers or hymns addressed to Itar by an Ashurnasirpal, possibly the
first king of this name (see von Soden, AfO 25 [1974-77] pp. 37-49).
His name might be restored in a literary text (BM 98941) discussed in
the introduction to the reign of Erlba-Adad II (A.0.90; cf. Grayson,
ARI 2 p. 63 n. 261). He appears in some king lists (see Grayson,
RLA 6 pp. 86-135) and parts of an eponym list for his reign are
preserved (see Grayson, ARI 2 pp. 67-68 323-25).
1
This is a brick inscription from Aur.
COMMENTARY
tails about provenance and dimensions given by
Schroeder match the bricks of Asn. II. We have been
unable to locate this brick. The photo published in
Andrae, Festungswerke pl. xci is of A.0.101.129.
There is some confusion about this brick inscription.

Schroeder (KAH 2 no. 80) said there were two exs. and
gave them the Ass numbers 19515a and b (see his note
on p. 107). But Ass 19515a (VA Ass 3255) and 19515b
are exs. of a text of Asn. ir (A.0.101.129) and the de-
122
Ashurnasirpal i A.0.92.1
123
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Unger, MAOG 6/1-2 p. 16 (edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 XCII 1 (translation)
TEXT
1-3) (Property of) the palace of Ashurnasirpal,
king of the universe, king of Assyria, son of
amI-Adad (iv) (who was) also king of Assyria.
1)
2)
3)
MAN KUR A A UTTK&'-DLO

MAN KUR A-MA
1001
This fragmentary text appears on a piece of clay cone (A 3382,
Ass 3128) found at Assur. It is similar to a text of am-Adad iv
(A.0.91.4) and that king's name appears in the genealogy, apparently
at the end. Both factors suggest that our text belongs to
Ashurnasirpal i (cf. the genealogy in A.0.92.1). But one cannot rule
out Shalmaneser n as a possible candidate.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
Lacuna
V) [... iak] a-ur A mam-i-\adad sa kin enlil
iak aurma]
2')
[ana bal(J]- SILIM
NUMUN(*)-SW [ . . . ]
A . 0 . 9 2 . 1 0 0 1 line 2' NUMUN a c t u a l l y l o o k s like MI;
Lacuna
1') [... vice-regent] of Aur, son of am-[Adad
iv, (who was) also appointee of Enlil (and) viceregent of Aur]:
2') [he dedicated (this) for] his [life], the wellbeing of his seed, [...]
Shalmaneser ii
A.0.93
Assyria's obscurity continues with this reign (1030-1019 BC) for which
there is no record of military or building activities. Shalmaneser II did
make an endowment for the Aur temple at Aur (Schroeder, KAV
no. 78 edited by Ebeling, SVAT pp. 20-23 no. 6) and a literary text
from Aur has been ascribed to his reign by some scholars; but others
prefer Shalmaneser III (Ebeling, KAR no. 98: see Lambert, AnSt 11
[1961] p. 157; Borger, HKL 1 p. 99; and Schramm, EAK 2 p. 95).
Given the shadowy character of this reign and the lack of royal inscriptions, texts with the name Shalmaneser but no further indication
of which king of that name are included either under Shalmaneser i
(for example, RIMA 1 pp. 211-12 A.0.77.23) or Shalmaneser m (examples: Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 81 - cf. Grayson, ARI 2 p. 69 n. 276;
Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23 no. 171 - cf. Galter, ZA 76 [1986] p.
304). Shalmaneser II appears in king lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp.
86-135) and an eponym list for his reign is partially preserved (see
Grayson, ARI 2 p. 69 332).
1
This text (VA Ass 1201, Ass 15271, Ass ph 4364 and 4461) is inscribed
on a stele from the row of steles at Aur.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1909 Andrae, MDOG 40 pp. 27-29 (provenance, edition)
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen pp. 23-24 and pi. xiv no. 14

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcni 1 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
1-5) Monument of Shalmaneser, great king, king

of the universe, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (i), king of Assyria, son of am-Adad
(iv) (who was) also king of Assyria,
set-lam
md
sul-ma-nu-MAS
MAN GAL MAN KI MAN KUR a-U
A a-ur-PAF-A MAN KUR a-ur
A am-i-0 MAN KUR a-ur-ma
124
Aur-naran iv and Aur-rabi n

A.0.94 and A.0.95
No royal inscriptions are known for either Aur-nrrl iv (1018-1013

BC) or Aur-rabi II (1012-972 BC) although they are included in king
lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135) and there is an eponym list for
their reigns (see Grayson, ARI 2 pp. 70-71 335 and 338). A stele
from the row of steles at Assur (Andrae, Stelenreihen no. 13) must belong to one of these kings (no inscription is preserved) since it was
discovered between the steles of Shalmaneser II and Aur-ra-ii II.
125
Assur-resa-ii ii
A.0.96
Although the dearth of royal inscriptions for this reign (971-967 BC)
indicates the ongoing weakness of Assyria, the fact that a local ruler,
B1-ri, of a state on the Habur River admits to being an Assyrian
vassal (see A.0.96.2001) indicates that Assyria's political influence
stretched that far west. Aur-ra-ii II is included in king lists (see
Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135).
1
This text is engraved on a stele (VA Ass 1202, Ass 15549, Ass ph
4526) found in the row of steles at Assur.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen p. 22 and pi. xiv no. 12 (photo,
copy, edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcvi 1 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
sa-i~lam~i
[ma-ur-s]AG-i-i
3)
MAN TKUR"! a-ur
4)
5)
MAN KUR AS
1-5) Monument of [Aur-r]a-ii, king of

Assyria, [son of A]ur-[r]abi (II), king of Assyria.
[mr ai]-sur-[G] AL
2001
This text, found on a broken clay cylinder at Assur, records the deeds
of a certain B1-ri who was an Assyrian vassal (Vice-regent') ruling
at adikanni on the banks of the Habur during the time of Assurrabi II and Aur-ra-ii n. In the inscription, which is in the style of
an Assyrian royal inscription, B1-ri records reclamation of fallow
land along the river and the reopening of an irrigation canal to grow
crops. He also narrates work on the old temple of his god Samnuha.
126
Aur-ra-ii ii A.0.96.2001
127
COMMENTARY
The clay cylinder (E 6702, Ass 1758) is 9.9 cm long and 6.5 cm in diameter.
The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1927
1932
1954
1961
1970 Millard, Iraq 32 p. 173 (study)

1972 Grayson, ARI 1 p. xxi n. 8 g (study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcvi 2* (translation)
Nassouhi, MAOG 3/1-2 pp. 6-10 no. 2 (copy, edition)

Ebeling, RLA 1/6 p. 474 (study)
Frankena, Tkultu pp. 89-90 and 110-11 (study)
Borger, EAK 1 pp. 106 and 125 (study)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
a-na-ku MDEN-APIN LU.SID [a ...]

ra-H-mu sa sa-[amnuha ...]
-na ar-si ma-ur-GAL [...]
[x] + 3 MU.ME *7/1 [...]
[a]-ur a-na a-ra-^mH [...]
i i-nd UA-mi-u-ma As[a-amnuha ...]
id-di D ha-bur /S-/[I/(?) ...]
i-na qa-ti-u lu is-bat [...]
id-di D ha-bur L.I[D . . . ]
i-na UA-mi-u-ma sa-am-nu-[ha ...]
i-na .ME-5W si-ra-te 3 LI[M . . . ]
a-tap-pu na-di-tu a i-tu KUR [...]
i-na lb-bi-a la it-tal-ku-ni x [...]
ki-si-ru sa ak-sir A.GR.MES n[a-dti ...]
A.ME TR.KL URU -d-kal-tlU
[...]
i-na tar-si ma-ur-SAG-i- MAN KUR a-ur

DUM[U . . . ]
17
18
19
20
sa-am-nu-ha a AD.MES-W-/ [ . . . ]
la ' il\-bir i-na la-ba-ri la e-nis i-na [...]
i-na .ME si-ra-te Sa dsa-am-nu-ha EN-i[a ...]
RiN.GAL,ME-r/e"i-5w ma-a^-da-te lu ad-ki
SIG4.[ME . . . ]
21
GI tal-la-ka-te.MES lu -pur i-na D pu-[ratti
22
23
hi-da-(te> ri-a-te si-ha-te a-na RDT[...]

0INGIR.ME GAL.ME EN.MES-/# a-fa da-ra-te
24
25
26
27
e-nu-ma u-a-tu -al-ba-ru-[ma ...]

L.iD EGIR-I/ an-hu-su lu-ud-[di ...]
.GI.ME lip-u-u tam-me-ni-ia i-tu [...]
MU at-ru la~a tu-hal-laq a MU at-ru [hallaqu ...]
[...]
1 LU.SID: note the same title in lines 9 and 25. In the latter
references the Assyrian form of the sign L is used whereas in
line 1 the Babylonian form is used. 15 TR.KL = tarkullul
20
1-23) I, B1-ri, vice-regent of [...], lover of the

god Sa[rnnuha ...], at the time of Aur-rabi (n),
[king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (i)], [N] + 3
years [... (5) A]ur for delineation [...], at that
time the god Sa[mnuha ...] the bank(s) of the
River Habur, from [... to ...] he took possession.
[...] the bank(s) of the River Habur the vice[regent ...]. (10) At that time the god Samnu[ha
...] with his exalted strength, 3,000 [...]. The
abandoned canal which [goes] from the land [...
to ...] (and) in which [water] no longer flowed,
[...] I constructed a facing for (the quay wall).
The abandoned meadows [...] (15) water, the
mooring-pole of the city adikanni [...]. At the
time of Aur-ra-ii (II), king of Assyria, son of
[Aur-rabi (II) (who was) also king of Assyria],
the temple of the god Samnuha which my forefathers [had built ...] had not become dilapidated,
with age it had not deteriorated, with [...], With
the exalted strength of the god Samnuha, my
lord, [...] (20) I mustered his numerous workers.
Bricks [... in] wooden carts, I sent. In the
Euphrates ...]. A temple of joy, rejoicing, and
pleasure [I built] for the gods [Samnuha (and)
Gubaba], the great gods, my lords, forever. [...]
RIN.GAL: f r o m c o l l a t i o n t h e RIN ( n o t K) is c l e a r a n d at
24-28) When this temple becomes old [and dilapidated ...], may a later vice-regent restore its weakened (portions). May he anoint with oil [my clay
inscriptions ...]. My clay inscriptions from [...].
You must not destroy (my) inscribed name. He
the end of the line ad-ki (not -di) is clear (against Grayson,
ARI 2 p. 72 nn. 288-89). 21 GI tal-la-ka-te.mf>: cf. Fales,
Cento Lettere Neo-Assire 1 p. 177.
128
28)
Aur-ra-ii ii A.0.96.201
sa-am-nu-ha gu-ba-ba
DINGIR.MES
RGALL.[MES . . . ]
29)
ma-m/~iGi-rpiNGiR~i [...]
who [destroys] (my) inscribed name, [may] the

gods Samnuha (and) Gubaba, the great gods, [my
lords, curse/kill him].
29) Mannu-pn-i1i [the scribe (...)]
Tiglath-pileser n
A.0J7
Nothing of importance is known of this king (966-935 BC) who is

mentioned in king lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135) and for
whose reign there is a fragmentary list of eponyms (see Grayson,
ARI 2 p. 74 353).
1
This fragmentary text appears on a stele (Ass 15550) found in the row
of steles at Assur. Since it was found near the stele of Aur-ra-ii II
it probably should be ascribed to Tiglath-pileser n.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen pp. 20-22 and pi. xiv no. 11 (copy,
edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 XCVII 1 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
1-4) Monument of Tiglath-pileser, [king of

Assyria, son of A]ur-[ra]-ii (ii), [king of
Assyria].
sa-lam
m
tukul-t[i]-A--r-[ra]
[ar mat aur mr ma-]ur-[ra]-i-i
[ar mt aur]
[Gi].
2001
On a stele (Ass 17707) in the row of steles at Aur appear traces of a
non-royal eponymy whose name seems to be Marduk-muballit (dMESTI.LA-[(X)]), an official of Tiglath-pileser
( m r G isKiM(?)-A(?)~i-[x-x]f>a(?)"9, king of Assyria, son of Ninurta-apla-iddina (dMA-A-suM-na),
son of Erba-Aur (su- d a-r), (who was) also governor of the city ...
The Assyrian king might b e Tiglath-pileser II. Not enough of the t e x t ,
which has been collated from the published photo, can be deciphered
for a proper edition.
129
130
Tiglath-pileser II A.0.97.2001
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen pp. 58-59 and pl. xxi no. 57

1938 Ungnad, RLA 2 p. 439a (study)
1974 Saporetti, Assur 1/2 pp. 7-8 (study)

Aur-dan II
A.0.98
With Aur-dn II (934-912 BC) the Neo-Assyrian imperial period can

be said to begin. This monarch regained territory captured and held
for more than a century by Aramaeans (see the introduction to the
reigns of Tiglath-pileser i and Aur-b1-ka1a) and returned fugitive
Assyrians to these lands (for a history of the reign see Grayson, CAH
3/1 pp. 248-49). These events, together with campaigns in other regions and against other peoples, are described in the fragmentary annals (A.0.98.1-2), the first preserved annalistic texts since the reign of
Aur-b1-ka1a.
A text once tentatively ascribed to Aur-dn n (cf. Grayson, ARI 2
pp. 80-81 388-93) has been edited as A.0.101.21. Regarding BM
115021 see A.0.99.7. A private text, on a bronze statue, dedicated to
Aur-dn is probably from the reign of the first king of that name
(see RIMA 1 pp. 307-308 A.0.83.2001). Aur-dn II did some major
construction at Assur: the 'New Palace' of Baltil (A.0.98.1), the
Craftsman's Gate (A.0.98.3 and 5), and the Assur temple (A.0.98.4).
He also did some construction at Kalzu (A.0.98.6). Aur-dn n is included in king lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135) and there are
traces of two eponyms from his reign in an eponym list (see Grayson,
ARI 2 p. 81 394).
1
This text, on clay tablet fragments from Aur, is the best preserved
version of the annals of Aur-dn II. A badly broken variant version
is represented by A.0.98.2. The military narrative is largely concerned
with the Assyrian king's successful attempts to regain territory lost to
such people as the Aramaeans and restoring this land to the Assyrians
who had fled. The building section describes work on the 'New Palace'
at Baltil, the oldest sector of the city Aur.
131
132
Aur-dnn A.0.98.1
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Aur
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
A 19
4312a +
4489a +
4585 (not 4535)
564-65
NW wall of SW
court of Aur
temple, hD3v;
28.7 x 14+
1-87
cpn
Pedersn - Aur
A 39
19086
temple library and

archive, N1
Palace area, 50 cm
5866
8.7x6.7+
deep, gC5iv
3
VAT 9562
10182
1613
SW slope of great
ziqqurrat, gC4iv
27-34,
51-57
7.2x6.3+
65-73
COMMENTARY
The master text is ex. 1 with minor restorations from
the t w o small fragments, exs. 2 - 3 . The reader w h o is
interested in details can check the scores. The last Ass
no. o f the pieces joined to form ex. 1 is more probably
4585 (not 4535 as given in Weidner and Grayson) as

Pedersn has observed. This solves a problem since Ass
4535 is R I M A 1 pp. 321-22 A . 0 . 8 6 . 1 4 . 1 .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1905
1922
1926
1926
1973
Andrae, MDOG 26 pp. 58 and 60 (ex. 1, provenance)

Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 78 (ex. 3, copy)
Weidner, AfO 3 pp. 151-61 (exs. 1-3, copy, edition)
Luckenbill, ARAB 1 337 (ex. 3, translation)
Schramm, EAK 2 p. 1 (exs. 1-3, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcvin 1 (exs. 1-3, translation)

1986 Miglus, MDOG 118 p. 216 (ex. 2, provenance)
1986 Pedersn, Archives 2 pp. 21 and 28 no. 30 and critical
note (ex. 1, provenance)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
[maur-dn arru dan]-nu LUGAL KI LUGAL

KUR a-ur ni'bit a-ur
[sa ... ultu] ul-la-a a-ur uv-u ib-bu-
[sa ... u] a-ga-a si-i-ru -at-me-hu
[a ... ana arrt] KUR a-ur ra-bi-i -knnu-u
1-4) [Aur-dn], strong [king], king of the

universe, king of Assyria, designate of Assur,
[whose] name Aur called [... from] of old, into
[whose] grasp [Aur] placed [the just sceptre and]
the exalted crown, [whom Assur ...] grandly
established [for sovereignty over] Assyria;
[mar mtukult-apil-earra ar kiati ar mat

a\-ur DUMU a-ur-SAG-i-i MAN KI MAN
KUR a-ur-ma
5) [son of Tiglath-pileser (H), king of the universe,

king of As]syria, son of Aur-ra-ii (n) (who
Assyria:
[ina urrt arrtia na mah-r]e-e
6-15) [In my accession year (and) in] my first regnal year, after [I nobly ascended] the royal
throne, [...] the troops of the Iausu came
up(stream), [...] they trusted in their own
strength, they brought their [...]. With the support of Aur, my lord, [I] mustered [... my
chariots (and) troops]. I plundered their settlements from the city Eka1-p-nri [(...) to ...] (and)
BALA.ME-
ia sa i-na GIS.GU.ZA MAN -te
7)
8)
9)
[rabi ibu . . . ] RIN.ME KUR ia--sa-a-ia eU-

[... ana e-m]u-ûq ra ma-ni-u-nu it-ta-atki-riu^
[... u-n]u -b-ul i-na GI.tukul-ti a-ur ENm
9 -bi-ut: is this in error for b[)iu1 Schramm, EAK 2 p. 1

suggested that [...]-nu--b-ut might be the end of a placename.
Aur-dan n A.0.98.1
10) [,.. narkabti ummntia a]d-ki i-tu
rURU^..GAL-P/-/-D
11) [... m]a-kan-na-te.MES-u-nu ah-bu-ut

12) [ . . . dktaunu ma-â-at-t]a a-duk si-ta-te-unu -qa-at-t[a]
13) [... alpe\-u-nu UDU se-ni.UE-u-nu a-na
^la-a^ ma-[ni]
14)
[alul...
133
inflicted [upon them a major defeat]. Those that

survived I slaughtered. [I carried off] their [...
herds] (and) flocks without number. [I] burnt [(...
and)] their [cities] (with) their inhabitants. I
brought up from the Aramaeans [valuable booty].
URU(?).M]E-SM-HW DUMU.ME-SW-/7W
i-na izi. [MES]

15) [arup allassunu(1) kabitta(1) ]-tu KUR
a-ri-mi -e-li [(...)]
16) [... ] i-tu tar-si ml-ma-nu-$AG MAN [mat
aur abia]
17) [ni(1) mt(1) aur(1)
x du-a-ki igmu-ru--n[i]
18) [kullat(1) mrunu DUMU.MU]NUS.ME-u-nu
a-na
K.BABBAR.ME BR.ME--[ni]
19) [ina siqir aur E]N-ia a-na hu-ub-ta-n lu ahtab-[ta]

20) [dktaunu maâtta] lu a-duk al-la-su-nu
NG.u.ME-S[W-RCU]
16-22) [... who] from the time of Shalmaneser,

king of [Assyria, my forefather], had destroyed
[people of Assyria by ...] and murder, had sold
[alt] their [sons (and) daughters]; [by the command of Aur], my lord, I took prisoners, I
inflicted [upon them] a major [defeat], I carried
ofT their booty, possessions, [property, herds,
(and)] flocks (and) [brought (them)] to my city
[Aur ...] the land Ruqahu, the River Zab of the
land [...]
21) [makkrunu alpunu UD]U se-ni.ME-u-nu

-lu-la a-na vRV-i[a aur bla]
22) [...]-// KUR ru-qa-hu D za-ba a KUR x-[x]
23) [... KUR ]a-ha-a-nu KUR a-ru-mu a ku-t-al
KUR /7/- [X-X]
24) [... a itu tarsi ma-ur-GAL]-bi MAN KUR aur AD-ia URU.ME-/7 a id-di [mtia]
25) [... a-na ra-ma-n]i-u-nu -sab-bi-tu--ni
GI.GIGIR.ME R[IN.ME
adki]
26) [...] x di-ik-ta-u-nu ma-â-at-ta a-d[uk]

27) [aln]-û^-[nu appui aq-q]ur i-na IZI.ME
-ru-pu
28) [sitt ummntunu a i]-tu pa-an
GI.TUKUL. ME-/FF p-pr--dU--
[l]
29) [itu ... a-d]i URU hal-ha-la-ua KUR sa-[xx-(x)]-z/

30) [arkunu artedi di-]k-ta-u-nu ma~Ja-at-ta
a-du[k]
31) {aiiassunu makkrunu alul s]i-ta-te-u-nu
a-su-ha i-na x [...]
32) [... ana mi-si-i]r KUR a-ur am-nu-u -nu-[ti]
33) [ina] q-bit a-u[r behia ana mat]
hi lu mj-ik URU a-ra-[...]
^kat-mu^-
10 Ekal-p-nri: but cf. Schramm, EAK 2 p. 1. 14 As stated

in Grayson, ARI 2 p. 75 n. 299 a restoration 'their [w/yes]'
rather than 'their [cities]' is not supported by any parallel text
known to me. 15 There was probably nothing inscribed in the
small lacuna at the end of the line. 18-20 For the restorations
at the beginning of these lines see A.0.98.2 lines 1-3'.
18 BR.ME-W-[W] = ipurnh add this reference to von
23-32) [... I]ahnu, the land of the Aramaeans,

which is behind the land Pi[..., which from the
time of Aur-ra]bi (II), king of Assyria, my forefather, the cities of the district of [my land, ...]
they captured for themselves; [I mustered] chariots (and) troops. [I plundered ...] (and) inflicted
upon them a major defeat, [I destroyed], ravaged,
(and) burnt their [cities. I pursued the remainder
of their troops which] had fled from my weapons
[from ...] to the city Halhalaus of the land
Sa[...]zi. 1 inflicted upon them a major defeat
(and) [carried off their booty (and) possessions].
The rest of them I uprooted, [settled them] in
[...], (and) included them [within] the borders of
Assyria.
33-41) [By] the command of Aur, [my lord], I

marched [to the land Ka]tmuhu. The city ara[...
Soden, AHw p. 842 sub paQru G3c. 19 ah-tab-[ta]: cf.

Schramm, BiOr 27 (1970) p. 158. 22 Cf. Brinkman, PKB
p. 176. 23 Perhaps one should restore mt uluzu ... from
A.0.98.2 line 6 at the beginning of this line. 25-31 For
restorations in these lines see A.0.98.2 lines 8-15. 29 Cf.
Unger, MAOG 6/1-2 (1932) p. 25.
134
Aur-dn II A.0.98.1
[... appui a]q-qur i-na IZI.ME -ru-up mkuu[n-di-ib-ha-]e-e
[ar mt katmuhi i-n]a MURUB4 .GAL-U qaâ^-ti lu i[k-u-su]
[... z]ABAR.ME AN.NA.ME N[A4 KU]R- Uq[u-ru]
[...] X.MES-U al-la-su rouGuo^-Za a-na
U[RU-7]
[aur bla . ..-s]il-la L da-\ gil I pa-ni a rama-n[i-ia]

[ina kuss bltu ueib(1) m\ku-un-di-i[bha-f]e-e MAN KUR kat-mu-hi
[ana mat aur bla ina] arba-il tu 'a-ku^-
I destroyed], ravaged, (and) burnt. I captured

Ku[ndibha1], [king of the land Katmuhu], inside
his palace. [...] bronze, tin, precious stones of the
mountain, [...], his valuable booty [I brought] to
[my] city [Aur. On the throne I set ...s]illa, a
man loyal to me. Kundi[bha1], king of the land
Katmuhu, [I brought to Assyria (and) in the city]
Arbail I flayed (him and) draped his skin over
[the wall of the city ...]na.
[WS] KU-u
[dura sa URU x]-x-na-
rP-ha-al-lip
[ina qibt sa aur blia dakt

ummntia(1)] -kun KUR mu-us-ra-a-ia
[sa ittia ikkirni(1)] ak-ud VRV.ME--nu
[a]p-pu-ul aq-qur
[ina iti arup allassunu ana l]a mi-ni -esa-a
[ana lia a-]ur ub-la
42-45) [By the command of Assur, my lord, I

mustered my troops] (and) reached the land of the
Musru [which had rebelled against me]. I destroyed, ravaged, (and) [burnt] their cities. I
brought forth [their booty without] number (and)
carried (it) [to my city A]ur.
[,..]-RE"I a a-ur EN-ia sa i-tu
46-53) [...] of Assur, my lord, which since [the

time of ... had withheld] tribute from Assur, my
lord; [with the support of Assur], my [lord], and
the divine standard which goes before me [... to]
my own [...] I counted. [Assur ... who] granted
wisdom [... of] my durable dominion [... of] my
gods, the temple of Assur, the temple of the god
ama, [... the foundations] of my palace I laid.
[tarsi(1) ... m]a-da-tu a-na a-ur EN-ia

[ikl ina lukulti aur(1) E]N-ia ^RI.GAL alik pa-ni-ia
[... a-n]a ra-ma-ni-ia lu am-nu
[...] EN GETU DAGAL-?TF NG.BA
[.,. E]N-ti-ia a da-ra-a-te
[...] X DINGIR,ME-n-a a-Ur DUTU
[... u(1)] .GAL-l-ia ad-di

i-na q-bit âs^-[ur belia ana mat kr-r]i--ri
lu a-lik URU u-hu URU [...]
URU si-me-er-ra KUR
URU.M]E-ni a
KUR kr-ri--^ri I
lu ak-ud al-la-su-nu NG.U.ME-SW-W
I NG^ , G[A. ME-5W-nu]
[alpunu snunu] -e-sa-a a-na URU-/T assur ub-la

[ilniunu] ki-i qi-u-te a-na a-ur EN-/7 lu
a-qi
[...] a --a a-na a-ur EN -ia lu a-qi
[ni] KUR a-ur an-ha-[te a itu pan] ^suuni-qi ^bu-bu^-te hu-ah-hi
[lnunu bttunu ]-e-ru--ni a-na
KUR.KUR.ME a-n[i-a-t]
48 D RI.GAL = urigallu 'divine standard' was the symbol of

Nergal, god of war, in Assyria. In this volume it also occurs in
A.0.101.1 ii 25, 27, 50, and iii 52; A.0.101.17 ii 84 and 90,
54-59) By the command of A[ur, my lord], I

marched [to Mount Kirr]iuru. I conquered the cities Suhu, [...], Simerra, the land Lu[...], cities of
Mount Kirriuru. I brought forth their booty, possessions, property, [herds (and) flocks] (and) took
(them) to my city Aur. I gave [their gods] as
gifts to Assur, my lord. [...] which I carried off, I
gave [...] to Assur, my lord.
60-67) I brought back the exhausted [people] of

Assyria [who] had abandoned [their cities (and)
houses in the face of] want, hunger, (and) famine
(and) [had gone up] to other lands. [I settled]
and iii 30. 58 Cf. A.0.99.1 obv. 16. 59.1 [a -S]-a. 59.2 sa
-a-a: see Schramm, BiOr 27 (1970) p. 158b. 60-63 For the
restorations see A.0.101.1 ii 7-10 and Schramm, EAK 2 p. 1.
135
Aur-dn II A.0.98.1
62) [lPni] -te-ra-u-nu
umjMm-ni-u-^nu
^.[ME-u-nu]
[natte uasbit]-su-nu ub-u n-eh-tu u-bu
[ekallti ina id-d\i KUR-a ar-sip GI.APIN.ME
i-na id-di KUR-ZH
[arkus e^] ab-ka-a-ni UGU a pa-na -ate-er
[ai-bu-u]k ANE.KUR.RA.ME si-im-da-at GI
ni-ri. MES
[... ana emq] KUR a-ur ar-ku-us
them in cities (and) houses [which were suitable]

(and) they dwelt in peace. I constructed [palaces
in] the (various) districts of my land. [I hitched
up] plows in the (various) districts of my land
(and thereby) [piled up] more grain than ever before. I hitched up [numerous] teams of horses [...
for the forces of] Assyria.
[ninura u pali] a SANGA-/ i-ra-mu bu-ul
68-72) [The gods Ninurta and Nergal], who love

my priesthood, gave to me the wild beasts (and)
commanded me [to hunt]. I killed from my ...
chariot (and) on my swift feet [with the spear] 120
lions within [...]. I killed 1,600 wild bulls. I captured two [strong] wild virile bulls by ambush. I
killed 56 elephants.
EDIN.ME
-at-li-mu-ni-m[a]
[ep buû-r]i iq-bu-ni-ma 2 u-i

UR.MAH.ME i-na q-reb
[... i]-na
GI.GIGIR-0 pa-tu-te
i-na
GR.II.ME-
ia la-sa-ma-t[e]
[ina pahi] a-duk 1 LIM 6 ME GU4.AM.ME aduk
2 NTA.PU.HAL ^GXJa1. [AM.ME]
[dannte -n]a ub-te -sab-bi-ta 56 AM.SI.ME

a-duk
[enma .GAL]-I lum GIBIL1 -[tu] a URU bal-til
a i-\na pan ... iak aur]
[mr ... iak aurma NU]N-M a-lik pa-ni-[ia
puu ekallum uMtu]
[nahuma anhssa unekkir] a-ar-a -me-[si
dannassa akuda]
[itu ua adi gaba-di]b-be-a a[r-sip
ueklii]
[el mahrte ussime ina mma m]a-urKAL-an TID"! a-[ur mr mtukult-apil-earra
iak aurma]
[... a]-na ^muh^-hi-a is-[...]
[... da1t] GI a-u-hi si-[ra-a-te]
[pu ina bbta ]-re-et-te
NA 4 . NA. R. A. [ME-/A aitur]
[ina qerba akun NU]N-W EGIR-W i-na
MAN. MES [mria]
[sa aur nabbu(1) an-hu-u]t .GAL-//RN ua-ii lu-u[d-di{...)]
[um atra ana aru lutr] a-ur ik-ri-bi-u
i-e2Q-[me{...)]
[a naria u] u-mi at-ru i-pa-i-[tu-ma]
[umu altaru ...] IG.II.ME-5W li-ik-kalm[u-u ...]
[... sunqu] hu-a-a-hu bu-bu-tu [ana mtu
liddi]
[ITI . . . UD X.KAM
limU m. .]-dan-na-ni sa IGI
.GA [L-Iim]
67.3 seems (cf. Schramm EAK 2 p. 1) to have a var.: [... ana
emq mi-]a U[GU sa pan uter arkus] 'I hitched up
[numerous] teams of horses, more than ever before, [for the
73-8la) [When] New Palace of Baltil (Aur)

which previously [..., vice-regent of Aur, son of
... (who was) also vice-regent of Aur, a prince]
who preceded [me, had built (when) this palace
had become dilapidated, I removed its debris],
delineated its area [(and) reached its foundation
pit]. I reconstructed (and) [completed] it [from
top to bottom (and) decorated it better than before. At that time] Aur-dn, vice-regent of
A[ur, son of Tiglath-pileser (who was) also
vice-regent of Aur, ...] upon it [... I made] high
[doors of] fir (and) hung (them) [in its gateways. I
inscribed my] monumental inscriptions [(and)
deposited (them) therein].
81b-83) May a future prince from among the
kings, [my sons, whom Aur will name], restore
the damaged (portions) of this palace. [May he return my inscribed name to its place]. (Then)
Aur will listen to his prayers.
84-86) [He who] erases [my monumental inscriptions and] my inscribed name [and writes his
(own) name]: may [Aur ...] glare angrily upon
him [with] his eyes; [... may he inflict upon his
land hunger], want, (and) famine.
87) [Month of ..., ...th
...]dannani, palace prefect.
day,
eponymy
forces of] my [land]'. See A.0.99.2 line 121. 73-77 The

restorations are based on A.0.98.3 lines 5-12. 86 For the
restorations see A.0.87.1 viii 85-86 and A.0.101.17 v 94-96.
of
136
Aur-dn II A.0.98.2
2
This badly broken text, on a clay tablet fragment from Assur, comes
from a version of the annals different from A.0.98.1. Portions of
three paragraphs of the military narrative are preserved.
COMMENTARY
Lines 1-16' are restored from A.0.98.1 lines 18-32,
although the restorations are not entirely certain since
there are discrepancies: line 3' must have had more text
and lines 7-9' have clear vars. Lines 17-22' describe a
campaign against a man called Kundabhale who is obviously identical with Kundibha1, king of the land
Katmuhu, in A.0.98.1 lines 33-41. But the two narra-
tives are quite different.

The clay tablet fragment (VAT 8890, Ass 4565k, Ass
ph 564-65) was discovered at the NW wall of the SW
court of the Assur temple, hD3v. It belongs to what
Pedersn calls the Aur temple library and archive,
N l . It measures 7 . 8 x 6 . 8 + cm and has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayso>n, ARI 2 xcviii 1 (translation)
1986 Peders<en, Archives 2 p. 24 no. 93 (provenance)
1968-69 Weidner, AfO 22 pp. 76-77 (copy)

1973 Schramm, EAK 2 p. 1 (study)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') kl-l[a(1)-at() mrunu mrunu ana
kaspi ipurni]
2') i-na s[i-qir aur blia ana hubtni lu
ahtabta dktaunu]
3') ma-Ja-[at-ta ...]
4') a-duk al-[lassunu namkrunu
makkrunu
alpunu snunu]
5') -lu-ul-m[a ana lia aur bia ...]
Lacuna
1-5') [had sold] all [their sons and daughters]; by
the command [of Assur, my lord, I took prisoners], I inflicted [upon them a] major [defeat], I
carried off [their] booty, [possessions, property,
herds, (and) flocks] and [brought them to my city
Aur ...]
6')
T)
8')
6-16') The land Uluzu ... [... which previously

had paid tribute] to my forefather [... they captured] for themselves; [(...) by the command/with
the support] of Aur, my lord, [I mustered]
chariots [(and) troops ... I inflicted] upon them a
major defeat. I destroyed, ravaged, (and) [burnt
(...) their cities]. I pursued [the remainder of their
troops which had fled] from my weapons [from
...] to the city Ha1ha[1au ... I inflicted upon them
a major] defeat. [(...)] I carried off their booty
(and) possessions [and the remainder of them] I
uprooted (and) [settled] in [...]
9')
10')
11')
12')
13')
14')
15')
16')
KUR -lu-zu-x [...]

a-na a-bi-ia [...]
a-na ra-ma-ni-u-[nu usabbitni (...) ina
siqr/tukulti]
a -ur EN-ia GI.G[IGIR.ME ummntunu
adki... ]
di-ik-ta-u-nu m[aâ-at-ta adk (...)
lniunu]
ap-rpu^-ul aq-qur [ina iti arup sitt
ummntunu a]
i~i-tu~ pa-an rGi.TUKUL\[MES-/tf ipparidni
itu ...]
a-di URU hal-ha-[la-u ... arkiunu]
ar-te-di rdi-ik^-[taunu maâta adk (...)]
i aP-la-a-su-nu NG\[U.ME-u-nu] f(7)lu(1) -[ulma sitttunu]
s-su-ha i-na x [...]
137
Aur-dn n A.0.98.2
17') "M kif-un-da-ab-ha-le-re

...]
[ar mat katmuhi
'"GUN"! ma-da-tu a na [ ]
19') si-ra-a-te i-na x [...]
20') [ S ] A D I K U R rzTi [ . . . ]
21') ad-ki[...]
22') x [...]
Lacuna
18')
17'-22') Kundibhal, [king of the land Katmuhu,

... rebelled and\ the tax (and) tribute for {Aur,
my lord, he withheld ...] lofty [...] of the gods
Adad and [...] I mustered [...J
Lacuna
This text, preserved on several clay cones from Assur, records the rebuilding of the Craftsman's Gate by Aur-dn II.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Aur
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
epn
VA Ass 2053
10524
1691-95
22.5x 15.9 +
1-21
VA 5633
A 3515
1727-31
1689
31.5 x 16.5 +
14.5x14,8 +
1-21
VA Ass 2054
10561
10331 i 1033lc +
10345
11518
South corner outside

Craftsman's Gate on
rock slope, bA7n
Same as ex. 1
City side of Craftsman's
Gate, bB7i
Near south corner of
inner wall tower, bC8ii
Same as ex. 1
South corner of
Craftsman's Gate, bA7n
Craftsman's Gate, bA5v
Palace court south of
well, fE5n
East side of outer
'hook1 (Hake), cA4v
bD8in
City area
Craftsman's Gate, bA7i
16X10.4 +
1-17
10
11
12
2519
Unlocated
0583(?)
VA Ass 2055
10583
A 3493
A 3636
10178
19698
1689
6314
A 3471
9467
1418
VA Ass 2057
VA Ass 2056
A 3496
11327
11049
10219- 10306
1689
1-20
1-13
9.6x9.3 +
1-11
8.4x6.8 +
10.5x7 +
1-8
6.4x4.7 +
1-3
7.2x6.5 +
7.5x7 +
16x9.5 +
3-10
6-14
14-21
1-8
COMMENTARY
Ex. 1 has been used as the master text since it is the
only ex. completely preserved. It contains several scribal errors, however, which have been corrected in the
master text on the basis of ex. 2.
Exs. 5 and 6 are a problem since they both have the
excavation no. Ass 10583 but clearly are two different
exs., since they partially overlap. A photo of ex. 5 with
the no. Ass 10583 was published by Andrae,
Festungswerke. A copy of ex. 6, also with the no. Ass
10583 (VA Ass 2055), was published by L. Jakob-Rost.

We have been unable to locate ex. 5 but could collate it
from the published photo. Ex. 5 varies somewhat in
that it seems to omit line 7, and possibly (in error) line
8. It also has a var. in line 6 which does not appear in
any other ex.
Regarding the eponym in line 21 see Weidner, A f O
13 (1939-41) p. 123 n. 32.
138
Aur-dn II A.0.98.2
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1906 Andrae, MDOG 32 pp. 15, 18-19, and 24 (exs. 1-3, 5, 7,

12, provenance)
1913 Andrae, Festungswerke pp. 10 and 36 (exs. 1, 3-5, 9,
provenance), 166 (ex. 1, copy, edition), and pi. xcv (exs.
1, 3-5, 9, 12, photo)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 349 and 351-53 (ex. 1, translation)
1967
1973
1976
1982
Borger, HKL 1 p. 7 (ex. 12, study)

Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 1-2 (exs. 1-5, 7, 9, 12, study)
Grayson, ARI 2 xcvin 2 (exs. 1-5, 7, 9, 12, translation)
Rost, FuB 22 nos. 29-34 (exs. 1-2, 4-6, 10-11, copy,
study)
1984 Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA nos. 121-24 (exs. 3, 7, 9,
12, study)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
a-ur-KAL-an MAN dan-nu MAN KIS MAN

KUR a-ur
DUMU GIS. tukul-ti-A--r-ra MAN dan-nu MAN
KI MAN KUR a-ur
DUMU a-ur-sAG-i-i MAN dan-nu MAN KIS
MAN KUR a-ur
DUMU a-ur-GAL MAN dan-nu MAN KIS MAN
KUR a-ur-ma
1-4) Aur-dn, strong king, king of the universe,

king of Assyria, son of Tiglath-pileser (n), strong
king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, son of
Aur-ra-ii (II), strong king, king of the
universe, king of Assyria, son of Aur-rabi (II)
(who was) also strong king, king of the universe,
(and) king of Assyria:
5-14a) When this Craftsman's Gate which previously Tiglath-pileser (i), vice-regent of Assur,
son of Aur-ra-ii (i), vice-regent of Assur, son
of Mutakkil-Nusku (who was) also vice-regent of
Aur, a prince who preceded me, had made
(when) this gate became dilapidated, I removed its
weakened (portions), delineated its area, (and)
dug out its foundation pit. I rebuilt (and) completed it from top to bottom. I decorated it better
than before. Then I made capitals (and) ... (and)
decorated the top of the gate of my city (with
them).
5)
e-nu-ma
6)
a i-na pa-an
ur
7)
DUMU a-ur-SAG-i-i ID a-ur DUMU mu-
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
K.GAL TIBIRA u-a-tu

m
Gi. tukul-ti-A--r-ra SID a-
tk-kil-nusku ID a-u[r-ma]
NUN-W a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-u K.GAL u-a-tu
e-na-hu-ma an-hu-su -n-kin
a-r-a -me-si dan-na-sa ak-u-da
i-u u-e-a a-di gaba-dib-bi-a ar-sip
-k-lil UGU mah-ri-te -si-me i-na u4-meu-ma
DUG qu-ma-a-tu DUG sa-ak-ki e-pu-u i-na
SAG K.GAL URU-?
14) -si-me a-na

15)
16)
EGIR
u4-me a-na u4-um sa-a-tu
e-nu-ma K.GAL TIBIRA -al-ba-ru-ma

e-na-hu NUN-W EGIR-W an-hu-sa
17) lu-ud-di MU at-ra a-na -ri-u lu-te-er

d
18) a-ur d iKUR 30 D UTU i-tar DINGIR.MES

G AL-TE
14b-19) In future days, in days to come, when the

Craftsman's Gate becomes old and dilapidated,
may a later prince restore its weakened (portions
and) return my inscribed name to its place. (Then)
the gods Assur, Adad, Sn, ama, (and) Istar,
the great gods, will listen to his prayers.
19) ik-ri-bi-u i-e-mu-

20) ITI. DU6 UD 1.KM ii-mu
21) mub-ru-tu DUMU na-zi-muru-t
20-21) Month of Tiri, first day, eponymy of

Ubrutu, son of Nazi-Maruttas.
3.2 omits MAN dan-nu 'strong king'. 4.2 omits MAN dan-nu
MAN KIS 'strong king, king of the universe'. 6.5 for $a i-na
pa-an has [a ina] mah-ri-te x x [...]. 7-8.5 omits? See the
commentary. 10 a-r-Sa: R (not SAR) is clear in exs. 1-2. It
seems also to be in ex. 4 but the sign is broken. It is not
preserved in any other ex. 12.2 for UGU ... -si-me 'I
decorated it better than before' has UGU mah-ri-a -e-zi-z 'I

made it stand (firmer) than it had previously done'. 14.2 ti-simi for -s-me: thus my suggestion in Grayson, ARI 2 p. 78
n. 315 to read -se-ib is impossible. 18.2 has den-lfl and 18.3
has DBAD ( = denlif) before DIKUR. 18.2 (all other exs. broken)
omits di-tar.
139
Aur-dan II A.0.98.4
4
This text records the dedication of clay cones to the god Aur. The
clay cones, of which two fragments have been discovered, adorned the
great courtyard of the Aur temple at Aur. Curiously, the text begins with the king speaking in the third person (line 1) but later he
speaks in the first person (lines 6-7).
CATALOGUE
Museum
Ass
Ass ph
Ailur
Dimensions
Lines
Ex.
number
number
number
provenance
(cm)
preserved
cpn
A 3381
327
323
15 x 11 +
Mi
c~~
A 3442
6276 + 6311
SW court of ASsur temple,

hD3v
-
5.4x9+
2-6
COMMENTARY
The text is really attested on only one fragment, ex. 1.
The second fragment, ex. 2, is very tiny, and in RICCA
Donbaz and I listed it under 'Unidentified Fragments'.
However, it might be a duplicate of this text. The master text is based on ex. 1 with minor restorations from
ex. 2. A third fragment, Ass 19698, has been edited as
ex. 8 of A.0.98.3 since it is obviously a duplicate of

that text and not of A.0.98.4 as suggested by Weidner,
AfO 3 (1939-41) p. 151 n. 2. Cf. Schramm, EAK 2,
and Grayson, ARI 2, who followed Wcidner's suggestion.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcvui 3 (ex. 1, translation)
1984 Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA nos. 125 (ex. 1, study) and
280 (ex. 2, copy)

1911 Messerschmidt, KAH 1 no. 20 (ex. 1, copy)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 349 and 354 (ex. 1, translation)
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 p. 2 (ex. 1, study)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
a-na a-ur a-bu DINGIR.MES GAL-TE ÊN^-

a-ur-KAL-an GAR-an DBAD ID a-ur
m
DUMU [ G]iJukul-ti-iBLA--r-ra GARân^
D
BAD ID a-ur
TDUMU a-ur-SAG-i-i GAR-an DB[AD] ID
a-ur
[mar aur-G]AL GAR-W BAD ID a-ur-[ma]
md
[ana balt napta] GD UD.ME-R/A(?)N

[umd antia] TSILIM"! [zr]-f/a^
[() mtia (...)] DINGIR X [...]
Lacuna
6)
7)
8)
1-5) To the god Aur, father of the great gods,

his lord: Aur-dn, appointee of the god Enlil,
vice-regent of the god Assur, son of Tiglathpileser (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent
of Aur, son of Aur-ra-ii (II), appointee of
the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aur, [son
of Aur-ra]bi (II) [(who was) also] appointee of
the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of the god Aur:
6-8) [I dedicated (this) for my life], that my days
might be long, [my years many], (for) the wellbeing of my seed [(and) land].
Lacuna
140
Aur-dn iI A.0.98.2
5
This text is inscribed on three bricks found in a row inside the city
wall right by the Craftsman's Gate at Aur (bB7i). Thus they formed
part of the reconstruction of that gate, which is narrated in A.0.98.3.
In addition, a fragmentary clay cone from Aur preserves the beginnings of four lines of a text which duplicate this text.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
cpn
1
2
3
4
VA Ass 4299b
Unlocated
VA Ass 4299a
A 3475
10346
10347
10348
9891
1686
1686
1687
1418
c~~
p
c
c
COMMENTARY
The clay cone fragment, ex. 4, is an exact duplicate except for the omission of
-II in line 1: TXGAL ma[-ur-...].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1926 Weidner, AfO 3 p. 151 n. 1 (ex. 4, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcvin 4 (exs. 1-4, translation)
1984 Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA no. 126 (ex. 4, copy, edition)
1984 Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1 nos. 268-69 (exs. 1, 3,
study)
1906 Andrae, MDOG 32 pp. 19-20 (exs. 1-3, provenance, edition)

1913 Andrae, Festungswerke p. 30 (exs. 1-3, provenance, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
.GAL-Z ma-ur-KAL-an
1-4) (Property of) the palace of Aur-dn, strong

Tiglath-pileser (II), strong king, king of the
universe, king of Assyria, son of Aur-raii (II), strong king, king of the universe, king of
Assyria, son of Aur-rabi (II) (who was) also
strong king, king of the universe (and) king of
Assyria.
MAN dan-nu MAN KI
MAN KUR a-ur

DUMU GI. tukul-ti-iBiLA--r-ra MAN dan-nu
MAN KI MAN KUR U-Ur
DUMU a-ur-sAG-i-i MAN dan-nu MAN KI
MAN KUR a-ur
DUMU a-ur-GAL MAN dan-nu MAN KIS MAN
KUR a-ur-ma
6
This text is on a clay cone found at Kalzu (modern Qasr Shemamok).
141 Aur-dn II A.0.98.2

COMMENTARY
The object has not been located.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1933 Furlani, Rendiconti della R. Accademia Nazionale dei
Lincei, Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche Ser.
6 Vol. 9 pp. 685-90 (photo, copy, edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcvin 5 (translation)
TEXT
1)
a-ur(1)-KA0-an LUGAL GAL- L U dan-nu LUGAL KIS LUGAL KUR a-ur

m
DUMU Gi. tukul-ti-iBiLA--r-ra LUGAL KI
LUGAL KUR a-ur-ma
T.GAL(?)
GAL
2)
1 - 2 ) (Property o f ) the palace of Aur-dn, great

king, strong king, king of the universe, king of
Assyria, son of Tiglath-pileser (N) (who was) also
king of the universe (and) king of Assyria.
1001
This fragmentary text, on a piece of clay cone found at Aur, could
be a duplicate of A.0.98.4 except that the lengths of the lines would
not match.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (A 3439, Ass 5998) has only the beginnings of two lines preserved. It can hardly be a duplicate of A.0.98.4, for the first line (missing) would be
far too short (ana aur abu) before DINGIR.MES GAL.MES
in line 1'. Line Y would, in turn, have to be inordinately long to include the names and titles of Aurdn's two predecessors.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
Lacuna
1')
DINGIR.ME GAL.ME [ . . . ]
2')
DUMU
Lacuna(?)
a-ur-SAG-i-[...]
Adad-narari ii
A.0.99
Adad-nrr n (911-891 BC) capitalized upon Aur-dn ii's reassertion of Assyrian might and launched campaigns in almost every one of
his twenty-one years on the throne (for a history of the reign see
Grayson, CAH 3/1 pp. 249-51). He had three major regions as targets
for these military expeditions, the western territories held by the
Aramaeans, the north which included Habhu and the Nairi lands, and
Babylonia. He was so successful in these endeavours that he was able
eventually to march through one area, part of the Jezireh, and collect
tribute without any signs of resistance, a 'show of strength' campaign
(see A.0.99.2 lines 105-119). He also established supply depots for future campaigns, thus sowing the seed of the later provincial administrative system.
The annalistic texts range in date from 909 BC (A.0.99.1) to 893 BC
(A.0.99.2-5) and come from Assur or Nineveh. Two annals fragments
(Schroeder, KAH 2 nos. 87-88) sometimes associated with this king
have been edited as A.0.101.21-22. Two fragmentary texts which may
come from this reign, but do not seem to be royal inscriptions and
therefore are not edited here, give some details relevant to historical
geography (see Grayson, ARI 2 pp. 94-95 449-54). Adad-nrr ii's
clashes with Babylonia are narrated both in the annals and in chronicles (Grayson, Chronicles pp. 166-67 iii 1-21 and p. 181 rev. 2). He is
included in king lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135) and the sequence of the eponymies for his reign can be reconstructed from eponym lists (see Grayson, ARI 2 pp. 95-96 455).
As to Adad-nrr ii's building operations, it is known that he did
work at Assur (A.0.99.1-4 and 6), Nineveh (A.0.99.4-5 and 7),
Apqu-a-Adad (Tell Abu Marya) (A.0.99.2), and ibaniba (Tell Billa)
(A.0.99.8). Few details about work at each of these sites have been
preserved but it is attested that at Aur he reconstructed the Gula
temple (A.0.99.2) and the quay wall (A.0.99.1).
1
This text, preserved on two clay tablet fragments from Aur, is the
earliest known edition of the annals of Adad-nrr II. It is dated to
the eponymy of eî-Aur (909 BC), the third regnal year. Only parts
of the campaign narratives are extant but the building section is fully
preserved. It concerns the quay wall at the entrance to the city under
the Assur temple.
142
Adad-narari n A.0.99.1
143
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Assur
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
VAT 9640
44891
459, 564, 567
19 x 1 4 ^
Obv. 1-20, 1'

Rev. l'-21J
VAT 9637 + 9641
3023 + 4489rH
4565a
564, 567
Gate room in NW wall of

great courtyard of Aur temple,
hD3v; Pedersn, Aur temple
library and archive, N1
West part of great courtyard
of Aur temple, hD4i;
Pedersn, Aur temple
library and archive N1
19.8 x 17.4 -f-
Obv. 1-16
Rev. 6-21'
cpn
COMMENTARY
The master text is ex. 1 with a few minor restorations
from ex. 2. The paragraph division (horizontal line)
between obv. 9-10 does not appear in ex. 2, and this is

more usual.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1905
1905
1906
1911
1913
Andrae, MDOG 26 p. 59 (ex. 1, provenance)

Andrae, MDOG 27 p. 9 (exs. 1-2, study)
Delitzsch, MDOG 32 p. 20 note (ex. 1, study)
Messerschmidt, KAH 1 no. 24 (ex. 2, copy of Ass 3023)
Andrae, Festungswerke p. 167 no. 9 and pi. xevi (ex. 1,
photo, edition)
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 83 (ex. 1, copy)
1925 Baumgartner, ZA 36 p. 129 n. 3 (ex. 1, study)

1935 Seidmann, MAOG 9/3 pp. 36-41 (exs. 1-2, edition)
1967 Salvini, Nairi pp. 83-84 (obv. 6-8, edition)
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 6-7 (exs. 1-2, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcix 1 (exs. 1-2, translation)
1986 Pedersn, Archives 2 pp. 20 no. 14 and 23 no. 69 (exs.
1-2, provenance)
TEXT
Obverse
1)
2)
3)
MD
IKUR-RIN. TAH LUGAL GAL-TT LUGAL DAN-HU
MAN KI MAN KUR Ct-Ur

MAN kl-lat kib-rat 4-i bi-bil lib-bi a-ur
NUN- na-a-du sa i-na GIi.tukul-ti a-ur u
D
MA DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
4)
EN.ME-5W it-tal-la-ku-ma -am-qi-tu ge-ri-u
5)
DUMU a-ur-KAL-an LUGAL

sur
6)
DUMU GIS. tukul-ti-BLA--sr-ra
KI MAN KUR
as-
LUGAL KI
MAN KUR a-ur

7)
DUMU a-Ur-SAG-i'Si
LUGAL KI MAN KUR a-
1-4) Adad-nrr, great king, strong king, king of

the universe, king of Assyria, king of all the four
quarters, select of Aur, attentive prince, who
acts with the support of Aur and the god
Ninurta, the great gods, his lords, and (thereby)
has felled his foes;
5-7) son of Aur-dan (II), king of the universe,
king of Assyria, son of Tiglath-pileser (n), king of
the universe, king of Assyria, son of Aur-raii (II) (who was) also king of the universe (and)
king of Assyria:
ur-ma
8)
9)
Una ur-rat LUGAL-ti-ia i-na mah-re-e BALA-Z

sa i-na GI.GU.ZA LUGAL-// ra-bi-i -i-bu
10) i-na q-bii a-ur EN GALEN-ia GIS.GIGIR.MES

RIN,HI,a,ME-ia ad-ki
11) a-na KUR qu-ma-n-e lu DU-ik DAGAL.ME
KUR qu-ma-n-e lu ak-ud
12) mi-lu-ia MAN KUR qu-ma-n-e Una qa-bal
.GAL-U
8-9) In my accession year (and) in my first regnal

year, after I nobly ascended the royal throne,
10-19) by the command of Aur, the great lord,
my lord, I mustered my chariotry (and) troops. I
marched to the land of the Qumnu (and) conquered the land of the extensive Qumnu. I captured Iluia, king of the Qumnu, within his
palace. I slaughtered his brothers in heaps. I
144
A d a d - n a r r n A.0.99.1
13) qa-a-ti lu k-u-su e.me-sw a-na gu-ru-ni lu

sg-as
14) GAZ.ME-u-nu ma-â-tu gaz-ak al-la-su-nu
NG.U.ME s-u-nu
15) NG.GA.ME-SW-WW GU4.MES-U-nU UDU Sni.ME$-u-nu
16) a-na uru-/ a-ur ub-la dingir.mes-/?/-sw-/2W
ki-i qi-[u)-te
17) a-na a-ur en-ia ng.ba si-ta-at
RN.m.A.MvI-û^-nu [a itu]
18) pa-an gis.tukul.ME-/a ip-pr-[i-du-ni]
19) i-tu-r[u-n)i u-ub-tu n-e[h-tu uibunu]
20) x x [...] x [ . . . ]
Lacuna
1') Ul
xmp0)hal..]
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
V)
X [... D].IDIGNA [ . . . ]
20
40 u r u . [ m e s . . . ] x re-e
3;)
40
50
60
70
3 uru.me-^fti-u-n^ [a\t-tas-ha gaz.me-swn[u maâttu adk]

DiNGiR.ME-m-s-nu al-la-su-nu ng.u.meu-nu ng.g[a.me-u-nu]
gu4.mes-u-nu u d u se-ni.UES-U-UU -e-sa-a
a-na uru-i[a aur bla]
i-na ITI.GAN UD 4.KM a-na KUR hab-hi lu
DU-ik
KUR ba-a-za KUR sa-ar-ba-li-a KUR di-du-a-la
a-di
80
90
[...]
URU.ME-M
-di D ru--ru a KUR me-eh-ri ak-ud

al-la-su-nu NG.U.ME-SM-AW u-e-sa-a a-na
URU-/ a-ur ub-la
10') e-nu-ma ki-sir-tu sa si-pi URU ap-la a-ur

110 a mdiKUR-RIN. TH ID a-ur DUMU GD-deen-DINGIR JD a-ur NUN-W
120 o-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-u e-na-ah-ma i-â-bit
130 an-hu-su ud-di dan-na-sa -me-si i-tu us-sisu
140 a-di gaba-dib-bi-u ar-sip -k-lil UGU mahre-e
150 -si-im NA4.NA.R.A.ME-/0 al-tu-ur i-na qerbi-û^
160 -kun NUN-W EGR- an-hu-sa
lu-ud-di
obv. 16-17 Cf. A.0.98.1 line 58; Weidner, AfO 3 p. 158

n. 11; and CAD 13 (Q) p. 158 sub qu 1d3'. obv. 17-18 For
the restorations see A.0.98.1 line 28. obv. 20 Schramm, BiOr
27 (1970) p. 158 (note to line 20), suggests rL.GAiX[ME-a ...]
on analogy with A.0.100.5 line 20 and A.0.101.1 i 83.
inflicted upon them a major defeat (and) brought

their booty, possessions, property, herds (and)
flocks to my city Aur. I gave their gods as gifts
to Assur, my lord. The remainder of their troops
[which] had fled from my weapons (but then) returned [I settled] in peaceful dwellings.
Lacuna
10 [the city A]rrapha

Lacuna
rev. 1 - 5 ) Tigris [...] forty cities [...] three of their
cities I uprooted. [I inflicted] upon them a [major]
defeat. I brought forth their gods, booty, possessions, property, herds (and) flocks (and) [brought
(them)] to my city [Assur].
rev. 6'-90 In the month Marchesvan, the fourth

day, I marched to the land Habhu. I conquered
the lands Bzu, Sarbaliu, (and) Didualu together
with the cities on the banks of the River Rru of
the land Mehru. I brought forth their booty (and)
possessions (and) brought (them) to my city
Assur.
rev. 10-16'a) At that time the facing (of the quay
wall) at the entrance to the city, which is below
the temple of Assur, which Adad-nrr (i), viceregent of Aur, son of Arik-dn-i1i, vice-regent of
Assur, the prince who preceded me, had built
(this quay wall) had become dilapidated and fallen in. I restored its weakened portions. I delineated its foundation. I rebuilt (and) completed it
from top to bottom. 1 made (it) more ornate than
before. I inscribed my monumental inscriptions
(and) deposited (them) therein,
rev. 16'b-180 May a later prince restore its
obv. lr Seidmann suggests reading Arrapha.

rev. 7.2 w 4 (suD)-[tf]-//-ff. rev. 9'.2 omits, in error, us 'I
brought forth' and adds Gi me-eh-rrP-[]-nu ak-ki-is --a
'I cut down (and) carried off their mehru-tvees'.
Adad-nrr II A.0.99.1
17') u-m at-ra a-na -ri-u lu-ter a-ur EN
GAL-
18') ik-ri-bi-u i-seio-me
19') ITI.GAN UD 6.KM
20')
URU
weakened portions (and) return my inscribed

name to its place. (Then) Aur, the great lord,
will listen to his prayers.
li-mu me-')i-a-ur -kn
KUR URU kI-zi

m
gab-bi-ia-a-na-a-ur
-kn
145
rev. 19') Month of Kislev, sixth day, eponymy of

e>i-Aur, governor of the land of the city Kalzi.
rev. 20'-21') Gabbiia-ana-Aur, governor of the
land of Inner City (Assur), (and) Adad-aha-iddin,
mayor officials (in charge) of the facing (of the
quay wall).
KUR URU.-
10-PAP-A UGU URU
2T) Q-pu-tu ki-si-ir-te
2
This, the longest preserved version of Adad-nrr ii's annals, is
preserved on one virtually complete clay tablet from Aur. Three
small clay tablet fragments, also from Aur, duplicate parts of the
main exemplar and have been included in this edition although one of
them represents a different text (A.0.99.3). Another fragmentary annals version from Aur, A.0.99.4, is very similar to A.0.99.2
(A.0.99.4 obv. r-17'a / / A.0.99.2 lines 15-25). The inscription is
much later in date than A.0.99.1; the latter is dated to the third regnal
year (909 BC) while A.0.99.2 is dated to the nineteenth year (893 BC).
The text opens (lines 1-4) with an invocation of gods, similar to the
annals of Tiglath-pileser i (A.0.87.1) and the later annals of TukultNinurta n (A.0.100.1). Then comes the royal name and epithets (lines
5-22). The military narrative which follows begins with a brief summary, undated, of the earlier campaigns (lines 23-35) and this summary concludes with a succinct description of the rebuilding of the
city Apqu (lines 36-38).
This part of the text is, then, copied from a display inscription composed for Apqu. After this the narrative of military events begins in
earnest with a more detailed and dated description (lines 39-104) of
the later campaigns, years eleven to eighteen (901-894 BC). The military section concludes (lines 105-19) with a description of a new type
of campaign, a 'show of strength' expedition along the Middle
Euphrates and Habur Rivers. The Assyrian army encountered little or
no hostility marching through the territories and simply collected tribute. Similar expeditions would be undertaken by Tukultl-Ninurta n
(A.0.100.5 lines 41-127) and Ashurnasirpal ii (A.0.101.1 ii 91-96,
iii 1-25, iii 56-83 and A.0.101.19 lines 25-66).
After the military narrative there is a passage about the improvement of the land (lines 120-21) and a passage about hunting (lines
122-27), both of these attested in the annals of earlier kings (see the
introduction to A.0.87.1).
The building narrative (lines 128-30) concerns the restoration of the
Gula temple at Aur. It is said that Tukult-Ninurta i had done previous work on this temple and, although no such building inscription of
Tukultl-Ninurta i has yet been discovered, the statement is confirmed
rev. 18'.2 adds at end of line: MU i-pa-i-tu-ma M[U-SM i\-ta-ru MU -SU NUMUN-SU ina KUR [i]-R haP-li-qu 'He who
erases (my) name and writes [his] own name: may his name
(and) seed be destroyed from the land'.
Adad-nrr IIA.0.99.1146
146
by the close parallelism of the present text (lines 128-33) with texts of
the earlier king (e.g., RIMA 1 p. 247 lines 27-42). The annals conclude with blessings, curses, and the date (lines 131-34).
CATALOGUE
Ex,
Museum
number
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
Aur
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
VAT 8288
18497
5657-58
31.5x28.5 +
1-134
VAT 9632
VAT 11318
1017
4533t
East of Prothyse, iD4v; Pedersn Assur temple archive and library, N1

As ex. 1; iD5i
NW facade of courtyard of Aur
temple, hD3v; Pedersn - Aur
temple archive and library, N1
14.2x9.5 +
9.2x7.3 +
1-15, 131-33
3-21
8.8x5.2 +
61-71
VAT 11316
COMMENTARY
The master text is ex. 1, the only relatively complete
clay tablet inscription. Occasional restorations have
been made from other exs. and the interested reader
can check the scores for details. Ex. 1 is very worn and
extremely difficult to read in some places. In such instances, if the traces resemble what is clearly present in
ex, 2, then ex. 1 has been transliterated to match but in
half brackets. Schroeder's copy boldly shows much that
is not clear and what he puts in shading is frequently
not visible at all on the tablet; in these cases the passage has been placed in square brackets.
Exs. 2 - 4 are only small fragments. Ex. 2 actually
represents a text distinct from ex. 1 and is listed as
A,0.99.3 in this edition. The beginning of the obv. of
ex. 2 is a duplicate of ex. 1 lines 1-15. The rev. of ex. 2
has just the broken ends of several lines and the last
part is a duplicate of the concluding formulae in ex. 1,
lines 131-33. But the traces of several lines on the rev.
of ex. 2 before that final part do not match ex. 1, thus
showing it had a different text for the building passage.
Indeed, it may have described work on a different
building. This portion is edited as A.0.99.3.
The other fragmentary exs., 3 and 4, are duplicates
of ex. 1 insofar as they are preserved but of course they
too could represent different texts or a text identical

with ex. 2.
Word dividers appear a number of times in ex. 1:
lines 16, 20, 23, 27, 33-34, and 38. A word divider appears once in ex. 3: line 17. These are noted in the
scores as
The text has a number of grammatical curiosities and
more than one scribal error. The scribal errors have
been pointed out in the notes to the lines, as have some
of the grammatical anomalies. One passage, the early
campaign summary (lines 23-35), is particularly
noteworthy in this regard. Here there is use of the
infinitive as a finite verb (lines 33, 35, and possibly 28
-ak-ni for akni), a phenomenon which is known
(see Lambert, BWL pp. 316-17 and Aro, Infinitiv p.
73) but rare. Moreover, the main verb seems to have
been omitted at the end of the passage (line 35). Yet
another curiosity is the change from first to third person (line 30) and then back to first person (line 32).
There are many signs, then, that the scribe who
prepared this condensed version of the campaigns was
not too skillful, or, as is more likely, he was working in
haste and had no time to polish his composition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1926-27 Luckenbill, AJSL 43 pp. 222-25 (exs. 1-4, translation)
1935 Seidmann, MAOG 9/3 pp. 5-35 (exs. 1-4, edition)
1957 Kpper, Nomades pp. 120-21 (exs. 1-4, study)
1967 Salvini, Nairi pp. 27, 33, and 84 (lines 23-25, 30, 91-96,
edition)
1973
1974
1975
1976
1978
1985
1986
Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 3-6 (exs. 1-4, study)

Postgate, JESHO 17 pp. 233-36 (exs. 1-4, study)
Grayson, Chronicles p. 205 (lines 26-29, edition)
Grayson, ARI 2 xcix 2 (exs. 1-4, translation)
Rllig, Orientalia NS 47 p. 422 (lines 111-15, edition)
Russell, Iraq 47 p. 66 (lines 100-102, edition)
Pedersn, Archives 2 pp. 19 no. 3, 24 no. 84, and 27 no.
146 (exs. 1-3, provenance)
147
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
[...] (traces) DINGIR (x) [...] x EN nam-ri-ri

[ama daiin] TAN(?)-^(?) W(?) KI(?)~I-/> muma-ê-er gim-ri IÂMAR.UTU apikal
DINGIR. "MET EN Rt^-re-te i~ nin^-[urta

qarrd]
D NUN^. GAL, MES u a-nun-na-ki du.GUR gtma-lu MAN tam-ha-ri nusku na-i GIS.GIDRU
Kij-te DINGIR mui-[ta-lu]
4)
NIN.I LL hi-ir-ti DBAD"I AMA DINGIR.MES

GAL.MES di$-tr SAG-R/FI AN-e v KI -te sa
pa-ra-as qar-du-ti uk-Iu-la

5)
6)
1)
[DI]NGIR.TME GAL.MES-! ga-me-ru-ut ES.BAR

mU-m-mU DNAM.ME M10-RIN.TH NUN M-
a-du ki-ni ib-nu-ni [...]

^nab-ni-te a-na nab-ni-ti EN-// u-te-en$-nu-
i-^kn bu-na-nD-ia i-e-ri -k-U-tu-ma
zu-mur EN-ti-ia i-pu-uk ^ta^-i-im-^ta^ EGIR
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES --mU-ma
8)
GIS.GIDRU
mu[r-teâ-at]
TUN.MES"! a-^nd qa-ti-ia u-me-el-u- UGU
MAN.ME-/2/ û^-ut a-ge-e i-u--ni me-lamme MAN-//
9)
10)
11)
i-pi-ru-ni siq-ri ur-ba-a UGU nap-^har(1)

EN. MES D--te-ru u-mu kab-ta
M
10-RIN.TH MAN KUR A b-bu-t MAN daiiRnu MAN KUR AS-! MAN kib-rat 4-i am-u
ki-at UN.MES a-na-ku
I DUMU I ma-ur-KAL-an GAR JBAD ID a-ur
kl-at za-e-ri-u i-n-ru-ma DUMU
m
oiSKiM-A--r-ra M [AN mt aur]

12) iit-tu el-lu-tu a ma-ur-SAG-i-i MAN da-pi-nu
mu-di-i tar-g4-gi
13)
ina UD.MEl-u-ma ina pi-i DINGIR.MES
*~hf\-sa-a a-na M-la-la

NG.GA.ME KUR.KUR.MES MU b-bu-
14) ar-ra-ku be-la-ku ge-^ra-ku kab-ta-ku nada-ku ur-ru-ha-ku dan-na-ku dan-dan-naku -ta-ku
15) na-mur-ra-ku ur-ba-ku ûr-a^-na-^ku
qar-ra(1)-da(1)-ku(1) lab-ba^-ku zi-ka-ra-ku
a--re-da-ku si-ra-^ku~i it-mu-ra-ku
GAL.MES MAN-LI EN-//
1 EN nam-ri-ri, preserved only in ex. 2: cf. A.0.100.1 line 5

and Michel, WO 2 (1954-59) p. 28 line 7. 2 For the restoration of the beginning of the line see the note to A.0.100.1
line 7. 2 Regarding the titles of Marduk, see the note to
A.0.100.1 line 8. 2 For the restoration of the end of the line
see A.0.100.1 line 9. 3.1 The traces at the beginning of the
line are very faint and it is not clear that they match ex. 2,
which is used as the master text here. 3 For the restoration of
1-4) [God Assur,

god Enlil, ...]; god [Sn,
king of the lunar disk], lord of brilliance; [god
ama, judge of] heaven and underworld, commander of all; god Marduk, sage of the gods,
lord of oracles; god Nin[urta, warrior of] the
Igigu and Anunnaku gods; god Nergal, perfect
one, king of battle; god Nusku, bearer of the holy
sceptre, circumspect god; goddess Ninlil, spouse
of the god Enlil, mother of the great gods; goddess Istar, foremost in heaven and underworld,
who is consummate in the canons of combat;
5-10) Great gods, who take firm decisions, who
decree destinies; they properly created me, Adadnrr, attentive prince, [...], they altered my stature to lordly stature, they rightly made perfect
my features and filled my lordly body with wisdom. After the great gods had decreed (my destiny, after) they had entrusted to me the sceptre
for the shepherding of the people, (after) they had
raised me above crowned kings (and) placed on
my head the royal splendour; they made my almighty name greater than (that of) all lords, the
important name Adad-nrr, king of Assyria,
they called me. Strong king, king of Assyria, king
of the four quarters, sun(god) of all people, I;
11-12) son of Aur-dn (n), appointee of the god

Enlil, vice-regent of Aur, who defeated all his
enemies, son of Tiglath-pileser (II), king of
[Assyria], holy offspring of Aur-ra-ii (n),
martial sovereign, trampler of criminals;
13-15) at that time, by the edict of the great gods,
my sovereignty (and) dominion were decreed
(and) they named me to plunder the possessions
of the lands. I am king, I am lord, I am powerful, I am important, I am praiseworthy, I am
magnificent, I am strong, I am mighty, I am
fierce, I am enormously radiant, I am a hero, I
am a warrior, I am a virile lion, I am foremost, I
am exalted, I am raging;
the end of the line see the note to A.0.100.1 line 1 1 . 4 For the
beginning of the line see A.0.100.1 line 12. 4 SAG-I7P: see the
note to A.0.100.1 line 13. 7 For the restoration at the end of
the line see A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 i 45. 1 1 . 2
DUMU DUMU
GISKIM-A-E-
r-fra^ 'grandson of Tiglath-pileser (n)\ 12.1 Although there

is a break in this ex. after targig with a space for about three
signs, this must have been blank. 15 For the middle of the
line see A.0.101.1 i 32-33. After srku there are illegible
148
16)
[M]DIKUR-RIN.TH MAN dli-nU MAN KUR
a-ur MAN kib-rat 4-i mu-n-er a-ia-bi-u

ana-ku MAN ieû- MURUB4 sa-pi-in
URU.UR[U]
17)
mu-ah-me-t
KUR.MES a KUR.KUR.MES ana-
ku zi-ka-ru qar-du mu-la-it f -tu -te- hiit-mut rag-gi se-ni ana- ku i

18) [k]i-^ma^ ^GI.BAR a-ha-mat GIM a-bu-be asa-pan x x x x x (x)-â^-te ^mu-n-ha ul iu
16-18) Adad-nrr, strong king, king of Assyria,

king of the four quarters, the one who defeats his
enemies, , the king capable in battle, overwhelmer of cities, the one who scorches the mountains
of (foreign) lands, I, the virile warrior, the one
who controls those opposed to him, who is
inflamed against the evil and wicked, I, I scorch
like the god Girru (fire god), I overwhelm like the
deluge, [...], I have no successful opponent;
19) [k\-ma u-bu-ri da-pi-^na-ku^ GIM GR alba-be -ra-sa-pa ^se^-en-ni ^Qiu-ma^ ti-ib
-â^-ri ez-zi-q
20) [ki]-ma ari-hu-l it-^mu^-ra-^ku^ GIM X X X
xxx pa-a-~rD -na-sah
21) [ki-m]a u-u-kal-li a-sa-hap GIM hu-ha-ri '~akt-tanO a-^na^ za-^kr u^-m-a dan-ni
mal-ki kib-rat 4-tim
22) [ki-m]a GI me-he-e -u-bu a-na sa-bat ger-riia I~GI.TUKUL^-u-nu ^ki-ma ki-i(*)-kP-te-e
-su-du
19-22) I am belligerent like ..., I strike the wicked

like the fierce dagger, I constantly blow like the
onslaught of the wind, I rage like the gale, I
uproot (people) like [hair] of the skin, I overpower like the net, I enclose like the trap, at the
mention of my strong name the princes of the
four quarters sway like reeds in a storm, at the
onset of my campaign their weapons melt as
though in a furnace;
23) et-lu qar-du a ina i~GI.tukuD-t da-ur

EN-u i-tu ê-ber-ta-an D za-be û-pa^-i-i
i-di KUR iu-lu-m-fP
24) KUR hab-hi KUR za-mu-a a-di n-ri-bi KUR
nam-ri //-//-' ku-ma I KUR qu-ma-ni- i '
DAGAL-/f a-d KUR m-eh-ri
25) KUR sa-lu-a KUR -rat-ri a-na R"GR.II.ME"1 -k-ni-u
23-25) valiant man who marched with the support

of the god Aur, his lord, from the other side of
the Lower Zab, the district of the Lullumu, the
lands Habhu (and) Zamua, as far as the passes of
the land Namru and subdued the extensive land
of the Qumnu as far as the lands Mehru, Salua,
and Uratru,
26) KUR kat-mu-hi a-na pat gim-ri- i-pe-lu-ma

a-na mi-sir K\jR-ti-u -te-ru ka-id KUR kardu-ni- ana pat gim-ri- db-da-^^ [sa]
27) m-ma-mu-siG5 MAN KUR kar-du-ni-(*)
i-tu KUR a-al-man a-di D tr-an is-ku-nu
i-tu URU la-h-r
28) a-di A.GR.URU-sa-lum a-na mi-sir KUR a-ur
-ak-ni KUR URU de-e-ri a-na pat gim-ri-
ak-ud
29) URU ar-rap-hi URU lu-ub-da bi-ra-a-te.MES
KUR kar-du-ni-d a-na mi-sir KUR a-ur rtef
26-29) (who) became lord over the entire land

Katmuhu and brought (it) into the boundaries of
his land; conqueror of the entire land Kardunias;
who brought about the defeat of amamudammiq, king of Kardunias, from Mount Ialman to the River Turan (Diyala?); (the region)
from the city Lahiru to Ugar-sallu was added to
the boundaries of Assyria; I conquered the entire
land of the city Der; I brought back the cities Arrapha (and) Lubdu, fortresses of Kardunias, into
the boundaries of Assyria;
30) 4-te- a-na KUR.KUR na-i-ri il-U-ku-ma

KUR hab-hi a be-ta-ni URU na-hu-(ur(7))
30-33) (who) yet a fourth time marched to the

lands Nairi and conquered the interior of the land
traces in ex. 1 but ex. 3 clearly has i-mu-ra-ku. 18 munehha:

see the note to A.0.87.1 iv 47. 19 u-bu-ri: meaning unknown.
u is more likely than ku (cf. Seidmann). 19.1 rciM-/m?i: the
reading is clear. 22 rki-i(*ykP~te-e: for the reading see CAD
8 (K) p. 454a. For -is- the text has -TI-. 27.1 There is no MES
after m tr-an and this, 1 think, lends support to Postgate's
suggestion in Sumer 40 (1984) p. 156 to regard this as the

River Turnat = Diyala. 29 u-ter. see Brinkman, PKB p. 178
n. 1096 (p. 179). 30.1 URU na-hu-{ur{l)) URU -Tna-ku{)*\\
cf. Borger, ZA 62 (1972) p. 136 (to 'S.4T). But Kessler,
Nordmesopotamien pp. 223-24 is sceptical of this emendation.
URU -^na-ku(ip qa-a-su ik-u-du
31) KUR.MES-/?/ dan-nu-tu.MES it-ta-ta-bal-ki-tu
URU.ME-// KUR na-at-bi ik-u-ud KUR
al-zi
32) a-na si-hr-ti- GIM DU6 a-bu-be ds-hu-pu lit.MES--nu as-bat GUN ta-mar-ta UGU-Wnu -^kn^
33)
BAD5.BAD5 RIN.ME EDIN KUR
ah-la-me-e
KUR ar-ma~a-ia.MES -ak-nu ma-da-tu a

KUR su-hi m a-ha-ri
149
Habhu, the cities Nahur (and) Anaku; indeed

(who) was constantly traversing the mighty mountains; (who) conquered the cities of the land
Natbu; indeed I (who) entirely destroyed the land
Alzu (so that it looked) like ruin hills (created by)
the deluge; I (who) took hostages from them
(and) imposed upon them tribute and tax; (I who)
brought about the defeat of the field troops of the
iiWm-Aramaeans; (I who) received the tribute
of the Suhu;
34) URU i-du URU zaq-qu bi-ra-a-te.ME M KUR
a-ur a-na mi-sir KUR-ti-u -e-t er^-ru

35) URU a-ri-nu URU tu-ur-hu URU za-du-ri ^kPst-tu sa KUR ub-re-e is-tu KUR a-ur na-sa-hi
34-35) (who) brought into the boundaries of his

land the cities idu (and) Zaqqu, fortresses of
Assyria; (who recaptured) the cities Arinu, Turhu,
(and) Zaduru, conquered regions which the land
ubr had torn away from Assyria:
36) URU ap-ku mah-ra-a s MAN.MEs-ni a-li-ku

pa-ni-ia e-pu-u e-na-ah-ma a-na DU6 kar-me
i-tu-ru URU u-a-^tu i
37) a-na e-u-ut-te ab-ni i-tu u-e-u a-di
gaba-dib-(bi)-u ar-sip -k-lil -si-im r-rih
38) UGU mah-re-e -ter .GAL be-lu-ti-ia u-tur-ta
i-na q-reb-u ar-sip
36-38) The ancient city Apqu, which kings who

preceded me had built, had become dilapidated
and turned into ruin hills. I rebuilt this city,
reconstructed it from top to bottom, completed
(it), decorated (it) in a splendid fashion, (and)
made it bigger than before. I constructed therein
my enormous lordly palace.
39) ina li-me MBD-KUR-dtf-5WR a-na KUR ha-nigal-bat DAGAL-te lu a-lik mnu-ur-iK\JR KUR
te-ma-na-a-a RIN.HI.A. TME^- îcD-ka-a
40) ina URUpa-û-zi GR KUR ka-ia-ri si-dir-ta
lu- ni-i-ku-nu it-ti a-ha-i lu- ni-im-da-hi-si
41) i-tu URU pa-û-zi a-di URU na-si-pi-na
BAD5.BAD5- -ku-nU GI.GIGIR.ME-SW maâ-tu.MES a-se->
39-41) In the eponymy of Dr-mti-Aur I

marched to the extensive land Hanigalbat. NrAdad, the Temannu, mustered his troops (and)
we drew up in battle formation at the city Pauza
at the foot of Mount Kasiiari. We fought with
one another; I brought about his defeat from the
city Pauza to the city Nasipinu (and) destroyed
his numerous chariots.
42) ina Ii-me MDINGIR-<?-(mu)-qa-a-ia 2-te- a^na^ KUR ha-ni-gal-bat r/w"i a-lik ina na-sipa-ni it-ti- lu am-da-hi-si
4 3 ) .ME qu-ra-di. MES- EDIN > lu ' as-ru-up ana* URU ia-ri-di /WT e-ru-ub E.KIN.TAR.ME
42-44)
K U R -
44) e-si-di URU sa-vra -ku a-na ra-ma-ni- ia lu I

am-nu
In the eponymy of I1-emqia I marched

a second time to the land Hanigalbat. I fought
with him at Nasipanu. I dyed the countryside red
with the blood of his warriors. I entered the city
Iaridu. I reaped the harvest of his land. 1 regarded the city Saraku as mine (and) heaped up
the barley and straw therein.
E.AM.ME ^ E.IN^.NU.ME ina lu
at-bu-ku
45) ina li-me mni-nu-a-ia 3-te- a-na KUR Vha^ni-gal-bat lu a-lik URU hu-zi-ri-na as-ba-at
46) BD a-na na-al-ban lu al-bi-u URU.ME-W
45-48) In the eponymy of Ninuiia I marched a

third time to the land Hanigalbat. I captured the
city Huzirina. I completely surrounded the wall.
33 Wtfmw-Aramaeans': see the note to A.0.87.1 iv 46.

35 rkn-t-tu: note ki-i-tu also appears in A.0.99.4 obv. 20'. I
first proposed this reading in ARI 2 p. 87 n. 353. Although the
value is otherwise attested only in OA (to which Borger has
drawn my attention in a private communication), I still believe
this is the best reading and interpretation. 35 This passage is
difficult and the main verb seems to have been omitted. The
use of the infinitive as a main verb, which is so common in
this text (see the commentary), does not satisfactorily solve the
problem. 46 a1-bi-u: see Reiner, AfO 23 (1970) pp. 89-91. As
I noted in ARI 2 p. 88 n. 358 this interpretation of the passage
means an awkward sequence of events, capture before
150
GR KUR ka-ia-ri mma-am-li KUR te-manna-a-a

41) is-ba-tu GR.N.ME-/A R/I is-bu-tu .GAL.ME a-na ra-ma-ni-ia
am-nu
48) irxa u4-me-u-ma pa-gu-ta GAL-tu pa-gu-ta
I~TUR-tu~i e-bu-ul-tu KUR T>vuu-a-di-ni ahi D pu-rat-te GAR-Rnu lu am-hur^
The (people of) the cities at the foot of Mount

Kasiiari, which Mamli the Temannu had captured, submitted to me. I regarded his palaces as
mine. At that time 1 received a large female monkey (and) a small female monkey, a shipment
from the land Blt-Adini which lies on the bank of
the Euphrates.
49) na Ii-me mlik-be-ru 4-te- a-na KUR ha-nigal-bat lu a-lik e-nu-ma mmu-qu-ru KUR teman-na-a-a
50) ma-mit DINGIR.MES GAL.ME e-tiq-ma a-na
MURUB4 ME ig-ra-ni a-na URU dan-nu-ti-
49-60) In the eponymy of Likberu I marched a

fourth time to the land Hanigalbat. At that time
Muquru, the Temannu, broke the oath of the
great gods and belligerently sought against me
war and battle. Trusting in his fortified city, his
strong bow, his extensive troops, and the
Aramaeans, he rebelled against me. I mustered
my chariotry (and) troops (and) marched to the
city
Gidara,
which
the
Aramaeans
call
Raqammatu (and) which the Aramaeans had
taken away by force after the time of Tiglathpileser, son of Aur-ra-ii, king of Assyria, a
prince who preceded me. In my cunning (55) I
placed redoubts around it (the city), (a tactic)
which had never been used by (lit. 'did not exist
among') the kings my fathers. (Although) he had
dug a moat around his city they took fright in the
face of my fierce weapons, my raging battle, (and)
my strong forces and I entered with force (and)
violence the city Raqammatu. That fellow I
brought down from his palace. I personally inspected his property, precious stone of the mountain, chariots, horses, his wives, his sons, his
daughters (all) his valuable booty. That fellow
together with his brothers I fastened in bronze
clasps (and) brought (them) to my city Aur.
(Thus) have I constantly established the victory
and strength of Aur, my lord, over the land
Hanigalbat.
GI.BAN-5W
51)
dan-ni-ti
KUR a-fl-me
it-ti-kil-ma it-ti-la ib-bal-kit GI.GIGIR.ME
RIN.HI.A.ME-W DAGAL.ME
RIN.HI. A. ME-/0
ad-ki
52) a-na URU gi-da-ra KUR a-ru-mu.ME URU

ra-qa-rna-tu i-qa-bi-u--ni TA MGISKIM-A-r-ra
53) DUMU a-ur-SAG-i-i MAN KUR a-ur NUN a-
54)
55)
56)
57)
58)
lik pa-ni-ia KUR a-ru-rnu ina da-na-ni e-kirnu-ni

a-lik ina hi-sa-a lb-bi-ia ina MAN.MES-/
AD.ME$-ia la ba-u- URU.ME-ni bat-tu-batte-
ad-di URU-SW a-na na-al-ban hi-ri-sa lu ih-rusu-us i-tu pa-an GI.TUKUL.ME-T ez-zu-te
M-/A it-rnu-ri Lurn4a dan-na-te.ME ip-lahu-rna
ina -pi-si da-na-ni a-na URU ra-darn-rna-te
e-ru-ub a-na u-a-u na MURUB4 .GAL-W e-ri-su
NG.GA-5W NA 4 KUR-/ U-qU-rU
GI.GIGIR.ME
ANE.KUR.RA.ME DAM.ME-5W DUMU.ME-5W

DUMU. MUNUS. ME-5/ al-l-SU
DUGUD-/
59) a-na pa-ni-ia lu e-ur a-na u-a-u a-di

E.ME-5W ina bi-ri-te ZABAR lu-ra-pi-iq--nu
60) a-na URU-/A a-ur ub-la li-i-ta u da-na-na
a-ur EN-ia UGU KUR ha-ni-gal-bat al-tk-kan
61)
ina li-rne M 10-PAP-A -kn URU.-URU 5-te a-na KUR ha-ni-gal-bat ^lu^ a-lik rna-da-tu
KUR. KUR.ME lu am-hur
62)
ina l-me
MD
x x x
IKUR-KAL-FLW ina
u-u-mur
GI. TUKUL. Mv-ia dan-nu-te 6-te- a-na KUR
encirclement. But it has been adopted in this edition. 49 mUkbe-ru: it is uncertain how to read this name. 50 ig-ra-ni:
'belligerently sought against me': from ger. See Schramm,
EAK 2 p. 5 and CAD 13 (Q) p. 243. This is preferable to
deriving the form from qer and translating 'challenged me',
61) In the eponymy of Adad-aha-iddina, governor

of Inner City (Aur), I marched a fifth time to
the land Hanigalbat. I received the tribute of the
lands.
62-79) In the eponymy of Adad-dan, with the
rage of my strong weapons I marched a sixth time
as 1 did in ARI 2 427 and n. 362. 57 URU ra-dam-ma-te: in

line 52 this name appeared as URU ra-qa-ma-tu. Cf. Millard,
JAOS 100 (1980) p. 369b. 61.1 The traces at the end of the
line may simply be left after an erasure.
Adad-nrr Ii A.0.99.2
ha-ni-gal-bat lu a-lik
m
zLAG- d iKUR KUR te-man-na-a-ia ina URU
na-si-bi-na F lu~ e-si-ir-u 1 URU.ME-// battu-bat-te- ^lu i ad-di
m
a-ur-di-ni-a-mur L tar-ta-nu ina k lu-eib hi-ri-sa ina pa-na la ba-u ki-sir KUR-E
dan-ni li-me-tu- lu ih-ru-us 9 na 1 K Iura-pis a-na u-pa-li dan-na-su
A.MES lu-i-ik-i-di BD ina UGU hi-ri-si
UR.SAG.ME-ZT ki-ma nab-li hi-ri-sa-u -al-bi
i-a-su- UGU-u ri-ig-mu r-ri GIM a-bu-bu
na-s-pan-te dan-nu gi-pr-ri UGU-S
[ . . . ] d NisABA lu-za-ma-u i-na q-bit a-ur EN

GAL EN-/0 i-na URU-SW
[....m]e-W K.GI-SW NG.GA.ME-5W NA 4 KUR-e
u-qu-ra DINGIR.MEs-ni-u GI.GIGIR.ME siim{*)-da-at

[nru ...]-ri-ia i-bir -nu-ut M-
GI,GU.ZA.ME K.GI GI.BANUR.ME K.C.I
eb-ba-te
[nmate a tam-li]-ti
uh-hu-za-a-te
GI.TUKUL.ME us(*)-si.ME ma-hi-ru-tu

tar K.GT si-mat MAN-ti-
kid-
[...] x-zi.MES Ki.L--nu la as-bat

-lu-^lo^
NG.GA .GAL- DAGAL-F/F
[ . . . ] X I Ii MAN 1 k[ X [x].ME X.ME-r&f1 X X
x x x- ina GI.GU.ZA EN-ti- it-ta-ab
lb-b[i a p]a-rak-k[i-\ UDU.SISKUR.ME

-pa-li-ka GU4.ME î(1)-ta^-na-qi ku-
K.ME
ru-na KAS.MAH -r-di

GETIN. l~ME 1 K du-SU-p KUR-C -al-Um
RUDU^.SISKUR.ME-5/ i(*)-ku-na u i-tu tana-ti u-ta-ru-hu-ti-
û^-ta-^rih^ j>ij-i-na KUR.KUR.ME
MAN.MEs-ni u-ta-nap--qu KUR.ME i-ub-bu
MAN a-na
151
to the land Hanigalbat. I confined Nr-Adad, the

Temannu, in the city Nasibina (and) established
seven redoubts around it. I stationed therein
Aur-dn-amur, the commander-in-chief. (65) He
(Nr-Adad) had dug a moat, which had not previously existed, in bedrock all around it (the city).
He had made (it) nine cubits wide and had dug it
down to water-level. The wall was next to the
moat. I encircled his moat with my warriors like a
flame (and) they (the enemy) screamed like children about it. [I laid] traps as strong as the destructive deluge for him [and] deprived him of
grain. By the command of the god Assur, the
great lord, my lord, I carried off from his city his
[...], his gold, his property, precious stone of the
mountain, his gods, chariots with teams of
[horses], ..., (70) a staff, his battle-gear, a gold
throne, polished gold dishes, decorated [couches
with] inlay, weapons, ... arrows, a gold tent
befitting his sovereignty, [...] the weight of which
I did not determine, and the extensive property of
his palace. [Afterwards ...] ... ascended his lordly
throne. Within his sanctum he slaughtered holy
sacrifices, offered oxen, made a libation of best
beer, (and) (75) completed the offering with holy
sweet wine of the mountain. (Thus) he made his
offerings and had himself exalted with elaborate
praise: 'In all lands kings are in sore distress (and)
mountains shake!' The king spoke humbly to his
nobles: T h e young man of Assur, praise of his
warriorship is exalted; his deeds are of the god
Dagan; the king who magnifies his praises!' I
brought back in my presence Nr-Adad together
with his extensive troops as hostages. I granted
cities with people to Assyria (and) counted them.
L.GAL.ME-SW
u-ku-ni-i iq-bi êt-lu^ a-ur ta-na-ti

qar-du-ti- u-a-ru-hu ep-i-su da-gan
MAN mu-r-bu- ta-na-ti-su mzLAG-DIKUR
a-di RIN.HI.A.ME-5W DAGAL.ME ki-ma alla-ti
a-na pa-ni-ia -te-ra-u URU.ME-/2/ i-tu
UN.ME KUR a-ur -ruq--nu
mi-nu-su
am-nu
ina li-me v-ma ina ger-ri-ia-ma
D
IKUR KUR te-man-na-a-a a-di
RIN.HI. A.ME-5U DAGAL.MES ki-ma
zLAG-
al-la-te
63.4 URU.ME-/7/ a li-mi-[ti- ...]. 66 -al-bi: See Reiner,

AfO 23 (1970) pp. 89-91. 67 The interpretation of Schramm,
EAK 2 p. 5 is preferable to the one I gave in ARI 2 p. 89.
67 gi-pr-ri: there is no need to interpret this as a bizarre
writing for Girru 'fire' as proposed in CAD 5 (G) p. 94a (cf.
Luckenbill). 71 For the restoration see A.0.101.1 iii 74-75 and
80-90) In this same eponymy, on that campaign

of mine on which I brought back in my presence
Nr-Adad, the Temannu, together with his
note the further references in Schramm, EAK 2 p. 5. 72 A

restoration {ku]n(?)-zi.MES leather bags', proposed by
Seidmann (cf. CAD 8 [K] p. 549a), does not fit the context.
74 For a different restoration of the beginning of the line see
Schramm, EAK 2 p. 5. 79 This line is still (cf. ARI 2 p. 89
n. 373) difficult and my interpretation is uncertain.
152
Adad-nrr il A.0.99.2
81) a-na pa-ni-ia -te-ra a-na KUR-a ub-la-u etna URU ni-nu-a -e-(ri)-ba-u GI.GIGIR.ME
RIN.HI. A.ME
82) ad-ki ger-(ri> pa--qu-te

a-na me-ieq
KUR.ME GIG.ME
GI.GIGIR.ME-/G RIN.HI.A.ME la
-ak-nu
83)
ina MAN.ME-W AD.MES-ia ma-am-ma
a-na
q-reb- la it-hu- MUEN AN-e mut-tapri-

84) ^q-reb- la H-ru a-na URU si-kur URU sapa-ni i-tu ar-si MGISKIM-DMA MAN KUR
a-ur
85) DUMU l-ma-nu-SAG MAN KUR a-ur-ma
NUN-W a-lik pa-ni-ia GUN ma-da-tu a-na assur EN-ia
86) k-lu- lu a-lk URU si-kur URU sa-pa-a-nu lu

al-mi it-t--nu am-da-hi-si
87) dhik-ta--nu ma-â-tu lu a-duk al-la-su-nu
NG.U.ME--nU NG.GA.UE--nU GU4.ME-
-nu
88) UDU se-ni--nu -e-si-a a-na URU4a a-ur
ub-la URU.ME-H pa-ha-at URU si-kur
89) URU sa-pa-a-ni a-na si-hr-ti--nu ak-ud sita-te--nu i-tu pa-an GI.TUKUL.ME-7 dannu-ie
90) ripi-pr-i-du ur-du--ni GR.II.ME-ia is-butu ma-da-tu am-hur--nu GUN ta-mar-ta
u-dan-nin UGU-r-nu -kri
91) îna^ ITI.SIG4 UD 15 li-me mi-na-viNGiR-ia-alak a-na n-ra-ru-ut-te URU ku-um-me lu
a-lik UDU. SISKUR. ME
92) a-na pa-ân^ DIKUR URU ku-ûn0-me

ia lu e-pu-u URU.ME-W KUR hab-hi
KR. ME-5Z URU ku-um-^m^
93)
EN-
*~ina IZI GBIL~> E.KIN.TAR.ME KU[R-]/-SW lu
e-si-di GUN ta-mar-ta -dan-nin UGU--nu

u-kn
94) ina ITI.BRA li-me
MD
U[TU-A]D-/tf 2-te- a-na
n-ra-ru-t sa URU ku-um-me lu a-lik URU

sa-at-ku-r
95) URU R/TF(?)I-50-â(D-du ÛRU ku^-un-nu URU
tab-si-a URU.ME-M KUR hab-hi li-m-it
URU ku-um-me
96) ANE. KUR, RA,MES si-im-da-at
GI ni-ri-ia lu
extensive troops as captives, I brought him to my

land (and) into Nineveh. I mustered chariotry
(and) troops (and) marched over difficult roads
and rugged mountains which were unsuitable for
the passage of my chariotry (and) troops, into
which none of the kings my fathers had
penetrated and wherein no winged bird of the sky
flew (I marched) to the cities Sikkur (and)
Sappnu which since the time of Tukult-Ninurta
(i), king of Assyria, (85) son of Shalmaneser (i)
(who was) also king of Assyria, a prince who preceded me, had withheld tax (and) tribute from
Aur, my lord, I surrounded the cities Sikkur
(and) Sappnu (and) fought with them. I inflicted
a major defeat upon them. I brought forth their
booty, possessions, property, herds, (and) flocks
(and) brought (them) to my city Aur. I conquered all the cities in the district of the cities
Sikkur (and) Sappnu. The remainder of their
(inhabitants, who) had fled before my strong
weapons, came down (and) submitted to me. I received from them tribute (and) imposed upon
them stringent taxes and dues.
91-93) In the month Sivan, the fifteenth day, eponymy of Ina-illia-allak, I marched to the assistance of the city Kummu. I made sacrifices before
the god Adad of the city Kummu, my lord. I
burnt the cities of the land Habhu, enemies of the
city Kummu. I reaped the harvest of his land
(and) imposed upon them stringent taxes and
dues.
94-96) In the month Nisan, eponymy of amaabia, I marched a second time to the assistance
of the city Kummu. I conquered, burnt, ravaged,
(and) destroyed the cities Satkuru, Iasaddu,
Kunnu, Tabsia, cities of the land Habhu in the
environs of the city Kummu (which) had withheld
my (tribute of) teams of horses.
i[k-I\u~u URU.ME-W u-a-tu-nu ak-ud ina IZI

GBIL ap-pu-ul aq-qur
D
97) î-na qi-biO a-ur EN GAL EN-/T
R/S8r
tr^ be-lit MURUB4 M~ a-lik-at pa-na-at
97-104) By the command of Aur, the great lord,

my lord, and the goddess Itar, mistress of battle
94 For the restoration of the name of the eponym see the

eponym canons reconstructed in ARI 2 455 and Brinkman,
PKB p. 181 n. 1115.
Adad-nrrT II A.0.99.2
RIN. III A, ME -/TF DAGAL. ME
98) ina 1n.rsiG4 i-na^ li-me an-ni-ma 5-te- a-na

KUR ha-ni-gal-bat lu a-lik ma-da-tu KUR
ha-ni-gal-bat
99) RÎ-U f ap^-li lu am-hur KUR ha-ni-galbat DAGAL-/W a-na pat gim-ri- lu a-pl a-na
mi-sir
KUR-ZA
100) Rlu-te-ef 1 -en pa-a u-e-ei5-rkP-u-nu-ti

ha-bur lu e-bir a-na URU gu-za-a-ni
101) ma-bi-sa-la-mu
DUMU ba-hi-a-ni
ID
-kal-lu-
-n lu a-lik ana URU si-ka-a-ni

102) R/2R~I SAG e-ni D ha-bur GAR-nu-ni lu
KU4-W6 in a e-mu-qi si-ra-a-te -ma EN
ku-lu-li-ia
103) TGAl SANGA-//-r/r1 GI.GIGIR.ME-SW
â-tu
ANE.KUR.RA.ME
K.BABBAR K.GI
si-im-da-at
104) NG.GA H.GAL-5W lu am-hur-u

UGU-5W
maGI
ni-ri
53
and strife, who goes at the head of my extensive

army; in the month Sivan, in this same eponymy,
I marched for a fifth time to the land Hanigalbat.
I received the tribute of the land Hanigalbat
above and below. (Thus) I became lord of the extensive land Hanigalbat to its entire extent (and)
(100) brought (it) into the boundaries of my land.
I brought them under one authority. I crossed the
River Habur (and) marched to the city Guznu
which Abi-salmu, a man of Blt-Bahini, held. I
entered the city Siknu which lies at the source of
the River Habur. By the exalted strength of the
god Samal, lord of my turban, lover of my priesthood, I received from him his numerous chariots,
teams of horses, silver, gold, the property of his
palace. I imposed upon him tribute.
ma-da-tu
-kin
105) i-na ger-ri-ia-ma e-t~lP i-di ' D ' ha-bur 1 lu

as-bat i-na URU ar-na-ba-ni lu be-dk
106) i-tu URU ar-na-ba-ni at-tu-mu ina URU tabi-te be-dk i-tu URU ta-bi-te
107) at-tu-mu a-^na^ URU -di-t kan(*) -ni lu eKU4-ub GUN ma-da-tu
GI.GIGIR K.GI lu am-
hur
108) i-tu URU -di~rkan(*)^-ni at-tu-mu ina URU
ki-si-ri be-dk i-tu URU si-ki-ri
109) at-tu-mu a-na URU qa-at-ni KU4-ub MLd
iKUR URU qa-at-na-a-ia L da-g pa-ni
r
iP-e-i-ib
110) NG.GA R~1.GAL-/-SW GI.GIGIR
ANE.KUR.RA.ME GI.MAR.GD.DA.ME
lu am-hur-u ma-da-tu VGV- -kin

i-tu "URU"I qa-âO-ni at-tu-mu ina KUR-?
bu--si ina UGU ID ha-bur GAR-an be-dak
112) i-tu TKUR-T bu--si at-tu-mu a-na
GU4.ME
111)
URU.BAD-a-duk-1.
LIM KU 4 -UB URU.BD-7-
duk-duu
113) a-na ra-ma-ni-ia Rlu \ am-nu TA URU.BD-7duk- 1.LIM at-tu-mu a-na KUR la-qe-e
114) a-na URU zu--ri-ih mba-ar-a-ta-ra DUMU fhalu-p-e -kal-lu--ni
115) lu a-lik GUN u ma-da-tu lu am-^hur^-u a-na
URU mha-ra-a-ni lu e-tiq GUN ma-da-iu
am-huf
116) a-na URU si-ir-^qH TGR1 a m-ma-te D
pu-rat-te -ak-nu--ni mmu-da-ad-da
98 5-e- 'a fifth time*: scribal error for 'a seventh time'. See
Seidmann, MAOG 9/3 p. 68. 108 URU si-ki-ri is a scribal
error for URU ki-si-ri. 111-12 KURbu--si 'mountains of
busu\ This is more probable than 'the land Ebuu\ See
105-119) On this same campaign of mine I made

my way along the banks of the River Habur. I
spent the night in the city Arnabnu. Moving on
from the city Arnabnu I spent the night in the
city Tabitu. Moving on from the city Tabitu I entered the city adikannu. I received tribute, tax,
chariots, (and) gold. Moving on from the city
adikannu I spent the night in the city Kisiru.
Moving on from the city Kisiru I entered the city
Qatnu. I allowed to remain (there) Amll-Adad, a
man of the city Qatnu, (my) vassal. (110) I received from him the property of his palace, chariots (and) horses, wagons (and) oxen. I imposed
upon him tribute. Moving on from the city Qatnu
I pitched camp (and) spent the night in the mountains of busu (which) are by the River Habur.
Moving on from the mountains of busu I entered
the city Dr-aduk1immu. I regarded the city Draduklimmu as mine. Moving on from the city
Dr-aduk1immu (115) I marched to the land
Laq, to the city Zrih (which) Baratara, a man
of Bt-Halup, held. I received from him tribute
and tax. I passed on to the city of the man
Harnu (and) received tribute (and) tax. I
marched to the city Sirqu which lies on the other
bank of the Euphrates (and) which Mudadda, the
Laq, held. I received tribute, tax, the property
of his palace, oxen, agalu-donkeys, tribute and
tax of the land Laqu to its entire extent above
CAD 2 (B) p. 349b, Schramm, EAK 2 p. 5, Rllig, Orientalia

NS 47 (1978) pp. 424 and 428 and Kessler, Nordmesopotamien
pp. 215 and 230-33.
154
Adad-nrr n A.0.99.2
117) KUR la-qa-a-îa^ -kal-lu--ni r/wT a-lik GUN

ma-da-tu NG.GA .GAL- GU4.ME
118) ANSE a-ga-li. MES TGUN"! ma-da-tu KUR
a-qe-e a-na pat gim-ri- e-li
119) f ap-li R/WL am-^hur^ ma-da-tu M URU
hi4n-da-a-n lu am-hur a-na URU-/<7 a-ur
ub-la
and below. I received the tribute of the city

Hindnu. I brought (this) to my city Assur.
120) .GAL.ME ina i-d KUR-/V7 ar-sip GI.APIN.ME
120-121) I constructed palaces in the (various)

districts of my land. hitched up plows in the
(various) districts of my land (and thereby) piled
up more grain than ever before. I hitched up
more teams of horses than ever before for the
forces of my land.
ina i-di KVK-ia ar-^ku^-s E.UM.MK tabka-a-ni

121) UGU pa-an îD--ter at-bu-ûk
ANE1.KUR.RA.ME si-im-(da)-at GI ni-ri ina
e-~muq~ KUR-ia UGU pa-na --^ter arku-s^
122) dnin-urta
IGI.DU
RM.ANSE"! EDIN
SANGA-// î-ra^-mu
-at-li-mu-ni-ma e-pe ba-
â-ri iq-bu-ni
123) 6 u-i UR.MAH.MES ina RGI^.GIGIR-/T pa-attu-te ina tq-it-ru-ub me-et-lu-ti-ia ina
GR.II.ME-/TF
124) fla^-as-ma-te ina rpa-(1)^-hi a-duk 4 u-i

GU4.A[M].ME a-duk 9 GU 4 .PU.HAL GU4.AM.ME
dan-nu-te
125) û^-ut rqaf-n TI.LA.ME -sab-bi-ta 6
AM.SI.ME ina m-it-hu-s[i] a-duk ina MUNUS
ub-te
126)
ad-di 4 ÂMTSEMES TI.LA.ME as-bat 5

ina kp-p as-bat UR.MAH.MES GU4.AM.ME
122-127) The gods Ninurta (and) Nergal, who

and commanded me to hunt. I killed 360 lions
from my ... chariot, with my valorous assault,
(and) on my swift feet with the spear. I killed 240
wild bulls. I captured alive nine strong wild virile
bulls with horns. I killed six elephants in a
conflict; I drove four elephants into an ambush
and captured (them) alive. I captured five
(elephants) by means of a snare. In Inner City
(Aur) I formed herds of lions, wild bulls,
elephants, aialu-deer, ibex, wild asses, deer, (and)
ostriches.
127) AM.SI.ME DRA.MA.ME DRA.MES

ANE.EDIN.NA.ME MA.D.ME
G.NUI I.MUEN.ME SU-gul-U.DIDLI
(na)
URU Rek-suri
128) e-nu-ma gu-la mn-ia mah-ru- i-na pana MGISKIM-DMA a-bi ID a-ur e-pu-u
129) u- e-na-ah-ma an-hu-su -n-kir6 danna-su âk^-ud -a-tu
130) UGU mah-re-e ma-di-i ut-te-er -^f-be
r
is-tu u-e-u a-VdD gaba-dib-bi-u
132) i-na a-ri-u lu-te-er a-ur u gu-la ik-ri-beu i-e-mu- mu-n-kin it-ri-ia
128-13la) At that time the ancient temple of the

goddess Gula, my mistress, which previously
Tukultl-Ninurta (i), my forefather, vice-regent of
Assur, had built this temple had become dilapidated and I removed its debris down to the bottom of the foundation pit. I greatly enlarged this
temple beyond previous extent. I completed it
from top to bottom and deposited my monumental inscriptions.
131b-132a) May a later prince restore it (and) return my inscribed name to its place. (Then) Assur
and the goddess Gula will listen to his prayers.
132b-133) As for the one who removes my inscriptions and my name: may Assur and the
121 ina e-^muqi, not ina e-li: see von Soden, OLZ 55 (1960)
488. 122 TMAS-ANSFT = biu is clear from collation. 124 The
numeral before gi_m.hu.hal is 9, not 7. 125 For the
restoration at the beginning see Borger, EAK 1 p. 137.
125-26 For the reading and interpretation see Grayson,

Studies Oppenheim p. 93 and TSTS 1 p. 4. 131 Ex. 2 has the
remains of several lines before line 131 which do not match
ex. 1, See A.0.99.3.
131) -k-lil na-ri-ia a-^ku^-un

an-hu-su ^lu^-di MU at-ra
NUN- EGIR-W
133) MU-ia a-ur u gu-la UAN-SU lis-^kP-pu
MU-SU NUMUN-u ina KUR lu-hal-li-^
155
goddess Gula overthrow his sovereignty (and) destroy his name (and) his seed from the land.
qiP
134) ITI.TNET UD 17.KM ^1P-MU MDINGIR-ZI-PAP

SAG MDIKUR-RIN. TAH MAN KUR Q-Ur
134) Month of Ab, seventeenth day, eponymy of

IlT-napit-usur, eunuch of Adad-nrr, king of
Assyria.
3
This fragmentary text, on a piece of a clay tablet from Aur, is a version of the annals similar to A.0.99.2 and probably dates to about the
same time, 893 BC. It has, however, a building section which is
different from that of A.0.99.2.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (VAT 9632, Ass 1017) has been discussed
in the commentary to A.0.99.2 as 'ex. 2' and it is included in the bibliography and catalogue of that text.
Duplicate passages are edited there. As noted there,
despite passages which duplicate parts of A.0.99.2, this
fragment clearly has a different building passage and

may well concern a structure other than the Gula temple at Aur. Only this broken building passage is
edited here.
TEXT
Obverse
1-19) (See A.0.99.2 lines 1-15)
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
x
1')
2')
3')
4')
1-19) (See A.0.99.2 lines 1-15)

Lacuna
Lacuna
rev. 1-10') No translation warranted.
.MES
X
X.ME
-ta
i/ak]-ud
7)
x MAH
80
x-be-
9')
r tD-al-ba-ru-[...]
10')
a-na ap-li
II'-14') (See A.0.99.2 lines 131-33)
50
6')
134 ll-napiti-usur: there is difficulty in correlating this

eponymy with the canonical lists. See Grayson, ARI 2 455
rev. 11-14') (See A.0.99.2 lines 131-33)
and Gurney, AnSt 3 (1953) pp. 15-17.
156
4
This fragmentary version of the annals is from late in the reign and it
may date to about 893 BC, the same year as A.0.99.2. The reasons are
that both texts include the seventh campaign against Hanigalbat and
they are sometimes exact duplicates. But there are major differences
and clearly this fragment is a separate text. The main exemplar is on a
piece of clay tablet from Aur. The building section is not preserved
but may well have been different from that of A.0.99.2. A duplicate
appears on a clay tablet fragment from Nineveh, A.0.99.5, and the
parallel passages have been edited together here although the Ninevite
text must have concerned a different building enterprise.
The beginning of our text is broken away but it probably was the
same as the beginning of A.0.99.2 (lines 1-14) for when A.0.99.4 is
first preserved it duplicates the introductory portions of A.0.99.2
(A.0.99.2 lines 15-25 / / A.0.99.4 obv. l'-17'a). After this our text
departs from A.0.99.2, adding further details about the campaign
against the Lullumu and others (obv. 17'b-20'). It continues with a
narrative (obv. 21-26') about campaigns against Katmuhu and other
regions which is quite different from A.0.99.2. The final fragmentary
paragraph preserved on the obverse (obv. 27-34') seems to begin with
a narration of the defeat of ama-mudammiq (cf. A.0.99.2 lines
26-27).
On the reverse after the first section (rev. l'-4'), which cannot be
identified, there is a description of the defeat of Suhu (rev. 5-7', cf.
A.0.99.2 line 33). This is followed by a narrative of the seventh campaign to Hanigalbat (rev. 8'-17', cf. A.0.99.2 lines 39-90 and 97-104).
Then the text breaks off.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
A5ur
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
VAT 9630
1007+1016
East of Prothyse, iD4v;

Pedersn, Aur temple
archive and library, N1
15x9 +
Obv. 1'-26'
BM 121044
= A.0.99.5
Obv. 13-34'
Rev. 1
' 18'
COMMENTARY
The master text for most o f the obv. (obv. l'-26'), and
therefore the line numbering, f o l l o w s ex. 1. For the
remainder o f the text 'ex. ?

source preserved.
( A . 0 . 9 9 . 5 ) is the
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 84 (ex. 1, study)
1935 Seidmann, MAOG 9/3 pp. 5-35 (ex. 1, study)
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 3-6 (ex. 1, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcix 2 (ex. 1, study)

1986 Pedersn, Archives 2 p. 19 no. 2 (ex. 1, provenance)
only
157
TEXT
Obverse
Lacuna (cf. A.0.99.2 lines 1-14)
T) [...] qar-ra-da-ku la-[abbku ...]
2')
3')
4')
5')
[ m ] d IKUR-RIN.TH MAN
dail-HU MAN k [ u R
aur ar kibrt arbaH munr abu anku]
MAN leû- MURUB4 sa-[pi-in lni muahmei
ad a mtti anku]
zi-ka-ru qar-du [mula?it asttu hitmut
ragg]
u se-ni ki-ma ^GI.BAR [ahammat kma abbe
asappan ...-a-t\
mu-n-ha ul i-u [kma bri dpinku kma

patre]
T) al-ba-be -ra-sa-pa [senni kma tb ri
ezzqi]
8') ki-ma an-hu-li t-[murku kma ...]
9') pa-a-r -na-sah [kma ukai asahhap
kma huhri]
10') a-kt-tam a-na za-kr u-m-[ia danni malk
kibrt erbetim]
11') ki-ma TGI me^-he-e i-u-b[u ana sabt gerria]
12') GIS.TUKUL.ME--nu ki-ma ki-i[(1)-kit
isdu]
Lacuna
1') [I am enormously radiant, I am a hero], I am
a warrior, [I am a virile] lion, [I am foremost, I
am exalted, I];
2-5 ; a) Adad-naran, strong king, king of [Assyria,
king of the four quarters, the one who defeats
his enemies, I], the king capable in battle,
overwhelmer [of cities, the one who scorches the
mountains of (foreign) lands, 1], the virile warrior, [the one who controls those opposed to him,
who is inflamed against the evil] and the wicked,
[I scorch] like the god Girru (fire god), [I
overwhelm like the deluge, ...], I have no successful opponent;
5'b-12') [I am belligerent like a young bull], I
strike [the wicked like] the fierce [dagger, I constantly blow like the onslaught of the wind, I]
rage like the gale, I uproot (people) [like hair] of
the skin, [I overpower like the net], I enclose [like
the trap], at the mention of [my strong] name [the
princes of the four quarters] sway like reeds in a
storm, [at the onset of my campaign] their
weapons [melt] as though in a furnace;
13') et-lu qar-du i-na GIs.tukul-ti a-ur [blu

itu ebertn zabe] u-pa-l[i]14') i i-di KUR lu-lu-me-e KUR hab-hi KUR
[zamua] a-d n- [ri-bi]
15') KUR nam-ri il-[]i-ku-ma KUR [quman]
16') DAGAL.ME a-di KUR me-eh-ri I~KUR^ [salua u
mat u rat ri]
17') a-na GR.I.ME-W -k-ni â^-[na KUR . . . ]
18') lu a-lik UDU.SISKUR.ME a-napa-a[n d...]
19') lu e-pu-u si-ta-at KUR [...]
20') i-na GIS.TUKUL.MES -am-qit(*) ki--t[e ...]
13'-20;) valiant man who marched with the support of the god Assur, [his lord, from the other
side of] the Lower [Zab], the district of the land
of the Lullumu, the lands Habhu (and) [Zamua],
as far as the passes of the land Namru and subdued the land of the extensive [Qumnu] as far as
the lands Mehru, [Salua, and Uratru]. I marched
to [the land ...]. I made sacrifices before [the
god(s) ...]. The remainder of the land [...] I felled
with the sword (and) the booty [I brought to my
city Assur].
21') KUR kat-mu-hi a-na pat gim-ri- i-p[e-lu-ma
21-26') (Who) became lord over the entire land

Katmuhu [...]. Yet a fourth time I marched to the
land [... the lands] Nairi [...] ... [...1 tribute [...]
- ]
22')
4-te-u a-na KUR X [...]
23') [mtti] na-i-ri lu a-l[ik ...]
24') [...] X.ME-/ u-x [...]
li-ti-[...]
obv. 1' See A.0.99.2 line 15 for the probable reconstruction of

this line. obv. 13-14' In ex. 1 the upal begins at the end of
line 13', [u-pa-li], and concludes at the beginning of line 14',
-I (i-di ...). This is very unusual, obv. 16'.2 DAGAL- (as
A.0.99.2 line 24), changing the translation to 'the extensive

land of the Qamanu\ obv. 20', 1 (ex. 2 broken) -git: text -BE.
obv. 20'.2 ki-r0P-tu.
Adad-narari II A.0.99.4
158
#
25 ) l..]x-da-atl..]
26') [...] x x ma-da-a[t(1)-tu
21')
28')
29')
30')
31')
32')
33')
34')
...]
db-da mid [ama-mudammiq

a x [...]
...]
27 - rev. 18') (The remainder of the text is too

broken for translation.)
UR[U . . . ]
/-i ncP [...]

a-[..,]
ma-[...]
ri-nai [...]
x [...]
Reverse
1') XX [ x ] x x [...]
2')
I-NAX [...]
3') /i-x[...]
4') /s-[w ..,]
5')
[K]UR su-hi
6')
BAD5.BAD5 [ . . . ]
70
mar-s[(?)-sw-(w) ...]
a-d[i...]
8')
a-na KUR
9')
IS-W U[RU(?) . . . ]
ha-ni-ga[l-bat...]
10 ) 7 [...]
IT) SA/?-SW-[R/...]
12') DAGAL-/e X [...]
13') ^s-im-d[a-at nru ...]

14')
/-/r- d i[KUR . . . ]
15') ma-a-d GI [...]

16') a - n a SAL LU [...1
17') //-/-/[ff...]
18') [ x ] x x x [ . . . ]
Lacuna
5
This is a fragmentary version of the annals, on a piece of clay tablet
from Nineveh, identical so far as it is preserved with a fragmentary
version from Aur, A.0.99.4, with which text it has been edited.
Nevertheless, the provenance shows that the building passage of this
text, which is not preserved, would have been quite different.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 121044, 1929-10-12,40) measures 9 x 4 . 8 +
scription has been collated.
cm. The in-
159
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1970 Millard, Iraq 32 pp. 170-71 and pi. xxxvi (copy, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcix 3 (study)
6
This broken text is inscribed on a fragment, which appears to be from
a stone vase, from Aur.
COMMENTARY
The object (Ass 6730) is known only from a photo (Ass ph 1100) from which
the inscription has been collated.
TEXT
I)
2)
1-3) [(Palace of) Adad-nr]r, strong king, king

of the universe, [king of Assyria, son of Aurd]n (II), king of the universe, king of Assyria,
[son of Tig1ath]-pi1eser (II) (who was) also king of
the universe [and king of Assyria]:
[(ekal) adad-tRIN.T]H MAN dan-ni MAN KI[S

ar mat aur]
[apil aur-KAL]-an MAN KI MAN KUR AS
[(...)]
3)
[apil tukulti]-A--r-ra MAN KI[ ar mat

aurma]
4) [ . . . ] X X X [ . . . ]
Lacuna
4) [...]
Lacuna
7
This text is inscribed on several stone slabs and two hollow cylindrical
stones (exemplars 8 and 9). All the stones were found at Nineveh with
the exception of one slab (exemplar 6) which was found at Babylon.
While this may be testimony to Adad-nrr II'S building activity at
Babylon, it is more likely that it is a piece of booty carried off by one
of the Neo-Babylonian kings after the fall of Nineveh.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Arch. 79
number
AAA 19
number
Bab ph
number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
BM 121149
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
BM 15021
BM 90853
Unlocated
Unlocated
1929-10-12,158
12
13
14
15
16
1168
266
20
_
-
_
_
_
cpn
c
n
n
n
n
P
c
c
n
n
160
Adad-nrr IIA . 0 . 9 9 . 1160

C O M M E N T A R Y
All of the inscriptions are exact duplicates except for

minor variants on the two stone cylindrical objects: on
these the text is inscribed in three, rather than six, lines;
AS is used for a-ur throughout; in line 5, GISJukul-tiis used instead of GISKIM-.
Winckler said that BM 115021 was the inscription incorrectly assigned to Mutakkil-Nusku by G. Smith,
Assyrian Disc. p. 251 (and see p. 142), an error repeated by Thompson, Century pp. 53 and 119. See
Weidner, AfO 7 (1931-32) p. 279 (to 'S. 119'). The text
has also been ascribed mistakenly to Aur-dn II see
Weidner, AfO 3 (1926) p. 151 n. 4, who founded this
view on BM Guide p. 72.
1887 Winckler, ZA 2 p. 311 (ex. 8, copy) and pi. 3 no. 5 (ex.
7, copy)
1889 Winckler, KB 1 pp. 48-49 (ex. 8, edition)
1902 King, AKA p. 154 (ex. 8, copy, edition)
1903 Weissbach, Misccllcn p. 15 no. 5 and pi. 6 no. 1 (ex. 6,
copy, study)
1914 Koldewey, WEB p. 163 (ex. 6, photo)
1922 BM Guide p. 72 no. 251 (ex. 7, study)
1924-25 Unger, AfK 2 p. 24 (ex. 6, study)

1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 119 and pl. XLII nos. 12-16 and
20 (exs. 1-5, 10, copy)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 107 and pi. LXXXIII no. 266 (ex.
9, copy)
1968 Brinkman, PKB p. 179 n. 1101 (ex. 6, study)
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 p. 8 (exs. 1-10, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcix 4 (exs. 1-10, translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
.GAL MDIKUR-RIN.TH
MAN KI MAN KUR -Ur
A a-ur-KAL-an
4)
5)
MAN KIS MAN KUR a-Ur

A GISKIM-A--r-ra
6)
MAN KIS MAN KUR
1-6) (Property of) the palace of A d a d - n r r , king

of the universe, king of Assyria, son of A u r - d n
(II), k i n g o f t h e u n i v e r s e , k i n g o f A s s y r i a , s o n o f
T i g l a t h - p i l e s e r (II) ( w h o w a s ) also k i n g of t h e
u n i v e r s e ( a n d ) k i n g of A s s y r i a .
a-ur-ma
8
T h i s l a b e l a p p e a r s o n t h e t o p o f a broken clay c o n e f o u n d at Sibaniba
(Tell Billa).
C O M M E N T A R Y
The broken clay cone is now in the University Museum,
Philadelphia, excavation no. B3-320 and museum no.
33-4-144. It measures 1 4 x 9 . 8 x 6 + cm and was found
in square W6 in stratum I. The inscription has been

collated. It will be published by Galter in JCS 41
(1989).
TEXT
1)
.GAL M10-RIN.TH MAN GAL-W
2)
3)
MAN dan-nu MAN TRIS"! MAN KUR a-ur

DUMU ma-ur-KAL-an
[ar kiati] MAN KUR
a-ur
DUMU m Gi.tukul-t[i-apil-ear]-^ra^
MAN KIS [ar mt
aurma]
4)
5)
1 - 5 ) ( P r o p e r t y o f ) t h e p a l a c e of A d a d - n r r l ,
g r e a t king, s t r o n g king, king o f t h e u n i v e r s e , k i n g
o f A s s y r i a , s o n of A u r - d n (II), [king o f t h e
u n i v e r s e ] , king of A s s y r i a , s o n o f Tig1ath-[pi1eser
(II) ( w h o w a s ) also] k i n g of t h e u n i v e r s e ( a n d )
[king of A s s y r i a ] .
1001
At Nineveh Thompson discovered numerous fragments of black stone
with traces of scenes in relief and inscriptions. These may be the
remains of an obelisk of Adad-nrr n similar in form to the Black or
Rassam Obelisk of Ashurnasirpal n from Calah (A.0.101.24). Particularly relevant to this suggestion is the fact that the inscription seems to
have consisted of a number of texts, each beginning with The tribute
of
(madattu a ...) followed by a list of such luxury items as silver,
gold, bronze, tin, timber, and garments. But the fragments are far too
small to be certain of any coherent reconstruction or of the reading of
even a single proper name. Thompson believed he could decipher
traces of the personal names Gabbar, Datana, and Muquru. The first
two are otherwise unknown but Muquru was a Temannite ruler in the
time of Adad-nrr II (A.0.99.2 line 49). Thompson also believed he
could read the geographic names Mehru and Que. Mehru appears in
texts of Tiglath-pileser i (A.0.87.2 line 30), Adad-nrr II (A.0.99.1
rev. 8', A.0.99.2 line 24, A.0.99.4 obv. 16'), and Ashurnasirpal n
(A.0.101.40 line 28). Que appears in royal inscriptions beginning with
Shalmaneser in. But none of these readings is certain, with the possible exception of Mehru. Thus the original obelisk may have belonged
to Adad-nrr n or Ashurnasirpal n and the former seems more probable. Given the bad state of preservation of the fragments, no edition
can be given. The objects are in the Birmingham City Museum and all
bear the number BCM 898 '37. The inscriptions have been collated but
with little success at decipherment because of their broken state.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1937 Thompson, Iraq 4 pp. 43-46 and figs. 1-2 (copy, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 115 n. 468 b iii (study)
1979 George, Iraq 41 pp. 123, 139, and fig. 7 (copy, study)
1982 Brker-Klhn, Bildstelen no. 156-60 (photo, study)
1984 Frame, ARRIM 2 p. 19 (study)
1002
This badly broken text was inscribed on a mutilated stone stele found
in the row of steles at Assur. The excavator, Andrae, suggested that
Adad-nrrl II was the most probable king to be identified with this
stele although there is no certainty.
C O M M E N T A R Y
T h e stele (Ass 15739) has not been located or collated. According to A n d r a e it
measured 255 c m high but originally it must have been c. 300 c m high.
161
162
Adad-nrrl II A.0.99.1002
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen pp. 14-18 and pl. xii no. 9 (photo,
copy, edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcix 5 (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
[salam]
[adad-nrr(1) arru] dan-n[u]
MAN K[I ar K]UR AS
A A(?)-K[AL(?)-TZ(?) ar kiati(7) ar mat]
RND
A(?)
5)
A Gi[sKiM-apil--r-r]a[7)
6)
TMAN"! [kissati(1) ar K]UR A-ma
1-6) [Statue of Adad-nrr], strong [king], king

of the universe, [king of] Assyria, son of Aurd[n (il), king of the universe, king of] Assyria,
son of Ti[glath-piles]er (il) (who was) also [king
of the universe (and) king of] Assyria.
1003
Traces of the name Adad-nrr [...] 10-RIN.T[H ...] appear on
a fragment of a vase with flowers found at Aur (Ass 8911 and
18251) and published by Andrae, Coloured Ceramics p. 9 and figures
1-2. Andrae thought this was Adad-nrr i but I believe it is later
than that. The earliest coloured ceramics found at Aur are of
Tukultl-Ninurta i's time and thus Adad-nrr II (or possibly III) is
more likely. Of course, the name on the fragment might have been
within a genealogy and this would open up a number of possibilities.
Tukultl-Ninurta ii
A.0.100
Tukultl-Ninurta II (890-884 BC) continued to campaign like his immediate predecessors but during his brief reign not much territory was
actually added to Assyria (for a history of the reign see Grayson,
CAH 3/1 pp. 251-53). Campaigns for each of the years 889-85 (inclusive), his second to sixth regnal years, are attested (A.0.100.5) and
these cover most of his reign. He also led a 'show of strength' expedition in the Jezireh as his father had done (see A.0.100.5 lines 41-127).
A new motif in the annals is the cause for a campaign, provocation by
the enemy, being cited.
Tukultl-Ninurta II resided at different times at Nineveh and Assur
and he sponsored building projects in both cities. The known works at
Aur were the wall of Baltil (A.0.100.2), the palace terrace (A.0.100.3
and 5), the Enpi temple (A.0.100.7 and 14), and possibly the AnuAdad temple (A.0.100.15). No details are available about what work
he did at Nineveh (cf. A.0.100.12-13 and 17). He also did some construction at centres outside the Assyrian heartland: Nmed-Tuku1tNinurta (A.0.100.6), Kahat (A.0.100.9), and possibly Terqa
(A.0.100.1004). Tukultl-Ninurta II is included in king lists (see Grayson, RLA 3 pp. 86-135) and a chronicle (see Grayson, Chronicles
p. 182 rev. 3). A complete list of the eponymies for his reign can be
reconstructed from eponym lists (see Grayson, ARI 2 p. 113 525).
Ashurnasirpal n records (A.0.101.1 i 104-105) discovery of images
of Tiglath-pileser (I) and Tukult-Ninurta (II) at the source of the River
Subnat; see the introduction to A.0.87.15. A tablet fragment (VAT
10136) with a text of Tukultl-Ninurta II has been mentioned in print
(Borger, EAK 1 p. 73; Schramm, EAK 2 p. 10; Grayson, ARI 2 p. 97
n. 401). Wfler (AOAT 26 pp. 204-209) has proposed that a fragment
of a stone stele found at Nineveh by Thompson (Iraq 4 [1937]
pp. 43-46) be ascribed to this monarch. But the scant traces of an inscription preclude any positive reading or identification. The private
dedicatory text inscribed on a small stone (BM 89156 = 1835-3-9,4)
and dedicated to Tuku[1t-Ninurta] should be ascribed to the first king
of that name (so Deller, NABU 1987/4 no. 101) and not the second
(so Gaiter, ARRIM 5 [1987] pp. 11-30 no. 7). Two other texts sometimes identified with Tukultl-Ninurta II have been edited under
Ashurnasirpal II (A.0.101.100 and A.0.101.115.42). A text published
by Schrder (Sebeneh-su pp. 18-19 and KB 1 pp. 50-51; cf. Scheil,
Tn. pp. 3-4 and Luckenbill, ARAB 1 684-86) is a text of
Shalmaneser III (see Schramm, EAK 2 p. 85 and Grayson, ARI 2
pp. 97-98 n. 401).
163
164
Tukultl-Ninurta II A.0.100.1
1
This is a standard introduction to inscriptions of Tukult-Ninurta i attested on three different texts (A.0.100.2-4). All of the texts come
from Aur and a fourth annalistic text (A.0.100.5), which also comes
from Assur, may have had an introduction like this. This introduction
is the same in form as the introduction to the annals of Adad-nrr1 II
(A.0.99.2) which, in turn, is similar to the introduction to Tiglathpileser I'S annals (A.0.87.1). These parallels assist greatly in reconstructing and restoring this badly preserved passage.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Ass
Aur
Dimensions
Lines
Ex.
number
number
provenance
(cm)
preserved
cpn
!
2
VAT 9631
VAT 9550
"
13261
10.8x9.2+
9.7x8.7+
1 19
3-35
e
c
VAT 9477
9945
City wall
On floor of 2nd Assyrian
house layer, eE7i
-
5.4x4.3 +
8-21
COMMENTARY
Given the broken state of all three exs., it has been
necessary to conflate them to reconstruct a meaningful
master text, interested readers can consult the scores
for details. The line numbering follows ex. 1 as far as it
is preserved (line 19) and then ex. 2. This means that

the lines o f the master text become longer here since ex.
2 had much longer lines.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1919-23 Ebeling, KAR no. 349 (ex. 3, copy)
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 nos. 89-91 (exs. 1-3, copy)
1935 Seidmann, MAOG 9/3 pp. 8-9 (exs. 1-3, study)
1957 Deller, Orientalia NS 26 pp. 268-72 (exs. 1-3, study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 c 2 (exs. 1-3, translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
[aur ar g]im-rat DINGIR.MES [rabti]

[anu sar] t ^ n u n . g a l u a-nun-[na-k\
r d n E N KUR.KUR DBAD si-i-ru a-bu
DINGIR. [ME]
4)
[dea ar
Z]U.AB mu-im-[mu
mt]
1 Restored from A.0.101.17 i 1. Also see A.0.101.20 line 1,

A.0.101.47 line 1, Layard, ICC 87 lines 1-2, and Michel, WO
1 (1947-52) p. 456 i 1. 2 Restored from 3 R 7 i 1, Layard,
ICC 87 lines 2-3, and Michel, WO 1 p. 456 i 1-2. Also note
A.0.101.20 line 2. 3 EN KUR.KUR 'lord of the lands' is an
epithet of Enlil. See, for example, A.0.87.1 i 4. Other
instances of it appearing before the god's name are:
A.0,101.20 lines 2-3, A.0.101.47 line 2, 3 R 7 i I, and Layard,
1-13) [God Aur, king of] all the [great] gods;

[god Anu, king of] the Igigu and Anun[naku]
gods; lord of the lands, god Enlil, exalted one, father of the gods; [god Ea, king of] the aps, who
decrees [destinies; god Sn, king of the] lunar
ICC 87 line 3. 4a The beginning of the line is restored from

A.0.101.17 i 3, A.0.101.47 line 3, Michel, WO 1 p. 456 i 3,
WO 2 p. 28 i 6, 3 R 7 i 2, and Layard, ICC 87 line 5. Also
note A.0.101.20 line 4. 4b The end of the line is restored
from Layard, ICC 87 line 5. Parallel texts otherwise have bel
nmeqi hassi lord of wisdom (and) understanding':
A.0.101.17 i 4, A.0.101.20 line 4, A.0.101.47 line 3, Michel,
WO 1 p. 456 i 3, WO 2 p. 28 i 6.
Tukult-Ninurta ii A.O.100.15165
[dsn ar a-g]e-e EN [namrr]
iKUR ge-ru u-tu-ru EN [hegall]
5)
6)
7)
[dama DJI.KUD AN-e u KI-te
[mumaêr
gimri(1)]
8)
9)
[dmarduk]
ABGAL DINGIR.MES [bel
trti(1)]
d
MA qar-rad ^NUN.GAL U
a-nun-[na-ki\
10) [d]u.GUR gt-ma-lu [ar tamhr]

11) r d i n u s k u na-a-i GI.GIDRU Kv-te [ilu mul-
t]a-lu
12)
NIN.LL hi-ir-ti
BAD um-mi
DINGIR. M[E
rabti]
13)
INANNA SAG-// AN-e u KI-te
disk, lord of [brilliance]; god Adad, the exceptionally strong, lord of [abundance; god ama],
judge of heaven and underworld, [commander of
all; god Marduk], sage of the gods [(and) lord of
omens]; god Ninurta, warrior of the Igigu and
Anun[naku] gods; [god] Nergal, perfect one,
[king of battle]; god Nusku, bearer of the holy
sceptre, circumspect [god]; goddess Ninlil, spouse
of the god Enlil, mother of the [great] gods; goddess Istar, foremost in heaven and underworld,
who [is consummate] in the canons [of combat];
pa-ra-a[s
qardti uklulot]
14)
DINGIR.MES GAL.ME-/E ga-me-ru-ut

MU-IM^MU^ DNAM.ME
15) a ti-bu--nu
GI.LAL --mu
E.BAR-/
mu-r-bu-
' 1 [arrt]
16)
GIS./W/://-//-DMA NUN-? na-a-[da
ry(1)]
17) na-ram bi-[bil libbun ...]

18) sa ina .TR um-mi ki-ni-[i ...]
19) n[ab]-ni-ti a-na nab-ni-ti EN.ME u-[tenn
( . . . ) ] X ID KI UN.ME X [...] a M KV-ti X [...]
20) [...] n-pe- i-kn bu-na-ni-a i-e-r[i

ueklilma]
21)
[...] kur u a i e ra
GISKIM-DMA MAN
[dannu ar kiati(1)]
22) [l ann ar kibrt arbcPi ar kal malk bl
bl utullu ar arrni(1) i-ip-p]u na-cP-du
(ina)
MU d-ma
GI.GIDRU TK^-[/W
nadnataumma]
23) [ni bcPlt enlil ultapiru gimirta r^
knu(?) a zi]k-ri-u UGU ma-li-ki n-bu-u [tam-mu sru]
24) [a aur kakku uahhiluma ana muûrt
kibrt arbaî(1) ana d\a-ri i-qu-ru u-me
kab-ta [tukult-ninurta(1)]
5 Sec A.0.99.2 line 1 and the note there. 6 Restored from

A.0.101.47 line 4 and Layard, ICC 87 line 7. Also note
A.0.101.20 line 6. 7 Restored from A.0.99.2 line 2,
A.0.101.17 i 9, A.0.101.47 line 5, and Layard, ICC 87 line 8.
Also note A.0.101.20 line 7. In Michel, WO 1 p. 456 i 5 the
text has bel gimri lord of all'. 8 The parallels have two
different formulae: apkallu dbi trti A.0.101.17 i 5, apkal

ilni bl rti Michel, WO 2 p. 28 i 8, and Layard, ICC 87
line 9. I have restored A.0.101.20 line 8 after A.0.101.17.
9.2 for DMA has, in error, DINGIR.MES. See A.0.99.2 lines 2-3,
A.0.101.20 line 9, and Layard, ICC 87 lines 9-10. 9.3 for
D
MA has [dnin]-ur(a. 10 Restored from A.0.99.2 line 3,
A.0.101.17 i 8, A.0.101.20 line 10, and Layard, ICC 87 lines
10-11. 11 Restored from A.0.99.2 line 3, A.0.101.17 i 7,
Layard, ICC 87 lines 11-12. Also note A.0.101.20 lines 10-11.
12 Restored from A.0.99.2 line 4, A.0.101.17 i 7-8, and
Layard, ICC 87 lines 12-13. Also note A.0.101.20 lines 11-12.
13 Restored from A.0.99.2 line 4, A.0.101.17 i 10, A.0.101.20
lines 12-13, and Layard, ICC 87 line 13. 13 SAG-//- = rtti,
14-25) Great gods, who take firm decisions, who

decree destinies, whose attack means conflict
(and) strife, who make great [the sovereignty]
of Tukultl-Ninurta, attentive prince, beloved
Ishepherd, their select] one [(...)]; (the gods) who
faithfully [noticed me] in my mother's womb
(and) altered my birth to lordly birth; [...] people
[...] holy [... they] rightly [made perfect] my
features [...] ...; Tukultl-Ninurta, [strong] king,
[unrivalled king of the universe, king of the four
quarters, king of all princes, lord of lords, chief
herdsman, king of kings], attentive purification
priest, [to whom] by command of the god ama
the holy sceptre [was given and who had complete
Enlil, faithful shepherd, whose] name was called
over the princes, [exalted] bishop, [whose weapons the god Assur has sharpened and whose]
honoured name he has pronounced eternally [for
control of the four quarters, ...; Tukultl-Ninurta,
king of Assyria> they called me. Strong king, king
of Assyria, king of the four quarters, sun(god) of
all] people, I;
also in A.0.99.2 line 4; A.0.101.17 i 10; A.0.101.20 line 12;

and A.0.101.28 line 1; ex. 3 has, in error, res-it-ti. 14 Cf.
A.0.99.2 line 5. The master text is a conflation of exs. 1 and 3.
Ex. 1 seem.s to have transposed the epithets putting muirnmu
mti 'who decree destinies' before gmert puruss 'who take
firm decisions' (the latter epithet would have been in the
break). Ex. 3 seems {muimmu mti being in the break) to
have had the sequence followed in the master text. 15-16a Cf.
A.0.87.1 i 16-17. Ex. 3 seems to omit a tibunu tuquntu
asmu 'whose attack means conflict (and) strife' as does
A.0.99.2 line 5, A.0J01.17 i 11, and A.0.101.47 lines 5-6.
Before NUN-T na-a-[da] it has (in error?): [(...)] x ta u dninurta. 16b-17 Cf. A.0.87.1 i 18-19 and Seux, ERAS p. 197.
19a Restored from A.0.99.2 line 6. 19b x SID KI could be
read [N]A 4 .KISIB-/ = kunukk'seals'. 21b-22a Restored from
A.0.87.1 i 28-30. 22b-24a Restored from A.0.87.1 i 32-38.
Cf. Seux, ERAS under the appropriate entries and especially
p. 289 n. 138. Also see A.0.101.47 lines 12-13.
24b-25 Restored from A.0.99.2 line 10. Cf. Seux, ERAS
166
Tukult-Ninurta ii A.O.100.15166
25) [ar mat aur ibbni arru dannu r mat

aur ar kibrt arbaH(1) amu kiat
U]N.ME
a-na-ku
26) [mr adad-nrr...
26-27) [Son of Adad-nrr (II),

son of
Aur]-dn (II), appointee of the great gods, vice[regent of Aur, son of Tiglath-pileser (n), ... son
of A]ur-ra-ii (II), martial sovereign, [trampler
of criminals} ;
mr aur]-KAL-an
GR.ARAD DINGIR.ME GAL.ME [LD(?) aUr]
27) [mr tukult-apil-earra ... mar a]-ur-SAG-ii MAN da-pi-nu [mud targig(1)]
28) \ina umeuma ina pt ilani rabti arruti

bl(1)]-ti
30)
[.. . pa]l-ha-ku u ur-ba-ku ur-[a-na-ku(?)

I
J
[.. . mu-u]n-nr-ba-ku -lum-ma-[ku ...]
31)
32)
[.. .] si-ra-ku ra-ub-b[a-ku ...]

[.. .] x-ku u -pi-ra-ku [...]
33)
34)
[.. .] r i30 na-mad "[...]

[.. . mu-ma!)]-i~>e~i-er kib-[rat(1) arbaH(?.) ...]
35)
[.. .] XX [...]
29)
28-34) [At that time, by the edict of the great

gods, my sovereignty (and) dominion] were
decreed; am king, [I] am lord, [...], I am enormously fearful, [1 am a] hero, [...], I am swift, [I
am] magnificent, [...], I am exalted, [1 am] frightful, [...], I am [...] and I am in command, [... of]
the god Sn, loved one of the god [...] commander of the [four] quarters.
-sa-a ar-ra-Vku EN(?)~I-[W(?) ...]
Lacuna
Lacuna
2
This text, on a fragmentary clay tablet from Aur, records work on a
wall, probably of Baltil, which was the oldest quarter of the city. An
edition of the text's introduction is given under A.0.100.1. The text is
dated in the king's first year.
COMMENTARY
For full information on the fragment, VAT 9631, see
A.0.100.1 where it is listed as 'ex. 1'. The introduction,
edited there, is on the obv. of the fragment. The passage given here is on the rev.
The text is very similar to A.0.100.5 lines 136-45.
Also note A.0.87.2 lines 5"-9" and A.0.87.10 lines

89-93. Restorations are based thereon. For the last few
lines see, for example, A.0.101.38 lines 28-37 and
A.0.101.50 lines 47-49.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1957 Deller, Orientalia NS 26 pp. 268-72 (study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 c 3 (translation)
p. 284 and n. 111. 27b For the restoration at the end of the
line see A.0.99.2 line 12. 28 For the restorations see A.0.99.2
lines 13-14. 29 [pa]l-ha-kut not [ur-r]u-ha-ku (so Seux,
ERAS p. 333 and n. 368), is reasonably certain. For the whole
line see A.0.99.2 line 15 and Seux, ERAS p. 354 and n. 5.

30 [mu-u]n-nr-ba-kw. see von Soden, AHw p. 673b and cf.
Seux, ERAS p. 171 and n. 104. 30 -lum-ma-[ku]\ see Deller,
Orientalia NS 26 (1957) p. 272 and Schramm, EAK 2 p. 9.
167
Tukult-Ninurta iI A.O. 100.15

TEXT

Reverse
Lacuna
1') e-nu-ma BD sa URU b[al(1)]-til(1)
[...]
2') NUN- a-lik pa-ni-[ia] ê^-pu-u [nahma]
3') a-ar-u -me-s[i da]n-na-su [akud itu
uu]
4') a-di gaba-dib-bi- ar-sip -k-[lil eli mahr]
5') -si-im -r-rih NA4.NA.R[U.A altur]
6') [ina] q-reb- -kun NUN-M EG[IR-W anhssu
luddi\
7') [I/(?) N]A4.NA.R.A-/A U-mur-ma HI-[si amn
lipu\
f
8 ) [niq] r 1H-qi ana Ki- lu-te[r aur blu
rab]
9') [u itar be-l]at URU ni-na-a ik-[ribu
iemm]
10') [ina thaz a MAN.M]E-H/ a-ar q-ru-[ubte
ammar lbbu]
11') [lu am-s]a(1)-[u(1)
120 [ITI x UD x.KM t]i-mu
[uba]
Lacuna
rev. l ' - l l ' ) At that time the wall of Baltil (Aur)
of [... which] a prince who preceded [me] had
built [had become dilapidated and] I delineated its
area (and) [dug down] to the bottom of its foundation pit. I reconstructed it [from] top to [bottom] (and) completed (it). I made its decoration
more splendid [than before. I inscribed my]
monumental inscription (and) deposited (it)
therein. [May] a later prince [restore its ruined
(portions)]. May he see my monumental inscription and read (it). [May he anoint (it) with oil],
make sacrifices, (and) return (it) to its place.
[(Then) Aur, the great lord, and the goddess
Istar, mistress] of Nineveh, [will listen to his]
prayers (and) [in wars with kings] on the
battlefield [will cause him to achieve success].
rev. 12') [Month of

Aur-1knu-[uba].
a-ur-la-ki-nu-
...th day], eponymy of
3
This text is from the reverse of a clay tablet fragment found at Aur.
The obverse has been edited with A.0.100.1 ('ex. T) where full details
on the fragment are given. The passages edited here are duplicates, as
far as they are preserved, of the concluding paragraphs of A.0.100.5
(lines 132-46) and thus our text no doubt also described work on the
large palace terrace (see the introduction to A.0.100.5). I have restored
extensively from the parallel passages but this and the line division
may be inaccurate in detail. There are traces on the bottom edge (ha a
u) but whether of a date or something else is unknown (cf. Weidner,
AfO 13 [1939-41] p. 318). If they are of a date, it is not the same as
that of A.0.100.5.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 9-10 (study)
rev. 7' For the restoration at the end of the line see Schramm,
EAK 2 p. 17 and n. 1. rev. 12' For the reading of the
eponymy see Weidner, AfO 13 (1939-41) p. 310, Borger, BiOr

28 (1971) p. 66a (to 'S.6b'), and Schramm, EAK 2 p. 9.
168
Tukult-Ninurta iI A.O.100.15168
TEXT

Reverse
Lacuna
10 [ . . . ] x [ . . . ]
20 [...] x x (x) [...]
3')
rev. 3'-4') [I constructed palaces in the (various)

districts of my land. I hitched up plows in the
up more] grain [than ever before for the needs of
my land. To Assyria I added land and to] its
[people I added] people.
4')
[ekallti ina iddT mtia arsip epinnii ina

idd mtia arkus E.A]M.ME tab-ka-i a^-[ni
ana eriti]
[mtia eli sa pan utir atbuk eli mt aur
mata
5')
6')
Lacuna
eli UN].F~MES~I-SFF UN.ME[
uradd]
[ninurta u palil sa angt irmu bl sri

uatlimnima e-pe] ba-û-ri iq-[bni...]
[dannti ina narkabtia pattti ina libbia
ekdi ina qit-r]u-ub me-ê(-lu^-ti-â^ [ina
pahi adk]
7')
[enma dru a taml rab a ekal bltia a

i]-tu pa-na MAN.MES-*"/ maP-[rte likt
pnia]
8') [pu nahma aur-bl-kala iak aur
D]-rwfi i-tr e-na-ah-ma [tukult-ninurta]
9') [iak aur apil adad-nrr iak asurma
aaru -me]-si dan-na-su ik-ud u[-u ina
muhhi kisir]
10') [ad danni addi 3 ME tibki ana 20 libnti
rapti i]-tu ki-i-di UGU mah-r[i-i-u
muhhu]
11') [uraddi ukabbir itu uu adi gabadibbu
arsip -]k-lil UGU mah-ri-i -[si-me uarrih]
12') [nar akun nar a arrni A]D.ME-7 mahru-ti .ME Vap-[u-u niq aqqi]
13') [ana arunu utr rub EGIR]-W e-nu-ma BD

u- -[al-barma ennah]
14') [anhssu luddi nar itu ]-ri-t-nu la-a am-sak [amn lipus\
15') [niq liqqi ana arunu lutr aur adad i]kri-be- i-e-~em(7)-(x)-mu~i-[ a um atra]
16') [ipaitu u nar itu arunu] îD-am-sarku^ a-ur [adad umu]
17') [u zrau ina mti] lu-hal-li-q[u]
rev. 5-6') [The gods Ninurta and Nergal, who

and] commanded [me] to hunt. [I killed sixty
strong lions from my ... chariot with] my [wildly]
vigorous assault [with the spear].
rev. 7'-13'a) [At that time the wall of the large
terrace of my lordly palace which] previously [earlier] kings [who preceded me had built (when)
it became dilapidated Aur-b1-ka1a vice-regent
of Aur had] rebuilt (it) had again become dilapidated and [I, Tuku1t-Ninurta, vice-regent of
Assur, son of Adad-nrrT (II) (who was) also
vice-regent of Assur], delineated [its area] (and)
dug down to the bottom of its foundation pit. [I
laid its foundation in bedrock. I made it wider by
adding] from the outside [300 layers of brick to
the (wall which was already) 20 broad bricks
(wide). 1 reconstructed it from top to bottom and]
completed (it). I made its [decoration] more splendid than before. [I deposited my monumental inscriptions]. I anointed with oil [the monumental
inscriptions of the] earlier [kings], my forefathers,
[made sacrifices, (and) returned (them) to their
places].
rev, 13'b-15'a) [May a later prince], when this
wall [becomes old and dilapidated, restore its
ruined (portions)]. iMay he not remove my [monumental inscriptions from] their places (but)
[anoint (them) with oil, make sacrifices, (and) return (them) to their places. Then Aur (and) the
god Adad] will listen to his prayers,
rev. 15'b-17;) [He who erases my inscribed name
and] removes [my monumental inscriptions from
their places: May] Assur (and) [the god Adad]
destroy [his name and his seed from the land].
Tukult-Ninurta II A.O.100.15191
4
This text, on a clay tablet fragment from Aur, presumably recorded
work on some structure at Aur. Only the obverse is reasonably well
preserved, however, and this has been edited with A.0.100.1 (as
'ex. 3'), where full details on the fragment are given. The reverse is
virtually illegible.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1919-23 Ebeling, KAR no. 349 (copy)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 c 4 (study)
TEXT
(For the
Reverse
Lacuna
1')
20
3')
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
lio
Lacuna
obverse see A 0 100 1)
x a x [...]
x a u(1) [...]
(?) i-na x x [...]
x a-na pa-ni [...]
rev. 1-110 No translation warranted.
X i-na DINGIR [...]
-a-ti UD [...]
XX [...]
XX [...]
ga ru [...]
x is [...]
X [...]
5
This is the most extensive version of the annals of Tukultl-Ninurta n
and it is inscribed on a reasonably well-preserved clay tablet, which
originally came from Aur.
This text begins in media res and thus one or more tablets, with an
introduction and earlier events, must have preceded it. The portion
that appears on the preserved tablet first narrates campaigns in the
lands Nairi (lines 1-29) and Mount Kirriuru (lines 30-40). Then there
is a lengthy passage (lines 41-127) in which an expedition is made
down the Wadi Tharthar to Dur-Kurigalzu and Sippar in Babylonia
and then up the Euphrates past Anat to the Habur. After marching up
the Habur, the king swept across the Jezireh to Huzirina on the Balih
and then back home to Aur. The narrative, which reads like an
itinerary, is very monotonous in its repetition of the same phrases
170
Tukult-Ninurta II A.O. 100.15 170

such as 'Moving on from A I approached B. I pitched camp and spent
the night in B.' Curiously, there is continuous fluctuation between first
and third person in this itinerary, even within the description of one
stage of the march. In the translation I have used the first person
throughout for smoother reading and put an asterisk after the pronoun when the text actually is in the third person.
This itinerary, like parallel texts (see the introduction to A.0.99.2),
is an invaluable source for the study of historical geography. Like
those parallel texts, no military clashes are reported for this lengthy
expedition. Local rulers give the Assyrian king valuable gifts without
any protest. Concerning this 'show of strength' campaign see the introduction to A.0.99.2. This passage also contains the first known references to reports of hostile acts being used as the justification for
Assyrian attacks. This practice reappears in texts of Ashurnasirpal II
(A.0.101.1 i 101-102, ii 23-24, and ii 49-50).
After the lengthy itinerary, there follow three short paragraphs
which describe, respectively, the total extent of Tukultl-Ninurta II'S
conquests (lines 128-31), his adding more land and people to Assyria
(lines 132-33), and his hunting achievements (lines 134-35). For parallels see the introduction to A.0.87.1.
The building section (lines 136-41 and cf. A.0.100.1) concerns the
reconstruction of the wall of the large palace terrace which had previously been built by Aur-b1-ka1a. This is presumably the same as 'the
large terrace of New Palace', the restoration of which is described in
the Broken Obelisk (A.0.89.7 v 20-31). The text concludes with blessings (lines 142-44), curses (lines 145-46), and the date (line 147) for
the sixth regnal year (885 BC).
CATALOGUE
Museum
Dimensions
Lines
Ex.
number
(cm)
preserved
cpn
1
2
AO 4655
VAT 10422
26.5x19
10.3x8+
1-147
32-49, 80-100
COMMENTARY
The master text is ex. 1 with a few minor restorations
from the clay tablet fragment called ex. 2 in lines where
it is preserved. The tablet on which ex. 1 is inscribed is
badly worn in some places and the readings there are

very uncertain. In many cases it is not clear if the
plural sign is ME or ME.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1909 Scheil, Tn. (ex. 1, photo, copy, edition)
1910 Winckler, OLZ 13 112-14 (ex. 1, study)
1922 Horn, ZA 34 pp. 123-56 (exs. 1-2, study)
1924 Thureau-Dangin and Dhorme, Syria 5 pp. 277-79 (ex. 1,
study)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 400-17 (ex. 1, t r a n s l a t i o n )
1930 Forrer, RLA 1/4 pp. 296-97 (ex. 1, s t u d y )
1953 Goetze, JCS 7 p. 58 n. 38 (ex. 1, s t u d y )
1957 Deller, Orientalia NS 26 pp. 268-72 (ex. 1, study)
1963 Barnett, JHS 83 pp. 1-26 (ex. 1, study)

1970 Schramm, BiOr 27 pp. 147-60 and pis. I-VI (ex. 1, copy,
edition)
1980 Khne, Bagh. Mitt. 11 pp. 49-62 (ex. 1, study)
1980 Kessler, Nordmesopotamien pp. 34, 62, and 230 (ex. 1,
study)
1983 Rllig, Damas. Mitt. 1 p. 282 (ex. 1, study)
171
TEXT
1)
[ina(1) K]UR-E KUR.KUR na-i-ri
2)
KU]R(?) su(1)-e(1)-ia(1) at-ta-bal-kt [...] x

[...]
^-(D--ni ina ta-ia-r-i-ia â^ i-tu
KUR.KUR na-i-ri URU r/a(?)i-[.,.] x ina I[ZI(?)
arup(1) (...)]
3)
K[U 4 (?)
DUMU. ME-5I/ DUMU. M UN US, ME-5U DAM. MES NG.GA .GAL-//-SW ANE.KUR. RA, ME- a-
1-3) I [entered] the mountains of the lands Nairi.

I crossed Mount Sueia. I changed [direction]
(and) on my return from the lands Nairi [I burnt
...] the city A7[...]. I [uprooted] his sons, his
daughters, his wives, the property of his palace,
(and) his horses [and brought them to my city
Assur].
s[u-ha ...] x x x x [...]

4)
5)
ina GIl.tukul-ti a-ur EN-ia KUR.KUR.ME

D\J--[ na~i pu-ul-hi -sa-hi-pi-i-na mbi-x[...]-fi am-me~b[a-a?-l]
a-na UGU-ia lu i-pu-ra ma-â(1) m/;/(?)~i-ala-si L e-mu-qi-a a^ na~' [muhh]- a-sa-para E[GIR-51/(?) . . . ]
6)
i-tu URU -di a-na URU -x [X] x na si Ii hi

(1)-a-te ir-te-de-ma BLA-U a-di EN h[i-t
...]
7)
8)
NG. GA-5Z NG.U.ME-5W al-at-s[u nisirti]

.GAL-1- ma-â-tu DINGIR.UEl-ni- ma(1)i~ar(!)-i(1)i-su ^kd(1)^-[r(1) ...]
i-tu ki(1)-li-u ra-na^ URU ni-[n]u-a r/(?)ta(ip-[a]b-ku a-na VGV-ia ub-lu-[-n]
9)
[k ina ki]-u-ti-ia u-u-ru-i ina URU ni-nu-a

us-ba-ku-u-ni r/w(?) ik(1)^-ki-ru-ni-ma(1) a[na ...] x
10) [x (x)] x x a-sa-pa-rra^ EN KUR-/ A.S
^nanP-ra-si
i-du-ku-u
K.BABBAR-SW K.GI-
4-8) With the support of Aur, my lord, I

overwhelmed all their lands with my fear. Bi[...,
son] of Amme-bapI], wrote to me: 'With regard
to /alasi, 1 have sent my forces against him.
[They pursued him and] he went from the city
Udu to the city a[...]...' His son together with
the (other) guilty men, [...] his property, his possessions, his booty, the extensive [treasure of] his
palace, his gods, his herds, as gifts [he (i.e. Bi...,
son of Amme-baâlT) took and] they were removed from his custody to Nineveh (and) brought
before me.
9-10) [While] I resided [with] my outstanding

power in Nineveh, there was a rebellion and I sent
my forces to [...]. They conquered him/it as far
as the mountains, difficult terrain. His silver,
gold, property, [... were brought] to me.
SU(1) NG.GA.MES- [... ub-]u-^lP-n

11)
[ m ( ? ) x]-x-x-la-a0)
rcR(?).ARAD(?)I i-na
u4-
me--ma [a]-na UGU-la i-pu-ur a-na

KUR.KUR na-i-ri ap-s[a-te ...]
12) a-na e-teq hur--ni--nu i-ha-a-ah lb-bu te x Iii x x i-na GI.tukul-[ti ...]
13) Ina ITI.SIG4 UD 1 .KAM Ii-me niNGiR-mil-ku
i-tu URU ni-nu-a at-tm-mu a-n[a]
TKUR.KUR(?)1 [...]
14) D su-ub-na-at a-na KUR ka-ia-r[i] at-ta-balfkt 1 a-na URU p[a]-ti-î(1)-kun(ip

[...]
15)
DUMU za-ma-a-ni
aq-t-rib
ina UGU(?) X X
x 1u-^D -^kun^ (traces) [...]

16) 2 URU.ME-ZZ/ ina li-me-tu-u ap-^pH
E. TAM^.ME E.IN.NU.ME KUR- X X X X
6 URU -x [x]: Kessler, Nordmesopotamien p. 62 suggests

URU -(?)-[ra] but the traces are very uncertain.
6-8 Schramm has proposed that these lines are direct speech
but where does the speech end? 10 There is not enough room
11-29) [...]la, the governor at that time, wrote to

me: T o the fortified lands Nairi [..,] his heart is
set upon traversing their mountains
With the
support [of Assur, my lord], in the month Sivan,
the first day, eponymy of Il-milku, I moved out
from Nineveh. [/ marched] to the lands [Nairi ...
at] the River Subnat I crossed to Mount Kaiiari.
To the city P[a]tikun [belonging to Ammebaâll],
(15) a man of Blt-Zamni, I approached. I established ... against ... [...] I destroyed two cities in
its environs. The grain (and) straw of his land, ...
[...], the people of his land I carried off. I
brought about their defeat. His sons [...] I felled
many with the sword. I had mercy on him. His
son ... [...]. To save his life he submitted to me
to restore all of L e-mu-qi (so Schramm). 11 Does ipur 'he

sent', without ma, introduce direct speech here? 15 After
aqtirib the line is very difficult to read and Schramm's
transliteration is questionable. 16 x x x x: Schramm read
172

UN.ME KUR-5W a-na hu-ub-ta-ni
Rlu-(7y*
ah-ta-bat db-da--nu ^^-kun DUMU.ME x [.,.]

na GI.TUKUL -am-qit ma-a^-du-te f re-emu I ar-ta-i- DUMU(?)-SW(?) x x x x x [...]
a-na u-zu-ub ZI.ME-SW fGR.u.MEi-ia is-baat rem-mu-ut-tu -kun-- [...]
L.GAL.ME-0 i-na lb-b[i] (traces) [...]
ZABAR.ME AN.NA AN. BAR DUG.ME X X X X
[-.]
ANE.KUR.RA.ME AKE.GR. NUN.NA.MES -Tia
IGI L.GAL.ME-3T - [...]
a-na ra-me-ni-ia --a mam-me-ba-d>-li

TDUMU(?)T mza-ma-a-ni re-mu-ut-tu -^kun-P URU. me[-//]
na-tu-te --as-bi-it ub-tu n-eh-tu -e-iib--nu ma-mit a-ur EN-ia ina UGU
TAIAM(?)-I X [ . . . ]
-tam-me- m-ma at-tu-nu

ANE. KUR. TRA". MES a-HU KR.ME-/FF S-al-
(and) 1 was merciful towards him. [...] (20) my

officers inside ... Hostages [...]. Bronze, tin, iron,
pots, ... [...]. Horses, mules before my officers
[...] I took away for myself. I was merciful towards Amme-ba^, a man of Bt-Zamni. I established (them) in abandoned cities (and) settled
them in peaceful dwellings. (25) I had him take an
oath by Aur, my lord, before the statue of ...
[...]: Tf you give horses to my enemies (and) foes,
may the god Adad [strike your] land with terrible
lightning.' At that time Tukultl-Ninurta fashioned
his tall steles, two kurbu-genii, (and) brought
[them] into the temple. In the walls of the main
forecourt of the god N[un]namnir, at the door of
the god Enpi, I set up. Silver of the lands Nairi
[...] of Amme-ba^lT, a man of Bt-Zamni, my
own conquest which I had taken, two-thirds [I
gave] to the god [...] (and) one-third I established
in my palace. At that time [I sacrificed] 60 ducks
(and) (other) fowl to Aur, my lord.
me-ia ta-ad-nu-ni D10 (i)-na(1) bi-ri-qu-

HUL Ku[R-/:a libriq]
ina UA-me--ma MGISKIM-dMA ib-na a-suum-me-ni--te si-ru-te 2 dku-ri~be ina .KUR
w-x-x-[x ( . . . ) ] - m
ina i-ga-re .Ki-KiSAL-ma-hi dn[un]-nam~nir

ina K den-pi ul-te-zi-iz K.BABBAR
K[U]R.KUR na-i-[r]i
[...]
a am-me-ba-ai~li DUMU za-ma-a-ni ki-it-ti

qa-ti-ia al-qa-a 2-ta qa-ta a-na d[...]
1 -et qa-ta ina .GAL-l-ia -kun ina U4-me-ma
60 GAL.MUEN.ME MUEN.ME
UDU. SISKUR.ME a-na a-ur EN Ja [aqqi]

na ITI.DU6 UD 17.KM i-tu URU.-URU at-
tuni4- na n-re-bi KUR (erasure) kr-ri-ri e-ru-bu i-tu n-re-bi [ KUR kr-ri-u-r]i
at-tu-mu ina k-ti KUR ur-ru-ub-nu KUR iru-un K\)R-e dan-nu-ti ina MAN.ME-W
AD.ME-~/aT q-reb-[unu ...]
ma-am-ma ina fb-bi la-a e-pu-u il-ka-kaat KUR a-ur ma-am-ma la-a e-x-x-ki x - [ . . . ]
lu- e-ru-ub ina qaq-q-ri A. nam-ra-si
DU-ak-ma ap-a-q a-ar ina MAN. MES-/
AD.ME-/[A mamma]
na lb-bi la-a e-te-qu ah-lu-up ina lb-^bP
-tam-RdP-ih
a-na URU.ME-W/ a KUR la-
da-a-ni a KUR Ra^-[ru-mu(1) u(1)]
'iron, bronze' but the reading is very

uncertain. 20 After lb-h[] there are illegible traces of several
signs. Schramm read ' -e-rib //-//(?)i 'I brought (my officers)
inside. Hostages {...)' on analogy with A.O. 101.1 i 83. 24 natu-te: nat = nad 'to abandon' in texts of Tn. II and Asn. II.
AN(?).BAR ZAB[AR
30-40) In the month Tishri, seventeenth day, I

moved out from Inner City (Aur) (and) entered
the passes of Mount Kirriuru. Moving on from
the passes of [Mount Kirriuru] I entered into
Mounts Urrubnu (and) Irun, mighty mountains
within which no one among the kings my forefathers had done [battle] and no one had ... the
caravans of Assyria [...]. I marched over difficult
terrain and through rough territory where no
[one] among the kings my forefathers had passed
I glided (and) penetrated therein. I approached
the cities of the land Ladnu which the
A[ramaeans and] (35) the Lullu held. I conquered
30 of their cities between the mountains. I carried
See the note to A.0.101.1 ii 10. 25 dl() ... [libriq]: cf. RIMA 1
p. 134 lines 61-62 and p. 153 lines 27-28; A.0.87.1 viii 83-84;
A.O. 101.40 line 43. 26 One expects a-su-um-me-ni-te- si-rate.
173

35) KUR lu-ul-lu -kal-lu-ni aq-t-rib 30
URU.MEl-ni--nu ina bir-ti KUR.MES-AZ/ KURad [x].MES--nu 2-e [...] x
36) -lu-la URU.ME-/I/-NFTFI-TFW ap-pl aq-qur ina
IZI.ME -ru-up si-ta-te--nu i[g-d\u-ru
KUR-2
mar-[su]
37) i-sa-ab-tu ina 2-e u4-me ina KUR-E KUR is-ruun la-a ina GI.GIGIR.ME-T la-a pit-hal-li it(ta)-bal-rkn-t[u
...]
38)
ina G1R.IL ME- a-na KUR-E KUR i-ru-un
a-
sar MVL-qi TIS.MUSEN KUR AN-e mu-tapri- q-reb- l[a-a Paru]

39) ar-ki--nu lu- e-li TA EDIN KUR- KUR i-ruun a-di D za-ba ap-le-e ar-ki--n[u arted]
40) al-la-su-nu a-na la me-ni -te-ra re-hu-te-nu a-(na) u-zu-ub zi.uz--nu D za-ba
ap-le-e [...]
41)
m
ina ITI.BR UD 26.KM ina li-me
na-î-diDINGIR Ris^-tu URU.-URU at-tum4-
ina
mud~ba-ri(1) GAR-an be-de TA m[ud-ba-r]

42) a-tu-mu D tar-ta-ra e-te-bir GAR-an be-de
ki-ma ma-il u4-me A.ME kul-(lat)-si(1)-na
ih-u-bu ba[t-tu-bat]-te
43)
4 ME 70 P.ME uh-tap-pi ina GR.II ina UGU

P(?) x M MH e tax (x) GAZ-: ina 2-e
u4-me ina UGU P[(?) ... M]U
44) A.ME mar-ru ka-ra-i la-a -ab-bu- i-tu

UGU P.ME it-tm-^mus^ hu-ri-ib-te â^-[sabat]
45) ina UGU D tar-ta-ra GAR-an be-de 4 u4-me
i-di D tar-ta-^ra ir-te-di ina ger-ri-
id-di TD-! [tar-t]a-ra
46) 8 GU4.AM.ME GAZ-ak ina UGU pi-a-te D
tar-ta-ra GAR-an be-de A.MES ih-tu-bu TA UGU
pi-a-te
47) a D tar-ta-ra it-tu-mu ina ha-ma-te A.S
nam-ra-si ar-te-di ina A.S mar-g a-ni
48)
D.ME a-ta-mar bat-tu-bat-te-i-na

P.ME
uh-tap-pi-
A.MES HI.A.ME GAR-an be-de
A. MES DU u4-me u mu-e i h-tu-bu

49) a-na UGU D.HAL.HAL aq-t-rib-ma ma-kana-a-te sa KUR -tu-u^ a-di URU kap-ra-ni-unu it-ku-nu ' UGU I
50) D.HAL.HAL ak-ta-ad GAZ.MES--nu a-duk
sal-la-su-nu ma-â-ta a-sa-la ina URU a-su-si
GAR-an be-rdei
51) i-tu URU a-su-si at-tu-mus ina UD 3.KM ina
la-a sa-rbiO pa-ni la mu-de ge-ri GIR.TIR
ar-te-di
52) a-na \jRV.BAD-mku-ri-gal-zu aq-ti-rib GAR-an
38 T8.MUEN KUR AN-E: probably over an erasure. Ex. 2

has TI8.MUEN-/7 [...] indicating eri am (against Schramm,
off their two [.,.]. I destroyed, razed, (and) burnt

their cities. The rest of them were frightened off
(and) took to difficult mountains. On the second
day, (since) in the hills of Mount Irun one could
cross neither with my chariots nor with cavalry
[...], I ascended after them on foot up the hills of
Mount Isrun, a rough area wherein even the
winged eagle of the heavens [cannot go. I pursued] them from the steppe of the hills of Mount
Isrun to the Lower Zab. I took booty without
number from them. The rest of them [crossed] the
Lower Zab to save their lives.
41-51) In the month Nisan, twenty-sixth day, eponymy of Naidi-i1, I moved out from Inner City
(Aur). I* pitched camp (and) spent the night in
the desert. Moving on from the desert I crossed
the Wadi Tharthar, pitched camp, (and) spent the
night. By midday all the water was drawn (and) I
had exhausted (lit. 'destroyed') 470 wells in the environs. I killed on foot at the well ... On the
second day at the well [...] the water was too
bitter to satisfy the troops. Moving on from the
wells I [took to] the desert, (45) pitched camp,
(and) spent the night by the Wadi Tharthar. For
four days I* followed the banks of the Wadi
Tharthar. On my* expedition along the banks of
the Wadi [Tharth]ar I killed eight wild bulls. I*
pitched camp (and) spent the night at the mouth
of the Wadi Tharthar. Water was drawn. Moving
on from the mouth of the Wadi Tharthar I continued through the hamtu, difficult terrain. In
the grasslands I sighted streams. The wells around
them were fallen in (lit. 'destroyed'). (Nevertheless) water was abundant (and) I* pitched camp
(and) spent the night. Water was drawn all day
and all night. I approached the Tigris and captured the settlements of the land of the Utu together with their villages, which were situated on
the Tigris. I massacred them (and) carried off
much booty from them. I* pitched camp (and)
spent the night in the city Asusu. Moving on from
the city Asusu, on the third day I continued
through forest without a leader or guide.
52-64a) I
approached
Dr-Kuriga1zu,
pitched
EAK 2 p. 9). 42 kul-(lat)-si[1)-na: the kul (not mu) is clear.

Cf. Schramm. EAK 2 p. 9.
174
TukuIt-Ninurta II A.O. 100.5 174

be-de ri-tifi uRV.Br>-mt~ kui-ri-gal-zu r/7tus-mu D pa-at-ti-dBAD
e-te-bir GAR- be-de i-tu D pa-a-i-dBAr>
at-tu-m[u] ina URU si-ip-pu-ru--d-ma
URU
si-ip-pu-[r}u---^ma
GAR-an he-de i-tu URU si-ip-pu-ru---ma

at-turri4- a-na SAG D pu-[ra]t-te as-sa-bat
ina URU sa-la-ii
GAR-an be-de i-tu URU sa-la-te i-tu-mu ina
pU-[u]t URU.BD-TI.LA GAR-d[n] be-^d^
URU.BD-TI.LA GR
am-ma-te
D pu-rat-te ^sa^-a-l îP-tu URU.BD-TI.LA

it-turri4-cn ina URU ra-h-im-me Rpu-uO
URU ^ra-pi-qiP
GAR-an be-de URU ra-pi-qu GR a[m-m\a-\ te '
TD I p[u-rat-t]e Rsa-a-li i-tu^ URU ra^hiitiP-me 1 it-tum4-d]
ina A. kab-si-te UGU D pu-rat-\ te ' GARan b[e-de i]-^tu^ URU ^kab i-si-i~te iO-tum* na TURUÎ da-*
ia-e^-ti
GAR-an be-de i-tu URU da-ia-e-ti at-tu-mu

ina pu-ut URU id na SAG e-ni ku-up-ri
a-ur NA4 s-me-ta
DINGIR.ME GAL.ME ina
lb-bi a-zu-ni G AR^ an be^-de URU d GR

am-ma-te D pu-rat-[t]i
sa-a-li i-tu URU d it-[t]u^[m]u ina URU
[h]ar-b-e GAR-an be-de URU har-b-e GR
a[m]-ma-te
D pu-rat-te sa-l îs^-tu URU har-^b-e^
[at-tu-m]u in a u-al-i UGU D pu-^rat-te'*
at-ta-(gi(1))-i
A.ME mu-e D u4-me ih-tu-bu hu-riîb^-tu
KUR~/ a-ar la-- IGI hi-it-ru-ub A.GR
is-sa-bat
ina KUR-/ qaq-qar su-ma-me-te GAR-ân^ bed[e] ris^-tu qaq-qar su-ma-me-te it-tu%-mu
ina -al-l
URU hu-du-b-li UGU [D pu]-rat-te GAR[an b]e-t~de~' i-tu URU hu-du-bi-li [i]t-tu^
[m]u ina bir-t
URU za-di-da-a-ni URU sa-bi-re-te GAR-an bede URU sa-bi-ru-tu ina MURUB4 D pu-rat-te
sa-li
ri-tu1 URU za-^dP-da-a-ni it-* tum4-^ ina
pu-ut URU su--ri URU tal-bi-i GAR-an be-de
URU tal-m-i
ina [M]URUB4 D pu-rat-te sa-[(]i i-[t]u I~URU~I
su--r [it]-tus-mu a-na URU a-na-at M KUR
SU'M
60 NA4 s-me-ta = asurnitiu. See CAD 1/2 (A) p. 348a.

60 sa-zu-ni is clear and a reading i-pi-su-ni is impossible
(Deller, Orientalia NS 26 [1957] p. 272). It appears to be the
third masc. (mistake for fem.) sing. siative subjunctive of
camp, (and) spent the night. Moving on from

Dr-Kuriga1zu I crossed the Patti-Enlil Canal,
pitched camp, (and) spent the night. Moving on
from the Patti-Enlil Canal I* pitched camp (and)
spent the night in Sippar-of-amas. Moving on
from Sippar-of-ama I took (the way) towards
the Euphrates, (55) pitched camp (and) spent the
night in the city Salatu. Moving on from the city
Salatu I* pitched camp (and) spent the night before the city Dr-ba1ti Dr-ba1ti lies on the
other bank of the Euphrates. Moving on from
Dr-ba1ti I* pitched camp (and) spent the night
in the city Rahimmu which is before the city
Rapiqu Rapiqu lies on the other bank of the
Euphrates. Moving on from Rahimmu I* pitched
camp (and) spent the night in the area of Kabsitu
which is upon the Euphrates. Moving on from the
city Kabsitu I* pitched camp (and) spent the night
in the city Daiasetu. Moving on from Daiaetu
(60) I* pitched camp (and) spent the night before
the city Idu, at the bitumen spring, where the
stele of the great gods is erected Idu lies on the
other bank of the Euphrates. Moving on from the
city Idu I* pitched camp (and) spent the night in
the city Harb Harb lies on the other bank of
the Euphrates. Moving on from Harb I tramped
about in the meadow of the Euphrates. Water
was drawn at night (and) all day. In a desolate
mountainous region where there was no vegetation I* set out for the most desolate part of the
plain (and) pitched camp (and) spent the night in
the mountains, a land of thirst.
64b-73a) Moving on from the land of thirst I*

pitched camp (and) spent the night in the meadow
of the city Hudubilu which is upon the Euphrates.
Moving on from Hudubilu I* pitched camp (and)
spent the night between the city Zadidnu (and)
Sabiritu Sabiritu lies (on an island) in the
Euphrates. Moving on from Zadidnu I* pitched
camp (and) spent the night before the cities Sru
(and) Taibi Ta1bi (Talmis) lies (on an island)
in the Euphrates. Moving on from Sru I approached the city Anat of the land Suhu Anat
lies (on an island) in the Euphrates. 1* pitched
camp (and) spent the night before Anat. I received bountiful tribute (70) from Ill-ibni, governor of the land Suhu: three talents of silver, 20
izuzzu: *azzuzni > azzunni. 66-67 za-di-da-a-ni: za-, not

ha-, is clear and there is no reason to amend the sign (Forrer,
RLA 1 p. 284a and Schramm, EAK 2 p. 9).
TukuIt-Ninurta II A.O. 100.5

69) âq-(P-rib URU a-na-at ina TMURUB^ D purat-te sa-li ina rpu^-ut URU a-na-at GAR-an
be-de na-mur-[t]u HI.A.MES
70) mT>iNGiR-ib-ni -kn KUR su-hi 3 G[U]N
71)
K.BABBAR 20 MA.NA K.GI GI n-ma-ti

i-ni
3 GI.NA5.ME i-ni
18 SIG4-ME AN.NA.ME 4 0 GI kab-la-te.ME
175
minas of gold, an ivory couch, three ivory chests,

18 tin bars, 40 furniture legs of meskannu-wood,
a bed of meskannu-wood,
six dishes of
meskannu-wood, a bronze bath-tub, linen garments, garments with multi-coloured trim, purple
wool, oxen, sheep, bread, (and) beer.
GI mes-kan-ni GI.N GI mes-kan-ni 6

GI.BANUR.ME GIS mes-kan-t
72) nr-ma-ak-tu ZABAR TG lu-bl-tu TUG.GADA
TG lu-bl-tu bir-me SG.ZA.GN.MI GU4.ME
UDU.ME NINDA.ME KA.ME[S]
73) am-hur-u îs^-tu URU a-na-at it-tum4- ina

URU ma-qi-te GAR-an be-d[e i-t]u URU maqi-te fit-tug-musi
74) ina URU ha-ra-da [GA]R-A/I be-de URU ha-rada GR am-^ma^-te ID pu-[ra]t-te sa-[]i itu URU
75) URU ha-ra-da it-tUg-mu ina URU ka-i-e-te

GAR-an be-de i-[tu UR]U ka-i-le-te Vit-tu%mu
76)
77)
ana URU hi-in-da-ni

aq-ti-rib 10 MA.NA K.GI
li-iq-tu 10 MA.NA K[.BAB]BAR 2 TGUN"!
AN.NA.ME
1 GUN IM.SES 1 U- BAD.ME ZABAR 10
MA.NA sa-di-du 8 TMA^.NA

NA4.IM. (bi).zi.da
78)
30 ud-ra-te
50 GU4.ME 30 ANE.ME 14
MUEN.ME GAL.ME 2 ME UDU.ME N1NDA.ME

KA.ME E.IN.NU.ME E k-SU-tU.ME
79) na-mur-tu marn-rne-a-la-ba i KUR"I hi-inda-na-ia at-ta-har GAR- ari^ be-de URU heen-da-nu
80) ina GR am-ma-te D pu-rat-te sa-Ii ina daia-la-te- sa hu-ri-ib-te lu-ur-me GAZ-ak
81) DUMU.ME lu-ur-me MUEN.ME ina u -sabbi-ta ina da-ia-la-te- id-di D pu-rat-te
DRA.MAJME 1
82) GAZ-ak DUMU.ME DRA.MA.ME na TU-! sab-bi-ta i-^tu^ KUR hi-[i]n-da-ni riP-tu*mu
83) ina KUR-/ a SAG D ^pu^-rat-te ina ka-la-pate x x x AN.BAR Rlu(1) u(1)-pe~-es-^si(7)-id()
i(1)-ta(?)-ba1(1)-kt(ip
84) rin URU na-gi-a-te GAR-an be-de i-^tu^
URU na-g i-a-te tiH-tu-mu na -al- URU
a-qa-ar-ba-ni
85)
aq-ti-rib
2 ME UDU.ME 30 GU4.MES
RE^.AM.ME SE.IN.NU.MES NINDA.ME K AS. MES
na-mur-tu sa mmu-da-da KUR la-qa-a-ia RaOta-har

83 The reading of the end of the line is very uncertain. In
ex. 1 the three signs before AN.BAR cannot be ZABAR. Ex. 2
may read [...] I ( ? ) AN(?).BAK(?) I M-PE-IW(?)H..]. Cf.
73b-85a) Moving on from Anat 1* pitched camp

(and) spent the night in the city Maqitu. Moving
on from Maqitu I* pitched camp (and) spent the
night in the city Harada Harada lies on the
other bank of the Euphrates. Moving on from
Harada I* pitched camp (and) spent the night in
the city Kailetu. Moving on from Kailetu I approached the city Hindnu. I received tribute
from Amme-alaba, a man of Hindnu: 10 minas
of liqtu-gold, 10 minas of silver, two talents of
tin, one talent of myrrh, 60 bronze ..., 10 minas
of antimony preparation, eight minas of antimony
mineral, 30 dromedaries, 50 oxen, 30 asses, 14
ducks, 200 sheep, bread, beer, straw, (and)
fodder. I* pitched camp (and) spent the night.
Hindnu (80) lies on the other bank of the
Euphrates. I killed ostriches on my* hunting
forays in the desert. 1 captured the young of the
ostriches. I killed aialu-deer on my* hunting
forays on the banks of the Euphrates. I captured
the young of the aialu-deer. Moving on from the
land Hindnu 1 cut into the mountains in the
direction of the Euphrates with ... iron axes (and)
passed through. I* pitched camp (and) spent the
night in the city Nagiatu. Moving on from
Nagiatu I approached the meadow of the city
Aqarbnu.
85b-95a) I
Laq: 200
(and) beer.
Moving on
received tribute from Mudadda, the

sheep, 30 oxen, grain, straw, bread,
I* pitched camp (and) spent the night.
from Aqarbnu I approached the city
RIMA 1 p. 272 lines 43-44 and King, CT 13 pl. 42 lines 14

and 22. Also note RIMA 1 p. 267 line 7.
176
86) GAR-an be-de is^tu URU~I a-qa-ar-ba-ni ittum4- ina URU su-up-ri at-ta-is 2 ME
UDU.ME 50 G[U4].ME NINDA.ME KA.ME
87)
[E].AM.ME SE.IN.NU.MES na-m[ur]-tu
KUR
ha-ma-ta-a-ia KUR la-qa-a-ia at-ta-har ki-ma

ma-il u4-me at-tu-mu
88) ina URU ar-ba-te GAR-an be-de 2 ME
UDU.TME"! 30 GU4.ME NINDA.ME KA.ME
E. AM.ME E.IN.NU.MES na-mur-iu mha-
^ra^-a-ni
89) KUR la-a-qa-a-ia at-ta-har i-[t]u [UR]U ar[b]a-te it-tum4- ina A.S ka-si GAR-an be-^d^
90) r i-tu J A. ka-si it-tu%-m[u ana UR]U sirfqP
91)
aq-t-rib
3 MA.NA K.GI 7 MA.NA
sar-pu
K.BABBAR [x G]UN AN.N[A.ME]

4 0 TUL.ME 2ABAR 1 GUN [LM.SES] X ME
UDU.M[E X] ME 4 0 GU4.TMEI 20 ANSE 2 0
MUEN.ME NINDA.ME KA.ME E.AM.ME
92) SE.IN.NU.ME E ki-su-u ME ' na-mur-tu^

m
rnu~d[a]~da URU ^sir^-qa-a-ia at-ta-har ki-i
ina i-di
93) URU sir-qi us-ba-ku-ni n[a-mu]r-tu a mhara-a-ni KUR la-q[a]-a-[i]a 3 TMA^.NA K.GI 10
94)
Supru. I received tribute from Hamatiia, (the)

Laq: 200 sheep, 50 oxen, bread, beer, grain,
(and) straw. Moving on at noon I* pitched camp
(and) spent the night in the city Arbatu. I received
tribute from Harnu, the Laq: 200 sheep, 30
oxen, bread, beer, grain, (and) straw. Moving on
from Arbatu I* pitched camp (and) spent the
night in the plain. (90) Moving on from the plain
I approached the city Sirqu. I received tribute
from Mudadda, a man of the city Sirqu: three
minas of gold, seven minas of refined silver, [N]
talents of tin, 40 bronze casseroles, one talent of
myrrh, [N] hundred sheep, [N] hundred and 40
oxen, 20 asses, 20 birds, bread, beer, grain, straw,
(and) fodder. While I was in the district of Sirqu
I* received tribute from Harnu, the Laq: three
minas of gold, 10 minas of silver, 30 bronze
casseroles, six talents of tin, 500 sheep, 100 and
[N] oxen, (and) 20 asses. I* pitched camp (and)
spent the night in Sirqu Sirqu lies on the other
bank of the Euphrates.
MA.NA K.BABBAR
30 TUL.ME ZABAR 6 GUN AN.NA.ME 5 ME
UDU.ME 1 ME [X] GU4.ME 20 ' ANSE 1 t-a-
^harI ina URU ^sir-qu^ GKR-an be-^de^

95) URU sir-qu GR am-ma-te D pu-rat-te sa-li
î-tu URU sir- q i-um^- ina -al-l
96) D pu-rat-te sa URU ru-um-mu-ni-na a-ar
pal-gu D ^ha(1)-bur(1)^ sa-a-an-ni GAR-T
be-ydei
97) i-tu URU ru-um-mu-ni-na it-tum4- na URU
su--ri DUMU i~ha-Iu-pe-e~I UGU ^D haburi
98)
aq-t-rib 20 MA.NA K.GI 20 MA.NA

K.BABBAR 32 GUN AN.NA.ME 1 ME 3 0 G[UN]
ZABAR. TME 1 ME"I -da-e
99)
ZABAR.ME 1 -en tap-hu 1 ME 50 TG miih-si 1 GUN SG.ZA.GN.MI NA4.GI.NUI 1.GAL
r(?)i GUN x x (x)

100) 4 MA.NA sa-di-du 2 GUN AN.BAR .GI
DG.GA 1 LIM 2 ME UDU.ME 1 ^ME GU^^.MES
2 m[e ...]
101) MUEN.ME GAL.ME 2 MUNUS.NIN.ME-5W -tU
95b-103) Moving on from Sirqu I* pitched camp

(and) spent the night in the meadow of the
Euphrates by the city Rummunina where lies the
canal of the River Habur. Moving on from
Rummunina I approached the city Sru of BltHalup which is upon the River Habur. 20 minas
of gold, 20 minas of silver, 32 talents of tin, 130
talents of bronze, 100 bronze utensils, one tub,
150 woven garments, one talent of purple wool,
alabaster, one(?) talent of
(100) four minas of
antimony preparation, two talents of iron, fine
oil, 1,200 sheep, 100 oxen, ..., [N] ducks, his two
sisters with their bountiful dowry (this was) the
tribute from Hamat]iia, the Laq. Moving on
from Sru of Blt-Halup I approached [the city
Usal. I] received tribute [from Usa1]: 200 sheep,
30 oxen, bread, beer, grain, (and) straw, I*
pitched camp (and) spent the night.
nu-ud-ni-i-na ma-a'-di na-[mu]r-[tu a mt

ha-ma-t]a-a-ia
102) KUR la-qa-a-ia i-tu URU su--ri DUMU hai lu ^pe-e i[t-tu-mu ana l usal] aq-t-rib
87 hamatiia, also in line 101: Russell, Iraq 47 (1985) p. 73 is
probably correct in regarding this as a PN from the gcntilic.
88.2 has, in error, KUR ha-ma-a-â^ (cf. line 87), for mhar
rai-a-ni. 89-90 Add these references to CAD 8 (K)
pp. 268-69 and von Soden, AHw p. 459a. 91.2 adds GAL.MES
after MUEN.ME, changing 'birds' to 'ducks'. 94.2 omits ZABAR
'bronze'. 94.2 6 [ME] UDU. [ME] '600 sheep'. 96-97 ru-ummu-ni-na is clear in ex. 2 but the ~na is not clear in ex. 1.
97.2 at^tu^-mus (first person) instead of {i\-tum4- (third
person). 98 1 ME 30 (not 40 - so Schramm) is clear.
101 hamataiia: see the note to line 87.
TukuIt-Ninurta II A.O. 100.5
177
2 ME UDU.ME 30 GU4.ME NINDA.ME KA.ME

E.AM.ME E.IN.[NU.ME f]a-mur-t[u
a l-
usal a]t-ta-har GAR-an be-de

i-tu URU -sa-^lcP-a it-tum- a-na
VRV.B[kD-kat-li]m-^mu^ a[q-(-rib x x] x mu
[x x (x)] KUR la-qe-e
a-na si-hr-ti-
FGUAMES UDU.ME
K.B[ABBAR X M]E .GI D[G.GA
sar-pu
ANE.KUR].TRA^.M[E
na]-mur-tu
URU.BD-kat-Iim-mu 10 MA.NA
K.BAB[BAR] 14 MA.TNA^ [X x G]UN
AN.[BAR(?) x] RCUN u 1
sa-di-du
2 GUN IM, SES 1 ME GR.ME AN. BAR 10 kan-
n[ ...] x x x x [... TG lu-bii-t]u bir-me x

[a]t-rtd-har
i-tu VR\j.BkD-kat-lim-mu it-tumA- ina
U[RU(?) ... issakan
bde itu URU(?) . . . ] -
^ma(iy t-tiis-i~mu<n
ana URU qat-ni aq-t-rib na-mur-tu KU[R
... lu-b]l-tu bir-me
11 ROUN.AN.NA.ME"' 50 -da-e*ME ZA[BAR
. . . ] X 1 ME MUSEN.MES GAL.MES
kur-ke-e MUEN NINDA. TME^ KAS. MES
SE.AM.ME E.IN.N[U.ME ... attahar itu l
qatni i]t-^tumP-
ina URU la-ti-hi KUR d[I]-ka-na-a-ia GARa[n bde itu l 1gthi i]t(1)-VtuniAQ)^-[(1)]
a-na URU di-kan-ni aq-t-rib 3 MA.N[A ...]
104-115a) Moving on from Usal I approached

the city D[r-kat1i]mmu. . . . o f the land Laq entirely oxen, sheep, refined silver, [...], fine oil,
horses. I received tribute from Dur-katlimmu: 10
talents of silver, 14 minas of [...], [N] talents of
iron, [N] talents of antimony [preparation], two
talents of myrrh, 100 iron daggers, 10 potstands
[... garments] with multi-coloured trim. Moving
on from Dr-kat1immu [I* pitched camp (and)
spent the night] in the [city ...]. Moving on [from
the city ...] I approached the city Qatnu. [I received] tribute from [the Qatn (and) the Laq:
...] garments with multi-coloured trim, (110) 11
talents of tin, 50 bronze utensils, [...], 100 ducks
(and) geese, bread, beer, grain, straw [...]. Moving on [from Qatnu] I pitched camp (and) [spent
the night] in the city Latihu of the Dikannu.
Moving on [from the city Latihu] I approached
Sadikannu. Three minas [of ...] bronze ..., one
tub of silver (was the tribute). [Moving on] from
adik[annu I* pitched camp (and) spent the night
in the city Tabitu]. Moving on from Tabitu [I*
pitched camp (and) spent the night] in the city
Ma[garisu].
ZABAR X X
1 -en tap-hu K.BABBAR i-tu URU dik[an-ni ituma ina URU tbete issakan be-d\e
i-tu
URU.DG.GA-E-te it-tus-mus ina URU ma-[gari-s issakan bede i-tu URU ma-g]a-r[i-s]i ittu^mus^
ina URU gu-re-e-te GAR-an be-de -[tu l
gurte ittumu ina URU ta]-i bi-te L GAR-an
be-de
i-tu I URU I ta-bi-te /Y-' tm-mu [ina l kahat
issakan bede itu i] ka-h[a-a]t
î0-tu^mu^
ina URU na-[s]i-pi-na GAR-an be-de i[-tu l
nasipina ittumu ina] UR[U hu]-zi-ri-na
gAR-an be-de -tu URU hu-zi-ri-*~na~ [ittumu
... ina li] [mGis]KIM-DMA
a-na e-u-te is-ba-tu-ni GAR-a[n bde ...] x

[KUR]-E A.
nam-ra-si du-ru-ku ap--qi a[q--rib ...[]u-e KUR mu-u-ki

at-a-lak
ina UD 4.KM U R U p i - i - r [ u ...
al-
(]a-su-^nu^
mG.v.MB--nu
GU4.ME-SW- UDU se-
n.[MEl--nu ... a]k-ta-ad

117 For the reading Kahat see Kessler, ZA 69 (1979)
pp. 218-19.
115b-127) Moving on from [Mag]ar[is]u I*

pitched camp (and) spent the night in the city
Gurtu. [Moving on] from [Gurtu] I* pitched
camp (and) spent the night [in the city Ta]bitu.
Moving on from Tabitu [I* pitched camp (and)
spent the night in the city Kahat]. Moving on
[from the city] Kahat I* pitched camp (and) spent
the night in the city Nasipinu. [Moving on from
the city Nasipinu] I* pitched camp (and) spent the
night [in] the city [Hu]zirina. [Moving on] from
Huzirina (120) I* pitched camp (and) [spent the
night in the city ...] which [Tuk]u1tT-Ninurta had
reorganized. I [approached ...] through mountains, difficult terrain, a rough region [...] of the
land of the Muku I marched. On the fourth day
the city Pr[u ...] their booty, their possessions,
their oxen, [their] sheep, [... I] conquered. I massacred them without number. I burnt their cities,
[I cut down] the harvest of [their] gardens [...]. I
allowed them to remain in possession of their cit-
178
124) GAZ.ME-W-WI/ a-na la m[e]-ni -x-[...

125) na IZI.ME a-sa~ra~p[a
ies (but) imposed [upon] them tribute, tax, [(and)

corve]. On another campaign ...
BU]RUM.ME
GI. [KIRI6.ME-SW-TO akkis
. . . ] URU.TME '-/?/-
-nu
126) -s-as-bi-su-nu [G]UN ma-[da-tu ... UGU-W]nu -kun
127) ina ger-ri -n-e-ma x x [...] da x x x
128) ta-na-ti ki--ti-ia a-ur dUTO rd_I [...] x
KUR-e -qu-te
129) TA KUR u-ba-ri-i a-di KUR gl-za-a-ni u KUR
na-^P-r[i ...] a ri mal-qe-tu
130) al-a-qu-
U.NIGIN 2 LIM 7 ME 2
ANSE.KUR.RA.M[E simdt GIS] ni-r[i...]

ê-muq^ KUR-ia UGU pa-an
131) ^-cP-tir ar-ku-s
xxx
132) .GAL.ME ina i-di KUR-ia ar-sip GI.APIN.ME

[ina ]i-^dP KUR-A ar-^ku-s E^.AM.ME tab-
ka-a-ni a-na e-ri-^tP

133) KUR-Z7 UGU pa-an ^P--tir at-bu-ûk^
UGU KUR a-ur ma-a-ta UGU UN.MES-Z
UN. MES -rad-di
134) DMA U DIGI.DU SANGA-T GA :
M.ANE.EDIN -at-li-mu-ni-ma e-pe ba-ûri iq-bu-ni 60(?) x x

135) dan-nu-ti na GI.GIGIR-/A pa-at-tu-ti ina -a
ek-di ina qt-ru-ub me-et-lu-ti-ia ina GI pa-hi LGAz-ak 1
136) e-nu-ma
BAD tam-le-e
GAL-E [.GA]L EN-
ti-ia i-tu pa-an MAN.ME-W mah-ru-te ali-ku-ui
IGI-Z[A]
137) e-pu-u e-na-ah-ma ma-[ur-bl-k]a-la NSI

a-ur DJ-U i-tr i-na-ah-ma MGISKIM-DMA
138) NSI a-ur
A 10-RIN.TH N[SI aurma]
a-
ar-u -me-si dan-na-su ak-ud u-i- ina

UGU ki-sir
139) KUR-E dan-ni ad-di 3 ME [tipk] a-na 20
SIG4.ME DAGAL i-tu ki-di UGU
mah-ri-i-u
muh-hi-u
140) -rad-di ti-[k]ab-bir i-t[u u-i-\u a-di
gaba-dibi-u ar-^sip'' -k-lil UGU mah-ri-i
141) -si-me -ar-rih NA4 . N [A-R] . F~A~I. ME a-kuun NA4.NA.R.A.ME MAN.MES-ni AD.MES-ia
mah-^ru-tei
142) .ME ap-u-u UDU.SISKUR.[ME aq-q]i

a-na
-ri--nu
-ter NUN-W EGIR-' I e-nu-ma
143) BD u- -al-ba-[ru-m]a e-na-hu an-hu-su

lu-ud-di
NA4.NA.R.A.ME
128-131) The praises of my power which Aur,

the god ama, the god [...] high mountains from
the land of the Subaru to the land Gi1znu and
Nairi [...] revenue, which I continually received.
Altogether 2,702 horses in teams [and chariots],
more than ever before, I had in harness for the
forces of my land.
132-133) I constructed palaces in the (various)

districts of my land. I hitched up plows in the
up more grain than ever before for the needs of
my land. To Assyria I added land and to its people I added people.
134-135) The gods Ninurta and Nergal, who love
my priesthood, gave to me the wild beasts and
commanded me to hunt. I killed sixty strong lions
from my ... chariot with my wildly vigorous assault with the spear.
136-142a) At that time the wall of the large terrace of my lordly palace which previously earlier
kings who preceded me had built (when) it became dilapidated As[ur-b1-k]a1a vice-regent of
Assur had rebuilt (it) had again become dilapidated and I, Tukultl-Ninurta, vice-regent of
Assur, son of Adad-nrr (II) [(who was) also]
vice-[regent of Assur], delineated its area (and)
dug down to the bottom of its foundation pit. I
laid its foundation in bedrock. (140) I made it
wider by adding from the outside 300 [layers of
brick] to the (wall which was already) 20 broad
bricks (wide). I reconstructed it from top to bottom and completed (it). I made its decoration
more splendid than before. I deposited my monumental inscriptions. I anointed with oil the monumental inscriptions of the earlier kings, my forefathers, made sacrifices, (and) returned (them) to
their places.
142b-145a) May a later prince, when this wall becomes old and dilapidated, restore its ruined (portions). May he not remove my monumental inscriptions from their places (but) anoint (them)
Tukult-Ninurta II A.O. 100.15
with oil, make sacrifices, (and) return (them) to

their places. (Then) Aur (and) the god Adad will
listen to his prayers.
145b-146) He who erases my inscribed name and
removes my monumental inscriptions from their
places: may Assur (and) the god Adad destroy his
name and his seed from the land.
144) i-tu -ri--nu la-[a] ' \-am-sak .ME

UDU.SISKUR liq-qi a-na
-ri--nu
145) lu-te-er a-ur DIKUR ik-[ri]-bi- i-e-m[u]-

MU at-ra i-pa-^P-tu
NA4.NA.R.A.ME
146) i-^tu Kl"!--(nu) -am-~scP-[ku a-]ur

r
d
I K U R MU- fI U NUMUN-SW ina KUR lu-hdlli-qu
147) ITI.APIN UD 9.K[M \-mu
179
147) Month of Marchesvan, ninth day, eponymy

of Naidi-ilT, governor of the land Katmuhu.
na-^P-di-DmGiR
GAR KUR kat-mu-hi
6
This text is from a stone slab found at Nineveh, although originally it
came from Nmed-TukultI-Ninurta. The city is otherwise unknown
but it no doubt had an older name, perhaps known to us, which
Tukultl-Ninurta changed when he made it into a special centre. No
other information on this event has been preserved. Another example
of monumental inscriptions being prepared in Assyria for use in a provincial centre is known for Adad-nrr i, whose scribes engraved texts
on stone at Assur for Taidu. These inscriptions, like the present one,
were never sent and indeed our engraved stone was later used in the
palace of Ashurnasirpal n at Nineveh. It is a display inscription and
briefly describes the geographical extent of the king's conquests. The
broken portion on the left of the text can, in part, be restored on
analogy with inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II.
COMMENTARY
The location of the stone slab is unknown but it could
be collated from photos in Thompson's notebooks in
the British Museum. According to Thompson it was
found in XVIII.C.24, palace of Asn. and measured
97 x 98 x 25 cm. Two tiny fragments which have been

associated with this piece have been treated elsewhere:
Thompson, Arch. 79 no. 19 = A.0.100.1001; Thompson, AAA 19 no. 122 = A.0.100.1002.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 pp. 117-18 and pi. XLI no. 1 (copy,
edition)

TEXT
1)
[...] A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR AS A a-
2)
ur-KAL-an MAN MAN KUR AS-ma

[... gi]m-ri- MAN sa TA (e)-ber-ta-an
ID. HAL. HAL a-di KUR hat-te
3)
[...] sa KUR.KUR na-i-ri a-na pat
KUR su-hi a-di
gim-ri-
l-10a) [(Property of) the palace of Tuku1tNinurta, king of the universe, king of Assyria],
son of Adad-nrr (II), king of the universe, king
of Assyria, son of Aur-dn (II) (who was) also
king of the universe (and) king of Assyria [...] entirely, the king who from the other side of the
180
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
[...] KUR kir-ru-ri a-di KUR gil-za-a-ni ma-pa-a
MAN URU hu-ub-us-ki-a
[... is(l)]-bat TA n-re-be Sa KUR ba-bi-te a-di
[... s]i-hr-ti-S TA D za-ba KI.TA
[...] el-la-an za-ban KUR hi-ri-mu KUR ha-ru-tu
[...]-du-ni- TA URU su-si Sa UGU D.HAL.HAL
a-di
[... B]kD-ku-ri-gaI-zi a-di URU si-pur-S-SmaS URU si-pur-
Tigris to the land Hatti [...] the lands Nairi entirely, the land Suhu to [the city Rapiqu ... from
the passes of] Mount Kirruru to the land Gi1znu,
Ap king of the city Hubukia [... he] captured.
From the passes of Mount Babitu to [...] entirely,
from the Lower Zab [to the city Til-Bari which is]
upstream along the Zab, the lands Hirimu (and)
Harutu, [(...) fortresses of Kar]dunia, from the
city Susu which is upon the Tigris to [...] DurKurigalzu to the cities Sippar-of-ama (and)
Sippar-of-[Anuntu (...)] he conquered:
10b) (Property) of the palace of the city NemedTukult-Ninurta.
10) [... v-s]u ik-Su-du .GAL-lim Sa URU n/77E/-MTUKUL-DMA
7
This broken text, on a fragment of a yellow glazed clay plate, certainly should be ascribed to Tukultl-Ninurta n. The work described
may be the towers at the door of the Enpi shrine in the Aur temple
(cf. A.O. 100.14). If so, then the fragment must come from Aur
rather than Nineveh. But, of course, it could concern a building project at Nineveh.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 99128 - Ki 1904-10-9,158) measures 14.1 x 10.7+ cm and
the inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
Lacuna
10 [... a-]ur A as-sur-KAL SID aS-Sur-ma e-numa na-m-[ri...]
20 [... tib]-ki lu ul-li 35 ti-ib-ki ana mah-ru-t[e
...]
Lacuna
Lacuna
1-20 [(Property of) the palace of TukultNinurta, vice-regent of Aur, son of Adad-nrr
(II), vice-regent of A]ur, son of Aur-dn (II)
(who was) also vice-regent of Aur: at that time
the towers of [...] I raised (its height) [N layers
of] brick [adding] thirty-five layers of brick more
than before [.,.],
Lacuna
181
8
A stone amulet in the Louvre is said to have had an inscription by
Tukultl-Ninurta n dedicating the gem to ama. No museum number
is known and the object has not been located.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1924 Pottier, Antiquits assyriennes p. 121 no. 121 (study)
1977 Brinkman, JCS 29 p. 60 (study)
9
This text appears on two stone slabs discovered at Tell Barri and
established the identity of that site as ancient Kahat.
COMMENTARY
The two stone slabs are in the Aleppo Museum (no
numbers known) and the inscriptions have been collated. One slab is complete and measures 100x82 cm
and the other, which is badly broken, no doubt was

originally of the same size.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1961-62 Dossin, AAAS 11/12 pp. 197-206 and pi. n (exs. 1-2,
photo, copy, edition)
1962 Dossin, CRRA 11 pp. 4-5 (exs. 1-2, edition)
1982 Salvini, Tell Barri/Kahat 1 p. 13 and front cover (exs.

1-2, copy, edition)
1983 Salvini, Akkadica 35 p. 25 (exs. 1-2, copy, edition)
1985 Russell, Iraq 47 p. 67 (exs. 1-2, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
.GAL MGISKIM-DMA
MAN MAN KUR A
A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR A
A A-KAL-an MAN IJ MAN KUR A l - m a
KUN4 URU ka-ha-at
1-5) (Property of) the palace of Tukultl-Ninurta,

Adad-nrri (II), king of the universe, king of
Assyria, son of Aur-dn (II) (who was) also king
of the universe (and) king of Assyria: stone slab
of the city Kahat.
10
This text is engraved on a stone duck weight of unknown provenance.
182
Tukult-Ninurta iI A.O.100.15182
COMMENTARY
cm. The stone is said to be porphyry and probably the

Akkadian name of the stone is at the broken end of
line 4. The reading of this line is difficult. Should one
read M pi lit. 'of the mouth'?
The duck weight is in a private collection (J. Mariaud

de Serres A 53) and the inscription has not been collated. The weight in modern terms is not given in the
publication but its height is 5.4 cm and its length 9.8
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1981 Grgoire, MVN 10 pp. 15, 28, and pi. 17 no. 57 (copy, edition)
TEXT
1)
.GAL MGISKIM-DRMAI [ar kiati
ar
1-4) (Property of) the palace of Tukult-Ninurta,

[king of the universe, king of Assyria], son of
Adad-nrr (II), king of the universe, king of
of the universe (and) king of Assyria: two-thirds
of a mina ... stone ...
mat
aur]
2)
A 10-RIN.TAH MAN MAN KUR AS
3)
4)
A A-KAL-M MAN MAN KUR A-[/WTF]

SANABI MA.NA KA NA4 X
11
This text is engraved on a small agate (white with orange speckles)
found at Khorsabad (Dr-arruk1n) and now in the Louvre. It is
bored lengthwise and was a pendant, or one of several stones of a
pendant, worn by the king around his neck.
COMMENTARY
The stone (N III 3399) measures 2 x 2.5 x 1.4 cm and the inscription has been
collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1867 Place, Ninive et l'Assyrie 3 pl. 76 no. 32 (copy)
1875 Lenormant, Choix no. 74 (copy)
1889 Schrder, KB 1 pp. 50-51 (edition)
1909 Scheil, Tn. p. 3 (copy, edition)
1923 Delaporte, Louvre 2 p. 180 and pl. 93 no. A 824 (photo,
1926
1971
1976
1987
edition)
Luckenbill, ARAB 1 433 (translation)
CAD 8 (K) p. 449a (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 c 14 (translation)
Gaiter, ARRIM 5 pp. 11-30 no. 6 (edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
NA4.G
MTUKUL-MA MAN KUR A
3)
A 10-RIN.TH
MAN KUR AS
4)
1-4) Necklace of Tukult-Ninurta,

king of
Assyria, son of Adad-nrrT (II), king of Assyria.
183
Tukult-Ninurta ii A.O. 100.15
12
This text and A.0.100.13 are on pieces of clay cone found at Nineveh.
They are very similar but the omission of 'great king' (arru rab) in
A.0.100.13 shows that they are different texts. The titulary in
A.0.100.12 can be restored from the titulary of Ashurnasirpal II (e.g.
A.0.101.39).
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 139275, 1932-12-10,729) was found at Nineveh RR.6 and
measi re- 7 1 x 5.1 t cm. The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pp. 98-99 and pi. ixx no. 66 (copy,
edition)

TEXT
1)
2)
3)
[...]-rDIMAS MAN GAL [...]

[...] MAN GAL [...]
[...] MAN GAL [...]
1-3) [Tuku1t]-Ninurta, great king, [strong king,

Adad-nrrT (II)], great king, [strong king, king of
the universe, king of Assyria, son of Aurdn (II) (who was) also] great king, [strong king,
king of the universe (and) king of Assyria].
13
This text, like A.0.100 12, is on clay cone fragments from Nineveh.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
BM
number
Registration
number
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
1
2
123461
128187
1932-12-10,404
AP.C.12
AP.C.14
9x6.5 +
1929-10-12,843
6.4x5.6 +
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pp. 98-99 and pi. LXXVII no. 174
(ex. 1, copy, edition)
1968 Lambert and Millard, Cat. pp. 27 and 53 (exs. 1-2,
study)
cpn
c
c
184
GISKIM-DMA
1)
[ekai]
2)
[arri dan]-ni MAN MAN KUR AS
3)
4)
[apil adad\-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR AS

[apil aur]-KAL-an MAN MAN KUR AS-ma
1-4) [(Property of) the palace of] TukultNinurta, strong [king], king of the universe, king
of Assyria, [son of Adad]-nrr (II), king of the
universe, king of Assyria, [son of Aur]-dn (II)
(who was) also king of the universe (and) king of
Assyria.
14
This text, on two bricks from Aur, records the restoration of the
towers at the door to the shrine of the god Enpi in the Aur temple.
Work in the same area is described in A.0.100.5 line 27.
COMMENTARY
Neither brick, Ass 18148 (ex. 1) and 18393 (ex. 2), has
been located or collated. Ex. 1 was found at the southeast gate of the great court of the Aur temple, iB3iv,
while ex. 2 was found in fill at the east wall of the east
tomb, iK4rvW.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1922 Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 85 (ex. 1, copy) and p. 108 sub
no. 85 (ex. 2, provenance)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 429 and 431 (exs. 1-2, translation)
1933-34 Schwenzner, AfO 9 p. 47 (exs. 1-2, study)

TEXT
1)
.GAL MG1SK1M-DMA MAN KI MAN KUR A
2)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR AS an-hu-ut na-
3)
me-ri
K aen-pi ud-di

Adad-nrr (II), king of Assyria: I/he restored
the ruined (portions) of the towers of the door of
the god Enpi.
15
This text appears on three coloured glazed bricks or, better, tiles from
Assur. The tiles are large, more than 100 x 30 centimetres, and have
beautifully painted pictures which are reproduced in Andrae's
Coloured Ceramics. They were found in the Anu-Adad temple, above
the Shalmaneser III floor, which means they were reused.
185
Tukult-Ninurta II A.O. 100.15

CATALOGUE
Ex.
1
2
3
~~
Museum
Registration
Ass
number
number
number
cpn
BM 115706
BM 115705
BM 115708
1922-8-12,175
1922-8-12,174
1922-8-12,177
7434
7433
7408
c~~
c
c
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1977 Andrae, WEA2 pis. 170-71 (exs. 1-2, copy)
1981 Walker, CBI no. 142 and p. 138 (ex. 3, copy; exs. 1-3,
edition)
1925 Andrae, Coloured Ceramics p. 25 and pis. 7-8 (exs. 1-3,

provenance; exs. 1-2, copy; ex. 2, edition)
1925 Meissner, DLZ 46 p. 421 (exs. 1-2, translation)
1926 Schott, M VAG 30/2 p. 104 n. 1 (study)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
.GAL mGISKIM-dMA MAN dan-U MAN TRIS"!

[5?r] KUR AS
A m10-RIN.TH MAN dan-UU MAN KI MAN
KUR AS
A mAS-KAL-tfrt MAN KI MAN KUR A-A777
1-3) (Property of) the palace of Tuku1t-Ninurta,

strong king, king of the universe, [king of]
Assyria, son of Adad-nrrT (II) strong king, king
of the universe, king of Assyria, son of Aurdn (II) (who was) also king of the universe (and)
king of Assyria.
16
This text is inscribed on several bricks found in various locations
(reused) at Aur.
CATALOGUE
Ex,
Museum
number
Ass
number
cpn
1
2
3
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
18829
18398
9150
n
n
n
4
5
V A Ass 3254a
V A Ass 3254b
2096
-
c
c
COMMENTARY
The exs. are exact duplicates except: line 1, ex. 5 mtukul-[ti ...]; line 3, ex. 3
AS- for a-ur-.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1922 Schroeder KAH 2 no. 86 (exs. 1-3 copy)

1984 Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1 nos. 270-71 (exs. 4-5,
study)
TEXT
1)
.GAL MGISKIM-DMA MAN KIS MAN KUR A
2)
3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN KI MAN KUR AS

A a-ur-KAL-an MAN KIS MAN KUR AS-ma

Adad-nrr (II), king of the universe, king of
of the universe (and) king of Assyria.
17
This text, on a brick fragment from Nineveh, has a titulary different
from the other labels of this king.
COMMENTARY
The brick, which is in the Birmingham City Museum (BCM 356 79), was
found at Nineveh (Ch.IV 7th course of pavement) and the inscription has been
collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 98 and pi. xx no. 52 (copy, edition)

1981 Walker, CBI no. 143 (transliteration)
TEXT
1)
.GAL MTUKUL-MA MA[N . . . ]
2) [apil adad-BK]iN.7 MAN KU[R ...]

Lacuna
1 - 2 ) (Property of) the palace of Tukult-Ninurta,

king [,.., son of Adad]-nrr (II), king of [Assyria, ...]
Lacuna
1001
This tiny fragment is on a piece of a stone slab found at Nineveh. It
just might be a duplicate of A.0.100.6 but not enough is preserved to
prove this and therefore it has been regarded as unidentified.
Tukultl-Ninurta II A.0.100.1001
COMMENTARY
The fragment has not been located. It was found at Nineveh 'XIX.3' and
measured 29 x 25 + cm.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 117 n. 4 and pi.
XLII
no. 19 (copy, study)
TEXT
1)
.GAL(?) ...]
2)
3)
4)
gim-r[i ... 1
wx[.,.]
5)
a-di
6)
x [,..]
a-ur-[KAL-an(!)
KU[R(?) . . . ]
Lacuna
1002
This fragmentary text is on a piece of clay cone found at Nineveh. It,
like A.0.100.1001, may be a duplicate of A.O. 100.6 but there can be
no certainty, particularly since the two texts are inscribed on quite
different objects.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 123497, 1932-12-10,440) was found
at Nineveh in the palace of Asn. u, *C.13\ It measures
5 x 3 . 9 f cm and the inscription has been collated,
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 100 n. 11 and pi.
(copy, translation)
1967 Borger, H KL 1 p. 527 (study)
LXXIV
no. 122

1984 Frame, ARRM 2 p. 14 (study)
TEXT
Lacuna
[...]
1') [... ]
2') [... s]u-hi a-d[i ...]
3') [... t>]vi-ba-a-ri x [...]
4') [... B]D-ku-ri-gal-zi x [...]
5') [... ] x ana GR.II.M[E . . . ]
6') [... ] X DINGIR(?) [ . . . ]
Lacuna
188
Tukult-Ninurta II A.0.100.1003
1003
This broken text is on a piece of clay cone which presumably came
from Nineveh. Only Adad-nrrfs name is preserved and he could be
either the father or grandfather of the king, which means the text
should be ascribed to either Tukultl-Ninurta II or Ashurnasirpal II.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (K 8539) measures 5.5x5+ cm and the inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1898 Winckler, OLZ 1 71 (study)
TEXT
1)
2)
.GAL [...]
MAN KIS MAN [...]
3)
A 10-ERIN.T[AH . . . ]
1 - 3 ) No translation warranted.
Lacuna
1004
A stone stele discovered at Tell Ashara (Terqa) on the Middle
Euphrates and now in the Aleppo Museum, 3165 (1), has a cuneiform
inscription and various divine figures engraved in relief. The inscription is extremely difficult to read and interpret and there is considerable uncertainty about its identification. Given these problems, an edition is for the moment out of the question. The city name Laq (URU
la-q-) is clear in line 2 and Gterbock's suggested decipherment of
the names Adad-nrr (ii) and his son Tukultl-Ninurta (n) seems
valid. The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1952 Tournay and Soubhi, A AAS 2 pp. 169-90 and pis. i-ni
1957 Gterbock, JNES 16 p. 123 (study)

Ashurnasirpal ii
A.0.101
The reign of Ashurnasirpal n (883-859 BC) is one of the most important eras in Mesopotamian history, a fact reflected in the large number
of royal inscriptions for this king and the wealth of detail which they
contain (see Grayson, CAH 3/1 pp. 253-59). Ashurnasirpal n campaigned at least once a year, sometimes twice, for as much as twothirds of his time on the throne and there may well have been further
expeditions about which no records have yet been recovered. His military advances went in all directions although he never actually
penetrated Babylonia proper. He was one of the greatest builders
among Assyrian monarchs, his crowning achievement being the
transformation of Calah into a large metropolis.
The royal inscriptions are important not only because of their
number but also because they include the earliest examples of single
reports of individual campaigns (A.0.101.18, 19, and possibly 20).
While such single reports must have been composed in previous reigns,
no examples are actually attested before this time. Of course annalistic
collections of reports of two or more campaigns are attested as early
as the time of Tiglath-pileser i, as noted in the introduction to that
reign. Another significant feature of Ashurnasirpal II'S annals is that
many of the texts were so long that they had to be engraved on a
series of stone objects, such as slabs or bulls, which were placed adjacent to one another in palaces and temples (see the introduction to
A.0.101.1 for details). Curiously these series are often collections of
annalistic narratives (campaigns arranged in chronological order) and
display narratives (campaigns arranged in geographic order), the two
text types being patched together in a rather makeshift manner (see
the introduction to A.0.101.1 for details).
The main building enterprise of Ashurnasirpal n was Calah, a site
which seems to have had little previous importance. Work at Calah
must have stretched over most of his reign and the majority of his
royal inscriptions come from that city. People were brought to settle
in Calah, a canal was dug, gardens were planted, a huge palace (the
'North West Palace') and several temples were erected, and a wall was
built around the city (A.0.101.1 iii 132-36 with duplicates; A.0.101.17
v 1-23; A.0.101.29 lines 9'-17'; A.0.101.30 lines 20-78). Work on the
palace is also described in A.0.101.23, 26, 34-35, and cf. 102. The
various temples are: the temple of Adad and Sala (A.0.101.28 v 8;
A.0.101.29 line 14' [restored]; A.0.101.30 line 56), the temple of
Sarrat-niphi (A.0.101.1 ii 135; A.0.101.28; A.0.101.30 line 57;
A.0.101.32 line 9; and A.0.101.39), the temple of Ea-arru and
Damkina (A.0.101.28 v 8; A.0.101.29 line 13' [restored]; A.0.101.30
line 55; A.0.101.100), the temple of Gula (A.0.101.1 ii 135;
A.0.101.28 v 8; A.0.101.29 line 14'; A.0.101.30 line 56; A.0.101.32
189
Ashurnasirpal II A.0.101
line 9), the temple of Kidmuru (A.0.101.30 line 58; A.0.101.38, 98-99,
109, and 132), the temple of Nab (A.0.101.30 line 57), the temple of
Enlil and Ninurta (A.0.101.1 ii 135; A.0.101.28 v 7; A.0.101.29 line
13'; A.0.101.30 line 54; A.0.101.32 line 9; A.0.101.36, 101, 120-22,
and 130), the temple of the Sibitti (A.0.101.30 line 57; A.0.101.110
and 131), and the temple of Sm (A.0.101.1 ii 135; A.0.101.28 v 8;
A.0.101.29 line 14'; A.0.101.30 line 56; A.0.101.32 line 9). A statue of
Adad and a statue of Ea-arru are mentioned in A.0.101.1 ii 135.
Ashurnasirpal did some construction at other sites. In Nineveh he
worked on the temple of Adad (A.0.101.49 and 66) and the temple of
Istar (A.0.101.18, 40, 43-46, 56-65, 111-12, 126, and 133-37) which
included the Bt-nathi (see the introduction to A.0.101.18). In Aur
he worked on the temple of Sn and ama (A.0.101,52 and 67-69)
and the temple of Assur (A.0.101.138). Imgur-Enlil (modern Balawat),
a small site, received relatively much attention. The famous bronze
gates of Ashurnasirpal were found here (A.0.101.51 and 80-97) and
this king boasts of renovating the city and building a temple for
Mamu (A.0.101.50). Finally, at Apqu (modern Tell Abu Marya) he
built or restored a palace (A.0.101.54 and 70).
The relative chronology of the royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal n
has been much discussed in recent years. The main point of interest
has been the attempt to date the display texts earlier or later in the
reign on the basis of whether or not the military achievements include
certain places, such as Carchemish, Mount Lebanon, and Urartu (see
the notes to A.0.101.1 iii 121-22 for details). For discussion of the
chronology of the building projects at Calah see de Filippi, Assur 1/7
(1977) and Reade, Iraq 47 (1985) pp. 203-214. For a detailed study of
the form of the royal inscriptions see Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 18-69.
Ashurnasirpal n is mentioned in a chronicle (see Grayson, Chronicles p. 182 rev. 4) and king lists (see Grayson, RLA 6 pp. 86-135). A
complete list of the eponymies from his reign can be reconstructed
from various sources (see Grayson, ARI 2 pp. 210-11 870).
Research on the royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal n has been hampered by the fact that many of the larger texts from Calah are not
available for collation. The reason is that Layard took paper squeezes
of many huge stone objects (slabs, bulls, etc.) which he left at the site.
The squeezes were deposited in the British Museum and used by
Layard and subsequent editors to publish the inscriptions. Eventually
the squeezes were destroyed and, short of re-excavating all the objects,
such texts cannot now be collated. For further details see the commentary to A.0.101.1.
Editing the texts of Ashurnasirpal II presents a special problem because of the large number of duplicate, parallel, and partially overlapping passages in a number of his inscriptions. Following one of the
basic principles of the RIM Project, I have edited each text separately,
when possible, noting the duplicates and parallel passages in the commentaries. Since all such overlappings involve the 'Annals' (A.0.101.1)
in some way, I have given a complete list of them in the commentary
to that text. It has not been possible, however, in every case to publish
a separate edition for each text since some texts are no longer accessible and were originally published only in a summary fashion (e.g. The
obverse of our text is a duplicate of the Annals i 1-17'). For details
see the commentary to each text.
A text of Ashurnasirpal II on a 'wooden figure' found at Calah was
mentioned in Iraq 38 (1976) p. 71. Fragments of a black stone obelisk
AshurnasirpaliIA.0.101
found at Nineveh by Thompson have been included under Adadnrr II (A.0.99.1001).
Some objects, with royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, excavated
at Aur, have never been published and can no longer be found (see
Grayson, ARRIM 1 [1983] pp. 15-18). These include fragments of a
'lamassu' mentioned by Andrae, MDOG 21 (1904) pp. 16-17 (Ass 346,
349 + 370, 350) and cf. MDOG 29 (1905) p. 41 (Ass 7341). Also note
Ass 328 and 347 in Andrae, MDOG 21 p. 16. These problematical
texts were mentioned in Grayson, ARI 2 pp. 115-16 n. 468 c v-vi.
Excavations at ibaniba (Tell Billah) are said to have uncovered inscribed bricks and a 'prism' fragment of Ashurnasirpal II (see Speiser,
BASOR 40 [1930] pp. 11-14 and 41 [1931] p. 19; cf. Schramm, EAK
2 pp. 60-61). Our efforts to find these objects have been in vain.
There are some literary texts from this reign. These include a 'dream
text' (K 14884 see Oppenheim, The Interpretation of Dreams in the
Ancient Near East' in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society NS 46/3 [1956] pp. 321-22 and cf. p. 275); royal hymns (Ebeling,
KAR no. 342 - cf. Borger, HKL 2 p. 57; Ebeling, LKA no. 64 - cf.
Schramm, EAK 2 p. 58; 79-7-8,66 - cf. Bezold, Cat. 4 p. 1704); and
an incantation (Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 118 and pi. XLI no. 3 cf.
Grayson, ARI 2 p. 115 n. 468 b iv and Borger, HKL 2 p. 284).
1
This text is one of the longest and most important Assyrian royal inscriptions known. It was inscribed on huge stone reliefs which lined
the walls and floors of the Ninurta temple at Calah. The text is usually
called the 'annals' of Ashurnasirpal II but the label is a misnomer since
the inscription is really a mixture of various kinds of texts, some annalistic and some display texts. There are numerous duplicate and
parallel passages in other texts and these have been listed in the commentary.
The text begins with one of the longest introductions to any
Assyrian royal inscription (i 1-42). This contains first a dedication to
Ninurta (i 1-9), then the king's name, epithets, and royal commissions
(i 9-31 and 40-42), with an insert about the king's appointment and
Istar's decision to do battle (i 31-40). The same introduction, but with
a dedication to various deities, appears in A.0.101.8.
This introduction is followed by the first of two campaign narratives, which are given in annalistic form (i 43 - ii 124). This passage
describes the campaigns of the accession to the fifth regnal year. The
second campaign passage, which appears later (iii 1-112), concerns
campaigns of the sixth to eighteenth regnal years. For a thorough
analysis of the narrative structure of the campaign descriptions see the
work by Liverani quoted in the bibliography.
In between the two annalistic descriptions of the campaigns there is
a passage which in reality is an independent text of the display type
(ii 125-35), a virtual duplicate of a text recording work on the Ninurta
temple (A.0.101.31). The last, concluding, portion of the text
(iii 113-36) is yet another such independent display text, a virtual duplicate of A.O.101.26. This latter passage is divided into two separate
192
Ashurnasirpal II A.O. 101.1

parts, the first (iii 113-25) being essentially a duplicate of the Standard
Inscription (A.0.101.23). The second and final part (iii 126-36) is a
general survey of construction at Calah.
It is curious that there are no concluding formulae to the text, that
is blessings and curses on future rulers who do or do not respect
Ashurnasirpal's work and inscriptions. The absence of such formulae
is also a feature of other texts of this king including the Kurkh
Monolith, A.0.101.19. See the introduction to that text for further
comment.
A special feature of this text, as of several texts of Ashurnasirpal, is
that it is so lengthy that it had to be inscribed on a series of adjacent
objects, in this case huge stone slabs. There are several lengthy texts
inscribed on a series of objects, namely A.0.101.1-16. Many of the inscriptions making up these texts are poorly preserved and therefore
there is much uncertainty about the distinction of different texts. But
among these inscriptions at least seven different texts, which will be
called 'annals series', can be distinguished. In all seven of these texts
there are numerous passages which duplicate or parallel passages in
other texts. They all have the common characteristic that they contain
a mixture of annalistic and display narrative.
Let us first look briefly at the six different annals series from Calah.
These are A.0.101.1 (Le Gac's 'Annals A'), A.0.101.4 (Le Gac's 'Annals B'), A.0.101.8-11 (10-11 are Le Gac's 'Annals C'), A.0.101.13
(first tablet in a series similar to A.0.101.8-11), A.0.101.2 (inscribed
mainly on monumental bulls and lions), and A.0.101.3 and 5-7 (inscribed on stone slabs engraved with mythological scenes). There are
two further fragmentary inscriptions (A.0.101.12 and 14) which could
be parts of one of the aforementioned series (A.0.101.12 could be part
of A.0.101.8-11 ; Le Gac regarded A.0.101.14 as part of A.0.101.1).
The seventh annals series, which is very fragmentary, was found at
Nineveh (A.0.101.15). Further details about each text will be found in
the editions. Some inscriptions which seem to belong to the same annals series (e.g. A.0.101.8-11) have, nevertheless, been given separate
text numbers since there is still uncertainty about the distinction of the
various annals series. A fragment of an annals series (from Assur?)
has been included as A.0.101.16.
COMMENTARY
The series of slabs upon which this text was inscribed
was excavated by Layard in the middle of the
nineteenth century. Paper squeezes were made of the
inscriptions and brought back to the British Museum in
London. Over the next half-century three major publications of the text were prepared on the basis of these
squeezes by Norris (1 R), King, and Le Gac (see the
bibliography), Unfortunately the paper squeezes, which
were probably rather tattered, were deliberately destroyed some time after Le Gac's edition (see Gaiter,
Levine, and Reade, ARRIM 4 [1986] p. 27). Thus in
preparing this edition 1 have been forced to rely solely
upon the older publications. Of the three, Le Gac's text
is generally more reliable. The text of Norris is incomplete and King's text contains numerous obvious errors
which make one very suspicious of its soundness as a
whole. One badly worn slab was rediscovered at Calah

by Mailowan (Nimrud 1 p. 87).
This edition, then, follows Le Gac's text. The vars.
are quoted from Le Gac simply as 'var.' (whether one
or more). It is useless to give the number of the specific
squeezes as they appear in Le Gac, since the squeezes
no longer exist. There are frequent differences between
the texts of King and Le Gac. Where it is an obvious,
often typographical, error in King I have not usually
noted the difference. There are also several implied
differences in King's main text which are not confirmed
anywhere by Le Gac and therefore have been ignored.
Three fragmentary duplicates of this text have come
to light since Le Gac's edition was published. One fragment (ex. 2) was published by Pohl in 1942-43 and two
(exs. 3-4) by Lehmann-Haupt in 1906 (see the bibliog-
193 Ashurnasirpal Ii A.O. 101.1

raphy). It would be ridiculous to give scores for the
entire text merely for the sake of these tiny fragments.
Therefore, contrary to the usual practice in the RIM
series, scores have been given (on microfiche) only for
the lines which these pieces duplicate (iii 114-29). None
of these duplicates has been collated. Also, contrary to

usual practice, it is impossible to give a catalogue of
exs. It is not even known how many exs. there were.
Both King and Le Gac cited in their notes vars. from
parallel passages in other texts, viz. A.O.101.3 and 5-7
(King's 'nos. 27-30'), A.0.101.17 ('[Nimrud] Mon.'),
and A.O.101.19 ('Kurkh Mon.'). I have followed this
practice, with some modification, because of its usefulness. Vars. are regularly cited in my notes from the following texts: A.0.101.3, 4-7, 9-15, and 17 (i 12 - iv
end). These parallel passages are not re-edited under the
relevant texts, with the exception of A.0.101.3 and 17.
In the following list of parallel passages in other
texts ' = ' denotes an exact duplicate while 'cf.' denotes a
similar passage: i 1-12 = A.0.101.6-7(?); i l-18a =
A.0.101.3-5; i 9-18 cf. iii 113-19; i 18b - ii 125a =
A.0.101.17 (i 12 - iv end); i 18-56 = A.0.101.8; i
18-47 = A.0.101.4; i 18b-34 = A.O. 101.20 (lines

14b-47); i 18-28 cf. iii 126-29; i 26-33 = A.0.101.13
obv.; i 52-59 = A.0.101.13 rev.; i 57-103 =

A.O.101.9; i 59-60 = A.0.101.15; ii 1-29 =
A.0.101.12; ii 86-101 = A.0.101.10; ii 86-125 cf.
A,0.101.19 (see the commentary); ii 90-91
=
A.0.101.15;
ii
110-17
A.0.101.14; ii
125-35
A.0.101.31 (lines 1-16); ii 125-32a = A.0.101.34 (lines

1-26); ii 125 -31 = A.0.101.38 (lines 1-18) and
A.O. 101.50 (lines 1-21); ii 126-32 = A.0.101.15; ii
127-31 A.O. 101.23 (lines 8-11); iii 56-76 cf.
A.O. 101.2 (lines 25-33); iii 63-67 = A.0.101.11; iii
113-36 = A.0.101.26 (lines 1-57); iii 113-32 cf.
A.O.101.54; iii 113-28 cf. A.O.101.23; iii 113-27 =
A.0.101.8 (ND 820) and cf. A.0.101.2 (lines 1-18) =
A.O.101.23 (lines 1-13); iii 113-26a = A.0.101.51 (lines
l-28a); iii 113-25a cf. A.0.101.30 (lines l-20a); iii
113-19 cf. i 9-18; iii 114-25 = A.0.101.28 (ii 1 - iv
13); iii 119-32 - A.0.101.5; iii 119-26 = A.0.101.3; iii
123-28 = A.0.101.15; iii 126-29 cf. i 18-28; iii 131-34
= A.0.101.2 and 28, and cf. A.0.101.23 (lines 14-17).
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TEXT
Col. i
1)
2)
ana DMA ge-ri dan-dan-ni

DINGIR.ME UR.SAG ar-hu
la-a i--na-nu ti-bu- IBILA

re-tuha-mim tuq-ma-te bu-kur nu~dmmud UR.SAG d-g-g
3)
MAH SAG.KAL
git-ma-lu sa ina M
.GL ma-ik
DAGAL-ti DINGIR ina ba-lu-
4)
DINGIR.ME
i-Ii-ti -kur mu-kil mar-kas

AN-*? u Ki-i pe-tu- nag-be ka-bi-si K\-ti
E.BAR AN-e u
YA-m NU KUD-SU
mu-nr-bu ek-du la-a e-nu- q-bit KA-
SAG. KAL UB.ME NA-DIN GI.GIDRU U E.BAR
ana nap-har D URU.URU g-gal-lu am-ru
i 1 - 9 a ) T o the god Ninurta, the strong, the almighty, the exalted, foremost among the gods,
the splendid (and) perfect warrior whose attack in
battle is unequalled, the eldest son who commands battle (skills), offspring of the god
Nudimmud, warrior of the Igigu gods, the capable, prince of the gods, offspring of Ekur, the one
who holds the bond of heaven and underworld,
the one who opens springs, the one who walks the
wide underworld, the god without whom no decisions are taken in heaven and underworld, the
swift, the ferocious, the one whose command is
194
5)
6)
7)
8)

la ut-tak-ka-ru si-qir ap-ti- A.GAL rap-
ABGAL DINGIR.MES mU-tal-lU Ut-UA^-lu EN
EN-E kip-pai AN-E
u Ki-tim qa-tu-u paq-du MAN tam-ha-ri ali-lu tuq-ma-tu i-tl-lu u-ul-lu-tu gt-ma-lu
EN nag-be u A.AB.BA.ME
ez-zu la pa-du- ti-bu- a-bu-bu sa-pin
KUR KR.ME mu-u-am-qit tar-gi-gi DINGIR
ar-hu la-a BAL- i-t-
nu-ur AN-e Ki-tim mu-pr-du q-reb zu.AB
mu-ab-bit lem-nu-te mu-ak-ni la ma-gi-ri
mu-hal-liq za-ia-a-ri Ina UKKIN DINGIR.ME
unalterable, foremost in the (four) quarters, the

one who gives sceptre and (powers of) decision to
all cities, the stern canal-inspector (i 5) whose
utterance cannot be altered, extensively capable,
sage of the gods, the noble, the god Utulu, lord
of lords, into whose hands is entrusted the circumference of heaven and underworld, king of
battle, the hero who rejoices in battles, the triumphant, the perfect, lord of springs and seas, the
angry (and) merciless whose attack is a deluge,
the one who overwhelms enemy lands (and) fells
the wicked, the splendid god who never once
changes, light of heaven (and) underworld who illuminates the interior of the aps, annihilator of
the evil, subduer of the insubmissive, destroyer of
enemies, the one whose command none of the
gods in the divine assembly can alter, bestower of
life, the compassionate god to whom it is good to
pray, the one who dwells in the city Calah, great
lord, m y lord:
9)
MU-5W DINGIR ma-am-ma la BAL-W qa-a-i

TI.LA DINGIR RM-W S-pU- DG.GA a-b
URU kal-hi EN GAL-^ EN-ia ma-ur-PAB-A MAN
dan-nu
10) MAN MAN la -na-an MAN kl-lat kib-rat
4-ta sa M-su ki-at UN.MES ni-Sit C1BAD U
D
MA na-ra-am da-nim
11) u da-gan ka-u-u DINGIR.MES GAL.MES sahtu na-ra-am ik-ka NUN- me-gir DBAD
SANGA-SU UGU
12) DINGIR-//-ka GAL- i-t-bu-ma tu-ar-i-du

BAL- et-lu qar-du ina Gis.tukul-ti a-ur
EN-52 DU. DU-ku-ma ina mal-ki. MES
13) kib-rat 4-ta -nin- la TUK-/ SIPA tabra-a-te la a-di-ru GI.LAL e-du- gap-
ma-hi-ra
14) la-a TUK- MAN mu-ak-niS la-a kan-u-te-s
nap-har ki-at UN.ME i-pe-lu NTA dan-nu
mu-kab-bi-is
15) G a-a-bi- da-i kul-lat KR.ME mu-pa-riru ki-is-ri mul-tar-hi ina GI.tukul-ti
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES EN.ME-SW
i 9b-17a) (I), Ashurnasirpal, strong king, king of

the universe, unrivalled king, king of all the four
quarters, sun(god) of all people, chosen of the
gods Enlil and Ninurta, beloved of the gods Anu
and Dagan, destructive weapon of the great gods,
the pious, beloved of your (Ninurta's) heart,
prince, favourite of the god Enlil, whose priesthood is pleasing to your great divinity and whose
reign you established, valiant man who acts with
the support of Assur, his lord, and has no rival
among the princes of the four quarters, marvellous shepherd, fearless in battle, mighty flood-tide
which has no opponent, the king who subdues
those insubordinate to him, who rules all peoples,
strong male, who treads upon (i 15) the necks of
his foes, trampler of all enemies, the one who
breaks up the forces of the rebellious, he who acts
with the support of the great gods, his lords, and
has conquered all lands, gained dominion over the
highlands in their entirety and received their tribute, capturer of hostages, he who is victorious
over all lands;
16) DU-ku-ma KUR. KUR.MES T>v-i-na qat-su

KUR-ud hur-sa-ni pat gim-ri--nu i-pe-lu-ma
bi-lat-su-nu im-hu-ru sa-bit
5 dut-u]9-lu: the u , 9 sign is URU. Also note A.0.101.3 line 9;
A.0.101.101. This is a name for Ninurta. The reading of the
name is according to a private communication from Lambert.
See Borger, Zeichenliste p. 162. i 6 i-t-tu: as I observed in
ARI 2 p. 119 n. 481 this is a Gt Stative of aialu 'to sing,
shout', i 7-18 ez-zu ... pa-lih 'the angry ... worshipper': var.
omits, i 7 -tt-: see von Soden, AHw p. 401b sub itiu.
i 9 MU-5M = siqirw. sec Schramm, EAK 2 p. 22. i 9 D I N C H R
RM-W si-pu- DG.GA: cf. DINGIR-tim rme rihti qur-bu DG.GA A.0.101.28 i 7 and {H sibitti) re-me-nu-t su-
pu--nu DG.GA Sumer 26 (1970) p. 135 line 3 (Shalm. III),

Further note the names rme-ni-DINGIR ibid. no. 17:42,
marduk-rme-ni ibid. no. 19:27, maur-rme-ni Postgate,
Governor's Palace no. 9:17, etc. As I pointed out in ARI 2 p.
119 n. 485 such references prove that in our passage, as in
A.0.101.3 line 16, A.0.101.29 line 1, and A.0.101.2004 line 6,
REM-w = rmn. i 9 MAN dan-nu 'strong king': A.0.101.3, 5,
and 7 omit, i 16 var. hur--ni--nu or hur--ni Dv--nu
(A.0.101.5) for hur--n pat gim-ri--nu.

17) li-i-t -kn li-i-te UGU Dv-i-na KUR. KUR. MES
e-nu-ma a-ur EN na-bu- MU-a mu-ar-bu-
MAN -ti-a
18) GI.TUKUL-W la pa-da-a a-na i-da-at EN -ti-a
lu it-muh ma-ur-PAB-A NUN-M na-a-du pa-lih
DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
19) -m-gal-lu ek-du ka-id URU.URU hur--ni

pat gim-ri--nu
LUGAL EN.ME-^ mu-la-it
ek-
su-te a-pir
20) a-lum-ma-te la a-di-ru GI.LAL ur--nu tzqa-ru la pa-dumu-rib a-nun-te LUGAL D
mal-ki. ME
21)
EN EN.ME-E UTUL LUGAL LUGAL.ME-/ --pU
na-a^-du ni-bit DMA qar-di ka-u-u

DINGIR.ME GAL.ME mU-tr
g-ml-U
22) MAN ina GI, tukul-ti a-ur u -ma

DINGIR.ME tik-li-u me-e-ri m-ku-ma
KUR.MEs-ni ap-s-te
u mal-ki.ME$
KR.ME-SW
23) GIM GI a-p -ha-si-su kl-lat KUR.KUR.ME-nu ana GR.II.ME-S -k-ni- za-nin
24)
NIDBA.ME a-na DINGIR.ME

GAL.ME NUN-W ke-nu a a-na
u-te-ur
GARZA.ME .KUR.ME KUR-t pit-qu-du
ka-
a-ia-na ep-et qa-ti- u

25)
na-dan zi-bi-u DINGIR.ME GAL.ME AN-? U

Ki-te i-ra-rnu SANGA-SW ina .KUR.ME a-na
da-ri -ki-nu
26) GI. TUKUL. MES--nu ez~zu-te ana i-rk-te
EN-te- i-ru-ku -lurn-rna-at
GI.TUKUL.ME-SW me-lam
MAN.ME-//
EN-ti- u o u
27) kib-rat 4- -ar-ri-hu- KR.ME-ut a-ur

pat gim-ri--nu e-li u KI.TA i-ta-na-nu-ma
GUN u ma-da-t
28) UGv--nu -ki-nu ka-id a-a-bu-ut a-ur
MAN dan-nu MAN KUR a-ur A TUKUL-MA ID
a-ur kl-lat za-i-ri-
29) i-ni-ru ina ga-i-i -re-tu- pa-gar ge-ri-u
DUMU.DUMU MDIKUR-RIN. TH GR.NTA
DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
30) si-kip-ti la ma-gi-ri- il-tk-ka-nu-ma ipe-lu gim-ri lb-b-bi MA-KAL-CW a maha-zi

31) -pt-tu- -kn-nu i-re-e-ti ina U4-me--ma
i 17b-18a) When Aur, the lord who called my

name (and) who makes my sovereignty supreme,
placed his merciless weapon in my lordly arms;
i 18b-31a) (I) Ashurnasirpal, attentive prince,
worshipper of the great gods, ferocious dragon,
conqueror of cities and the entire highlands, king
of lords, controller of the obstinate, crowned with
splendour, fearless in battle, lofty (and) merciless
hero, who stirs up strife, king of all princes, lord
of lords, chief herdsman, king of kings, attentive
purification priest, designate of the warrior god
Ninurta, destructive weapon of the great gods,
avenger, the king who has always acted justly
with the support of Aur and the god amas, the
gods who help him and cut down like marsh reeds
fortified mountains and princes hostile to him,
(and) subdued all their lands, provider of
offerings for the great gods, legitimate prince, to
whom is perpetually entrusted the proper administration of the rites of the temples of his land,
whose deeds and (i 25) offerings the great gods of
heaven and underworld love and (therefore) established forever his priesthood in the temples,
granted to his dominion their fierce weapons (and)
made him more marvellous than (any of) the
kings of the four quarters with respect to the
splendour of his weapons (and) the radiancc of
his dominion, (he who) has always contested with
every last enemy of Aur above and below and
imposed upon them tribute and tax, conqueror of
the foes of Aur, strong king, king of Assyria;
son of Tuku1t-Ninurta (II), vice-regent of Aur,
who defeated all his enemies (and) hung the
corpses of his enemies on stakes, grandson of
Adad-nrr (II), appointee of the great gods,
(i 30) who always achieved the defeat of those insubmissive to him and (thereby) became lord of
all, offspring of Aur-dn (II) who opened towns
(and) founded shrines:
-ti t-a
32) MAN-Arw be-la-ku na-a-da-ku UAR-ku DUGUDku ur-ru-ha-ku SAG.KAL-ku ur--na-ku qar-
i 31b-37a) At that time my sovereignty, my dominion, (and) my power came forth at the command of the great gods; I am king, I am lord, I
am praiseworthy, I am exalted, I am important, I
am magnificent, I am foremost, I am a hero, I am
i 21 var. adds at end of line: AD.MESw '(avenger o 0 his

fathers', i 24 var. pis-qu-du for pit-qu-du. i 24-25 var. omits
ep-et ... -ki-nu 'whose deeds ... temples', i 26 var. omits
ez-zu-te 'fierce', i 29 after Adad-nrr var. adds SID 'viceregent'. Cf. Seux, ERAS p. 110 n. 21. i 31 var. a-ur
(DINGIR).ME GAL.MES '(at the command of) Aur (and) the

great gods', i 31 k-a: var. and A.0.101.17 -su-a. Cf.
A,0.101.30 line 21. See Borger, Asarh. p. 97 (to lines 18-19).
i 32 A.0.101.13 and 17 ge-ra-ku 'I am powerful' for MAH-^W
( = srku) 'I am exalted'. See Schramm, EAK 2 p. 22.
ina pi DINGIR.ME GAL.ME MAN-ti EN-ti k-
196
Ashurnasirpal Ii A.0.101 J
ra-da-ku
33) lab-ba-ku u zi-ka-ra-ku ma-ur-PAB-A MAN
dan-nu MAN KUR a-ur ni-bit D30 mi-gir danim na-mad D10 ka-ka DINGIR.MES
34) ana-ku GIS.TUKUL la pa-dumu-am-qit KUR
KR.ME-5W ana-ku MAN le-e^-u qab-li -gi
URU.URU u
hur--ni
35) SAG. KAL tuq-ma-te MAN kib-rat 4- mu-n-er

a-a-bi- mu-har-mit kl-lat KR.ME-SM
MAN ki-a UB.ME nap-har mal-ki.MES
36) T>\j--nu MAN mu-ak-mis la kan-u-te-
nap-har ki-at UN.ME i-pe-lu i-ma-a-te anna-te
ina pi DINGIR.MES GAL.MES
37) -sa-ni-ma ana im-i-ia ki-ni -ki-nu Ina

bi-ib-lat sk-ia u ti-ri-is U-la JINANNA GAAN
GA
38) SANGA-//-/0 lu tam-gu-ra-ni-ma e-pe MURUB4

u M sk-a ub-la-ma ina U4-me--ma maur-PAB-A NUN- na-a-du
pa-lh
DINGIR.ME
39) GAL.MES bi-ib-lat lb-b-u DBAD -ak-du--ma nap-har mal-ki. MES la ma-gi-r-
k-u-du GAL-tt u-su ka-id
40) a-a-b- na -ri nam-ra-si -pa-ri-ru kisir mul-tar-hi e-nu-ma a-ur EN GAL-W nabu- MU-J7
41) mu-ar-bu- MAx-ti-ia UGU MAN.MEs-ni

kib-rat 4-i MU GAL-i lu-ar-bu- GI.TUKUL-SM
la-a pa-da-a ana i-di EN-t-a
42)
lu-at-m-ih
KUR.KUR.ME hur--ni
KAL.ME
a-na pe-li uk-nu-e -pa-ri ag-gi -ma-Hra-ni ina GIsJukul-ti a-ur EN-ia
43) ar-hi pa--qu-e KUR.ME mar-su-te Ina gi-pi
RIN.HI.A.ME-7 lu at-ta-lak-ma -nin ul ib-i
ina ur-ra MAN-ti-a
44)
ina mah-ri-i BALA-/7 -ma DI.KUD

UB.ME AN.DL-5 DG.GA UGU-/A -ku-nU
na GI.A.TI MAN- QKL-l --bu GI.GIDRU
45) mur-e-â-at UN.MES a-na SU-ia -at-m-hu

GI. GIGIR. ME RIN.HI.A.ME-A ad-ki
ger-ri
pa--qu-e KUR.ME-^ mar-su-te a-na meteq

46)
GIS.GiGiR.MES RIN.HI.A.ME la -ak-nu
e-te-
tiq a-na KUR tum^-me a-lik URU li-b-e URU

dan-nu-ti-s-nu URU su-ur-ra URU a-bu-qu
47) URU a-ru-ra URU a-ru-be-e ina bi-rit KUR
i 33 A.0.101.17 ID a-ur u DMA 'vice-regent of Aur and the

god Ninurta' for MAN KUR aS-ur 'king of Assyria', i 34 var.
a warrior, I am a lion, and I am virile;

Ashurnasirpal, strong king, king of Assyria,
designate of the god Sn, favourite of the god
Anu, loved one of the god Adad (who is) almighty among the gods, I, the merciless weapon
which lays low lands hostile to him, I, the king,
capable in battle, vanquisher of cities and highlands, (i 35) foremost in battle, king of the four
quarters, the one who defeats his enemies, the
king who disintegrates all his enemies, king of the
totality of the (four) quarters including all their
princes, the king who forces to bow down those
insubmissive to him, the one who rules all peoples; these destinies came forth at the command
of the great gods and they properly fixed (them)
as my destinies.
i 37b-38a) Because of my voluntary offerings and
my prayers the goddess Istar, the mistress who
loves my priesthood, approved of me and she
made up her mind to make war and battle,
i 38b-40a) At that time, Ashurnasirpal, attentive
prince, worshipper of the great gods, whose
desires the god Enlil helped him obtain so that his
great hand conquered all princes insubmissive to
him, conqueror of his foes, the one who in
rugged terrain broke up the forces of the rebellious;
i 40b-43a) When Aur, my great lord, who called
me by name (and) made my sovereignty supreme
over the kings of the four quarters, had made
(my) great name supreme he placed his merciless
weapon in my lordly arms (and) sternly commanded me to rule, subdue, and direct the lands
(and) mighty highlands. With the support of
Aur, my lord, I kept marching along difficult
routes (and) over rugged mountains with the mass
of my troops and there was no opponent,
i 43b-54a) In my accession year (and) in my first
regnal year when the god ama, judge of the
(four) quarters, spread his beneficial protection
over me (and), having nobly ascended the royal
throne, (i 45) he placed in my hand the sceptre
for the shepherding of the people (at that time)
I mustered my chariotry (and) troops. I passed
through difficult paths (and) rugged mountains
which were unsuitable for chariotry and troops
(and) marched to the land Tummu. I conquered
Lib, their fortified city, the cities Surra, Abuqu,
Arura, (and) Arub which lie between Mounts
Urinu, Arunu, (and) Etinu, mighty mountains. I
massacred many of them (and) carried off
mu--am-qit.

-ri-ni KUR a-ru-ni KUR e-t-n KUR.MES-
K AL. MES-TE GAR- KUR-ud GAZ. ME-5W-/7
48) HI.A a-duk al-la-su-nu bu---nu GU4.ME-nu -lu-la
RIN.ME ig-du-ru
KUR-W mar-
su is-sab-tu KUR GIG dan-ni EGIR--/?

49)
la a-lik KUR-M GIM zi-qip
GR AN.BAR e-su
na-a-di u MUEN AN-E mut-ap-ri- q-reb-

la i-î-ru ki-ma qin-ni
50) -#-W\MUEN ina q-reb KUR-E dan-na-su-nu
i-ku-nu
Ina MAN. MES-/ AD. MES-/<7 ma-
am-ma ina q-reb--nu la TE- ina 3 UD.ME

51)
UR.SAG KUR-M i-hi-ta gap- lb-ba- GIS.LAL

ub-la e-li Ina GR.ILME-S KUR-' -sa-hi-ip
ih-pi qi-na--nu UKKIN--nu

52) -pa-ri-ir 2 ME RIN.ME ti-du-ki--nu ina
GIS.TUKUL.MES -am-qi
al-la-su-nu
DUGUD-
ta GIM mar-it UDU se-ni -lu-la

53) s.ME-i-nu GIM na-pa-si KUR- lu as-ru-up
si-ta-te--nu hur-ru na-at-ba-ku KUR-/ ekl URU . ME-ni--nu
54)
ap-pl
aq-qur
ina IZI.ME GBIL-/? i-tu KUR
tum4-me at-tu-mu ana KUR kr-ru-ri at-tarad ma-da-tu KUR kr-ru-ri

55) KUR si-me-si KUR si-me-ra KUR ul-ma-ni-a
KUR a-da-us KUR har-ga-a-a KUR har-ma-sa56)
a-a ANSE.KUR.RA.MES ANSE.GR.NUN.NA.ME

GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME TUL.ME ZABAR
ma-da-ta--nu am-hur LXJ za-bl ku-du-ri

UGU--nu -kn ki-i ina KUR kr-ru-ri
57) us-ba-ku-ni KUR gl-za-na-a-a KUR hub-uka-a-a me-lam-me a-ur EN -ia is-hup-58)
nu ANE.KUR.RA.MES K.BABBAR.ME
K.GI.ME AN.NA.ME Z AB AR. MES TUL.ME
ZABAR ma-da-ta--nu a-na muh-hi-a ub-lu-ni

TA KUR kr-ru-ri at-tu-mu
59) a-na KUR n-reb URU hu-lu-nu a-na KUR
hab-hi b-ta-a-ni Ku4-ab URU ha-tu URU
ha-ta-ru URU ni-i-tu-un URU sa-bi-di
60) URU met-qi-a URU ar-sa-ni-a URU e-e-la URU
ha-lu-a URU.ME-n KUR hab-hi ina bird KUR -su KUR a-ru-a
61)
KUR a-ra-ar-di
KUR.ME-^ KAL.ME GAR-nu
KUR-ud GAZ.ME-u-nu HI. A. MES a-duk al-lasu-nu NG.U.ME-u-nu -lu-la

62) RIN.ME ig-du-ru u.si a-si-tu pu-ut URU
ni-i-tu-un
DIB-t
GIM DUNGU TA AN-?
u-qa-lu-lat
i 49 GM ... e-su na-a-di: also in A.0,101.17 71-72 and cf.

von Soden, AHw p. 1210b sub ltu. i 55 A.0.101.17 has URU
'city* instead of KUR 'land* before every GN except the first,
Simesi, in this line, i 55 var. and A.0.101.17 ad-da-us.
i 57 A.0.101.17 has URU 'city' instead of KUR 'land' before
Gi1zniia and A.0.101.9 and 13 transpose Gi1zniia and
Hubukiia. i 57 A.0.101.9 inserts pu-ul-hi before me-lam-me
'awe of (the radiance)', i 58 var. omits (in error) TJTUL.MES
captives, possessions, (and) oxen from them. The

troops were frightened (and) took to a rugged
mountain. Since the mountain was exceptionally
rugged I did not pursue them. The mountain was
as jagged as the point of a dagger and therein no
winged bird of the sky flew, (i 50) They had
placed their fortress like the nest of the udnubird within the mountain which none of the kings
my fathers had ever approached. For three days
the hero explored the mountain. His bold heart
yearned for battle. He ascended on foot (and)
overwhelmed the mountain. He smashed their
nest (and) scattered their flock. I felled 200 of
their fighting-men with the sword (and) carried off
a multitude of captives like a flock of sheep. With
their blood 1 dyed the mountain red like red
wool, (and) the rest of them the ravines (and)
torrents of the mountain swallowed. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt their cities.
i 54b-58a) Moving on from the land Tummu I
went down to Mount Kirruru. I received the tribute of Mounts Kirruru and Simesu, the land
Simerra, the land Ulmania, the land Adaus, the
land Hargaia, the land Harmasaia horses,
mules, oxen, sheep, wine, (and) bronze casseroles.
I imposed upon them corve. While I was in
Mount Kirruru the radiance of Aur, my lord,
overwhelmed the Gi1znu and the Hubuku (and)
they brought to me as their tribute horses, silver,
gold, tin, bronze, (and) bronze casseroles.
i 58b-69a) Moving on from Mount Kirruru I entered the pass which (leads from) the city Hulun
to the interior of the land Habhu. I conquered the
cities Hattu, Hataru, Nistun, Sabidi, Metqia,
Arsania, Tela, Halua, cities of the land Habhu
which lie between Mounts Usu, Arua, (and)
Arardi, mighty mountains. I massacred many of
them (and) carried off prisoners (and) possessions
from them. The troops were frightened (and) took
to a lofty peak in front of the city Nistun, which
hovered like a cloud in the sky. Into the midst of
those which none of the kings my fathers had
ever approached my warriors flew like birds. I
felled 260 of their combat troops with the sword.
I cut off their heads and formed (therewith) a
'casseroles', i 59 A.0.101.9 and 17 ha-at-tu. i 59 var. ir-bi-di
for sa-bi-di is probably copyist's error. See Schramm, EAK 2
p. 23. i 60 A.0.101.9 and 17 me-et-qi-a. i 60 A.0.101.9 and
17 ar-su-a-in. i 60 A.0.101.9 URU 'city' instead of KUR 'mount'
before Usu. i 61 A.0.101.9 a-ar-VRV-di and, as King suggests,
probably the scribe intended -ra- for URU and mistakenly
transposed the sign with -ar-.
198
63)

sa Ina MAN.MES-/ AD.ME-T ma-am-ma
ina
q-reb--nu la TE- qu-ra-di-ia GIM

MUEN.MES VGV--nu i-e-û
64) 2 ME 1 u-i RIN. MES m u n - dah-si- - n u ina
GI.TUKUL.ME -am-qt SAG.DU.ME--nu
KUD-is a-na a-si-te ar-sip si-ta-te--nu ki-ma

MUEN
65) qi-ni a-na ka-a-pi KUR- UB.ME-ni al-lasu-nu
NG.U.ME-5I-/2W TA q-reb
KUR-E -
e-ri-da URU.ME-ni sa ina q-reb

66)
hur--a-ni KAL.MES GAR- a-pl aq-qur ina

IZI.ME -ru-up RIN.ME am-mar TA IGI
GI, TUKUL. ME-? ip-pr-i-du-ni
ur-du-ni
GR.II.ME-/7
67) DIB-t GUN ma-da-tu u L za-bl ku-du-ri

UGU--nu a-kun mbu--bu DUMU ba-bu-a
68)
pile. The rest of them (i 65) built nests like birds

on mountain precipices. I brought down prisoners
(and) possessions of theirs from the mountain
(and) I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities
which lay within the mighty highlands. The
troops, as many as had fled from my weapons,
came down (and) submitted to me. I imposed
upon them tribute, tax, and corve. Bbu, son of
Babua, son of the city ruler of the city Nitun, I
flayed in the city Arbail (and) draped his skin
over the wall. At that time I made an image of
myself (and) wrote thereon the praises of my
power. I erected (it) on the gw-mountain in the
city (called) Ashurnasirpal at the source of the
spring.
DUMU EN.URU URU ni-i-tu-un

i-na URU.4-DINGIR a-ku-us KU- BD -hal-
lip ina Ui-me--ma sa-lam bu-na-ni-ia DV-U

ta-na-ti ki-u-ti-a
69) ina lb-bi al-tr ina KUR-E e-qi ina URU maur-PAB-A in a SAG e-ni -e-zi-iz ina li-me an-
KUR kat-mu-hi
75) us-ba-ku-ni t-e-mu ut-te-ru-ni ma-a URU suru -ha-lu-pe-e it-ta-bal-kt mha-ma-ta-a-ia
L.GAR--nu hdu-ku
76) a-hi-ia-ba-ba DUMU la ma-man TA KUR -a-
i 69b-99a) In this same eponymy on the twentyfourth day of the month Ab, by the command of
Aur (and) the goddess Istar, the great gods, my
lords, I moved out from the city Nineveh (and)
marched to the cities which lie at the foot of
Mounts Nipur and Pasate, mighty mountains. I
conquered the cities Atkun, Ushu, Pilazi, (and) 20
cities in their environs. I massacred many of
them, carried off prisoners (and) possessions from
them, (and) burnt the cities. The troops, as many
as had fled from my weapons, came down (and)
submitted to me. I imposed upon them corve.
Moving on from the cities which arc at the foot
of Mounts Nipur and Pasate I crossed the Tigris
(and) approached the land Katmuhu. I received
the tax (and) tribute of the land Katmuhu (and)
the Muku, bronze casseroles, oxen, sheep, (and)
wine. While (i 75) I was in the land Katmuhu this
report was brought back to me: T h e city Sru,
which belongs to Blt-Halupe, has rebelled. They
have killed Hamatiia, their governor, (and) appointed Ahi-iababa, son of a nobody, whom they
brought from the land BTt-Adini, as their king.'
With the assistance of Aur (and) the god Adad,
the great gods who made my sovereignty supreme,
i 67 var. and A.0.101.17 mbu-ba-a> \ 69 ina KUR-> e-qr.

similarly, Shalm. in says he erected his statue (in another city)
ina qaq-qi-ri e-qi 3 R 8 ii 44. It is known that the qu (and bit
qi) refers to an extremely holy area, a sanctum sanctorum
(see the dictionaries). It may specifically refer to a sacred
object erected there, as Oppenheim, History of Religions 5
(1965) p. 256, has suggested. In the royal inscriptions of
Asn. u and Shalm. in it seems to be another, foreign, word
for salmu 'the (royal) statue'. Cf. Schramm, EAK 2 p. 72.

i 73 According to King and Le Gac A.0.101.17 has
D.HAI.[HAL] for D.IDIGNA but the passage is now broken off.
i 74 var. omits GUN 'tax', i 75 A.0.101.9 and, according to
King and Le Gac (passage now broken), 17 su--ru.
i 75 A.O. 101.9 and, according to King and Le Gac (passage
now broken), 17 -mha-lu-pe-e. \ 75 var. KUR ha-ma-ta-a-ia or
omits the name, i 76 var. omits KUR 'land' before Bt-Adini.
ni-ma
70)
ina ITI.NE UD 24.KM
ina q-bit
a-ur ÎNANNA DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
EN.ME-/7 TA URU ni-nu-a at-tu-mu a-na

URU. ME-ni GR KUR ni-pur u KUR pa-sa-te
71)
KUR.ME KAL.ME
GAR-W lu a-lik URU at-ku-un URU u-hu URU
pi-la-zi 20 URU.ME-W li-me-tu--nu
KURud GAZ. ME--nu HI. A a-duk
72) al-la-su-nu NG.U.ME-SM-A? a-lu-la

URU.ME%-ni ina IZI.ME GBIL RIN.ME ammar TA IGI GI.TUKUL.ME-7
ip-pr-i-du-ni
ur-du-ni
73) GR.II.ME-RA DIB-t ka-dr-ru e-me-su-nu-ti
TA URU.ME-H/ s GR KUR ni-pur
u KUR pa-
sa-re at-tum*-mu D.IDIGNA e-te-bir

74) ana KUR kat-mu-hi aq-t-rib GUN ma-da-t
KUR kat-mu-hi
KUR mu-ki TUL ZABAR
GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME am-hur ki-i
i-na

di-ni ub-lu-ni- a-na MAN-ti ana UGU--nu
77)
i-ku-nu i-na re-su-te a-ur DIKUR

DINGIR.MES GAL.MES mu-ar-bu- MAN-ti-a
GI.GIGIR.ME RIN.HI.A.ME-F ad-ki -d D
ha-bur a-sa-bat i-na me-tq-ti-ia ma-da-tu

78) HI.A mds-ma-nu-ha-MAN-DmGR.ME-ni
79)
URU -di-kan-na-a-a ML-DIKUR URU qatna-a-a K.BABBAR.MES K.GI.ME

AN.NA.ME TUL.ME ZABAR TG lU-bl-t bir-
me TG lu-bl-ti TG.GADA.ME at-ta-har ana

URU su--ri t-ha-lu-pe-e aq-t-rib
80) pl-hi me-lam-me a-ur EN-ia is-hup-nu LU.GAL.MES L.su.GI.MES URU a-na
u-zu-
ub zi, ME --nu a-na G AB A-ia t-ni

81) GR.H- is-bu-t ma-a ha-da-at du-ku
ma-a
ha-da-at bal-lit ma-a ha-da-at k-ka-ni epu-u
a-hi-ia-ba-ba
DUMU la
ma-ma-na
82) TA KUR -a-di-ni ub-lu-ni-su-ni ina su DIBat ina gi-pi lb-bi-ia u su-us-mur
GI.TUKUL.ME-A URU a-S-b RIN.ME EN hi-fi
gab-bu
83)
-sa-bi-tu-ni i-ta-nu-ni L.GAI.ME-T a-na

.GAL-5 .KUR,MS-M -e-rb K.BABBAR-5
K.GI-SU NG.GA-SM NG.SV- ZABAR
84) AN. BAR. MES AN. N A. MES TUL.ME ZABAR tapha-a-ni ZABAR ha-ri-a-te ZABAR NG.GA ZABAR
ma-?-a-du NA4.GIS.NUU.GAL GIS.BANSUR
85) ih-zi MUNUS.RIN.MES .GAL.ME-5W
MUNUS.DUMU.MUNUS.ME-5 al-la-at
RIN.ME EN hi-tl a-di NG.GA.ME--nU
DINGIR. ME-W-S a-di N G. GA-- n U
86) NA4 KUK-e u-qu-ru GI.GIGIR-S ra-ki-su
ANSE.KUR.RA.ME GIS.LAL GIS n-ri- hal-luup-i ANSE.KUR.RA.MES hal-lu-up-ti RIN.ME
87) TG lu-bl-ti bir-me TG lu-bl-ti

GI.GADA.MES .GI DG.GA-be GIS e-re-nu
IM.ME DG.GA.MES ki-si-ti GI e-re-ni
88) SG.ZA.GN.MI SG.ZA.GN.SAS GIS.MAR.GD.DA G LT 4. ME-5/i UDU se-ni- al-la-su DUGUDta GIM MUL.ME AN- iT-ta la-a TUK-
89) -lu-la NVZ/-DINGIR L.GAR-/? ra-ma-ni-
ia vGXJ--nu a-kun a-si-tu ina pu-ut

90)
K. GAL- ar-sip L.GAL.ME am-mar

ib-bal-ki-tu-ni a-ku-su KU.ME-.VI-U a-si-tu
-hal-lip a-nu-te ina lb-bi a-si-te -ma-gigi

a-nu-te ina UGU
91) i-si-te ina zi-qi-be -za-qip an-nu-te ina battu-bat-ti a-si-te ina zi-qi-be -al-bi ma-a^-
i 77 var. omits -a 'my' after GIS.GIGIR.MES RIN.HI.A.MES

'chariotry (and) troops'. A.0.101.9 has -ia. i 78 In both 1 R
and King, AKA the name is copied MDINGIR-DIKUR TIT-Adad'.
The correct name 'Amll-Adad' is found on one squeeze cited
by Le Gac as well as in the annals of Adad-nrrl II (A.0.99.2
line 109). Cf. Schramm, EAK 2 p. 23. i 78 A.0.101.9 qa-at-
I mustered my chariotry (and) troops (and) made

my way to the banks of the River Habur. On my
march, I received the plenteous tribute of
Samanuha-ar-i1ni, a man of the city Sadikannu,
(and) of AmTl-Adad, a man of the city Qatnu
silver, gold, tin, bronze casseroles, garments with
multi-coloured trim, (and) linen garments. I approached the city Sru, which belongs to BtHalupe. (i 80) Awe of the radiance of Assur, my
lord, overwhelmed them. The nobles (and) elders
of the city came out to me to save their lives.
They submitted to me and said: 'As it pleases
you, kill! As it pleases you, spare. As it pleases
you, do what you will!' I captured Ahi-iababa,
son of a nobody, whom they brought from the
land Blt-Adini. With my staunch heart and fierce
weapons I besieged the city. All the guilty soldiers
were seized and handed over to me. I sent my nobles into his palace (and) temples. I carried off his
silver, gold, possessions, property, bronze, iron,
tin, bronze casseroles, bronze pans, bronze pails,
much bronze property, gisnugallu-alabaster, (i 85)
an ornamented dish, his palace women, his
daughters, captives of the guilty soldiers together
with their property, his gods together with their
property, precious stone of the mountain, his harnessed chariot, his teams of horses, the equipment
of the horses, the equipment of the troops, garments with multi-coloured trim, linen garments,
fine oil, cedar, fine aromatic plants, cedar shavings, purple wool, red-purple wool, his wagons,
his oxen, his sheep his valuable tribute which,
like the stars of heaven, had no number. I appointed Azi-ili as my own governor over them. I
erected a pile in front of his gate; I flayed as
many nobles as (i 90) had rebelled against me
(and) draped their skins over the pile; some I
spread out within the pile, some I erected on
stakes upon the pile, (and) some I placed on
stakes around about the pile. I flayed many right
through my land (and) draped their skins over the
walls. 1 slashed the flesh of the eunuchs (and) of
the royal eunuchs who were guilty. I brought
Ahi-iababa to Nineveh, flayed him, (and) draped
his skin over the wall of Nineveh. (Thus) have I
constantly established my victory and strength
over the land Laqu. While I was in the city Sru I
imposed an exceptionally large tribute, tax, and
na-a-a. i 79 var. su-ri. i 79 A.0.101.9 i-mha-iu-pe-e. i 82 var.
omits KUR 'land' before BTt-Adini. i 82 A.0.101.9 and,
according to King (passage now broken), 17 -ma-di-ni.
i 85 var. DINGIR.ME- or DINGIR.ME-m, i.e. omits 'his'
before 'gods', i 88 A.0.101.9 omits

wool'.
SG.ZA.GN.MI
'purple
200

du-te ina pi-rik KUR-ia
92)
a-ku-su KU.ME-5-W BD.MES-/?/ -hal-lip

L.S0-SAG.ME L.5-SAG MAN.MES-/ EN
hi-i-t uz\j.MEs--nu -ba-tiq

a-hi-ia-ba-ba ana URU ni-nu-a ub-la-u aku-su KU-M BD URU ni-nu-a -hal-lip Iita dan-na-ni
94) UGU KUR la-qe-e al-ta-kan ki-i ina URU SU-ri us-ba-ku-ni ma-da-t s MAN.MES-ni KUR
la-qe-e a-na si-hr-ti--nu
93)
95)
K.BABBAR.ME KU.GL.MES AN.NA.MES

ZABAR.MES TUL.ME ZABAR GU4.ME UDU.ME
TG lu-bl-ti bir-me TG lu-b-ti
duty upon all the kings of the land Laq, (i 95)

silver, gold, tin, bronze, bronze casseroles, oxen,
sheep, garments with multi-coloured trim, (and)
linen garments. At that time I received the tribute
of Haiinu, a man of the city Hindnu silver,
gold, tin, bronze, 50wmu-st0ne, ginugallualabaster, purple wool, (and) dromedaries. At
that time I made a colossal royal statue of myself,
wrote thereon (a description of) my victories and
praises, (and) erected (it) within his palace. I
made my monumental inscriptions, wrote thereon
(an account of) my praises (and) my might, (and)
deposited (them) at his gate.
GI. GADA. MES GUN
96) ta-mar-tu --tir UGU--nu -kun ina

U4-me-t-ma ma-da-tu mha-ia-a-ni URU hi97)
in-da-na-a-a
K.BABBAR.ME
K.GI.ME AN.NA.ME ZABAR.MES NA4 am-mU
NA4.GIS.NUU.GAL SG.ZA.GN.MI
ud-ra-a-te
ma-da-tu- am-hur ina U4-me--ma sa-lam

98) UAN-ti-a ur-ba-a D-us i-i-ta ta-na-ti ina
al-tr ina MURUB4 .GAL-SW
NA4.NA,R.A.ME-7 DV-U
-e-zi-iz
99) ta-na-ti ge-ru-ti-a ina SAR ina K- ku-un ina li-me MU MU-a-ma ina q-bit a-ur
EN GAL EN-7 U DMA GA SANGA-//-0
100) ina tar-si MAN.ME-/ AD.ME-0 L.GAR
KUR su-hi a-na KUR a-ur la DU-ni MDINGIRD L.GAR.KUR KUR su-hi a-na u-zu-ub
ZI.ME-SW a-di E.ME-5
101) DUMU.ME-S K. BABBAR. ME K.GI.MES MA-
da-tu- ana URU ni-nu-a a-na UGv-a lu ub-la

ina li-me -ma ina URU.NINA us-ba-ku t-e-mu
102) ut-te-ru-ni ma-a LU.MES-? KUR s-u-ra-a-a
m
hu-la-a-a L.EN.URU-SW- ml-ma-nuSAG MAN KUR a-ur NUN a-lik pa-ni-a
103) ina URU hal-zi-lu-ha --as-bi-tu--nu-ni ita-bal-ku-t URU da-am-da-mu-sa URU MANti-a a-na as-ba-te il-li-ku
104) ina q-bit
tik-li-ia
a-ur
-ma
DIKUR DINGIR.MES
GI. GIGIR. MES RIN.HI.A.ME-TF d-kl
ina SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at a-sar sa-lam
i 93 var. cited by Le Gac pp. 35-36 n. 14 adds (before

breaking off): [...] G AB A-ia t-ni GR.II.ME-? DiB-t-ma ha-da-at
du-ku [...] TA a-di-ni ub-u-ni--ni ina su DIB-at ina gi-pis
[...]. Cf. i 80-82. This is a curious error, i 94 A.0.101.9 suri-ma for su--ri. i 95 A.0.101.9 inserts am-hur before GUN,
changing the translation to: 'While I was in the city Sru I
received tribute from all the kings ... linen garments (and)
imposed upon them an exceptionally large tax and duty.'
i 96-97 A.0.101.9 omits K.BABBAR.MES K.G.ME AN.NA.ME
'silver, gold, tin', i 98 var. omits ina 'thereon'; A.0.101.9
i 99b-101 a) In the eponym year of my name, by

the command of Aur, the great lord, my lord,
and the god Ninurta who loves my priesthood,
although at the time of the kings my fathers the
governor of the land Suhu had not come to
Assyria, H-ibni, governor of the land Suhu,
brought to Nineveh to my presence his tribute,
silver (and) gold, to save his life together with
(that of) his brothers (and) his sons,
i 101b - ii 2a) In the same eponymy, while I was
in Nineveh, a report was brought back to me saying men of Assyria (and) Huliia, their city ruler
whom Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, a prince
who preceded me, had settled in the city
Halziluha had rebelled; they had come to capture the city Damdammusa, my royal city. By the
command of Assur, the gods ama and Adad,
the gods who help me, I mustered my chariotry
(and) troops. At the source of the River Subnat,
where (i 105) stand the statues of Tiglath-pileser
and Tukult-Ninurta, kings of Assyria, my
ina lb-bi. \ 98 A.0.101.9 omits -a 'my' after NA4.NA.RU.A.MES

'monumental inscriptions*, i 99 var. ina K.MEi-/u 'at his
doors' or ina K.GAL-/U 'at his gate'; A.0.101.9 and 17 have
instead ina URU qat-ni 'at the city Qatnu'. i 99 var. omits GAL
'great' or EN GAL 'great lord' (A.0.101.9); var. EN-<?.
i 100 A.0.101.9 and, according to King and Le Gac (passage
now broken), 17 "DINGIR-ib-ni. i 100 A.0.101.9 e-5U 'his
brother', i 102 var. LU.EN-su-nu 'their ruler' for LU.EN.URU-nu 'their city ruler', i 103 A.0.101.9 KUR 'land' for URU
'city' before Halziluha.

105) mGi. tukul-ti-A--r-ra mGisJukul-ti-duAs
MAN KUR a-ur AD.ME-7 i-za-zu--ni sa-lam
MAN-ti-ia ab-ni it-ti--nu -e-zi-iz
106) ina U4-me--ma ma-da-tu KUR i-za-la
GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME at-ta-har a-na
KUR ka-ia-ri at-ta-bal-kt a-na URU ki-na-bu
107) URU dan-nu-ti- mhu-la-a-a aq-t-rib ina
g-p RIN. HI. A. ME-0F U- t-TtlU-r URU 0~
si-bi KUR-ad 8 ME RIN.ME mu-tah-si--nu
108) ina GI.TUKUL -am-qit 3 LIM al-la-su-nu ina
IZI.ME GBIL ki-i li-tu-te 1 -en ina k--nu
TI. LA ul e-zib mhu-la-a-a
109) LU. EN. VKV-u-nu TI.LA ina u as-bat
L.D.ME-5U-n a-na i-si-ta-a-te ar-sip l
ba-tu-li--nu MUNUS ba-tu-la-te--nu a-na
GBIL-te GBIL
110) mhu-la-a-a L.EN.URU--nu a-ku-su KU-SW
BD s URU da-am-da-mu-sa -hal-lip URU
ap-pl aq-qur ina IZI.ME GBIL-W/7
111) URU ma-ri-ri ii-me-tu--nu KUR-C/ 50
RIN.ME ti-du-ki--nu ina GI.TUKUL.ME am-qit 2 ME al-la-su-nu ina IZI.ME GBIL-up
3 ME 32
112) RIN.ME KUR ni-ir-bi ina mit-hu-si ina
EDIN a-duk al-la-su-nu GU4.ME-5W-nu UDU
se-ni--nu -te-ra KUR ni-ir-bu GR KUR
-hi-ra
113) a-ha-i is-bu-t a-na URU te-e-la URU dannu-ti--nu e-ru-bu TA URU ki-na-bu at-tumu a-na URU te-e-ia aq-t-rib
114) URU KAL-an dan-ni 3 BD.ME-W la-bi
RIN.ME a-na BD.ME--/ dan-nu-te
RIN.HI.A.ME--nu HI.A.ME it-tk-lu-ma la
ur-du-ni
115) GR.II.ME-A la-a is-bu-t i-na mit-hu-si u tidu-ki URU a-si-bi Kim-ad 3 LIM RIN.ME tidu-ki--nu ina GI.TUKUL.ME -am-qit alla-su-nu
116) NG.U.MEs--nu GU4.ME-5W-/7W UDU se-ni-nu a-lu-la al-la-su-nu HI. A. MES ina
IZI.ME GBIL RIN.ME TI.LA.ME HI.A.ME na
su-te -sab-bi-ta
117) an-nu-te kap-pi--nu rit-ti--nu -bat-tiq
an-nu-te ap-pi--nu GETU.II-5W-
KIIB.ME--nu -bat-tiq RIN.ME
HI.A.MH Gi.n--nu -n-pl
118) 1 -et i-si-tu TI.LA.ME 1 SAG.DU.ME ffsip ina GI gup-ni ina li-me-et \jRu--nu
SAG. DU. ME-i-nu ina lb-bi -H-il L ba-tuli--nu
forefathers, I built my royal statue (and) erected

(it) with them. At that time I received tribute
from the land Izalla, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. I
crossed over to Mount Kasiiari (and) approached
the city Kinabu, the fortified city of Hu1iia. With
the mass of my troops (and) my fierce battle I
besieged (and) conquered the city. I felled with
the sword 800 of their combat troops, I burnt
3,000 captives from them. I did not leave one of
them alive as a hostage. I captured alive Hu1iia
their city ruler. I made a pile of their corpses. I
burnt their adolescent boys (and) girls, (i 110) I
flayed Hulaiia their city ruler (and) draped his
skin over the wall of the city Damdammusa. I
razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the city. I conquered the city Mariru which was in their environs. I felled 50 of their fighting-men with the
sword, burnt 200 captives from them, (and) defeated in a battle on the plain 332 troops of the
land Nirbu. I brought back prisoners, oxen, (and)
sheep from them. The (inhabitants of) the land
Nirbu, which is at the foot of Mount Uhira,
banded together (and) entered the city Tela, their
fortified city. Moving on from the city Kinabu I
approached the city Tela. The city was well
fortified; it was surrounded by three walls. The
people put their trust in their strong walls and
their large number of troops and did not come
down to me. (i 115) They did not submit to me.
In strife and conflict I besieged (and) conquered
the city. I felled 3,000 of their fighting men with
the sword. I carried off prisoners, possessions,
oxen, (and) cattle from them. I burnt many captives from them. I captured many troops alive:
from some I cut off their arms (and) hands; from
others I cut off their noses, ears, (and) extremities. I gouged out the eyes of many troops. I
made one pile of the living (and) one of heads. I
hung their heads on trees around the city, (ii 1) I
burnt their adolescent boys (and) girls. I razed,
destroyed, burnt, (and) consumed the city. At
that time I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities
of the land Nirbu (and) their strong walls.
i 106 var. i-zal-la for i-za-la. i 107 var. 6 ME '600' for 8 ME
omits URU 'city' before Kinabu. i 117 var. omits KISIB.MES-5Wnu 'their extremities'.
'800'. i 112 var. omits KUR 'mount' before Uhira. i 113 var.
202
Col. ii
1)
2)
3)
MUNUS ba-tu-la-te--nu
ana GBIL-// GBIL
URU ap-pl aq-qur ina IZI.ME GBIL-M/? akul- ina u4-me--ma URU.DIDLI KUR ni-
ir-bi
BAD.MB-ni--nu dan-nu-te ap-pl aq-qur ina
IZI.ME -ru-up i-tu KUR ni-ir-bi at-tum*-
a-na URU tu-u-ha
aq-t-rib URU tu-u-ha ana e--te as-bat
BAD-i la-be-ru -na-kin a-ar- -me-si
dan-na-su
4)
ak-ud BAD GIBIL
TA u-e- a-di gaba-dib-bi- ar-sip -k-il

-ar-rih .GAL-/WRN a-na u-bat MAN-ti-a ina
ib-h ad-di GI.IG.ME DJ-U ina K.ME-&?
-re-te
5)
.GAL i-i TA u-e- a-di gaba-dib-bi-
ar-
sip -k-lil sa-lam bu-na-ni-a NA4 pi-li

BABBAR-^ Dv-u ta-na-ti
6)
ki--ti-a u-tu-ur-ie il-ka-kt qur-di-ia

KUR.KUR na-i-ri e-tap-pa-
ina SAR ina
URU tu-u-ha
7)
-e-zi-iz NA4.NA.R.A SAR ina BkD- GAR-un

UN.ME KUR a-ur an-a-te TA pa-an suun-qi bu-bu-te a-na KUR.KUR.ME
8)
-ni-a-te a-na KUR ub-re-e e-li--ni -te-ras-nu ina URU tu-u-ha --as-bt-su-nu URU
-a-t a-na ra-me-ni-a
9)
as-ba E.AM.ME E.IN.NU.ME KUR ni-ir-bi
ina b-bi DUB-uk si-ta-at KUR ni-ir-bi TA

IGI GIS.TUKUL.ME-7
ip-pr-i-du-ni
10) ur-du-ni GR.n.ME-a is-bu-t VRV.DIDLI--nu

.Hi.A.ME-w-m/ na-tu-te --as-bi-su-nu
11)
ii 2b-12a) Moving on from the land Nirbu I approached the city Tuha. I took Tuha in hand
for renovation. I cleared away its old wall, delineated its area, reached its foundation pit, (and)
built (and) completed in a splendid fashion a new
wall from top to bottom. A palace for my royal
residence I founded inside. I made doors (and)
hung (them) in its doorways. This palace I built
(and) completed from top to bottom. I made an
image of myself in white limestone (and) wrote
thereon praise of the extraordinary power and
heroic deeds which I had been accomplishing in
the lands Nairi. I erected (it) in the city Tuha. I
inscribed my monumental inscription (and) deposited (it) in its wall. I brought back the enfeebled
Assyrians who, because of hunger (and) famine,
had gone up to other lands to the land ubru. I
settled them in the city Tuha. I took over this
city for myself (and) stored therein barley and
straw from the land Nirbu. The rest (of the inhabitants) of the land Nirbu which had fled from
my weapons (ii 10) came down (and) submitted to
me. I resettled them in their abandoned cities and
houses. I imposed upon their cities more tribute
and tax than ever before horses, mules, oxen,
sheep, wine, bronze casseroles, (and) corve. I
took their sons as hostages.
GUN u ma-da-t ANE.KUR.RA.ME

ANE.GR.NUN.NA.MES GU4.ME UDU.ME
GETIN.ME TUL.ME ZABAR L Za-b-U ku-
du-r UGU pa-an --tir ana URv--nu

-kun DUMU. M E - - n u ki-i
li-tu-te
12) as-bat ki-i ina URU tu-u-ha us-ba-ku-ni mada-t âm-me-ba-a?-li DUMU za-ma-ni
M
DINGIR-A/-/ KUR ub-ri-a-a
13) mla-ab-tu-ri DUMU tu-pu-si KUR ni-ir-du-un
u ma-da-tu KUR -ru-me bi-ta-ni

MAN.ME-W KUR.KUR na-i-ri
14) GIS.GIGIR. MES ANSE. KUR. RA. MES
ANE.GR.NUN.NA.ME K.BABBAR.ME
K.GI.ME TUL ZABAR GU4.ME UDU.ME
ii 4 A.0.101.17 adds u-si-im '(and) decorated' after ueklil
'completed', ii 4 King gives a text which (in error) omits ina
ib-bi ad-di GI.IG.ME D-MST founded inside. I made doors',
ii 7 A.0.101.17 an-na-te 'these' for an--te 'enfeebled'. No
doubt the text of A.0.101.17 is erroneous and should be either
anste or anhte. Cf. A.0.98.1 line 60. See Peiser, KB 1 p. 72
n. 5 and Schramm, EAK 2 p. 1. ii 7 A.0.101.17 after bubte
has ana KUR. MES-W KUR.KUR. MES '(had gone up) to (other)
mountains (and) lands (to the land ubru)'. ii 9 var. URU 'city'
ii 12b-5a) While I was in the city Tuha I received tribute from Amme-ba^ll, a man of BltZamni, from Ill-hite, the ubr, from Labturu,
son of Tupusu (of) the land Nirdun, and tribute
from the interior of the land Urumu, (and) from
the kings of the lands Nairi chariots, horses,
mules, silver, gold, bronze casseroles, oxen,
sheep, (and) wine. I imposed corve upon the
lands Nairi.
for KUR 'land' before Nirbu. ii 9 A.0.101.12 KUR ir-ni-be (in
error) (first occurrence), KUR ni-ir-be (second occurrence),
ii 10 na-tu-te\ natu = nad 'to abandon' in texts of TN. II
and Asn. II. Cf. A.0.100.5 line 24, A.0.101.19 line 95, and
A.0.101.30 line 78. See CAD 11/1 (N) p. 67. ii 11 A.0.101.17
omits TUL.ME ZABAR 'bronze casseroles', ii 11 var. omits L
za-bi-il ku-du-ri '(and) corve', ii 11 var. L.HE--nu 'their
men' for dumu.me-5W-aw 'their sons', ii 12 A.0.101.17 za-
ma-â^-ni.
203 Ashurnasirpal II A.O. 101.1

GETIN.MES ma-da-ta--nu am-hur
15) LU za-hi-il ku-du-ri UGU KUR.KUR na-i-ri a(ta-kan ina ta-ia-ar-li-ia KUR.KUR na-i-ri
KUR n-ir-hu M
16) KUR ka-ia-ri BAL-kt 9 URU,DIDLI-5W-/W ta-e-ru a-na URU i-pi-li-ip-ri-a URU dan-nuti--nu KUR-w mar-su
17) it-tk-lu-ma -ba-na-ai KUR-E a-si-bi KUR-ad
ina q-reb KUR dan-ni GAz.ME--nu a-duk
.ME-sw-m/ GIM na-pa-si KUR-W
18) lu as-ru-up si-ta-te--nu hur-ru na-at-ba-ku
KUR-e lu e-kul al-la-su-nu NG.U-S-II
-lu-la SAG.DU.ME muq-tab-li--nu
19) -n-kis di-im-t ina SAG URU--nu ar-sip L
ba-tu-li--nu MUNUS ba-tu-la-te--nu a-na
GBIL~ti GBIL ina n-re-be URU bu-li-ia-ni
20) e-tar-ba i-di D lu-qi-a as-ba-ta na me-tkti-a URU.MEs-ni KUR hab-hi ina n-re-be
XLVR-ad GAZ.ME--nU HI.A.ME
21) a-duk al-la-su-nu a-lul URU.DIDLI.ME irta
IZI.ME a-sa-rap a-na URU ar-du-pa at-ti-si-a
ina U4-me--ma ma-da-tu
22) M ma~hi-ra-mu DUMU ia-hl-ri KUR zal-la-aa DUMU ba-hi-a-n KUR hat-a-a-a
MAN.ME-ni KUR ha-ni-gal-bat
K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME
23)
AN.NA.ME TUL ZABAR GU4.ME UDU.ME
ANE.KUR.RA.ME ma-da-ia--nu am-hur ina

U-me ma-ur-AS t-e-mu ut-te-ru-ni ma-a
m
24) zLAG-DIKUR L nas-ku KUR da-ga-ra
BAL-ARA7 KUR za-mu-a ana si-hr-ti- a-ha-i
is-bu-t n-ru-bu URU ba-bi-te
25) BD ir-si-pu a-na e-pe MURUB4 U M a-na
sk-ia it-bu-ni ina GIs.tukul-ti a-ur EN GAL-E
EN-/T u dRI.GAL
26) DU IGI-ia ina GI.TUKUL.ME ez-zu-te a-ur

EN i-ru-ka a-na a-ia-i GI.TUKUL.ME
RIN.HI.A.ME-A ad-ki a-na n-re-be
27) URU ba-bi-te a-lik RIN.ME a-na gi-pi
RIN.HI.A.MEs--nu it-tk-lu-ma M e-pu-u
ina .ME MAH.ME DRI.GAL a-lik
28) pa-ni-a it-te-t-nu am-da-h-is BAD5.BAD5-5nu -kun UKKIN-5-/?W -pa-ri-ir 1 LIM 4 ME 1

su-i RIN.ME mun-dah-sh-nu ina n-re-bi
29) a-duk URU -ze-e URU h-ru-tu URU la-ga-laga URU dan-nu-ti--nu a-di 1 ME URU.DIDLI
li-me-u--nu KUR-ud
ii 21 A.0.101.17 ar-rdu^-ba. ii 23 var. mas-sur-i-din.

ii 23 A.0.101.12 and possibly 17 (broken) have GIS.GIGIR.MES
"chariots' instead of ANSE.KUR.RA.ME 'horses'.
ii 24 A.0.101.12 has KUR 'land' instead of URU 'city' before
Babite. ii 25 ^RI.GAL 'divine standard': see the note to
ii 15b-19a) On my return from the lands Nairi,

the land Nirbu which is within Mount Kasiiari rebelled. They abandoned their nine cities (and)
trusted in the city Ipiiipria, their fortified city,
and a rugged mountain. But I besieged (and) conquered the mountain peaks. Within the mighty
mountain I massacred them. With their blood I
dyed the mountain red like red wool (and) the rest
of them the ravines (and) torrents of the mountain swallowed. I carried off captives (and) possessions from them. I cut off the heads of their
fighters (and) built (therewith) a tower before
their city. I burnt their adolescent boys (and)
girls.
ii 19b-23a) I entered the pass of the city Buliiana
(and) made my way to the banks of the River
Luqia. On my way I conquered the cities of the
land Habhu which are in the pass. I massacred
many of them, carried off captives from them,
(and) burnt the cities. I emerged at the city
Ardupa. At that time I received tribute from
Ahi-ramu, a man of Blt-Iahiri, from the (A)zallu,
a man of Bt-Bahini, men of Hatti, and (from)
the kings of the land Hanigalbat silver, gold,
tin, bronze casseroles, oxen, sheep, (and) horses.
ii23b-31a) In the eponymy of Aur-iddin a report was brought back to me saying Nr-Adad
the sheikh of the land Dagara had rebelled; (the
inhabitants of) the entire land Zamua had banded
together; they had built a wall in the pass of the
city Babitu; (and) they had risen against me to
wage war and battle. With the support of Aur,
the great lord, my lord, and the divine standard
which goes before me, (and) with the fierce
weapons which Aur, (my) lord, gave to me I
mustered (my) weapons (and) troops (and)
marched to the pass of the city Babitu. The people, trusting in the massiveness of their troops,
did battle. With the supreme might of the divine
standard which goes before me I fought with
them, brought about their defeat, (and) broke up
their group. I slew 1,460 of their combatants in
the pass. I conquered the cities Uz, Berutu, (and)
Lagalaga, their fortified cities, together with 100
cities in their environs. I carried off captives,
property, oxen, (and) sheep from them. Nr-
A.0.98.1 line 48. ii 26 GI.TUKUL.ME 'weapons' before

RIN.HI.A.ME 'troops' is probably an error for GIS.GIGIR.MES
'chariots', ii 27 ^RI.GAL 'divine standard': see the note to
A.0.98.1 line 48. ii 29 A.0.101.17 [b]e-ru-t.
204
30) al-la-su-nu mar-i-su-nu GU4.MEs--nu UDU

se-ni--nu -lu-la mzLAG-diKUR a-na uzu-ub Z.ME-W a-na KUR-e mar-si
31) e-li 1 LIM 2 ME RIN. HI. A. ME--nU Ct-SU-h
i-tu KUR da-ga-ra at-tu-mu a-na URU ba-ara aq-t-rib URU ba-a-ra
32)
KUR-ad 3 ME 20 RIN.MES ti-du-ki--nu ina

GIS.TUKUL.ME -am-qt GU4.ME-5M-RTW UDU
se-ni--nu al-la-su-nu DUGUD GUR-RA
33) 3 ME RIN.HI.A.ME-5W-FL -SU-h ina ITI.DU6
UD 15.KAM TA URU kl-zi at-tu-mu a-na n-
re-be URU ba-bi-te KU4-ub

34) TA URU ba-bi-te at-tu-mu a-na KUR ni-sir
KUR lu-ul-lu KUR ki-ni-ba i-qa-bu--ni aq-trib URU bu-na-a-si URU dan-nu-ti--nu
35) sa mmu-sa-si-na 30 URU.DIDLI li-me-tu-
ak-ud RIN.MES ig-du-ru KUR-W mar-su issab-tu ma-ur-PAB-A UR.SAG EGIR--nu
36) ki-ma MUEN.ME i-e-û ina KUR-e KUR ni-sir

L.D.ME-5TL-WW DUB-uk 3 ME 26 muq-tab-li-nu -na-pi-is ANE.KUR.RA.ME-W e-kim-u
37) si-ta-te--nu hur-ru na-at-ba-ku KUR-? ekul 1 URU.DIDLI KUR ni-sir a-na dannu-ti--nu i-ku-nu ak-ud GAZ.ME-SW-W
38) a-duk al-la-su-nu NG.U.ME--/2W GU4.ME-nu UDU se-ni--nu a-lul URU.DIDLI ina
IZI.ME -ru-up a-na u-ma-ni-ia-ma GUR-RA
be-dk
39) TA u-ma-ni an-ni-te-ma at-tu-mu a-na
URU.DIDLI EDIN KUR ni-sir
a-ar--nu
ma-am-ma la-a e-mu-ru a-lik URU la-ar-bu-sa

40) URU dan-nu-ti- sa mki-ir-ti-a-ra 8 URU.DIDLI
li-me-tu- KUR-ud RIN.MES ig-du-ru
KUR-U mar-su is-sab-t KUR-W GIM zi-qip
GR.AN.BAR
41) se-e-su na-a-di MAN TA RIN.HI.A.MES-1W
EGIR--nu e-li ina q-reb KUR-E L.D.ME-nu ad-di 1 ME 72 RIN.MES
ti-du-ki--nu
a-dk RIN. MES
42) HI. A. MES ina ka-a-pi sa KUR-E DVB-uk sal-lasu-nu NG. su.ME-s-nu GU4.ME--nu UDU
se-ni--nu GUR-ra URU.DIDLI ina IZI.ME
43) GBIL-up SAG.DU.ME$--nu ina GI gu-up-ni

KUR-E e-H-il L ba-tuLwE--nu MUNUS batu-la-te--nu a-na GBIL-E GBIL ina u-mani-ia GUR-RN be-dk
ii 31 var. URU 'city' for KUR land' before Dagara. ii 34 var.

omits KUR 'mount' before Kiniba. ii 34 var. ki-ni-pa.
ii 34 ni-sir: Lambert, RA 80 (1986) pp. 185-86 suggests this
should be read n-mu. ii 35 30: in most exs. the three
Winkelhaken are written closely together. But in at least one
there is a space between the first and the other two: 'and 20\
Adad, to save his life, climbed up a rugged mountain. I uprooted 1,200 of their troops.
ii 31b-33a) Moving on from the land Dagara I
approached the city Bra. I conquered Bra. I
felled with the sword 320 of their fighting-men
(and) brought back their oxen, sheep, (and) their
valuable booty. I uprooted 300 of their troops.
ii 33b-38) On the fifteenth day of the month
Tishri I moved on from the city Kalzi (and) entered the pass of the city Babitu. Moving on from
the city Babitu I approached Mount Nisir which
the Lullu call Mount Kiniba. (ii 35) I conquered
the city Bunsi, their fortified city which (was
ruled by) Musasina, (and) 30 cities in its environs.
The troops were frightened (and) took to a rugged
mountain. Ashurnasirpal, the hero, flew after
them like a bird (and) piled up their corpses in
Mount Nisir. He slew 326 of their men-at-arms.
He deprived him (Musasina) of his horses. The
rest of them the ravines (and) torrents of the
mountain swallowed. I conquered seven cities
within Mount Nisir which they had established as
their strongholds. I massacred them, carried off
captives, possessions, oxen, (and) sheep from
them, (and) burnt the cities. I returned to my
camp (and) spent the night.
ii 39-43) Moving on from this camp I marched to
the cities in the plain of Mount Nisir which no
one had ever seen. I conquered the city Larbusa,
the fortified city which (was ruled by) Kirteara,
(and) eight cities in its environs. The troops were
frightened (and) took to a rugged mountain. The
mountain was as jagged as the point of a dagger.
The king with his troops climbed up after them. I
threw down their corpses in the mountain, massacred 172 of their fighting men, (and) piled up
many troops on the precipices of the mountain. I
brought back captives, possessions, oxen, (and)
sheep from them (and) burnt their cities. I hung
their heads on trees of the mountain (and) burnt
their adolescent boys (and) girls. I returned to my
camp (and) spent the night.
A similar problem appears in ii 57 but there vars. have a-di 30

'together with 30'. It seems, then, that '30' is the correct figure
in both passages. See Schramm, EAK 2 p. 24 (to ii 57).
ii 36 'bird': text has 'birds', ii 40 A.0.101.17 mki-ir-te-a-ra.
ii 40-41 GIM ... na-a-di: see the note to i 49. ii 43 A.0.101.17
omits MUNUS ba-tu-Ia-te--nu '(and) girls'.

44) ina u-ma-ni an-ni-te-ma ak-tu- 1 ME 50
URU.DIDLI URU la-ar-bu-sa-a-a
URU.BD-
lu4u-ma-a-a URU bu-ni-sa-a-a URU ba-ra-a-a

45) GAZ.ME-5W-HW a-duk al-la-su-nu a-Iul
URU.DiDLi a-pl a-qur ina IZI.ME GIBIL-up 50
RIN.ME URU ba-ra-a-a ina mit-hu-si ina
EDIN
a-duk
46) ina U4-me--ma MAN.MES-ni KUR za-mu-a

ana si-hr-ti--nu pl-hi me-am-me a-ur
EN-a is-hup--nu GR.II.ME-0 is-bu-t
ANE.KUR.RA.ME K.BABBAR K.GI
47) am-hur KUR-/W gab-bi pa-a 1 -en ---
ii 44-47) I tarried in this camp. 150 cities belonging to the cities of the Larbusu, Dr-Lullumu,
Bunisu, (and) Bra I massacred them, carried
off captives from them, (and) razed, destroyed,
(and) burnt their cities. I defeated 50 troops of
the Bra in a skirmish in the plain. At that time
awe of the radiance of Aur, my lord, overwhelmed all of the kings of the land Zamua (and)
they submitted to me. I received horses, silver,
(and) gold. I put all of the land under one authority (and) imposed upon them (tribute of) horses,
silver, gold, barley, straw, (and) corve.
kn ANE.KUR.RA.ME K.BABBAR K.GI E.AM
u E.IN.NU ka-du-ru e-me-su-nu-ti

48) TA VRV.GiLtukul-ti-a-ur-DB-at a-u-mu
GR KUR ni-s-pi a-sa-bat D mu-i ar-ie-di ana URU.ME-W Ki--nu ru--qu s bi-ri
KUR gam-ru KUR e-di-nu
49)
GAR-nu
zLAG-DIKUR a-na
dan-nu-ti-
i-kun a-lik URU b-ru-tu KUR-ud URU ina

IZI.ME GBIL ina ii-me
m\u-a-dr
ina
URU.NINA us-ba-ku-ni t-e-mu

50) ut-te-ru-ni ma-a ma-me-ka mar--tu-a mada- u ka-du-ru a-ur EN-a lu ik-lu- ina
q-bit a-ur EN GAL-? EN-ia u DRI,GAL a-lik
pa-ni-a
51)
ina ITI.SIG4 UD 1.KM 3-te- a-na KUR za-
mu-a -ku-na di-ku-tu pa-an GI.GIGIR.ME U

RIN.HI.A.ME-TF la-a ad-gul TA URU kl-zi attu-mu D za-ba
52) KI. TA e-te-bir ina KUR n-re-bi sa KUR ba-bite e-ru-ub D ra-da-a-nu e-te-bir ina GR KURe KUR si-ma-ki D UD.ME-? ak-tu- GU4.ME
53) UDU.ME GETIN.MES ma-da-t KUR da-gara at-ta-har TA GR KUR si-ma-ki
GI.GIGIR.ME KAL-tU pt-hal-lu SAG.KAL-SU /si-ia a-se-qe mu-u a-di
54) na-ma-ri ar-te-di D tur-na-at e-te-bir ina
mit-har sa-an-te a-na URU am-ma-li URU
dan-nu-ti- ma-ra--tu-a aq--rb
ii 44 var. bu--sa-a-a or bu-na-i-sa-a~a (A.0.101.17).

ii 44 var. inserts at end of line KUR-ud\ 'I conquered (150
cities belonging to ...)'. ii 48 A.0.101.17 URU G.tukul-ti-Asas-bat. ii 48 A.0.101.17 ni-is-pi. ii 48 bi-rit KUR gam-ru KUR
e-di~nu 'between Mounts Gamru (and) Edinu' appears only in
A.0.101.17 but this seems better than the main text which has,
instead: bi-rit KUR ni-is-pi 'between Mount Nispi'.
ii 49 A.0.101.17 mzLAG-10 (Le Gac mistakenly has -d10).
ii 49 A.0.101.17 be-ru-tu. ii 49 miDiM-a-ciiir 'Miqti-adur': for
the reading see Postgate, Fifty Documents no. 26 note to A17
and von Soden, AHw p. 658a. Cf. Ungnad, RLA 2
ii 48-49a) Moving on from the city TukultlAur-asbat I made my way to the foot of Mount
Nispi. Travelling all night I marched to the cities
which are remote, which lie between Mounts
Gamru (and) Edinu, (and) which Nr-Adad had
made his garrisons. I conquered the city Berutu
(and) burnt (it).
ii 49b~60a) In the eponymy of Miqti-adur I was in
Nineveh (and) a report was brought back to mc
saying Ameka (and) Arastua had withheld the
tribute (and) corve of Aur, my lord. At the
command of Aur, the great lord, my lord, and
the divine standard which goes before me, on the
first day of the month Sivan I mustered (my
army) for a third time against the land Zamua.
Without waiting for the advance of (my) chariotry
and troops I moved on from the city Kalzi,
crossed the Lower Zab, (and) entered the passes
of Mount Babitu. I crossed the River Radnu
(and) all day I tarried at the foot of Mount
Simaki. I received the tribute of the land Dagara,
oxen, sheep, (and) wine. From the foot of Mount
Simaki I took with me strong chariots, cavalry,
(and) crack troops. I continued travelling through
the night until dawn, crossed the River Turnat,
and at first light approached the city Ammali, the
fortified city which (was ruled by) Arastua. (ii 55)
In a clash of arms I besieged the city (and) conquered (it). I felled with the sword 800 of their
pp. 418-19 n. 9 and Weidner, AfO 13 (1939-41) p. 310.

ii 51 A.O. 101.17 za-rnu-a-a '(the land of) the Zamu\
ii 51 A.0.101.17 adds ma-ay-te after GIS.GIGIR.MES: 'numerous
chariotry'. ii 52 var. aq-thrib 'I approached* for ak-tu- 'I
tarried af, ii 53 A.0.101.17 daâ-t for KAL-/W.
ii 53 SAG.KAL-SM: SAG. (KAL) = ()arittu/(d)arissu 'crack
troops'. See CAD 1/2 (A) p. 419. It also occurs in ii 103 and
A.0.101.19 line 70 (-ri-su). ii 54 var. KUR URU am-ma-li
'the land of the city Ammali'. A.0.101.17 ma-am-li.
ii 54 A.0.101.17 mar--tu-a.
206
Ashurnasirpal n A,0.101.1
55) ina mit-hu-si ti-du-ki URU a-si-bi KUR-ad 8

ME RIN.MES mun-dah-si--nu
ina
GI. TUKUL. ME -am-qit pag-ri.ME$--nu

siLA URU--nu -mal-li .UES--nu
56)
.HI.A.ME-u-nu as-ru-up L.RIN.MES

HI. A.MES TI.LA.ME ina SU-te -sab-bi-ta
al-
la-su-nu HI.A.ME s-lu-la URU a-pl a-qur ina

57)
IZI.ME GBIL-up URU hu-du-un

a-di 3 0 URU.DIDLI li-me-t-
KUR-W/
GA7.--nu a-dk al-la-su-nu GU4.ME-5W-/7W

UDU se-ni--nu -lu-la URU.DIDLI-SW-AW appui aq-qur
ina IZI.ME GBIL L ba-tuL ME-
-nu
58)
MUNUS ba-tu-la-ti--nu
ana GWL-te GBIL
URU ki-sir-tu URU dan-nu-ti-

a-di 10 URU.DIDLI U-me-tu-
sa-bi-i-ni
KUR-ud
GAZ.\E$-u-nu a-duk ai-la-su-nu

59) -lu-la URU.DIDLI URU ba-ra-a-a mkiir-ti-a-ra URU du-ra-a-a URU bu-ni-sa-aa a-di n-reb KUR ha-mar a-pl a-qur ina
60)
IZI.ME GBIL-W/7
ana DU 6 U kar-me
GUR-er TA URU.DIDLI
ar--tu-a at-tu-mu ina n-reb bi-rit KUR

la-a-ra KUR bi-di-ir-gi KUR.ME-6 mar-su-te
ana me-teq
61)
GI.GIGIR.ME RIN.HI.A.ME-/E la GAR-nu e-
tar-ba ana URU za-am-ri URU MAN-ti-

a-me-ka KUR za-mu-a-a aq-t-rib ma-me-ka
TA IGI GIS.TUKUL. ME-TF KAL.ME M-/7
62) it-mu-ri ip-lh-ma KUR GIG is-bat NG.GA

.GAL-SW GI.GIGIR-5W -s-a
TA URU
za-am-ri
at-tu-mus D ll-lu- e-te-br a-na KUR-E KUR

e-ti-ni
63) A.S nam-ra-si ana me-teq GI.GIGIR.ME U
RIN.HI.A.ME la GAR-nU Im MAN.ME-/H
AD.ME-A ma-am-ma ina q-reb- la TE- alik MAN TA RIN.HI.A.ME a-na KUR-E KUR e-
i-ni
64)
EI i (*) NG.GA-5W NG.U.ME-5W -nU-Ut ZABAR

HI. A tap-hi ZABAR TUL ZABAR. ME sa-ap-li
ZABAR zu-qa-te ZABAR ni-sir-ti .GAL- na-
km-te-
65) TA q-reb KUR-e --a a-na u-ma-ni-ia
GUR-RA be-dk ina re-su-te a-ur u -
ii 5 6
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 L.RIN.MES TI.LA.ME HI.A.ME. ii 5 7
var. u
for Q-d'v. see the note to ii 35. ii 57 var. ti-me-t--nu 'their

environs', ii 57 A.0.101.17 inserts HI.A.MES before a-dk '(I
massacred) many (of them).' ii 58 var. ti-me-tu--nu 'their
environs', ii 59 A.0.101.17 mki-ir-te-a-ra. ii 59 A.0.101.17
Bkv-A-a for du-ra-a-a. ii 62 A.0.101.17 GIS.GIGIR.ME- 'his
chariots', ii 64 E N : written DU 6 .UD.DU rather than DU 6 .DU.
combat troops. With their corpses I filled the

streets of their city (and) with their blood I dyed
their houses red. Many troops I captured alive
(and) carried off many captives from them. I
razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the city. I conquered the city Hudun together with 30 cities in
its environs. I massacred them (and) carried off
captives, oxen, (and) sheep from them. I razed,
destroyed, (and) burnt their cities. I burnt their
adolescent boys (and) girls. I conquered the city
Kisirtu, the fortified city which (was ruled by)
Sablni, together with 10 cities in its environs. I
massacred them (and) carried off captives from
them. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities of
the Bra, of the man Kirteara, a man of the city
Dru, (and) of the Bunisu, as far as the pass of
Mount Hamar. I turned (them) into ruin hills.
ii 60b-62a) Moving from among the cities which

(were ruled by) Aratua I entered the pass which
is between Mount Lra (and) Mount Bidirgi,
rugged mountains which were unsuitable for
chariotry and troops. I approached the city
Zamru, the royal city of Ameka the Zamu.
Ameka became frightened in the face of my
strong weapons (and) my fierce battle and took to
a rugged mountain. I removed the property of his
palace (and) his chariot.
ii 62b-65a) Moving on from the city Zamru I
crossed the River Lall. I marched to Mount
Etinu over rugged terrain which was unsuitable
for chariotry and troops (and) to which no king
among my fathers had ever approached. The king
with (his) troops climbed up to Mount Etinu. I removed from the mountain his (Ameka's) property, possessions, many bronze utensils, bronze
tubs, bronze casserole(s), bronze bowls, bronze
tureens, the treasure of his palace, (and) his storehouse. Returning to my camp I spent the night.
ii 65b-72a) Moving on from this camp with the

help of Assur and ama, the gods who support
Scribal error. See Schramm, EAK 2 p. 24. ii 64 tap-hi (not

AM) 'tub': also in ii 66, 92, and iii 66. See Schott, Vorarbeiten
p. 145 n. 3; Schramm, EAK 2 p. 24; and Borger, Zeichenliste
p. 103 no. 170. ii 64 A.0.101.17 omits ZABAR 'bronze' after
sa-ap-li 'bowls' and possibly (broken) after zu-qa-te 'tureens',
ii 65 var. omits -ia 'me' after tik-ii 'support'. A.0.101.17 t[ikli] (Le Gac says A.0.101.17 has tik-li-a).

ma DINGIR.MES tik-li-ia TA u-ma-ni an-nite-ma at-TU-mU EGIR-SW
66) as-bat D e-di-ir lu e-bir ina bir-ti KUR su-
KUR e-la-ni-
KUR.ME KAL.ME GAZ.ME-SW-
nu HI.A.ME a-duk NG.GA- NG.U-SM tap-hi

67)
ZAB AR
TUL ZAB AR s-ap-ll ZABAR nam-zi-a-te
ZABAR
-nu-ut ZABAR.MES HI.A.MES GI.BANUR K.GI
ih-zi GU4.ME-5W UDU se-ni-

68) al-la-su DUGUD-/T TA GR KUR-e KUR e-la-ni a-lul AN E . KUR . R A . MES- e-kim- mame-ka a-na u-zu-ub ZI.ME-S a-na KUR sabu-a e-li
69) URU za-am-ru URU a-ra-si-id-ku URU am-maru URU pr-sin-du URU i-ri-tu URU su-ri-tu
70)
URU dan-nu-ti-
a-di 1 ME 50 URU.DIDLI
s li-me-tu-
ap-pl a-qur ina IZI.ME GBIL-
up ana DU6 u kar-me GUR-ER ki-i ina pu-ut

URU pr-sin-di us-ba-ku-ni pit-hal-lu L kalla-pu
71) a-na u-ub-te -se-ib 50 mun-dah-si- M
m
a-me-ka ina EDIN a-duk SAG. DU. ME--nu
72)
KUD-/5 in a GI gup-ni TR .GAL-W e-î-il

20 RIN.ME TI.LA.ME ina u om-ta ina BAD
.GAL- -ma-gi-gi TA URU za-am-ri pit-hallu L kal-la-pu i-si-ia a-se-qe

73) a-na URU.DIDLI a-ta URU ar-zi-za-a-a
ina MAN.ME-W AD.ME-F ma-am-ma
ina q-
reb--nu la TE-W a-lik URU r-zi-zu URU rsi-in-du

74)
URU dan-nu-ti-
a-di 10 URU.ME-/2/ li-
me- tu- () ina KUR ni-is-pi KUR GIG GARnu KUR-ud GAz--nu a-dk URU.DIDLI a-pl
a-qur
ina IZI.ME GBIL
75) a-na u-ma-ni-ia-ma a-tu-ra ina u4-me--ma

ZABAR.ME tab-bi-li
ZABAR km-ma-te
ZABAR
me, I set out after him (Ameka). Crossing the

River Edir I massacred many of them between
Mounts S (and) Elaniu, mighty mountains. I carried off from the foot of Mount Elaniu his property, possessions, bronze tubs, bronze casseroles,
bronze bowls, bronze vats, many bronze utensils,
a dish decorated with gold, his oxen, sheep his
valuable booty. I deprived him of his horses.
Ameka, to save his life, climbed up Mount
Sabua. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities
Zamru, Arasidku, Ammaru, Parsindu, Iritu,
Suritu, his fortified cities, together with 150 cities
in the environs of his (region). I turned (them)
into ruin hills. While I remained before the city
Parsindu I set the cavalry (and) light troops in
ambush (and) killed 50 of the combat troops of
Ameka in the plain. I cut off their heads (and)
hung (them) on trees of the courtyard of his
palace. I captured 20 soldiers alive (and) spread
(them) out in the wall of his palace.
ii 72b-76a) From the city Zamru I took with me

the cavalry (and) light troops. I marched to the
cities (ruled) by Ata, a man of the city Arzizu,
amongst which no king among my fathers had
ever penetrated. I conquered the cities Arzizu
(and) Arsindu, his fortified cities, together with 10
cities in the environs of his (region) <which) lay
in Mount Nispi, a rugged mountain. I massacred
them. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities. I
returned to my camp. At that time I received
bronze, bronze ..., bronze rivets, (and) beams, the
tribute of the land Sipirmena whose (inhabitants)
do their hair like women.
-a-ri-a-te ma-da-tu KUR si-pir-me-na

GIM MUNUS.ME
76) sap-ru-ni am-hur TA URU za-am-ri a-tu-mu

a-na KUR la-a-ra KUR mar-si a-na me-teq
GI. GIGIR.ME RIN.HI.A.ME la GAR-nu ina
ka-la-ba-te AN.BAR a-kis

77)
ina ak-kl URUDU.ME a-qur GI.GIGIR.ME

RIN.HI. A.ME -e-tiq a-na URU.GJukul-ti-
a-ur-as-bat KUR lu4u URU a-ra-ak-di iqa-bu--ni at-ta-rad MAN.ME-ni

ii 66 A.0.101.17 su--u for su-iL ii 66 var. omits hi.a.me
'many of changing the translation to 'I massacred them',
ii 66 tap-hi: see the note to ii 64. ii 67 A.0.101.17 omits
1
ZABAR 'bronze (first three occurrences), ii 67-68 var.:
GU*.ME$--nu UDU se-ni--nu al-la-su-nu 'their oxen, sheep
their (valuable) property'. Var. inserts NG.U.ME-5W-HW
'their possessions' before al-la-su-nu 'their property',
ii 68 var. sa-bu for sa-bu-a. ii 69 A.0.101.17 a-ri-si-id-ku.
ii 69 A.0.101.17 pa-ar-si-in-du. ii 69 A.0.101.17 URU MAN-/-
ii 76b-84a) Moving on from the city Zamru to

Mount Lra, a rugged mountain which was unsuitable for chariotry (and) troops, I cut through
with iron axes (and) I smashed (a way) with
copper picks. (Thus) was I able to move forward
the chariotry (and) troops. I went down to the
city Tuku1t-Aur-asbat which the Lullu call
Arrakdu. All the kings of the land Zamua took
'his royal cities' for URU dan-nu-ti- 'his fortified cities',
ii 70 A.0.101.17 pa-ar-si-in-di. ii 71 A.0.101.17 inserts ina
URU za-am-ri 'in the city Zamru' after unekkis 'I cut off (their
heads)', ii 71 See Grayson, Studies Oppenheim pp. 90-91 and
TSTS 1 pp. 3-5. ii 73 A.0.101.17 r-si-an-du.
ii 75 A.0.101.17 omits ZABAR 'bronze' after tab-bi-li and
km-ma-te, ii 75 var. si-pir-me-na or si-pi-a-me-na
(A.0.101.17) (Le Gac erroneously says A.0.101.17 has si-pi-irme-na). ii 77 A.0.101.17 KUR lu-ul-lu KUR r-rak-di-a (Le Gac
208
78) KUR za-mu-a ana si-hr-ti--nu TA IGI namur-rat GIS.TUKUL.ME-A u ur-bat EN-//-T edur-ma GR.II.ME-T is-bu-t GUN ma-da-tu
K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME AN.NA.MES
79) ZABAR.MES TUL.ME ZABAR TG lu-bl- brME ANE.KUR.RA.ME GU4.ME UDU.ME
GETIN. MES UGU pa-an --tir UGU--nu
GAR-un LU ka-du-ra--nu
80) ina URU kal-hi ut-us ki-i ina KUR za-mu-a usba-ku-ni URU hu-du-na-a-a URU har-ti-is-a-a
URU hub-us-ka-a-a URU gfl-za-na-a-a pl-hi
81) me-lam-me a-ur EN-ia is-hp--nu GUN
82)
ma-da-tu K.BABBAR K.GI ANSE.KUR.RA.MES

TG lu-bl-ti bir-me GU4.ME UDU.ME
GESTIN, MES ana UGU-/ ub-lu-ni UN. MES
am-mar TA IGI GIS.TUKUL.MES-GT ip-pr-i-du
ana KUR.ME-W e-li--ni EGIR--nu a-lik ina
bi-rit KUR a-zi-ru KUR si-ma-ki -i-bu-ni URU

me-su a-na dan-nu-ti--nu
83) i-ka-nu-ni KUR a-zi-ra a-pl a-qur TA bi-rit
KUR si-ma-ki a-di D tr-na-at pag-ri.MEs--nu
at-bu-uk 5 ME muq-tab-li--nu -nap-pi-is
84)
al-la-su-nu DUGUD-/ a-Iul URU.DIDLI ina

IZI.ME GBIL-up ina UA-me--ma ina KUR za-
mu-a URU at-li-la msi-bir MAN KUR kar-duni- mB--ni i-â-ab-ta

85) ana DU 6 U kar-me GVR-ra ma-ur-vAB-A MAN
KUR as-sur ana e--te is-bat BAD- al-mi
.GAL ana u-bat MAN-//-7 ina lb-bi ad-di -
si-im -ar-rih UGU pa-an --tir
86)
E.AM.ME SE.IN.NU.MES M KUR D.A.BI ina
DVB-uk URU.BD-a-ur MU-su ab-bi ina

ITI.SIG4 UD 1.KM ina li-me m-mNGiR-maSIGS GIS. GIGIR.MES RIN.HI. A.MES-? ad-ki
87) D.HAL.HAL e-te-bir ana KUR kat-mu-hi KU4ab .GAL ina URU.DU6--li -ar-ri ma-da-t
KUR kat-mu-hi at-ta-har TA KUR kat-mu-hi

at-t-mu ina n-reb
88) KUR DINANNA.ME KV4-ab ina URU ki-ba-ki
a-sa-kan be-dk GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME
TUL ZABAR.ME ma-da-t s URU ki-ba-ki
at-ta-har TA URU ki-ba-ki at-t-mu
mistakenly says it has URU instead of the second KUR).

Ii 78 ur-bat: cf. u-ri-bat in inscriptions of Shalm. III cited in
von Soden, AHw p. 1284a, where the word is connected to
urpu 'ice'. The derivation and meaning are uncertain. It also
appears in ii 119, iii 24; A.0.101.17 iii 105, iv 112; and
A.0.101,19 line 86. ii 79 A.0.101.17 omits ZABAR after
TUL.ME 'casseroles', ii 80 A.0.101.17 KUR 'land' for URU
'city' before the last four GNs in this line, ii 82 var. omits -a
'my' after GIS.TUKUL.MES 'weapons', ii 82 var. URU dan-nu-ti-nu 'their garrison city' for a-na dan-nu-ti--nu 'their
fright before the brilliance of my weapons and

awe of my dominion and they submitted to me. I
imposed upon them more tribute and tax than
ever before silver, gold, tin, bronze, bronze
casseroles, garments with multi-coloured trim,
horses, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. Their corve they
performed in Calah. While I was in the land
Zamua, awe of the radiance of Assur, my lord,
overwhelmed the inhabitants of the cities Hudun,
Hartiu, Hubuku, (and) Gi1znu (and) they
brought to me tribute (and) tax silver, gold,
horses, garments with multi-coloured trim, oxen,
sheep, (and) wine. I marched after as many people as had fled from my weapons (and) climbed
up into the mountains. They were ensconced
between Mounts Aziru (and) Simaki (and) had
made the city Mesu their garrison. I razed (and)
destroyed Mount Aziru (and) piled up their bodies
from Mount Simaki as far as the River Turnat. I
slew 500 of their men-at-arms (and) carried off
their valuable booty. I burnt the cities.
ii 84b~86a) At that time in the land Zamua, the
city Atlila which Sibir king of Kardunias had captured, was dilapidated (and) had turned into ruin
hills. Ashurnasirpal, king of Assyria, took (this
city) in hand for renovation. I put a wall around
it, founded therein a palace for my royal residence, (and) decorated it more splendidly than
ever before. I stored therein barley (and) straw
from all the (surrounding) land. I named it DrAur.
ii 86b-91a) On the first day of the month Sivan,
in the eponymy of a-i1ma-damqa, I mustered
(my) chariotry (and) troops. After crossing the
Tigris I entered the land Katmuhu. I consecrated
a palace in the city Tl-uli. I received tribute from
the land Katmuhu. Moving on from the land
Katmuhu I entered the pass of the land Itarte. I
Kibaku. I received tribute from Kibaku, oxen,
sheep, wine, (and) bronze casserole(s). Moving on
from Kibaku I approached the city Matiatu. I
conquered Matiatu together with its suburbs. I
garrison', ii 84-86 Sibir is perhaps the same as Simbar-Shipak

(c. 1024-1007 BC). See Brinkman, PKB p. 154.
ii 87 A.0.101.17 has URU ti-lu-ii for URU.DU
ii 87 A.0.101.10 omits .GAL ... -ar-ri 'I consecrated a
palace in the city of Tl-uli.' ii 87 A.0.101.17 inserts ina URU
ti-lu-li before at-ta-har\ T received in the city Tl-uli (tribute
...)'. ii 88 A.0.101.10 omits KUR diNANNA.MES KU4-ab\ var.
omits KUR 'the land' before diNANNA.MES Ttarte'. A.0.101.17
URU difi-tr.ME-te 'the city Itarte'. Cf. J. Lewy, Orientalia
NS 21 (1952) p. 5 n. 3. ii 88 A.0.101.17 UTUL.MES and omits

89) a-na URU mat-ia-ti aq-ti-rib URU mat-ia-t adi URU kap-ra-ni- ak-ud 2 LIM 8 ME
RIN.ME ti-du-ki--nu
ina GI.TUKUL.ME -
am-qit al-la-su-nu HI.A a-ul

90)
RIN.ME am-mar TA IGI GI.TUKUL.ME-T ippr-i-du-ni GIR.II.MES-/ DIB-t URU.ME-W-
-nu --as-bi-su-nu GUN ma-da-t -ra-si

-dan-ni-in VGV--nu
91) a-kun sa-lam bu-na-ni-a D-W li-ta-at kiu-ti-ia ina lb-bi ai-tr ina URU mat-ia-ti e-zi-iz TA URU mat-ia-i at-tu-mu ina URU
za-za-bu-ha
92)
GAR-F/2 be-dk ma-da-t KUR hab-hi

GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME TUL ZABAR.ME
tap-hi ZABAR.ME qur-pisi ZABAR a-ta-har TA
URU za-za-bu-ha at-tu-mu

93) ina URU ir-si-a a-sa-kan be-dk URU ir-si-a
ina IZI.ME GBIL ma-da-t URU su--ra
GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME TUL ZABAR ina
URU ir-si-a at-ta-har

94) TA URU ir-si-a at-tu-mu ina KUR ka-ia-ri
a-sa-kan be-dk URU rna-da-ra-an-zu 2
URU.DIDLI U-me-tU- KUR-ud GAZ.ME-S7-
nu a-duk
95)
al-la-su-nu a-lul URU.ME-/?/ ina IZI.ME

GBIL-W/7 6 UD.ME-te ina b-bi KUR ka-ia-ri
KUR dan-ni A. nam-ra-si a-na me-teq

GI.GIGIR.MES U RIN.HI. A.ME
96)
la GAR-nu KUR-M ina ka-la-ba-ti AN.BAR a-kis

ina ak-kl URUDU.ME aq-qur GI.GIGIR.ME U
RIN.HI. A.ME DIB-q ina URU.DIDLI i-di
felled with the sword 2,800 of their fighting-men

(and) carried off many captives from them. The
troops, as many as had fled from my weapons,
submitted to me (and) I settled them in their cities. I imposed upon them stringent tribute, taxes,
(and) labourers. I made an image of myself (and)
wrote thereon (an account of) my powerful victories. I erected (it) in Matiatu.
ii 91b-97a) Moving on from the city Matiatu I
pitched camp (and) spent the night at the city
Zazabuha. I received tribute from the land
Habhu, oxen, sheep, wine, bronze casseroles,
bronze tubs, (and) bronze armour. Moving on
from the city Zazabuha I pitched camp (and)
spent the night in the city Irsia. 1 burnt lrsia. I received tribute from the city Sru, oxen, sheep,
wine, (and) bronze casseroles, in the city Irsia.
Moving on from Irsia I pitched camp (and) spent
the night within Mount Kaiiari. 1 conquered the
city Madaranzu (and) two cities in its environs. I
massacred them, (ii 95) carried off prisoners from
them, (and) burnt the cities. For six days within
Mount Kasiiari, a mighty mountain (and) rugged
terrain which was unsuitable for chariotry (and)
troops, I cut through the mountain with iron axes
(and) smashed (a way) with copper picks. (Thus)
was I able to move forward the chariotry and
troops. In the cities which were in the region of
my road in Mount Kasiiari I received oxen, sheep,
wine, bronze casserole(s), (and) bronze armour.
hu-li-a GAR KUR ka-ia-ri
-nu
100) GUN ma-da-t -ra-si,MES UGU--nu a-kun
ii 97b-100a) After crossing Mount Kasiiari I went

down for a second time to the lands Nairi. I
igiu. Moving on from the city igiu I approached the city Madara, the fortified city of
Labturu, son of Tupusu. The city was well
fortified; it was surrounded by four walls. I besieged the city. They took fright in face of my
mighty weapons and 1 received from them property, possessions, (and) sons as hostages. I spared
their lives. I imposed upon them tribute, taxes,
(and) labourers. I razed (and) destroyed the city
(and) turned (it) into ruin hills,
ii 100b-103a) Moving on from the city Madara I
'bronze (casseroles)', ii 89 A.0.101.17 mat-te-ia-te

(first occurrence) and mat-ia--te (second occurrence),
ii 91 A.0.101.17 mat-te-ia-te (first occurrence), ii 91 var.
omits URU 'city' before mat-ia-ti. ii 91 A.0.101.17 mat-te-ia-te
(second occurrence), ii 92 A.0.101.17 TUL.ME tap-hi.MES saap-li qur-pi-si.ME 'casseroles, tubs, bowls, (and) armour',
ii 92 tap-hi: see the note to ii 64. ii 93 A.0.101.19 line 57 u-ra for su--ra. ii 93 A.0.101.17 TUL.ME 'casseroles' and
omits ZABAR 'bronze', ii 96 A.0.101.17 omits AN.BAR 'iron',

ii 97 and 101 A.0.101.17 TUL.MES qur-pi-siME 'casseroles
(and) armour'. Omits ZABAR 'bronze' both times, ii 97 var.
ka-ie-e-ru. ii 97 A.0.101.17 KUR 'land' (not KUR.KUR lands')
before Nairi. ii 97 var. i-ni-gi-. ii 98 var. and A.0.101.17
i-gi-. ii 99 w-ar--nu: also in A.O. 101.19 line 66; but
A.0.101.17 iv 48 -r--nu and von Soden, AHw p. 1485 sub
waru D5a emends to -r--nu. ii 100-103 A.0.101.17 and
97)
GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME TUL ZABAR

qur-pi-si ZABAR at-ta-har KUR ka-ia-ru at-
ta-bal-kt 2-te- a-na KUR.KUR na-i-ri at-tarad ina URU i-gi-

98) a-sa-kan be-dk TA URU i-en-gi- a-t-mu
ana URU ma-da-ra URU dan-nu-ti- mlaab-tu-ri DUMU tu-pu-si aq-t-rib URU KAL-an
dan-ni 4 BD.MEs-ni
99) la-a-be URU a-si-bi TA IGI GIS.TUKUL.MES-
KAL.MES ip-la-hu-ma NG.GA.ME-5W-/7 bu--nu DUMU. AEs--nu ana ap-ru-te amhur--nu ana u-zu-ub ZI.ME--nu W-AR-
ZABAR.ME
210
Ashurnasirpal Ii A.O. 101.1
URU a-pid a-qur ana DU6 U kar-me GUR-er is-tu

URU ma-da-ra at-tu-mus a-na URU tu-ha-an
101) KXj4-ab .GAL ina URU tu-ha-an --ri mada-tu KUR ni-ir-du-un ANSE.KUR.RA.MES
ANSE.GR.NUN. NA. MES TUL ZABAR qur-p-S
ZABAR GU4.ME UDU.ME
102) GESTIN. MES ina URU tu-u-ha-an a-ta-har 1

u-i URU.ME-RTI BD.ME-/2/ dan-nu-te
GR
KUR ka-ia-ri mlab-tu-ri DUMU tu-pu-si appui aq-qur ana du6

103) u kar-me -ter ina GIS. tukul-ti a-ur EN-ia TA
URU tu-u-ha-an
a-t-muGI.GIGIR.ME
KAL-/M
pit-hal-lu SAG-5W i-si-ia a-se-qe ina rak-su-te

104) D.IDIGNA e-te-bir D mu-i-ti ar-te-di a-na
URU pi-tu-ra URU dan-nu-ti-M-nu M KUR diir-ra-a-ia aq-t-rib URU GIG dan-ni
105) 2 BD.ME-W la-a-bi kin-hu-u
GIM U.SI
KTR-e -qi ina .ME MAH.ME a-ur ENia ina gi-pi RIN. HI. A. ME-? M-ia it-mu-ri
106) it-ti--nu am-da-hi-is ina 2 u4-me la-am

D
UTU na-pa-hi
GIM d iKUR GR.BAL UGU-SW-
nu -gu-um nab-lu UGU-s-nu --za-nin

ina ip-si
107) u da-na-ni mun-dah-si-a GIM A/J-ZE-E.MUEN
UGU--nu -e-û URU KUR-ad 8 ME RIN.MES
mun-dah-si--nu ina GI.TUKUL.ME -amqit SAG.DU.ME-57-nU

108) KUD-/5 RIN.MES TI.LA.ME HI.A.ME ina U
DIB-ta si-ta-ti--nu
ina TZI.ME GBIL-W/? sal-
la-su-nu DUGUD-ta a-lul a-si-tu TI.LA.ME

S SAG. DU. MES
109) ina pu-ut K.GAL-SU ar-sip 1 ME RIN.MES ina
pu-ut K.GAL--nu a-na GI zi-qi-pi -za-qip

URU a-pl a-qur ana DU6 U kar-me GUR-er LU
ba-tu-li--nu
110) MUNUS ba-tu-la-ti--nu
ana GBIL-te GBIL
URU ku--ku-nu pi-i n-reb KUR-E KUR

ma-at-ni ak-ud 1 ME RIN.MES ti-du-ki--nu
ina GI. TUKUL. MES
-am-qit
111) al-la-su-nu HI.A a-lul 50 URU.ME-W KUR

di-ri-a KUR-ud GAZ.ME-W-/Z a-dk sal-lasu-nu a-lul 50 RIN.MES TI.LA.MES
URU.DIDLI ap-pl
entered the city Tuha. I consecrated a palace in

Tuha. I received in Tuha tribute from the land
Nirdun, horses, mules, bronze casserole(s), bronze
armour, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. I razed, destroyed, (and) turned into ruin hills 60 cities,
mighty garrisons, at the foot of Mount Kasiiari,
which (were ruled by) Labturu, son of Tupusu.
-sa-bi-ta
112) a-qur ina IZI.ME GBIL-up me-lam EN-ti-a

UGU--nu at-bu-uk TA URU pi-tu-ra at-tum4 a-na URU ar-ba-ak-ki KUR hab-hi be-taa-ni at-tar-da
19 tu-u-ha (omits -an), ii 101 See the note to ii 97.

ii 103 SAG -su: see the note to ii 53. ii 103 rakste 'a bridge of
rafts': cf. A.0.101.19 line 70. See von Soden, AHw p. 948 sub
raksu le. ii 105 kurhusu ... aqi 'its citadel ... peak': cf.
A.0.101.17 iv 67 and 19 line 72. While one might read -kin
'was shaped (like)' (CAD 8 [K] p. 405), I think the present
interpretation is more probable; cf. von Soden, AHw
ii 103b-110a) With the support of Aur, my lord,

I moved on from the city Tuha. I took with me
strong chariots, cavalry, (and) crack troops.
crossed the Tigris by means of a bridge of rafts.
Travelling all night I approached the city Pitura,
the fortified city of the Dirru. The city was exceptionally difficult; it was surrounded by two walls;
its citadel was lofty like a mountain peak. With
the exalted strength of Aur, my lord, with my
massive troops, and with my fierce battle I fought
with them. On the second day, before sunrise,
thundered against them like the god Adad-of-theDevastation (and) rained down flames upon them.
With might and main my combat troops flew
against them like the Storm Bird. I conquered the
city. I felled 800 of their combat troops with the
sword (and) cut off their heads. I captured many
soldiers alive. The rest of them I burnt. I carried
off valuable tribute from them. I built a pile of
live (men and) of heads before his gate. I impaled
on stakes 700 soldiers before their gate. I razed,
destroyed, (and) turned into ruin hills the city. I
burnt their adolescent boys (and) girls.
ii 110b-l 12a) I conquered the city Kkunu which

is at the entrance to the pass of Mount Matnu. I
felled with the sword 700 of their fighting-men. I
carried off many captives from them. I conquered
50 cities of the Dirru. I massacred them, carried
off prisoners from them, (and) captured 50 soldiers alive. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities. unleashed against them my lordly radiance,
ii 112b-118a) Moving on from the city Pitura I
went down to the city Arbakku in the interior of
the land Habhu. They took fright in the face of
my royal radiance and abandoned their cities
p. 1180b. ii 109 A.0.101.17 5 <ME> '500' for 7 ME '700'.

A.0.101.19 line 76 has 7 <ME> '700'. ii 110 A.0.101.17 omits
MUNUS ba-tu-a-ti--nu '(and) girls', ii 111 var. di-ri-a-a or
di-ra-a. ii 111 A.0.101.19 line 78 '40 cities' and '40 soldiers1,
ii 112 A.0.101.14 pi-tu-ra; A.0.101.19 line 79 pi-da-ra.
ii 112 A.0.101.14 ar-ha-ki.

113) TA IGI me-lam-me MAN--T ip-la-hu-ma
URU.DIDLI-5W-RTW BD. ME-/2--nU -e-rU
ana u-zu-ub zi.MES--nu ana KUR ma-at-ni

KUR dan-ni e-li-
114) EGIR.MEs--nu ar-te-di
1 UM RIN.ME muq-
tab-li--nu ina q-reb KUR-E mar-si -nappi-is .MEs--nu KUR-W as-ru-up pagriMES--nu hur-ru
115) na-at-ba-ku
KUR-E -ma-li
2 ME RIN.ME
TI.ME ina su DIB-ta kap-pi--nu -be-tiq 2

LIM al-la-su-nu a-ul GU4.ME-5W-/I UDU seni--nu
116) a-na la me-ni GUR-RA URU i-ia-ia URU sa-Infi i-b a URU.MES KAL.ME URU ar-ba-ki
KUR-
ud GAZ. MEs--nu a-duk al-la-su-nu -lul

117) 2 ME 50 URU.MES-/ BD.MES-SW-W
(and) walls. To save their lives they climbed up

Mount Matnu, a mighty mountain. I went after
them. I slew 1,000 of their men-at-arms within the
rugged mountain, dyed the mountain red with
their blood, (and) (ii 115) filled the ravines (and)
torrents of the mountain with their corpses. I captured 200 soldiers alive (and) cut off their arms. I
carried off 2,000 captives from them. I brought
back oxen (and) sheep from them without
number. I conquered the cities Iiaia (and)
Salaniba, fortified cities of the city Arbakku. I
massacred (and) carried off prisoners from them.
I razed, destroyed, (and) turned into ruin hills 250
of their well-fortified cities of the lands Nairi. I
reaped the harvest of their land (and) stored the
barley and straw in the city Tuha.
KAL. MES KUR. KUR na-i-ri a-pl a-qur ana

DU6 u kar-me GUR-er SE.KIN.TAR KUR--nu
e-si-di E.AM.ME
ii 118b-125a) The nobles of Amme-ba^l, a man

of Bt-Zamni, rebelled against him and killed
ti- BAL.ME-5w-mtf GAZ-5W a-na tu-ri gi-mil-li him. I marched to avenge Amme-ba } ll. They took
fright before the brilliance of my weapons and
119) mam-me-ba-a>-la a-lik TA IGI na-mur-ra-at
awe of my dominion (and) I received harnessed
GIS.TUKUL.ME-TF u u-ri-bat EN-ti-a
chariots, equipment for troops (and) horses, 460
120) e-dr-ma GI.GIGIR.ME ra-ki-su hal-lu-up-ti
harness-trained horses, two talents of silver, two
RIN.ME ANE. KUR.RA.MES 4 ME 1 U-
talents of gold, 100 talents of tin, 100 talents of
121) ANSE.KUR. RA.MES LAL-at GI n-r- 2 GUN
bronze, 300 talents of iron, 100 bronze casseroles,
K. BABBAR. MES 2 GUN K. GI. MES 1 ME GUN
3,000 bronze receptacles, bronze bowls, bronze
122) AN. NA. MES 1 ME GUN ZABAR. MES 3 ME GUN
containers, 1,000 linen garments with multiAN.BAR. MES 1 ME TUL ZABAR 3 LIM kap-pi
coloured trim, dishes, chests, couches of ivory
ZABAR sa-a p-Ii ZABAR a-ga-na-a-te
ZABAR
(and) decorated with gold, the treasure of his
123) 1 LIM TG lu-bl-ti bir-me GIS.GADA.MES
palace (also) 2,000 oxen, 5,000 sheep, his sister
GI.BANUR NA5 GIS n-mat-tu
Z.ME
with her rich dowry, (and) the daughters of his
K.GI.ME uh-hu-zu-te
nobles with their rich dowries.
124) ni-sir-ti .GAL-SU 2 LIM GU4.ME 5 LIM
118) u E.IN.NU.ME ina URU tu-u-ha at-bu-uk

m
am-me-ba-a^-la
DUMU za-ma-ni
LU.GAL.MES-
UDU.ME MUNUS.NIN-SI/ TA nU-lld-n-S HI. A

DUMU. MUNUS. MES
125) L.GAL.ME-M/ TA nu-ud-ni-i-na ma-a-di amhur ma-ur-PAB-A MAN GAL-W MAN dan-nu
MAN MAN KUR a-Ur A TUKUL-MA MAN
GAL-E MAN dan-ni

126) MAN MAN KUR a-Ur A U-RIN.TH MAN
GAL-e MAN dan-ni MAN MAN KUR a-ur-ma
et-lu qar-du ina GIS.tukul-ti a-ur EN-SW
DU.DU-ku-ma ina mal-ki.MES
127) kib-rat 4-ta -nin- la-a i-- MAN M
ii 113 var. inserts dan-nu-te or KAL.MES-^ (A.0.101.17) after

BAD.ME-(ni)--nu 'strong walls', ii 115 A.0.101.17 DIS a-na
kap-pi-^^-nu -ba-tiq '(and) cut off one arm from each of
them'. See Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 24-25. ii 116 A.0.101.17 rba-ak-ki. ii 117 A.0.101.17 omits --nu 'their' after BD.MES
changing the translation to: '250 well-fortified cities',
ii 118-19 A.0.101.17 rmam-me-ba-aUn. ii 119 u-ri-bat: see
the note to ii 78. ii 120 A.O.101.19 inserts '40' before
ii 125b-13 la) Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong

TukultT-Ninurta (II), great king, strong king, king
of the universe, king of Assyria, son of Adadnrr (II) (who was) also great king, strong king,
king of the universe, king of Assyria; valiant man
who acts with the support of Aur, his lord, and
has no rival among the princes of the four quarters, the king who subdued (the territory
ra-ki-su 'harnessed chariots', ii 122 A.0.101.19

line 88 '200 talents of bronze ... 1,000 bronze casseroles, 2,000
bronze receptacles', ii 122 var. omits sa-ap-li ZABAR a-ga-naa-te ZABAR 'bronze bowls, bronze containers',
ii 123 A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 9 line 89 BANSUR.MES GI.NA5.ME, i.e. plural
and probably this is the better text, ii 125-35 vars. omit
everything beginning ma-ur-PAB-A 'Ashurnasirpal' to the end
of the col. ii 127 A.O.101.31 lines 4-5 inserts before MAN 'the
Gi.GiGiR.ME
212

is-tu e-ber-ta-an D.IDIGNA a-di KUR lab-na-na
U A.AB.BA
128) GAL-// KUR la-qe-e ana s-hir-t- KUR su-hi

a-di URU ra-pi-qi
ana GR.U.ME- -k-ni-
i-tu SAG D e-ni

129) D su-ub-na-at a-di KUR ni-rib bi-ta-ni usu KUR-ud TA KUR n-re-be KUR kr-ru-ri
a-di KUR gfl-za-ni TA e-ber-ta-an D za-ba
130) KI.TA a-di VKV.DVs-ba-a-ri el-la-an KUR
za-ban TA URU.DU^--ab-ta-ni a-di URU.DU6-za-ab-da-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-tu
KUR bi-ra-a-te
131) KUR kar-du-ni- a-na mi-is-ri KUR-ia -ter

DAGAL.ME KUR.KUR na-i-ri a-na pat
gim-
ri- a-pl URU kal-hu ina e--te as-bat DU6

la-be-ru
132) -na-kiri a-di UGU A.ME lu- --pl 1 ME
20 tik-pi a-na mu-pa-li lu-ta-bi DMA BN-ia
ina q-reb- lu- ad-di e-nu-ma
133) ALAM DMA u-a-tum ina pa-an la-a GL-W
ina hi-sa-at lb-bi-ia ^LAMMA DINGIR-Z-SW
GAL-te ina du-muq NA4 KUR-E K.GI hu-se-e
lu- D-ni
134) a-na DINGIR-//-/^ GAi-te ina URU kal-hi lu-
am-nu-u
i-si-na-te-
ina ITI.ZZ ITI.KIN
lu- -kun .KUR i-i na-la-ba-na lu ak-sur

135) BRA DMA EN-A ina q-reb- lu -ar-ri-hi
D
GAAN-KUR d 3 0 U gU~la NU DE-TF-MAN NU
D
IKUR G.GAL AN-<? KI-/E lu- ad-di
stretching) from the opposite bank of the Tigris

to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea, the entire
land Laq, (and) the land Suhu including the city
Rapiqu. He conquered from the source of the
River Subnat to the interior of the land Nirbu. I
brought within the boundaries of my land (the
territory stretching) from the passes of Mount
Kirruru to the land Gi1znu, from the opposite
bank of the Lower Zab to the city T1-Bri which
is upstream from the land Zaban, from the city
T1-a-Abtni to the city T1-a-Zabdni, (and) the
cities Hirimu (and) Harutu (which are) fortresses
of Kardunias. Finally, I have gained dominion
over the entire extensive lands Nairi.
ii 13lb135) The city Calah I took in hand for
renovation. I cleared away the old ruin hill (and)
dug down to water level; I sank (the foundation
pit) down to a depth of 120 layers of brick. I
founded therein the temple of the god Ninurta,
my lord. At that time I created with my skill this
statue of the god Ninurta which had not existed
previously as an icon of his great divinity out of
the best stone of the mountain and red gold. I regarded it as my great divinity in the city Calah. I
appointed his festivals in the months Shebat and
Elul. I constructed this temple in its entirety. I
made the dais of the god Ninurta, my lord,
resplendent therein. I founded the temple(s) of the
deities arrat-niphi, Sn, and Gula, the statue of
the god Ea-arru (and) the statue of the god
Adad, the canal-inspector of heaven (and) underworld.
Col. iii
m
1)
ina ITI.SIG4 UD 22.KM li-me
2)
TA URU kal-hi at-tu-mu D.IDIGNA e-te-bir

ina GR am-ma-te sa D.IDIGNA
ma-da-tu HI. A a-ta-har ina URU ta-bi-te a-sakan be-dk
3)
4)
da-gan-EN-PAB
ina ITI.U UD 6.KM TA URU ta-
bi-te at-tu-mu i-di D har-mis a-sa-bat

ina URU ma-ga-ri-si a-sa-kan be-dk TA URU
ma-ga-ri-si at-tum4- si-di D ha-bur a-sa-bat
URU -di-kan-ni a-sa-kan
be-dk ma-da-t sa URU -di-kan-ni
K.BABBAR K.GI AN.NA.ME TUL ZABAR.MES
GU4.ME UDU.ME at-ta-har TA URU -di-
5)
kan-ni
at-tu-mus ina URU qa-at-ni GAR-an be-dk
king': 'marvellous shepherd, fearless in battle, mighty floodtide which has no opponent'. Cf. A.0.101.1 i 13-14 and
iii 115. ii 128-31 A.0.101.50 lines 10-19 omits a b-ta-n susu KUR-ud TA KUR n-re-be, changing the translation to: '
brought within the boundaries of my land (the territory
stretching) from the source of the River Subnat to the passes
of Mount Kirruru to the land Gi1znu ../ ii 134 1 see no
iii l-26a) On the twenty-second day of the month

Sivan, in the eponymy of Dagan-b1a-usur, I
moved from Calah, After crossing the Tigris, on
the other side of the Tigris I received much tribute. I pitched camp (and) spent the night in the
city Tabitu. On the sixth day of the month
Tammuz I moved from the city Tabitu (and)
made my way to the banks of the River Harmi. I
Magarisu. Moving on from the city Magarisu I
made my way to the banks of the River Habur. I
adikannu. I received tribute from the city Sadikannu, silver, gold, tin, bronze casseroles, oxen,
necessity to emend the text (see Schramm, EAK 2 p. 26).

ii 134 na-la-ba-na\ see Reiner, AfO 23 (1970) pp. 89-91 and
CAD 11/1 (N) p. 199b. iii 1 Dagan-b1a u$ur: see Brinkman,
ZA 59 (1969) pp. 234-38 and cf. JCS 29 (1977) pp. 60-61.
iii 4 var. omits be-dk . . . K.GI changing the translation to '1
pitched camp in the city adikannu. I received tribute from
the city Sadikannu, tin, bronze casseroles, oxen, (and) sheep/
ma-da-tu URU
qa-at-n
6)
qat-na-a-ia
at-ta-har
ina URU.BAD-kat-li-me
u-pe-e
a-sa-kan
ina
be-dk
KUR.-ha-iu-pe-e
be-dk
a-sa-ka-an
U R U . B D - k a t - U - m e at-t-mu
7)
TA URU
at-tu-mu
TA
uRu.-ha-
ma-da-t
K.BABBAR K.GI
AN.NA.ME TJTUL Z AB AR. MES TG lU-bl-t

me GADA.MES GU4.ME UDU.ME
8)
TA URU.-ha-lu-pe-e
a-sa-kan
be-dk
a-t-mu
ma-da-t
Mr-
at-ta-har
ina URU
URU
sir-qi
si-ir-qi-a-a
K.BABBAR K.GI AN.NA.ME TUL.ME

GU4.ME
9)
UDU.ME at-ta-har
ina
URU
TA URU sir-qi
su-up-ri a-sa-kan
URU su-up-ra-a-a
10)
ma-da-t
K.BABBAR.MES
K.GI.ME AN.NA.MES TUL.ME GU4.ME

UDU.ME at-ta-har
tum^-mus
11)
at-tumA-mu
be-dk
be-dk
TA URU su-up-ri-a
at-
ina URU na-qa-ra-ba-ni

ma-da-t
URU
a-sa-kan
na-qa-ra-ba-a-ni
K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME AN. N A. MES

TUL.ME GU4.ME UDU.ME at-ta-har
TA URU
na-qa-ra-ba-a-ni
12)
at-tu-mu
ina pu-ut
kan be-dk
ma-te
13)
URU hi-in-da-a-ni
URU hi-in-da-a-nu
sa D pu-rat-te
ma-da-t
a-sa-
ina GR am-
sa-li
sa URU hi-in-da-na-a-a
K.BABBAR
K.GI.ME AN.NA.ME TUL.ME GU4.ME

UDU.ME at-ta-har
14)
15)
at-tu-mu
sa-kan
be-dk
ba-a-ia
ina pu-ut
a-sa-kan
be-dk
ma-te
URU
sa-li
a-
-m-
ina SAG URU
-m-ba-a-ia
an-at
URU an-at
pu-rat-te
sa-li TA URU an-at

URU dan-nu-ti-
ina GR am-
TA
be-dk
ina
ha-ri-di
URU ha-ru-du
a-sa-kan
su--ru
17)
hi-in-da-a-ni
TA KUR-*? at-ta-mus
sa D pu-rat-te
at-tum4-mu
16)
TA URU
ina KUR-E ina UGU D pu-rat-te
ina MURUB* D
at-tum4-mu
URU
NG.DU L.GAR.KUR KUR su-hi
a-si-bi
a-na
RIN.HI.A.ME KUR ka-- DAGAL.ME t-tkil-ma a-na e-pe MURUB4 M a-na

lb-bi-a
18)
it-ba-a
URU a-si-bi
lb-be
a-kun
m
nu-te
19)
ina 2 u*-me
TA pa-an
NG.Du TA 7 0 RIN. ME-5W
u-zu-ub
20)
AG-A-suM-na
za-ab-da-a-nu
du-ki--nu
im-qu-ut
a-di RIN.MES
MAN KUR
E- a-di
ina
dan-
a-na
ZI.ME-W a-na D pu-rat-te
URU KUR-A/ 5 0 pit-hal-lu

a
mit-hu-s
GI.TUKUL.ME-T
kar-du-ni-
3 LIM RIN.MES ti-
EN-A-A L.HAL a-lik
RIN.HI.A.ME$>-i4-nu it-ti--nu
pa-an
ina u
-sab-
bi-ta
111 7 King mistakenly has UDU.MES at-ta-har T received sheep'

twice, iii 8 var. KUR 'land' for URU 'city' before Bt-Halup.
iii 8 var. omits TUL.ME 'casseroles', iii 10 var. su-up-ri
(and) sheep, (iii 5) Moving on from the city adikannu 1 pitched camp (and) spent the night in the
city Qatnu. I received tribute from the people of
the city Qatnu. Moving on from the city Qatnu I
Dr-kat1immu. Moving on from the city Drkatlimmu I pitched camp (and) spent the night in
the city of Bt-Halup. I received tribute from the
city of Bt-Halup, silver, gold, tin, bronze
casseroles, linen garments with multi-coloured
trim, oxen, (and) sheep. Moving on from the city
of Bt-Halup I pitched camp (and) spent the
night in the city Sirqu. I received tribute from the
people of the city Sirqu, silver, gold, tin,
casseroles, oxen, (and) sheep. Moving on from
the city Sirqu I pitched camp (and) spent the
night in the city Supru. (iii 10) I received tribute
from the people of the city Supru, silver, gold,
tin, casseroles, oxen, (and) sheep. Moving on
from the city Supru I pitched camp (and) spent
the night in the city Naqarabnu. I received tribute from the city Naqarabnu, silver, gold, tin,
casseroles, oxen, (and) sheep. Moving on from
the city Naqarabnu I pitched camp (and) spent
the night before the city Hindnu Hindnu lies
on the other bank of the Euphrates. I received
tribute from the people of the city Hindnu,
silver, gold, tin, casseroles, oxen, (and) sheep.
Moving on from the city Hindnu 1 pitched camp
(and) spent the night in a mountain by the
Euphrates. Moving on from the mountain (iii 15)
I pitched camp (and) spent the night among the
Bt-abi before the city Haridu Haridu lies on
the other bank of the Euphrates. Moving on from
the BTt-abi I pitched camp (and) spent the night
before the city Anat Anat lies (on an island) in
the Euphrates. Moving on from the city Anat I
besieged the city Sru, the fortified city of
Kudurru, governor of the land Suhu. Trusting in
extensive Kassite troops he attacked me to wage
war and battle. I besieged the city (and) on the
second day fought my way inside. In the face of
my mighty weapons, Kudurru with 70 of his soldiers fell back to the Euphrates to save his life. I
conquered the city, (iii 20) I captured 50 cavalrymen together with the troops of Nab-aplaiddina, king of Kardunia, Zabdnu his brother
with 3,000 fightingnnen, (and) Bel-apla-iddina the
diviner, their commanding ofcer. I felled with
the sword many soldiers. I carried off silver, gold,
(omits -a), iii 15 var. ha-ri-du. iii 17

see Brinkman, PKB p. 185 n. 1129.
NG.DU IU G*R KUR
214
21) ERIN.MES ma-a^du-te ina GI.TUKUL.ME am-qit K.BABBAR K.GI.ME AN.NA.MES

TUL.ME NA4 KUR-/ U-QU-rU NG.GA .GAL-5W
22) GI.GIGIR. ME-SW ANE.KUR.RA.ME LAL-at GI
ni-ri- hal-lu-up-ti RIN.ME hal-lu-up-ti
ANE.KUR.RA.ME MUNUS.ERIM.ME
.GAL.ME-5W al-la-SU
23) DUGUD-Z7 a-lul URU ap-pl a-qur li-ti u dana-ni UGU KUR su-hi -kun pl-ha-at EN-ti-a
a-di KUR kar-du-ni- KUR-ud
24) u-ri-bat GIS.TUKUL.MES- KUR kai-du -sahi-ip UGU KUR.ME-RN a-ha-at D pu-rat-te
na-mu-ra-ti at-bu-uk sa-lam
25) bu-na-ni-ia Dt-u li-ti dan-na-ni ina lb-bi
al-tu-ur ina URU su--ri -e-zi-iz ma-urPAB-A MAN ta-na-ta-
26) da-na-a-nu ka-ia-ma-nu-ma a-na hu-ri-ib-te
ta-ru-su pa-nu- a-na i-tap-ru- hu-te-ni-u
i-sa-ha sk- ina URU kal-hi us-ba-ku
27) t-e-mu ut-te-ru-ni ma-a L.ME-? KUR la-qaa-a URU hi-in-da-a-nu KUR su-hi a-na si-hrti--nu it-ta-bal-ku-t D pu-rat-tu
28) e-tab-ru ina ITI.SIG4 UD 18.KAM i-tu URU
kal-hi at-tuni4-mu D.HAL.HAL e-te-bir hu-riib-tu a-sab-ta a-na URU su--ri
29) .URU-ha-lu-pe-e aq-ti-rib GI.M.ME
ra-me-ni-ia ina URU su--ri e-tap- a-na SAG
D pu-rat-te a-as-bat a-di
30) hi-in-qi D pu-rat-te at-ta-rid URU.DIDLI s
m
he-en-ti-DINGIR MA-Z/-DINGIR KUR la-qa-a-a
KUR-ud GAZ. ME--nu a-duk al-la-su-nu
31) a-lul URU.DiDLi a-ptl a-qur ina IZI.ME ru-up ina ger-ri-ia-ma a-su-uh-ra TA pi-a-te
D ha-bur a-di
32) URU si-ba-te KUR su-hi URU.DIDLI.ME
GR an-na-te D pu-rat-te KUR la-qe-e
KUR su-hi ap-pl a-qur ina IZI.ME -ru-up
BURUI4.ME-u-nu e-si-di 4 ME 70 RIN.ME
33) ti-du-ki--nu ina GI.TUKUL.ME -am-qit 30
TI.LA.ME -sab-bi-ta ina GI zi-qi-be -ze-qibe ina GI.M.ME e-pu-u-ni
34) GI.M.ME KU.DUH.i-e ina hu-li i-tuni i-du-Ia-a-ni ina URU ha-ri-di D pu-rat-tu
lu e-bir KUR su-ha-a-ia KUR la-qa-a-a
35) URU hi-in-da-na-a-a a-na gi-pi
GI.GIGIR.MES--nU KlN.HhA.ME--nU
.ME$--nu it-tk-lu-ma 6 LIM
tin, casseroles, (and) precious stone of the mountain, the property of his palace, his chariots,
teams of horses, equipment for troops, equipment
for horses, his palace women, (and) valuable
booty from him. 1 razed (and) destroyed the city.
(Thus) I established my victory and strength over
the land Suhu; fear of my dominion reached as
far as Kardunia; awe of my weapons overwhelmed Chaldea; I unleashed my brilliance upon
the mountains on the banks of the Euphrates, (iii
25) I made an image of myself (and) wrote
thereon (an account of) my victory and strength. I
erected (it) in the city Sru. (The inscription
reads): 'Ashurnasirpal, the king whose strength is
constantly praiseworthy, whose face is turned towards the desert, who delights in loosing his javelin.'
iii 26b-31a) While I was in Calah this report was
brought back to me: 'All of the people of the land
Laq, the city Hindnu, (and) the land Suhu have
rebelled (and) crossed the Euphrates. 5 On the
eighteenth day of the month Sivan I moved from
Calah. After crossing the Tigris I took to the
desert (and) approached the city Sru which belongs to Bt-Halup. I built my own boats in the
city Sru (and) made my way towards the
Euphrates. I went down as far as the narrows of
the Euphrates. I conquered the cities of Henti-ili
(and) Azi-ili, the Laq. I massacred them, carried
off captives from them, razed, destroyed, (and)
burnt (their) cities.
iii 31b-44a) In (the course of) my campaign
turned (aside and) razed, destroyed, (and) burnt
the cities which are on this bank of the Euphrates
(and) which (belong to) the land Laq (and) the
land Suhu, from the mouth of the River Habur as
far as the city Sibatu of the land Suhu. I reaped
their harvests. I felled with the sword 470 of their
fighting-men. I captured 30 alive (and) erected
(them) on stakes. I crossed the Euphrates at the
city Haridu by means of the boats which I had
made, rafts (made of inflated) goatskins which
had moved along the road simultaneously (with
the army). The Suhu, Laq, (and) (iii 35)
Hindnu, trusting in the massiveness of their
chariotry, troops, (and) might, mustered 6,000 of
their troops (and) attacked me to wage war and
cities which are on this bank of the Euphrates (and) which

iii 24-26 Cf. Brinkman, PKB p. 185 and n. 1132, iii 24 Su(belong to) the city Laq, from the mouth of the River Habur
ri-bt: see the note to ii 78. iii 24 var. omits -a 'my' after
as far as the city Sibatu of the land Suhu.' iii 33 var. '20' for
GI.TUKUI..MH "weapons', iii 27 var. URU 'city' for KUR 'land'
before Laq. iii 29 var. .URU-hu-Iu-pe-e. iii 32 var. omits '30'. iii 33-34 var, omits e-pu-u-ni CI.M.MK
KU.DUH.i-e 'which I had made, rafts (made of inflated)
KUR su-h ap-pl a-qur ina IZI.ME -ru-up changing the
goatskins', iii 34 var, su-ha-a,
translation to : 'I turned (aside and) reaped the harvest of the

RIN.HI.A.ME-5Z-/7W id-ku-ni a-na e-pe
MURUB4 u M
36) a-na GABA- t-bu-n it-te--nu am-da-hi-is
BAD5.BAD5-5W-NW -kun GI.GIGIR.ME-SM-FL
a-si-H 6 LIM 5 ME muq-tab-li--nu ina

GIS.TUKUL.MES -am-qit si-ta-te--nu
37) ina su-me-e ina mu-da-bi-ri D pu-rat-t e-kl
TA URU ha-ri-di KUR su-hi a-di URU ki-pina URU.ME-/?/ URU
hi-in-da-na-a-a
38) KUR la-qa-a-a M GR am-ma-te KUR-W

GAZMEs--nu a-duk al-la-su-nu a-lul
URU.DIDLI a-pl a-qur ina IZI.MES -ru-up
N
VZ/-DINGIR KUR
la-qa-a-a
39) a-na .MES- it-ti-kil-ma ina URU ki-pi-na

n-pi-ri lu is-bat it-ti--nu am-da-hi-is is-tu
URU ki-pi-na a-pi-ik-ta- -kun 1 LIM
RIN.MES
40) ti-du-ki- a-duk GIS. GIGIR. ME-S a-si-H salla-su HI. A.MES as-lul DINGIR.ME-ni-s -te-ra
a-na u-zu-ub
ZI.ME-SW KUR-W mar-su
KUR
bi-su-ru s SAG
41) D pu-rat-te lu is-bat ina 2 u4-me EGR-S arte-di si-ta-at RIN,HI.A.ME- ina
GI.TUKUL.MES -am-qit re-eh-ta--nu KUR D pu-rat-t lu e-kul a-di
42) URU du-um-me-te URU az-mu URU.DIDLI s
DUMU a-di-ni ar-di- si-ta-at RIN.HI.A.MES ina GI. TUKUL. MES -am-qit al-la-su
DUGUD-FA GU4.ME-5W UDU
se-ni-
43) ki-ma MUL.ME AN-<? me-nu-ta la i-- aslul ina U4-rne-u-ma mi-la-a KUR la-qa-a-a
GI.GIGIR. ME-5W ra-k-SU 5 ME RIN.HI.A.ME-
lu a-su-ha
44) a-na KUR-ia a-ur ub-la URU du-um-mu-t
URU az-mu KUR-ud a-pl a-qur ina IZI.ME
GBIL-up ina hi-in-qi D pu-rat-te at-ti-si ina
ge-ri-ia-ma
45)
a-su-uh-ra "VZHDINGIR TA IGI

GIS.TUKUL.ME-T KAL.ME ana
u-zu-ub
zi. MES-5W e-li mi-la-a L na-si-ku KUR laqe-e RIN.HI. A.ME-S2 GI.GIGIR.ME-5W LAL-S
46) a-su-ha a-na URU-ia a-ur ub-la mhe-ern-tiDINGIR KUR la-qa-a-a
ina URU- e-sir-u
ina
Gi.tukul-ti a-ur EN-a TA IGI GI.TUKUL.MEa KAL.ME M-ia it-mu-ri

47)
.ME-7 git-ma-la-ti
ip-lh-ma NG.GA .GAL K.BABBAR K.GI AN.NA.ME ZABAR.ME
battle. I fought with them (and) inflicted upon

them a defeat. I destroyed their chariotry, I felled
6,500 of their men-at-arms with the sword, (and)
the rest of them the Euphrates consumed because
of the thirst (they suffered) in the desert. I conquered from the city Haridu of the land Suhu as
far as the city Kipinu, cities of the Hindnu (and)
Laq (and) which were on the other bank. 1 massacred them, carried off captives from them,
razed, destroyed, (and) burnt (their) cities. Azi-ili,
the Laq, trusting in his (own) might, seized the
crossing at the city Kipinu. I fought with them
(and) away from Kipinu I brought about his defeat. (iii 40) I massacred 1,000 of his fighting
men, destroyed his chariotry, carried off many
captives from him, (and) brought away his gods.
To save his life he took to a rugged mountain,
Mount Bisuru, in the direction of the Euphrates.
On the next day I went after him. I felled with
the sword the rest of his soldiers (and) their
remains the mountain (and) the Euphrates consumed. went after him as far as the cities
Dummetu (and) Azmu, cities of Blt-Adini. I felled
with the sword the rest of his troops (and) carried
off from him valuable booty, oxen, (and) sheep
which, like the stars of heaven, had no number.
At that time I uprooted I1, the Laq, his harnessed chariots, (and) 500 of his troops. I brought
(them) to my land Aur. I conquered, razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities Dummetu (and)
Azmu. I emerged from the narrows of the
Euphrates.
iii 44b-48a) In (the course of) my campaign I
turned (aside). Azi-ili vanished in the face of my
mighty weapons in order to save his life. I
uprooted Il, sheikh of the land Laq, his troops,
(and) his chariots with teams. I brought (them) to
my city Aur. I confined Hemti-ili, the Laq, in
his city. With the support of Assur, my lord, he
took fright in face of my mighty weapons, my
fierce battle, (and) my perfect power (and) I received the property of his palace, silver, gold, tin,
bronze, bronze casseroles, garments with multicoloured trim, his valuable booty. In addition, I
imposed upon them more tribute (and) tax than
ever before.
TUL ZABAR TG lu-bl-ti bir-me al-la-su

DUGUD-7 am-hur-ma
GUN
48) ma-da-tu UGU pa-an --te-er UGU--nu

a-kun ina u4-me--ma 40 GU4.AM.ME-A/
iii 48b-50a) At that time I killed 40 strong wild

bulls on the other bank of the Euphrates. I
iii 36 var. im-da-hi-is 'he fought', iii 38 var. URU for KUR
before la-qa-a-a (both occurrences), iii 45 var. ma-zi~lu.
iii 45 var. la-qa-e. iii 46 var. mhi-am-ti-r>mom. Note the

orthography "lhe-en-ti-i>iNGiR in iii 30. iii 48 var. '50* for '40\
216

KAL. MES ina GR am-ma-te
duk
49)
D pu-rat-te
a-
8 GU4.AM.MES
TI.LA.ME ina s u DIB-at 2 0 G.NUII.MUEN.ME

a-duk
2 0 G.NUI I.MUEN.ME TI.ME ina
DIB-/A 2 URU.ME-ni ina UGU D pu-rat-te

50)
di 1 ina GR
an-na-te
D pu-rat-ti
URU kar-mAS-PAB-A
1 ina GR am-ma-te
a-ur
MU- ab-bi
URU kal-hi
ad-
MU-M
D pu-rat-te
ab-bi
n-bar-ti-
ina ITI.SIG4 UD 20.KM TA
at-tu-mu
51) D.HAL.HAL e-te-bir a-na KVK.-ma-di-ni a-lik

a-na URU kap-ra-bi URU dan-nu-ti--nu aqti-rib URU KAL-an dan-ni GIM DUNGU TA AN-E
u-qa-iu-la
52)
RIN.ME a-na RIN.HI.A.MES--nu HI.A.MES
it-dk-lu-ma la-a ur-du-ni GR.II-/T la-a is-but ina q-bit a-ur EN GAL-? EN-a u DRI.GAL
a-lik iGi-ia URU a-si-bi
53)
ina pl-e
na-pi-li
GAZ.MES--nu
tab-li--nu
sa-a-bi-te
-n-pi-is
nu -lu-la
URU
HI.A.MES a-duk
KVR-ad
8 ME
al-la-su-nu
muq-
NG.U-5U-
2 LIM 5 ME
54) RIN.HI.A.ME--nu a-su-ha ina URU kal-hi

--as-bi URU ap-pl aq-qur ina IZI.ME
GBIL a-kul- pl-hi me-lam-me a-ur EN-a
UGU t-a-di-ni al-ta-kan
55)
ina UA-me--ma
a-di-ni
ma-da-t
ha-bi-ni
a-hu-ni
DUMU
uRu.DU6-NA4-a-a
K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME AN.NA.ME

ZABAR.ME TG lu-bl-ti
bir-me
TG.GADA.MES GI.R.ME
56) GI e-re-ni ni-sir-ti .GL- am-hur li-t--nu

as-bat re-mu-tu -ku-na---nu ina ITI.GU4
UD 8.KM TA URU kal-hi at-tu-mu
D.HAL.HAL
57) e-te-bir a-na URU gar-ga-mi KUR hat-te asa-bat ar-hu a-na t-ba-hi-a-ni aq-ti-rib mada-tu DUMU ba-hi-a-ni GI.GIGIR.ME ra-kiSU ANE.KUR.RA.ME K.BABBAR.ME
58)
K.GI.ME AN.NA.ME ZABAR.MES TUL ZABAR
am-hur GI.GIGIR.ME pit-hal-lu LTJ zu-ku

DUMU ba-hi-a-ni i-si-ia a-se-qe TA t-ba-hi-a-ni
at-tu-mu
59) a-na KUR a-zal-li aq-ti-rib ma-da-tu
md
KUR-ii-rne KUR zal-la-a-ia GI.GIGIR.ME
ra-ki-su
ANE.KUR.RA.ME K.BABBAR.ME
K.GI.ME AN.NA.MES ZABAR

60)
TUL ZABAR GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME atta-har
GI.GIGIR.ME pit-hal-lu
L zu-ku
i-si-ia
iii 52 duRi.GAL 'divine standard'. See the note to A.0.98.1 line

48. iii 53 var. 2 LIM 4 ME '2,400'. iii 55 var. URU.DU6-NA4-/ or
URU.DUs-ab-na-a-a. iii 57 var. KUR land* for URU 'city' heforc
captured eight wild bulls alive. I killed 20 ostriches. I captured 20 ostriches alive. I founded
two cities on the Euphrates, one on this bank of
the Euphrates (which) I called Kr-Ashurnasirpa1
(and) one on the other bank of the Euphrates
(which) 1 called Nbarti-Aur.
iii 50b-54) On the twentieth day of the month
Sivan 1 moved from Calah. After crossing the
Tigris I marched to the land BTt-Adini (and) approached the city Kaprabu, their fortified city.
The city was well fortified; it hovered like a cloud
in the sky. The people, trusting in their numerous
troops, did not come down (and) submit to me.
By the command of Aur, the great lord, my
lord, and the divine standard which goes before
me, I besieged the city (and) conquered it by
means of tunnels, battering-rams, (and) siegetowers. I massacred many of them, I slew 800 of
their men-at-arms, (and) carried off captives (and)
property from them. I uprooted 2,500 of their
troops (and) settled them in Calah. I razed, destroyed, burnt, (and) consumed the city. (Thus) I
imposed awe of the radiance of Aur, my lord,
upon Blt-Adini.
iii 55-56a) At that time I received tribute from

Ahunu, a man of Bt-Adini, (and) from Habinu,
a man of the city TTl-abni, silver, gold, tin,
bronze, linen garments with multi-coloured trim,
cedar logs, the treasure of his palace. I took hostages from them (and) showed them mercy,
iii 56b-77a) On the eighth day of the month Iyyar
I moved from Calah. After crossing the Tigris I
set out for the city Carchemish of the land Hatti
(and) approached Bt-Bahini. I received tribute
from Bt-Bahini, harnessed chariots, horses,
silver, gold, tin, bronze, (and) bronze casseroles. I
took with me the chariots, cavalry, (and) infantry
of Blt-Bahini. Moving on from Bt-Bahini I approached the land Azallu. (iii 60) I received tribute from Adad- 3 ime, the (A)zallu, harnessed
chariots, horses, silver, gold, tin, bronze, bronze
casseroles, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. I took with
me the chariots, cavalry, (and) infantry. Moving
on from the land Azallu I approached Bt-Adini.
I received tribute from Ahunu, a man of BltAdini, silver, gold, tin, bronze, bronze casseroles,
ivory dishes, ivory couches, ivory chests, ivory
thrones decorated with silver (and) gold, gold
Carchemish. iii 57 var. inserts KUR 'land' before Bt-Bahini.

iii 59 var. MDIKUR-'M-ME. iii 60 var. omits ZABAR 'bronze'
after Tur 'casseroles'.

a-se-qe TA KUR a-zal-li at-tu-mus a-na t-a-dini aq-ti-rib
61) ma-da-tu ma-hu-ni DUMU a-di-ni
ta-har
72) e-te-tiq D ap-re-e e-te-bir a-sa-kan be-dk TA
UGU D ap-re-e at-tu-mus a-na URU ku-nu-lu-a
bracelets, gold rings with trimming, gold necklaces, a gold dagger, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. I
of Ahunu. At that time I received tribute from
Habinu, a man of the city Tl-abni, four minas of
silver (and) 400 sheep (and) I imposed upon him
as annual tribute 10 minas of silver. Moving on
from the land Blt-Adini (iii 65) I crossed the
Euphrates, which was in flood, in rafts (made of
inflated) goatskins (and) approached the land
Carchemish. I received tribute from Sangara, king
of the land Hatti, 20 talents of silver, a gold ring,
a gold bracelet, gold daggers, 100 talents of
bronze, 250 talents of iron, bronze (tubs), bronze
pails, bronze bath-tubs, a bronze oven, many ornaments from his palace the weight of which
could not be determined, beds of boxwood,
thrones of boxwood, dishes of boxwood
decorated with ivory, 200 adolescent girls, linen
garments with multi-coloured trim, purple wool,
red-purple wool, ginugallu-alabaster,
elephants'
tusks, a chariot of polished (gold), a gold couch
with trimming (objects) befitting his royalty. I
of the city Carchemish. All the kings of the lands
came down (and) submitted to mc. 1 took from
them hostages (and) (iii 70) they were kept in my
presence on the march to Mount Lebanon (lit.
'(and) they marched to Mount Lebanon'). Moving
on from the land Carchemish I took the way
between Mounts Munzignu (and) Hamurga.
Leaving Mount Ahnu on my left I approached
the city Hazazu which (was ruled by) Lubarna,
the Patinu. I received gold (and) linen garments.
Passing on I crossed the River Apr, pitched
camp (and) spent the night. Moving on from the
River Apre I approached the city Kunulua, the
royal city of Lubarna, the Patinu. He took fright
in the face of my raging weapons (and) fierce battle and submitted to me to save his life. I received
as his tribute 20 talents of silver, one talent of
gold, 100 talents of tin, 100 talents of iron, 1,000
oxen, 10,000 sheep, 1,000 linen garments with
multi-coloured trim, (iii 75) decorated couches of
boxwood with trimming, beds of boxwood,
decorated beds with trimming, many dishes of
ivory (and) boxwood, many ornaments from his
iii 63 var. URV.DUt-ab-na-a-a. iii 66 For the beginning of the

line see Schramm, EAK 2 p. 24 (to ii 64). iii 66 var. omits
top hi.MES (in error) 'tubs'. Regarding tap-hi see the note to
ii 64. iii 66 harite siparri narmakte siparri 'bronze pails,
bronze bath-tubs': see Oppenheim, ANET5 p. 275 and n. 2.
iii 68 var. omits TUG.GADA.MES 'linen garments', iii 69 var.
omits pit-hal-lu ... a-se-qe T took with me the chariots,
cavalry, (and) infantry of the city Carchemish'. iii 69 var.

KUR hat-ta-a-a 'of the Hittites' for URU gar-ga-m 'of the
city Carchemish'. iii 69 ur-du-ni (they) came down to me': so
Le Gac. King has Dxi-ku-ni '(they) came to me*, iii 70 DU-A'/
= illik: not alku as suggested by Aro, StOr 26 p. 212 6.227,
iii 71 pa-ti-na-a-a 'the Patinu': not hat-ti-na-a-a 'the Hattinu'.
See Hawkins, Iraq 36 (1974) p. 81.
K.BABBAR.MES K.GI.ME AN.NA.MES ZABAR

TUL.ME ZABAR G1.BANUR Z.ME GI.N
ZU.MES GT.NA5.ME Z.MES
62)
GI.A.TI.ME Z.ME K.BABBAR K.GI

GAR. RA. MES H AR. MES K.GI Sa-Û-ri K.GI
tam-li-te ga-gi K.GI GR K.GI GU4.MES
UDU.ME GETIN.ME ma-da-ta- a m-hur
63) GIS.GiGiR.MES pit-hal-lu LU zu-ku ma-hu-ni

i-si-ia a-se-qe ina xu-me--ma ma-da-t
m
64)
ha-bi-ni URU.DU6-NA4-a-a 4 MA.NA

K.BABBAR.MES 4 ME UDU.ME am-hur-
10 MA.NA K.BABBAR.MES IM MU 1.KM-SM
ma-da-tu ina UGU-S GAR -un TA KUR .-a-di-ni

at-tu-mus D.A.RAD ina (A).KAL- ina
GI.M. MES KU.DUH.I-E lu-
65) e-bir a-na KUR gar-ga-mi aq-ti-rib ma-da-tu

msa-an-ga-ra MAN KUR hat-te 20 GUN
66)
67)
K.BABBAR SA-Û-RI K.GI H AR K.GI GR.ME

K.GI 1 ME GUN
ZABAR 2 ME 50 GUN AN. BAR. MES tap-hi. MES
ZABAR ha-ri-a-te ZABAR nr-ma-ka-te
ZABAR
KL.NE ZABAR -nu-ut .GAL-W HI.A.MES
KI.L-&7
la-a sab-ta-at GIS. N.MES GI.TG.ME
GI. A.TI.ME GI.TG.ME GI.BANUR.MES
GI.TG.ME Z.ME GAR.RA.MES 2 ME
MUNUS.KAL. TUR. MES TG lu-bl-t bif-me

68)
TG.GADA.MES SK.ZA.GN.MI SK.ZA.GN.SAs

NA4.GI.NUI I.GAL Z.ME AM.SI.MES GI.GIGIR
eb-bi-tu GIS n-mat-ti K.GI tam-li-te simat MAN-//-5W am-hur-
GI.GIGIR.ME
69) pit-hal-lu L zu-ku URU gar-ga-mi i-si-ia

a-se-qe
MAN.MES-/?/ KUR.KUR Dij--nu a-
na UGU-/F ur-du-ni GR.U-A is-sab-tu li-t-nu as-bat

70) pa-na-tu-ia uk-ti-lu a-na KUR lab-na-na DUku TA KUR gar-ga-mi at-tu-mus ina bi-rit
KUR mun-zi-ga-ni KUR ha-mur-ga a-sa-bat
71) KUR a-ha-a-nu a-na GB-T -ta-ir4 a-na URU
ha-za-zi mlu-bar-na KUR pa-ti-na-a-a aq-tirib K.GI.MES TG lu-bl-ti
TUG.GADA.MES at-
218
URU MAN-ti- mlu-bar-na KUR pa-ti-na-a-a

73) aq-ti-rib TA pa-an GI.TUKUL.ME ez-zu-te
Mt-ia it-mu-ri ip-lh-ma a-na u-zu-ub
ZI.ME-524 GR.II-TF S-bat 20 GUN K.BABBAR 1
74)
GUN K.GI
1 ME GUN AN.NA.ME 1 ME GUN AN.BAR.ME 1
LIM GU4.ME 10 LIM UDU.ME 1 LIM TG lu-
palace the weight of which could not be determined, 10 female singers, his brother's daughter
with her rich dowry, a large female monkey,
(and) ducks. As for him, I showed him mercy. I
of the Patinu (and also) took hostages from him.
bl-ti bir-me TG.GADA.ME GI n-mat-ti

GI. TG.ME a
75)
76)
tam-li-te
uh-hu-za-te
GI.N.ME GI.TG.ME
GI.N.ME a tam-li-te GAR.RA.MES
GI.BANUR.MES Z.ME GI.TG.ME HI.A.ME
-nU-Ut .GAL-W HI.A.MES KI.L-5Y7
a-a sab-ta-at
10 MUNUS.NAR.ME
DUMU.MUNUS E- TA nu-du-ni-d
[ma]-a^-di
pa-gu-tu
GAL-/W MUEN.ME GAL.M1I 11W-da-
tu- am-hur- a-na -a-u re-mu-tu

77) -ku-na- GI.GIGIR.ME pit-hal-lu L zu-ku
KUR pa-ti-na-a-a i-si-ia a-se-qe li-ti-e-
as-bat ina u4-me--ma ma-da-tu mgu--si
78)
79)
80)
81)
82)
KUR ia-ha-na-a-a
K.BABBAR K.GI AN.NA.MES
[...] GU4.ME UDU.ME TG lu-bl-ti
bir-me
TG. GADA, MES at-ta-har TA URU ku-nu-lu-a

URU MAN-ti- mlu-bar-na
KUR pa-ti-na-a-a at-tu-mu D [a-ra-an]-tu ete-br ina UGU D a-ra-an-te GAR-an be-dk TA
UGU D a-ra-an-te at-tu-mu ina bi-rit
KUR ia-ra-qi KUR ia-ah-tu-ri a-sa-bat KUR
[...]-ku a-ta-bl-kt ina UGU D sa-an-gu-ra
GAR-an TA UGU D sa-an-gu-ra at-tu-mu ina
bi-rit
KUR sa-ra-ti-ni KUR ql-pa-a-ni a-sa-bat ina
UGU [...]-ba-me GAR-an a-na URU a-ri-bu-a
URU dan-nu-ti- mtu-bar-na KUR pa-ti-naa-a mj4-ba
URU a-na ra-me-ni-ia as-bat E.AM.ME U
E.IN.NU KUR lu-hu-ti e-si-di ina DUB-uk
ta-i-il-tu
ina .GAL-SW GAR-un L.ME-E KUR
-u-ra-a-a
83) ina b-bi -e-ib ki i ina URU a-ri-bu-a usba-ku-ni
URU.ME-/*/ KUR lu-hu-ti
iii 77b-84a) At that time 1 received tribute from

Gsu, a man of the land Iahnu, silver, gold, tin,
[iron, bronze], oxen, sheep, (and) linen garments
with multi-coloured trim. Moving on from the
city Kunulua, the royal city of Lubarna, the
Patinu, 1 crossed the River [ron]tes. I pitched
camp (and) spent the night by the Orontes. Moving on from the Orontes (iii 80) I took the way
between Mounts Iaraqu (and) Iahturu. I crossed
Mount [...]ku (and) pitched camp by the River
Sangurru. Moving on from the River Sangurru I
took the way between Mounts Saratinu (and)
Qa1pnu (and) pitched camp by [the River
...]bamesh. I entered the city Aribua, the fortified
city of Lubarna, the Patinu, (and) took the city in
hand for myself. I reaped the barley and straw of
the land Luhutu (and) stored (it) inside. I staged a
banquet in his palace, I settled people of Assyria
in (the city). While I was in the city Aribua I conquered the cities of the land Luhutu. I massacred
many of their (inhabitants), I razed, destroyed,
(and) burnt. I captured soldiers alive (and) impaled (them) on stakes before their cities.
KUR-/C/
GAZ.ME-u-nu HLA.ME--nu a-duk ap-pl

84)
aq-qur in a IZI.ME
-ru-up RIN.ME TLLA.ME ina u
-sab-bi-
ta ina GI zi-qi-bi ina pu-ut URU.DIDLI--nu

-za-qib ina u^-me-s-ma i-di KUR lab-na-na
lu as-bat a-na tam-di
85) GAL-te sa KUR a-mur-ri lu-ii e-li ina A.AB.BA
G AL-te GIS. TUKUL. MES-F lu -1U
iii 76 10 could instead be read u 4 and\ iii 76 MUSEN.MES

GAL.MES 'ducks' (lit. 'great birds'): var. has (in error) EN.MES
GAL.MES 'great lords*, iii 80 var. ia-â-tu-ri. iii 81 ql-pa-a-n:
Le Gac. King has ^dup^-pa-a-ni. Cf. Unger, RLA 2 p. 241a
iii 84b-92a) At that time I made my way to the

slopes of Mount Lebanon (and) went up to the
Great Sea of the land Amurru. I cleansed my
weapons in the Great Sea (and) made sacrifices to
the gods. I received tribute from the kings of the
sea coast, from the lands of the people of Tyre,
and Schramm, EAK pp. 26-27. iii 81 [...]-ba-me: J. Lewy,

Orientalia NS 21 (1952) p. 400 (cf. Schramm, EAK 2 p. 27),
suggests [A.AB].BA.MES 'the Lakes'.
86)
87)
88)
89)
90)
91)
UDU.SISKUR.MES a-na DINGIR.MES-/ lu as-bat

ma-da-tu M MAN.MES-ni si-di A.AB.BA
KUR sur-ra-a-a KUR si-du-na-a-a
KUR gubal-a-a KUR ma-hal-la-ta-a-a
KUR
ma-i-za-a-a
KUR ka-i-za-a-a
KUR a-mur-ra-a-a
URU arma-da
MURUB4 A.AB.BA K.BABBAR.MES K.GI.ME
AN.NA.MES ZABAR.ME TUL ZABAR TG lubl-ti bir-me TG.GADA, MES pa-gu-tu GAL-/W
pa-gU-tU TUR-tu
GI.ESI.ME GI.TG. ME Z.ME na-hi-ri bi~
nu-ut tam-di ma-da-ta--nu
am-hur GR.IW?
is-bu-t a-na KUR-E ha-ma-ni lu- e-li
GI. R.ME
G e-re-ni GI.UR.MN GI dp-ra-ni
GI.LI.ME lu- ak-kis UDU. SISKUR. MES a-na
DINGIR.ME-/'-/A lu as-bat a-su-me-tu
qurdi-ia DV-U ina lb-bi
-qup
GI.R.ME GI e-re-ni i-tu KUR ha-ma-ni
na-ku DU-ka a-na -r-ra a-na
t-ia-as-ma-ku
hi-da-te a-na d 3 0 u d uTO DINGIR.MES
K.ME
a-na KUR GI me-eh-ri. MES a-lik KUR GI meeh-rLuE, ana si-hir-ti-
ak-ud GI.R.ME
GI me-eh-ri.ME a-ki-si a-na URU ni-nu-a
92)
ub-la a-na ÎNANNA be-lat URU ni-na-a

GAAN-/7 NG.BA ina li-me MD UTU-nu-ri ina
q-bit a-ur EN GAL-> EN-ia ina ITI.GU4 UD
13.KM is-tu
93)
URU kal-hi at-tu-mus

D.HAL.HAL e-te-bir
a-na
KUR qi-pa-ni at-ta-rad ma-da-tu
M
L.EN.URU.ME-TE s KUR qi-pa-ni ina URU
hu-zi-ri-na
am-hur ki-i ina URU hu-zi-ri-na-ma
us-baku-ni ma-da-tu s mit-ti-î KUR zal-la-a-ia
m
gi-ri-da-di
KUR --a-ia K.BABBAR.MES
K.GI.MES GU4.ME UDU.MES am-hur ina W4me--nu GIS.R. MES GIS e-re-ni
K.BABBAR.MES K.GI.MES ma-da-tu sa mqata-zi-li
KUR ku-mu-ha-a-ia
am-hur is-tu URU hu-ziri-na at-tu-mus si-di D pu-rat-te
a-na e-le-ni
DIB-bat KUR ku-ub-bu
94)
95)
96)
97)
98)
at-ta-bal-kdt
a-na lib-bi URU.ME-W KUR
a-- KUR hab-hi s pa-an KUR hat-te atta-ra-da URU -ma-li-a URU hi-ra-a-nu
URU.MEs-ni KAL.ME-TE ina q-reb KUR ama-da-ni -ak-nu--ni
KUR-ud GAZ.MES-SM-
iii 89 var. omits -ia 'my' after qur-di 'valour', iii 90 dv-ka:
read (with Schramm, EAK 2 p. 29) ulika '(I) brought
(them)'. The remainder of the line is, I believe, a series of
indirect objects governed by this verb. Probably two shrines
are involved, Esarra (down to hi-da-te 'a joyful house') and
the shrine of Sn and ama. t-ia-as-ma-ku = btia simakki.
Sidon,
Byblos,
Mahallatu,
Maizu,
Kaizu,
Amurru, and the city Arvad which is (on an island) in the sea silver, gold, tin, bronze, a
bronze casserole, linen garments with multicoloured trim, a large female monkey, a small female monkey, ebony, boxwood, ivory of nahirus
(which are) sea creatures. They submitted to me. I
climbed up to Mount Amanus (and) cut down
logs of cedar, cypress, daprnu-juniper,
(and)
buru-)unipQr. I made sacrifices to my gods. I
made a memorial to my valour (and) erected (it)
therein, (iii 90) I transported cedar logs from
Mount Amanus and brought (them) to Esarra to
my temple the shrine, a joyful temple, to the temple of the gods Sn and ama, the holy gods. I
marched to the land of the me/zrw-trees. I conquered the entire land of the mehru-trees. I cut
down logs of mehru, brought (them) to Nineveh,
(and) presented (them) to Istar, mistress of
Nineveh, my mistress.
iii 92b-113a) In the eponymy of ama-nr, by

the command of Assur, the great lord, my lord,
on the thirteenth day of the month Iyyar, I
moved from Calah. After crossing the Tigris I
went down to the land Qipnu. I received in the
city Huzirina tribute from the city rulers of the
land Qipnu. While I was in the city Huzirina I
received tribute from Itti, the (A)zallu, (and from)
Giridadi, the Au, silver, (iii 95) gold, oxen,
(and) sheep. At that time I received cedar logs,
silver, (and) gold, the tribute of Qatazili, the
Kummuhu. Moving on from the city Huzirina I
made my way to the banks of the Euphrates
upstream. I crossed Mount Kubbu and went down
amongst the cities of the lands Aa (and) Habhu
which are before the land Hatti. I conquered the
cities Umaliu (and) Hirnu, fortified cities which
lie within Mount Amadnu. I massacred many of
their (inhabitants and) carried off innumerable
captives from them. 1 razed (and) destroyed the
cities. I burnt 150 cities in their environs, (iii 100)
Moving on from the city Karania I entered the
pass of Mount Amadnu (and) went down
This interpretation (prompted by a suggestion of Oppenheim,

ANET3 p. 276 n. 20) makes it unnecessary to regard the text
as corrupt - cf. Grayson, ARI 2 p. 143 n. 624 and CAD 1/2
(A) p. 328b. iii 92 var. UD 20.KM 'twentieth day',
iii 92-97 Cf. E. Gordon, JCS 21 (1967) p. 86; Fales, RSO 45
(1970) pp. 21-28. iii 98 var. URU a-da-ni 'the city Adnu' for
220
nu ma-â-tu a-duk al-la-su-nu a-na la me-ni

99) -lu-la URU.MES-W/ ap-pl a-qur 1 ME 50
URU.MES li-me-tu--nu ina IZI.ME -ruup i-tu URU ka-ra-ni-a
100) at-tu-mu ina n-re-bi KUR a-ma-da-ni etar-ba a-na lb-bi URU.ME-W KUR dir-ri-a
at-tar-da URU.ME-W bir-ti
101) KUR a-ma-da-ni KUR ar-qa-ni-a ina IZI.ME
GBiL-up KUR mal-la-a-nu ina q-reb KUR
ar-qa-ni-a a-na ra-ma-ni-ia as-bat TA KUR
mal-la-a-ni at-tum4-d
102) a-na URU.ME-Z/ KUR za-am-ba id-di
hu-li-ia ina IZI.ME GBIL D su--a e-te-bir ina
UGU D.IDIGNA GAR-an URU.MES-ni
103) GR an-na-te GR.II.ME am-ma-te
D.IDIGNA KUR ar-ka-a-na-a ana DU6
kar-me GUR-er KUR hab-hu gab-bu ip-lh-ma
GR.II.ME-TF
104) is-bat li-t--nu as-bat L.GAR-nu ra-mani-a a-na muh-hi--nu a-kun ina n-re-bi
KUR a-ma-da-ni a-na URU bar-za-ni-i-tu-un
at-ti-si-a
105) a-na URU dam-dam-mu-sa URU dan-nu-ti-
m
i-la-a-ni DUMU za-ma-ni aq-t-rib URU a-si-bi
qu-ra-di-ia ki-ma MUEN UGU--nu i-e-yi
106) 6 ME RIN.MES mun-dah-si--nu ina
GI.TUKUL.MES -am-qit SAG.DU.Mu--nu
-na-kis 4 MF RIN.ME TI.LA.MES ina U.ME
-sab-bi-ta
107) 3 LIM al-la-su-nu -e-si-a URU u-a-t a-na
ra-ma-ni-a as-bat L.RIN.ME TI.LA.ME
SAG. DU. ME a-na URU a-me-di URU MAN-ti-
lu -bi-il
108) a-si-tu sa SAG.DU.MES ina pu-ut K,GAL-SW lu
ar-sip L.RIN.ME TI.LA.ME ina ba-at-tu-baat-te URU-SII a-na GIS zi-qi-pi lu -za-qi-pi
109) me-et-hu-si ina K.GAL-SW -kun
GI. KIRIE. ME-5W a-kis i-tu URU a-me-di attun4- ina n-re-be KUR ka-ia-ri URU
al-la-ab-si-a
110) ina MAN.ME-ni AD.ME-a ma-am-ma kib-su
me-tu-qu ina lib-be la-a i-kun-na KU4-ub
a-na URU -da URU dan-nu-ii- mlab-tu-ri
DUMU tU-pU-S
111) aq-t-rib URU a-si-bi ina pl-i GI sa-pi-te
n-pe-e URU KUR-ud 1 LIM 4 ME [...]
RIN.ME [...]--nu in a GI.TUKUL.ME am-qit 1 ME 80 L.RIN.ME TI.ME
112) ina u -sa-bi-it 3 LIM al-la-su-nu -e-si-a
L.RIN.ME TI.LA.MES ina ba-tu-bat-te
[UR]U-5W a-na GI zi-qi-pi -za-qi-pi an-nu-te
amongst the cities of the Dirru. I burnt the cities

which are between Mounts Amadnu (and)
Arqania. I took in hand for myself the land
Ma11nu which is within Mount Arqania. Moving
on from the land Mal1nu I burnt the cities of the
land Zamba which were in the region of my path.
After crossing the River Sua I pitched camp by
the Tigris. I turned into ruin hills the cities which
lie on this bank and the other bank of the Tigris
at Mount Arkania. All of the land Habhu took
fright and submitted to me. I took hostages from
them (and) appointed a governor of my own over
them. I came out of the pass of Mount Amadnu
to the city Barzanitun. (iii 105) I approached the
city Damdammusa, the fortified city of I1nu, a
man of Bt-Zamni. I besieged the city. My warriors flew like bird(s) against them. I felled 600 of
their combat troops with the sword (and) cut off
their heads. I captured 400 of their soldiers alive.
I brought out 3,000 captives from them. I took
that city in hand for myself. I took the live soldiers (and) the heads to the city Amedu, his royal
city, (and) built a pile of heads before his gate. I
impaled the live soldiers on stakes around about
his city. 1 fought my way inside his gate (and) cut
down his orchards. Moving on from the city
Amedu (iii 110) 1 entered the pass of Mount
Kasiiari at the city Allabsia wherein none of the
kings my fathers had ever set foot, I approached
the city Udu, the fortified city of Labturu, son of
Tupusu. I besieged the city (and) conquered it by
means of tunnels, siege-towers, (and) batteringrams. I felled with the sword 1,400 [.,.] of their
[fighting] men. I captured 780 soldiers alive. I
brought out 3,000 captives from them. I impaled
the live soldiers on stakes around about his city. 1
gouged out the eyes of some (and) the remainder
I uprooted (and) brought to Assyria. I took the
city in hand [for myself].
KUR a-ma-da-ni 'Mount Amadnu\ iii 102 See Schramm,

EAK 2 p. 29. iii 109 al-la-ab-si-a: King has (in error) al-la-
ab-ra-a. See Schramm, EAK 2 p. 29. iii 111 var 5 ME 80

4
5 80\

113) IGI.II.ME--nu -na-pl si-ta-ti--nu
as-suha a-na KUR a-ur ub-la URU a-na [N]-/GT
as-bat ma-ur-VAB-A MAN GAL-U MAN dan-nu
MAN KUR a-Ur A TUKUL-MA
114) MAN GAL-? MAN DAN-NI MAN MAN KUR Ssur A 10-RIN.TH MAN GAE-e MAN dan-t
MAN MAN KUR a-ur-ma et-lu qar-du M
ina GI. tukul-ti as-sur EN-S nu.DU-ku-ma
ina
mal-ki.UES s kib-rat
4-ta
115) -nn- la-a i-u- LU. SIPA tab-ra-te la a-diru GIS. LAL e-du- gap- ma-hi-ra NU
TUK-W MAN mu--ak-ni- la-a
kan-u-te-
nap-har
116) ki-at UN.MES i-pe-lu NTA dan-nu
mu-kabbi-is o a-a-bi- da-i-i KUR.KUR KUR.MES
mu-pa-ri-ru
ki-is-ri mul-tar-hi sa ina
GIL tukul-ti DINGIR.ME GAL. ME
117) EN.ME-5W DV.nu-ku-ma
KUR.KUR.MES DJ-na su-su KUR-ud hur--ni du-su-nu
i-pe-luma bi-lat-su-nu
im-hu-ru sa-bit li-i-t d-kn
li-i-te
iii 113b-118a) Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong

king, king of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (n),
great king, strong king, king of the universe, king
of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also
of Assyria; valiant man who acts with the support
of Aur, his lord, and has no rival among the
princes of the four quarters, marvellous shepherd,
fearless in battle, mighty flood-tide which has no
opponent, the king who subdues those insubordinate to him, who rules all peoples, strong male,
who treads upon the necks of his foes, trampler
of the lands of enemies, the one who breaks up
the forces of the rebellious, he who acts with the
support of the great gods, his lords, and has conquered all lands, gained dominion over all the
highlands and received their tribute, capturer of
hostages, he who is victorious over all lands;
123) KUR g-za-ni TA e-ber-ta-an

D za-ba KI.TA
a-di u R u . D u 6 -ba-a-ri sa el-la-an KUR zaban(*) a-di xjRu.nxje-sd-za-ab-da-ni
u
URU.DU6-
iii 118b-126a) when Assur, the lord who called

my name (and) who makes my sovereignty
supreme, placed his merciless weapon in my
lordly arms. I felled with the sword the extensive
troops of the Lullumu in battle. With the help of
the gods ama and Adad, the gods my supporters, I thundered like the god Adad, the devastator, against the troops of the lands Nairi, Habhu,
the Subaru, and the land Nirbu. The king who
subdued (the territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the Tigris to Mount Lebanon and the
Great Sea, the entire land Laq, (and) the land
Suhu including the city Rapiqu: he conquered
from the source of the River Subnat to the interior of the land Nirbu. I brought within the boundaries of my land (the territory stretching) from
the passes of Mount Kirruru to the land Gi1znu,
from the opposite bank of the Lower Zab to the
city TLBri which is upstream from the land Zaban, to the cities T1-a-Zabdni and T1-aAbtni, the cities Hirimu, Harutu, (which are)
iii 116 da-i-i KUR. KUR KR.ME: a correction to da-i- kid-lat

KR.MF might be needed but both epithets are attested. See
Seux, ERAS p. 71. iii 120 var. ni-ri-be or ni-rib. King has (in
error?) ni-ir-be. iii 121 'to Mount Lebanon and the Great
Sea': the same text is found in the parallels A.0.101.2-3,
23-24, 30-32, 34-35, 38, 40, and 50-51. However, A.O.101.26
has instead 'to the city Carchemish of the land Hatti' and
A.0.101.53 has merely 'to the land Hatti'. Brinkman, PKB
pp. 393-94 and de Filippi, Assur 1/7 (1977) have cogently
argued that this proves an earlier date for A.0.101.26.
iii 121 A.0.101.3 KUR 'land' for URU 'city' before Rapiqu.
iii 122 'to the interior of the land Nirbu': the same text is
found in the parallels A.0.101.6, 31-35, 38, and 56. Instead 'to
the land Urartu' appears in A.0.101.2, 23, and 30. De Filippi.
Assur 1/7 (1977) has suggested that this Urartian campaign
was late in the reign and therefore the inscriptions with this
var. must be late. A further var. is found in A.0.101.3 and 28
which have instead 'to the source of the Tigris'. A.0.101.50 has
'to the passes of Mount Kirruru*. A.O.101.40 has 'to the
extensive land Urumu'. A.O.101.52 has 'to [the land ubr]u
(and) the interior of the land Nirbu' while A.O.101.53 has
merely 'to the land ubru'. iii 123-24 'to the cities T1-aZabdni and T1-a-Abtni': some parallel texts (A.O.101.3 and
23) have instead 'from the city T1-a-Abtni to the city T1-a-
118) UGU B-i-na KUR.KUR.ME e-nu-ma

a-ur
EN na-bu-t MU-ia mu-ar-bu-
uAN-ti-a
GIS. TUKUL-5W la pa-da-a a-na i-da-at EN-ti-a
119) lu- it-muh RIN.HI.A.ME-TF KUR lu-ul-lume-e DAGAL.MES ina q-reb tam-ha-ri
ina
GI.TUKUL.ME lu -am-qit ina re-su-te sa
d
-ma
120) U DIKUR DINGIR.ME tik-li-a RIN.HI. A.ME
KUR.KUR na-i-ri KUR hab-hi KUR su-ba-re-e
u
KUR ni-ri-bi GIM DIKUR ra-hi-si
VGU--nu
-gu-um
121) MAN TA e-ber-ta-an
D.IDIGNA a-di KUR
lab-na-na u A.AB.BA GAL-te KUR la-qe-e ana
si-hr-ti- KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi
122) ana GIR.II. MES-SU -k-ni- TA SAG e-ni D
su-ub-na-at
a-di KUR ni-rib bi-ta-ni s u - s u
KUR-ud TA KUR n-re-bi KUR kir-ru-ri
a-di
222
124) -ab-ta-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-tu KUR

bi-ra-a-te KUR kar-du-ni- ana mi-is-ri
KUR-ia it-ter TA KUR n-re-bi sa URU ba-bi-te
125) a-di KUR has-mar
a-na UN.MES KUR-/
am-nu
ina KUR. KUR. MEs-te a-pe-lu-si-na-ni

LU. GAR. ME-te-ia al-ta-kan ur-du-t -pu-
ku-dr-ru
126) e-me-su-nu-ti ma-ur-I?AB-A NUN na-a-du palih DINGIR.MES GAL.MES -sm-gal-lu
ek-du
ka-sid URU.URU U hur--ni pat gim-ri--nu

MAN EN.ME
mu-la-it
127) ek-su-ti tiz-qa-ru la pa-dumu-rib a-nun-te

MAN D mal-ki. MES MAN MAN.ME-AZ/ --pU
na-a^-du ni-bit nin-urta qar-di ka-u-u
128) DINGIR.ME GAL.ME MAN M ina GLS.tukul-t
a-ur u nin-urta DINGIR.MES tik-li- me-ri nu.nu-ku-ma KUR.ME-^ ap-su-te u malki.MES KR.ME-JW kul-lat
129) KUR.KUR.ME-5W-WW ana VR.U-S -k-ni-
L.KR.ME-Y/ a-ur AN.TA U KI.TA i-ta-na-
nu-ma GUN U ma-da-tu UGU--nu -ki-nu

m
a-ur-PAB-A
130) MAN dan-nu ni-bit D30 me-gir da-nim na-mad

d
iKUR ka-ka
DINGIR.ME GIS.TUKUL la pa-
dumu--am-qit KUR KR.ME-5W ana-ku

MAN le->u- qab-U
131) -gi URU.URU u hur--ni a--red tuq-mate MAN kib-rat 4-ta mu-n-er a-a-bi-
KUR.KUR.ME dan-na-te hur--ni ek-[su]-te
MAN.ME-ni ek-du-te la pa-du-te TA si-it
132) am-i a-di e-reb am-i ana GR.II.ME-a k-ni- pa-a 1 -en ---kn URU kal-hu
mah-ra ml-ma-nu-SAG MAN KUR a-ur
NUN a-lik pa-ni-a D-W
133) URU u- e-na-ah-ma is-lal ana DU6 U kar-me
GUR URU - ana e--te ab-ni UN.MES kiit-ti u-ia KUR.KUR.ME
a-pe-lu-i-na-ni
KUR su-hi KUR la-qe-e

134) ana si-hr-ti- URU sir-qu n-ber-ti
D.A.RAD KUR za-mu-a ana pat gim-risa
-a-di-ni u KUR hat-te u mli-bur-na KUR
pa-ti-na-a-a al-qa-a ina --as-bit
135) D-tu TA D za-ba AN.TA ah-ra-a D pa-tiH.GL MU-57 ab-bi GI.KIRI6.ME ina li-metu- az-qup GURUN.ME GETIN.ME a-na assur EN-a U .KUR.MES KUR-FF BAL
Zabdni'. In some exs. of A.0.101.2 the two place-names are

transposed, iii 124 URU habite 'the city Babitu': three parallel
texts (A.0.101.2-3 and 23) have instead KUR babite 'Mount
Babitu'. iii 125-26 urdti uppu kudurru messun1i 'They
entered servitude (and) I imposed upon them corve': the same
text is found in the parallels A.0.101.3, 26, and cf. 56,
fortresses of Kardunia. I accounted (the people)

from the pass of the city Babitu to Mount
Haimar as people of my land. In the lands over
which I gained dominion I always appointed my
governors. They entered (lit. 'performed') servitude (and) I imposed upon them corve.
iii 126b-132a) Ashurnasirpal,
attentive
prince,
of lords, encircler of the obstinate, lofty (and)
merciless, he who stirs up strife, king of all
princes, king of kings, attentive purification
priest, designate of the warrior god Ninurta, destructive weapon of the great gods, the king who
has always acted justly with the support of Aur
and the god Ninurta, the gods who help him, and
subdued under him the fortified mountains and
the kings hostile to him, all their lands, (he who)
has always contested with the enemies of Aur
above and below and imposed upon them tribute
and tax; Ashurnasirpal, (iii 130) strong king,
designate of the god Sn, favourite of the god
Anu, loved one of the god Adad (who is) almighty among the gods, the merciless weapon
which lays low lands hostile to him, I, the king,
capable in battle, vanquisher of cities and highlands, foremost in battle, king of the four quarters, the one who defeats his enemies, I have subdued (and) brought under one authority fortified
lands, dangerous highlands, (and) merciless fierce
kings from east to west.
iii 132b-136) The ancient city Calah which
Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, a prince who preceded me, had built this city had become dilapidated; it lay dormant (and) had turned into ruin
hills. I rebuilt this city. I took people which I had
conquered from the lands over which I had
gained dominion, from the land Suhu, (from) the
entire land Laq, (from) the city Sirqu which is at
the crossing of the Euphrates, (from) the entire
land of Zamua, from Bt-Adini and the Hatti,
and from Lubarna (Liburna), the Patinu. I settled
(them) therein. I dug out a canal from the Upper
Zab (and) called it Patti-hegalli. I planted orchards in its environs. I offered fruit (and) wine to
Aur, my lord, and the temples of my land. I
cleared away the old ruin hill (and) dug down to
However, kudurru messunti is omitted in the parallels

A.0.101.2, 23, and 53. uppu is NA for uppi. Cf. Grayson,
ARI 2 p. 146 n. 637. iii 135 pa-ti-H.GAL 'Canal of
Abundance': the same form of the name appears in A.0.101.30
line 37 and A.0.101.33 line 25'. But on two exs. of A.0.101.26
line 53 the name is given as pa-ti-H.NVN, a synonymous

water level; I sank (the foundation pit) down to a
depth of 120 layers of brick. I built its wall. I
built (and) completed it from top to bottom.
136) DU6 la-be-ru lu- -na-kir7 a-di UGU A.MES lu

--p 1 ME 20 ik-pi a-na mu-pa-li -ta-bi
BD-SW ar-sip TA URU4-5W a-di
gaba-dib-bi-
ar-sip -ak-lil
2
This text is inscribed on a large stone slab and several stone winged
lion and bull colossi from AshurnasirpaPs North West Palace at
Calah. The complete text is found on the large slab (exemplar 1) while
the inscriptions on the other objects stop earlier, presumably being
continued on adjacent objects (which have not been recovered) as is
common with the various annals series of Ashurnasirpal (see the introduction to A.0.101.1). The text itself is a combination of display and
annalistic material similar to A,0.101.1.
In detail, the text begins with a passage (lines 1-2la) parallel to the
introduction to the Standard Inscription (A.0.101.23 lines l-14a)
which has epithets of the king and a general geographical description
of his conquests. There follows a passage (lines 21b-51) with more epithets; a narrative of a campaign to the Mediterranean; a description
of the gathering and hunting of animals; and a succinct narrative of
the Carchemish campaign (cf. A.0.101.1 iii 56-76). The text concludes
(lines 52-62) with a description of the building of Calah and its palace
which is parallel to the conclusion to the Standard Inscription
(A.0.101.23 lines 14b-22).
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Excavation/
Registration
number
Old BM
number
Object
Lines
preserved
cpn
1
2
3
Mosul no. 1
BM 1 18873
MM A 32.143.2
N D 1122
50 12 28,1
77
Stone slab
Winged lion facing right
Winged lion facing left
1-62
1-41 (ends with
1-40 (ends with
c
c
p
M M A 32.143.1
Winged bull facing right
BM
BM
BM
See
50-12-28,2
76
841
809
Winged bull facing left

Winged lion facing right
Winged lion facing left
6
7
8
118872
1J 8801
118802
commentary
putte)
iqbni)
1-35 (ends with ulidi)
1-31 (ends with amhurumt)
1-26 (ends with labnna)
1-26 (ends with angtia)
1-62
c
c
c
n
COMMENTARY
As noted in the introduction most exs. end earlier than
ex. 1 (see the catalogue for details) and since it is assumed that the text continued on adjacent objects we
have indicated the missing lines in the scores with ' \
Curiously, ex. 2 omits lines 23-25a (including -ma-Hru-ni) and this passage might also have been on an adjacent object (cf. King, AKA p. 197 n. 6). Ex. 8 is
known only from Le Gac, who based his publication on
expression, H. GAL = hegallu and H. NUN = nuhu (see

Borger, Zeichenliste no. 143); the logograms are synonymous
but do not represent the same word (so Parpola, Toponyms
p. 276 and Postgate, Governor's Palace p. 239). Yet another
form appears in A.0.101.17 v 6: ba-be-lat-H.GL 'Bearer of
Abundance'. Thus it is clear that the canal had no precise

name. Cf. Grayson, ARI 2 p. 147 n. 639. iii 135 A.0.101.17
and 26 add D.A.BI after GURUN.MES 'fruit of every kind',
iii 136 A.O. 101.26 T built its wall anew'.
224
several squeezes of various exs. Unfortunately the

squeezes have since been destroyed (see the introduction
to A.0.101.1) and for the passages which Le Gac did
not copy we can only put
in the scores. Besides the
eight exs. used in our edition there are two exs. in the
Iraq Museum (IM 26472 and 26473) which we have had
no opportunity to collate. The partial copy of the text

published by Layard includes vars., some of which were
subsequently cited by King. Since the source of these
vars. is uncertain and they are minor vars., they have
not been cited in this edition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1851 Layard, ICC pis. 43-45 (ex. 1 lines 21-55, copy)
1902 King, AKA pp. 189-205 (exs. 1-2, 5-7, copy, edition)
1907 Le Gac, Asn. pp. xvm and 172-79 (ex. 8, copy)
1914 Budge, Sculptures pis. iv-v (exs. 5-6, photo)
1922 BM Guide p. 42 and pl. vu (exs. 6-7, photo, study)
1936 Gadd, Stones pp. 124-27 and 234 (exs. 2-7, study)
1946 Porada and Hare, Great King p. 8 (ex. 4, partial photo)
1952 Wiseman, Iraq 14 p. 66 (ex. 1, study)
1968 Reade, Iraq 30 p. 69 n. 2 and pl. xvmc (cf. Schramm)

(provenance)
1973 Postgate, Governor's Palace pp. 240-43 (ex. 1, transliteration)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 2 (exs. 1-8, translation)
1976 Palev, Ashur-nasir-pal p. 72 (ex. 4, provenance)
1987 Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 49 (exs. 4-5,
provenance)
TEXT
1)
.GAL ma-ur-PAB-A ID a-ur ni-it DBAD u

D
MAS na-ra-am a-nim da-gan ka-u-u
na-bu- uv-ia mu-ar-bu- MAN-t-ia

GI.TUKUL- la pa-da-a a-na i-da-at EN-ti-A
lu- it-muh RIN.HI.A.ME KUR lu-ul-lu-me-e
DAGAL.ME ina q-reb tam-ha-ri ina
1-7a) (Property of) the palace of Ashurnasirpal,

vice-regent of Aur, chosen of the gods Enlil and
Ninurta, beloved of the gods Anu and Dagan,
destructive weapon of the great gods, strong king,
Tukultl-Ninurta (n), great king, strong king, king
of the universe, king of Assyria, son of Adadnrr (II) (who was) also king of the universe
(and) king of Assyria; valiant man who acts with
the support of Aur, his lord, and has no rival
those insubordinate to him, he who rules all peoples, strong male who treads upon (5) the necks
of his foes, trampler of all enemies, he who
breaks up the forces of the rebellious, the king
who acts with the support of the great gods, his
lords, and has conquered all lands, gained dominion over all the highlands and received their tribute, capturer of hostages, he who is victorious
over all countries:
7b-17a) When Assur, the lord who called me by
name (and) made my sovereignty supreme, placed
his merciless weapon in my lordly arms, I felled
with the sword the extensive troops of the
Lullumu in battle. (10) With the help of the gods
ama and Adad, the gods my supporters, I thundered like the god Adad, the devastator, against
1.5 ni-bii 'designate of for ni sit 'chosen o f . 2.3, 6 TUKULMAS for oiSKiu^nin-urta. 2.2, 7 -dMA for -nin-urta.
2.2-3, 7 after Adad-narr insert MAN GAL-^ MAN dan-ni 'great

king, strong king'. 9.2 omits KUR 'land of before lullum.
DINGIR.ME GAL.MES MAN dTl-HU MAN MAN
KUR a-ur
2)
DUMU GISKIM- nin-urta(*) MAN GAL-? MAN
dan-ni MAN MAN KUR a-ur DUMU 10RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR S-Ur-ma 6t-lu
qar-du
3)
D ina GIL.tukul-ti a-ur EN-
DU. DU-ku-ma
Ina mal-ki.ME kib-rut 4-ta -nin- la-a
TUK-Z L.SIPA tab-ra-te
4)
5)
la a-di-ru
GI.LAL e-
du- gap-
ma-hi-ra la-a TUK-W MAN mu-ak-ni la
kan-u-te- nap-har ki-at UN. MES i-pe-lu
NTA dan-nu mu-kab-bi-is
G a-a-bi- da-a-i kul-lat KR.ME mu-pari-ru ki-is-ri mul-tar-hi MAN ina GIsJukul-t
DINGIR.ME
6)
GAL.ME EN.ME-SW DU.DU-ku-ma
KUR.KUR.MES uv-i-na su-su KUR-ud hur-ni Dv-u-nu i-pe-lu-ma

1)
bi-lat-su-nu im-hu-ru sa-bit li-i-t -kn li-i-te

UGU Dv-i-na KUR.KUR.ME e-nu-ma a-ur
EN
8)
9)
2.1, 4 - 5
- u n a : text -UR. 2 . 2 - 3
ISKUR-RIN.TAH.

GIS. TUKUL. MES lu -am-qit
10) ina re-su-te -ma u DIKUR DINGIR.MES
tik-li-ia RIN.HI. A. MES KUR. KUR na-i-ri KUR
hab-hi KUR u-ba-re-e
11) u KUR ni-rib GIM DIKUR ra-hi-si UGV--nu
-gu-um MAN TA e-ber-tan D.IDIGNA a-di
KUR lab-na-na
12) u A.AB.BA GAL-te KUR la-qe-e ana si-hr-ti-
KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi ana GR.II-SU k-ni-
13) TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at a-di KUR -ra-ar-ti
u-sw KVR-ud TA KUR n-reb KUR kr-ru-ri
a-di KUR gl-za-ni
14) TA e-ber-tan D za-ba KI.TA a-di URU.DU6-baa-ri el-la-an KUR za-ban TA URU.DU6-S<7za-ab'da-ni
15) u URU.DVs-sd-ab-ta-a-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU
ha-ru-tu KUR bi-ra-a-te KUR kar-du-ni-
ana mi-is-ri KUR-ia -te-ri
16) TA KUR n-er-bi KUR ba-bi-te a-di KUR
has-mar a-na UN.MES KUR-/A am-nu ina
KUR. KUR.MES a-pe-lu-si-na-ni L.GAR-WWte-ia al-ta-kan
17) ur-du-ti -pu-us ma-ur-PAB-A NUN-M na-a-du
pa-lih DINGIR.MES GAL.MES -m-gal-lu ek-du
ka-id URU.DIDLI u hur--ni
18) pat gim-ri--nu MAN EN.ME-2 mu-la-it eksu-te a-pi-ir -lum-ma-te la-di-ru GI.LAL ur-nu la pa-du-
19) mu-rib a-nun-te MAN ta-na-da-a-te L.SIPA
sa-lu-ul UB.ME MAN ina qi-bit KA-W Uhar-ma-tu KUR.ME-^
20) u A.AB.BA.MES s ina qi-it-ru-ub EN-ti-
MAN.ME-W ek-du-te la pa-du-te TA si-it
am-i a-di
21) e-reb am-i pa-a 1 -en ---kn e-ta-tiq
KUR.ME-E dan-nu-te a-tam-mar du-rug ap-qi Dt-i-na UB.ME
22) --az-ni-ni nab-li mul-mul-li UGU malki.ME nap-har DU URU.DIDLI si-qir KA-ia
e-a-nam-da-ru
23) -sa-pu- EN-ti ana-ku ma-ur-PAB-A er-u
mu-du- ha-si-su pe-et uz-ni n-me-qi d-a
MAN zu. AB i-ma-ni a-na a-i
24) DINGIR.MES GAL.MES AN-E KI-//RA ina kee-ni k--nu t-du-ni-ma MAN-ti EN-ti ki-uti ina KA--nu K -sa-a KUR.KUR.ME
the troops of the lands Nairi, Habhu, the Subaru,

and the land Nirbu. The king who subdued (the
territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the
Tigris to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea, the
entire land Laq, (and) the land Suhu including
the city Rapiqu; he conquered from the source of
the River Subnat to the land Urartu. I brought
within the boundaries of my land (the territory
stretching) from the passes of Mount Kirruru to
the land Gilznu, from the opposite bank of the
Lower Zab to the city T1-Bri which is upstream
from the land Zaban, from the city T1-aZabdni (15) and the city Tl1-a-Abtni, the cities
Hirimu, Harutu, (which are) fortresses of Kardunia. I accounted (the people) from the passes
of Mount Babitu to Mount Hasmar as people of
my land. In the lands over which I gained dominion 1 always appointed my governors. They entered (lit. 'performed') servitude.
12.2 KUR 'land' for URU 'city' before rapiqi. 13.2-3 gil-za-ani. 14.2-3, 6-7 -za-ab-da-a-ni. 14-15.2-3, 6-7 transpose the
'city' before hirimu. 16.6-7 n-reb. 23-25a (ending with

umaîrni) omitted by ex. 2 and were probably on a
neighbouring slab. See King, AKA p. 197 n. 6.
first GN in line 15 (T1-a-Abtni) and the last GN in line 14

(T-a-Zabdni). 15.6-7 a-di for u. 15.2 KUR land' for URU
17b-21a) Ashurnasirpal, attentive prince, worshipper of the great gods, ferocious dragon, conqueror of cities and the entire highlands, king of
lords, encircler of the obstinate, crowned with
splendour, fearless in battle, merciless hero, he
who stirs up strife, praiseworthy king, shepherd,
protection of the (four) quarters, the king whose
command disintegrates mountains and seas, the
one who by his lordly conflict has brought under
one authority ferocious (and) merciless kings from
east to west:
21b-23a) I have traversed mighty mountains; I
have seen remote (and) rugged regions throughout
all the (four) quarters; I have caused flaming arrows to rain down upon the princes of all cities
(so that) they ever revere my command (and) pray
to my lordship;
23b-25a) I, Ashurnasirpal, sage, expert, intelligent
one, open to counsel (and) wisdom which the god
Ea, king of the aps, destined for me; the great
gods of heaven and underworld chose me, in their
steadfast hearts, and my sovereignty, dominion,
(and) power came forth by their holy command;
they sternly commanded me to rule, subdue, and
direct the lands and mighty highlands:
226
25) u hur--n dan-nu-te ana pe-e-i uk-nu-e

-pa-ri a-gi-i -ma-H-ru-ni ina q-bit a-ur
EN GAL-F? EN-a
26)
u dnin-urta(*)
GA SANGA-//-/ a-na KUR lab-
na-na lu- a-lik ana A.AB.BA GAL-te lu- e-li

ina A.AB.BA GAL-te
27)
GI. TUKUL. ME-/? lu U-ll UDU.SISKUR.ME a-
na DINGIR. ME-ni-ia lu as-bat ina U4-me-ma ma-da-t MAN.ME-W i-di tam-di

28) KUR sur-ra-a-ia KUR si-du-na-a-ia KUR amur-ra-a-a KUR gu-bal-a-ia KUR ma-hal-lata-a-a KUR ka-i-za-a-a
29) KUR ma-i-za-a-a u URU ar-ma-da M MURUB4
30)
tam-d K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME AN.NA.ME

ZABAR.ME TUL.ME ZABAR
TG lu-bl-ti bir-me TG.GADA.ME Z.ME
na-hi-ri bi-nu-ut tam-di am-hur na u4-me~

u-ma pa-ga-a-te GAL.ME
31) pa-ga-a-te.MES TUR.ME it-ti ma-da-ti--nu
am-hur-u-nu a-na KVR-ia a-ur lu ub-la-ina i-na URU kal-hi
32) mar-i-si-na ana ma-a?-dis --U-di UN. MES
KUR-/V? m-i-na -ab-ri ina ti-ri-si sv-ia
33)
u-u-mur sk-ia 15 UR.MAH.MES KAL.MES TA

KUR.ME-E GI.TIR.MES ina su-te DIS-bai 50
mu-ra-ni
34) UR.MAH.MES lu --a ina URU kal-hi
.GAL.MES KUR-/A ina e-sir lu
ad-di--nu
mu-ra-ni-u-nu
35) a-na ma-a^-di --li-di UR mi-in-di-na-
TLLA.ME ina U.ME -sab-bi-ta su-gul-lat
GU4.AM.ME
36)
AM.SI.ME UR.MAH.MES G.NUI I .MUEN.ME
25b-31a) By the command of Assur, the great

lord, my lord, and the god Ninurta who loves my
priesthood, I marched to Mount Lebanon. I went
up to the Great Sea. cleansed my weapons in the
Great Sea (and) made sacrifices to my gods. At
that time I received tribute from the kings of the
sea-coast, from the lands of the people of Tyre,
Sidon, Amurru, By bios, Mahallatu, Kaizu,
Maizu, and the city Arvad which is (on an island)
in the sea silver, gold, tin, bronze, bronze
casseroles, linen garments with multi-coloured
trim, ivory of nhirus (which are) sea creatures.
At that time I received from them with their tribute, large female monkeys (and) small female
monkeys.
31b-38a) I brought them (the monkeys) to my

land Aur. I bred herds of them in great
numbers in Calah (and) displayed (them) to all
the people of my land. With my outstretched
hand and my fierce heart I captured 15 strong
lions from the mountains and forests. I took
away 50 lion cubs. I herded them into Calah and
the palaces of my land into cages. (35) I bred
their cubs in great numbers. I captured live tigers
(mindinas). I formed herds of wild bulls,
elephants, lions, ostriches, male monkeys, female
monkeys, wild asses, deer, aialu-deer, female
bears, panthers, senkurru, beasts of mountain
(and) plain, all of them in my city Calah, I
displayed (them) to all the people of my land.
pa-ge-e pa-ga-a-te ANE.EDIN.NA.ME

MA.D.ME DRA.MA.ME
a-Sa-a-te.MES
37) nhim-ri.UE se-en-kur-ri.UES -ma-am EDIN
38)
KUR-<? D i j - - n u ina URU-/T URU kal-hi lu-

ak-sur UN.ME
KUR-/TF Dj--nu -ab-ri NUN-W EGIR-W ina
MAN.ME-A?/ DUMU.ME-/A a a-ur
i-na-bu-u
lu- UN.ME
39) EGIR. ME lu- L um-ma-an MAN lu-

L.GAL-W lu- L -$AG la ta-ta-pl ina pa-an
a-ur zi i-i TI
40) nin-urta(*) diGi.Du a SANGA-ti GA-mu
M.ANE EDIN -at-li-mu-ni e-pe ba-û-ri
iq-bu-ni
41) 30 AM.SI.ME ina ub-ti a-duk 2 ME 57
GU4.AM.ME KAL.ME ina GI.GIGIR.ME-/V? pa-
tu-te ina qi-it-ru-ub

25 as a conjunction also appears in line 33. 26.5 dMA for
nin-urta. 26.1-4, 6-7 -urta: text -UR. 37 Layard, and cf. Le
Gac (ex. 8), give a var. which inserts tu-e-ni.ME after
senkurrl. 39 ZA i-t TI = napitu libluv. see Schramm, EAK
38b-39) O later prince among the kings my sons

whom Assur calls, or later people, or vicechancellor, or noble, or eunuch you must not
despise (these animals). Before Assur may these
creature(s) live!
4 0 - 4 2 ) The gods Ninurta and Nergal, who love
my priesthood, gave to me the wild beasts (and)

commanded me to hunt. I killed 30 elephants
from an ambush pit. I slew 257 strong wild bulls
from my ... chariots with my lordly assault with
swords. I killed 370 strong lions like caged birds
2 p. 36. 40.1-3, 8 -urta: text -UR. 41a See Grayson, Studies
Oppenheim p. 93 and TSTS 1 p. 4. 41-42 ina qitrub BS-ti-ia:
also in A.O. 101.30 line 88 and cf. A.0.101.23 line 14. Parallel
passages have instead ina qitrub mitltia (A.0.87.1 vi 78) but

42) EN-ti-ia ina GIS.TUKUL.MES -am-qit 3 ME 70
UR.MAH.MES KAL.MES GIM MUSEN.MES
with the spear.
qu-up-pi
ina GIS pu-a-hi a-duk

43)
ina ITI.GU4 UD 8.KM TA URU kal-hi
at-tu-mus
D.HAL.HAL e-te-bir a-na URU gar-ga-mis sa

KUR hat-te
44)
45)
46)
47)
48)
49)
aq-ti-rib
NTG.GA .GAL-SW HI.A.ME sa KI.L-SW
NU sab-ta-at am-hur- MAN.ME-W sa

KUR. KUR. MES DV-l-nU
ana muh-hi-ia T>u-ku-ni GR.U-A is-sab-tu liti--nu as-bat pa-na-tu-ia uk-ti-iu a-na KUR
lab-na-na DU-ku
TA URU gar-ga-mi at-tu-mu ina bi-rit KUR
mun-zi-ga-ni KUR ha-mur-ga a-sa-bat KUR aha-nu a-na GB-/A -ta-r
a-na URU ha-za-zi sa mlu-bar-na KUR pa-tina-a-a aq-ti-rib K.BABBAR K.GI TG lu-blti TUG. GADA.MES at-ta-har e-te-tiq D ap-re-e
e-te-br a-sa-kan be-dk TA UGU D ap-re-e
at-tu-mu a-na URU ku-nu-lu-a URU MAN-Z-SW
a mlu-bar-na KUR pa-ti-na-a-a aq-ti-rib
TA IGI GIS.TUKUL.ME-TF ez-zu-te u-ia it-muri ip-lh-ma a-na u-zu-ub ZI.ME-SW
GR.II.ME-A is-bat
2 0 GUN K.BABBAR.MES 1
GUN KU.GL.MES 1 ME GUN AN.NA.MES

50)
1 ME GUN AN.BAR.MES 1 LIM GU4.ME 10 LIM
UDU.ME 1 LIM TG lu-Ml- bir-me

TG. GADA.ME G.n-mat-ti
GI.TG. MES a
tam-li-te uh-hu-za-te
51)
GI.N.ME GI.TG.ME GI.N.ME Z.ME 0

tam-li-te
52)
53)
54)
55)
56)
GAR.RA.MES -nu-t
.GAL-S
HI. A. MES sa KI.L-ST NU sab-ta-at am-hur-

URU kal-hu mah-ra-a mdl-ma-nu-s AG MAN
KUR a-ur NUN a-lik pa-ni-ia D-U URU u-
e-na-ah-ma is-lal
URU su- ana e--te ab-ni UN.MES ki-it-ti
SU-ia KUR.KUR.MES a-pe-lu-i-na-ni
KUR su-hi
KUR la-qe-e ana si-hr-ti- URU sir-qu nber-ti D pu-rat-te KUR za-mu-a ana pat gimri-
KUR t-a-di-ni u KUR hat-te u sa mlu-bar-na
KUR pa-ti-na-a-a al-qa-a ina lb-bi --as-bit
DU6 la-be-ru
-na-kir-i a-di UGU A.MES lu --pil 1 ME 20
tik-pi ina mu-pa-li lu -ta-bi .GAL
GI.EREN.NA
57)
.GAL GI.UR.MN .GAL GI dp-ra-n

GI.TG.ME .GAL GIS mes-kan-ni
.GAL
.GAL GIS
bu-ut-ni u GIS tar-pi-H

58) a-na su-bat MAN-//-ia ana mul-ta-H-it EN-ti-a
there is no reason to regard either as an error.
43-45) On the eighth day of the month Iyyar I

moved from Calah. After c r o s s i n g the T i g r i s I approached the city Carchemish of the land Hatti. I
received from it much of its palace property, the
weight of which could not be determined. All the
kings of the lands came (and) submitted to me. I
took from them hostages (and) they were kept in
my presence on the march to Mount Lebanon (lit.
'(and) they marched to Mount Lebanon').
46-51) Moving on from the city Carchemish I
took the way between Mounts Munzignu (and)
Hamurga. Leaving Mount Ahnu on my left I approached the city Hazazu which (was ruled by)
Lubarna, the Patinu. I received silver, gold, (and)
linen garments. Passing on I crossed the River
Apr, pitched camp, (and) spent the night. Moving on from the River Apr I approached the city
Kunulua, the royal city of Lubarna, the Patinu.
He took fright in the face of my raging weapons
(and) fierce battle and submitted to me to save his
life. I received as his tribute 20 talents of silver,
one talent of gold, 100 talents of tin, (50) 100
talents of iron, 1,000 oxen, 10,000 sheep, 1,000
linen garments with multi-coloured trim, decorated couches of boxwood with inlay, beds of
boxwood, decorated ivory beds with inlay, many
ornaments from his palace the weight of which
could not be determined.
52-62) The ancient city Calah which Shalmaneser,
king of Assyria, a prince who preceded me, had
built this city had become dilapidated; it lay
dormant. I rebuilt this city. I took people which I
had conquered from the lands over which I had
gained dominion, from the land Suhu, (from) the
entire land of Laq, (from) the city Sirqu which is
at the crossing of the Euphrates, (from) the entire
land of Zamua, (55) (from) Blt-Adini and the
land Hatti, and from Lubarna, the Patinu. I settled (them) therein. I cleared away the old ruin
hill (and) dug down to water level. 1 sank (the
foundation pit) down to a depth of 120 layers of
brick. I founded therein a palace of cedar,
cypress, daprnu-juniper,
boxwood, meskannuwood, terebinth, and tamarisk as my royal
residence (and) for my lordly leisure for eternity.
I made (replicas of) beasts of mountains and seas
in white limestone and partu-alabaster
(and)
228

da-ra-a-te na ib-bi ad-di -ma-am
stationed (them) at its doors. I decorated it in a

splendid fashion; I surrounded it with knobbed
nails of bronze. I hung doors of cedar, cypress,
ddprnu-)uniper,
(and) meskdnnu-wood
in its
doorways. I took in great quantities and put
therein silver, gold, tin, bronze, booty from the
lands over which I gained dominion.
KUR.ME-E
59)
U A.AB.BA.ME NA 4 PE-U BABBAR-E U NA 4
pa-ru-te Dti-u ina K.ME-5? -e-zi-iz -siim-i -ar-rih-i

60) si-kat kar-ri ZABAR a1-rne-i GI.IG.ME GI e-
re-ni GI.UR.MN GI dp-ra-ni GI mes-kan-ni

ina K.ME-5? -re-ii
61)
K.BABBAR.MES KU.GL.MES AN.NA.MES
ZABAR. MES k--tl SU -id KUR. KUR. MES
d-pe-lu-i-nd-ni
62) a-id ma-a^-di-i al-qa-a ina b-bi -kn
3
This dedicatory text is inscribed on a huge stone slab (BM 124570 =
old no. 27), sculptured with the figure of a genius in relief, from one
of the entrances to the Ninurta temple at Calah. It begins with a dedication to Ninurta (lines 1-17a) followed by the king's name and titles
(lines 17b-29a) and concludes with a brief description of his military
achievements (lines 29b-46). All of the text has duplicates and parallels in other texts of Ashurnasirpal II (see the commentary to
A.0.101.1 for details). This inscription may in fact be the first in an
annals series, concerning which see the introduction to A.0.101.1.
COMMENTARY
The sculptured
slab o n which this text is engraved was

a d j a c e n t to o t h e r such slabs (see A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 5 - 7 ) a d o r n i n g
an e n t r a n c e t o the t e m p l e of N i n u r t a , a n d all of these
slabs are n o w displayed side by side in t h e British
M u s e u m . T h e r e is an inscription o n the rev. of s o m e of
t h e slabs (see A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 3 1 ) . A t one time t h e inscription
o n t h e present slab was believed (see Le G a c , S c h r a m m ,
a n d G r a y s o n ) t o b e a d u p l i c a t e of t h e inscriptions o n
t h e o t h e r slabs b u t this is n o t the case. See t h e editions
of A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 5 - 7 f o r details. Le G a c r e g a r d e d t h e inscript i o n o n this slab as a d u p l i c a t e of a text on a n u m b e r
of squeezes w h i c h he p u b l i s h e d a n d which he called
' A n n a l s B \ Le G a c did not provide copies of these
squeezes b u t only a c h a r t highlighting w h a t they cont a i n e d (Le G a c , A s n . p p . 123-24). Despite t h e
difficulties of using this c h a r t (the squeezes h a v e been
destroyed see the i n t r o d u c t i o n t o A.0.101.1), on the

basis of the i n f o r m a t i o n there it a p p e a r s that his A n nals B' in f a c t consist of t w o distinct texts. T h e first
consists of three squeezes (E4, E9, a n d E l 8 ) which
indeed seem t o be duplicates of A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 3 . All of these
t h r e e squeezes were f r o m b r o k e n inscriptions which h a d
f r a g m e n t a r y r e m a i n s parallel t o A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 i 1 - 1 8 a a n d
iii 119ff b e f o r e b r e a k i n g off. T h e s e a r e t h e s a m e p a r a l lels as f o u n d in A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 3 . T h e r e m a i n i n g squeezes included u n d e r ' A n n a l s B' by Le G a c represent a second
text listed in this v o l u m e as A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 4 .
Since it is u n k n o w n w h a t e a c h squeeze h a d in detail,
it has been impossible t o p r e p a r e a p r o p e r edition a n d
t h e transliteration presented here is f r o m t h e inscription
o n B M 124570.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA p. 254 n. 4 ('No. 27', study)
1907 Le Gac, Asn. pp. I-II, xiv-xv, and 123-24 (study)
1914 Budge, Sculptures pi. xxxvi (photo)
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 21-22, 25-26, and 32 (study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 3 (study)

TEXT
1)
ana DMA ge-ri dan-dan-ni MAH SAG.KAL

DINGIR. MES qar-du
2)
3)
sar-hu git-ma-lu M ina M la-a i--na-nu tibu-su

IBILA re-tuha-mim tuq-ma-te bu-kur dnudim-mud
4)
5)
UR.SAG
f-g-g .GL ma-lik DINGIR.MES i-lit-ti -kur

mu-kil mar-kas
AN-E KI-ti pe-tu- nag-be ka-bi-si KW/W
DAGAL-//
6)
7)
DINGIR ina ba-lu- E.BAR AN- U KI-tim

NU KUD-5M mu-nr-bu
ek-du la-a e-nu- q-bit KA-SW SAG.KAL

UB.ME na-din
GI.GIDRU
8)
u E.BAR ana nap-har D URU.URU gu-gal-lu
9)
sam-ru la-a ut-tak-ka-ru

si-qir ap-ti- .GL rap- ABGAL
DINGIR.ME mu-tal-lu dut-u]9-lu
10)
EN EN.ME-Y1 kip-pat
AN-<? U KI-tim qa-
tu-u paq-du MAN tam-ha-ri

11) a-li-lu tuq-ma-tu i-tl-lu u-ul-lu-tu gitma-lu EN nag-be
12) u A. AB.BA.MES ez-zu la pa-du- s ti-bu- abu-bu sa-pin
13) KUR KIJR.MES mu--am-qit
tar-gi-gi DINGIR
ar-hu la-a e-nu-

14) i-t- nu-ur AN-E KI-tim mu-pr-du q-reb
zu.AB mu-ab-bit lem-nu-ti
15) mu-ak-ni la ma-gi-ri mu-hal-liq za-ia-a-ri
ina UKKIN DINGIR, MES
16)
MU- DINGIR ma-am-ma
la BAL-H qa-i
TI.LA
DINGIR RM- a S-pU- DG.GA a-b
17) URU kal-hi EN GAi-e EN-ia ma-ur-pAB-A MAN

MAN la -na-an MAN kl-lat kib-rat
18) 4-ta dam-u ki-at UN. MES ni-it DBAD u
D
MA na-ra-am a-nim
19)
u dda-gan
ka-u-u DINGIR.ME GAL.ME ah-
tu na-ra-am
20)
21)
22)
23)
24)
25)
sk-ka NUN-W me-gir
BAD SANGA-SU UGU
DINGIR-Ut-ka GAL-t
i-t-bu-ma tu-ar-i-du BAL-5W et-lu qar-du
ina GLsJukul-ti
a-ur EN-SW m-ku-ma ina mal-ki. ME
kib-rat 4-ta -nin-s la TVK-
L.SIPA tab-ra-te la a-di-ru GI.LAL e-du-t
gap- ma-hi-ra
la TUK-W MAN mu-ak-ni a-a kan-u-te-
nap-har ki-at UN.ME
i-pe-lu NTA dan-nu mu-kab-bi-is G a-a-bi-
da-i kul-lat KR.ME
9 ut-u^-lu\
see the note to A.0.101.1 5.
1-17a) To the god Ninurta, the strong, the almighty, the exalted, foremost among the gods,
the splendid (and) perfect warrior whose attack in
battle is unequalled, the eldest son who commands battle (skills), offspring of the god
Nudimmud, warrior of the Igigu gods, the capable, prince of the gods, offspring of Ekur, the one
who holds the bond of (5) heaven (and) underworld, the one who opens springs, the one
who walks the wide underworld, the god without
whom no decisions are taken in heaven and underworld, the swift, the ferocious, the one whose
command is unalterable, foremost in the (four)
quarters, the one who gives sceptre and (powers
of) decision to all cities, the stern canal-inspector
whose utterance cannot be altered, extensively capable, sage of the gods, the noble, the god Utulu,
(10) lord of lords, into whose hands is entrusted
the circumference of heaven and underworld, king
of battle, the hero who rejoices in battles, the triumphant, the perfect, lord of springs and seas,
the angry (and) merciless whose attack is a
deluge, the one who overwhelms enemy lands
(and) fells the wicked, the splendid god who never
changes (his mind), light of heaven (and) underworld who illuminates the interior of the aps,
annihilator of the evil, (15) subduer of the insubmissive, destroyer of enemies, the one whose command none of the gods in the divine assembly can
alter, bestower of life, the compassionate god to
whom it is good to pray, the one who dwells in
the city Calah, great lord, my lord:
17b-29a) Ashurnasirpal, king of the universe, unrivalled king, king of all the four quarters,
sun(god) of all people, chosen of the gods Enlil
and Ninurta, beloved of the gods Anu and
Dagan, destructive weapon of the great gods, the
pious, beloved of (20) your (Ninurta's) heart,
prince, favourite of the god Enlil, whose priesthood is pleasing to your great divinity and whose
reign you established, valiant man who acts with
the support of Assur, his lord, and has no rival
those insubordinate to him, who rules all peoples,
(25) strong male, who treads upon the necks of
his foes, trampler of all enemies, the one who
breaks up the forces of the rebellious, he who acts
230
Ashurnasirpal II A.0.101.17
mu-pa-ri-ru ki-is-ri muI-tar-hi ina
Gll.tukul-ti
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES
EN-5W DU-ku-ma KUR. KUR. MES D-i-na qatsu KVR-ud hur--ni D--nu
i-pe-lu-ma bi-lat-su-nu im-hu-ru sa-bit li-i-ti
-kn
li-i-te UGU D-i-na KUR.KUR. MES e-nu-ma
a-ur EN na-bu- MU-a
mu-ar-bu-
MAN-Z-? GI.TUKUL-II la
pa-da-a
a-na i-da-at
EN-ti-ia lu- it-muh RIN.HI.A.MES KUR lu-ullu-me-e DAGAL. MES
ina q-reb tam-ha-ri ina GIS. TUKUL. MES lu am-qit ina re-su-te M -ma
u DISKUR DINGIR.MES tk-H-a
RIN.HI.A.MES
KUR.KUR na-i-ri KUR hab-hi KUR u-ba-re-e

u KUR ni-rib GIM DIKUR ra-hi-si UGU--nu
-gu-um MAN TA
e-ber-ta-an D.HAL.HAL a-di KUR lab-na-na u
A.AB.BA
GAL-ti KUR la-qe-e ana si-hr-ti- KUR su-hi

a-di
URU ra-pi-qi ana GR.II.ME-SZ/ -k-ni- TA
SAG e-ni
D su-ub-na-at
a-di SAG e-ni D(*).IDIGNA
SU-su KUR-ud TA KUR n-re-bi KUR kr-ruri a-di KUR gl-za-a-ni

TA e-ber-ta-an
D za-ba KI.TA a-di URU.DU6-
ba-a-ri
el-la-an URU za-ban TA URU. DU t--ab-tani a-di
URU.DU <>--za-ab-da-a-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU
ha-ru-t
KUR bi-ra-a-te KUR kar-du-ni- ana miis-ri KUR-TF u-ter
TA KUR n-re-be KUR ba-bi-te a-di URU
ha-mar ana UN.ME
KUR-TF am-nu ina KUR.KUR.ME s
na-ni L.GAR.ME-/e-a
has conquered all lands, gained dominion over the

highlands in their entirety and received their tribute, capturer of hostages, he who is victorious
over all lands:
29b-46) When Aur, the lord who called my

placed his merciless weapon in my lordly arms I
felled with the sword the extensive troops of the
Lullumu in battle. With the help of the gods
and the land Nirbu, The king who subdued (the
territory stretching) from (35) the opposite bank
of the Tigris to Mount Lebanon and the Great
Sea, the entire land Laq, (and) the land Suhu including the city Rapiqu: he conquered from the
source of the River Subnat to the source of the
Tigris. I brought within the boundaries of my
land (the territory stretching) from the passes of
Mount Kirruru to the land Gi1znu, (40) from the
opposite bank of the Lower Zab to the city T1Bri which is upstream from the city Zaban, from
the city T1-a-Abtni to the city Tr1-a-Zabdni,
the cities Hirimu, Harutu, (which are) fortresses
of Kardunia. I accounted (the people) from the
passes of Mount Babitu to Mount ('the city')
Hamar as people of my land. In the lands over
which I gained dominion I always appointed my
governors. They entered (lit, 'performed') servitude (and) I imposed upon them corve.
a-pe-lu-i-
al-tak-ka-an ur-du-ti -pu- NG.DU e-mesu-nu-ti
This text was engraved on various stone slabs found at Calah and was
probably the first in a series of such inscribed slabs with a lengthy
text. Regarding the annals series see the introduction to A.0.101.1. It
begins with a dedication to the god Ninurta followed by the king's
name and titles and a brief description of his conquests arranged
44 URU ha-mar: otherwise only KUR appears before Hasmar

and it is a well-known mountain range, URU is therefore
probably a scribal error,
231 Ashurnasirpal II A.0.101.17

geographically. Then appears the king's genealogy and a dedicatory
passage with blessings and curses. This is followed in some exemplars
by a continuation of the introductory passage and an annalistic narrative.
C O M M E N T A R Y
T h e inscriptions f r o m which this text h a s been reconstructed were on several squeezes (E 10, E 13a"b, E 6 8 a c ,
E 8 8 a b , E 15) which were a m o n g t h o s e used by Le G a c
for the text he called ' A n n a l s B*. T h e squeezes have
been destroyed (see the i n t r o d u c t i o n to A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 ) a n d
there is n o w n o m e a n s of collating t h e inscriptions. T h e
schematic presentation of their c o n t e n t s given by Le
G a c , A s n . pp. 123-24, indicates that t w o s e p a r a t e texts
were represented on these squeezes, as explained in the
commentary to A.0.101.3.
Since all of the squeezes included here a r e virtual d u plicates of o n e a n o t h e r a n d have a passage which is not
f o u n d in a n y other version of t h e a n n a l s , they have
been r e g a r d e d as one text. It s h o u l d b e n o t e d , h o w e v e r ,
t h a t all b u t o n e of the inscriptions o m i t t h e passage zai-ri-ia ... [uknue] '[for t h e scorching o f ] m y enemies
... w h o o p p o s e me'. A c c o r d i n g t o Le G a c t h e various
squeezes end at different p o i n t s b u t it is n o t clear if t h e
inscriptions really ended t h e r e or if they were b r o k e n .
In either case, they would all seem t o represent the first
in a series of slabs bearing an annalistic text. See
f u r t h e r the i n t r o d u c t i o n to A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 .
Le G a c , A s n . p. 125, published only t h e p o r t i o n of
this text which is unique, a n d that is t h e p o r t i o n edited
here (with r e s t o r a t i o n s f r o m A.O.101.98-100 a n d
Kinnier W i l s o n , Iraq 24 [1962] p . 94:34-36). F o r t h e
remainder
he
merely
presented
a
chart
(ibid,
p p . 123-24) s u m m a r i z i n g the contents of each squeeze.
A c c o r d i n g t o this chart t h e squeezes had t h e following
passages in t h e following order;
1. Duplicate of A.O.101.1 i 1 - 1 8 (including ' A s h u r nasirpal': E 10, E 68a"c (actually only beginning with
DV.mi-ku-ma
in i 12), E 88 a b (actually only beginning
with la a-di-ru), and possibly E 1 3 a b . For this passage,
as well as passages 2 - 3 , Le G a c puts 'car.' u n d e r E 15.
T h u s either this inscription was on the second in a
series of inscribed slabs or the t o p was b r o k e n ,
2. Duplicate
of
A.0.101.23
beginning
with
ERIN. HI.A. MES in line 6 a n d ending with
u---kn-nu in line 14: E 10 a n d possibly E 13 a ' b , E 68 a c , a n d
E 88 a b . Regarding E 15 see sub 1.
3. Duplicate of A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 2 lines 2 1 - 2 3 : E 10 a n d possibly E 1 3 a b , E 68 a_c , a n d E 88 a " b . Regarding E 15 see
sub 1.
4. T h e u n i q u e passage edited here: all squeezes but
n o t e the v a r . m e n t i o n e d earlier in this c o m m e n t a r y .
5. Duplicate of A.O.101.1 i 18 (beginning with A s h u r nasirpal) - 47 (ending with a-ru-ni): E 68 a ' c a n d E 15
(exact beginning u n c e r t a i n in each), E 13a"b (actually
ends with A s h u r n a s i r p a l in i 38), E 8 8 a b (actually ends
with ti-ri-is in i 37). For this passage Le G a c p u t s n o
n o t e u n d e r E 10.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 Le Gac, Asn. pp. i-n, xiv-xv, and 123-25 (e<opy, study)
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 21-22, 25-26, and 32 ([study)
1976 G ray som, ARI 2 < i 3 (translation)
TEXT
(For the beginning see the commentary)
1')
A TUKUL-DMA MAN MAN KUR -Ur
2')
A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR d-Ur-ma

ana TI ZI.ME-7 GD UD.ME-7 m-ud
MU.ME-A SILIM NUMUN.ME-A KUR-FLT PAB
[kuss]
3')
SID-ti-a H.GL URU-A DAGAL UN.ME-TF SI.S
L-a KUR a-ur za-i-ri-ia [ana qam att]-a
(For the beginning see the commentary)

T-2'a) son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II), king of the
universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (II)
(who was) also king of the universe (and) king of
Assyria:
2'b-3') For my life, that my days might be long,
my years many, (for) the well-being of my seed
(and) my land, (for) the safekeeping of my viceregal [throne], (for) abundance in my city, (for)
the increase of my people, (for) the thriving of
my people in Assyria, [for the scorching of] my
232
AshurnasirpalIIA.0.101.12
a-na
ZH mal-k.
GR.II. ME-[/
ME KR.ME-?
enemies, for the destruction of my [dangerous

foes], to [subdue] under me princes who oppose
me;
(For the remainder see the commentary)
a-na
uknue]
(For the remainder see the commentary)
5
This text is on a sculptured slab (BM 124571 = old no. 28) from an
entrance to the Ninurta temple at Calah. The slab is one of four stone
monuments found adjacent to one another (see A.0.101.3 for details).
A text on the back of some of these slabs has been edited as
A.0.101.31. The inscription is very badly worn and only small portions can actually be read. As far as it can be deciphered it appears to
be a duplicate of A.0.101.3 (see the commentary to that text) with
some additional lines (parallel to A.0.101.1 iii 119 to beyond line 132)
and it is probably part of an annals series (see the introduction to
A.0.101.1). Not enough can be read to warrant an edition (it has been
collated) but where variants from A.0.101.1 (i l-18a and iii 119-32)
are clear, they have been noted in the edition of that text.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1975 Barnett, Assyrian Sculpture pl. i (photo)
1902 King, AKA p. 254 n. 4 (study)

1914 Budge. Sculptures pi. xxxvn (photo)
6
This text is on a sculptured slab (BM 124572 = old no. 29) adjacent
to the slab listed as A.0.101.5. The inscription is very badly worn and
only small portions can actually be read. As far as it can be deciphered it appears to be a duplicate of A.0.101.3 (see the commentary
to that text) and 5, texts which have parallels in A.0.101.1. It is probably part of an annals series (see the introduction to A.0.101.1). Not
enough can be read to warrant an edition (the inscription has been
collated) but where variants from A.0.101.1 are clear (King said lines
113 of our text were parallel to A.0.101.1 i 1-12), they have been
noted in the edition of that text. Note that A.0.101.7 may be a duplicate of A.0.101.6.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1914 Budge, Sculptures pi. xxxvir (photo)

Ashurnasirpal iI A.0.101.17 255
7
This text is on a sculptured slab (BM 124573 = old no. 30, BM
124589 is a cast of this slab) adjacent to the slabs listed as
A.0.101.5-6. The inscription is very badly worn and only small portions can actually be read. As far as it can be deciphered it appears to
be a duplicate of A.0.101.6 which in turn is a partial duplicate of
A.0.101.3 (see the commentary to that text) and 5; these, in turn, have
parallels in A.0.101.1. It is probably part of an annals series (see the
introduction to A.0.101.1). Not enough can be read to warrant an edition (the inscription has been collated) but where variants from
A.0.101.1 are clear (King said lines 1-37 of our text were parallel to
A.0.101.1 i 1-12), they have been noted in the edition of that text.
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 3 ( tudy)
8
This inscription is the first in a series produced on successive stone
slabs, which make up one of the annals series from the North West
Palace at Calah (see the introduction to A.0.101.1). The phrase 'first
tablet* is actually inscribed on the edge of the stone slab (IM 55744 =
ND 811). The text has never been published and therefore cannot be
edited here. According to information given by Wiseman it begins
with an invocation of the gods (lines 1-10) almost identical with that
in the Nimrud Monolith (A.0.101.17 i 1-11). It continues (lines 10-52)
with the epithets and genealogy of Ashurnasirpal as in A.0.101.1
i 18-43 and then goes on to an annalistic narrative of the first campaign (lines 52-72) as in A.0.101.1 i 43-56 (stopping with TUL.MES
ZABAR 'bronze casseroles').
The narrative was continued on successive stone slabs which probably included the texts listed here as A.0.101.9-12. Each of these begins with a brief introduction with royal epithets and genealogy before
going on to narrate various later campaigns, the narrative in each case
ending abruptly since it was continued on yet another successive slab.
In fact A.0.101.9 is clearly the continuation of A.0.101.8 since it begins precisely where A.0.101.8 breaks off; and A.0.101.12 is probably
(the inscription is broken) the continuation of A.0.101.9 for the same
reason.
The final portion of this annals series may be the inscription on
another stone slab (ND 820) discovered about the same time. This inscription begins with the name and titles of the king and is a duplicate
of A.0.101.1 iii 113. It continues with duplication of that text until it
breaks off (= A.0.101.1 iii 127), and probably the broken portion duplicated the end of the annals (down to A.0.101.1 iii 136). The slab
234
belongs to the British School of Archaeology in Iraq and is kept in the
British Museum where the inscription was collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1951 Wiseman, Iraq 13 pp. 118-19 and n. 1 (study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 4 and 14 (study)
9
This inscription, on a stone slab from Calah (BM 90830), is a continuation of an annals series (see the introduction to A.0.101.1). It is,
in fact, the second tablet in the series of which A.0.101.8 is the first
since, after a brief label (lines 1-2), it resumes the narrative of campaigns where A.0.101.8 breaks off. This narrative is a duplicate of
A.0.101.1 i 57-103 (ending with URU hal-zi-lu-ha). The third tablet in
this series is probably represented by A.O.101.12. Since A.O.101.9 has
only minor variants this passage has not been edited here and the variants have been included in the edition of A.O. 101.1. Thus only the
introductory two lines, close parallels to A.0.101.10 lines 1-2
( = A.O.101.106), need be edited here. The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
1)
1~mâ-Ur-PAB-A MAN GAL-M MAN dan-ilU MAN
1-2) Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong king, king

of the universe, king of Assyria, son of TukultNinurta (n), great king, strong king, king of the
[(who was) also] great king, strong king, king of
the universe (and) king of [Assyria].
KI MAN KUR a-Ur DUMU TUKUL-MA MAN

GA[L-?]
2)
[MA]N dan-nu MAN KI MAN KUR a-ur DUMU

10-RIN.TH MAN GAL-? MAN DAN-NU MAN KI
MAN KUR [aurmu]
(For the remainder

A.O.101.1 i 57-103)
(For the remainder see the edition of A.0.101.1

i 57-103)
see
the
10
This inscription was engraved upon a stone slab discovered by Layard
between two monumental lions at Calah. At present the text is known
only from the publications of Layard and Le Gac. The inscription is a
continuation of an annals series (see the introduction to A.O.101.1)
translation
of

and may, in fact, be part of the series introduced by A.0.101.8. It begins with a label (lines 1-2 = A.0.101.106). After that it has a narrative of the campaigns which is a duplicate of A.0.101.1 ii 86 (beginning with ina ITI.SIG4) to ii 101 (ending with [ANSE.KUR. RA]. MES). Since
it has only minor variants from the passage in A.0.101.1, the variants
have been included in the edition of that text and no separate edition
is given here.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1851 Layard, ICC pis. 48-49 (copy)
1902 King, AKA p. 254 n. 4 (<L\ study)
1907 Le Gac, Asn. pp. ii-in ('Annals C ) and 126 ('C.l', copy)
11
This inscription was engraved upon a stone slab discovered by Layard
at Calah. At present the text is known only from the publication of
Le Gac which was based on a squeeze which is now lost (see the introduction to A.0.101.1). The inscription is a continuation of an annals
series (see the introduction to A.0.101.1) and may in fact be part of
the series introduced by A.0.101.8. It begins with a label (lines 1-3 =
A.0.101.104). After that it has a campaign narrative which is a duplicate of A.0.101.1 iii 63 (beginning with ina u*-me~-ma) to iii 67
(ending with GI[.BANUR.ME]). Since it has only minor variants from
the passage in A.0.101.1, the variants have been included in the edition of that text and no separate edition is given here.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 Le Gac, Asn. pp. n-m CAnnals C') and 126-27 CC.2, fc.83') (copy)
12
This inscription, on stone slab fragments from Calah (Rm 2,609-613),
is a continuation of an annals series (see the introduction to
A.0.101.1). It may in fact be the third tablet in the series of which
A.0.101.8 and 9 are the first and second respectively. The beginning of
the inscription is missing but it could have had a brief introduction
similar to A.0.101.9 lines 1-2 followed by the narrative picking up
where A.0.101.9 ended (duplicate of A.0.101.1 i 103). The actual portion of preserved text is a duplicate of A.0.101.1 ii 1-29 (ending with
U[RU -ze-e on the left edge). Since A.0.101.12 has only minor variants it has not been edited here and the variants have been included in
the edition of A.0.101.1. The inscription has been collated.
236
Ashurnasirpal Ii A.0.101.12
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 152 n. 658 ( tud>)
13
This inscription, on a broken stone block (YBC 2313), is the first in
another series of inscriptions engraved on successive stone slabs which
make up one of the annals series from Calah (see the introduction to
A.0.101.1). It is parallel to A.0.101.8, also the first tablet in an annals
series, but A.0.101.13 continues the narration of campaigns farther
than A.0.101.8. The stone slab upon which A.0.101.13 is engraved is
broken but the preserved portion of the obverse is a duplicate of
A.0.101.1 i 26-33 and the reverse is a duplicate of A.0.101.1 i 52-59.
Since A.0.101.13 has only minor variants for the duplicate passages an
edition of the text is not given here and the variants are cited in the
edition of A.0.101.1. The inscription has been collated from photos.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1937 Stephens, YOS 9 no. 129 (study)
14
This inscription is engraved on a stone slab fragment (BM 118924 =
51-9-2,37) found at Calah, in 'Entrance c, Chamber B, Plan 3', according to Layard who published a copy of it. Le Gac in his edition
of the 'annals' gave only variants from it based on a paper squeeze,
now destroyed (see the introduction to A.0.101.1). The inscription is a
continuation of an annals series (see the introduction to A.0.101.1)
and Le Gac regarded it as part of the annals series edited in this
volume as A.0.101.1. The preserved portion has a campaign narrative
which is a duplicate of A.0.101.1 ii 110 (beginning with URU ku--kunu) to ii 117 (ending with E.AM.ME). Since it has only minor variants
from the passage in A.0.101.1, the variants have been included in the
edition of that text and no separate edition is given here.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1851 Layard, ICC pi. 84 bottom (copy)
1907 Le Gac, Asn. p. xin ('E.72a-b\ study)
2i7
Ashurnasirpal il A.O.101 15
15
This fragmentary text is found on a number of stone slab fragments
from Nineveh and represents an annals series from that city (cf. the
introduction to A.O.101.1). Unfortunately very little of the text is
preserved but what is extant duplicates parts of the following passages
in A.0.101.1: i 59-60, ii 90-91, ii 126-32, and iii 123-28. The few variants from the relevant passages in A.0.101.1 have been included in the
edition of that text and there is no need to give a separate edition
here. The four fragments do not join but they could come from adjacent slabs with a continuous text like A.0.101.1.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Publication
Dimensions
Lines
Ex.
number
reference
(cm)
preserved
~l
Unlocated
A A A 19 no. 171
3 6 x 16+
i 59-60
n~
BCM 219 7 8
A A A 19 no. 303
5 x 10+
ii 90-91
K 8545 + 8547
Cat. 3 p. 938
2 0 x 15+
ii 126-32
K 8548
Cat. 3 p. 938
24x 15+
iii 123-28
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1893 Bezold, Cat. 3 p. 938 (exs. 3-4, study)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pp. 113-14 pis.
nos. 171 and 303 (exs. 1-2, copy)
LXXVII
and
1973 Schramm, HAK 2 p. 20 (exs. 1-2, study)

1976 Cirayson, ARI 2 p. 152 n. 660 (exs. 1-4, study)
1979 George, Iraq 41 p. 123 (ex. 2, study)
LXXXIX
16
A fragmentary text with remains of an annals series (see the introduction to A.0.101.1), possibly from Assur, is in Berlin (VAT 9638). It
was mentioned by Borger, EAK 1 p. 73 (cf. Grayson, ARI 2 p. 115 n.
468 c i).
17
This text is engraved on a huge stone stele about three metres high,
sometimes called the 'Nimrud Monolith' or 'Great Monolith'. Layard
discovered it at the entrance to the Ninurta temple at Calah. The
cuneiform text is engraved on all sides of the monument and on the
obverse the king's figure and divine symbols are also carved in relief.
The text begins (i 1-11) with an invocation of various deities and this
passage is a duplicate of the introduction to A.0.101.8 (q.v.). Then
comes a lengthy passage (i 12 - iv end), a duplicate of A.O. 101.1 i 18b
- ii 125a, which consists of the royal name and epithets and a description of the first five campaigns. This is followed (v 1-24) by a
cpn
238
narrative regarding construction at Calah. The text ends with an
unusually long and interesting list of curses (v 24-103). The engraver
made a surprising number of errors, especially in the last column
(col. v), which suggests he was working hastily to meet a deadline.
COMMENTARY
T h e m o n o l i t h is n o w in t h e British M u s e u m ( B M
118805, 5 1 - 9 - 2 , 3 2 - old n o . 847) a n d t h e inscription
has been collated. For c o m m e n t s on the long passage
(i 12 - iv end) which is a duplicate of A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 i 18b ii 125a, see t h e notes t o t h e latter passage. T h e s t o n e
has d e t e r i o r a t e d since King a n d Le G a c published t h e
text a n d m a n y readings which they give a r e n o longer

preserved. T h e s e instances are r e m a r k e d u p o n in the
notes to the individual passages. T h e r e a r e a n u m b e r of
errors in t h e vars. given by Le G a c f o r this text in his
critical a p p a r a t u s t o A . 0 , 1 0 1 . 1 .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1853 Layard, Discoveries pp. 351-52 (provenance) and the
plate before p. 351 (photo)
1861 1 R pi. 27 (copy)
1889 Peiser, KB 1 pp. 118-23 (edition)
1902 King, AKA pp. lxix and 242-53 (photo, copy, edition)
1914 Budge, Sculptures pis. n-ni (photo)
1926
1936
1958
1973
1976
1982
Luckenbill, ARAB 1 490-95 (translation)

CAD 4 (E) p. 53a (v 26-41, edition)
Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 19-20 and 32-33 (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 ci 9 (translation)
Brker-Klhn, Bildstelen no. 136 (photo, study)
TEXT
Col. i
1) a-Ur EN GAL- MAN gim-rctt DINGIR. ME
GAL.MES
2)
3)
4)
EN n-me-qi ha-si-su D30 er-u EN a-ge-e
5)
nam-ri-ri
a-nu ge-ru res-tu- mu-im

NAM,ME -a
MAN Ctp-S-
I LAI. M /
ÂMAR. UTU(*) ap-ak-lu
DINGIR EN
ti-ri-te
6)
IKUR ge-ru ka-ka-i
DINGIR. DINGIR si-ru
7)
8)
MA qar-du qar-ra-di DINGIR.ME mu-am-qi

lem-nu-ie
nusku na-i GIS.GIDRU Kv-te DINGIR mu(ul)-tal-Iu DNIN.LL hi-ir-ti DBAD

TAMA^ DINGIR.MES GAL.MES D .GUR
MAN tarn-ha-ri
gt-ma-lu
BAD si-ru AD DINGIR.MES
9)
ba-nu- Dt-ma d-ma

mu-ma-H-ri gi-im-ri
10)
DI.KU 5 AN-*? K-
i%-tr SAG-ti AN-? KI-IL GARZA
i 1-10) Aur, the great lord, king of all the great

gods; god Anu, foremost in strength, the one who
decrees destinies; god Ea, king of the aps, lord
of wisdom (and) understanding; god Sn, wise
one, lord of the lunar disk, (i 5) lofty luminary;
god Marduk, sage, lord god of oracles; god
Adad, strong, almighty among the gods, exalted;
god Ninurta, hero, warrior of the gods, the one
who lays low the wicked; god Nusku, bearer of
the holy sceptre, circumspect god; goddess Ninlil,
spouse of the god Enlil, mother of the great gods;
god Nergal, perfect one, king of battle; god Enlil,
exalted one, father of the gods, creator of all; god
ama, judge of heaven (and) underworld, commander of all; (i 10) goddess Istar, foremost in
heaven (and) underworld, who is consummate in
the canons of combat;
qar-du-ti
suk-lu-la-at
si-ma-at KUR
i 11-12a) great gods, who decree the destinies of

the land (and) make great the sovereignty of
Ashurnasirpal:
i 4-5 I~LAL~I-W = aq {nam-ri-ri): cf. a/-qu- nam-ri-ri

Layard, ICC pl. 87 line 6 and Michel, WO 1 (1947-52) p. 456
i 4. See Borger, EAK 1 p. 121 and von Soden, AHw p. 728b.
i 7 mu-{ul)-tal-lu\ so all the parallels, for which see the note

to A.0.100.1 line 11. i 10 SAG-//: see note to A.0.100.1 line 13.
11) DINGIR.MES GAL.MES mu-sim-mu
mu-ar-bu- MAN-?/

m
a-ur-PAP-A TNUN" na-a-du pa-lih
DINGIR.MES GAL.ME-/E -m-gal-lu
ek-du
ka-id
URU. URU hur--ni pat gim-ri--nu LUGAL
EN. ME-? mu-la-it ek-su-te
a-pi-ir a-lum-ma-i te ' la a-di-ru GI.LAL ura-nu tz-qa-ru la pa-dumu-rib a-nun-te
MAN DU mal-ki,MES EN EN.MES-^ UTUL MAN
MAN.ME-A/ i-i-pu na->-du ni-bit DMA qar-di

ka-u-u DINGIR. MES GAL. MES mu-tir gi-mil-li
MAN ina GIJukul-ti a-ur u -ma
DINGIR. MES
tik-li- me-e-ri it-ta-la-ku-ma KUR.MEs-ni

ap-su-te
u mal-ki KR.ME-SW GIM GI a-p -ha-si-su
kl-lat KUR.KUR.MES--nu
a-na GR.II.MES-SW -k-ni-a za-nin
NIDBA.ME a-na DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
ru-bu- ke-e-nu a a-na u-te-ur pr-si

. KUR. MES KUR-SW
pit-qu-du ka-ia-na a ep-et fqa^-ti- nadan zi-bi-

DINGIR.ME GAL.ME a AN-E u KI-te
i-ra-mu-
ma SANGA-su ina . KUR. MES
a-na d-ri-i -kin-nu GI.TUKUL.ME-5W-/

ez-zu-te ana i-rik-te
EU-ti- i-ru-ku -lum-ma-at
GI.TUKUL.MES- me-lam EN-ti-
UGU MAN.ME-ni kib-rat 4-i -ar-ri-hu-
KR.ME-ut a-ur
pat gim-ri--nu e-li u ap-li s-ia-na-nu-ma
GUN u ma-da-ta
VGu--nu -kn-nu ka-id a-ia-bu-ut a-ur
MAN dan-nu MAN KUR a-ur
DUMU GISKIM-DMA iD a-ur kl-lat
za-i-
ri- i-ni-ru
ina ga-i-i -re-tu- pag-ri ge-ri-
DUMU.DUMU
md
i 12b-32) (I, Ashurnasirpal), attentive prince,

of lords, controller of the obstinate, crowned with
splendour, fearless in battle, lofty (and) merciless
hero, he who stirs up strife, (i 15) king of all
princes, lord of lords, chief herdsman, king of
kings, attentive purification priest, designate of
the warrior god Ninurta, destructive weapon of
the great gods, avenger, the king who has always
acted justly with the support of Aur and the
god ama, the gods who help him, and cut down
like marsh reeds fortified mountains and princes
hostile to him (and) subdued all their lands, provider of offerings for the great gods, (i 20) legitimate prince, to whom is perpetually entrusted the
proper administration of the rites of the temples
of his land, whose deeds and offerings the great
gods of heaven and underworld love so that they
(therefore) established forever his priesthood in
the temples, granted to his dominion their fierce
weapons, (and) made him more marvellous (i 25)
than (any of) the kings of the four quarters with
respect to the splendour of his weapons (and) the
radiance of his dominion, (he who) has always
contested with all enemies of Aur above and
below and imposed upon them tribute and tax,
conqueror of the foes of Aur, strong king, king
of Assyria; son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II), vice-regent
of Aur, who defeated all his enemies (and) hung
the corpses of his enemies on posts, grandson of
Adad-nrrT (II), (i 30) appointee of the great
gods, who always achieved the defeat of those insubmissive to him and (thereby) became lord of
all, offspring of Aur-dn (II) who opened towns
(and) founded shrines:
10-RIN.TH
GR.NTA DINGIR.MES GAL.MES S-kp-te
la
ma-gi-ri-
il-ta-ka-nu-ma i-pe-lu gim-ri b-lb-b
a ma-ha-zi -pt-tu- -kin-nu i-re-e-ti
ina U4-me--ma
MAN-/ EN -ti
ina pi-i DINGIR. MES GAL.MES
ki--ti
-sa-a ar-ra-ku be-la-ku na-a'-da-ku ge-ra-ku

kab-ta-ku ur-ru-ha-ku SAG.KAL-ku ur-a-naku
qar-ra-da-ku lab-ba-ku u zi-ka-ra-ku ma~
sur- PAB-A
MAN dan-nu ID a-ur u DMA ni-bit d 30 mgir da-nim na-mad
D
IKUR ka-ka
la pa-du-
DINGIR. MES ana-ku
GI.TUKUL
i 33-46a) At that time my sovereignty, my dominion, (and) my power came forth at the command
of the great gods; I am king, I am lord, I am
praiseworthy, I am exalted, (i 35) I am important,
I am magnificent, I am foremost, I am a hero, I
am a warrior, I am a lion, and I am virile;
Ashurnasirpal, strong king, vice-regent of Assur
and the god Ninurta, designate of the god Sn,
favourite of the god Anu, loved one of the god
Adad (who is) almighty among the gods, I, the
merciless weapon which lays low lands hostile to
240
mu-am-qit
KUR nu-KR.ME-W a-na-ku
le-e^-u MURUB4
hur--ni
-gi
MAN
URU.URU
SAG.KAL GI.LAL MAN kib-rat
4-i
mu-n-er
mu-har-me-ti kl-lat KR.ME-S

kib-ra-a-te nap-har mal-ki
a-a-bi-
MAN ki-at
D
i)--nu
MAN mu--ak-m-si
har
la ka-an--te-
nap-
ki-at
UN.ME i-pe-lu
ina pi-i
i-ma-a-te
an-na-a-te
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES -sa-ni-ma
him, I, the king, capable in battle, vanquisher of

cities (and) (i 40) highlands, foremost in battle,
king of the four quarters, the one who defeats his
enemies, the one who disintegrates all his enemies,
king of the totality of the (four) quarters including all their princes, the king who forces to bow
down those insubmissive to him, the one who
rules all peoples; these destinies came forth (i 45)
at the command of the great gods and they properly fixed (them) as my destinies.
ana
i-im-ti-a
ki-ni-i -kn-nu ina bi-ib-lat lb-bi-ia

tlr-S U-A D INANNA NIN GA SANGA-//-/TF
lu-
tam-gu-ra-ni-ma
b-ba-a
e-pe
ub-la-ma
MURUB4 M
m
ina u4-me--ma
a-ur-
PAB-A
NUN na-a-du
pa-lih
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES
bi-ib-li
lb-bi-
BAD -e-ek-i-
du--m
nap-har
mal-ki
la ma-gi-ri-
a-a-bi-
ki-sir
ik--du
GAL-/M qa-a-su
ina -ri
mul-tar-hi
nam-ra-si
e-nu-ma
ka-id
-pa-ri-ru
a-ur
EN GAL-W na-
bu-u
MU-ia mu-ar-bu-
kib-rat
MAN-ti-ia
4-l MU GAL-/
UGU MAN.ME-A?/
lu-ar-bu-
GI.TUKUL-5
la pa-da-a
a-na
i-di EN-ti-ia
lu-at-m-hi
KUR.KUR.MES hur--ni dan-nu-te ana pe-li

uk-nu-e
ag-gi-i
-pa-r
-ma-ri-ra-ni
ina G I J u k u l - t i
a-ur
EN-ia
ar-hi pa--qu-te
KUR.ME-^ mar-su-te
ina
RIN.HI.A.ME-7 lu at-ta-lak-ma -ni-ni ul

ina ur-rat
UA^-ti-îa^
BALA.MES-T d-ma
ina mah-re-e
DI.KUD
UB.ME AN.DL-5W
DG.GA UGU-/? i-ku-nu
ina GIS.GU.ZA MAN-/
GAL-/ --bu
GI.GIDRU mur-te-â-at
at-m-hu
UN.MES a-na
u - i a -
GI.GIGIR.[M]E
RIN.HI. A. ME-7 ad-ki ger-ri pa--qu-te

KUR.ME-E mar-~siP-te
a-na
me-teq
la -ak-nu
a-na
GI.GIGIR.ME RIN.HI.A.MES
e-^te^-tiq
KUR tum4-me
a-lik
URU li-b-e
URU
dan-nu-ti--nu URU ^su^-ur-ra

URU a-bu-qu
URU a-ru-ra
URU a-ru-be-e
ina bi-rit KUR îD-ri-ni

KUR a-ru-ni
KUR e-ti-ni
KUR.ME-^ KAL.ME-^
GAR-nu KUR-ud GAZ.ME-R/-RTMN HI.A.MES

Ra-duk^ al-la-su-nu
bu---nu
i 54b-61a) when Assur, my great lord, who called

me by name (and) made my sovereignty supreme
over the kings of the four quarters, had made
(my) great name supreme he placed his merciless
weapon in my lordly arms (and) sternly commanded me to rule, subdue, and direct the lands
(and) mighty highlands. With the support of
Aur, my lord, (i 60) I kept marching along
difficult routes (and) over rugged mountains with
the mass of my troops and there was no opponent.
gi-
pi
ib-i
i 46b-49a) Because of my voluntary offerings and

my prayers the goddess Istar, the mistress who
loves my priesthood, approved of me and she
made up her mind to make war and battle,
i 49b-54a) At that time, Ashurnasirpal, (i 50) attentive prince, worshipper of the great gods,
whose desires the god Enlil helped him obtain so
that his great hand conquered all princes insubmissive to him, conqueror of his foes, the one
who in rugged terrain broke up the forces of the
rebellious;
GU4.ME-5W-
i 61b-77a) In my accession year (and) in my first

regnal year when the god ama, judge of the
(four) quarters, spread his beneficial protection
over me, (and) when I nobly ascended the royal
throne, he placed in my hand the sceptre for the
shepherding of the people (at that time) (i 65) I
mustered my chariotry (and) troops. I passed
through difficult paths (and) rugged mountains
which were unsuitable for chariotry and troops
(and) marched to the land Tummu. I conquered
Lib, their fortified city, the cities Surra, Abuqu,
Arura, (and) Arube which lie between Mounts
Urinu, Arunu, (and) Etinu, mighty mountains,
(i 70) I massacred many of them (and) carried off
captives, possessions, (and) oxen from them. The
mountain. Since the mountain was exceptionally
rugged I did not pursue them. The mountain was
as jagged as the point of a dagger and therein no
71)
nu -lu-la RIN.MES ig-du-ru K[uR]-Rî mar-su

is-sa-âb-tu^ KUR-M mar-si dan-ni-i
EGIR.ME-RW -nu la a-llk [KU]R-W GIM zi-[qi]p
GR AN. BAR
e-e-su i~na-a~i-[d\i MUEN AN- mu-tap^rP-[ q]-reb- Rla P-H-ru IG]IM qi-in-ni
73) -di-ni.MUEN ina ^q-reb^ KUR-E dan-na^su^-nu [i-k]u-nu ina MANTMES-^H
72)
[A]D.ME-A
74) ma-am-ma ina q-reb--nu
la TE-W ina(?p
[3 UD.ME.K]M U[R.S]AG KUR-R"W i-hi-ta^
gap-
[ l]b-ba-
75)
GI.LAL ub-la e-li ina GR.II.ME-SW KUR-W ^-
sa-hi-pa ih-pi qP-in-na--nu UKKIN-SW-/IW p-ri-ir 2 ME RIN.ME t[\-^du-ki-iP-nu
241
winged bird of the sky flew. Like the nest of the

udnu-bi their fortress was situated within the
mountain which none of the kings my fathers had
penetrated. [For three days] the hero explored the
mountain. His bold heart (i 75) yearned for battle. He ascended on foot (and) overwhelmed the
mountain. He smashed their nest (and) scattered
their flock. I felled 200 of their fighting men with
the sword (and) carried off a multitude of captives
like a flock of sheep. With their blood I dyed the
mountain red like red wool, (and) the rest of
them the ravines (and) torrents of the mountain
swallowed. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt their
cities.
ina GI[].TTUKUL1.[M]E
76) -am-qit aNa-su-nu DUGUD-ta GIM mar-i-it

UDU se-ni -riu~-[\a [].ME-W-TO GI[M]
na-pa-si KUR-W 1 lu i as-ru-up si-l a^-[te]' -nu h[ur]-ru i na-at *-ba-i ku^
77) KUR-? Ve-kl URU.MEs-ni--nu ap-pl
aq-qur ina IZI.ME -[ru-up] TA KUR '7WRN4
me at-tu-mu a-na KUR kr-ru-ri a\t-ta~rad\
ma-[da-t]u
78) KUR kr-ru-ri KUR si-me-si URU si-me-ra
URU ul-ma-ni-a URU ad-da-u[ UR]U [h]ar-gaa-îa^ URU [har]^m^-sa-a-ia
ANE. [KUR.R]A. TME1
79)
[ANSE, G]R.N[UN.N]A.ME
GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME TUL.ME ZABAR
ma-da-ta--nu am-hur L za-bi-il ^ku-du^[ri] UGU--[nu -k]n ^ki-P ina KUR k[rr]u-^rP u[s-ba-ku]-*~nP
80) KUR hub-u-ki-a-ia URU gl-za-na-a-ia melam-me V a-ur I EN-? îs^-hup--nu
i 77b-81a) Moving on from the land Tummu I

went down to Mount Kirruru. I received the tribute of Mounts Kirruru and Simesu, the city
Simerra, the city Ulmania, the city Adau (Addau), the city Hargaia, the city Harmasaia
horses, mules, oxen, sheep, wine, (and) bronze
casseroles. I imposed upon them corve. While I
was in Mount Kirruru the radiance of Assur, my
lord, overwhelmed the Hubusku and the Gilznu
(and) they brought to me as their tribute horses,
silver, gold, tin, bronze, (and) bronze casseroles.
ANE.KUR.Tra^.ME K.B[ABBAR.M]e[
K].G.TmE~I AN.N[A.M]E TzaBART.ME
RTULÎ.[ME ZA]B[AR]
81) ma-da-ta--nu a-na UGU-ia ub-lu-ni i~TA1

KUR kr-ru-r[i] at-t[u]-mu ina KUR n-re-be
I"URU hu-lu^-[nu] âna KUR hab-hi cP
b[e-ta]-â-ni e-tar-ba URU ha^-[a]t-^tu^
82) URU Rha^-ta-ru URU ni-i-tu-un URU sa-^bPd TURU me^-et-qi-a U[RU a)r-su-a-in URU
t[e]-re~-l[a UR]U Rh(p-[lu-a URU.ME]-RW
KURT [hab]-^hi ina^ bi-rit
83) KUR -su KUR a-ru-a KUR a-ra-ar-di
[KUR]TME^ KAL I.ME-TE G[AR-^W KUR-u]d
GAZ.MES--nu [HI.A].TME a-duk I [al-la-s]u-
nu bu---nu [-lu-l]a [RI]NJME ig-du

r[u]
84) -ba-nu a-si-tu pu-ut URU URU n[i-i]-
i 71-72 GIM ... rna-a^-[d\i: see the note to A.O, 101.1 i 49.
i 81b-90) Moving on from Mount Kirruru I entered the pass which (leads from) the city Hulun
to the interior of the land Habhu. I conquered the
cities Hattu, Hataru, Nistun, Sabidi, Metqia,
Arsuain, Tela, Halua, cities of the land Habhu,
which lie between Mounts Usu, Arua, (and)
Arardi, mighty mountains. I massacred many of
them (and) carried off prisoners (and) possessions
from them. The troops were frightened (and) took
to a lofty peak in front of the city Nistun, [which]
hovered [like a cloud in the] sky. Into the midst
of those (mountains) which none of the kings my
fathers had ever approached (i 85) my warriors
[flew] like birds. I felled [260] of their combat
242
^tu^-[un a kma erpeti itu A]N-E u-qa-lu-lat
[isbutu
a ina MA]N.RME~I-FL[/ AD]TME-7"I
ma-am-ma [ina qereb]-r-nu la TE-IT

85) L qu-ra-di-a GIM MUEN.[ME elunu ie^ 2
ME 1 i RI]N.ME mu-dah-s[i-u-nu ina
GI]. TTUKUL.ME^ [-am]-fqit
SAG^.[DU.ME-
-nu -n-k\s â-nd^

86) a-si-te ar-sip si-ta-te-[-nu kma issr] f~qin-nP
[ana kpi a KU]R-Y1 UB.UB.ME-/?[/
allassunu buunu] ~TA~I [qereb ad u-e]fr-da^

87) URU.ME-RN" d ina q-reb hu[r--ni
KAL.M]E- te GAR-nu ap^-]pl
aqqur
ina)
IZI.ME ^-ru-u[p ummnti a m mar itu

pn kakk]-îa^
88) ip-pr-i-du-ni ur-d[u-ni pia is]-^bu-tiP
G[UN madtu u L] za-bi-il k[u-du(1)-ri(1)
elunu akun mbu-]-^bu^
89)
DUMU bu-ba-a
DUMU L[.EN.URU a l
troops with the sword. I cut off their heads and

formed (therewith) a pile. The rest of them built
nests [like birds on] mountain [precipices]. I
brought down [prisoners (and) possessions of
theirs] from [the mountain] (and) I razed, [destroyed], (and) burnt the cities which lay within the
mighty highlands. [The troops, as many as] had
fled [from my weapons], came down (and) submitted to me. I imposed upon them tribute, [tax,
and] corve. Bbu, son of Bub, son of the city
ruler [of the city Nistun I flayed in the city Arbail
(and) draped his skin over] the wall. [At that
time] (i 90) 1 made [an image of myself (and)
wrote thereon] the praises of [my power. I erected
(it) on the ^w-mountain in the city (called)
Ashurnasirpal at the source of the spring].
nitun
ina l arbaHl aks KU]-SW BD [uhallip ina

mma salam bunnia]
90) D-u ta-na-ti [...]
91)
i 91-95) [In this same eponymy on the twentyfourth day] of the month Ab, [by the command
of Assur (and) the goddess Itar, the great gods,
my lords, I moved out from the city Nineveh
(and) marched to the cities] which [lie] at the foot
of Mounts Nipur [and Pasate, mighty mountains.
I conquered the cities Atkun, Ushu, Pilazi, (and)
20 cities] in their environs. [I massacred many of
them, carried off prisoners (and) possessions from
them, (and) burnt the cities]. The troops, [as
many as had fled from my weapons, came down
(and) submitted to me. I imposed upon them
corve. Moving on] (i 95) from the cities which
are at the foot [of Mounts Nipur and Pasate I
crossed the Tigris (and) approached the land
Katmuhu].
Lacuna
ina ITI.NE U[D . . . ]
92) GR KUR ni-puf [...]

93) li-me-t[u--nu ...]
94) "l. erin. me"i [... ]
95)
i"TA URU.ME-W GR"i [...]
Lacuna
Col. ii
1) L ba-tu-li--nu MUNUS ba-tu-la-te--nu
2)
ana GBIL-ti GBIL URU ap-pl

121.MES GBIL-R^PL
aq-qur
ina
3)
4)
a-kul- [in]a U4-me--ma URU.MEs-ni

KUR ni-ir-bi
BAD.ME-ni-t-nu dan-nu-te ap-pl aq-qur
5)
ina IZI.ME GBIL TA KUR ni-ir-bi
at-tum4-
6)
I)
8)
9)
ana URU tu-u-ha aq-t-rih URU tu-u-ha

ana e--te as-bat BAD- la-be-ru
-na-kiry a-ar- -me-si dan-na-su
ak-ud BD GIBIL TA u-e- a-di gaba-dibbi-t
10) ar-sip -k-lil -si-im -ar-rih
II)
12)
.GAL ana u-bat MAN-//-/? ina ad-di

GI.IG.ME D t - u ina K.ME-IA -re-te
M l-5a) I burnt their adolescent boys (and) girls. I

razed, destroyed, burnt, (and) consumed the city.
At that time I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the
cities of the land Nirbu (and) their strong walls.
ii 5b-36) Moving on from the land Nirbu I approached the city Tuha. I took Tusha in hand
for renovation. I cleared away its old wall, delineated its area, reached its foundation pit, (and)
(ii 10) built (and) completed (and) decorated in a
splendid fashion a new wall from top to bottom.
A palace for my royal residence I founded inside.
I made doors (and) hung (them) in its doorways.
That palace 1 built (and) completed from top to
13)
14)
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)
.GAL-lum i-i TA u-e-

a-di gaba-dib-bi- ar-sp -k-HI
sa-lam bu-na-ni-a NA4 pi-li BABBAR-^
D-MS ta-na-ti ki--ti-a u-tu-ur-te
u il-ka-ka-at qur-di-a
KUR.KUR na-i-ri e-tap-pa- ina SAR
ina URU tu-u-ha --z-iz
20)
NA4.NA.R.A. ME-7 SAR ina BAD- -kUf
21)
22)
23)
24)
25)
26)
27)
28)
UN. MES KUR a-ur an-na-te TA IGI

su-un-qi bu-bu-te ana KUR. MES-/
KUR.KUR.ME -ni-a-te ana KUR ub-re-e
e-li--ni -e-ra-u-nu
Ina URU u-u-ha -()-as-bi-su-nu
URU -a-l ana ra-me-ni-a as-bat E.UM.ME
u E.N.NU.ME KUR ni-ir-bi
ina at-bu-uk si-ta-at KUR ni-r-bi
29)
TA ICI GIS.TUKUL.ME-A
ip-pr--du-ni
30) ur-du-ni GR.II.ME- is-bu-t URU.ME-rn-SWnu

31) .HI.A.MES--nu na-tu-te --as-bi-su-nu
32) GUN ma-da-tu ANE.KUR.RA.ME
33) ANE.GR. NUN. NA. ME GU4.MF UDU.ME
243
bottom, (ii 15) I made an image of myself in

white limestone (and) wrote thereon praise of the
extraordinary power and heroic deeds which I had
been accomplishing in the lands Nairi. erected
(it) in the city Tusha. (ii 20) I inscribed my monumental inscription (and) deposited (it) in its wall.
I brought back the enfeebled Assyrians who, because of hunger (and) famine, had gone up to
other lands to the land ubr. (ii 25) I settled
them in the city Tusha. I took over this city for
myself (and) stored therein barley and straw from
the land Nirbu. The rest (of the inhabitants) of
the land Nirbu which had fled from my weapons
(ii 30) came down (and) submitted to me. I resettled them in their abandoned cities and houses,
(ii 35) I imposed upon them more tribute and tax
than ever before horses, mules, oxen, sheep,
wine, (and) corvee. 1 took their sons as hostages.
GETIN.ME
34)
35)
36)
37)
38)
L za-b-iI ku-du-r UGU pa-an

--tir ana uQu--nu -kun
DUMU.ME-5W-/1W ki-i li-tu-te as-ba
ki-i ina URU tu-u-ha us-ba-ku-ni
rna-da- mam-me-ba-a~-li
39)
DUMU za-ma- aP-ni
DINGIR-/?/-TE KUR ub-
ri-a-a
40) mla-ab'tu-ru DUMU tu-pu-si
41) KUR ni-ir-du-un u ma-da-tu
42) KUR -ru-me be-a-a-ni MAN.ME-H/
43)
R&FI KUR.KUR na-i-ri
44)
[A]NE.KUR.RA. ME ANSE.GR.NUN.NA.MES
GI.GIGIR.ME
45)
K.GI.ME TUL.ME ZABAR GU4.ME
ii 37-48a) While I was in the city Tuha I received

tribute from Amme-ba5lT, a man of Bt-Zamni,
from Ill-hite, the ubr, from (ii 40) Labturu, son
of Tupusu (of) the land Nirdun, and tribute from
the interior of the land Urumu, (and) from the
kings of the lands Nairi chariots, horses,
mules, silver, (ii 45) gold, bronze casseroles, oxen,
sheep, (and) wine. I imposed corve upon the
lands Nairi.
K.BABBAR.ME
46) rUDu"i.M[E] GETIN.ME ma-da-ta--nu amhur

47) LU za-f~bP-il ku-du-r UGU KUR.KUR na-i-ri
48) al-^ta^-kan na ta-a-ar-ti-a
49) KUR.KU[R] na-i-rl KUR ni-r-bu
50) s KUR ka-ia-ri i-ia-ba-kt
51) 9 URU.[M]E-n--nu -ta-e-ru
52) URU i-p\i]-Vli-ip-ri-a URU dan-nu-ti--nu
53) u KUR-W m[a]r-su i-tk-lu-ma
54) -ba-na-aP KUR-E a-s-bi KUR-ad
55) ina q-reb ] KUR i-e dan-ni GAZ.MEs--nu
56) a-duk s.[M]B--nu GIM na-pa-si
57) KUR- i~as~-\r]u-up si-ta-te--nu
58) hur-ru na-âP-ba-ku KUR-E lu e-kl
ii 21 an-na-te: error for anate or anhate, See the note to
A.O.101.1 ii 7.
ii 48b-63a) On my return from the lands Nairi,

the land Nirbu, which is within Mount Kasiiari,
rebelled. They abandoned their (ii 50) nine cities
(and) trusted in the city Ipi1ipria, their fortified
city, and a rugged mountain. But I besieged (and)
conquered the mountain peaks, (ii 55) Within the
mighty mountain 1 massacred them. With their
blood I dyed the mountain red like red wool (and)
the rest of them the ravines (and) torrents of the
mountain swallowed. I carried off captives (and)
possessions from them, (ii 60) I cut off the heads
244
al-la-su-nu [b]u---nu -lu-^l^
SAG.DU.ME[] muq-tab-fU-iD-nu R-ne-k[is]
di-im-t ina [SA]G(?) [uR]u-R&P-[/IW] a[r-sip]
L ba-tu-l[i--nu MUN]US ba-tu-la-te-[]-^nu'
of their fighters (and) built (therewith) a tower before their city. I burnt their adolescent boys (and)
girls.
a-na GBIL- ti GBIL I ina
ii 63b-76) I entered the pass of the city Buliiana

(and) made my way to the (ii 65) banks of the
River Luqia. On my way I conquered the cities of
the land Habhu which are in the pass. I massacred many of them, carried off captives from
them, (and) burnt the cities, (ii 70) I emerged at
the city Arduba. At that time I received tribute
from Ahi-ramu, a man of Blt-Iahiri, from the
(A)zaliu, a man of Bt-Bahini, men of Hatti, and
(from) the kings of the land Hanigalbat silver,
gold, tin, bronze casseroles, oxen, sheep, (and)
chariots.
n-reb
[\ URU bu-t 1P-ia-na e-tar-ba

[\i-di [D] I lu^qi-a as-ba-ta
[i]na I mP-tk-t[]-a URU.ME-W KUR hab-hi
[ia] na n-re-[be a]k-ta-ad GAZ.ME--nu
HI.A.[MES a-d]u[k ]al-Ia-su-nu -lu-la
URU.[ME]-R/2FI ina IZI.ME
a-sa-rap
ana 'URU ' ar^du^-ba at-ti-si-a

[in]a i UA-me--ma f ma^-da-tuma-hi-ramu
[DUM]U ia-hi-frP KUR zal-la-a-ia
[DU]MU ba-hiâ-nP KUR ha-ta-a-a
MAN. MES-W
R KUR ha-ni-fgaP-bat K.BABBAR.ME

K.GI.ME
[a]N.TnA^.M[E] TUL.ME ZABAR GU4.ME

TUDU.ME GIÎ.[GIGI]R(?).ME
ma-da-ta--
^niP am-hur
[i]na li-me ^mâ-ur-AS t-e-mu ûO-te-ru-ni
Rma^-a mzLAG-Rd~iiKUR L na-si-ku
KUR ^da^-g[a]-ra i-ta-bal-kt
KUR za-mu-a [ana s]i-hr-ti-u a-[h]a-i(*)
is-^biP-t Rn^-[r]u-bu URU ba-[bi]-te
TBD ir^-s[i-p]u
ana e-pe MURUB4 U *"M"I
ana r-ia I i[t]- hiP--ni ina GI tukul- tP

a[-\ur
EN FGAL-E^1 E[N-/]A U DR[L.GAJJ DU IGI-[]3?
ina roi.TUKUL.ME^ [ez]-zu-1 t^ i a-ur^

EN i-ruk
IAÂ^-I GI. [TUKU]L.M[E R]IN.HI. A. RME~I-A
ad-ki
ana ^n-re-be^ URU ba-bi-e â^-lik RIN.MES
ana gi-pitP [RIN.HI].A.MEl--nu ît-tk^lu-ma
TM e-piP-[u] ina .ME MAH.ME
rdn[RI.GAL] DU H g P - i a it-e--nu
R am-da^-h[i-is B AD 5 ]. RB AD 5 -- n u -kun^
VKKIN--n[u]
f-pa-rP-i[r] 1 Tlim"! 4 Tme1 1 u-i
L.RIN.ME[]
rmu-un-dah-sP--niP ina n-reb a-duk

URU r(iyi-z[e]-URU
[b]e-ru-t URU laga-la-^gd
RURU" d[ari]-^niP-t[i-\ Ra-dP 1 ME
URU. ME s-ni
r(P l[i-me-t]u-iP-nu KUR-ud al-^la^-su-nu
[marssunu GU4].MES-^-/7W UDU se-ni--mP
[alula] rmiz[LAG-di]KUR rana u-zu-ub~i
[naptu ana K]uR-fe" 1 mar-si e-li
100) [1 UM 2 ME ummnti]-i P-nu a-su-ha
101) T[A mat da\-\ ga-ra I at-tu-mu
ii 77-100) In the eponymy of Aur-iddin a report

was brought back to me saying Nr-Adad, the
sheikh of the land Dagara, had rebelled; (ii 80)
(the inhabitants of) the entire land Zamua had
banded together; they had built a wall in the pass
of the city Babitu; (and) they had risen against me
to wage war and battle. With the support of
Assur, the great lord, my lord, and the divine
standard which goes before me, (ii 85) (and) with
the fierce weapons which Aur, (my) lord, gave
to me I mustered (my) weapons (and) troops
(and) marched to the pass of the city Babitu. The
people, trusting in the massiveness of their troops,
did battle. With the supreme might (ii 90) of the
divine standard which goes before me I fought
with them, brought about their defeat, (and)
broke up their band. I slew 1,460 of their combatants in the pass. I conquered the cities Uz,
Berutu, (and) Lagalaga, (ii 95) their fortified cities, together with 100 cities in their environs. [I
carried off] captives, [property], oxen, (and) sheep
from them. Nr-Adad, to save [his life], climbed
up a rugged mountain. I uprooted [1,200 of] their
[troops].
ii 101-107a) Moving on from the land Dagara I
102) \ ai-n[a
l ba]-* a-ra
103) [l bra]
aq^-ti-rib
' ak-ta-ad
104) ([i-du-ki--nu]
105) [apunu
3 ME 2 0 RIN.MES
îna GIS.TUKUL.MES
snunu]
-am^-qit
ral-la^-s[u-nu]
106) [kabita utra 3 ME] [RIN]JHI.A1.ME-SW-#IW

107) fa^-[su-ha ina tari UD 15.KM ](7)-t[u]
108) [l kalz at-t]u-mu
109) [ana nreb a UR]U(?) ^ba(1)-bi(1)M[eC)]
Lacuna
Col. iii
1) URU.DiDLi ina IZI.ME GBIL ina u-ma-ni-a-ma
GUR-ra
b-dk
u-ma-ni an-ni-te-ma
at-u-mu
ana
2)
TA
3)
EDIN KUR ni-sir a-ar--nu

ma-am-ma
la-a
e-mu-ru a-lik URU la-ar-bu-sa URU dan-nu-ti-
mki-ir-te-a-ra 8 URU.DIDLI
li-me-t-
KUR-ud RIN.ME ig-du-ru KUR-W mar-su issab-t
KUR-W GIM zi-qip GR.AN.BAR e-e-su w-di
URU.DIDLI
4)
5)
6)
7)
MAN
8)
TA RIN.HI.A.ME-W EGiR.MEs--nu e-li
ina
q-reb KVR-e
9)
ADDA.MES--nt ad-di
1 ME 7 2 RIN.ME ti-
du-ki--nu
10)
a-duk
L.RIN.ME HI. A. MES ina ka-a-pi
KVR-e
at-bu-uk
11) al-la-su-nu bu---nu GU4.ME-SW-KW UDU

se-ni--nu
12)
-te-ra
245
approached the city Bra. I conquered [Bra]. I

felled with the sword 320 of their fighting men
(and) (ii 105) brought back [their oxen, sheep],
(and) [their valuable] booty. I [uprooted 300 of]
their troops.
ii 107b-109) [On the fifteenth day of the month
Tishri I] moved on from [the city Kalizi (and) entered the pass of the city] Babitu.
Lacuna
iii 1) (and) burnt the cities. I returned to my camp
(and) spent the night.
iii 2-14) Moving on from this camp I marched to
the cities in the plain of Mount Nisir which no
one had ever seen. I conquered the city Larbusa,
the fortified city (iii 5) which (was ruled by)
Kirteara, (and) eight cities in its environs. The
mountain. The mountain was as jagged as the
point of a dagger. The king with his troops
climbed up after them. I threw down their corpses
within the mountain, massacred 172 of their
fighting men, (iii 10) (and) piled up many troops
on the precipices of the mountain. 1 brought back
captives, possessions, oxen, (and) sheep from
them (and) burnt their cities. I hung their heads
on trees of the mountain (and) burnt their adolescent boys. I returned to my camp (and) spent the
night.
URU. DIDLI-5T-/?M ina IZI.ME GBIL
SAG. DU. ME --nU
13) ina GI gu-up-ni KUR-E e-H-il L ba-tul-nu a-na

14) GBIL-te GBIL ina u-ma-ni-ia-ma GUR-ra bdk
15)
16)
ina u-ma-ni
URU.DIDLI
an-ni-e-ma
URU la-ar-bu-sa-a-a
URU
ak-tu-
1 ME 5 0
URXJ.BAD-lu-Iu-ma-a-a
bu-na-i-sa-a-a
17) URU ba-ra-a-a GAz.MES--nu a-duk al-la-sunu a-lul URU. DIDLI--n u

18) a-pl a-qur ina IZI.ME GBIL 50 RIN.ME
URU ba-ra-a-a
19)
ina mit-hu-si
ina EDIN a-duk
MAN.ME-W" KUR
ina
U4-me--ma
za-mu-a
20) ana si-hr-ti--nu pl-hi me-lam-me a-ur

EN-f is-hup--nu
21) gr.ii.me-7 is-bu-t ANE.KUR.RA.ME
K.BABBAR K.GI am-hur KUR-^W
22) gab-be ^^ pa-a 1 -en
---kn
ANE.KUR.RA.ME K.BABBAR k.gi e.am.me
23)
E.IN.NU ka-du-ru
24)
URU.GI.
at-tu-mu
e-me-su-nu
TA
tukul-t-A-as-bat
GR KUR ni-is-pi as-bat
mu-(i)
iii 15-23a) I tarried in this camp. 150 cities belonging to the cities of the Larbusu, DrLullumu, Bunisu, (and) Bra I massacred
them, carried off captives from them, (and) razed,
destroyed, (and) burnt their cities. I defeated 50
troops of the Bra in a skirmish in the plain. At
that time (iii 20) awe of the radiance of Assur, my
lord, overwhelmed all of the kings of the land
Zamua (and) they submitted to me. I received
horses, silver, (and) gold. I put all of the land
under one authority (and) imposed upon them
(tribute of) horses, silver, gold, barley, straw,
(and) corve.
iii 23b-26) Moving on from the city TukultlAur-asbat I made my way to the foot of Mount
Nispi. Travelling all night I marched to the cities
246
ar-di ana URU.DIDLI
a-ar--nu ru-qu bi-rit KUR gam-ru

KUR e-di-nu
GAR-nu
zLAG-10
ana dan-nu-ti- i-kun a-lik URU be-ru-t
(iii 25) which are remote, which lie between

Mounts Gamru (and) Edinu, (and) which NrAdad had made his garrisons. I conquered the
city Berutu (and) burnt (it).
KUR-ud URU ina IZI.ME GBIL
ina li-me m\uuA-a-dr ina URU.NINA us-ba-ku

t-e-mu -te-ru--ni
ma-a ma-me-ka mar--tu-a ma-da-t u kadu-ru a-ur
EN-a lu ik-lu- ina q-bit a-ur EN GAL EN-a
D
RI.GAL DU iGi-a ina ITI.SIG4 UD I.KM 3-te-
a-na
KUR za-mu-a-a -ku-na di-ku-t pa-an
GI.GIGIR.ME ma-a^-te
RIN.HI. A.ME-TF la-a ad-gul TA URU kl-zi
at-tu-mus
D za-ba KI. TA e-te-bir ina n-reb KUR babi-te
e-tar-ba D ra-da-a-nu e-te-bir ina GIR KUR-?
KUR si-ma-ki
DU UD.ME-TF ak-tu- GU4.ME UDU.ME
GESTIN. MES ma-da-t
KUR da-ga-ra at-ta-har TA GR KUR si-maki GI. GIGIR. MES
da-Ja-t pit-hal-lu SAG -su i-si-a a-se-qe

mu-u ad-di na-ma-ri ar-te-di D tr-na-at
e-te-bir ina mit-har sa-a^-te ana URU ma-am-li
URU dan-nu-te-
mar--tu-a aq-ti-rib ina mit-hu-si ti-du-ki
URU a-si-bi KUR-ud 8 ME RIN.ME mu-undah-si--nu
ina GI.TUKUL -am-qit
L.D.ME-^M-UM SU-
-qi URU--nu
-mal-li .ME-i-nu .HI.A.ME--nu asru-up
L.RIN.ME TI.LA.ME HI. A. MES Uta SU -te -
sab-bi-ta
al-la-su-nu HI.A.ME -lu-la URU ap-pl aqqur
ina IZI.ME -ru-up URU hu-du-un a-di 30
URU.DIDLI
li-me-t-
KUR-W/ GAZ.ME-SM-/?W HI.A.ME
a-duk
al-la-su-nu GU4.ME-W-nu UDU se-ni--nu
-lu-la URU.DIDLI ap-pl aq-qur ina IZI.ME
GBIL
L ba-tul--nu MUNUS ba-tu-la-te--nu ana

GmL-te GBIL
URU ki-sir-tu URU dan-nu-ti-

a-di 10 URU.DIDLI li-me-tu-
sa-bi-i-ni
KUR-ud
GAZ.ME--nu a-duk
al-la-su-nu -lu-la URU.DIDLI URU ba-raa-a mki-ir-te-a-ra
URU.BD-a-a URU bu-ni-sa-a-a a-di n-reb
KUR ha-mar
iii 27-55) In the eponymy of Miqti-adur I was in

Nineveh (and) a report was brought back to me
saying Ameka (and) Arastua had withheld the
tribute (and) corve of Assur, my lord. At the
command of Aur, the great lord, my lord,
(iii 30) (and) the divine standard which goes before me, on the first day of the month Sivan I
mustered (my army) for a third time against the
land Zamua. Without waiting for the advance of
(my) numerous chariotry and troops I moved on
from the city Kalzi, crossed the Lower Zab, (and)
entered the passes of Mount Babitu. I crossed the
River Radnu (and) (iii 35) all day I tarried at the
foot of Mount Simaki. I received the tribute of
the land Dagara, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. From
the foot of Mount Simaki I took with me strong
chariots, cavalry, (and) crack troops. I continued
travelling through the night until dawn, crossed
the River Turnat, and at first light approached the
city Mamli, the fortified city (iii 40) which (was
ruled by) Arastua. In a clash of arms I besieged
the city (and) conquered (it). I felled with the
sword 800 of their combat troops. With their
corpses I filled the streets of their city (and) with
their blood I dyed their houses red. Many troops
I captured alive (and) (iii 45) carried off many
captives from them. I razed, destroyed, (and)
burnt the city. I conquered the city Hudun (and)
30 cities in its environs. I massacred many of
them (and) carried off captives, oxen, (and) sheep
from them. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt their
cities, (iii 50) I burnt their adolescent boys (and)
girls. I conquered the city Kisirtu, the fortified
city which (was ruled by) Sablni, together with 10
cities in its environs. I massacred them (and) carried off captives from them. I razed, destroyed,
(and) burnt the cities of the Bra, of the man
Kirteara, a man of the city Dru, (and) of the
Bunisu, as far as the pass of Mount Hamar. I
turned (them) into ruin hills.
ap-pl aq-qur
kar-me
ana
DU 6 U
at-tu-mu
ina
ina IZI.ME -ru-up
247
-te-er
m
TA URU.DIDLI
ar--tu-a
n-reb bi-rit
KUR la-a-ra
ana
KUR bi-di-ir-gi
KUR-E
mar-su-te
me-teq
GI.GIGIR.ME RIN.HI.A.ME la GAR- etar-ba
ana URU
URU MAN-ti-
za-am-ri
m
a-me-ka
KUR
za-mu-a-a
aq-t-rib
a-me-ka
TA IGI GI.TUKUL.ME-TF dan-nu-ti

mu-ri
M-T t-
ip-lh-ma
KUR-W mar-su
is-bat
iii 56-62a) Moving from among the cities which

(were ruled by) Aratua I entered the pass which
is between Mount Lra (and) Mount Bidirgi,
rugged mountains which were unsuitable for
chariotry and troops. I approached the city
Zamru, the royal city of Ameka the Zamu.
Ameka became frightened (iii 60) in the face of
my strong weapons (and) my fierce battle and
took to a rugged mountain. I removed the property of his palace (and) his chariot.
NG.GA .GAL-//-SI
GI.GIGIR.ME-5
--a
TA URU za-am-ri
e-te-bir
ana KUR-E KUR e-ti-ni
ana me-teq
at-tu-mu
A.
ll4u-
nam-ra-si
GI.GIGIR.ME U RIN.HI.A.ME
la GAR-nu ina MAN.ME-ni

AD. ME-a ma-am-ma
ina q-reb--nu
la TE-I
a-lik MAN TA
HRIN.HI. A.ME ana KUR I-E KUR ê-iD-ni
R/1 NG.GA.ME-5W BU--^ ^
[unt
siparri
maâta
taph]
e-
ZABA[R ]TU[L
ZAB]A[R]
sa-ap-li ^zu-qa^-[e (...) n]i-s[ir-x] TI.GA[L]V
na-km-ma-te-
ana
TA q-reb
KUR-T^
s^-[a\-a
u-^ma-ni-a-ma^
GUR-ra be-dk
ina re-su-te
ma DINGIR.ME
TA u-ma-ni
a-ur
t[ik-li]
an-ni-e-ma
at-tu-mu
EGIR-SW
as-^baO
D e-di-^ru
lu
KUR e-la-ni-
e-bir
ina bir-ti
KUR
su--a
KUR-E KAL.ME-/^ GAZ.ME-5W-
nu HI.A.ME
a-duk
NG. GA- bu--
TUL.ME
GI pa-ur
ap-hi
ZABAR
sa-ap-li
na-zi-Vd-te.MES
-nu-ut
K.GI
ZABAR.MES HI.A.MES
ih-zi
GU 4 - F ME~-5W UDU Se-n 't- al-la-SU
DUGUD-T
TA GR KUR-E
KUR e-la-ni-
a-lul
ANE.KUR.RA.ME-5/ e-
kim-
m
a-me-ka a-na -zu-ub Z.MES- ana KUR

sa-bu-a
e-li URU za-am-ru URU a-ri-si-id-ku URU amma-ru
URU
pa-ar-si-in-du
URU MAN-ti- a-di
URU i-ri-tu
URU
su-ri-tu
1 ME 5 0 URU.DIDLI li-
me-tu- ap-pl
âq-qur ina IZI.ME GBIL ana DU6 U kar-me
-ter
iii 62b-70a) Moving on from the city Zamru I

crossed the River Lall. I marched to Mount
Etinu over rugged terrain which was unsuitable
for chariotry and troops (and) which no king
(iii 65) among my fathers had ever approached.
The king with (his) troops climbed up to Mount
Etinu. I removed from the mountain his
(Ameka's) property, possessions, [many bronze
utensils], bronze [tubs], bronze casserole(s),
bowls, tureens, the treasure of his palace (and) his
storehouse. Returning to my camp I spent the
night.
ki-i ina
pu-ut
f"uRU~i pa-ar-si-in-di us-ba-ku-ni pi-hal-lu L

kal-la-pu
ana ub-te -s[e]-i-ib 50 RIN.ME mu-undah-si-
a-me-ka
iii 70b-87) Moving on from this camp with the

help of Assur and ama, the gods who support
me, I took after him (Ameka). Crossing the River
Edir I massacred many of them between Mounts
Sa (and) Elaniu, mighty mountains. I carried off
from the foot of Mount Elaniu his property, possessions, bronze tubs, casseroles, bowls, (iii 75)
vats, many bronze utensils, a dish decorated with
gold, his oxen, sheep, his valuable booty. I
deprived him of his horses. Ameka, to save his
life, climbed up Mount Sabua. (iii 80) I razed,
destroyed, (and) burnt the cities Zamru,
Arasidku, Ammaru, Parsindu, Iritu, Suritu, his
royal cities, together with 150 cities in the environs of his (region). 1 turned (them) into ruin
hills. While I remained before the city Parsindu I
set the cavalry (and) light troops in ambush (and)
(iii 85) killed 50 of the combat troops of Ameka
in the plain. I cut off their heads (and) hung
(them) on trees of the courtyard of his palace in
the city Zamru. I captured 20 soldiers alive (and)
spread (them) out in the wall of his palace.
248
Ashurnasirpal iI A.0.101.17
85) ina EDIN a-duk SAG.DU.ME--/M -n-kis
ina
86
URU za-am-ri
ina GI gu-up-ni TR .GAL-S -e^-il 20
87
RIN.ME
TI.LA ina U-RTE"1 -sab-bi-ta
ina BD .GAL
-ma-gi-i[g]
TA URU za-am-r[i] pit-hal-lu LXJ kal-la-pu i-si-a
89
â^-se-^q^
ana URU.DIDLI ma-ta HJRU1
r-zi-za-a-a
90
91
92
93
^(P ina MAN.MEs-ni AD.ME-T
m[a-a]m-ma
ina q-reb--nu
la TE-W ^^-lik URU r-zi-zu RURU~I r-si-an-du
V
URU dan- nu-te- a-di 10 ' URU I.DIDLI
li-me-tu-
ina q-^refr KUR ni-is-pi RKUR-E~I mar-i
GAR-nu KUR-ud
94
GAZ.ME--nu a-duk URU.DIDLI a-pl a-qur

ina IZI.ME
95
GBIL ana û-ma^-ni-a-ma

me--ma ZABAR.MES
96
97
^tab-bi-li km-mcP-te -a-ri-a-te ma-da-t

KUR ^sP-p-a-me-na GIM MUNUs.ME-/e
sap-ru-ni
am-h[ur itu] URU za-am-ri a-tum4- KUR
la-a-ra KUR-M
[marsu] ana me-teq GI.GIGIR.ME
98
99
GUR-RA îna^
u4-
RRINL.HI.A.ME la GAR-nu
100) [ina] ka-lai-[ba]-te ANTBARI a-ki-^si ina

AK-KL- //I URUDU
101) a[q]-^qur GI.GIGIR(?).ME RINTHI.A.ME -
e-ti-qi a-na
102) UR[U Gi]Utukul-ti-a-ur-as^-bat KUR luul-lu KUR r-rak-di-a
103) i-[q]-^bu-iP-ni at-tar-da MAN. MES-W KUR
za-mu-a
104) ana s[i]-^hr-tP--nu TA IGI na-mu-* ra \-at
GIS.TUKUL. ME-a
105) u u[r-b\a â0 be-lu-ti-a e-dur-ma

GR.II.ME-TF
106) ris-b[u]-rtiP
[biltu] u ma-da-t K.BABBAR
K.GI. MES
107) TAN.NA1.M[E] z[AB]AR.M[E] TUL.ME TtG1

lu-bl-ti ^bif-me
108) AN[E.KUR.RA.ME] I_GU41.ME UDU.ME
TGETIN1.ME ^muh-hP [\
109) p[a-an utir] RUGU^--^nu -kun L kadu^-ru--nu
110) ina UR[U kalhi e-p]u-^ kP-i ina ~KUR zamu-a us-ba-ku-ni
111) KUR Rhui-d[u-na-a-a] TKUR har^-ti-i[]-a-a
KUR hu[b-u]-ki-a-a
112) Tkur1 g[l-za-na-a-a pulh] fme-lam-me^ [
aur] TEN-fi [is-h]p-^-nu^
113) G[U]N rm-d[a-tu kaspi] TK.GI1
[ANE.KUR]. TRA.ME^
iii 88-98a) From the city Zamru I took with me

the cavalry (and) light troops. I marched to the
cities (ruled) by Ata, a man of the city Arzizu
(iii 90) amongst which no king among my fathers
had ever penetrated. I conquered the cities Arzizu
(and) Arsiandu, his fortified cities, together with
10 cities in the environs of his (region) which lay
in Mount Nispi, a rugged mountain. I massacred
them. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities,
(iii 95) I returned to my camp. At that time I received bronze, ..., rivets, (and) beams, the tribute
of the land Sipiamena whose (inhabitants) do
their hair like women,
iii 98b-116) Moving on from the city Zamru to

Mount Lra, a [rugged] mountain which was unsuitable for chariotry (and) troops, I cut through
(iii 100) with iron axes (and) I smashed (a way)
with copper picks. (Thus) was I able to move
along the chariotry (and) troops. I went down to
the city Tuku1t-Aur-asbat which the Lullu call
Arrakdia. All the kings of the land Zamua took
fright before the brilliance of my weapons
(iii 105) and awe of my dominion and they submitted to me. I imposed upon them more [tribute]
and tax than ever before silver, gold, tin,
bronze, casseroles, garments with multi-coloured
trim, horses, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. Their
corve (iii 110) they performed in Calah. While I
was in the land Zamua, awe of the radiance of
Aur, my lord, overwhelmed the people of the
cities Hudun, Hartiu, Hubuku, (and) Gi1znu
(and) they brought to me tribute (and) tax
[silver], gold, horses, garments [with multicoloured trim], oxen, [sheep, (and) wine. I
marched after as many people as] had fled [from
my weapons (and) climbed up into the mountains].
Lacuna
114) RRG lu -b[I-ti birme] GU4.[ME sn karn]
115) [ana] ruGu"W[fl blni ni a m mar itu pan
kakkia]
116) [\p-(pr)-i-duHni
...]
Lacuna
136')[ -]-rtir~i E,[AM.ME ...]
137')[...] [] DU[B ...]
138')[... iti].SIG4 [...]

139')[... GIGI]R.ME RIN.THI.A1.[ME ...]
140')[...] fe-te-bin ana TKURI [...]
14V)[...]ina [...]
Col. iv
ma-da-t KUR kat-mu-hi ina URU ti-lu-li
at-ta-har TA KUR kat-mu-hi at-tu-mu
ina n-reb URU $-tr.ME-te e-tar-ba
ina URU ki-ba-ki a-sa-kan be-dk
GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME TUL.ME
ma-da-t URU ki-ba-ki at-tah-ra

TA URU ki-ba-ki at-tu-mu a-na
URU mat-te-ia-te aq-t-rib URU mat-ia--te
a-di URU kap-ra-ni- ak-(a-ad 2 LIM 8 ME
10
RIN.ME ti-du-ki--nu
11
-am-qit al-la-su-nu HI. A. MES as-lu I
12
13
14
15
16
17
ERIN.MES am-mar
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
ina GI.TUKUL.ME
TA IGI GI.TUKUL.ME-/
ip-pr-i-du-ni GR.II.ME-7 is-bu-t

URU. j>i)\--nu --as-bi-su-nu GUN
ma-da- L -ra-si -dan-ni-ni
vau--nu -kun sa-lam bu-na-ni-a
Dv-u li-te ki--ti-a ina SAR
ina URU ma-e-a-e --z-iz TA
URU mat-te-ia-te at-tum4-mu ina URU za-zabu-ha
a-sa-kan be-dk ma-da-t KUR hab-hi
GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME TUL.ME taphi. MES
sa-ap-li gur-pi-si. MES at-ta-har

TA URU za-za-bu-ha at-tu-mus ina URU ir-si-a
a-sa-kan be-dk URU ir-si-a ina IZI.ME
GBIL ma-da-t
URU su--ra GU4.ME
UDU.ME
GETIN.ME TUL.ME ina URU ir-si-a
at-ta-har
TA URU ir-si-a at-tu-mu ina KUR ka-ia-ri

a-sa-kan be-dk URU ma-da-ra-an-zu 2
URU.DIDLI
29
30
31
32
li-me-tu- KUR-ud GAZ. ME--nu a-duk

al-la-su-nu a-lul URU.DIDLI ina IZI.ME GBIL
6 UD.ME-/^ ina KUR ka-ia-ri KUR-?
dan-ni A. nam-ra-si ana me-teq

GI.GIGIR.ME
33
34
u RIN.HI.A.ME la GKR-nu KUR- ina ka-lh

pa-te
ak-kis ina ak-kl-li URUDU aq-qur
249
iii 136-137') [I put a wall around it, founded

therein a palace for my royal residence, (and)
decorated it] more [splendidly than ever before]. I
stored therein barley [(and) straw from all the
(surrounding) land. I named it Dr-Aur].
iii 138' - iv 18a) [On the first day of the month]
Sivan, [in the eponymy of a-ilTma-damqa, I
mustered] (my) chariotry (and) troops. [After]
crossing [the Tigris I entered] the land [Katmuhu.
I consecrated a palace] in [the city T1-u1i]. I received (iv 1) tribute from the land Katmuhu in the
city Trl-uli. Moving on from the land Katmuhu I
entered the pass of the land Itarte. I pitched
camp (and) spent the night in the city Kibaku.
(iv 5) I received tribute from Kibaku, oxen, sheep,
wine, (and) casseroles. Moving on from Kibaku
I approached the city Mateiatu. I conquered
Mateiatu together with its suburbs, (iv 10) I felled
with the sword 2,800 of their fighting men (and)
carried off many captives from them. The troops,
as many as had fled from my weapons, submitted
to me (and) I settled them in their cities, (iv 15) I
imposed upon them stringent tribute, taxes, (and)
tax-collectors. I made an image of myself (and)
wrote thereon (an account of) my powerful victories. I erected (it) in Mateiatu.
iv 18b-38a) Moving on from the city Mateiatu I

pitched camp (and) spent the night at the city
Zazabuha. I received tribute from the land
Habhu, oxen, sheep, wine, casseroles, tubs,
bowls, (and) armour. Moving on from the city
Zazabuha I pitched camp (and) spent the night in
the city Irsia. I burnt Irsia. (iv 25) I received tribute from the city Sru, oxen, sheep, wine, (and)
casseroles, in the city Irsia. Moving on from Irsia
I pitched camp (and) spent the night within
Mount Kaiiari. I conquered the city Madaranzu
(and) two cities in its environs. I massacred them,
(iv 30) carried off prisoners from them, (and)
burnt the cities. For six days within Mount
Kasiiari, a mighty mountain (and) rugged terrain
which was unsuitable for chariotry (and) troops, 1
cut through the mountain with axes (and)
smashed (a way) with copper picks, (iv 35) (Thus)
was I able to move along the chariotry and
troops. In the cities which were in the region of
my road within Mount Kasiiari I received oxen,
sheep, wine, casserole(s), (and) armour.
250
35)
GIS.GIGIR.MES RIN.HI.A.ME -e-t-q
URU.DIDLI
M i-di hu-li-ia GAR S KUR ka-ia-ri

GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME TUL.ME gur-
p-S. MES
at-ta-har KUR ka-ia-ru at-ta-bai-kt
2-te- ana KUR na-i-ri at-tar-da
ina URU i-gi- a-sa-kan be-dk TA
URU i-gi- at-tu-mus a-na
URU ma-da-ra URU dan-nu-ti- M mlab-tu-ri
DUMU tu-pu-si aq-ti-rib URU KAL-an dan-nis
4 BD.ME-RT/ la-a-bi URU a-si-bi
TA IGI GI. TUKUL. ME-a dan-nu-te ip-la-hu-ma
NG.GA.MES--nU bU---nU DUMU. ME-S-
nu
ana L ap-ra-te am-hur--nu ana u-zu-ub
ZI.ME-u-nu -r--nu GUN ma-da-t
L -ra-si UG\j--nu -kun URU
a-pl aq-qur ana DU6 U kar-me -ter
TA URU ma-da-ra at-tu-mu
ana URU tu-us-ha e-tar-ba .GAL
ina URU tu-us-ha u-sa-ri ma-da-tu
sa KUR ni-ir-du-un
ANSE.KUR. RA.MES
ANE.GR.NUN. NA.ME TUL.ME gUr-p-S.ME
GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN.MES ina URU tu-u-ha
at-ta-har
1 u-i URU. MES-/ BD.ME-//
dan-nu-te GR KUR ka-îa^-ri sa mlab-tu-ri

DUMU tu-pu-si ap-pl aq-qur ana DU6 U kar-me
-ter ina GiJukui-ti a-ur EN-a TA
URU tu-us-ha at-tu-mus GIS-GIGIRTMES"!
[dannti]
pit-hal-lu SAG-SU I p-si-i[a asseqe]
[ina] ^ra-ka^-[s]u-[t]e [D IDIGNA e-te-b]r
D[ muste r]-^te-di ana^ [URU] pi-^tu^-ra
TURUT d[an-n]u-ti--nu sa KUR di-[i]r-[r]a-a-ia
aq-ti-rib URU mar-si dan-nis 2 TBDT.MES laa-bi
ki-ir-hu- GIM -ba-an KUR-<? -qi
ina .ME M AH. MES a-ur EN-a
ina gi-pis RIN. HI. A. ME-7 u M-T it-mu-ri
it-ti--nu am-dah-hi-si ina 2 u4-me

la-a-am -ma na-pa-hi GIM DIKUR
GR.BAL
UGU--nu -gu-um nab-lu UGU-su-nu -az-ni-(in)

ina sip-si u dan-na-ni mu-dah-si-a
GIM an-ze-e VGU--nu i-e-H URU KUR-ud
8 ME RIN.MES mu-dah-si--nu ina
GIS.TUKUL.MES
-am-qit
SAG.DU.ME-5W-A7W -n-kS RIN.MES TI.LA.ME
HI. A.MES ina su -sa-bi-ta si-ta-te--nu

ina izi.MES GBIL al-la-su-nu DUGUD-/A as-lul
iv 63 Cf. A.0.101.1 ii 105 and the note.
iv 38b-50) After crossing Mount Kaiiari I went

down for a second time to the land(s) Nairi. I
pitched camp (and) spent the night (iv 40) in the
city igiu. Moving on from the city igiu I approached the city Madara, the fortified city of
Labturu, son of Tupusu. The city was well
fortified; it was surrounded by four walls. I
besieged the city, (iv 45) They took fright in face
of my mighty weapons and I received from them
property, possessions, (and) sons as hostages. I
spared their lives. I imposed upon them tribute,
taxes, (and) tax-collectors, (iv 50) razed (and)
destroyed the city (and) turned (it) into ruin hills.
iv 51-60a) Moving on from the city Madara I entered the city Tuha. I consecrated a palace in
Tuha. I received in Tusha tribute from the land
Nirdun, horses, (iv 55) mules, casserole(s), armour, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. I razed, destroyed, (and) turned into ruin hills 60 cities,
mighty garrisons, at the foot of Mount Kasiiari,
iv 60b-83a) With the support of Aur, my lord, I
moved on from the city Tuha. [I took] with me
[strong] chariots, cavalry, (and) crack troops. I
crossed the [Tigris] by means of a bridge of rafts.
(iv 65) the fortified city of the Dirru. The city was
exceptionally difficult; it was surrounded by two
walls; its citadel was lofty like a mountain peak.
With the exalted strength of Aur, my lord, with
my massive troops, and with my fierce battle
(iv 70) I fought with them. On the second day,
before sunrise, I thundered against them like the
god Adad-of-the-Devastation (and) rained down
flames upon them. With might and main my combat troops flew against them like the Storm Bird.
I conquered the city, (iv 75) I felled 800 of their
combat troops with the sword (and) cut off their
heads. I captured many soldiers alive. The rest of
them I burnt. I carried off valuable tribute from
them. 1 built a pile of live (men and) of heads before (iv 80) his gate. I impaled on stakes 500 soldiers before their gate. I razed, destroyed, (and)
turned into ruin hills the city. I burnt their adolescent boys.
Ashurnasirpal ii A.0.101.17
79
80
a-S-t TL. LA. MES SAG. DU. MES ifl pU-Ut
81
82
K.GAL--nU
a-na GIS zi-qi-pi -za-qi-pi URU ap-pl
raq~}-qur ana DU6 U kar-me -ter L ba-tu-li-nu
83
ânaP [G]BIL-/E GBIL URU ku--ku-nu
84
n-reb
[Ku]R-e KUR ma-at-ni GAR-nu KUR-ud
7 TME"! RIN.ME ti-du-ki--nu ina
85
K.GAL-5W ar-sip
GI.TUKUL.ME
86
87
89
5 <ME> RIN.ME ina
pu-ut
pi-i
-am-qt
al-la-su-nu HI.A.ME a-lul 50 URU.DIDLI

KUR di-ri-a
KVK-ud GAZ.ME-s-nu a-duk al-la-su-nu alul
92
93
MAN-F/'-TF
ip-la-hu-ma
91
URU.DIDLI-SW- BD.ME
KAL.ME-TE
94
95
96
iv 83b-90a) I conquered the city Kkunu which is

at the entrance to the pass of Mount Matnu.
(iv 85) I felled with the sword 700 of their fighting
men. 1 carried off many captives from them. I
conquered 50 cities of the Dirru. I massacred
them, carried off prisoners from them, (and) captured 50 soldiers alive. I razed, destroyed, (and)
burnt the cities. 1 unleashed against them my
lordly radiance.
50 RIN.ME TI.LA.ME M U -Sa-b-ta

URU.DIDLI ap-pl aq-qur ina IZI.ME GBIL
me-lam-me
EN-ti-a UGU--nu at-bu-ku TA URU pi-tu-ra
at-tumA- a-na URU ar-ba-ak-ki KUR hab-hi
S[A] be-ta-ni at-tar-da TA IGI me-lam-me
90
251
u-e-ru ana u-zu-ub ZI.MEs--nu ana KUR

ma-at-na
KUR-E dan-ni e-li- EGIR.MES-SW- ar-e-di
1 LIM RIN.ME rmuq~-tab-li--nu ina ^q^reb KUR-<? mar-si
97
-^nap-pi-i[s ].MES-rP-nu KUR- as-ru-
98
hur-ru na-da-ba-^ku^ KUR-E -mal-li
99
2 ME RIN.ME TI.TLA^.MES ina u
up L.D.ME-5W-WW
-sa-be-ta
DI a-na
100) kap-pi-1 I-nu -ba-tiq 2 LIM al-la-su-nu

101) a-lul GU4.ME--nu UDU se-ni-^-nu 1 ana la
me-ni
102) -te-1 ra ' URU i-ia-i ia URU~I sa-ta-ni-ba
103) URU.DIDLI dan-nu-te URU r-ba-ak-ki
iv 90b-108) Moving on from the city Pitura I

went down to the city Arbakku in the interior of
the land Habhu. They took fright in the face of
my royal radiance and abandoned their cities
(and) walls. To save their lives they climbed up
Mount Matnu, (iv 95) a mighty mountain. I went
after them. I slew 1,000 of their men-at-arms
within the rugged mountain, dyed the mountain
red with their blood, (and) filled the ravines (and)
torrents of the mountain with their corpses. I captured 200 soldiers alive (and) (iv 100) cut off one
arm from each of them. I carried off 2,000 captives from them. I brought back oxen (and) sheep
from them without number. I conquered the cities
Iiaia (and) Salaniba, fortified cities of the city Arbakku. I massacred (and) carried off prisoners
from them. I razed, destroyed, (and) turned into
ruin hills (iv 105) 250 of the well-fortified cities of
the lands Nairi. I reaped the harvest of their land
(and) stored the barley and straw in the city
Tuha.
KUR-WRF
I~GAZ~I. MES-^SIH-nu a-duk al-la-su-nu a-lul
105) 2 ME 5 0 URU.DIDLI BD.ME dan-i nu-te
' KUR I.KUR Rna-i-ri
104)
106) ap-pl aq-qur ana DU6 ^kar^-me -[t]er

107) GI e-sa-di KUR-ti--nu e-si-di E.UM.ME
108) TGI.IN.NU.ME^ ina URU û-us^-ha âO-buuk
109) t~mam-me-ba-a^-lD DUMU za-ma-^nP
L, GAL. ME-te-
110) [ib]-^bal-ki-tu-u^-ma TGAZT.ME-5W a-^na~I
tu-ru gi-me-l[im]
111) [a ma]m-m[e]-^ba^-a^-li a-lik T[A] IGI na-mura-at
112) [kakkia] û I ur-ba-at EN-Rti-a^ e-du-ru-ma
iv 109-120) The nobles of Amme-ba^l, a man of

Blt-Zamni, (iv 110) rebelled against him and
killed him. I marched to avenge Amme-ba;1.
They took fright before the brilliance of [my
weapons] and awe of my dominion (and) [I received harnessed chariots], equipment for troops
(and) horses, [460] harness-trained horses, [two
252
113) [narkabi rakisu] fhal-lu-up-te rin.me

AN eT . KUR. RA. MES
114) [4 me 1 i] rANE^.KUR. Tra.ME LAL-a GI"1
ni-ri-
115) [2 GUN K.BABBAR.m]e [2] T g u N K^.GI.TmE
1 ME(?) GlJN 1
116) [an.na.mes 1 ME gun zabar].Tme 3 ME gun

AN. BAR. ME 1
117) [1 ME TUL ZABAR 3 LIM kapp Z A B A ] r J ME
SQ-Gp-li. ME~I
118) [zabar agannte z a b a r 1 lim t g lu]-^bP-
talents of silver, two] talents of gold, 100 talents

of [tin, 100 talents of bronze], 300 talents of iron,
[100 bronze casseroles, 3,000 bronze receptacles,
bronze] bowls, [bronze containers, 1,000] linen
garments [with multi-coloured trim, dishes,
chests, couches of ivory (and) decorated with
gold, the treasure of his palace (also) 2,000
oxen, 5,000 sheep, his sister with her rich dowry,
(and) the daughters of his nobles with their rich
dowries].
Lacuna
119) [...]
120) [...] ruh-hui-[zu-te]
Lacuna
Col. v
1) u r u kal-hu mah-ra-a ml-ma-nu-SAG
2) man k u r a-ur NUN-w d u iGi-Z e-pu-u URU
u-
3) e-na-ah-ma is-lal a-na DU6 kar-me
4) -tr u r u u- a-na e--te
5) ab-ni D-tu i-tu d za-ba
6) an. t a ah-ri d ba-be-lat-h.gl
7) MV- ab-b gi.kiri 6 .me ana li-me-tu-
8) GI.GUB.ME GI.GURUN.ME D.A.BI
GETIN.ME
9) as-hu-ut SAG.ME-? ana a-ur en-/
10) . kur.me kur-ia a-qi bd ana e--te
11) ar-sip t a u-e- a-di gaba-dib-bi-
12) ar-sip -k-lil .gal
13) ana u-bat man-ti-a ana mul-ta-a^-t
14) EN-ti-a da-ra-a-te ina ad-di
15) -si-im -ar-rih si-kt kar-ri z a b a r
16) al-me-i gi.ig.me gi..suh 5 .me
17) mah.me d-ws ina me(*)-sir zabar.me
18) -ra-ki-si ina K- -ra-ti
19) GI.GU.ZA.ME GI.ESI.ME GI.TG.ME
20) gi.banur. mes z.ME uh-hu-za-te
21) K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME AN.NA.ME
ZABAR.ME
22) AN.BAR.MES k-t- U-a KUR.KUR.MES
23) a-pe-lu-i-na-ni al-qa-a ina lb-bi
24) -kun nun-w egir-w an-hu-sa lu-ud-di
25) mu at-ra ana -ri- lu-ter a-ur
26) ik-ri-be-u i-em-me .gal
27) ki-u-e-ia u-bat UAN-ii-ia u r u kal-hi
28) la i-na-di-i~ma~i pa-an kr.me la -ma-ar
29) gi.ig.me gi. tr1.me si-kt kar-ri
30) u.ka.an q-reb- la i-na-i
v 6 ID ba-be-lat-H.GL: sec the note to A , 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 iii 135.

v 8 GI.GUB.ME: error for az/-qup. See A.0.101.1 iii 135
and A.O. 101.30 line 39. v 9 as-hu-ut: see the note to
A.O. 101.30 line 39. v 9 SAC.ME-e: see the note to A.O. 101.30
v l-24a) The
ancient
city
Calah
which
Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, a prince who preceded me, had built this city had become dilapidated; it lay dormant (and) had turned into ruin
hills. I rebuilt this city, (v 5) I dug out a canal
from the Upper Zab (and) called it Bbe1at-hega11i
('Bearer of Abundance'). I planted orchards with
all kinds of fruit trees in its environs. I pressed
wine (and) gave the best to Aur, my lord, (v 10)
and the temples of my land. I rebuilt the wall. I
built (and) completed it from top to bottom. I
founded therein a palace as my royal residence
(and) for my lordly leisure for eternity, (v 15) I
decorated (it) in a splendid fashion. I surrounded
it with knobbed nails of bronze. I made high
doors of fir, fastened (them) with bronze bands,
(and) hung (them) in its doorway. I took and put
therein thrones of ebony (and) boxwood, (v 20)
dishes decorated with ivory, silver, gold, tin,
bronze, iron, booty from the lands over which I
gained dominion.
v 24b-45a) iMay a later prince restore its weakened (portions and) restore my inscribed name to
its place. (Then) Assur will listen to his prayers.
He must not forsake my mighty palace, my royal
residence, of Calah, nor abandon (it) in the face
of enemies. He must not remove the doors,
beams, (or) knobbed nails (v 30) of bronze from
line 39. v 17-18 Regarding bronze gates and doors see

A.O. 101.51. V 30 SIJ.KA.AN: error for UD.KA.BAR = ZABAR =
'bronze', sikkt karri (a) siparri is the expected expression. If
the word uknu (see von Soden, AHw p. 1262b) were to be
ina URU -n-e .GAL -ni-te la i--kan
GIS.R.ME-5T la --bar na-sa-ba-te-
la -na-sa-ah mu-si K zi-ni-
la i-ka-si-ir K- la i-pa-hi
ana na-km-te la e-ki-im-i
ana ki-li la i-ar-ra-ak-i
L.ME MUNUS.ME-G si-be-te
ina
la e-sir ina la-ma-a-ri mu-u-ri

la ke-i-(ri> la u-har-ma-si .GAL-/M
-ni-tu ina MURUB4-// URU ina ki-i(*)-di URU
ki-i .GAL-/TF la e-re-b nap-tar-t
la i-ra-si-pi ina la e-ra-ba m im-ma
a-mat HUL-te la i-ha-sa-sa-ma
pa-an <ekal> kis-su-ti-ia su-bat MAN -ti-a
la --pa-ra-ak
sa { k ) pi MU. SAR-?-?
an-n-e e-pa-su ta-me-tu sit-ri-a

la u-te-nu-
a-ûr^
GAL. MES-/? mu-ar-bu-
BAD DINGIR.MES
MAN-ti-a
EN-SU
ina nap-har KUR. KUR. ME S- te lu-sar-bu-

ina li-te ki-u-ti(*) me-tel-lu-ti
li-ir-ta-du- <bi)-lat kib-rat(*) 4-i
ina is-qi-u lu-at-l-mu nu-uh-u
t-uh-du W(*) he-gal-lu ina KUR-U
lu-kn-nu a ki-i pi-i MU.SAR-ia
an-n-e la e-pa- ta-me-et
it-ri-ia u-te-nu- ALAM
u-a-i i-â-ab-ba-tu-ma
-m-sa-ku ina pi--te i-ka-ta-mu-
ina e-pe-ri i-qa-bi-ru-s ina IZI.ME
GBIL-5 ina A.ME i-na-du-u
a-na
ki-bi-is -ma-mi me-te-eq

bu--li i--ak-ka-nu- ta-me-et
it-ri-ia um-ma-na-te a-na a-ma-ri
-se-e i-kal-lu- ina pa-an
MU.SAR.ME -ia m an-ma ki-i la-ma-a-r
' ' la -se-e i-pa-ar-ri-ku
-i m iz -zi-ir-ti i-na-ti-na
na-âk^-ra â-ha^-[a (x) a-i]a-a-ba lem-na
lu ki-fli
a-Vme-lu-ta
i-kn zi-ti -ma-â-ru-ma
--ha-zu i-pa-pi-tu 1-sa-ap-pi-^ri0
EME- a-na bar-ti u-te-en-nu-
a-na hul-lu-uq ALAM-ia
an-n-e ta-me-ti ana u-un-n-ê1
-zu-un- i--ka-nu-ma lb-ba-
read one would expect -sa as a suffix to all four items listed,
v 37 See Schramm, EAK 2 p. 33. v 39 la ke-i-(ri): cf.
RIMA 1 p. 274 line 131. See Grayson, ARI 2 p. 155 n. 670.
v 40 i: text has TA. See J. Lewy, ZA 36 (1925) pp. 148-49 n.
3 and cf. CAD 8 (K) p. 347a and Schramm, EAK 2 p. 33.
v 41 la e-re-bi: one expects la errab although the grammatical
form could be explained as the use of the infinitive for a finite
253
it (and) put them in another city (in) another

palace. He must not smash its beams. He must
not tear out its drain pipes. He must not clog the
outlets of its rain spouts. He must not block up
its door, (v 35) He must neither appropriate it for
a warehouse (nor) turn it into a prison. He must
not incarcerate its (the palace's) men or women as
prisoners therein. He must not allow it to disintegrate through neglect, desertion, or lack of renovation. (v 40) He must not move into another
palace, either within or without the city, instead
of my palace. He must not rend the lock, (for)
there must not be open access. He must neither
conceive an injurious plan nor put it into effect to
the disadvantage of my mighty <palace), my
royal residence.
v 45b-54a) As for the one who acts according to
this inscription of mine (and) does not alter the
ordinances of my text: may Assur, the god Enlil,
(and) the great gods who make my sovereignty
supreme, make his dominion supreme in all lands,
(v 50) May they constantly lead him in victory,
might, and heroism. May they grant the tribute of
the four quarters as his portion. May they establish in his land plenty, affluence, and abundance,
v 54b-96a) As for the one who does not act according to (v 55) this inscription of mine (but)
alters the ordinances of my text; (who) destroys
this monument, discards (it), covers it with oil,
buries it in dust, (v 60) burns it with fire, throws
it in water, puts it in the path of beasts or the
track of animals; (who) prevents scholars from
seeing and reading the ordinances of my inscription, bars anyone access (v 65) to my inscription
in order that it might not be seen and read;
(who), because of these curses, instructs and incites a stranger, a foreigner, a malignant enemy, a
prisoner, or any living (v 70) being so that he destroysy chisels away, changes its wording to something else; (v 75) (who) makes up his mind and
decides to destroy this monument of mine and to
alter my ordinances and (therefore) commands a
scribe or diviner or anyone else, 'Destroy this
monument! Its dictates are not to be observed!'
(v 80) and whoever heeds his statements; (who)
conceives anything injurious and orders (it to be
done) to my works and my monument; (who)
form (see the introduction to A.0.99.2), but this is very rare

(although possibly occurring with la e-pa-e in v 79).
v 44 (ekal): see Schramm, EAK 2 p. 33. v 45 (k): cf. v 54
and see Schramm, EAK 2 p. 33. v 51 <bi)-lat: cf. A.0.101.40
line 40. v 71 i-pa-pi-tu: cf. RIMA 1 p. 238 v 24 and von
Soden, AHw p. 824a.
254
76)
77)
78)
79)
80)
81)
82)
83)
84)
i-ma-al-li-ku- lu- L.A.BA
lu LU.HAL lu- ma-âm -ma -nu-
NU u-a-t hul ihiq p-i-
la e-pa-e i-qa-ab-ba--
pi-i- i-e-em-mu- mm-ma
a-mat HUL-ti i-ha-sa-sa-ma a-na ep-e-ti-a
ALAM-ia -ma-)a-ru a-na-ku
la i-di -qa-ab-bu- (*) ina MAN-ti-{)
pa-^nP- a-na bat-te i--ka-nu-ma
85) ALAM -
says, 'I know nothing (of this)' and during his

sovereignty diverts his attention elsewhere (v 85)
with the result that this monument is destroyed
and smashed (or) the wording of its text altered;
or (who) seeks (to do) evil against this monument
of mine: may Aur the great lord, the Assyrian
god, (v 90) lord of destinies, curse his destiny;
may he remove his works; may he pronounce an
evil curse for the uprooting of the foundations of
his sovereignty and the destruction of his people;
may he inflict his land with distress, famine,
hunger, (v 95) and want.
Ma^-ab-ba-t-ma
86) ih-ha-ra-Vam-ma~}-tu a-ma-tu s pi-i-

87)
u-te-en-\ na i-a R^ ana ALAM-/T
88)
89)
90)
91)
92)
u-a-tu U-lm-^nP- il-teû-

a-ur EN GAL-W TDINGIRT -u-ru-
EN i-ma-a-tl RP-[m]a-ti- li-ru-ur
ep-e-ti- lu-^na-kP-ir er-re-ta
ma-ru-ûP-ta ^na-sah iP-di MAN-//'-S
93)
u ZH UN.ME-5W
li-it-ta-s-qar
94) su-um-qa bu-bu-ta ^ nidb^-[r]i-^ xP

95) hu--ah-ha a-na KVR--
96) l-du- a-na ALA[M-/]
97) u-a-t e-^zP-zu-ma an-na-â mP-na
98) -qa-bu- a-nu DBAD R^N [ D ] R ^ A I
99) DINGIR.MES mi-ig-ri-ia i-[i]-i ru i
100) la-a 1 na -ma-ri-i su ' ina ^pi-P--nu
101) kab-i i 1P-iq-bu LGIS.TUKULI [l]a-â^
102) sa-i 1P-ma ^^ la ma-ga-ri [se]-êP-ta
103) ip-pi-ra [puh]-pu-ha Ina KUR-Ru lu-ki-mP
v 96b-103) As for the one who becomes angry

with this monument of mine and says, 'What is
this?': may the gods Anu, Enlil, and Ea, the gods
who approve of me, (v 100) decree by their
weighty edict his unhappiness; may they establish
a truceless war without terms, strife, conflict,
(and) battle in his land.
18
This fragmentary and enigmatic text is found on a stone stele, commonly called the 'White Obelisk', discovered at Nineveh by Rassam. A
number of panelled reliefs are also engraved upon the stele. The attribution of this text to Ashurnasirpal II is still much debated but I continue to believe Sollberger, who published the most recent edition, is
probably right in ascribing it to this king. Since Sollberger's publication Reade has argued for an attribution to Ashurnasirpal i, a king
who is otherwise very obscure (see A.0.92), while von Soden has proposed the more general time period between Aur-b1-ka1a and
Ashurnasirpal n.
The beginning of the text is missing but it probably started with an
invocation of various deities and the royal names and titles, similar to
introductory passages found on other such steles (e.g. A.0.101.17 and
19-20). The preserved portion of the text describes campaigns, which
took place early in the reign, in the area of Mount Kaiiari (cf.
v 79 la e-pa-e: use of the infinitive as a finite form. See the

commentary to A.0.99.2 and cf. the note to v 41. v 85-86 See
Meier (Weidner), A f O 21 (1966) p. 71. v 96 ii-du-: lit. 'may
they (not he) inflict', v 97 an-na-â rnH-na: cf. A.0.101.50 line
i-\i]-^ru i: see Schramm,

EAK 2 p. 33. v 102 [se]êH-ta: sec CAD 7 (1/J) p. 165a and
16 (S) p. 87b. v 103 \puh\-pu-ha: see CAD 7 (1/J) p. 165a, 16
41 and see CAD 4 (E) p. 428b. v 99
(S) p. 87b, and von Soden, AHw p. 876b.
255
A.0.101.1 i 101 - ii 1 and parallels). The inscription, which is engraved on various parts and sides of the stele, abruptly ends and, since
there is much blank space left on the stone, it is clearly unfinished.
On one panel there is an engraved scene (see Sollberger p. 238 for a
drawing by Searight) with an epigraph which refers to the Bt-nathi of
Nineveh. This shrine, which was part of the Istar temple complex at
Nineveh, is mentioned only in texts of Ashurnasirpal n: A.0.101.56
lines 14-15 and A.0.101.137. Various etymologies have been offered
for the word nathi, the most recent being that by Vieyra, RA 69
(1975) pp. 55-58. ~
COMMENTARY
T h e stele (BM 118807, 5 6 - 9 - 9 , 5 8 ) is a b o u t 3 metres in
height a n d was discovered by Rassam in July of 1853
'about
two
hundred
feet t o t h e n o r t h e a s t
of
S e n n a c h e r i b ' s palace' at K u y u n j i k . T h e inscription has
been collated.
T h i s edition very closely follows t h e a u t h o r i t a t i v e
edition published by Sollberger. A detailed discussion

of the text a n d individual p r o b l e m s , which I was f o r t u n a t e l y able t o discuss with Sollberger b e f o r e his public a t i o n , will be f o u n d in his edition a n d there is n o need
t o repeat the c o m p l e x c o m m e n t a r y here.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1897
1932
1936
1973
1974
Rassam, Asshur p. 8 (provenance)

Unger, MAO G 6/1-2 (photo, copy, edition)
Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 48-49 (study)
Sollberger, Iraq 36 pp. 231-38 and pis. XLI-XLVIII (photo,
copy, edition)
1975
1975
1976
1981
1982
Reade, Iraq 37 pp. 129-50 (study)

von Soden, ZA 64 pp. 180-91 (study)
Reade in Fales, ARIN pp. 147-48 (study)
TEXT
Lacuna
10
2')
[...]
GAL-i -i-bu [GI].[GIGI]R.ME

RIN.HI.A.ME-TE [DAGAL.ME]-TE I FFFIM-[/*]
3')
[h]a-al-su-te la-ma-ri pat-te-pat-[te]
a[k]-
RUcP M.ME r ANE.KUR.RA.ME^
4')
5')
6')
7')
8')
9')
i-tu KUR gl-za-ni ' am ]-[hur] ni x [x (x) ha]r

ina gi-n-1 e ^-[kin(1) au(1)]
ANSE.KUR.RA.ME a-na bit-te la -[e-ri-b]u-ni
al-[la-bi-ib-ma(?)] a-na
URU ha-ri-ra URU hal-ha-la-u R&FI [E]N.MEni [bl] hi-i-t a[l]-lih
u-a-tu ina li-me ma-ur-PAB-A âk^-[]ud
NG-su-^nu al-la-su-nu^
bu--u-nu mar-i-su-nu -e-sa-a a-na URUia a-ur ub-la
URU sa-x-[t]i-u-nu
GAL- a-di UN.ME-S[W]
V - l For a plausible restoration see the note to A.0.87.1 i 62.

3' Von Soden, ZA 64 (1975) p. 181 has objected to
Sollberger's reading at the line's beginning. 5' bit-te: von
Lacuna
1'18'a) [In my accession year (and) in my first
regnal year, after] 1 nobly ascended [the royal
throne], I mustered my chariotry (and) extensive
troops. I conquered inaccessible fortresses round
about. I received a tribute of horses from the land
Gi1znu. ... [Because] (5') horses were not {continually) brought in hither to me I [became angry
and] marched to the cities Harira (and) Haihalaus
which (were under the authority) of the guilty
rulers. Those I conquered in the eponymy of
Ashurnasirpal. I took out their property, booty,
possessions, (and) herds (and) brought (them) to
my city Aur. The great ... city together with its
people I dedicated (10') to Aur, my god (and)
my lord, ... I conquered. Lords [...] who [had
fled] to the land ubr which [...]. They put their
Soden, ZA 64 (1975) p. 183 still maintains his reading pit-te.

7' -a-tu 'that': one expects atunu 'those' (cf. line 25').
256
10')
IT)
12')
13')
14')
15')
a-na a-ur DINGIR-ZA

EN-ia r(f\-qi
[...] X [x] X KUR-ud EN.MES [...]
[...] ^(fi-na KUR ub-re-e r&fi [...]
[...] a-na gi-pi RIN.HI.A.ME-te-[unu]
[danni dan]-ni it-tk-lu-u-ma [...]
16')
[...] ... [...]
[full] trust in the might of [their] troops and

they seized.
17') [...] ... a n . . . [...]

18') [...] is-bu-tu ina q-bit a-ur [...]
19')
18'b-33') By the command of Aur, [...] the great

lord, my lord, I mustered my chariotry [...] (and)
troops. I reached the city. [...] abandoned the
city. Horses, oxen, [...] chariotry with ... he
mustered. [I attacked] fiercely. I raised the torch
(and) [quickly] crossed through the heart of
Mount Kasiiari on foot. I marched to those cities.
[...] at night I surrounded their cities. [...] At sunrise I fought with the might of [chariotry] (and)
extensive troops. I massacred many. I conquered
the cities Amlattu, aburam, Ruzidak, Bugu,
(and) Ustu, rebel cities of the land Dannuna. I
burnt (them and) their booty, possessions, property </ brought out).
[ . . . ] EN GAL-? EN-/T rGI.GIGIR.ME~I-[TE . . . ]
20') [...] RIN.HI.A.ME-/E-/F ad-ki i~URU ak-ucP

[...]
21') [...] URU -i-ra ANE.KUR.RA.ME TGU4.ME"!

[...]
22') [...] GIS(?) GAB(?) SW(?) [...] RA [...]
23') [...] GI.GiGiR.MES ina GUB.BA id-ki i-it-muri-i

24;) [atbma(1)] a-i zi-iq-te ina GR.II.ME-/7 lbbi KUR ka-ia-ri
25') [hanti(1)] lu ab-bal-kit a-na URU.ME -tunu lu al-lik
26') [...] mu-i-ta URU.ME--nu al-rni
27') [..J ina -ma [n]a-pa-hi it-ti gi-pi
28')
[narkabte]
RIN.HI. A.ME-/E DAGAL.ME-TE
29') am-da-h[i-i]s [d]i-ik-ta-* u -nu ma-â-ta aduk

3&) URU RanO-lat-ti URU -bu[r]-ânP URU ruzi-da-ak
31') URU bu-gu URU US-t URU.ME-M BAL. MES
32') [K]UR dan-nu-na ak-ud ina IZI.ME -ru-up
33') al-la-su-nu bu--u-nu nam-kur-u-nu
(us[1)>
Epigraph
1) t-na-at-hi URU ni-nu-a GETIN
Epigraph
1-2) Bt-nathi of the city Nineveh: I perform the
wine libations (and) sacrifices of the temple of the
exalted goddess.
UDU. SISKUR. ME-/E
2)
.KUR DINGIR sir-te DV-s
19
This text is engraved on a stone stele, commonly called the 'Kurkh
Monolith', discovered at Kurkh (near Diyabakir) by Taylor in October
1861. Besides the text, which is inscribed on both sides of the monument, a figure of the king is carved in relief on the obverse. The stone,
now in the British Museum, is badly worn.
The text begins (lines 1-25) with an invocation of various deities
and the royal name with epithets. It then continues, and concludes,
with a description of the fifth campaign. The same campaign is also
described in A.0.101.1 (ii 86-125) but in much less detail and with
significant variants which have been noted in the edition of A.0.101.1.
13 Cf. A.0.101.1 ii 8 and parallels. 29' [d]i-ik-ta-r^-nu: cf.

von Soden, ZA 64 (1975) p. 181.
Ashurnasirpal n A.O, 101.19
257
It is clear that this text does not conclude with a building section
and blessings and curses. This also seems to be the case with various
compilations of campaign accounts, viz. A.O. 101.3-15. On the other
hand, A.0.101.1, 2, 23 (and exs. 2-5 of A.0.101.26), 30, 51, and 67
each have a building section but no blessings or curses. This is in contrast to the usual form of Assyrian royal inscriptions and to other
texts of Ashurnasirpal, such as the Nimrud Monolith (A.0.101.17). I
know of no reason for this departure from the norm.
COMMENTARY
T h e s t o n e stele ( B M 118883 = old n o . 125) stands c.
112 cm high a n d t h e inscription has been collated. Collation h a s s h o w n t h a t King's publication is m o r e accurate t h a n t h a t of Le G a c , a n d the n u m e r o u s errors in
t h e latter publication have n o t been itemized since this
w o u l d clutter u p the notes unnecessarily. Lines 1 - 4 9 a r e
on t h e o b v . a n d lines 50-103 on t h e rev. T h e scribe
w h o engraved t h e text on t h e stele m a d e several errors,
s o m e of which he a t t e m p t e d to correct. This suggests,
as with t h e N i m r u d M o n o l i t h (A.0.101.17), that he was

w o r k i n g hastily u n d e r a deadline. N o d o u b t the a r m y
was a n x i o u s t o p u s h o n .
A s r e m a r k e d in t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n , the f i f t h c a m p a i g n
is also described b u t m o r e briefly in A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 . T h e
parallel passages are: A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 9 lines 2 8 - 2 9
//
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 ii 86-87; A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 9 lines 3 5 - 5 2 / / A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1
ii 87-91; A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 9 lines 5 4 - 9 0 / / A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 ii 91-125.
1870
1902
1907
1926
3 R pi. 6 (copy)
King, AKA pp. 222-42 (copy, edition)
Le Gac, Asn. pp. 137-51 (copy)
1936
1973
1976
1982

TEXT
1)
2)
a-ur DIKUR d 30
u -ma ÎNANNA
3)
DINGIR.ME GAL.MES
4)
a-li-ku-ut IGI RIN.HI.A.ME-7
5)
6)
I)
MAN dan-nu MAN MAN KUR a-ur

(sa) ina GJukul-ti a-ur -ma
a-ur-PAB-A MAN GAL.MES
8)
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES EN.ME-TF
9)
10)
II)
12)
Du.Du-fcw-ratf ina mal-ki kib-rat

4-ta -nin-u la i-- NUN-W
na-â-du qa-di-id DU mal-k la a-di-r
GI.LAL -m-gal4u ek-du \~mu \-pr-ri{*y\ ir
knsir mul-tar-hi gi-gi-nu- dan-nu
mu-kab-bi-si G mal-ki la (ma)-gi-ru-te-u
e-[du]- gap-u la i--na-nu R MURUB4 ]-
[x x] x ar-hu x x la [x x x (x)] MAN
I MAN L MES [bl] EN-e x [x x] f mu^-[ri-ib(1)]
13)
14)
15)
16)
TGITLAL
11 qa-di-id: the G of qadadu can be used transitively and

there is no need to amend to (mu)-qa-di-id. See CAD 13 (Q)
1-4)Aur, god Adad, god Sn and god ama,

goddess Itar, great gods who go at the head of
my troops;
of the universe, king of Assyria, (who) acts with
the support of Aur (and) the god ama, the
great gods, my lords, and has no rival among the
princes of the (10) four quarters, attentive prince,
subduer of all princes, fearless in battle, ferocious
dragon, the one who breaks up the forces of the
rebellious, strong gigin, who treads upon the
necks of the princes insubmissive to him, (15)
mighty flood-tide whose conflict cannot be
rivalled, magnificent
who ... [...], king of
kings, [lord] of lords, he who [stirs up] battle
[and] conflict, who forces to bow down princes
insubmissive to him, who rules all peoples, strong
king, who destroys the fortifications of his ene-
p. 45a sub 2a. 16 [bet] EN-?: see Seux, ERAS p. 55 n. 60 and

p. 318 n. 277. 16-17 ^mu^-[ri-ib{L)] TGISI.LAL [] tam-ha-ri:
258
[z>] tam-ha-ri mu--ak-me-si mal-ki la
kan-u-te- nap-har ki-at UN.MES i-pe-lu
MAN dan-nu mu-â-bit TBDT KR.ME-SW
mu--bi-ir
mies, who smashes (20) the weapons of the

princes of all the (four) quarters, marvellous
shepherd, commander of all people, king of all
the four quarters, sun(god) of all people;
GIS, TUKUL. MES mal-ki Dj-i-na UB.ME

L.SIPA-W tab-ra-a-te -pi-ir D UN.ME
MAN kl-lat kib-rat 4-ta am-u MAN kiat UN. TME^
DUMU I"TUKUL 1-MA la ma-gi-^ru^-te-ii
na \-pi-su-\ ma^
-^na^-ki-su G muq-tab-li DUMU.DUMU
M
10-F RIN.TH^
-ki-nu URU.ME e-nu-ma a-ur EN na-bu-

MV-ia mu-ar-bu- MAN-//-G -kal-^lim-an^ni-ma
2-te- ana KUR na-i-ri a-la-ku iq-ba-a
na ITI.SIG4 UD 1.KM l-me m-mNGm-maSIG5
GI. GIGIR.ME RIN.HI. A.ME-7
ad-ki
D.HAL.HAL -t-br
ina id-di hu-li-a ana [URU(?)] ^lP-ma-^le-e
URU kal-eX-)[(a)]
ina KUR ka-di-î-ha-ru^ x [x] GIS US LA A [X
(x)] x [x x x x (x)]
ana URU âp^-qe-tar-ba TA URU âp-qattum4-mu
5 UR.MAH.ME ina SAG URU i~mal(l)i-hi-na
ina
KUR hat-te
ina GIS.BAN-a ez-ze-te -am-qit
ana KUR kat-mu-hi e-tar-ba .GAL-lum ina
URU ti-lu-li
-sa-ri ma-da-t KUR kat-mu-hi
ina URU ti-lu-li a-ta-har
TA KUR kat-mu-hi at-tum^-mm ina n-re-be
i*-tr. MES e-tar-^ba i ina URU ki-ba-ki
a-sa-kan
be-dk
GU4.ME UDU.ME GESTIN.MES
TUL.ME [(ZABAR)]
ma-da-t URU ki-ba-ki at-ta-har

TA URU ki-ba-ki at-tum^-mus
âna1 URU mat-i-ia-te aq-ti-rib URU mat-i-iate
a-di kap-ra-ni- ak-(ta)-ad
2 LIM 8 ME RN.ME ti-du-ki--nu ina
GI.TUKUL
23-25a) son of Tukult-Ninurta (II), who slew

those insubordinate to him (and) slashed the
necks of warriors; grandson of Adad-nrrT (II),
(who) founded cities:
25b-52a) When Assur, the lord who called my
instructed me and commanded me for a second
time to march to the land(s) Nairi; on the first
day of the month Sivan, in the eponymy of ailma-damqa, I mustered my chariotry (and)
troops. I crossed the Tigris. (30) In the region of
my road to [the city] Limal (and) the city Kalse
[(which is)] in the land Kadiharu I marched ... I
entered the city Apqu. I moved on from Apqu. I
killed with my fierce bow five lions before the city
Malhina in the land Hatti. (35) I entered the land
Katmuhu. I consecrated a palace in the city Tfluli. I received tribute from the land Katmuhu in
TTl-uli. Moving on from the land Katmuhu I entered the pass of the land Itarte. (40) I pitched
camp (and) spent the night in the city Kibaku. I
received tribute from Kibaku, oxen, sheep, wine,
(and) casseroles. Moving on from Kibaku, I approached the city Matiatu. I conquered Matiatu
together with its suburbs. (45) I felled with the
sword 2,800 of their fighting men (and) carried off
many captives from them. The troops, as many as
had fled from my weapons, submitted to me (and)
I settled them in their cities. (50) I imposed upon
them stringent tribute, taxes, (and) labourers. I
made an image of myself (and) wrote thereon (an
account of) my powerful victories. I erected (it) in
Matiatu.
-am-qit
al-la-su-nu ma-â-t -lu-la

RIN.ME am-mar
TA IGI GI.TUKUL.ME-T ip-
rpri-i-du-ni
GR.II-ia is-bu-t URU.ME-RTi--nu
--as-bi-su-nu
GUN ma-da-t L -ra-si -dan-ni-ni
UGU--nu a-kun sa-lam rbu-na^-ni-a Dt-u
cf. murib anunte A.0.101.1 i 20, iii 127, etc. See Seux, ERAS
pp. 235-36. 23 -^na^-pi-su-^m^: see Schramm, EAK 2 p. 34
and cf. Seux, ERAS p. 187.
259
52) li-ti ki--ti-ia ina al-tr-ru ina URU matia-te -e-zi-iz URU bu-un-f~nu~'(-)[(...)]
53) [drni(1)] dan-nu-^tiD URU ma-^su^-la
r2~i uRU.ME-m li-me-t- ak-(ta)-ad 3
ME RIN.MES ti-du-ki--nu
ina GIS.TUKUL
54) -am-qit al-la-su-nu a-lu-la URU.MES-/ ina

izi a-sa-rap TA URU mat-ia-te at-^tum4-muP
55) âna^ URU za-za-bu-ha a-sa-kan be-dk mada-tu KUR hab-hi GU4.ME UDU.ME
GETIN.ME I TUL I.ME
56) tap-h i ZABAR sa-ap-li gur-pi-si ZABAR at-tahar TA URU za-za-bu-ha at-tum4-mu
57) [ina] ÛRU"! ir-si-a a-sa-kan be-dk URU ir-si-a
ina izi.ME a-sa-rap ma-da-tu sa URU u--ra
58)
[alp] UDU1.ME GETIN.ME TUL.ME ina
URU ir-si-a at-ta-har TA URU ir-si-a at-tum4mus ina lib-bi KUR ka-ia-ri
59) [assa]-kan be-dk URU ma-da-ra-an-zu 2
URU.MES-W li-me-t- ak-sud GAZ.MES-nu GAZ-âk aP-[la]60)
[su-nu a]- sa WT URU.MEs-ni ina IZI.MES a-sarap 6 UD.ME-E ina KUR ka-ia-ri KUR-?
dan-ni A.S
61) nam-ra-si a-na me-teq GI.GIGIR.ME
RIN.HI.A.ME-A la GAR-nu KUR- ina ka-la-
ba-te AN.BAR ak-kis ina afc-/R7-r/fi(.)[(ME)]
52b-63a) I conquered the city Bunnu(...), the

mighty [forts] of the city Masula, (and) two cities
in its environs. I felled with the sword 300 of
their fighting men, carried off prisoners from
them, (and) burnt the cities. Moving on from the
city Matiatu (55) I pitched camp (and) spent the
night at the city Zazabuha. I received tribute from
the land Habhu, oxen, sheep, wine, casseroles, a
bronze bath-tub, bowls, (and) bronze armour.
Moving on from Zazabuha I pitched camp (and)
spent the night [in] the city Irsia. I burnt Irsia, I
received tribute from the city ra, [oxen], sheep,
wine, (and) casseroles, in the city Irsia. Moving
on from Irsia [I] pitched camp (and) spent the
night within Mount Kaiiari. I conquered the city
Madaranzu (and) two cities in its environs. I massacred them, (60) carried off prisoners from them,
(and) burnt the cities. For six days within Mount
Kasiiari, a mighty mountain (and) rugged terrain
which was unsuitable for my chariotry (and)
troops, I cut through the mountain with iron axes
(and) smashed (a way) with copper picks. (Thus)
was I able to bring forward the chariotry (and)
troops. (From) the cities which were in the region
of my road within Mount Kasiiari I received
oxen, sheep, (and) wine.
URUDU AQ-FQUR
62)
GI.GIGIR.ME RIN.HI.A.ME -e-te-q
URU. MES-W/ M id-di hu-li-ia KUR kasa-ri GU4.ME UDU.ME GETIN
63) at-ta-har KUR ka-ia-ru at-ta-bal-kt 2-te-

ana KUR na-i-ri at-tar-da ina URU i-gi-u asa-kan be-dk TA URU i-{ gP-[u]
64) a-tum4-mu a-na URU ma-da-ra URU dannu-ti- sa mlab-tu-ri DUMU tu-pu-si aq-ti-rib
URU KAL-an dan-ni 4 BD.MES la-[a-bi]
65) URU a-si-be TA pa-an GIS.TUKUL.MES-T dannu-te ip-la-hu-ma NG.GA.ME-SW-KW bu-su-nu DUMU-u-nu a-na ap-^r^-[te]
66) [amhur]--nu a-na u-zu-bu zi.MES--nu AR--nu GUN ma-da-tu L -ra-si VGV--nu
a-kun URU ap-pl aq-qur
67) [ana tille u] kar-me -ter TA URU ma-da-ra
at-tum4-mu ana URU tu-u-ha e-tar-ba .GAL
URU tu-u-ha -sa-ri TGUN ma-da^-[tu]
68) [ KUR ni]-ir-du-un ANE.KUR.RA.ME
AN E. GR. NUN. N A. ME TUL.ME gUr-p-S
GU 4 .ME UDU.ME GETIN.ME ina URU
tu-us-
ha at-ta-har
69)
[1 i] URU.ME-/Z/ BD.ME dan-nu-te
59-60 For the reading connecting these lines see Schramm,

EAK 2 p. 24 to ii 94-95. 62 ka-a-ri is engraved over ia-ri.
63b-67a) After crossing Mount Kasiiari I went

down for a second time to the land(s) Nairi. I
igiu. Moving on from ig[iu] I approached the
city Madara, the fortified city of Labturu, son of
Tupusu. The city was well fortified; it was surrounded by four walls. (65) I besieged the city.
They took fright in face of my mighty weapons
and [I received] from them property, possessions,
(and) sons as hostages. I spared their lives (but)
imposed upon them tribute, taxes, (and) labourers. I razed (and) destroyed the city (and) turned
(it) [into] ruin hills.
67b-69) Moving on from the city Madara I entered the city Tuha. I consecrated a palace at
Tuha. I received in Tuiha tax (and) tribute [from
the land N]irdun, horses, mules, casseroles, armour, oxen, sheep, (and) wine. I razed, destroyed, (and) turned into ruin hills [60] wellfortified cities at the foot of Mount Kasiiari,
66
-AR--nu:
see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 99.
260
m
GR KUR ka-ia-ri lab-(u-ri DUMU (u-pu-si
ap-pl aq-qur ana DU6 U kar-me -ter

70) [ina] ^GIS^.tukul-ti a-ur EN-ia TA URU tuu-hi at-tum4-mu
GI.GIGIR.ME KAL-/W pit-
hal-lu -ri-su i-si-ia a-se-qe ina ra-ak-su-[te]

71) D.HAL.HAL e-ie-bir D mu-i-te ar-te-di ana
URU pi-^tu^-ra URU dan-nu-ti--nu URU
di-ir-ra-a-ia aq-ti-rib URU mar-^sP [danni]
72) 2 BD.ME la-bi ki-ir-hu-u GIM -ba-an KUR-E
-qi ina .ME MAH.MES a-ur EN-ia gi-pi
RIN.HI.A.ME-a u u-a it-mu-^rP [issunu]
73) am-dah-hi-si ina 2 u4-me la-a-am -ma
na-pa-hi GIM DIKUR ri-ih-si UGU--nu gu-um nab-li UGU--nu --az-[nin ina
ipsi] îP da-na-ni
74) mu-dah-hi-si-a GIM an-ze-e UGU--nu i-e-H
URU ak-ta-ad 8 ME RIN.ME mu-dah-hi-si-nu ina GI.TUKUL.ME -am-(qit>
SAG.DU.MES -[n-kis]
RIN.ME TI.LA.ME
75) ma-â-du-te ina u -sab-bi-ta si-ta-te--nu

ina IZI.ME -ru-pu al-la-su-nu DUGUu-ta
a-lu-la a-si-tu a TI.LA.ME [ SAG].DU.ME
76) vina^ pu-ut K.GAi--nu ar-sip 1 <ME>

RIN.ME ina pu-ut K.GAL--nu ana zi-qi-bi
-za-qi-bi URU ap-pl aq-qur ana DU6 U karme -ter L ba-tu-li- -nu 1
77) ana ma-aq-lu-te GBIL URU ku--^ku^-nu
pi-i n-re-bi KUR-E KUR ma-at-nu GAR-nu
ak-(ta)-ad 1 ME RIN.ME ti-du-ki--nu ina
GIS.TUKUL.ME -am-qit al-la-[su-nu] maâ-t
78) a-lu-la 40 URU.ME-/ sa KUR di-ir-ra-a-a
ak-ud GAZ. MES--nu a-duk al-la-su-nu aslu-la 40 RIN.ME TI.LA.ME ina su
-sab-bi-ta
70-77a) [With] the support of Aur, my lord, I

moved from the city Tuha. I took with me
strong chariots, cavalry, (and) crack troops. 1
crossed the Tigris by means of a bridge of rafts.
the fortified city of the Dirru. The city was [exceptionally] difficult; it was surrounded by two
walls; its citadel was lofty like a mountain peak.
With the exalted strength of Assur, my lord,
(with) my massive troops, and (with) my fierce
battle I fought [with them]. On the second day,
before sunrise, I thundered against them like the
god Adad-of-the-Devastation (and) rained down
flames upon them. [With might] and main my
combat troops flew against them like the Storm
Bird. I conquered the city. I felled 800 of their
combat troops with the sword (and) cut off their
heads. (75) I captured many soldiers alive. The
rest of them I burnt, I carried off valuable tribute
from them. I built a pile of live (men and) [of]
heads before their gate. 1 impaled on stakes 700
soldiers before their gate. 1 razed, destroyed,
(and) turned into ruin hills the city. I burnt their
adolescent boys as an offering.
77b-79a) I conquered the city Kkunu which lies
at the entrance to the pass of Mount Matnu. I
felled with the sword 700 of their fighting men. I
carried off many captives from them. I conquered
40 cities of the Dirru. I massacred them, carried
off prisoners from them, (and) captured 40 soldiers alive. I razed, destroyed, (and) burnt the cities. I unleashed against them my lordly radiance.
RURU^.[ME]-RNF
79) ap-pl aq-qur ina IZI.ME GBIL me-lam EN-tiia UGU--nu at-bu-ku TA URU pi-da-ra attumA-mu a-na URU ar-ba-ki KUR hab-hi
be-ta-[a-ni]
80) at-tar-da TA pa-an me-lam uAN-ti-ia ip-lahu-ma URU.ME-[n/*1 --nu BD.ME dannu-ti -e-ru ana u-zu-ub ZI.ME-5W-W ana
KUR ma-[at-n]a KUR-? dan-ni
81) e-li- ar-ki--nu ar-te-di 1 LIM L.RIN.ME
^muq^-tab---nu ina q-reb KUR-? mar-si
-nap-pi4s
.ME-<5/>-/W KUR-W as-ru-ûp
pag-ri .ME %--nu

82) hur-ru RI na-at-ba-ku KUR-* -mal-li 2
ME RIN.ME TI.LA.ME ina U
-sab-bi-ta
kap-ph-nu -bat-tiq(*) 2 LIM al-la-su-nu
70 -ri-su: see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 53. 70 ra-ak-su-[te]:

see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 103. 72 kirhuu ... aqi: cf.
A.0.101.1 ii 105 and the note. 76 7 <ME>: see the note to
79b-85a) Moving on from the city Pidara I went

down to the city Arbakku which is in the interior
of the land Habhu. They took fright in the face
of my royal radiance and abandoned their wellfortified cities. To save their lives they climbed up
Mount Matnu, a mighty mountain. I went after
them. I slew 1,000 of their men-at-arms in the
rugged mountain, dyed the mountain red with
their blood, (and) filled the ravines (and) torrents
of the mountain with their corpses. I captured 200
soldiers alive (and) cut off their arms. I carried off
2,000 captives from them. I brought back oxen
(and) sheep from them without number. I conquered the cities Iiaia (and) Salaniba, fortified cities of the land Arbakku. I massacred (and)
A.0.101.1 ii 109. 78 '40': see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 111.

79 pi-da-ra: see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 112.
83) a-lu-la GU4.ME UDU se-e-ni--nu ana la
me-na -te-ra URU i-ia-ia URU sa-la-ni-be
LJRU.ME-W dan-nu-te KUR ar-ba-ak-ki akud
84) GAZ. MES--nu a-duk al-la-su-nu as-lu-la
2 ME 50 URU.ME-ni BD.MES dan-nu-ti
tu-us-ha
at-bu-uk mam-ma-ba-aJ-ti DUMU za-ma-a-ni

86) L.GAL.ME-5WNU ib-bal-ki-t-ma GAZ-
ana tu-ru gi-me-li mam-mi-pa-a^-li a-lik TA
pa-an na-mur-at GIS . TUKUL .MES - ia sur-ba-at
87) EN-ti-ia e-du-ru-ma 40 GIS.GIGIR. MES ra-ki-su
hal-lu-up-tu
RIN.MES ANE.KUR.RA.MES 4 ME
1 U- ANE.KUR.RA.ME LAL-at GI n-r-^^

88)
T2T GUN K.BABBAR 2 GUN K.GI.MES 1 ME

GUN AN.NA. MES 2 ME GUN ZABAR(*) 3 ME
GUN ZABAR 3 ME GUN AN. BAR 1 LIM
TUL.ME ZABAR 2 LIM kap-pi
ZABAR
89) sa-ap-li a-ga-na-a-te ZABAR 1 LIM TG lubl-te bir-me GIS.GADA.ME BANSUR.MES

GI.NA5.ME GI n-ma-ta-a-te
Z.ME K.GI
uh-hu-zu-te
90)
ni-sir-te .GAl-1-U 2 UM GU4.ME 5 LIM
UDU.ME NIN-su a-di na-du-ni-s maâ-di

MUNUS.DUMU GAL.ME-5/ TA
na-du-ni-i-na-
ma ma-'a-di am-hur
91) mbur-ra-ma-a-nu EN hi-it-t a-ku-su KVS-
BD sa URU si-na-bu -hal-lip mi-la-a-nu E a-na f j j j i na-si-ku-te -kun
92)
2 MA.NA K.GI 1 3 ( ? ) MA.NA K.BABBAR 1 L1M
UDU.ME 2 LIM E.PAD.LIM ma-da-t

MU.DI.K[M-5ARN-rn]F ina UGU-5W a-kun URU
si-na-bu URU ti-i-du bi-ra-a-te

l-ma-nu-SAG MAN KUR a-ur NUN a-lik
IGI-ia ana KUR na-i-ri --as-bi-t-ni s KUR
a-ru-mu ina dan-na-ni e-ki-mu-ni a-na
94) ra-me-ni-ia -ut-te-ra L.ME-E KUR as-sur-aia ina KUR na-i-ri bi-ra-te a-ur -kallu--ni KUR a-ru-mu
95) ik-bu-su--nu-ni vRv.MES-ni--nu
.HI.A.MEl--nu na-tu(*)-te(*) --as-bi-^ta^
ub-tu n-eh-tu -e-i-ib--nu 1 LIM 5 TME1
96) RiN.HI.A.ME-TF ah-la-me-e KUR ar-ma-a-ia
mam-mi-pa-a>-li DUMU za-ma-a-ni a-su-ha
a-na KUR a-ur ub-la GI e-sa-di KUR na-i-ri
93)
carried off prisoners from them. I razed, destroyed, (and) turned into ruin hills 250 wellfortified cities of the land(s) Nairi. I reaped the
harvest of their land (and) stored the barley and
straw in the city Tuha.
KUR na-i-ri ap-pl lu aq-qur ana DU6 U karme

85) u-ter GIS e-sa(*)-di KUR-ti-s-nu e-si-di
SE.UM.ME u GI.IN.NU.ME ina URU
261
86 ur-ba-at: see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 78. 88 Regarding

the last half of the line see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 122.
89 BANSUR.MES GI,NA5.ME: see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 123.
92 '13(?)': the numeral might be '3\ 92 SE. PAD, LIM: for
E.PAD see Borger, RLA 3 p. 310a; von Soden, AHw p. 1222b.
85b-97) The nobles of Amme-ba^ll, a man of BltZamni, rebelled and killed him. I marched to
avenge Amme-ba^ll. They took fright before the
brilliance of my weapons (and) awe of my dominion (and) I received 40 harnessed chariots, equipment for troops (and) horses, 460 harness-trained
horses, two talents of silver, two talents of gold,
100 talents of tin, 200 talents of bronze, 300
talents of iron, 1,000 bronze casseroles, 2,000
bronze receptacles, bowls, bronze containers,
1,000 linen garments with multi-coloured trim,
dishes, chests, couches of ivory (and) decorated
with gold, (90) the treasure of his palace (also)
2,000 oxen, 5,000 sheep, his sister with her rich
dowry, (and) the daughters of his nobles with
their rich dowries. I flayed Bur-Ramnu, the
guilty man, (and) draped his skin over the wall of
the city Sinabu. I appointed 11nu, his brother, to
the position of sheikh. I imposed upon him as annual tribute two minas of gold, thirteen minas of
silver, 1,000 sheep, (and) 2,000 (measures) of barley. The cities Sinabu (and) Tdu fortresses
which Shalmaneser (n), king of Assyria, a prince
who preceded me, had garrisoned on (the border
of) the land(s) Nairi (and) which the Aramaeans
had captured by force I repossessed. (95) 1
resettled in their abandoned cities (and) houses
Assyrians who had held fortresses of Assyria in
the land(s) Nairi (and) whom the Aramaeans had
subdued. I placed them in a peaceful abode. I
uprooted 1,500 troops of the ahlam-ATamaeans
belonging to Amme-ba>l, a man of Bt-Zamni,
(and) brought (them) to Assyria. I reaped the harvest of the lands(s) Nairi (and) stored (it) for the
sustenance of my land in the cities Tusha,
Damdammusa, Sinabu, (and) Tdu.
92 MU.DI.K[M-am-m)a = attiamma: cf. A.0.87.1 ii 94

and scc Borger, BiOr 28 (1971) p. 18a (to i 8'). 95 na-tu-te:
text has T-AT-LA. See the note to A.0.101.1 ii 10. Cf.
Schramm, EAK 2 p. 34; J. Lewy, HUCA 27 (1956) p. 49
n. 197; Borger, BiOr 22 (1965) p. 166a.
262
97) e-si-di ina URU t-u-ha ina URU damamdam-mu-si ina URU si-na-bu ina URU ti-i-di
ana .ME KUR-/T
a-bu-ku
98) URU.ME-ni KUR ni-ir-du-un KUR lu-lu-ta

URU di-ir-ra KUR ag-gu-nu KUR ul-li-ba KUR
ar-ba-ki KUR ni-ir-be ak-ud GAZ--nu GAZ
99) al-la-su-nu a-lu-a URU. ME$-ni-u-nu ap-pl
aq-qur ana DU6 U kar-rne -er al-ku ku-duru LU -ra-a-si UGU KUR na-i-ri a-kun
100) L.GAR-/W ra-me-ni-ia uGu-u-nu a-kun
R.ME-te up-pu- na-mur-ra(*)-at
GI. TUKUL. ME-/0 ra-u-ba-at
98-102a) I conquered the cities of the lands

Nirdun, Luluta, the city Dirra, the lands Aggunu,
Ulliba, Arbakku, (and) Nirbu. 1 massacred their
(inhabitants), carried off captives from them,
(and) razed, destroyed, (and) turned into ruin hills
their cities. I imposed upon the land(s) Nairi feudal duties, corve, (and) labourers. (100) I appointed over them governors of my own choosing. They entered (lit. 'performed') servitude. I
unleashed over the land(s) Nairi the brilliance of
my weapons (and) the awesome terror of my dominion. I received (in) the city Damdammusa the
tribute of the land ubr, silver, gold, bronze,
tin, iron, armour, casseroles, oxen, sheep, (and)
horses.
102b-103) On my return from the land(s) Nairi I
conquered the city ra of the land Hanigalbat. I
felled with the sword 900 of their fighting men; I
carried off 2,000 prisoners from them. I took the
city ra for myself.
EN-ti-ia UGU
KUR na-i-ri at-bu-ku

101) ma-da- KUR ub-re-e K.BABBAR
K.GI.ME ZABAR AN.NA AN.BAR gUr-pt-S
TUL.ME GU4.ME UDU.ME ANE.KUR.RA.ME
102) URU danfm-dam-mu-sa at-ta-har ina ta-ia-arti-a TA KUR na-i-ri URU u--ra KUR
ha-ni-gal-bat ak-ta-ad
103) 9 ME RIN.ME ti-(du)-ki-(u)-nu
ina
GI.TUKUL -am-qit 2 LIM aMa-su-nu as-lula URU u--ra a-na ra-me-ni-ia a-sab-ta
20
This text is engraved on a number of stone stele fragments discovered
in Babil, a village in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border. The
fragments are now in the Adana museum where Hawkins examined
them and collated the inscription. The present edition relies upon the
authoritative publication of Hawkins. Kessler (see the bibliography)
has remarked that Lehmann-Haupt mentioned a fragment which
seems to have subsequently disappeared.
The text begins (lines l-14a) with an invocation of deities which can
be restored on analogy with the introduction to the Nimrud Monolith
(A.0.101.17) and related passages. It then continues with the name, titles, and genealogy of Ashurnasirpal, a passage parallel to A.0.101.1
i 18b-34 from which extensive restorations have been made. The
remainder of the text is missing but must have narrated a campaign
along the Upper Tigris in the area of modern Babil.
100 R.me-* up-pu-\ s e c the

102 ha-ni-gal-bat: w r i t t e n o v e r
n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 iii 1 2 5 - 2 6 .
an e r a s u r e .
Cf. K i n g ,
AKA
p . 2 4 2 n. 1.
263
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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1976 G r a y s o n , A R I 2 c i 12 ( t r a n s l a t i o n )
1969 A r n a u d , R H A 2 7 / 8 4 - 8 5 p p . 4 1 - 4 9 ( e d i t i o n )
1980 Kessler, N o r d m e s o p o t a m i e n p p . 3 5 - 3 7 ( s t u d y )
1969 H a w k i n s , A n S t 19 p p . 1 1 1 - 2 0 ( c o p y , e d i t i o n )
1982 B r k e r - K l h n , B i l d s t e l e n n o s . 1 3 3 - 3 4 ( s t u d y )
1973 S c h r a m m , E A K 2 p p . 21 a n d 35 ( s t u d y )
TEXT
4)
5)
6)
[daur blu rab ar g]im-rat DINGIR. [MES

rabti]
[danu ar d/-g]/-g/ u [danunnaki (dbl mtt)]
[denliI si-]-ru a-bu DINGIR. [MES (bn kullati)]
[d]-a MAN Z[U.AB bl nmeqi hassi]
[dsn e]r-u MAN â^-[ge-e aq namrr]
[dadad\ ge-ru u-[tu-ru b! hegall[
I)
[d-ma DI.KUD AN-VI [U erseti
1)
2)
3)
mumaîr
gimri]
ap-kal r i[bl tert]
9) [ ninurta] qar-rad ^NUN.GAL.ME U [danunnak]
10) [ d ] u . G U R gt-ma-lu MAN tam-ha-r[i dnusku
ni hatti elli]
II) [ilu] mul-ta{*)-lu DNI[N.LL hirti denli{\
[dAM]AR.uTu
8)
12)
[ummi Hi GAL].ME INANNA SAG -ti [am u
erseti sa paras]
13) [qar-du]-te uk-lu-lat DINGIR.MES GAL. [MES
mum mti]
14) [mu]-ar-bu- MAN-/ [aur-nsir-apli rub
ndu]
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
[pa]-lih DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
-[m-gal-lu
ekdu kaid]
[URU].URU hur--ni pat gim-ri-[unu ar
bl]
\mu-l\a-it êk^-s[u-te pir alummte]
[l diru tuqunti urnu izqru l pad]
[murb anunte ar kal malk bl bl]
[utullu] MAN MAN.MES-/ rp-[i-pu na?du
nibt dninurta qard]
[ka] DINGIR.ME GAL.ME mu-[ter
gimilli
arru a ina tukuit]
R e s t o r e d f r o m A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 1 a n d c f . the n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1
line 1. 2
S e e t h e n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 2. 3
Restored from
1-13a) [God Aur, the great lord, king of] all the
[great] gods; [god Anu, king of the Ig]igu and
[Anunnaku gods; (lord of the lands) god Enlil],
exalted one, father of the gods, [(creator of all);
god E]a, king of the [aps, lord of wisdom (and)
understanding; (5) god Sn], wise one, king of the
lunar disk, [lofty luminary; god Adad], the exceptionally strong, [lord of abundance; god a]ma,
judge of heaven [and underworld, commander of
all; god] Marduk, sage, [lord] god [of oracles;
god Ninurta], warrior of the Igigu and [Anunnaku gods; (10) god] Nergal, perfect one, king of
battle; [god Nusku, bearer of the holy sceptre],
circumspect [god]; goddess Ni[nlil, spouse of the
god Enlil, mother of the great gods]; goddess
Istar, foremost in [heaven and underworld, who]
is consummate in [the canons of combat];
13b-40a) great gods, [who decree the destinies
(and)] make great [the] sovereignty of [Ashurnasirpal, attentive prince], (15) worshipper of the
great gods, [ferocious dragon, conqueror of cities]
(and) the entire highlands, [king of lords], controller of the obstinate, [crowned with splendour,
fearless in battle, lofty (and) merciless hero, who
stirs up strife, king of all princes, lord of lords,
(20) chief herdsman], king of kings, [attentive
purification priest, designate of the warrior god
Ninurta, destructive weapon of] the great gods,
[avenger, the king who has always acted] justly
[with the support of Assur and the god ama],
the gods who help him [and cut down like marsh
reeds fortified mountains] and princes hostile [to
line 7. 8
bl trti:
restored f r o m A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 5 and cf. the
n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 8. 9
R e s t o r e d f r o m A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 9
A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 3; A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 8 - 9 ; A . O . 1 0 1 . 4 7 line 2; M i c h e l ,
a n d c f . t h e n o t e t o t h a t line. 11
W O 1 ( 1 9 4 7 - 5 2 ) p. 4 5 6 i 2; a n d L a y a r d , I C C 87 lines 3 - 5 .
4 [ \-a MAN Z[U.AB]: r e s t o r e d f r o m A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 3 a n d c f . t h e
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 7 a n d c f . the n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 11. T h e sign
n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 4 . 4
bel nmeqi hasJsh
restored from
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 4 a n d c f . t h e n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 4 . 5
namrrr.
aq
r e s t o r e d f r o m A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 4 - 5 a n d see the n o t e t o
that p a s s a g e . 6
bel hegalli:
r e s t o r e d f r o m A . O . 1 0 1 . 4 7 line 4
a n d c f . the n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 6. 7
mumaîr girnri:
r e s t o r e d f r o m A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 9 a n d c f . the n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1
[ilu] mul-ta-lu:
ta a c t u a l l y l o o k s like RU. S e e H a w k i n s ' n o t e . 12
restored f r o m
[ummi ill
GAL].MK: r e s t o r e d f r o m A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 7 - 8 a n d c f . the n o t e t o
A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 12. 1 2 - 1 3
ÎNANNA . . . uk-lu-lat:
restored from
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 10 a n d c f . the n o t e t o A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 1 line 13.
13-14 DINGIR.MES ...
aur-nsir apl:
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 4 7 lines 5 - 7 a n d A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 i 11.
restored f r o m
264
[aur u ama] DINGIR.MES tik-li-u [me]-e[ri ittallakma]

[adni ap-su]-te u mal-ki KR.ME[-SW kma
qani api uhassis]
[kl]-lat KUR.KUR.ME-5W-WW Q-Y1Q [pU
ueknia]
[znin] NIDBA.ME a-na [il rabti rubu]
[ke]-e-nu a-na u-te-[ur pars ekurrt
mtu]
[pit-qu]-du ka-ia-na [a epet qtu]
rfi na-dan zi-bi-[u il rabti a am]
[] Ki-te -ra-mu-ma SANGA-[S Ina ekurrti
ana dri u]kin-nu [GI] . TUKUL.ME-u-nu ez-zu-te [ana
irikte blu]
i-ru-ku -lum-ma-at GI.[TUKUL.ME-S
melam btu]
ruGu~i MAN.ME-^ nn kib-rat [arba?i
uarrihu]
KR.ME-[(W/)] a-ur pat gim-ri-[u-nu eli u
apli itannanma]
GUN [u ma]-^da -ta i~uGvi-{u-nu ukinnu
kid aiabt aur]
MAN dan-nu MAN KUR a-ur [apil tukultninurta iak aur Sa kuiiat z&iru]
i-ni-[ru] ina ga-[-i urett pagr gru]
DUMU.DUMU 10-ERN.TH [akkanak t
rabti a sikipti]
la ma-gi-[ri-u Utakkanma]
i-pe-lu gim-ra [tiblibbi a aur-dn a
mhz]
-pt-rtu- [ukinnu irti Ina mma]
Ina pi-i DINGIR.MES [rabti arrt blt
kut s arrku]
be-la-ku na-da-[ku gerku kabtku
urruhku aardku]
ur--na-ku [qarrdku labbku u zikarku]
m
a'ur-PAB-A MAN [dannu ar mat aur nibt
d
sn]
mi-Ig-rl [anim namad adad kaka il
anku]
GIS.TUKUL ta p[a-du- muamqit mt
nakrtu anku]
MAN le-[û-u ...]
Lacuna
33 KR.ME-[(w/)j: in the space no sign is actually visible.
him (and) subdued under him] all their lands, (25)

[provider] of offerings for [the great gods, legitimate prince], to whom is perpetually [entrusted]
the proper administration [of the rites of the temples of his land, whose deeds and] offerings [the
great gods of heaven and] underworld love so that
they (30) established [forever his] priesthood [in
the temples], granted [to his dominion] their fierce
weapons, (and) [made him more marvellous] than
(any of) the kings of the [four] quarters with
respect to the splendour of [his weapons (and) the
radiance of his dominion, (he who) has always
contested with] all enemies of Assur [above and
below and imposed] upon [them] tribute [and tax,
conqueror of the foes of Assur], (35) strong king,
king of Assyria; [son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II),
vice-regent of Assur, who] defeated [all his enemies (and) impaled the corpses of his enemies] on
posts, grandson of Adad-nrar (II), [appointee of
the great gods, who always achieved the defeat of
those] insubmissive to him and (thereby) became
lord of all, [offspring of Aur-dn (II) who] (40)
opened [towns (and) founded shrines]:
40b-47) [At
that
time
my
nobility,
my
sovereignty, my dominion, (and) my power came
forth] at the command of the [great] gods; [I am
king], I am lord, I am praiseworthy, [I am exalted, I am important, I am magnificent, I am
foremost], I am a hero, [I am a warrior, I am a
lion, and I am virile]; Ashurnasirpal, [strong]
king, [king of Assyria, designate of the god Sn],
(45) favourite of [the god Anu, loved one of the
god Adad (who is) almighty among the gods, I],
the merciless weapon [which lays low lands hostile
to him, I], the king, capable [in battle, ...]
Lacuna
265
Ashurnasirpal II A.O.101.21
21
The remains of an annalistic text are preserved on two clay tablet
fragments found at Aur. When only one fragment was available it
was thought that the broken text might be ascribed to Adad-nrr n
with the possibility, however, that it could be of any king from
Aur-dn II to Ashurnasirpal II. The discovery of a duplicate (exemplar 1) now provides evidence which makes it much more probable
that the king is Ashurnasirpal n.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
A5ur
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
V A T 9752
V A T 9782
2551
4533e + in
Southern stair room, hB4iv

N W facade of Assur temple court-
11,7x3.7 +
9.8x6.2 +
T-2<X
2'-19'
cpn
c
c
yard, hD3v; Pedersn, Aur temple

library and archive, N1
COMMENTARY
An ascription to Asn. II is probable for two reasons,
the place-names mentioned and certain significant
phrases. As to the place-names, the River Harmis (line
10') occurs only in the annals of Asn. n (A.0.101.1
iii 2). Barzania (line 16') may be identical with
Barzanitun (A.0.101.1 iii 104) and cf. A.O.101.22 line
3'. The reading of the GN in line 11' is uncertain but
one wonders about Malhi/nu (A.0.101.19 line 33). In
ARI 2 p. 80 n. 321 I suggested Iahnu as a reading for
another GN (line 7'). This GN occurs both in the annals
of Aur-dn II (A.0.98.1 line 23) and Asn. II
(A.0.101.1 iii 71 and A.0.101.1 iii 78). But there are
several objections and to those I already noted in
ARI 2 there is now the clear reference to the River

Harmis which is not in the same area at all as Iahnu.
The place-name Dikun (line 16') is otherwise unattested.
As to the significant phrases which argue strongly in
favour of Asn. II, in line 14' one can restore with reasonable confidence a form of n nuppulu, a phrase attested only for Asn. II (cf. CAD 7 [I/J] p. 154b). The
word mundahsu (line 4') is attested in Assyrian royal inscriptions beginning with Asn. II. Curiously the phrase
linu buttuqu (line 14') seems to be attested only here
although other verbs for mutilation (e.g. naksu) are
used with linu and buttuqu is used of cutting off various other body parts.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 397 and 399 (ex. 2, translation)
1935 Seidmann, MAOG 9/3 p. 7 (ex. 2, study)
1967 Borger, HKL 1 p. 473 (ex. 2, study)
1972 Grayson, JNES 31 p. 217a (ex. 2, study)

1973 Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 3 and 8 (exs. 1-2, study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 xcvni 6 (translation)
1986 Pedersn, Archives 2 p. 24 no. 79 (ex. 2, provenance)
TEXT
Lacuna
1')
l..]adunixx[...]
2') [... R]IN.ME.HI.A.ME x [...] x Rub(1) an(1)i
[.]
3')
[... u]-e-ri-da-t-nu-t[e(1)
THI.A^.M[E]
...] GAZ.MES-SW-WW
Lacuna
1-5') [...] troops [... I] brought them down [... I
inflicted] upon them a major defeat [...] their
[possessions (and)] their flocks [I carried off. As
to] their combat troops, [I cut off] their hands [...
(x + )] 200 of their fighting men [... I] destroyed.
266
4')
5')
6')
{...]--nu UDU se-ni--nu x [... mun-d]ahs[i-u]-nu rit-i--nu
[... (x + )] 2 ME RIN.MES ti-du-ki--nu x [...]
în-[n]-pl
[... ma-d]a-tu
6'-15') [...] the tribute of the kings of lands (and)

mountains I received. Irbibu [... of the city
...h]nu, which was his fortified city, [...] trusted
[in his own strength] and rebelled against me. By
the command of the god A[ur, my lord, I
marched against him (and)] besieged him. Around
his city he had dug a moat. (10') I surrounded it
with six redoubts [...] the cities on the banks of
the River Harmi, downstream from it, I plundered. I carried oil their [possessions (and)] their
flocks. [I marched] to the city Ma1[(...)h]nu,
their fortified city, [...]. I thundered [like the god
Ad]ad, the devastator, against them (and) inflicted
upon them a major defeat. [I carried off] their
booty, possessions [and flocks ... I] let him go
free. [I captured] alive 174 soldiers. [N I] felled
[with the sword], twelve I flayed of their skins, [N
I] blinded (and) cut out their tongues, [...], 153 I
beheaded (lit. 'cut off their necks'), [] I caused
[their blood] to flow, 20 [...] I impaled on stakes
[...]
MAN.MEs-ni KUR.KUR.ME
KUR.ME[-]/ am-hur mir-b-bu

T) [...]-fha(1)i-a-ni URU dan-nu-ti- [...]
8') [... it-]i-kil-ma KI-/A lu ib-bal-kit ina q-bit
a-[ur]
9') [...]
-si-ir- URU- a-na na-al-ban hi-risa ih-ru-us 6 URU.ME[]-N/
10') [... )-al-bi URu.ME-rn i-dl D har-mi
KI. LTA1-57 a-ria hu-ub-t[a-a-n]i
IV) [...] x--nu UDU se-ni--nu -te^-ra a-na
URU mal-x-[. -h]a(1)-a-ni URU dan-nu-ti-nu [...]
12') [... kma d i]KUR GR.BAL(*) UGU-u-nu gu-um GAZ.ME--nu [HI].R A I.ME a-duk alla-su-nu N[G. U. Mt--nu]
13') [... u]-e-er-u 1 ME 74 LU.RIN.MES
TI.LATMES ina u ( ? ) i - [ / a asbat x ina kakki
am-q)it 12 a-ku-us KU-ME-5W-/ [(...)]
14') [x nunu -na-ap]-pil EME.ME-5W-A7 -battq x [...] 1 ME 53 G.MEs--nu -bat-[tiq ...]

15') [...]-ID -ar-di 20 x [...]-5W a-na zi-qi-pi za-q[l-ip ...]
16') [...] x KUR-e dan-ni 5 ak-[...] URU bar-za-ni-a
URU di-ku-un [...]
17') [...] mar-i-su-nu x [... a]p-pul a-qur [...]
16-17') [...], a mighty mountain, five [...] the city

Barzania, the city Dikun [... I carried off] their
herds [...] I ravaged, destroyed [...]
18') [...] x id NA4 x [... ]-kal-lu-[-ni(!) ...]

19') [...]-t(1)-ub a-n[a(1) ...] x [.,.]
20') [...] x x [...]
18'-20') [...]... stone [... which] they held [...]

Lacuna
Lacuna
22
This fragmentary text, on a piece of clay tablet from Aur, is clearly
part of an annalistic text of one of the kings from Aur-dn II to
Ashurnasirpal II, and of these monarchs Ashurnasirpal n appears the
most probable.
9-10' Cf. A.0.99.2 lines 54-55 and 63. 12'. 1 (ex. 2 broken)
GR.BAL = rihsu: text has GR.BL which must be an error since
Adada rihsi/rhisu is well attested in texts of Asn. il. I know

of no logogram GR.BL.
267
COMMENTARY
A n ascription t o A s n . II is suggested by the G N s . In
line 8' URU DUE-le(*)-e might be read Till = Til-uli (see
G r a y s o n , BiOr 33 [1976] p. 144), a city attested only
beginning with texts of A s n . n (A.0.101.1 ii 87;
A.0.101.17 iv 1; A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 9 lines 35 a n d 37). In line 3'
URU bar-za-ni-i(*)-tu-[(un)]
a p p e a r s otherwise only in a
text of A s n . II (A.0.101.1 iii 104 a n d cf. A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 2 1 line
16'). T h e city Kahat is attested only in texts of T N . n
(A.O. 100.5 line 117 a n d A . 0 . 1 0 0 . 9 line 5) a m o n g texts

in this v o l u m e . T h e tablet f r a g m e n t (VAT 10944 = Ass
4428) m e a s u r e s 9 . 7 x 6 . 2 + crn a n d was f o u n d in t h e
n o r t h e r n p a r t of the A u r t e m p l e c o u r t y a r d , h D 3 v . It
belongs to t h e collection which Pedersn describes as
the Aur t e m p l e library a n d archive, N l . T h e inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1972
1973
1976
1986

1935 Seidmann, MAOG 9/3 p. 7 n. 1 (study)
1961-62 Dossin, AAAS 11/12 p. 201 (study)
Grayson, JNES 31 p. 217 (study)

Pedersn, Archives 2 p. 22 no. 50 (provenance)
TEXT
Lacuna
...] x TA vtar-sP m[...]
. . . ] ^sa-lanP MU m G i . / w * w / - / / - r A ( ? ) ~ i - [ . . . ]
... n]a-i-ri a-lik URU bar-za-ni-i(*)-tu-[(un)
. . . NG.]u.MEl--rU NG.GA.ME-SW-^W
GU4.ME-SW-TO UDU [snunu
.] kar-me -ter
SAG.DU
.]
KUR.KUR
na-i-ri
...]
muq-tab-l[i--nu
Lacuna
1-7') which from the time of [...] the statue with
the name of Tiglath-pil[eser .... To the lands
N]airi I marched. The city Barzanitu[(un) I conquered ... I carried off] their [property], possessions, oxen, sheep, [... (and)] turned (it) into ruin
hills. The heads of [their] warriors [I cut off ...]
of the lands Nairi, horses, mules, [...] I burnt,
ravaged, destroyed, (and) [turned] into ruin hills.
ANE.KUR.RA.ME
ANE.[ME . . . ]
ina izi GBIL ap-pl a-qur ana DU$

u karm utr]
...]-bi-ru URU DU6-le(*)-e it-ta-bal-ku-t[u ...]
... ]-se-li- a-na URU ka-ha-at -se-[li- ...]
...] x i-tu URU ni-nu-a at-tu-mu D [...]
... al-]a-su-nu
NG.U.MES--nu GU4.ME-
-nu UDU s[e-ni--nu ...]

...]-R//(?) ar^-ki- ir-ta-tu GAZ.M[E
...] -te^-ru-ni [...]
Lacuna
...]
2' The traces certainly support a reading TAT but a form of

TN.'s name is still possible. Cf. A.0.101.1 i 104-105. 3' is:
text has ID. See Grayson, JNES 31 (1972) p. 218b. 4' UDU
[srtunu]: see Meissner, OLZ 26 (1923) 159. 7' [...]-r a \-ni\
8-13') [...] the city Till rebelled [... A garrison at

...] they stationed. At the city Kahat they stationed [a garrison ...]. Setting out from Nineveh
the River [Tigris I crossed, / conquered the city ...
I carried off] their booty, possessions, oxen,
sheep, [...] they pursued him. [I massacred] many
of them. [...] brought back
Lacuna
Luckenbill restored Barzani (also he read this in line 3').

8' [...]-bi-ru: this could be the end of a GN or, as Seidmann
noted, of the eponymy Likberu (Adn. u). 8' le: text has
See Grayson, JNES 31 (1972) p. 220b. 12' ir-ta-tu: from redl
268
AshurnasirpaliIA.0.101.17
23
This text, the so-called Standard Inscription, was engraved together
with scenes on hundreds of huge stone reliefs which lined the walls of
the North West Palace at Calah, the same text being repeated on each
slab, with some variation. A parallel text is included as part of most
other long inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal, including A.0.101.1 (see the
commentary to that text for details). Such slavish copying shows considerable lack of imagination on the part of the royal scribes. While
the text is straightforward, the original provenance of each object is
not. But in recent years the research of a few art historians and archaeologists has made great advances in revealing the original positions of the slabs in the various rooms of the palace (see the commentary).
The text begins with the king's name and titles (lines l-5a). This is
followed by a grammatically awkward temporal clause containing epithets and a general geographic description of the king's conquests
(lines 5b-14a). The text concludes with the building of Calah and its
palace (lines 14b-22). Among the numerous exemplars, there are variations of which some are quite significant. Instead of 'to the land
Urartu' (line 9) many exemplars have 'to the interior of the land Nirib'
and de Filippi has cogently argued that those exemplars with Urartu
were written later in the reign. Paley labels the inscriptions with Nirib
Type A* and those with Urartu Type B\ Other major variants are
given in the notes to individual lines. Minor variants are ignored since
it would be impractical to list all the variants from hundreds of exemplars.
Careful scrutiny of the numerous objects upon which this text is
engraved has dispelled a major misconception about variants. It is obvious that the scribes assigned the task of engraving the text on each
object were allotted a certain space on the relief and that this space
was the same on each accompanying slab so that they would match
visually. Many scribes found it impossible to fit the entire text into the
allotted space but they were not allowed to exceed the limit nor, obviously, could they erase the stone and start again. Thus there are many
exemplars with, respectively, only lines 1-21, 1-20, 1-19, 1-18, 1-17,
1-16, 1-15, 1-14, 1-13, 1-12, 1-11, 1-10, 1-9, or 1-8. Shorter versions are not known to me. Often the scribe was forced to stop in
mid-sentence. The scribe was not allowed (or did not wish) to continue
the text on the next slab; the text on each slab begins with line 1. This
fact makes attempts to relate the version of the text found on a given
slab to a particular room very doubtful.
CATALOGUE
Museum/Excavation
Key
number
reference
Albany 1
Aleppo, private possession
Meuszynski, Arch. Anz. p. 431

Lidzbarski, Ephemeris fr Semitische and
Epigraphik 3 (1909) pp. 184-85
3
4
5
Amherst 1 + Minneapolis 1
Amherst 2
Amherst 3
Meuzyriski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 60-61 H - 3 3

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 3 9 - 4 0 S - 7
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 68 L-17
Ex.
Museum/Excavation
number
Key
reference
6
7
8
Amherst 4 +Hartford 1917.83

AO 19.845
AO 19.846
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 60 H - 3 2

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 61 H - b - 2
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 29 C - 4
9
10
A O 19.847
AO 19.848 + Bombay 8
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 57 H - 6

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 62 Z - 6
11
12
13
A O 19.851
Ash 1982,224
(deleted)
14
1
16
17
18
19
20
21
BCM 588 '65

BM 90760 (1979-12-20,338)
BM 98062+ Dublin
BM 98063
BM 98064
BM 102400
BM 102487 + Copenhagen AS 1
BM 108836 (1914-4-7,2)
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 33 D - 2

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 25 ('Ash. 2') B - 3 2
Van Soldt, Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum
van Oudheden te Leiden 63 (1982) pp. 48-49
George, Iraq 41 (1979) p. 123
Unpublished
Haley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 9 - 1 0 1-3
dc Filippi, Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 129
de Filippi, Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 129
Meuszyriski, Arch. Anz. p. 448
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 17-18 1-17
Unpublished
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
de Filippi,
de Filippi,
de Filippi,
Paley and
de Filippi,
de Filippi,
de Filippi,
29
30
BM 124534+ 124535
BM 124536+ 124537

31
32
33
34
35
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 21 B - l l
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 21 B - 1 0
36
37
BM 124548+ 124549
BM 124550+ 135736 + G e n o a 1 + IB 15+
Mechitharisten (Vienna) - Nimrud 20

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 20-21 B - 6
38
39
BM 124551 + 124552
BM 124553 + 124554 + K 8543

de Filippi, Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 130 and
40
BM 124555+124556
cf. Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 84 B - 4

41
BM 124557+ 124558
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 77
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
BM 124559
BM 124560+ FM (Cambridge) 2
BM 124562
BM 124563 (see ex. 203)
BM 124564
BM 124565
BM 124566
BM 124567
BM 124568
BM 124569
BM 124575
BM 124576
BM 124577
BM 124579
BM 124581 + ROM 939.11.2
BM 124584
BM 124585
BM 124586
BM 139983 (1983-1-1,344)
BM 139984 (1983-1-1,345)
BM 139999 (1983-1-1,351)
Bombay 2 + N i m r u d 69-71 + 78-79
Bombay 3
Bombay VAM 77
Bowdoin 487
Bowdoin 489
WFL-19
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 24 B - 3 0
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 76 WFL-14
Unpublished
Unpublished
Unpublished
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 46 S-29
Paley, Ashur-nasir-pal p. 59
Gadd, Stones, pp. 231-32
68
Bowdoin 1860.1 + Montreal 6 4 . E A . 3 +

Hartford 1955.101
Paley, Ashur-nasir-pal pp. 54-55
69
70
Bowdoin 1860.5
Bristol H - 7 9 4

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 85 F-14c
118804
118875
118906
118930
124530
124531
124532+ 124533
124538+
124540+
124542+
124544+
124546+
124539
124541 + in situ
124543 + in situ
124545
124547
Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 131

Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 131
Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 129
Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 84-85 D - 9
Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 128
Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 128
Assur 1/7 (1977) p. 130
270

Ex.
Museum/Excavation
number
Key
reference
71
72
73
Bristol H - 7 9 5
Bristol H - 7 9 6
Brooklyn 55.145
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 56 H - 2

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 56 H - l
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 75 W F L - 5
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
Brooklyn 55.147
Brooklyn 55.148
Brooklyn 55.153
Brooklyn 55.154
Brooklyn 55.155
Brooklyn 55.156
Burlington 1
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For,
For.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
pp. 70-71 L-35

p. 71 L - 3 6
p. 58 H - 1 4
p. 57 H - 5
p. 57 H - 4
p. 37 F - 6
p. 74 N - 5
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
Cincinnati L 1962.14
Copenhagen AS 3 + S t . Louis 1
Copenhagen 1723 +Nimrud 25-28
Dresden 19
Dresden 21
Dresden 22
Edinburgh 1
Unpublished
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Meuszynski,
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
2
2
2
2
2
2
p.
p.
p.
p.
p.
p.
88
89
90
FM (Cambridge) E45-1927
GE 1
GE 2 +Leiden B 1939/2.1
91
92
93
GE 3
Glasgow 28/35 + M M A 32.143.11 + Nimrud 29
Hanover 1/2
Paley, Ashur-nasir-pal pp. 52 and 90

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 49 G-31
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 67 and
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 85-86 L - 6
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 61 H - 3 4
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 29 C - 8
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 45-46 G - l l
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
Hanover
Hanover
Hanover
Hanover
Hanover
Hanover
Hanover
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 67 L-l 1

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 45 G - 9
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 61 H-35
Stearns, A f O Beih. 15 p. 33 and pi. 32
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 67 and
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
IB 14989
IM
IM + Vatican 10
Istanbul 4
Istanbul 5
Istanbul 6
Istanbul 4649
Istanbul, squeeze
K 8887
Kansas 1
LA M.71.73.1
LA M.71.73.3a
LA M.71.73.3b
Layard
Layard
Layard
Layard
Layard
LBAF
Lisbon 118
LA 66.4 (Newcastle 1)+Nimrud 32
LA 66.4 (Newcastle 2)
Lyon 531
Manchester V I I - A - 8 + Nimrud 61
M FAB 35.731
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 86 L-7

Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 10-11 1-4
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 30 C - l l
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 50 G - e - 2
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 49-50 G - e - 2
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 50 G - c - 4
Bezold, ZK 1 (1884) pp. 269-70 n. 1
Bezold, Cat, 3 p. 969
Unpublished
Unpublished
Unpublished
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 24 B-29
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 30 C - c 1
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 30 C - c - 2
Grayson, Ladders pp. 123-25
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 57-58 H - 1 0
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 38 F-16
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 60 H-31
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 61 H - b - 1
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 66 L I - 2
Ley, RT 17 (1895) pp. 55-56 and 199, pi. after p. 96
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 44-45 S - 2 6
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
MF AB 35.753
MFAB 81.56
Middlebury 1
MM A 31.72.2
MM A 31.72.3
MMA 32.143.4
MMA 32.143.6
Meuszynski, Arch. Anz. p. 436

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 75 N - 8
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 48-49 S - d - 1
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 41 S - l l
135
136
137
138
MMA 32.143.7
M M A 32.143.8
Mosul 3
Mosul
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p.

Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh.
3
4
5
6
7
8 + M M A 31.72.1
68
29
48
22
38
48
L-18
C-7
G-30
B-16
F-9
G-29
50 G - d - 2
30 C - b - 2
For. 10 p. 78 W F L - 2 4
For. 10 pp. 12-13 1-8
Museum/Excavation
number
Key
reference
Munich 3
Munich 5
Munich 7 +Nimrud 6

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 64 Z - b - 2
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 56-57 H - 3
142
143
144
145
146
147
Newark
Nimrud
Nimrud
Nimrud
Nimrud
Nimrud
Unpublished
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 24 B-26a
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 36-37 F- 2
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 70 L-34
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 45 S - 2 7
148
Nimrud 63-68 + 77 + O 1934
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 45-46 S - 2 8
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
Nimrud 81-82
Nimrud 85
Nimrud 86
O 270
O 272
O 273
O 274
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 81 WJ-1

Meuszyriski, Ach. Anz. p. 439
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
O 275
O 277
Pillet 21
Pillet XXI
Sotheby's
Stockholm 856
SF 3972

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 48 S - c - 3
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 76 N-15
Sigrist and Vuk, Franciscanum pp. 45-59
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
U M 29-21-1
VA 939a
VA 939b
VA 939c
VA 940
VA 942
VA 943
Meuszyriski,
Meuszyriski,
Meuszyriski,
Meuszyriski,
Meuszyriski,
Meuszyriski,
Meuszyriski,
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 47-48 S - b - 1

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 48 S - b - 2
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 75-76 N - 1 2
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 76 N - 1 3
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 76 N-17
177
178
179
VA 952
VA 959
VA 3863

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 85 L - 4
180
181
182
183
W A G 21.8
Williamstown 1
Worcester 1930.32
YBC 2445
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 47 G - 1 8

Unpublished
184
185-87
188
Zrich 1910
Zurich 1911-13
In situ+ Amherst 5 + Magdalen + Nimrud 41 +
Asher-Greve, Genien und Krieger pp. 12-15

Asher-Greve, Genien und Krieger pp. 15-26
Ex.
39
140
141
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
~~
82152a-b
24 + V A 938
30 + 3 I 4 33 + WilMamstown 2
34
35 + 36
62
944
945
946
947
948a
948b
951
YBC 1854.3 + 4 + 5
In situ + AO 19.849 + 22.198 + BM 98061 +
Detroit 47.181 + Nimrud 42 + 43 + 45
In situ + A O 19.868 + B o m b a y F8
In situ + Ash 1950,241 + Copenhagen AS 2
+ IM
In situ + Ash 1982,225 (1850) + B o m b a y F9 (3)
+ N i m r u d 48
In situ + Bern 12.2.63
In situ + BM 102401
In situ + BM 108833
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
p. 74 N - 3
p. 46 G - 1 4
p. 46 G-15
p. 46 G - 1 6
p. 36 F - l
pp. 59-60 H - 2 7
p. 30 C - 1 3

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 75 N - 7
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 42 S - 1 8
Paley
Paley
Paley
Paley
200
201
In situ + BM 118803
In situ + BM 118874 + C h i c a g o OI
In situ + BM 118876+ 118877
In situ + BM 118921 + Bombay F 1 0 +
Lausanne (Sotheby's) + Nimrud 49
In situ + BM 118926+118927
In situ + BM 118928 + Nimrud 7 - 8
202
203
204
205
In
In
In
In
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh, For. 10 p. 64 Z-a 1

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 38-39 S - 3
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For, 10 pp. 62-63 Z-8
situ I
situ +
situ f
situ +
BM
BM
BM
BM
124561
124563 (see ex. 45)
124574 + Bombay 9 + IM (3 pieces)
124578
and
and
and
and
Sobolewski,
Sobolewski,
Sobolewski,
Sobolewski,
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
For.
For.
For.
For.
10
10
10
10
p. 48 S - c - 4
pp. 60-61 Z - l
p. 61 Z-2
pp. 22-23 1-23

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p, 48 G - 2 5
272
Ashurnasirpal II A.O.101 23
Ex.
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
Museum/Excavation
number
Key
reference
In situ + BM 124580 + Houston 80.53

(Sandon Hall 2) t Nimrud 40
In situ + BM 124582 + 1M (5 frgms.)
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 22 1-22
In situ + BM 124583 + Bryn Athyn 09.SP. 1549

+ Istanbul 22 + Nimrud 46
In situ + BM 135156 + Nimrud 38
In situ + Bombay 1
In situ + Bowdoin 1860.2
In situ + Bowdoin 1860.4 (490)
In situ + British Rail + Hamburg 1965,101
+ Nimrud 5 8 - 5 9 a - b
214
215
216
217
218
219
In
In
In
In
In
In
situ +
situ +
situ +
situ +
situ +
situ +
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Bowdoin
55.146
55.149
55.150
55.151
55.152
491.2
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
In
In
In
In
In
In
In
situ +
situ +
situ +
situ +
situ +
situ +
situ +
Chicago A 1 + Nimrud 55-57

Christ Church 1
Cleveland 43.246
Copenhagen 836
Copenhagen 836a
Dresden 20
FM (Cambridge) E 1 - 1 9 0 8 + IM
Meus/ynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 22 B 15

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 74-75 N - 6
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 42 S-17
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 53 T - 6
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 22 B - 1 4
p. 24 1-25
p. 41 S - I 2
p. 41 S - 1 3
p. 53 T - 7
pp. 53-54 T - 8

Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 39 S - 6
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 62 H - d - 2
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 77 P - 4
227
In situ + FM (Cambridge) E2-1908 + M M A 32.143.12
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 8 - 9 1-1
228
229
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 21-22 B - 1 2

230
231
232
In situ + FM (Cambridge) E3-1942

In situ+ GE 4 + 5 + M M A 32.143.14
\ Nimrud 53 +Warsaw 193335
In situ + IM 28143
In situ + Istanbul 7 0 3 7 + I M 29059
In situ + IM + Santa Barbara
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 34 E 4

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp 61-62 H - c - 1
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 47 G - 1 9
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
In
In
In
In
In
In
In

Reade, BiOr 41 (1984) 484
Reade, BiOr 41 (1984) 484
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251

Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 61 Z - 3
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 63 Z - 9
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 41-42 S-15
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 62 H - d - 1
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 44-45 G - 5
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 47 G - 2 0
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
In situ + M M A 17.190.2082
In situ + M M A 32.143.3
In situ + Munich 1
In situ + Munich 2
In situ + Munich 4
In situ + New York + Tokyo
In situ + Nimrud 1
In situ + Nimrud 3-5
In situ + Nimrud 18-19 + O 278
In situ + Nimrud 44 +Rochester
44.10 +Vatican 9
In situ + Nimrud 47 + 51
In situ + Nimrud 50 + N o r f o l k 56.49.1a
In situ + Nimrud 52 + O t t a w a 2918 (ROM 950,6.1)
In situ + Nimrud 54 + 80 + 89a-d
In situ + Nimrud 60 + 73-76
In situ
In situ + Nimrud 88 + Y B C 1854.1
In situ + O 271
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
In
In
In
In
In
In
In
in
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 23-24 B - 2 4

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 38-39 F-17
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 34 E 3
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 41 S - 1 4
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 77 P - 2
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 39 S - 4
268
269
270
In situ
In situ
In situ
situ
situ
situ
situ
situ
situ
situ
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
IM + Norfolk 56.22
Istanbul 7036
Kimbcll
Kimbell
M M A 17.190.2077 + 2078
M M A 17.190.2079
M M A 17.190.2080 +281
situ + Princeton 1
situ + VA 941
situ + VA 949
situ i-VA 950
situ + VA 8747
situ + Virginia
situ + WAG 21.9
situ + YBC 1854.2a-b
Paley
Paley
Paley
Paley
Paley
Paley
Paley
Paley
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
For. 10 p. 84 C - 1 0
77 P - 3
For. 10 pp. 46-47 S - a - 1

For. 10 p. 38 S - 2
For. 10 p. 47 S - a - 2
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
For.
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10

p. 15 1-14
p. 12 1-7
pp. 21-22 1-21
p. 40 S - 9
p. 44 S - 2 4
p. 74 W F L - 6
p. 40 S - 8
p. 38 S - l
Museum/Excavation
273
number
Key
reference
271
In situ
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 25 B - b - 3
272
273
In situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh, For. 2 p. 25 B - b - 4

274
In
In
In
In
In
Ex.
275
276
277
278
279
In situ
situ
situ
situ
situ
situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 30 C - 1 0

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 30 C - b - 1
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 32-33 D - l
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 33 D - 3
In situ

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 33 D 5
280
In situ
281
In situ
282
283
284
In situ
In situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 33 D - d - 3

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 33 D - d - 4
285
In situ
In situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 34 F - 5

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 34 E - c - 3
286
In situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 34 E - c - 4
287
In situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 37 F - 5
288
In situ
289
290
291
292
In
In
In
In
In
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For, 2 p. 38 F - 1 2

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 38 F - 1 3
293
294
situ
situ
situ
situ
situ

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 44 G - l
In situ
295
In situ
296
297
In situ
In situ

Meuszyriski, Bagh, For. 2 pp, 4 7 - 4 8 G - 2 4
298
299
In situ
In situ

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 49 G - a - 3
300
In situ
In situ + IM 29053
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 49 G - a - 4
301
302
In situ
303
304
In
In
In
In
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 50 G - e - 3

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 51 G - e - 4
305
306
307
situ
situ
situ
situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh, For. 2 p. 49 G - c - 1
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 58 H - l l

In situ
In situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 pp. 5 8 - 5 9 H - 1 7
situ
situ
situ
situ
311
312
In
In
In
In
313
314
In situ
In situ

315
In situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 62 H - c - 3
316
317
In
In
In
In
In
In
In
situ
situ (2 pieces)
situ
situ
situ
situ
situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 62 H - c - 4
In
In
In
In
situ
situ
situ
situ
308
309
310
318
319
320
321
322
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 59 H - 1 7 a

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. Il 1-5

Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 13 1-9
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 13 1 1 0
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 28 1-31
323
324
325
326
327
328
In situ
In situ
Paley and Sobolewski, Bagh.

Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p.
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For, 2 p.
329
In situ
Meuszyriski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 69 L - 2 3
330
331
332
In situ
In situ

In situ
In situ

333
334
335
In situ
In situ
336
In situ
337
In situ
338
339
340
In situ
In situ
In situ
For. 10 pp. 2 8 - 2 9 1-32

67 L - 9
68 L - 1 4
68 L - 1 5
69 L - 1 9
69 L - 2 1 + 22

Meuszyriski, Bagh, For. 2 p. 70 L - 3 2
274
Museum/Excavation
number
Key
reference
342
In situ
In situ
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 75 N - 9

Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 75 N - 1 0
343
In situ
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 76 N - 1 4 a
344
In situ
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 76 N 14
345
In situ
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 76 N - 1 8
346
347
In si lu
Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 p. 77 P - l
349
In situ
In situ
In situ
350
In situ
Paley
Paley
Paley
Paley
Fx.
341
348
351
352
353
354
355
356-406
and
and
and
and
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Soboiewski,
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
Bagh.
For.
For.
For.
For.
10
10
10
10
p. 39 S - 5
pp. 4 2 - 4 3 S - 1 9
p. 43 S - 2 0
p. 43 S-21
In situ
In situ
In situ

Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 p. 49 S - d - 2
In situ
In situ
Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 pp. 6 3 - 6 4

Paley, J A N E S 19 (1987 [1990]) pp. 135-47
In situ
Unpublished
Z-10
COMMENTARY
T h e m a s t e r text is b a s e d o n t h e m a s t e r text in t h e edit i o n by de Filippi, A s s u r 1 / 7 (1977), w h i c h in t u r n
d e p e n d e d u p o n t h e B M exs. T h e line n u m b e r i n g f o l l o w s
t h a t used by L a y a r d a n d K i n g ( a n d d e Filippi) in o r d e r
t o facilitate c r o s s - r e f e r e n c e s .
T h e c a t a l o g u e a n d b i b l i o g r a p h y r e q u i r e s o m e explan a t i o n . W h i l e h u n d r e d s of exs. of this text a r e n o w
k n o w n , t h e y d o n o t v a r y significantly f r o m o n e a n o t h e r
o t h e r t h a n t h e m a j o r v a r s . a l r e a d y m e n t i o n e d in t h e int r o d u c t i o n . T h e e n o r m o u s t a s k of s o r t i n g o u t t h e
n u m e r o u s reliefs w h i c h b e a r all or p a r t of this text a n d
i d e n t i f y i n g t h e p r o v e n a n c e s h a s b e e n u n d e r t a k e n by a r chaeologists a n d a r t h i s t o r i a n s , n o t a b l y M e u s z y n s k i ,
P a l e y , R e a d e , a n d S o b o i e w s k i , a n d is b e y o n d t h e limits
of this e d i t i o n . In t h e b i b l i o g r a p h y I h a v e i n c l u d e d t h e
w o r k s of these s c h o l a r s , a l t h o u g h they a r e n o t u s u a l l y
p r i m a r i l y c o n c e r n e d w i t h t h e text. I h a v e a d d e d ' o b j e c t s ' as o p p o s e d t o 'text* in p a r e n t h e s e s a f t e r such entries t o give s o m e g u i d a n c e t o t h e r e a d e r . I a l s o d o n o t
give a full b i b l i o g r a p h y b u t o n l y t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t or
m o r e recent r e f e r e n c e s .
In
the
catalogue
I
have
listed
only
the
m u s e u m / e x c a v a t i o n n o . a n d t h e 'key* p u b l i c a t i o n . By
' k e y ' I usually m e a n the m o s t recent discussion in p r i n t
( w h e r e earlier b i b l i o g r a p h y a n d o t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n c a n
b e f o u n d ) . T h e exs. are listed in t h e f o l l o w i n g o r d e r :
1) a l p h a b e t i c a l l y a c c o r d i n g t o m u s e u m / e x c a v a t i o n n o . ;
2) in situ + ... a l p h a b e t i c a l l y as in 1; 3) in situ o b j e c t s ,
alphabetically and numerically according to the rooms
in t h e N o r t h W e s t P a l a c e as r e c o n s t r u c t e d
by
M e u s z y n s k i , P a l e y , a n d S o b o i e w s k i ; 4) late a d d i t i o n s .
It s h o u l d b e n o t e d t h a t in this list t h e plus sign i n c l u d e s
cases w h e r e o b j e c t s d o not j o i n physically (or f o r p r a c tical r e a s o n s c a n n o t be tested f o r j o i n s ) b u t g o o d evid e n c e h a s b e e n given f o r p l a c i n g t h e m t o g e t h e r . T h i s is
in c o n t r a s t t o t h e n o r m a l p r a c t i c e in this v o l u m e ( a n d
series) of using t h e plus sign in p a r e n t h e s e s ( + ) t o indicate such cases. F o r o b v i o u s r e a s o n s n o s c o r e s a r e given
f o r this text. M o s t exs. h a v e been collated either a g a i n s t
t h e original o r f r o m p h o t o s .
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1851
1902
1907
1926
1973
1976
1976
1976
1977
Layard, ICC pis. 1-11 (text)

King, AKA pp. 212-21 (text)
Le Gac, Asn. pp. 152-70 (text)
Luckenbill, ARAB 1 485-89 (text, translation)
Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 39-42 (text)
Grayson, ARI 2 ci 13 (text, translation)
Meuszynski, Arch. Anz. (objects)
Paley, Ashur-nasir-pal (objects, text)
de Filippi, Assur 1/7 pp. 123-69 (text)
1980 Asher-Greve, Genien und Krieger pp. 12-30 (objects,

text)
1981 Meuszynski, Bagh. For. 2 (objects)
1981 Reade, Iraq 43 pp. 145-56 (objects)
1981 Soboiewski, ZA 71 pp. 248-73 (objects)
1983 Winter, Essays Wilkinson pp. 15-32 (objects, text)
1985 Reade, Iraq 47 pp. 203-214 (objects, text)
1987 Paley and Soboiewski, Bagh. For. 10 (objects, text)
1989 Porter, Assyrian Bas-Reliefs at the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art (objects, text)
275
TEXT
.GAL MAS-SWR-PAB-A iD a-ur ni-sit
za-ab-da-a-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-tu KUR

bi-ra-te
11) KUR kar-du-ni- ana mi-is-ri KVR-a -ter
l-5a) (Property of) the palace of Ashurnasirpal,

vice-regent of Assur, chosen of the gods Enlil and
Tukultl-Ninurta (n), great king, strong king, king
of the universe, king of Assyria, son of Adadnrr (n) (who was) also great king, strong king,
king of the universe, (and) king of Assyria; valiant man who acts with the support of Assur, his
lord, and has no rival among the princes of the
four quarters, marvellous shepherd, fearless in
battle, mighty flood-tide which has no opponent,
the king who subdues those insubordinate to him,
he who rules all peoples, strong male who treads
upon the necks of his foes, trampler of all enemies, he who breaks up the forces of the rebellious, the king who acts with the support of the
great gods, his lords, and has conquered all lands,
gained dominion over all the highlands and received their tribute, capturer of hostages, he who
is victorious over all countries;
5b-12a) When Assur, the lord who called me by
name (and) made my sovereignty supreme, placed
his merciless weapon in my lordly arms, I felled
with the sword the extensive troops of the
ama and Adad, the gods my supporters, 1 thundered like the god Adad, the devastator, against
entire land Laq (and) the land Suhu including
the city Rapiqu; he conquered from the source of
the River Subnat to the land Urartu. I brought
stretching) from the passes of Mount Kirruru to
the land Gi1znu, from the opposite bank of the
Lower Zab (10) to the city T1-Bri which is
upstream from the land Zaban, from the city T1a-Abtni to the city T1-a-Zabdni, the cities
Hirimu, Harutu, (which are) fortresses of
Kardunia. I accounted (the people) from the
passes of Mount Babitu to Mount Hasmar as
1 ni-it d B A D u d MA 'chosen of the gods Enlil and Ninurta':

vars. have 'chosen of the gods Enlil and Aur'. 1 MAN =
ar kiati 'king of the universe': omitted in some exs. 2 MAN
GAL-e MAN dan-ni MAN = arri rab arri dan ni ar kiat
'great king, strong king, king of the universe': omitted in some
exs. 8 a-di KUR tab-na-na u A.AB.BA GAL -te 'to Mount
Lebanon and the Great Sea': for vars. in parallel passages see
the note to A.0.101.1 iii 121. 9 a-di KUR -ra-ar-ti: 'to the
land Urartu'. Many parallel passages have instead 'to the
interior of the land Nirib'. See the note to A.0.101.1 iii 122.
10 TA URU.DU6-~ab-ta-a-ni a-di URU. mj6-$-za-ab-da-a-ni
'from the city T1-a-Abtni to the city T1-a-Zabdani': for
vars. in parallel passages see the note to A.0.101.1 iii 123-24.
11 KUR ba-hi-te 'Mount Babitu': A.0.101.1 iii 124 (see the
1)
BAD u
MA na-ra-am a-nim u da-gan ka-u-u
DINGIR. MES GAL. MES MAN DON-NU MAN MAN

KUR a-Ur A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL-? MAN
dan-ni MAN
2)
MAN KUR a-Ur A 10-RIN.TH MAN GAL-
MAN dan-ni MAN MAN KUR a-ur-ma et-lu

qar-du ina GJukul-ti a-ur EN-
DU.BU'ku-ma ina mal-ki.MES kib-rat 4-ta
-nin-
3)
4)
la-a TUKU-W L.SIPA
tab-ra-te la a-di-ru GI.LAL e-du- gap-

ma-hi-ra la-a TUKU-W MAN mu-ak-ni la
kan-u-te- nap-har ki-at UN. MES i-pe-lu
NTA dan-nu mu-kab-bi-is
G a-a-bi- da-a-i kul-lat KR.ME mu-pari-ru ki-is-ri mul-tar-hi MAN ina GIs.tukul-ti
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES EN.ME-5W
5)
6)
T>V.DV-ku-ma
KUR. KUR. MES Dv-i-na sv-su KUR-ud hur-dni

T>v--nu i-pe-lu-ma bi-lat-su-nu im-hu-ru
sa-bit li-i-t -kn li-i-te UGU DV-i-na
KUR. KUR. MES e-nu-ma
a-ur EN na-bu- MU-ia mu-ar-bu- MAN-/a GI.TUKUL-SW la pa-da-a a-na i-da-at EN-ti-a
lu- it-muh RIN.HI. A.MES KUR
lu-ul-lu-me-e
DAGAL.ME
7)
ina q-reb tam-ha-ri ina GI.TUKUL.MES lu am-qit ina re-su-te dsa-m as u JIKUR
DINGIR.MES tik-li-a
RIN.HI. A.MES KUR. KUR
na-i-ri KUR hab-hi KUR u-ba-re-e W KUR nirib GIM DIKUR
8)
9)
ra-hi-si UGU--nu -gu-um MAN TA eber-tan D.HAL.HAL a-di KUR lab-na-na u

A.AB.BA GPL-te KUR la-qe-e ana si-hr-ti-
KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi ana GR.I- k-ni-
TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at a-di KUR -ra-ar-t
u-sw KUR-ud TA KUR n-re-be KUR kr-ruri a-di KUR g-za-ni TA e-ber-tan D za-ba
KI.TA
10) a-di URU.DU6-TF-A-/7 el-la-an KUR za-ban

TA VRV.E)U6--ab-ta-a-ni
a-di URU.DU6-S7-
276
TA KUR n-reb sa KUR ba-bi-te a-di KUR hamar
a-na
UN.ME KUR-ia am-nu
ina
KUR.KUR.MES a-pe-lu-si-na-ni
L.GAR-WW-
te-ia al-ta-kan
12) ur-du-ti -pu- ma-ur-AB-A NUN- na-a-du
pa-lh DINGIR.MES GAL.MES -m-gal-lu ek-du
ka-id URU.URU u hur--ni pat gim-ri--nu
MAN EN.ME-? mU-l-it
13) ek-su-te a-pi-ir -lum-ma-te la a-di-ru
GI.LAL ur--nu la pa-dumu-rib a-nun-te
MAN ta-na-da-a-te
MAN qi-bit
L.SIPA sa-lu-lu
KA- u-har-ma-tu
UB.ME
KUR.ME-^
14) u A.AB.BA.MES ina qi-it-ru-ub BN-ti-

M A N . M E - r t / ek-du-te la pa-du-te TA si-it
d
am-i a-di e-reb am-i pa-a 1 -en --kn URU kal-hu
15) mah-ra-a m l-ma-nu-S AG MAN KUR a-ur
NUN a-lik pa-ni-a vt-u URU U- e-na-ah-ma
is-lal URU - ana e--te ab-ni UN.ME U-a KUR.KUR.ME
16) d a-pe-iu-i-na-ni KUR su-hi KUR la-qe-e

ana s-hr-ti- URU sir-qu n-ber-ti
D.A.RAD KUR za-mu-a ana pat gim-ri-
KUR.-a-di-ni u KUR hat te
17) u mlu-bar-na KUR pa-ti-na-a-a al-qa-a ina
lb-bi --as-bit DU6 la-be-ru lu -na-ki-ir adi UGU A . MES lu --p 1 ME 20 tik-pi ina
mu-pa-li
18)
lu -ta-bi
.GAL GIS e-re-ni
.GAL GI dap-ra-ni
.GAL GI UR.MN
.GAL GI.TG.ME .GAL
GI mes-kan-ni .GAL GI bu-ut-ni u GI tarpi-d

19) a-na u-bat MAN-//-T ana mul-ta->-it EN-ti-a
da-ra-te ina lb-bi ad-di -ma-am
KUR.ME-E U A.AB.BA.MES NA 4 p-U
20)
K-e
u NA 4 pa-ru-te DV-U ina K . M E - s a -e-zi-iz

-si-irn-i -ar-rih-i si-kt kar-ri ZABAR.ME
al-rne-si
GI.IG.ME GI e-re-ni
GI.UR.MN
21) GIS dap-ra-ni GIS mes-kan-ni ina K.ME-&7

-re-ti
K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME AN.NA.MES
ZABAR.ME AN.BAR.MES SJ-t U-7

KUR.KUR.ME
people of my land. In the lands over which I

gained dominion I always appointed my governors. They entered (lit. 'performed') servitude.
12b-14a) Ashurnasirpal,
attentive
prince,
of lords, encircler of the obstinate, crowned with
splendour, fearless in battle, merciless hero, he
who stirs up strife, praiseworthy king, shepherd,
protection of the (four) quarters, the king whose
command disintegrates mountains and seas, the
one who by his lordly conflict has brought under
one authority ferocious (and) merciless kings from
east to west:
14b-22) The ancient city Calah which Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, a prince who preceded
me, had built this city had become dilapidated;
it lay dormant. I rebuilt this city. I took people
which I had conquered from the lands over which
I had gained dominion, from the land Suhu,
(from) the entire land of Laq, (from) the city
Sirqu which is at the crossing of the Euphrates,
(from) the entire land of Zamua, from Blt-Adini
and the land Hatti and from Lubarna, the Patinu.
I settled (them) therein. I cleared away the old
ruin hill (and) dug down to water level. I sank
(the foundation pit) down to a depth of 120 layers
of brick. I founded therein a palace of cedar,
boxwood, meskannuwood, terebinth, and tamarisk as my royal
residence (and) for my lordly leisure for eternity.
I made (replicas of) beasts of mountains and seas
in white limestone (20) and /wta-aiabaster (and)
stationed (them) at its doors. I decorated it in a
splendid fashion; I surrounded it with knobbed
nails of bronze. I hung doors of cedar, cypress,
daprnu-juniper,
(and) meskannu-wood
in its
doorways. I took in great quantities and put
therein silver, gold, tin, bronze, iron, booty from
the lands over which I gained dominion.
22) a-pe-lu-i-na-ni a-na ma-a^-di al-qa-a ina

lb-bi -kin
note) has URU 'city1 for KUR 'Mount'. 12 ur-du-ti -pu-

T h e y entered servitude'. Many parallel passages add kudurru
messunti '(and) 1 imposed upon them corve'. See the note
to A.0.101.1 iii 125-26. 14 ina qi-it-m-ub EN-ti- 'by his

lordly conflict': see the note to A.0.101.2 lines 41-42.
Ashurnasirpal Ii A.O.101 24
277
24
In the middle of the last century Hormuzd Rassam found several
pieces of black stone with remains of reliefs and inscriptions at Calah.
These pieces were parts of an obelisk, now called the Rassam Obelisk,
of Ashurnasirpal, and recently members of the Department of
Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum have reconstructed
the obelisk and published (see Reade) a thorough and excellent study
of it. The pieces were found in a structure called the 'Central Building'
and Reade has presented detailed arguments for the probable original
position of the obelisk. It was deliberately broken up in ancient times,
presumably with the intention to manufacture building blocks.
The reconstruction of the obelisk shows that it originally had scenes
in relief in a series of registers and panels with accompanying inscriptions. It appears that the whole series had a single theme, the presentation by numerous subject peoples of tribute to Ashurnasirpal. The
inscriptions consisted of a version of the Standard Inscription
(A.0.101.23), traces of which (lines 7-8) remain and are edited here,
and then a sequence of captions, the preserved portions of which are
edited as A.0.101.71-78. As to the date of the obelisk, enough of the
version of the Standard Inscription is preserved to show that it mentioned Mount Lebanon and thus the text dates to the latter part of
AshurnasirpaPs reign (see the note to A.0.101.1 iii 121). Since one
caption (A.O.101.71) was left blank, it is clear that the engraving of
the obelisk was never completed. Fragments of an obelisk similar to
the Rassam Obelisk, and which may be ascribed to Ashurnasirpal II,
have been found at Assur (A.O. 101.1004).
COMMENTARY
The main museum number is BM 118800 and to this
BM 90925 and BM 132013 have been joined. Note that
ND 3219, contrary to former belief, does not belong to
this obelisk. It is impossible to establish the original dimensions of the object. For further details see Reade.
The inscriptions have been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1897
1907
1936
1962
Rassam, Asshur pp. 11-12 (provenance)

Le Gac, Asn. pp. 207-209 (copy)
Gadd, Stones pp. 128-29 and pi. 6 (photo, study)
Barnett and Falkner, Tigl. pp. 1-7 (provenance)
1969
1976
1980
1982
Pritchard, ANEP 2 pi. 290 fig. 350 (photo)

Grayson, ARI 2 ci 70 (study)
Reade (and Walker), Iraq 42 pp. 1-22 (photo, edition)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [lu] -am-qit ina
re-^su^-te
-ma
[adad ilni tiklia RIN.HI.A].ME
2')
[mtti ri]a-i-ri KUR hab-hi KUR u-ba-re-e u

[mt nirib kma adad rhisi]
1-3') See A.0.101.23 lines 7-8.
278
3')
[uG]u-u-nu -gu-um MAN TA e-ber-t[an

diqlat adi ad lab-n]a-na
Lacuna
25
This text is known only from a squeeze of a stone object from Calah
referred to by Le Gac. The squeeze has been destroyed (see the introduction to A.0.101.1). Le Gac says it duplicated A.0.101.23 lines 1-5
(ending with UGU T>t-i-na KUR.KUR.MES 'over all countries'). After
omitting the next several lines it had lines 14 (beginning with URU kalhu mah-ra-a 'the ancient city Calah') to 22, the end of A.0.101.23. No
edition can be given on the basis of the scant information provided by
Le Gac.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 Le Gac, Asn. p. 165 E.89 (study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 13b (study)
26
This text is engraved on several stone tablets found at various sites.
The beginning (lines l-58a), which is a parallel to a passage in
A.0.101.1 (iii 113b136), has the names, titles, and genealogy of the
king and a general geographic description of his conquests (also cf.
A.0.101.54). Note that this text has 'to the city Carchemish of the land
Hatti' (line 22) instead of 'to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea' and
thus it must have an earlier date than many of the texts of
Ashurnasirpal (see the note to A.0.101.1 iii 121). This same parallel
passage continues with a narrative concerning the construction of
Calah.
The text then has (lines 58b-64a) a description of the erection and
decoration of the North West Palace, a passage which has a parallel in
A.0.101.23 (lines 18-21). Our text has an additional passage (lines
64b-72) adding more details about the decoration of the palace, a
statement that the inscription was deposited in the wall (of the palace,
not the city), and concludes with blessings and curses. Some exemplars
(2-5) omit the blessings and curses, as do several of Ashurnasirpal's
texts, a phenomenon which is discussed in the introduction to
A.0.101.19.
279
CATALOGUE
Ex,
Museum
number
Excavation
number
BM 90868
BM 90867
6
7
BM 90915
Ash 1951,61
N D 816
Australia
N D 1121
IM 55745
IM 60498
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
8
9
IM 60635
10
11
12
817
6232
6233
6234
6235
6236
Rm 1086+ 1087 +
l088( + )1089
IM
M
15
16
N D 201
Durham
Rm 1090
BM 1 15631
(Rm 2,607)
Provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
Calah
Calah
76x51
52x39
45x37.5
1-72
l-67a
ending with -kn
As ex. 2
As ex. 2
49x37
As ex. 2
Calah
Calah, NE corner
(DD) of NW palace,
covering grave
Calah, east wall
(B) of NW palace,
on floor
As ex. 4
Fort Shalm., NE 26
A s ex. 7
A s ex. 7
As ex. 7
A s ex. 7
Imgur-Enlil,
temple 'No. 1'
Calah, Governor's
Palace outside
southern wall
cpn
53x41.8
66x42
22x30
2b-28
10.5x9.2 +
31b-35, 54b-58
41a-48
41b-46
As ex. 12
COMMENTARY
There
is s o m e u n c e r t a i n t y
about the
i d e n t i f i c a t i o n of
some of the exemplars with this text. All of the complete exs. which could be collated (1-5) were found at
Calah and two (4-5), at least, specifically in the North
West Palace. Several stone tablets with this text
(exs. 7-11) apparently complete were found at Fort
Shalmaneser propped up against a wall. Two very fragmentary exs. (12 and 15) are said to have been found
together at Imgur-Enlil (Balawat) but one of them (15)
has remains of the description of work at Calah. A
third fragment of an inscribed stone, Rm 1091, was
found with exs. 12 and 15 but the inscription is illegible.
Ex. 5 is in the Australian Institute of Archaeology,
Melbourne, and I am grateful to Dr. David W. Searle

for sending me excellent photos of it. Ex. 14 is in the
Oriental Museum, University of Durham, and I am
grateful to Dr. John Ruffle for sending me an excellent
photo of it.
It has been impossible to collate several exs. (see the
catalogue) and therefore no scores can be provided.
Note that ex. 2 has a number of scribal errors. K 8543
is not an ex. of this text (so Schramm and Grayson) but
has been joined by me to ex. 39 (BM 124553 + ) of
A.0.101.23. ND 820 is also not an ex. of this text (cf.
Wiseman and Kinnier Wilson, Iraq 13 [1951] p. 119,
Grayson, ARI 2 ci 14, and see A.0,101.8).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902
1926
1950
1951
King, AKA pp. 177-88 (exs. 1-3, copy, edition)

Luckenbill, ARAB 1 507-513 (exs. 1-3, translation)
Wiseman, Iraq 12 p. 187 (ex. 13, provenance)
Wiseman and Kinnier Wilson, Iraq 13 p. 118 (exs. 4, 6,
provenance)
1952 Wiseman, Iraq 14 p. 66 (ex. 5, provenance)
1966 Mallowan, Nimrud 1 pp. 114-15 (exs. 4, 6, provenance);
2 p. 395 and n. 39 (exs. 7-11, provenance)

1973 Postgate, Governor's Palace pp. 211-12 and pi. 74 no.
217 (ex. 13, copy, edition)
280

TEXT
1)
a-Ur-PAB-A
MAN GAL-W MAN datl-HU
MAN
MAN KUR a-ur

2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL- MAN dan-U
MAN
MAN KUR a-Ur A 10-RN.TH

3)
MAN GAL- MAN dll-nU

ur-ma
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
et-lu
MAN MAN KUR 75-
qar-du
ina GIUukul-ti a-ur EN-SW DU.DU-ku-ma

ina mal-ki. MES
kib-rat 4-ta -nin-u la i-u- L.SIPA
tab-ra-te la-di-ru GI.LAL e-du- gap-u
ma-hi-ra la i-u- MAN mu--ak-ni-
la-a kan-u-te- nap-har ki-at UN.ME /pe-lu
NTA dan-nu mu-kab-bi-is G a-a-bi- da-i-i
kul-lat KR.ME mu-pa-ri-ru ki-is-ri mul-tar-hi
ina GI. tukul-ti
nu.mj-ku-ma
DINGIR.ME GAL.ME EN-SW
KUR.KUR.ME-/e
Dv-i-na u-su KUR-ud hur--ni vv--nu ipe-lu-ma

bi-lat-su-nu im-hu-ru sa-bit li-i-t GAR-in
li-i-te uGu Dt-i-na KUR.KUR.ME-^ e-nu-ma
a-ur
EN
na-bu- mi-ia mu-ar-bu- MAN-^-T

GI.TUKUL-SW
la pa-da-a a-na i-da-at EN-ti-a lu- it-muh

RIN.HLA.ME-7/ KUR
lu-ul-lu-me-6
DAGAL.ME ina q-reb tam-ha-ri

ina GI. TUKUL. MES lu -am-qit ina re-su-te
-ma
u DIKUR
DINGIR.ME tik-li-ia
RIN.HI. A.MES-TF KUR.KUR
na-i-ri KUR hab-hi

KUR u-ba-re-e u KUR ni-ir-be GIM DIKUR rahi-$i
VGV--nu -gu-um MAN TA e-ber-ta-an
D.IDIGNA
a-di URU kar-ga-mi KUR hat-te KUR laqe-e ana si-hr-ti- KUR su-hi a-d
URU ra-pi-qi a-na GR.II.ME-5/ -k-ni- TA
SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at
a-di KUR ni-ir-bi bi-ta-ni u-su KVR-ud TA
KUR n-re-be
KUR kr-ru-ri a-di KUR gl-za-a-ni TA eber-ta-an D za-ba
KI.TA a-di URU.DUE-a--n el-la-an URU
za-banan
a-di URU.DU6-- m za-ab-da-ni u URU.DU6-5/-
ab-ta-ni URU hi-ri-mu

URU ha-ru-tu KUR bi-ra-a-te KUR kar-duni- a-na mi-is-ri
26.4 has KUR 'land* instead of URU 'city' before Zaban.
1-14a) Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong king,

Tukult-Ninurta (II), great king, strong king, king
(5) has no rival among the princes of the four
quarters, marvellous shepherd, fearless in battle,
mighty flood-tide which has no opponent, the
king who subdues those insubordinate to him,
who rules all peoples, strong male, who treads
upon the necks of his foes, trampler of (10) all
enemies, the one who breaks up the forces of the
rebellious, he who acts with the support of the
gained dominion over all the highlands and received their tribute, capturer of hostages, he who
is victorious over all lands:
14b-32a) When Aur, the lord who called my
placed his merciless weapon in my lordly arms, I
amas and Adad, the gods my supporters, I thundered (20) like the god Adad, the devastator,
against the troops of the lands Nairi, Habhu, the
Subaru, and the land Nirbu. The king who subdued (the territory stretching) from the opposite
bank of the Tigris to the city Carchemish of the
land Hatti, the entire land Laq, (and) the land
Suhu including the city Rapiqu: he conquered
from the source of the River Subnat to the interior of the land Nirbu. I brought within the boundaries of my land (the territory stretching) from
the passes (25) of Mount Kirruru to the land
Gilznu, from the opposite bank of the Lower
Zab to the city TTl-Bri which is upstream from
the city Zaban, to the cities T1-a-Zabdni and
T1-a-Abtni, the cities Hirimu, Harutu, (which
are) fortresses of Kardunia. I accounted (the people) from the pass of the city Babitu to Mount
Haimar (30) as people of my land. In the lands
over which I gained dominion I always appointed
my governors. They entered (lit. 'performed') servitude (and) I imposed upon them corve.
KUR-ia -ter TA KUR n-re-be sa URU ba-bi-te
a-di KUR has-mar
a-na UN. MES KUR-/ am-nu ina
KUR. KUR. MES-TE a-pe-Iu-i-na-ni
LU.GAR-nu-te-ia al-ta-kan ur-du-ti -pu-u
ku-dr-ru
e-me-su-nu-ti ma-ur-PAB-A NUN na-a-du palih DINGIR.MES GAL.MES
-m-gal-lu ek-du ka-sid URU.URU U hur-ni pat gim-ri--nu MAN EN,MES

mu-la-it ek-su-te tiz-qa-ru la pa-dumu-rib
a-nun-te MAN D mal-ki.UES
MAN MAN.MES-/ i-i-pu na-a^-du ni-bit DMA
qar-di ka-u-u DINGIR.MES GAL.ME
MAN ina GIs.tukul-ti a-ur u DMA
DINGIR. ME tik-li- me--ri r>u.Du-ku-ma
KUR.MES sap-su-te u mal-ki.MES L.KR.ME kul-lat KUR.KUR.MEl--nu
a-na GRAI- -k-ni-
L.KR.MES-ut a-
sur AN. TA U KL TA
is-ta-na-nu-ma GUN u ma-da-tu UGU--nu ki-nu
m
a-ur-PAB-A MAN dan-nu ni-bit d 30 me-gir
d
a-nim na-mad DIKUR
ka-ka DINGIR.MES GIS.TUKUL la pa-du-u
mu--am-qit KUR KR.ME-W ana-ku
MAN le-yu-u qab-li -gi URU. URU U hur-M-ni
a--red tuq-ma-te
MAN kib-rat 4-ta mu-n-er a-a-bi-
KUR.KUR.ME-/E dan-na-te
hur--ni ek-su-te MAN.ME-A/ ek-du-te la padu-te TA si-it
am-i a-di e-reb am-i ana GR.II.ME-/T

-k-ni- pa-a
1 -en ---kn URU kal-hu mah-ra-a
m
l-ma-nu-SAG
MAN KUR a-ur NUN-W a-lik pa-ni-ia D-SW
URU u- e-na-ah-ma
is-lal a-na DU6 U kar-me GUR URU - ana
e--te ab-ni UN.ME
ki-it-ti u-/a KUR.KUR.ME a-pe-lu-ina-ni KUR su-hi
KUR la-qe-e ana si-hr-ti- KUR sir-qu nber-ti
D.A.RAD KUR za-mu-a ana pat gim-ri- a
KUR.-a-di-ni u KUR hat-te
u mli-bur-na KUR pa-ti-na-a-a al-qa-a ina
lb-bi --as-bit
ixy-tu TA ID za-ba AN. TA ah-ra-a D pa-tiH.GL
50.2-5 have URU 'city' instead of KUR 'land' before Sirqu.

51.4 omits KUR land' before bt-adni. 53.2, 4
pa-ti-ut.nvw.
281
32b-46a) Ashurnasirpal, attentive prince, worshipper of the great gods, ferocious dragon, conqueror of cities and the entire highlands, king of
lords, encircler of the obstinate, lofty (and) merciless, he who stirs up strife, king of all princes,
(35) king of kings, attentive purification priest,
designate of the warrior god Ninurta, destructive
weapon of the great gods, the king who has always acted justly with the support of Assur and
the god Ninurta the gods who help him and subdued the fortified mountains and the kings hostile
to him, all their lands, (he who) has always contested with the enemies of Aur above and below
and imposed upon them tribute and tax; (40)
Ashurnasirpal, strong king, designate of the god
Sn, favourite of the god Anu, loved one of the
god Adad (who is) almighty among the gods, the
merciless weapon which lays low lands hostile to
him, I, the king, capable in battle, vanquisher of
cities and highlands, foremost in battle, king of
the four quarters, the one who defeats his enemies, I have subdued (and) brought under one authority fortified lands, dangerous highlands, (and)
merciless fierce kings from east to west.
46b-58a) The ancient city Calah which Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, a prince who preceded
it lay dormant (and) had turned into ruin hills. 1
rebuilt this city. I took people which I had conquered from the lands over which I had gained
dominion, from the land Suhu, (50) (from) the
entire land Laq, (from) the land Sirqu which is
at the crossing of the Euphrates, (from) the entire
land of Zamua, from the land Bt-Adini and the
land Hatti and from Lubarna (Liburna), the Patinu. I settled them therein. I dug out a canal
from the Upper Zab (and) called it Patti-hegalli. I
planted orchards in its environs. offered fruit of
every kind (and) (55) wine to Aur, my lord, and
the temples of my land. cleared away the old
see the note to A.0.101.1 iii 135.
282
Mv- ab-bi GIS.KIRI6.MES ina li-me-tu- azqup GURUN.ME D.A.BI
GESTIN.MES a-na a-ur EN-a u .KUR.MES
KUR-F BAL DU6 la-be-ru
lu-ii -na-kiri a-di UGU A. MES lu --pl 1 ME
20 tik-pi
ana mu-pa-li -ta-bi BD-SW ana e--te arsip TA URU4-5W a-di gaba-dib-bi-
ar-sip -ak-lil .GAL GI e-re-ni GI.UR.MN
GI dp-ra-ni
GI.TG GI mes-kan-ni .GAL GI bu-ut-ni u
GIS tar-pi-H a-na u-bat
MAN-ti-a a-na mul-ta-a?-it BN-ti-a ina lb-bi
ad-di
-ma-am KUR.ME U A.AB.BA.MES pi-li
BABBAR-E u NA4 pa-ru-te
ina K- --zi-iz -si-im -ar-rih si-kt
kar-ri
ZABAR al-me-i GI.IG.ME GI e-re-ni
GI.UR.MN GI dp-ra-ni
GI mes-kan-ni ina K- -re-te
GI.GU.ZA.ME GI.ESI GI.TG GI.BANUR.ME
Z.ME uh-hu-za-te K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME
AN.NA.ME ZABAR.ME
AN. BAR. ME KUR-// SU -ia K U R . K U R . M E S
a-pe-lu-i-na-ni a-na ma-a?-dis
al-qa-a ina lb-bi -kn na-ra-a SAR ina BD GAR-nU NUN EGIR
an-hu-su lu-ud-di-i MU SAR ana Ki- lu-ter
a-Ur EN GAL-W
INANNA be-lat MURUB4 U M D i-em-me
mu-na-kir-j MU-a
a-ur u dMA ez-zi- lik-kal-mu- MAN-SU
lS-k-pU GI.GU. ZA-U
li-ki-mu- ina IGI KR.ME-SW km-me-i lue2o-i-bu-
MV- NUMUN-SW ina KUR lu-ZH
ruin hill (and) dug down to water level; I sank

(the foundation pit) down to a depth of 120 layers
of brick. I built its wall anew. I built (and) completed it from top to bottom.
58b-67a) I founded therein a palace of cedar,

boxwood, meskannuwood, terebinth, and tamarisk as my royal residence (60) (and) for my lordly leisure. (I made
replicas of) beasts of mountains and seas in white
limestone and parwiw-alabaster (and) stationed
(them) at its doors. I decorated it in a splendid
fashion; I surrounded it with knobbed nails of
bronze. I hung doors of cedar, cypress, daprnujuniper, (and) meskannu-wood in its doorways. I
took in great quantities and put therein thrones of
ebony (and) boxwood, dishes (65) decorated with
ivory, silver, gold, tin, bronze, iron, booty from
the lands over which I gained dominion. I inscribed (this) monumental inscription (and) deposited (it) in its wall.
67b-69a) May a later prince restore its weakened

(portions). May he restore my inscribed name to
its place. (Then) the god Assur, the great lord,
(and) the goddess Istar, mistress of battle and
conflict, will listen to his prayers.
69b-72) As for the one who removes my name:
may Assur and the god Ninurta glare at him angrily, overthrow his sovereignty, take away from
him his throne, make him sit in bonds before his
enemies, (and) destroy his name (and) his seed
from the land.
27
This text is known only from a squeeze of a stone object from Calah
referred to by Le Gac. The squeeze has been destroyed (see the introduction to A.0.101.1). Le Gac says it duplicated A.0.101.23 lines 1-13
(ending with mu-la-it ek-su-te 'encircler of the obstinate') and then
A.0.101.1 iii 127-28 (ending with DU.DU-ku-ma 'has always acted'). It
was a close parallel, then, of A.0.101.26. No edition can be given on
the basis of the scant information provided by Le Gac.
283
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 Le Gac, Asn. p. 165 E.24 (study)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 13a (study)
28
This text is engraved on the obverse of two stone monumental lions
found at the entrance to the temple of the goddess arrat-niphi in
Calah by Layard. A different text is inscribed on the reverse and it is
edited as A.0.101.32. The beginning of the present text (col. i) is a
dedication to that goddess followed by royal titles, and this passage is
very much like the beginning of A.0.101.1, except there the dedication
is to Ninurta. There follows a long passage (ii 1 - iv 13), parallel to
A.0.101.1 iii 114-25, which describes the king's conquests in a general
geographic way. The text then has a narrative of the construction of
Calah (v 1-6) which is parallel to A.0.101.1 iii 132-34. To put it
another way, these two passages are an abbreviated version of the
Standard Inscription (A.O.101.23). The text continues with details
(v 7-16) about the construction of various temples at Calah (cf.
A.0.101.29 lines 13'-23' and A.0.101.30 lines 53-77) and blessings.
The phrase 'to the source of the Tigris' (iv 3) instead of 'to the interior of the land Nirib' or 'to the land Urartu', or other variants found
in various texts of Ashurnasirpal, helps to provide a relative chronology within the reign for this text (see the note to A.0.101.1 iii 122).
COMMENTARY
O n e of t h e s t o n e lions w a s r e m o v e d f r o m t h e site by
L a y a r d a n d is n o w in t h e British M u s e u m ( B M 118895
= old n o , 96) w h e r e t h e i n s c r i p t i o n (ex. 1) c o u l d be
c o l l a t e d . T h e o t h e r w a s r e b u r i e d by L a y a r d , o n c e a g a i n
e x c a v a t e d a n d r e b u r i e d by M a l l o w a n a h u n d r e d years
l a t e r , a n d yet a g a i n u n e a r t h e d a n d r e m o v e d t o t h e
M o s u l M u s e u m in rccent t i m e s . Since t h e i n s c r i p t i o n
(ex. 2) o n t h e latter m o n u m e n t h a s n o t b e e n c o l l a t e d ,
n o scores a r e given in t h i s e d i t i o n . T h e i n s c r i p t i o n p u b -
lished in 2 R pi. 66 is a c o n f l a t i o n of exs. 1 a n d 2 (cf.

K i n g , A K A p . 206 n. 1). T h e squeeze ' E . 1 0 0 ' f r o m a
lion ' d i f f e r e n t ' f r o m ex. 1 (see Le G a c , A s n . p . x v i n ) is
p r o b a b l y f r o m o u r ex. 2. T h u s in col. v I h a v e u s e d
Le Gac's E . 1 0 0 t o r e s t o r e b r o k e n p o r t i o n s in ex. 1 as
o u t l i n e d in t h e n o t e s .
T h e r e a d i n g of t h e n a m e of this g o d d e s s as a r r a t ni phi (not B1at-mti) w a s p r o p o s e d by m e in A R I 2
p . 168 n . 757.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902
1907
1914
1926
1936
King, AKA pp. 206-208 (ex. 1, copy, edition)

Le Gac, Asn. pp. 181-86 (ex. 1, copy)
Budge, Sculptures pl. vi (ex. 1, photo)
Luckenbill, ARAB 1 521-24 ( ex. 1, translation)
Gadd, Stones pp. 126-27 (exs. 1-2, provenance)
1953
1966
1973
1975
1976
von Soden, SAHG pp. 259-60 (ex. 1, translation)

Mallowan, Nimrud 1 p. 92 (ex. 2, provenance)
Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 44-45 (ex. 1, study)
Postgate, Iraq 37 pp. 58-59 (ex. 2, study)
Grayson, ARI 2 ci 15 (exs. 1-2, translation)
284
T E X T
Col. i
1)
a-na
^GASAN-KUR NIN GAL-// SAG-// AN-<? KI-
tim âr-rat
D~> DINGIR. ME
ge-r-tu sa [ina
si-kir- DUGUD
ina DINANNA. MES su-tu-rat nah-ni-sa zi-mu
nam-ru GIM DR-mas^ ta-li-me- kip-pa-at
AN-e [ersetim] mit-ha-ri[s] ta-hi-ta
le-â-at da-nun-na-ki bu-kur-ti a-nim ur-buut DINGIR.MES ma-li-kt PAP.ME-SA a-ii-kt
mah-r[i d\a-li-hat [ta\-ma-a-te
mu-na-ri-ta-at hur--ni ur--na-at
D
NUN, GAL. MES be-lat MURUB4 u M ba-lu-
ina -r-ra îp-tu uP i-vma^-ga-ru-ma
mu-al-qa-at li-i-ti mu-am-sa-at ânP-mar
b-bi GA-at ki-na-te e-ma-at ik-ri-bi le-qaat un-ni-ni
ma-hi-rat ts-li-te INANNA n-bu-t git-maltu u-tu-ur-tu AN-? KI-tim ta-hi-ta in a kib rati KUR. KUR. MES T>t-i-na na-bu-
.KUR.ME]S
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
uxj- qa-i-at TI.LA.MES DINGIR-tim rme-ni-ti

qur-bu- DG.GA a-ib-at URU kal-hi NINia ma-ur-rFAB-A~I MAN MAN la -na-an
MAN kl-lat
Rkib-raO 4-ta dam-u ki-at UN.MES ni-it

d
d
d
BAD u d MA na-ra-am ^ a^-nim da~gan
9) ka-U-U DINGIR.ME GAL.ME ah-tU
10) na-ra-ânP sk-ki NUN-W
11) me-gir-^kP SANGA-su
8)
12)
RUGUI DINGIR-//-/:/ GAL-R/P
13)
14)
Col.
I)
2)
r-m-bu-
f~tui-ar-i~P-[du]
ii
BALA- et-lu
qar-du ina Gis.tukul-ti
3)
a-ur EN-SW DU.DU-ku-ma
4)
5)
ina ^mal-kP.UE kib-rat

4-r/fi -nin-
6)
la-a TUK-W L.SIPA
7)
8)
tab-ra-a-te la a-di-ru
GI.LAL e-du- gap-
9)
ma-hi-ra la-a TUK-W
10) MAN mu-ak-ni la-a kan-u-te-

II ) nap-har
Col. iii
1)
ki-at U[N].ME i-pe-lu TNTA dan^-nu muka-bi-is
I 1 SAG-// - retti: see the note to A.0.100.1 line 13.
i 1-7a) To the goddess arrat-niphi, great mistress, foremost in heaven (and) underworld, queen
of all gods, strong one, whose weighty command
is respected [in the temples], whose form is surpassing among the goddesses, shining countenance
who like the god ama her sibling thoroughly inspects the circumference of heaven (and) [underworld] , most capable of the Anunnaku gods,
offspring of the god Anu, supreme among the
gods, counsellor of her brothers, leader, the one
who stirs up the seas (and) shakes the highlands,
heroine of the Igigu gods, mistress of conflict and
battle, without whom a judgment is not approved
in Esarra, (i 5) the one who causes the achievement of victory (and) brings success, lover of rectitude, the one who heeds prayers, receives petitions, (and) accepts supplications, the goddess
Itar, radiant, perfect, supreme, who inspects
heaven (and) underworld, whose name is called in
the regions of all lands, bestower of life, the compassionate goddess to whom it is good to pray,
the one who dwells in the city Calah, my mistress;
i 7b - iii 8a) Ashurnasirpal, unrivalled king of the
universe, king of all the four quarters, sun(god)
of all people, chosen of the gods Enlil and
Ninurta, beloved of the gods Anu (and) Dagan,
destructive weapon of the great gods, the pious,
(ilO) beloved of your heart, prince, your favourite, whose priesthood is pleasing to your great
divinity (and) (ii 1) whose reign you established;
valiant man who acts with the support of Assur,
his lord, and has no rival among the princes of
the (ii 5) four quarters, marvellous shepherd, fearless in battle, mighty flood-tide which has no opponent, (ii 10) the king who subdues those insubordinate to him, who (iii 1) rules all peoples,
strong male, who treads upon the necks of his
foes, trampler of all enemies, the one who breaks
up the forces of the rebellious, the king who acts
with the support of the great gods and (iii 5) has
conquered all lands, gained dominion over all the
highlands and received their tribute, capturer of
hostages, he who is victorious over all lands:
2)
3)
4)
285
G a-a-bi- da-i-i ^kl-la0 KR.ME mupa-r-ru

ki-is-ri mul-tar-hi TMAN ina Gi^.tukul-ti
DINGIR. [MES] GAL.MES ît-tal-la-ku^-ma
KUR. KUR. ME
5)
6)
7)
8)
D-S/-RT[A] u-rsu KUR-ud hur-cH-ni vt--nu

i-^pe-lu-ma ^bi-lat-su-nu^ im-hu-ru
sa-rbiO li-Vi-t0 -kn nn-i-te
I UGU I DV-i-na KUR.KUR.ME e-nu-ma a-ur
EN
9) n[a-b]u- ' MU -ia ' mu-ar^-bu- MAN-//-/<7

10) GI. RXUKUE-II/I la-a ^pa-da-d a-na i-da-at
EN -ti-ia
11) lu-[ ]t-muh RRIN.HI.A.ME KUR 1 lu-ul-lume-e
12) DAG[AL].ME ina [q\-reb [tamhri ina]
GIS.TUKUL. TME"!
13) r/wi -am-q[t ina r]e-su-te d -ma

D
14)
iKUR DINGIR.M[E (]ik-li-ia
15-?) (traces)
Col. iv
1) KUR su-hi a-di KUR ra-pi-qi a-na TGR.II.MESI~I
2)
-sk-ni-s i-tu SAG e-ni D ^su-ub-na-aO
3)
a-di SAG e-ni D IDIGNA U-SU
4)
5)
6)
i-tu KUR n-er-be KUR kr-ru-ri a-di KUR

gl-za-ni
i-tu e-ber-ta-an D za-ba KI.TA a-di
URU.DU-ba-a-ri ei-ia-an URU za-ban i-tu
7)
URU.DU6--ab-ta-a-ni a-di URU.DUE-^-ZA-
^KVR-UCH
ab-da-(ni>
8) URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-t KUR bi-ra-a-te
9) s KUR kar-du-ni- a-na mi-si-r KUR-/A
10) -ter TA KUR n-er-be KUR ba^ bi-t^ a-di
11)
12)
KUR ha-mar a-na UN.MES KUR-T am-n[u

KUR.KUR.ME
d a-pe-lu-i-na-a-ni
L.GAR-/W.ME-0
ina]
13) al-ta-kan ur-du-ti -^pu^-u

Col. v
1) URU kal-hu mah-ra-a ml-ma-nu-SAG MAN
KUR a-Sur NUN a-lik pa-ni-ia
2) D-u URU u- e-na-ah-ma is-la URU u-
ana e--te ab-ni UN.MES
3) ki-it-ti u-ia KUR.KUR.ME a-pe-lu-ina-ni KUR su-hi KUR ia-qe-e
4) a-na si-hr-ti- URU sir-qu e-ber-ti D purat-te
5) KUR za-mu-a ana pat gim-ri- KUR.t-a-di-m
u KUR hat-te mlu-bar-na KUR pa-ti-na-a-a
6) al-qa-a ina lb-bi --as-bit DU6 la-be-ru lu
-na-ki-ir
7)
a-di UGU A.ME
lu --pf 1 ME 20 tik-pi ina mus-pa-li lu ta-bi DBAD U DMAS
iii 8b - iv 13) When Aur, the lord who called

my name (and) who makes my sovereignty
supreme, placed (iii 10) his merciless weapon in
my lordly arms, I felled with the sword the extensive troops of the Lullumu in battle. With the
help of the gods ama and Adad, the gods my
supporters, [I thundered like the god Adad, the
devastator, against the troops of the lands Nairi,
Habhu, the Subaru, and the land Niribu. The
king who] subdued [(the territory stretching) from
the opposite bank of the Tigris to ..., the entire
land Laq, (and)] (iv 1) the land Suhu including
the land Rapiqu: he conquered from the source of
the River Subnat to the source of the Tigris. I
Kirruru to the land Gilznu, (iv 5) from the opposite bank of the Lower Zab to the city Tl-Bri
which is upstream from the city Zaban, from the
city TUa-Abtni to the city Tr1-a-Zabdni, the
cities Hirimu, Harutu, (which are) fortresses of
Kardunia. I accounted (the people) (iv 10) from
the passes of Mount Babitu to Mount Hasmar as
people of my land. [In] the lands over which I
gained dominion I always appointed my governors. They entered (lit. 'performed') servitude.
v l-7a) The ancient city Calah which Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, a prince who preceded
it lay dormant. I built this city anew. I took people which I had conquered from the lands over
which I had gained dominion, from the land
Suhu, (from) the entire land Laq, (from) the city
Sirqu which is at the crossing of the Euphrates,
(from) the entire land of Zamua, from the lands
Blt-Adini and Hatti, (and) from Lubarna, the
Patinu. I settled (them) therein. I cleared away
the old ruin hill (and) dug down to water level; I
sank (the foundation pit) down to a depth of 120
layers of brick.
v 7b-13a) I founded therein the temple of the
deities Enlil and Ninurta, the temple of the deities
286
8)
-a u dam-ki~na diKUR u a-a d 30
gu-la
dGAAN-KUR .KUR-tf/ DING1R.MES GAL.MES
ina q-reb-u lu- ad-di -si-im
Ea and Darnkina, the temple of the deities Adad

and a1a, the temple of the god Sn, the temple of
the goddess Gula, (and) the temple of the goddess
arrat-niphi, temples of the great gods, (v 10) I
decorated (them) in a splendid fashion. installed
over them (lit. 'it') cedar beams (and) made cedar
doors. I fastened (them) with bronze knobbed
nails (and) hung (them) in their doorways. I made
(replicas of) beasts in shining bronze (and) stationed (them) in their towers. I made (replicas of)
lions in white limestone (and) partu-alabaster
(and) stationed (them) at their doors,
v 13b-16) O later prince among the kings of my
sons whom Assur will name for the shepherdship
of Assyria: restore the weakened (portions) of this
temple; write your name with mine (and) return
(my inscriptions) to their places so that Assur, the
lord, the prince, (and) the goddess Istar, mistress
of battle and conflict, [in wars] with kings on the
battlefield will cause him to achieve success.
9)
10)
-ar-rih
GI.R.ME GI.EREN UGU-$
GI.IG.ME GI.EREN D-u [si]-kt

11)
12)
-kn
ka[r-ri]
-re-ki-is ina K.MFS-V/-/7<7 -re-et-te

-ma-am ZABAR el-^lP
D-RW5I ina Rna-ma^-ri-i-na --zi-iz
ZABAR
UR.MAH.ME NA 4 p-U BABBAR-E I~NA4 pa-TU-
te^
13)
' D-U ina I K.ME-S-nu
--zi-iz
NUN-
EGIR-W in a MAN. MES-/?/ DUMU.ME-/7 sa
a-ur
14) a-na L.SIPA-ut KUR a-ur i-na-bu- an-huut .KUR -â-ti ud-ditP Mv-ka KI MU-ia
15)
ina Ki--nu ^GURT a-ur EN NUN-W

D
TINANNA GAAN"! MURUB4
[ina thaz]-
MAN.MES-/
16) a-ar tq-ru-ub-te am-mar [libbu ]-amSU-
29
This text, known only from a squeeze (now destroyed see the introduction to A.0.101.1) published by Le Gac, no doubt originally came
from Calah. The type of object upon which it was inscribed is unknown. The text is very fragmentary but can be restored from parallel
passages in other texts, particularly A.O. 101.28. Only part of the last
line of the introduction is preserved (line 1'); this is an invocation of a
god (not a goddess note the masculine forms RM-M and k-ka in
lines Y and 4' respectively) whose name is not preserved. It then has
the name, titles, and general conquests of Ashurnasirpal (lines 2-8')
followed by a description of the building of Calah (lines 9-17'). The
text concludes (lines 18-25') with blessings and curses.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V 8.1 [gu-la]: restored from Le Gac's E.100. v 9.1 [-s]-im:

restored from Le Gac's E.100. v 10.1 -[kn ... nii-u si]-kt
ka[r-ri]: restored from Le Gac's E.100. Instead of sikkat karri
'knobbed nails' parallels (A.0.101.30 line 63 and A.0.101.50
line 30) have meser^bands', v 11.1 -re-[et-te ... ZABAR]:
restored from Le Gac's E.100. v 12.1 [NA4 pi-li BARBARE]:
restored from Le Gac's E.100. v 13.1 [ina MAN.ME-// ... assur): restored from Le Gac's E.100. v 14.1 [an-hu-ut ... MU
ia): restored from Le Gac's E.100. v 15.1 [MURUB4 ...
MAN.MI;-M]: restored from Le Gac's E.100. v 16.1 [-am-su]: restored from Le Gac's E.100.
Ashurnasirpal ii A.0..101.29
287
TEXT
Lacuna
1')
[ . . . ] REM- [ . . . ]
6')
. ] MAN la -na-an [... ]

.] DMA na-ra-am [...]
.] na-ra-am A-ka NUN [...]
.] tu-ar--du BALA-S et-[lu ...]
.] siPA-// KUR-u ra-bi /&-[...]
7')
. MAN]-// EN-// k--t s
.] leâ-a-ku er--ku [...]
9')
m
m
14')
.] KUR a-ur NUN-' a-likpa-[n-a ..]

. ab-n]i(1) UN.ME ki-it-ti [...]
. si-hr]-t-^dI URU [...]
.] ma-a-du-te KUR hat-ta [...]
.] DBAD u nin-urta [...]
.] d 30 u gu-la [...]
15')
.] -ar-ri-ih
16')
.] DV-U ina [me]-sir [siparri.,.]

.] na u-me-[li(1) (x)] -[-zi-iz(1) ....]
2f)
3')
4')
5')
12')
13')
17')
[...]
GI.[R.ME . . . ]
.] ar-ku- ina MAN.MEl-ni \

19') [ .] an-h[u-u]t .KUR.ME [..
20') [ .] a-na -r[i]--nu [...]
21')
.] a-ar tq-[ru-ub]-ti [.,.]
22')
.] an-nu k--nu [i]-pal-[
23')
.] a-napa-an
.KUR-S [...
180
24') [...] -ni-i~ma~i i--ka-nu [...]

25')
[...]
INANNA NIN MURUB4 U M [.
Lacuna(?)
V For possible restorations see A.0.101.1 i 9 and for RFM-U

see the note to that line. 2'-5' For possible restorations see
A.0.101.28 i 7b - ii 1.7' Cf. A.0.101.1 i 31. 9-21' For
Lacuna
T) the compassionate [god to whom it is good to
pray ...];
2-8') [Ashurnasirpal], unrivalled king [of the
universe, king of all the four quarters, sun(god)
of all people, chosen of the gods Enlil and]
Ninurta, beloved of [the gods Anu (and) Dagan,
destructive weapon of the great gods, the pious],
beloved of your heart, prince, [your favourite,
whose priesthood is pleasing to your great divinity
(and)] (5') whose reign you established, [valiant]
man [...] shepherdship of his land ... [...] my
[sovereignty], my dominion, (and) my power
which [...] I am capable, I am wise, [...]:
9-17') [The ancient city Calah which Shalmaneser, king of] Assyria, a prince who preceded [me,
had built this city had become dilapidated; it
lay dormant. I rebuilt this city. I took] people
which I had conquered [from the lands over
which I had gained dominion, from the land
Suhu, (from) the] entire [land of Laq], from the
city [Sirqu which is at the crossing of the
Euphrates ...] many, the land Hatti [ . . . I founded
therein] the temple of the deities Enlil and
Ninurta, the temple of [the deities Ea and
Damkina, the temple of the deities Adad and
Sala], the temple of the god Sn and the goddess
Gula [... I decorated (them)] (15') in a splendid
fashion. [I installed over them cedar] beams (and)
made [cedar doors. I fastened (them)] with
[bronze] bands [and hung them in their doorways.
(...) 1 made ... and] erected [them to the right
and] left [at the doorways (...)]
18'-23') O later [prince] among the kings [my sons
whom Aur will name for the shepherdship of
Assyria: restore] the weakened (portions) of the
temples; [write your name with mine (20') (and)
return (my inscriptions)] to their places [so that
Assur ... in wars with kings] on the battlefield
[will cause him to achieve success ...] will answer
a firm yes [...] before his temple [...]
24'-25') [(As for the one who erases my inscription ...)] puts it in another place [...: may ...] the
goddess Istar, mistress of battle and conflict [...]
Lacuna(?)
possible restorations see A.0.101.28 v 1-16. 16' See the note

to A.0.101.28 v 10. 24' Cf. A.0.101.38 line 41.
288
30
This unique text is engraved on a large stone slab found in the North
West Palace at Calah by a British expedition led by Mallowan. The
text is unique because it gives the menu for the lavish banquet celebrating the dedication of the palace. The first part of the text (lines
1-19) is an abbreviated version of the Standard Inscription
(A.O.101.23) with the chronologically significant variant 'to the land
Urartu' instead of 'to the interior of the land Nirib' (see the note to
A.0.101.1 iii 122). The text goes on (lines 20-77) to describe the erection of the palace and various temples at Calah and gives a detailed
list of the names of the different species of trees imported and planted
by Ashurnasirpal. Two further passages, which have parallels in other
inscriptions (lines 78-101), concern the reconstruction of the land in
general and hunting exploits respectively (see the introduction to
A.0.87.1). Finally (lines 102-54), there is the lengthy list of the vast
quantity of food and drink consumed by the tens of thousands of
guests invited to the banquet.
COMMENTARY
The stone slab is in the Mosul Museum (ND 1104) and
was collated by Postgate. The object was discovered in
Room EA of the North West Palace and measures
104.5 x 128 cm. The text is inscribed in four columns,
the first on the obverse, cols, ii and iii on the reverse,
and col. iv on the left side: i = lines 1-52, ii = lines
53-94, iii - lines 95-137, iv = lines 138-54.

In this text it should be noted that only one palace is
discussed and that the word .GAL = ekallu which appears before each of various woods named means 'a
part, wing' of the entire structure. See the introduction
to A.0.87.1.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1952 Wiseman, Iraq 14 pp. 24-44 and pis. II-VI (photo, copy,
edition)
1963 J. Laesse, People of Ancient Assyria (London) pp.

103-106 (translation)
1966 Mallowan, Nimrud 1 pp. 57-73 (provenance, study)
1968 Brinkman, PKB pp. 186-87 and 391 n. 2188 (study)
1969
1973
1973
1976
1982
Oppenheim, ANET 3 pp. 558-60 (translation)

Postgate, Governor's Palace pp. 238-40 (study)
TEXT
1)
.GAL mQ-Ur-PAB-A ID a-Ur ni-sit DBAD u

MAS na-ra-am a-nim
u da-gan ka-u-u DINGIR. MES GAL.MES MAN
dan-nu MAN [ ar KUJR a-ur A TUKUL-MAS
D
2)
MAN GAL-E
3)
MAN d[an-n]i MAN MAN KUR a-ur A 10RIN.TH MAN GAL-E MAN DAN-NI MAN MAN
KUR a-ur-ma et-lu qar-du

4)
ina [Gi.t]ukuI-i
a-ur EN-SU DU.DU-ku-
ma ina mal-ki. MES kib-rat A-ta -nin-

5)
la-a TUK-W [L].SIPA tab-ra-a-te

GI.LAL e-du-u
la
a-di-ru
l-20a) (Property of) the palace of Ashurnasirpal,

vice-regent of Aur, chosen of the gods Enlil and
king of the universe, [king of] Assyria, son of
Tukultl-Ninurta (II), great king, strong king, king
king of the universe, (and) king of Assyria; valiant man who acts with the support of Assur, his
lord, and has no rival among the princes of the
four quarters, (5) marvellous shepherd, fearless in

gap-u ma-h[i-r]a la-a TUK-W MAN mu-akni-i la kan-u-te
nap-har ki-at UN.ME i-pe-lu MAN ina
GI.tukul-t DINGIR.ME GAL.ME
EN.ME-M BVMV-ku-ma
KUR.KUR.MES D[]-
i-na v-su KUR-ud hur--ni

DV--nu i-pe-lu-ma bi-lat-su-nu i[m]-hu-ru
sa-bit li-i-t
-kin li-i-te UGU Dv-i-na KUR.KUR.ME MAN
TA e-ber-tan
ID. HAL.HAL a-di KUR lab-na-na
u A.AB.BA
G AL-ti KUR la-qe-e

ana si-hr-ti- KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi
ana GR.II.ME-SW
-k-ni- TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at a-di

-ra-ar-t u-sw KUR-W TA KUR n-re-be
KUR kir-ru-ri
a-di KUR gil-za-ni TA e-ber-tan D za-ba
KUR
K[I.T]A a-di
VRU.DVe-ba-a-ri
el-la-an KUR za-ban TA URU.DU6--ab-taa-ni a-di
URU.DU 6 -
-za-ab-da-a-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-tu

KUR bi-ra-a-te
sa KUR kar-du-ni- ana mi-is-ri KUR-MT -te-er
TA KUR n-re-be URU ba-bi-te a-di KUR
has-mar a-na UN. MES
KUR-ia am-nu a-ur EN GAL-M ina ni-e
IGLILMES-M
e-mu-ra-ni-ma
mal-ku-ti ki-u-ti ina KA- K -a ma-urPAB-A
MAN ta-na-ta- da-na-nu ina hi-sa-at lbbi-ia

sa d-a MAN ZU. AB uz-nu DAGAL-tu NG.BA-W
URU kal-hu ana e--te as-bat DU6 la-be-ru

-na-kir-t
a-di UGU A. MES --pl TA UGU A. MES a-na
e-le-na 1 ME 20 tik-pi tam-la-a
-mal-li
.GAL GI.TG.ME .GAL GIS mCS-
kan-ni .GAL GIS e-re-ni .GAL GIS ur-mi-ni

.GAL
GIS bu-ut-ni .GAL GIS tar-pi-i .GAL GIS meeh-ri 8 .GAL.MES a-na mu-sab MAN-//-7
a-na mul-ta-H-it EN-ti-ia ina q-reb- ad-di

-si-im -ar-rih GIS. IG. MES
GIS e-re-ni GIS ur-mi-ni GIS dp-ra-ni
GI.TG.ME GIS mes-kan-ni ina me-sir ZABAR
-re-kis ina K.ME-i-na -re-ti si-kt kar-ri
ZABAR
al-me-i-na
ta-na-ti qar-du-ti-a nfcfi pi-rk hur--ni

KUR.KUR.ME U A. AB.BA.ME
at-tal-la-ku
ki-it-tu KUR.KUR.ME BV-i-na ina za-gi-
21 -a = us: see the note to A.0.101.1 i 31 and Schramm,

EAK 2 p. 37, and Postgate, Governor's Palace p. 238.
289

the king who subdues those insubordinate (to
him), he who rules all peoples, the king who acts
has conquered all lands, gained dominion over all
the highlands and received their tribute, capturer
of hostages, (10) he who is victorious over all
countries, the king who subdued (the territory
land of Laq, (and) the land Suhu including the
city Rapiqu; he conquered from the source of the
River Subnat to the land Urartu; 1 brought within
the boundaries of my land (the territory stretching) from the passes of Mount Kirruru (15) to the
land Gilznu, from the opposite bank of the
Lower Zab to the city T1-Bri which is upstream
from the land Zaban, from the city T1-a-Abtni
to the city T1-a-Zabdni, the cities Hirimu,
Harutu, (which are) fortresses of Kardunia; I accounted (the people) from the pass of the city
Babitu to Mount Haimar as people of my land;
20b-36a) Assur, the great lord, cast his eyes upon

me and my authority (and) my power came forth
by his holy command. Ashurnasirpal, the king
whose strength is praiseworthy, with my cunning
which the god Ea, king of the apsu, extensively
wise, gave to me, the city Calah I took in hand
for renovation. I cleared away the old ruin hill
(and) dug down to water level. From water level
to the top, (a depth of) 120 layers of brick, (25) I
filled in the terrace. I founded therein a palace of
boxwood, meskannu-woo, cedar, cypress, terebinth, tamarisk, mehru-wood, eight palace (area)s
as my royal residence (and) for my lordly leisure
(and) decorated (them) in a splendid fashion. I
fastened with bronze bands doors of cedar,
cypress,
daprnu-juniper,
boxwood,
(and)
meskannu-wood (and) hung (them) in their doorways. I surrounded them with knobbed nails of
bronze. I depicted in greenish glaze on their walls
(30) my heroic praises, in that I had gone right
across highlands, lands, (and) seas, (and) the conquest of all lands. I glazed bricks with lapis lazuli
(and) laid (them) above their doorways. I took
people which I had conquered from the lands
over which I had gained dominion, from the land
312
AshurnasirpaliiA.0.101.30312
in-du-re-e ina .SIG4.ME-si-na e-sir
NA4 a-gr-ri ina NA4.ZA.GN -ab-il a-na ele-na K.uF-si-na -ki-ni
UN.MES KUR-// s u - i a KUR. KUR. MES
a-pe-
lu-i-na-ni KUR su-hi URU [ka]p-ra-bi

KUR za-mu-a ana pat gim-ri- KUR -zama-ni u KUR ub-re-e URU sir-qu ni-bir-ti
D pu-rat-te u ma-a-du-te KUR la-qa-a-a
KUR hat-ti u mlu-bar(*)-na
KUR pa-ti-na-a-a al-qa-a ina lb-bi --as-bit
D-tu TA D za-ba AN.TA
ah-ra-a KUR-W a-na zq-pi-u ab-tu-qu D pa//-H.GL MU- ab-bi
-al-la-a-te ID.HAL.HAL mi-ik-ru -ma-kiir GI. KIRI6. MES ina
li-me-tu-
-qUp GI.GURUN.ME D.A.BI GETIN.ME
s-hu-ut SAG.MES a-na a-[\ur EN-ia u

. KUR. MES
KVK-ia BAL-qi URU u- a-na a-ur EN-ia aqi-su ina [KUR].KUR.MES sa at-tal-ia-ku
u hur--ni
sa e-ta-ti-qu
GIS.MES NUMUN.ME-
ni a-tam-ma-r[u G]I e-re-nu GI.UR.MN

G I . I M . A L G I . I M . L I G . I M . A . S U GIS dp-ranu GI lam-mu
[GI].GIIMMAR GI.ESI
GI mes-kan-nu GIS sir-du-u GIS su-su-nu GIS

a-la-nu GIS tar-pu- u GI duk-du GIS bu-ut-nu
u GIS mur-ra-nu GIS me-eh-ru GI.E.HAR GIS
ti-ia-tu GIS al-la-an-ka-ni GI.HA.LU.B
GI sa-da-nu GIS. NU. R. MA GIS Sal-lu-ru GIS au-hu GIS in-gi-ra-u
GI ka-mi-e-ru GIS su-pur-gi-lu GI.P
GI.KIN.GETIN GI an-ga-U
GI.IM.GAM.MA
GI ti-ti-ip GI sip-pu-tu GI za-an-za-li-qu

GI.HAHU[R].GI[.G]I GI ha-am-[bu]-qu-qu
GIS nu-hur-tu GIS ur-zi-nu u GI.IM.GIG T>-tu
i-[tu] e-le-na â-na^ GI.KIRU.ME
tu-ug-da-a-ra i-ri-u ma-la-ka-ni i-x-[(x)]-lu
na-at-^ba-ka-ni Â.ME^ ki-ma
MUL AN-? ina GI.KIRI6 si-h[a]-te i-ha-nu-n[u
GIS].NU.R. [MA.(MES?)]
Suhu, (from) the city Kaprabu, (from) the entire

land of Zamua, (from) the lands Bt-Zamni and
Subr, (from) the city Sirqu which is at the crossing of the Euphrates, (from) the multitude of the
people of the land Laq, from the land Hatti,
and from Lubarna, the Patinu. I settled (them)
therein.
36b-52) I dug out a canal from the Upper Zab,

cutting through a mountain at its peak, (and)
called it Patti-hegalli. I irrigated the meadows of
the Tigris (and) planted orchards with all kinds of
fruit trees in its environs. I pressed wine (and)
offered first-fruit offerings to Assur, my lord, and
the temples of my land. I dedicated (40) this city
to Assur, my lord. In the lands through which I
marched and the highlands which I traversed, the
trees (and) plants (lit. 'seeds') which I saw were:
cedar, cypress, imial, buru-juniper,
...,
daprnu-juniper, almond, date, ebony, meskannu,
olive, susnu, oak, tamarisk, dukdu, terebinth
and murranu, mehru, ..., tiatu, Kanish-oak,
haluppu, (45) sadanu, pomegranate, ailru, fir,
ingirau, pear, quince, fig, grapevines, angaupear, sumlal,
titipu,
sipptu,
zanzaliqqu,
'swamp-apple', hambuququ, nuhurtu, urznu, and
kanaktu. The canal cascades from above into the
gardens. Fragrance pervades
the walkways.
Streams of water (as numerous) as (50) the stars
of heaven flow in the pleasure garden. Pomegranates which are bedecked with clusters like
grape vines ... in the garden ... [/,] Ashurnasirpal,
in the delightful garden pick fruit like ... [...]
ki-[ma]
GI. KIN. GETIN
sa-an-bu-ku lab-u LL ina GI.KIRI6 si-ha(1)-te

^tu-lal-la [anku(?) m]â-ur-PAB-A inai
GI.KIRIe
ri-d-te u'-ta-nab kipi-ia-x
[...]
33 URU [ka\p-ra-bi: see Parpola, Toponyms p. 195 and cf.

Schramm, EAK 2 p. 38 (correct the line number) and
Postgate, Governor's Palace p. 239. 34 KUR ub-re-e: see
Parpola, Toponyms p. 337 and cf. Schramm, EAK 2 p. 38
and Postgate, Governor's Palace p. 239. 35 bar: text has PA.
37 pa-ti-H.GLi see the note to A.0.101.1 iii 135. 39 as-huuv. cf. A.0.101.17 v 9; see von Soden, AHw p. 1074, CAD 16
(S) p. 60b, and Postgate, Governor's Palace p. 239 (cf.
Schramm, EAK 2 p. 33). 39 SAG.MES: see Postgate, JSS 28
(1983) pp. 155-57 (cites older literature) and Tales, Orientalia

NS 53 (1984) pp. 66-68. Also note Zawadzki, Festschrift
Ranoszka pp. 151-55. 40-48 Lambert (private communica
tion) has suggested the translation adopted here, which means
that the main verb ('were') was understood and not omitted.
Cf. Kinnier Wilson, Iraq 50 (1988) pp. 79-80. 48-52 For
another reading and interpretation see Kinnier Wilson, Iraq 50
(1988) pp. 80-82.
ina URU kal-hi ma-ha-zi EN-ti-ia .KUR.MES
ina pa-an la-a ha-u- DBAD u DMA
ina q-reb- ad-di -a-MAX dam-ki-na

d
d iKUR a-la gu-la D 3 0

DMUATI DGASAN ~K UR -hi DIMIN.BI
dkid9-mu-ri
.KUR.MES DINGIR. MES G AL. MES
ana e--te ina lb-bi ad-di u-ba

DINGIR. MES
EN.ME-A ina q-reb-i-na -kn -si-im-i-na

-[\ar-rih-i-na GI.R.ME GI e-re-ni
VGV-i-na -kfn GI.IG.ME GI e-re-ni
MAH.ME D-WS ina me-sir ZABAR -re-kis
na K. MES-i-na -re-ti ALAM.MES ZABAR
K.ME ina K.ME-i-na -e-zi-iz DINGIR-SM-
nu
GXL-tu ina K.GLME hu-e-e ina NA4.ME eb-bi
lu -ar-rih u-ku-tu K.GI NG.GA
HI.A.ME KUR-ti v-ia a-qi-su-nu-ti

at-ma-ni
MA EN-ia ina K.GI.ME
NA4.ZA.GIN -sab-bi-it
IM.ME-W ZABAR
ina ZAG- u GB-5W
-e-zi-iz
-m-gal-li K.GI am-ru-te a-na ub-ti-

-kin i-si-na-te- ina izi.zz ITI.KIN GAR -un
MU i-si-ni- a ITI.ZZ a-ri-ih-tu
MV-d ab-bi-ma sir-qu qut-ri-nu -ki-na-nu-ti
NU MAN-ti-ia tam-il bu-na-ni-a ina K.GI.ME
hu-e-e u NA4.MES eb-bi ab-ni ina ma-har
D
MA
EN-ia -e-zi-iz URU.ME-W na-tu-te

ina DME-ia a-na DU6 GUR-ru ana e--te
as-ba-su-nu UN.ME ma-a-du-te ina lb-bi
t--as-bit .GAL.ME mah-ra-a-te
pi-rk KUR-ia ana e--te ar-sip~i-na -siim-i-na
U-ar-rih-i-na SE.AM U E.IN.NU ina lh-bi-i-na
DUB-uk DMA u DIGI.DU SANGA-ti i-ra-mu
M.ANE
EDIN -at-li-mu-ni-ma e-pe ba-u--ri

iq-bu-ni 4 ME 50 UR.MAH.MES KAL.ME a-duk
3 ME 9 0 GU4.AM.ME ina GI.GIGIR.MEs-ia pa-
tu-te
ina qi-it-ru-ub EN-ti-ia a-duk
2 ME G.NA.MUEN.MES ki-ma MUEN.MES qu-
up-pi
-na-pi-is 30 AM.SI.ME ina ub-ti
ad-di 50 GU4.AM.MES T[I.L]A.ME
1 ME 4 0 G.[NA].MUEN.M[E TI.L]A.ME
2 0 UR.MAH.TME^ KAL.ME [tU KUR]-E
70 IM.MES-w: cf. Engel, Dmonen pp. 93-94. 78 nat =

nadw. see the note to A.0.101.1 ii 10. 88 See the note to
291
53-78a) In the city Calah, the centre of my dominion, temples which had previously not existed
(such as) the temple of the gods Enlil and Ninurta
(55) I founded. I refounded therein the temple of
the deities Ea-sarru (and) Damkina, the temple of
the deities Adad (and) a1a, the temple of the
goddess Gula, the temple of the god Sin, the temple of the god Nabu, the temple of the goddess
arrat-niphi, the temple of the divine Sibitti, the
temple of the divine Kidmuru, the temples of the
great gods. (60) I established in them the seats of
the gods, my lords. I decorated them in a splendid fashion. I installed over them cedar beams
(and) made high cedar doors. I fastened (them)
with bronze bands (and) hung (them) in their
doorways. (65) I stationed holy bronze images in
their doorways. I made (the images of) their great
divinity resplendent with red gold and sparkling
stones. I gave to them gold jewellery, many possessions which I had captured. I adorned the
room of the shrine of the god Ninurta, my lord,
with gold (and) (70) lapis lazuli, I stationed
bronze ... on his right and left, (and) installed
wild ferocious dragons of gold at his throne. I appointed his festivals in the months of Shebat
(and) Elul. The name of his festival in the month
Shebat (75) I called 'Splendour'. I established for
them food (and) incense offerings. I created my
royal monument with a likeness of my countenance of red gold (and) sparkling stones (and) stationed (it) before the god Ninurta, my lord.
78b-84a) Abandoned cities, which during the time
of my fathers had turned into ruin hills, I took in
hand for renovation (and) settled therein many
people. Ancient palaces throughout my land I
built anew. I decorated them in a splendid fashion
(and) stored grain and straw in them.
84b-101) The gods Ninurta (and) Nergal, who
and commanded me to hunt. I killed 450 strong
lions. I killed 390 wild bulls from my ... chariot
with my lordly assault. (90) I slew 200 ostriches
like caged birds. I drove 30 elephants into an ambush. I captured alive 50 wild bulls, 140 ostriches,
(and) 20 strong lions from the mountains and
forests. I received (95) five live elephants as tribute from the governor of the land Suhu and the
governor of the land Lubdu (and) they went
about with me on my campaign. I formed herds
of wild bulls, lions, ostriches, (and) male (and)
A.0.101.2 lines 41-42. 93-94 Cf. A.0.101.2 line 33 and see

Postgate, Governor's Palace p. 240.
292
94) u GIS.TIR. [MES /-w]fl(?) [u(?)]-te [/] -sabbi-ta

95)
5 AM. si. MES TI.LA. MES ma-da-tu
^ LU I. GAR
female monkeys. I bred herds of them, I added

by force additional territory to Assyria (and) people to its population.
KUR
96) KUR SU-hi U LU.GAR KUR URU lu-ub-da U-

am-hur
97) ina ger-ri it-ti-ia it-ta-na-la-ka
98)
GU 4 .AM.ME UR.MAH.ME G.NA.MUEN.ME
99) pa-ge-e pa-ga-a-te su-gul-la-te--nu

100) ak-sur mar-i-si-na --lid UGU KUR a-ur
KUR
UGU UN.ME-IA UN.ME a-na-sa[h(1)]
-rad-di
ina lu-me ma-ur-PAB-A MAN KUR a-ur

.GAL hu-ud b-bi
.GAL kl-lat n-me-qi s URU kal-hi
-ar-ri--m a-ur EN GAL- U DINGIR.MES
s KUR gab-bi ina lb-bi iq-ra-a-ni
1 ME GU4.ME E.ME 1 LIM GU4.AMAR.ME
u UDU.ME -re-e
14 LIM UDU.DAM.GR.ME
ina IGI DINANNA NIN-//-/ 2 ME GU4.ME
ina IGI DINANNA Nm-ti-ia 1 LIM UDU si-ser-hu

1 LIM UDU.NIM.ME 5 ME DARA.MA.ME 5 ME
MAS. DA. MES
1 LIM MUSEN.MES GAL.MES 5 ME UZ.MUSEN.MES
5 ME KUR.GI.MUSEN.MES 1 LIM
me-SU-ki.MUSEN
1 LIM qa-ri-be.MUEN. MES 10 LIM

TU.MUSEN.MES 10 LIM TU.KUR 4 .MUEN.MES
10 LIM MUSEN.MES TUR.MES 10 LIM KU 6 .ME 10
LIM ak-bi-ri
10 LIM NUNUZ.ME 10 LIM NINDA.ME 10 LIM
KA.ME
10 LIM KU zi-qu
s GESTIN. MES 10 LIM Zq-
pa-a-ni
s E uJe E.GI..ME 10 LIM DUG iu-um-mu
s sar-hi
1 LIM GI ha-ba-ra-hu s ur-qi 3 ME + GI.ME
3 ME E.BLUG.ME 3 ME ra-qu-t
sa-mu-uh-tu 1 ME ku-di-me 1 ME MUN.GAD.NI
1 ME SE gu-bi-ba-te 1 ME E - < bu )-uh-en-nu
1 ME DIDA SIG5 1 ME GI.NU. R.MA.ME
1 ME GI. KIN. GETIN. ME 1 ME za-am-ru
sa-
mu-hu
1 ME GIS bu-ut-na-te
1 ME GI.SU.SI.ME
1 ME . SUM.SAR 1 ME .SUM.SIKIL.SAR
1 ME ku-ni-ip-hi 1 ME ri-ga-mu lap-te

1 ME E hi-in-hi-ni 1 ME gd-de-e 1 ME LL.ME
1 ME . NUN.NA.ME 1 ME E ab-i qa-lu-te
1 ME E uJi qa-lu-te 1 ME kar-kar-tu
1 ME t-a-t 1 ME GAZ1.SAR 1 ME GA.ME
101 a-na-sa[h{l)]: this reading was proposed by Postgate,

Governor's Palace p. 240 but it is uncertain. Parallel passages
lack this word: A.0.87.1 vii 32 and A.0.100.5 line 133.
Schramm, EAK 2 p. 39 suggested a-na kit-[ri) 'zur
1 0 2 - 1 5 4 ) When Ashurnasirpal, king of Assyria,

consecrated the joyful palace, the palace full of
wisdom, in Calah (and) (105) invited inside Assur,
the great lord, and the gods of the entire land;
100 fat oxen, 1,000 calves (and) sheep of the
stable, 1 4 , 0 0 0 ...-sheep which belonged to the
goddess Istar my mistress, 200 oxen which
belonged to the goddess Istar my mistress, 1,000
siserhu-sheep, (110) 1,000 spring lambs, 500
aiialu-deer, 500 deer, 1,000 ducks (issr rabtu),
500 ducks (us), 500 geese, 1,000 mesukku-birds,
1,000 qaribu-birds, 10,000 pigeons, 10,000 turtle
doves, 10,000 small birds, 10,000 fish, 10,000 jerboa, ( 1 1 5 ) 1 0 , 0 0 0 eggs, 1 0 , 0 0 0 loaves of bread,
10,000 jugs of beer, 10,000 skins of wine, 10,000
containers of grain (and) sesame, 1 0 , 0 0 0 pots of
hot ..., 1,000 boxes of greens, 300 (containers of)
oil, 300 (containers of) malt, 300 (containers of)
(120) mixed raqqatu-plants, 100 (containers of)
kudimmus (a salty plant), 100 (containers of) ...,
100 (containers of) parched barley, 100 (containers of) ubuhennu-grain, 100 (containers of)
fine billatu-bY, 100 (containers of) pomegranates, 100 (containers of) grapes, 100 (containers of) mixed zamrus, 100 (containers of) pistachios, 100 (containers of)
(125) 100 (containers of) onions, 100 (containers of) garlic, 100
(containers of) kuniphus, 100 bunches of turnips,
100 (containers of) hinhinu-seeds, 100 (containers
of) gidd, 100 (containers of) honey, 100 (containers of) ghee, 100 (containers of) roasted abuseeds, 100 (containers of) roasted u>u-seeds, 100
(containers of) karkartu-plants, (130) 100 (containers of) iatu-plants, 100 (containers of) mustard, 100 (containers of) milk, 100 (containers of)
cheese, 100 bowls of rar^w-drink, 100 salted oxen,
10 homers of shelled dukdu-nuts, 10 homers of
Verstrkung'. In CAD 1/2 (A) p. 502a the passage is read a-na

DI[RI](?) ' o n a l a r g e s c a l e ' . 1 0 7
UDU.DAM.GR.MES: s e e
Postgate, Governor's Palace p. 240.
Ashurnasirpal Ii A. 0.101.3 0
shelled pistachios, 10 homers of ..., 10 homers of

habbaququ, (135) 10 homers of dates, 10 homers
of titipu, 10 homers of cumin, 10 homers of
sahnu, 10 homers of urianu 10 homers of
andahsu, 10 homers of ianibu, 10 homers of
simberu-fruit, 10 homers of ha, 10 homers of
fine oil, 10 homers of fine aromatics, 10 homers
of
10 homers of nassabu-gourds, (140) 10
homers of zinzimmu-onions, 10 homers of olives;
when I consecrated the palace of Calah, 47,074
men (and) women who were invited from every
part of my land, 5,000 dignitaries (and) envoys of
the people of the lands Suhu, Hindnu, Patinu,
Hatti, (145) Tyre, Sidon, Gurgumu, Malidu,
Hubuku, Gi1znu, Kummu, (and) Musasiru,
16,000 people of Calah, (and) 1,500 zarq of my
palace, all of them - altogether 69,574 (150) (including) those summoned from all lands and the
people of Calah for ten days 1 gave them food,
1 gave them drink, I had them bathed, I had them
anointed. (Thus) did I honour them (and) send
them back to their lands in peace and joy.
131) 1 ME e-qi-de 1 ME DUG.AB.ME mi-zi 1 ME

GU4.ME
132) ma-ad-lu-te 10 ANSE ku-ul-li GIS duk-di

133) 10 ANSE ku-ul-li GI bu-ut-na-te
134) 10 ANSE M GI.SU.SI.MK 10 ANSE
ha-ba-qu-
q(*)
135) 10 ANE Z.LUM.MA 10 ANE -t-p
10 ANE
.GAMUN
136) 10 ANSE sa-hu-nu
10 ANSE -ri-a-nu
10 ANSE
an-dah-si
137) 10 ANSE i--ni-be
138) 10 ANSE GIS si-im-be-re
10 ANSE GI ha-e-e
10
ANE + GI DG.GA
139) 10 ANE IM.ME DG.GA 10 ANE BL.LI.ME
10 ANSE GI na-se-be
140) 10 ANSE zi-in-zi-me 10 ANSE GI ser-du ki-i
.GAL
141) URU kal-hi -ar-ru-ni 40 LIM 7 LIM 74

142) RIN.ME MUNUS.ME qa-ri--te pi-rk
KUR-ia gab-bi
143) 5 LIM L.MAH.ME L ap-ra-a-te KUR su-hi
144) KUR hi-in-da-na-a-a KUR pa-ti-na-a-a KUR
hat-ta-a-a
145) KUR sur-ra-a-a KUR si-du-na-a-a KUR gr-guma-a-a
146) KUR ma-li-da-a-a KUR hub-u-ka-a-a KUR glza-na-a-a
147) KUR ku-ma-a-a KUR mu-sa-si-ra-a-a 16 LIM
ZI. MES
148) LRU kal-hi 1 LIM 5 ME LU za-ri-qi,MES sa

.GAL. ME S-a
149) Dt-li-si-na PAP-ma 1 u-i 9 LIM 5 ME 74

150) L sa-si--te KUR.KUR.MES vii-li-i-na a-di
151) UN.MES sa URU kal-hi 10 u4-me K.ME-./-
nu'ti
152) N AG.ME&--nu-ti -ra-me-ek--nu-ti
.ME--nu-ti
153) W-DUGU>-su-nu-ti ina l-me ha-de-e a-na
KUR. KUR. ME--nU
154) GVR.ME--nu-ti
31
This text is engraved on the backs of three large stone slabs which
were originally mounted adjacent to one another at one of the entrances to the Ninurta temple at Calah. The texts on the obverse of
these slabs have been listed as A.0.101.5-7. Another inscribed slab
was also next to these and is listed as A.0.101.3. The introduction to
134 qi: text has KU. 139 BI'L.LI.MES: see Postgate, Governor's
Palace p. 240.
293
294

the present text gives the royal name and epithets and a description of
building at Calah, a passage which is a parallel of A.0.101.1 ii 125-35.
Note the chronologically significant variant 'to the interior of the land
Nirbu' instead of 'to the land Urartu' or other variants (see the note to
A.0.101.1 iii 122). The text continues with a specific reference to the
dais of the god Ninurta and then concludes with a prayer to the same
deity.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Old BM
number
Lines
preserved
cpn
1
2
3
BM 124571 rev.
BM 124572 rev.
BM 124573 rev. (124589)
28 rev.
29 rev.
30 rev.
u9
1-19
1-19
p~~
p
p
COMMENTARY
The master text is ex. 1 with some minor restorations from the other two exs.
BM 124589 is a cast of BM 124573 (ex. 3).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA pp. 209-11 (ex. 3, copy, edition)

1977 de Filippi, Assur 1/7 pp. 139-46 (exs. 1-3, edition)
TEXT
1)
a-Ur-PAB-A MAN GAL-W MAN dH-nU MAN
MAN KUR a-Ur A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL-M MAN
dan-nu MAN MAN KUR a-ur

2)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN GAL-U MAN dan-nu
MAN
MAN KUR a-ur-ma et-lu qar-du ina

GIS. tukul-ti
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
a-ur EN-U DU.DU-ku-ma ina mal-ki.MES
kib-rat 4-fa -nin-u

la-a i-- LU. SIP A ab-ra-a-te la-a e-di-ru
GI.LAL e-du- gap-
ma-hi-ra la-a i-u- MAN TA KUR e-berta-an D.HAL.HAL a-di KUR lab-na-na
u A.AB.BA GAL-te KUR la-qe-e a-na si-hr-ti-
KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi
a-na GIR.IL MES-SW --ak-ni-
TA SAG e-ni D
su-ub-na-at EN KUR ni-rib

d be-ta-a-ni sv-su KUR-ud TA KUR n-reb
KUR kr-ru-ri EN KUR gl-za-a-ni TA eber-ta-an D za-ba KI. TA EN uRu.Du6-a-/v a
e-la-an KUR za-ban TA URU.DUe-sd-ab-ta-ni
1.1 omits MAN (second occurrence).
1-1 la) Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong king,

Tukult-Ninurta (II), great king, strong king, king
who acts with the support of Assur, his lord, and
has no rival among the princes of the four quarters, marvellous shepherd, fearless in battle,
mighty flood-tide (5) which has no opponent, the
king who subdued (the territory stretching) from
the opposite bank of the Tigris to Mount
Lebanon and the Great Sea, the entire land Laq,
(and) the land Suhu including the city Rapiqu, He
conquered from the source of the River Subnat to
the interior of the land Nirbu. I brought within
the boundaries of my land (the territory stretching) from the passes of Mount Kirruru to the land
Gi1znu, from the opposite bank of the Lower
Zab to the city TI-Bri which is upstream from
the land Zaban, from the city T1-a-Abtni to the

city T1-a-Zabdni, (and) the cities Hirimu (and)
Harutu (which are) fortresses of Kardunia. Finally, I have gained dominion over the entire extensive lands Nairi.
lib-16a) The city Calah I took in hand for renovation. I cleared away the old ruin hill (and) dug
down to water level; I sank (the foundation pit)
down to a depth of 120 layers of brick. 1 founded
therein the temple of the god Ninurta, my lord.
At that time I created with my skill this statue of
the god Ninurta which had not existed previously
as an icon of his great divinity out of the best
stone of the mountain and red gold. I regarded it
as my great divinity in the city Calah. I appointed
his festivals in the months Shebat and Elul. I constructed this temple in its entirety.
10) EN URU. DV6-za-ab-da-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU

ha-ru-t bi-ra-a-te M KUR kar-du-ni- a-na
mi-is-ri KUR-ia
11)
GUR-RA DAGAL. MES KUR. KUR na-i-ri
ana
pat
gim-ri- a-pl URU kal-hu ana e--te as-bat

DU G ia-be-ru -na-kir-i
12) a-di UGU A.ME lu- --pl 1 ME 20 tik-pi ana mu-pa-li iu-u -ta-bi
13) DMA EN-ia ina q-reb- lu- ad-di e-nu-ma
ALAM DMA -a-t
14)
ina hi-sa-at
lb-bi-ia
GAL-// ina du-muq
ina pa-an
la-a GL-W
LAMMA DINGIR-//-SW
NA 4 KUR-E K.GI
hu-e-e
lu- ab-ni
15)
ana DINGIR-//-MF GAL-te ina URU kal-hi
lu-
am-nu- i-si-na-te- rn.zz u ITI.KIN lu-

-kun
16) .KUR i-i a-na na-al-ban lu- ak-sur BRA
d
MA EN-ia ina q-reb- lu- ad-di
17) e-nu-ma DMA EN ina BKA- el-li ina at-mani- ru-a-me ina hu-iid lh-hi-s a-na dara-te --bu
18) ki-ni-i li-pr-da-a GD UD.ME-/T iiq-bi mud MU.ME-/T li-tas-qar
SANGA-//
295
16b) I laid the dais of the god Ninurta, my lord,

therein.
17-19) When the god Ninurta, the lord, for eternity sits joyfully on his holy dais in his alluring
shrine, may he be truly pleased (and) so command
the lengthening of my days, may he proclaim the
multiplication of my years, may he love my
priesthood, (and) wherever there is battle or wars
in which I strive may he cause me to attain my
goal.
li-ra-am
19) e-ma MURUB4 U M.ME a-ar -sa-ma-ru suum-rat b-bi-ia lu --ak-i-da-a-ni
32
This text is engraved on the reverse of the lion (BM 118895) from the
arrat-niphi temple at Calah. For the text on the obverse and information about the lion in general see A.0.101.28. The text begins (lines
l-7a) with the king's titles and genealogy, followed by a general geographic description of his conquests parallel to a passage in the Standard Inscription (A.0.101.23 lines 8b-l la). It then describes the rebuilding of Calah and specifically the construction of the temples of
arrat-niphi, Ninurta, Gula, and Sn. Details are given of the creation
of a statue of Istar and a dais for it which were set up in the arratniphi temple. The text concludes with blessings and curses. As to date,
the text comes from the later part of the reign. This is shown by the
parallel passage to the Standard Inscription mentioned earlier which
has 'to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea', concerning which see the
note to A.0.101.1 iii 121. Also note 'to the interior of the land Nirbu'
instead of 'to the land Urartu', the significance of which has been discussed in the note to A.0.101.1 iii 122. The engraver was in a hurry or
unskilled for the text has a number of errors and in general the signs
are badly formed and spaced. The fact that he was inscribing the text
on the reverse where it should never have been seen no doubt
prompted his carelessness. The text was collated from photos.
296

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1985 George and de Filippi, ARRIM 3 pp. 18-20 (edition)
TEXT
1)
Q-Ur-T PAB L-IBILA MAN GAL- MAN dan-U
MAN MAN KUR U-Ur A TUKUL-MA MAN

GAL-W MAN dan-nu
MAN MAN KUR a-ur
10-RIN.TH MAN GAL-W MAN dan-HU MAN
MAN KUR a-ur-ma
2)
et-lu qar-du ina GI. tukul-ti a-ur EN-SM

i-tal-la-ku-ma ina mal-ki.MES kib-rat 4-ta
-nin- la t~D-- MAN TA e-ber-ta-an
3)
D.IDIGNA a-di KUR lab-na-na
A.AB.BA GAL-
te KUR la-qe-e a-na si-hir-ti- KUR su-hi a-di

URU ^ra^-pi-qi
4)
ni-ir-bi
5)
7)
8)
GR.I-
sa be-ta-ni
s u -su KUR-W/ TA-W
n-re-
be sa KUR kir-\ riP-ri a-di KUR gil-za-ni

I TA WW e-ber-ta-an D za-ba KI.TA a-di
URU.DU6-Z??-0-/*/ sa el-la-an KUR za-ban
'TA^-tu
6)
a-na
-k-ni- TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at EN KUR
URU.DVs-d-ab-ta-ni
a-di
URU.DU 6 -/-
* zai-ab-da-ni URU hi-ri-mu * URU ha^-ru-tu

KUR bi-ra-a-te sa KUR kar-fdu-ni-s^ a-na
mi-sir KUR-/*? w-r ter~f DAG AL. MES
KUR. KUR na-i-ri a-na pat rgim-ri- a^-pl
URU kal-hu mah-ra-a sa mdl-ma-nu-SAG MAN
KUR a-ur NUN a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu- URU
U-
e-na-ah-ma is-lal a-na EGIR u4~me f~a-na~I DU6
kar-me i-tur ina hi-sa-at sk-ia ra~i d-a
MAN TABT.ZU GETU DAGAL-T NG.^BA URUÎ
9)
u- ana e-u-te
DiB-bat DU6 (la)-be-ru -na-kir a-di UGU
A.MES --pl 1 ME 20 I'tik'i-pi a-na mu-pa-li
lu -ta-bi
d MA dGAAN- [KUR] r d i g u - l a
30
10) ina q-reb- lu ad-di .KUR i-i a-na na-alban lu ak-sur
u-bat
DINGIR.ME GAL.MES ina
-^kri .KUR i-i a-na na-an-[mar m]alki.MES NUN.MES
11) da-ra-te e-pu-u ina pi-it GETU.II.ME hasi-si ina hi-ih-ti

RGA -ni
pa-an
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES
LAMMA-A/ DINANNA NIN-
ina
la-a GL-[] DINGIR-5/ GAL-RWRN lu -
ar-rih
10 na-an-[mar M]al-k.MES: cf. A.O. 101.35 line 8.
1-2a) Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong king, king

of the universe, king of Assyria, son of TukultlNinurta (II), great king, strong king, king of the
(who was) also great king, strong king, king of
the universe and king of Assyria; valiant man
who acts with the support of Assur, his lord, and
has no rival among the princes of the four quarters:
2b-7a) The king who subdued (the territory
land Laq (and) the land Suhu including the city
Rapiqu; he conquered from the source of the
bank of the Lower Zab to the city Tr1-Bri which
T1-a-Abtni to the city T-a-Zabdni, the cities
Kardunia. I gained entire dominion over the extensive lands Nairi.
7b-11 a) The ancient Calah which Shalmaneser,
built this city had become dilapidated, it lay
dormant, (and) a long time ago had turned into a
ruin hill. With the cunning which the god Ea,
king of the aps (and who has) wide understanding, gave to me, I took this city in hand for
renewal. I removed the old ruin hill (and) dug
down to water level. I sank (the foundation pit)
down to a depth of 120 layers of brick. I founded
therein the temples of the deities Ninurta, Sarrat[niphi], Gula, (and) Sn. I completed the construction of this temple (i.e. the arrat-niphi temple)
(and) established therein the seats of the great
gods. I built this temple for the eternal admiration of rulers and princes.
lib-14a) With the wisdom (and) understanding
of, (and) according to the desire of, the great
gods who love me, I created an icon of the goddess Istar, my mistress, which had never before
existed. (I created it) from the finest stones, fine
12) ina du-muq NA4.MES sa-ri-ri K.GI hus-se-e
lu ab-ni ina BRA- a-na da-ra-te [ina] libbi lu ad-di .KUR r$P-i -si-im -[a]r-rih
GI.R.ME
e-re-ni î0-ra-hu-ti ina u c u - s a lu u-kin

GIS. IG. MES GIS e-re-ni si-ra-te in K.ME-57 Mre-e UR.MAH.MES ek-du-[(e] NA4 pi-li
14) BABBAR-^ e-pu-us ina Kk- -e-ziz e-nu-ma
13)
GIS
GAAN-KUR GAAN GAL-tum na BARA- K
ina at-ma-ni- ru-â-me --bu ki-ni

lu tap-pr-da-a [ark] ÛD^.MEs-a lu DUG4-GA
15)
m-ud
MU.ME-A lu ta-tas-qar
SANGA-// lu
ta-ram a-na na-dan zi-bi-ia lu ah-du e-ma

MURUB4 M <-sa-ma-ru) su-um-rat -a
[lu] ^tnA-ak-i-da-ni NUN-W
16) EGIR-W ina MAN.MEs-ni DUMU.ME-A a-ur
MU- ana L.SIPA-W/ KUR a-ur
i-na-bu-
UR.MAH.MES U-0-tU-nU TA K.ME-SFL la tU-
na-kar M[U S]AR la-a ta-pa-it

17) an-hu-su-nu ud-di MU at-ra ana KI-SW GUR
a-Sur EN GAL-W DMA U DINANNA a-b .KUR
-a-t H.NUN tuh-du H.GL ina KVR-
lu-ki-nu UN.ME[-5M] al-ti DU. DU-ku-ma ina

gi-mir KUR. KUR. ME
18) ina ME d MAN. MES-ni KI taq-ru-ub-te am-mar

sk-u -am-su-u MU SAR i-pa-i-tu
UR.MAH.MES su-a-tu-nu u-na-ka-ru ina
A.[ME] VB- ina IZI.ME GBIL-W
19) ina ki-li la a-ma-ri GAR-?ZW mim-ma INIM

NG.GIG pa-an .KUR -a-t -ap-ra-ku
MA
EN me-hi -ga-a-te INANNA \'be \-lat

MURUB4 U M MAN-5W
20)
[lis]-ki-pu
GI.AS.TI-IW KAR- ina IGI
L.KR.ME-SW ka-mi lu-e-i-bu-u su-un-qu

bu-bu-tu ni-ib-ra-tu ina KUR- [lu]-ki-nu
MU-U
21)
297
gold, and red gold (thus) making her great divinity resplendent. I set up in (the temple) her dais
(with the icon) for eternity. I made this temple
suitably resplendent. I positioned over it great
cedar beams. I hung tall cedar doors in its doorways. I made white limestone (statues of) fierce
lions (and) stationed (them) in its door way (s).
14b-15a) When the goddess arrat-niphi, the
great mistress, takes up residence on her holy dais
in her alluring shrine, may she be steadfastly radiant. May she make my days good (and) [long]
(and) command my years to be numerous. May
she love my priesthood. May she be pleased with
my offerings. May she cause me to achieve success
wherever (I strive) in war and battle.
15b-18a) O later prince among the kings my sons
whom Assur will name for the shepherdship of
Assyria: may you not remove these lions from her
doorways. May you not erase my inscribed name.
(Instead), restore their ruined (portions and) return my inscribed name to its place. (Then)
Assur, the great lord, the god Ninurta, (and) the
goddess Istar who dwells in this temple will establish copious abundance in your (lit. 'his') land.
You will march victoriously (among) [your] people and achieve success in all lands in battle with
kings on the battlefield.
18b-21) As for the one who erases my inscribed
name, removes these lions, throws (them) in the
water, burns (them) with fire, puts (them) in a
prison where they cannot be seen, (or) commits
atrocities against this temple: may the god
Ninurta, lord of storm and destruction, (and) the
goddess Istar, mistress of battle and strife,
overthrow his sovereignty, take away from him
his throne, make him sit in bondage before his
enemies, establish in his land distress, famine,
(and) hunger, (and) destroy his name (and) his
seed from the land.
NUMUN-JFW ina KUR lu ZH
33
This text is on a clay tablet fragment in the British Museum
(K 4526 + 82-5-22,499). It is probably either a pattern for an inscription to be engraved on stone or a copy from a stone inscription. The
provenance of the object, or at least the original text, is problematic.
The portion of the building section preserved concerns the reconstruction of the city Calah. But the text has some major differences from
the other Calah display texts and, in fact, has some resemblance to
Nineveh texts. Note, for example, the reference to Mount Amanus in
line 6' (cf. A.0.101.66 line 7). The tablet bears a Kuyunjik number
298

although this is no proof that it originally came from Nineveh. It is
difficult to restore the broken text because of its different character but
I have generally followed Schramm's edition where detailed references
to parallels can be found. The inscription has been collated.
The beginning of the text is largely missing but it contained the
king's name, titles, and genealogy. This is followed by a general
description of his conquests. Then there is the narrative regarding his
construction of Calah. The conclusion is largely missing but obviously
it had a blessing for a future restorer and possibly curses on a future
destroyer. As to date, the details about the king's activities on the
sea-coast of the Mediterranean (concerning which see the note to
A.0.101.1 iii 121) indicate the later part of the reign. The phrase 'to
the interior of the land Nirbu' instead of 'to the land Urartu' is
significant as discussed in the note to A.0.101.1 iii 122.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1975-76 Schramm, WO 8 pp. 39-43 (copy, edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 115 n. 468 b v (study)
TEXT
Lacuna
N
[...] XX [...]
2')
[rub]- n-ra-[du
3')
[KUR.K]UR.ME D\j-[i-na
4')
[apif]
...]
G$.tukul-ti-MA
...]
MAN R I MA[N
mt
aur ...]
5') [k]a-id TA e-ber-ti D.X [...]
6') [a-n]a KUR-E ha-ma-ni e-li GI.[R.ME ...]
7') [sa]-lam MAN-ti-ia ina lb-bi -qup KUR hatte a-n[a sihirta ...]
8') [T]A URU gar-ga-mi KUR hat-te KUR laqe-e â^-[na sihirta]
9') KUR su-hi a-di KUR ra-pi-qi a-na GR.II.ME-/Z
V
iD-[sekni(a)]
10') TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at a-di KUR ni-rib
[btni...]
1 V ) a-di KUR -ru-me GIM DIKUR ra-hi-si UGU-S-
nu [agum]
12') TA [KU]R n-re-be KUR kr-ru-ri a-di KUR
g-za-ni URU hu-b[u-u-ki-a(1)]
13') a-na G[R.II].ME-7 -k-ni- KUR za-mu-a
ana pat gim-ri- ana UN. [MES mtia am nu]
14') sa-bit riP-i-t -kin li-i-te vv-i-na
[mtti]
15') a-na tam-t[i GA]L-te a KUR a-mur-ri a-lik
ma-da-^t i [arrni a iddi tmti]
16') KUR sur-ra-a-â
KUR~I [si-d]u-n[a-a-a
KU]R
rgu^-[bai-a-a ... amhur]

17') ina tam-di GAL-te Gi.TUKUL.ME-/[a l ulil
niq ana iln(ia) l asbat]
18') MAN si-ru KUR.ME Dv-i-na TA si-it sam
S[i adi erb dami...]
Lacuna
1-4') [...] attentive [prince ...] all lands [... son
of] Tukultl-Ninurta (n), king of the universe, king
[of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (II) (who was)
also king of the universe and king of Assyria]:
5-130 Conquerer from the opposite bank of the
T[igris ...]. I ascended Mount Amanus. [Cedar]
beams [...]. I erected my royal image on it. The
entire land Hatti [...]. I [subdued] (the territory
stretching) from the city Carchemish of the land
Hatti, the [entire] land Laq, the land Suhu including the land Rapiqu. (10') From the source of
the River Subnat to the [interior] of the land
Nirbu [...] to the land Urumu. [I stormed] like
the god Adad, the devastator, against them. I
subdued (the territory stretching) from the passes
of Mount Kirruru to the land Gilznu (and) the
city ffub[ukia. I accounted] as people [of my
land] (the people of) the land Zamua in its entirety.
14-18') Capturer of hostages, he who is victorious
over all [lands]: 1 marched to the Great Sea of the
land Amurru. [I received] the tribute of [the kings
on the seashore], of the people of Tyre, Sidon,
Byblos, [... 1 washed] my weapons in the Great
Sea [(and) made sacrifices to the gods]. Exalted
king who [conquered] all lands from east [to west
(...)]:
299
19-27'a) The city Calah I took in hand for

renewal. [1 removed the] old ruin hill (and) dug
down to water level. [I sank (the foundation pit)
down] to a depth of 120 layers of brick. I took
people which I had conquered from the lands
[over which I had gained dominion], from the
land Suhu, (from) the entire land Laq, (from)
the city S[irqu which is at the crossing of the
Euphrates], (and from) the entire land of Zamua.
[I settled (them) therein. I dug out] a canal from
the Upper Zab (and) (25') called it Patti-hegalli. [I
planted] gardens in [its environs. I offered] fruit
(and) wine to Assur, my lord, [and to the temples
of my land]. I dedicated this city to Assur, my
lord.
27'b-30') O later prince [among the kings my sons
whom Au]r [will] name for the shepherdship [of
Assyria: ...] a good word [...]
Lacuna
19') URU kal-hu a-na e--te as-bat DU6 la-[be-ru

(l) unakkir]
20') a-di UGU A.ME tu --pi7 1 ME 20 tik-[pi ana
mupali utabbi]
2Y) UN.MES ki-it-ti sv.i-ia KUR.KUR.ME [a
apeluinni]
22') sa KUR su-hi KUR la-qe-e a-na si-hr-ti-
KUR s[ir-qu sa nberti puratte]
23') KUR za-mu-a a-na pat gim-ri- al-q[a-a ina
libbi usasbit]
24') D-tu TA D za-ba AN.T[A ahr]
25') D pa-tu-H.GL MU-SA ab-bi GI.KIRI6.ME
i[na limtua azqup]

26')
GURUN.ME-NI-E- GI.GETIN.ME- ana
a-
ur EN-/[T u ekurrt mtia aqqi]

27) [UR]U u- a-na a-ur EN-ia NG.BA NUN
EGIR-[W ina arrni mria a]
28') [a-u]r ^MV^--ma a-na L.[SIPA-ut mat
aur innabu]
290 [... a-ma]t Rda^-mi-iq-tu [...]
30') [...] x x x [...]
Lacuna
34
This text is engraved on some stone slabs which originally came from
the North West Palace at Calah. Most of the text, which consists of
royal name, epithets, and a description of building at Calah, is parallel to a passage in A.0.101.1 (ii 125-32a). But unlike the parallel passage which concerns work on the Ninurta temple, the present text concludes: T founded therein my royal palace.'
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
1
2
3
4
5
6
BM 90982
BM 90979
BM 92985
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum 1801
Walker Art Gallery 375
King's College
24x24
23x23
23x22
61 x 4 I
76x46
21 x 2 1
1-26
1-26
1-26
I -26
1-26
1-26
25' patti-hegalli 'Canal of Abundance': see the note to

A.0.101.1 iii 135. 26' GURUN.ME-NI-E- must be in error for
GURUN.MES D.A.BI: see A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 line 3 9 a n d parallels. C f .
cpn
c
c
c
p
n
P
Schramm. 26' The - after GIS.GESTIN.MES is meaningless. Cf.

Schramm, 27 -28' For the restoration see A.0.101.32 line 16.
300

COMMENTARY
Since the known exs. are all exact duplicates, with a

few minor vars., no scores are given. Note that the
correct number of ex. 1 is BM 90982, not 90984 (so
King); the latter is the number of a different object (BM
Guide 1922 p. 214). The comment in King, AKA p. 175
n. 4 is potentially misleading: his 'C' (ex. 3) has the full
text but King observes that it splits a place-name over

two lines. Ex. 4 is published with the kind permission
of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (San Jose, California) and Dale Jordan, Museum Curator. My thanks
go to Drs S. Paley and R. Gallery for drawing my attention to this inscription.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA pp. 173-76 (exs. 1-3, copy, edition)
1941 Jones, AJSL 58 p. 326 (ex. 5, study)
1973 Dombrowski, RA 67 pp. 131 -45 (ex. 6, photo, edition)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 22 (exs. 1-3, 5, translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
I)
8)
9)
10)
II)
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
22)
23)
24)
25)
26)
27)
.GAL ma-ur-PAB-A MAN GAL-W MAN dan-ni

MAN MAN KUR a-ur
A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL-E MAN dan-ni MAN
MAN KUR a-Ur A 10-RIN.TH MAN GAL-e
MAN dan-ni MAN MAN KUR a-ur-ma
et-lu qar-du ina GIl.tukul-ti a-ur EN-U
DU.DU-ku-ma ina mal-ki.UES kib-rat A-ta
-ni-in- la-a i-- MAN M TA e-ber-ta-an
D.IDIGNA a-di KUR lab-na-na
A.AB.BA GAL-TE KUR la-qe-e
ana si-hr-ti- KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi
a-na GR.II.ME-SW -k-ni-a
TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at
a-di KUR ni-ir-bi bi-ta-ni sv-su
ik--du TA KUR n-re-bi KUR kr-ru-ri
a-di KUR gl-za-ni TA e-ber-ta-an
ID za-ba KI.TA a-di URU. DUs-ba-a-ri
sa el-la-an KUR za-ban TA URU.DU6-ab-ta-ni a-di VKV.DXJE-s-za-ab-da-ni
URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-t bi-ra-a-te
KUR kar-du-ni- a-na mi-is-ri
KUR-/ -ter DAGAL.MES
KUR. KUR na-i-ri a-na pat gim-ri-
a-pl URU kal-hu a-na e--te as-bat
du6 la-be-ru -na-ki-ir a-di
UGU A. MES lu- ah-tu-ut
1 ME 20 ti-ik-pi a-na mu-pa-li
lu- -ta-bi .GAL MAN-//-/<7
ina q-reb- ad-di
9.6 omits URU 'city' before Rapiqu. 16.2, 6 have URU 'city'
instead of KUR 'land' before Zaban. 17.4 TA URU.DUs--za-
l-22a) Palace of Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong

king of the universe, and king of Assyria; valiant
man who acts with the support of Assur, his lord,
and has no rival (5) among the princes of the four
quarters, the king who subdued (the territory
Rapiqu. He conquered (11) from the source of the
Kirruru to the land Gilznu, from the opposite
bank of (15) the Lower Zab to the city T1-Bri
which is upstream from the land Zaban, from the
city T1-a-Abtni to the city T1-a-Zabdni, (and)
the cities Hirimu (and) Harutu (which are) fortresses of Kardunias. (20) Finally, I have gained
dominion over the entire extensive lands Nairi.
22b-27) The city Calah I took in hand for renovation. I cleared away the old ruin hill (and) dug
down to water level; I sank (the foundation pit)
down (25) to a depth of 120 layers of brick. I
founded therein my royal palace.
ab-da-a-ni u URU.DU6--ab-ta-[n]. 24 Instead of ah-tu-ut exs.

2 and 6 have --pi-li and ex. 3 has -S-ptt.
301
35
This text is engraved on a number of stone slabs which came originally from the North West Palace at Calah. The inscription, which is
very similar to A.0.101.23 and 34, has the royal name and titles and a
description of the building of Calah and its palace. The introduction
(lines 1-7) is parallel to the introduction to A.0.101.32 (lines l-7a).
CATALOGUE
tlx.
Museum/Squeeze
number
cpn
1
2
3
BM 98066 (1903-10-12,4)
E 365
E 375
c
n
n
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
E 325
E 380
E 21
L 564
L 566
Walker Art Gallery 373 + 374
O 276
n
n
n
c
c
n
n
COMMENTARY
Most of the exs. could not be collated and many o f
them (exs. 2 - 6 ) were squeezes in the British Museum,
now destroyed (see the introduction to A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 ) , published by Le Gac. Therefore no scores are given. Exs.
7 - 8 (from the Lycklama Collection) are now in the

Muse de la Castre, Cannes. With regard to ex. 9,
Jones says the text is complete and ends with -si-im-i
'decorated it' in line 9.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1894
1907
1922
1925
1941 Joncs, AJSL 58 p. 326 (ex. 9, study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 23 (exs. 2-9, translation) and p. 115
n. 468 a, v (ex. 1, study)
Lc Gac, ZA 9 p. 390 (exs. 7-8, study)

Le Gac, Asn. pp. 166-68 (exs. 2-8, copy)
BM Guide p. 71 (ex. 1, study)
Speleers, Recueil no. 326 (ex. 10, study)
TEXT
1)
[ekal aur-nsir-apli sarru GAL]-' MAN dannu MAN MAN KUR a-Ur A TUKUL-MA MAN
GAL-E MAN dan-ni MAN MAN KUR a-ur A

10-RIN.TH MAN GAL MAN DAN-NU MAN
2)
3)
MAN KUR a-ur-ma

et-lu qar-du ina GIJukul-ti a-ur EN-W
DU. DU-ku-ma ina mai-ki.MES sa kib-rat 4-ta
-nin- la-a i-- LU. SIP A tab-ra-te
la a-di-ru GIS.LAL e-du- gap- sa ma-hi-ra
2-3.1 and 4 omit L.SIPA ... la-a i-- 'marvellous shepherd

... which has no opponent'.
1-7) [(Palace of) Ashurnasirpal, great king],

son of Tukultl-Ninurta (n), great king, strong
Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also great king, strong
king, king of the universe, (and) king of Assyria;
valiant man who acts with the support of Aur,
his lord, and has no rival among the princes of
the four quarters, marvellous shepherd, fearless in
302
4)
5)
6)
7)

la-a i-- M A N TA eber-ta-an D . I D I G N A
a-di KUR lab-na-na
A.AB.BA GAI,-ti KUR la-qe-e ana si-hr-ti-
KUR su-hi a-di KUR ra-pi-qi ana GR.I.ME-SW
-k-ni- TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at
a-di KUR ni-ri-be sa bi-ta-a-ni u-su ik-u-du
TA KUR n-re-be sa KUR kir-ru-ri a-di KUR
gil-za-ni TA e-ber-ia-an
D za-ba KI.TA a-di URU.DU6-ba-a-ri sd el-laan KUR za-ban TA URU.vue-s-ab-ta-a-ni a-di
URU.DU6-sd-za-ab-da-ni URU hi-ri-mu
URU ha-ru-tu bi-ra-a-te KUR kar-du-ni-

the king who subdued (the territory stretching)
from the opposite bank of the Tigris to Mount
Lebanon and the Great Sea, the entire land of
Laqu, (and) the land Suhu including the land
Rapiqu; he conquered from the source of the
River Subnat (5) to the interior of the land Nirbu;
I brought within the boundaries of my land (the
bank of the Lower Zab to the city TTl-Bri which
T1-a-Abtni to the city T1-a-Zabdni, (and) the
cities Hirimu (and) Harutu (which are) fortresses
of Kardunia; finally, I have gained dominion
over the entire extensive lands Nairi:
8-10) [The city] Calah I took in hand for renovation. I founded therein my lordly palace. I built
this palace for the eternal admiration of rulers
and princes (and) decorated it in a splendid
fashion. I made (replicas of) all beasts of mountains and seas in white limestone and partualabaster (and) stationed (them) in its doorways.
ana mi-is-ri KUR-/T -ter DAGAL. MES -te
KUR. KUR na-i-ri ana pat gim-ri- a-pl
8)
9)
[URU] kal-hu ana e--te as-bat .GAL EN-ti-a

ina qer-bead-di .GAL i-i a-na (na)-anmar mal-ki. MES NUN.MES-^ sa da-ra-a-te
vu-us
-si-im-i -ar-rih-i -ma-mi KUR-E
A.AB.BA.MES D--nU NA4 pu-li BABBAR-
N4 pa-ru-te
10) D-u ina K.ME-5A -e-zi-iz
36
This broken text is engraved on two fragments of stone slabs originally from Calah. The identification with Ashurnasirpal is practically
certain since some of the phrases are unique to texts of that king.
Only the concluding formulae are preserved but the building involved
was probably the Ninurta temple since that god has such a prominent
position in them. The fragment listed as A.0.101.37 may actually be
part of this text. The master line is a conflation of the two exemplars.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
1
2
Rm 1085
Rm 1084
19x 12 +
13x11 +
l'-8'
3-7'
c
c
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1988 Grayson, ARRIM 6 pp. 23-24 (exs. 1-2, copy)
S <m)*m~mar mal-ki.ME^: cf. A.0.101.32 line 10.
303
TEXT
Lacuna
1-4'a) [(Then) the god Ninurta, lord of judgment
and destruction] and Aur, the great lord, [...
will listen to his prayers. May they establish] copious abundance in [his] land; [in wars with kings
on the battlefield] may they cause him to achieve
success.
4'b-80 As for the one who erases my inscription
and [writes] his (own) name [or] removes my
monumental inscriptions, [throws them] into water [(...)]: may the god Ninurta, lord of judgment
and destruction, (and) the god Aur, [the great
lord], o v e r t h r o w [his sovereignty], take away
from him his throne, [make him sit] in bondage
before his [enemies, establish in his land distress,
famine, (and) hunger, (and) destroy] his name
(and) his seed from the land.
Lacuna
Lacuna
10
[ * > ( ? ) HI [ . . . ]
20
30
[t\h-du
W(?YI a-ur
EN ^GAL^-[W . . . ]
H.GL ina KUR-[U . . . ] x x [ . . . ]
âm-mar^
40
A- lu-am-su-u MU [at-ra
i-pa]-i-tu-
ma MU-u [iattaru (...)]

50
ma(1)-hi(1)-sa
i-teb-bu- a-na A.ME [inadd
U)]
60
70
80
RD_|
MA EN ip-t u a-gal-te a-ur [blu rab

arrssu lis-k]i-pu
GI.A.TI-W li-ki-mu-u ina [pn nakr]-i u
ka-[m]i [luibu ... ina mtu]
[lukinn]
MU-W NUMUN-[/ i]na KUR
{luhalliq]
Lacuna
37
This bit of inscription, on a stone slab fragment from Calah
(Rm 1096), is almost certainly from a text of Ashurnasirpal n. It may
in fact be part of A.0.101.36. Not enough is preserved to warrant an
edition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1988 Grayson, ARRIM 6 pp. 23-24 (copy)
38
This text is inscribed on stone tablets and stone tablet fragments
discovered at Calah. The introductory portion (lines 1-18a including
apl 'I gained dominionO has the king's name and titles and is parallel
to a passage in A.0.101.1 (ii 125-31). The text then describes reconstruction of the temple of 'the divine Kidmuru' for 'the goddess Istar,
mistress of the divine Kidmuru'. Work on the same temple is described
in A.0.101.30 (lines 53-77). Other objects from this temple with inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal are A.O.101.98 (altar), 99 (mace head), 109
(clay cones), and 132 (brick). After the building passage, our text concludes with blessings and curses.
5' The meaning of the beginning of the line escapes me.

7 Without extensive use of logograms there does not seem to
be room for all three words sunqu bubtu huahhu (cf.

A.0.101.38 lines 47-48) in the break.
304

COMMENTARY
The master text is from an inscription on a complete

stone tablet (BM 92986 - Rm 856) which measures
35 x 30 cm. N o details about its provenance are known,
although it must originally have been found at Calah.
The inscription has been collated. A large number o f
broken inscriptions, on stone tablet fragments now in
the British Museum, are duplicates of this text:
Rm 8 5 7 - 8 6 2 , 865-869, 871, 873, 874 + 883, 875, 878,
883, 888, 890, 892, 895-896, 900-901; Rm 2,608. All of
these fragments presumably came from Calah and the

inscription on each has been collated. A m o n g these
fragments, which number over thirty, it is possible that
some came from the same tablet and this would reduce
the number of exs. to about twenty to twenty-five. They
are all small bits and offer no major vars. and virtually
no minor vars. so that scores and a list o f minor vars.
are unnecessary.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA pp. lix and 162-67 (ex. 1, photo, copy, edition)
1954-59 Michel, WO 2 pp. 404-407 (ex. 1, edition)

TEXT
D
a-ur-PAB-A
MAN GAL-W MAN dan-nu
MAN
MAN KUR a-lir A TUKUL-MA
2)
MAN MAN KUR as-
sur A 10-RIN-TH
3)
4)
5)
6)
MAN MAN KUR OS-
ur-ma et-lu qar-du

ina GIS tukul-ti a-ur EN- DU, DU-ku-ma
ina mal-ke. ME
kib-rat 4-ta -nin- la i--
MAN TA e-bir-ta-an
D.HAL.HAL a-di
KUR
lab-na-na
7)
8)
9)
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
A.AB.BA G AL-TE KUR la-qe-e
ana
si-hr-ti-
KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi ana GR.II.MES-SW

u-k-ni-
TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at a-di
KUR ni-ri-be bi-ta-ni su-su K\iR-ud
TA KUR ni-rib KUR klr-ru-ri EN KUR gil-zani
TA e-bir-ta-an D za-ba KI. TA a-di
URU. DUt-ba-a-ri sa el-la-an KUR za-ban
TA URU.DUE--ab-ta-ni a-di
URU.DU$
--mza-ab-da-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-tu

KUR bi-ra-te KUR kar-du-ni- a-na mi-is-ri
KUR-/ -tir
DAGAL. MES KUR. KUR

(5) has no rival among the princes of the four
Rapiqu. He conquered from the source of the
River Subnat to (10) the interior of the land
Nirbu. I brought within the boundaries of my
Mount Kirruru to the land Gi1znu, from the opposite bank of the Lower Zab to the city TT1-Bri
which is upstream from the land Zaban, from the
city Tr1-a-Abtni to the city T1-a-Zabdni, (15)
(and) the cities Hirimu (and) Harutu (which are)
fortresses of Kardunias. Finally I have gained dominion over the entire extensive lands Nairi.
na-i-ri
ana pat gim-ri- a-pl URU kal-hu ana es-te

as-bat e-nu-ma ÎNANNA NIN-at kid9-mu-ri
i-na pa-an ba-u- ina MAN.MES-/?/
AD.ME-TF
e--ba-tu-ma ana DU6 U kar-me

GUR-ra ina hi-sa-at k-ia a -a
MAN A B . z u - e pe-ti -zu-ni ha-si-si
i-ru-ka-ni a-na a-i t dkid9-mu-ri
u-a-t ana e-u-te ab-ni DLAMA-at ÎNANNA
18b-28a) The city Calah I took in hand for renovation. At that time the temple of the goddess
Itar, mistress of the divine Kidmuru, (20) which
had previously existed (but already) in the time of
the kings my fathers had crumbled and turned
into ruin hills: (at that time), with the skill which
the god Ea, king of the aps (who) grants counsel
(and) understanding, gave to me (25) I rebuilt for
her this temple of the divine Kidmuru. I created
an icon of the goddess Istar, mistress of the
ss-at kid9-mu-ri ina K.GI hu-e-e
lu- ab-ni ina BRA-S -e-i-ib-i ni-da-basa
k-li-a -ki-in-i NUN-W EGIR-H
ina MAN.ME DUMU.ME-a sa a-ur
divine Kidmuru, out of red gold (and) settled it

on her dais. established for her cereal and show
offerings.
28b-38) O later prince among the kings my sons
whom Assur will name: (30) (When) you see the
foundation restore its weakened (portions). Do
not allow it (the icon) to be exposed to the sun.
Do not erase my inscription (but) write your name
with mine (and) return (it) to its place. Restore
the weakened (portions) of this temple. (Then)
Aur, the great lord, the god ama, judge of
heaven (35) and underworld, (and) the goddess
Istar, mistress of the divine Kidmuru, will listen
to his prayers. May they lengthen his days; in
wars with kings on the battlefield may they cause
him to achieve success; may they establish copious
abundance in his land.
39-49) As for the one who erases my inscription
and (40) writes his (own) name or removes this
stele of mine, puts it in another place, throws (it)
into water, burns it with fire, covers (it) with dirt,
(or) takes it into a prison: may Aur, the great
lord, the god Adad, the canal-inspector of heaven
and underworld, (45) the god Erra, lord of judgment and destruction, overthrow his sovereignty,
take away from him his throne, make him sit in
bondage before his enemies, establish in his land
distress, famine, (and) hunger, (and) destroy his
name (and) his seed from the land.
i-na-bu-
bi-ru-te ta-ba-ri an-hu-sa -di-i

a-ar am-i la-a tu--rib-i MU at-ra
la ia-pa-i-t Mv-ka KI uv-ia u-tu-ur
a-na -ri- ta-e-er an-hu-ut .KUR u-a-t
-di-i a-ur EN GAL-M -ma
DI.KU5 AN-C
u KI-ti DINANNA N\N-af dkidg-mu-ri ik-ri-bi-

i-e-mu- UD.ME-5/ lu-ri-ku ina M sa
MAN. MES-ni
a-sar tq-ru-ub-te am-mar sk- lu -am-su

H.NUN tu-hu-du U H.GL ina KUR-5W lukin-nu
sa MU at-ra i-pa-i-tu-ma mj-
i--ta-ru NA 4 .NA.R.A-/f u-a-t
i-na-- ina -ri -ni-ma i--ka-nu
ina A.ME UB-W ina IZI i-qa-lu-
ina
SAHAR.MES
i-ka-ta-mu ina ki-li -e-ra-bu-i

as-sur EN GAL-W dIKUR G.GAL AN-e U KI-t
r-ra EN ip-t u -ga--te MAN-su

lis-ki-pu Gi.GU.ZA-s li-ki-mu- ina pa-an
L.KR-SW
ka-mi lu-e-i-busu-un-qu bu-bu-tu

hu--hu
ina KUR-SM lu-kn-nu MU-
NUMUN-52 ina KUR
49) lu -hal-li-qu
39
This text is engraved on a stone statue of the king which was found by
Layard in the Sarrat-niphi temple at Calah.
COMMENTARY
The statue (BM 118871 = old no. 89) is one metre high. The inscription,
which is engraved on the breast and measures 1 4 x 6 cm, has been collated.
30 bi-ru-te ta-ba-ri: the reading is certain. See CAD 2 (B)

p. 213a; Westenholz, AfO 23 (1970) pp. 27-31; and Grayson,
305
ARI 2 p. 178 n. 810.
306
Ashurnasirpal Ii A.O.101.39
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA p. 161 (copy, edition)

1907 Le Gac, Asn. p. 201 no. 2 (copy)
1914 Budge, Sculptures pl. i (photo)

1936 Gadd, Stones p. 128 (provenance)
TEXT
1)

universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrrT (II)
the universe, (and) king of Assyria, conqueror
from the opposite bank of the Tigris as far as
Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea, all lands from
east to west he subdued.
a-Ur~PAB-A MAN GAL MAN dan-IU MAN 8
MAN KUR AS
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL MAN dan-nil MAN

MAN KUR A
3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN GAL MAN dan-iXU
4)
MAN MAN KUR a-ur-ma ka-id TA e-berta-an

D. HAL. HAL a-di KUR lab-na-na
5)
6)
U A.AB.BA GAL-// KUR. KUR. MES
1)
8)
i-tu si-it am-i a-di e-reb am-i

a-na GR. n-s -k-ni-
~ov-si-na
40
This text is the 'Standard Inscription' of Nineveh as A.O. 101.23 is the
'Standard Inscription' of Calah for it is engraved over and over again,
with no significant variation, on stone reliefs found in the Itar temple
at Nineveh (a few fragments come from the palace or Nab temple).
A.0.101.41-44 are variant versions of A.0.101.40. There are many
fragmentary inscriptions on stone pieces from the Istar temple (and a
few from the palace or Nab temple) which, since they cannot be
identified specifically with one of these three texts, have been included
here.
The text begins (lines 1-27) with a lengthy passage giving the king's
name, titles, a general description of his conquests, and his genealogy.
It then (lines 28-37) narrates the cutting down of logs in the land
Mehru for the roofs of Istar's temple Emama and Ashurnasirpal's
palaces. The reconstruction of the Itar temple is described and it is
noted that ami-Adad had worked on this temple before. It is known
that both am-Adad i (RIMA 1 pp. 47-76 A.0.39) and iv (A.0.91)
worked on this temple. The text concludes with blessings and curses
(lines 38-44).
CATALOGUE
Museum
Publication
Lines
Ex.
number
refcrencc
preserved
cpn
2
3
4
5
6
7
BCM 118 '32

BCM 118 '32
BCM 118 '32
Unlocated
Unlocated
IM no number
IM no number
AAA
AAA
AAA
Arch
AAA
AAA
AAA
^42
1-44
3-11
8-44
21- 23, 34-38
25-42
1-4
p~~
p
p
n
n
n
n
19 no. 272
19 no. 272
19 no. 272
79 nos. 4 + 5 + 6
19 no. 305
18 no. 23
18 no. 22
307
Ex.
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Museum
number
Publication
reference
Lines
preserved
BCM 222 '78

BCM 224 '78
BCM 370 '79 + 371 '79 + 893 '79
BCM 227 '78
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
BCM 223 '78
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocai ed
Unlocated
Iraq 41 p. 123 no. 57

Iraq 41 p. 123 no. 59
1
4-6
19-26
19-24
20-23
22-25
23-26
25-27
Iraq 41 p. 123 no. 60

Arch. 79 no. 34
Arch. 79 no. 17 obv.
Arch. 79 no. 17 rev.
1893 NikoPskij
Iraq 41 p. 123 no. 58
Arch. 79 no. 8
Arch. 79 no. 9
Arch. 79 no. 10
AAA 18 no. 1
AAA 18 no. 2
AAA 18 no. 3
A A A 18 no. 4
AAA 18 no. 5
AAA 18 no. 7
AAA 18 no. 43
Arch. 79 no. 22
Arch. 79 no. 23
Arch. 79 no. 25
Arch. 79 no. 42
AAA 18 no. 38
cpn
c
c
c
c
n
n
n
n
c
n
42-43
-
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
n
_
-
_
-
COMMENTARY
The master text is a conflation of exs. 1 and 2 (the only
reasonably complete exs.) with a few minor restorations
from the other exs., all of the latter being just small
fragments. Exs. 1, 2, and 3 are engraved on the same
enormous stone relief, side by side. Ex. 2 is on the left
with ex, 1 in the middle and ex. 3 on the right. Each
ex, is separated from the other by a minute space and
faint vertical line. Ex. 3, only bits of which remain, had
very short lines and could not originally have had the
entire text. Some fragments, such as exs. 13-14 and 23,
have the text both on the obv. and the rev.
The preparation of an authoritative edition has been
hampered by the inadequate manner in which most exs.
of the text were originally published and by the fact
that most exs. are now unavailable for collation. Exs.
1-3 were collated from excellent photos provided by the
Birmingham City Museum. Exs. 4 - 7 and 12-15 are
known only from the published copies. Scores are given
only for exs. 1-16. Exs. 17-26 are either insignificant
fragments or no text is available for them. The
identification of exs. 27-31 with this text is not certain
since they are such tiny fragments. Ex. 27 = lines
24-25; ex. 28 Ye v. 5 ('obv.' uncertain) = lines 21(?)-24;

ex. 29 = line 25; ex. 30 rev. (obv., if correctly copied,
has different royal titles) = lines 31-33; ex. 31 = lines
27 and 30(?). Thompson's edition ( A A A 19 no. 272)
gives a few minor vars. which are not attested on any
of the available exs. and these have not been included
here. If one could locate and bring the various fragments together physically, there might well be joins.
For example, Arch. 79 nos 4 - 6 almost certainly join
and in this edition they have been regarded as one ex.
(ex. 4). Ex. 6 has unidentifiable traces of three lines before line 25. A A A 19 nos. 2 - 3 and 7 - 9 are minuscule
and, although they certainly represent a text or texts of
Asn. II, it could be any of A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 4 0 , 41, or 42. They
are listed here in the bibliography but not included in
the catalogue, scores, or vars. The decipherment and
identification of A A A 19 pi. LXII no. 7 is problematic.
Schramm, EAK 2 p. 49 (cf. Grayson, ARI 2 p. 115
n. 468 b ii and Frame, A R R I M 2 p. 18 w h o gives the
no. IM 45964?) read line 2 TKUFO ka-i-[/ . . . ] and suggested Asn. n (cf. A.0.101.1 iii 17).
1893 Nikol'skij, DV 1/3 pp. 353-58 and pi. 12 (ex. 15, copy)
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 pp. 118-20 and pis. XLI-XLII nos.
4-6, 8-10, 17, 22-23, 25, 34, and 42 (exs. 4, 12-14,

17-19, 27-30, copy)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 94 and pis xvm-xx nos. 1-5, 7,
22-23, 38, and 43 (exs. 6-7, 20-26, 31, copy)
1932 T h o m p s o n , A A A
and
LXXXIX n o s .
19 pp. 1 0 7 - 1 2 a n d pis. LXXXV-LXXXVII

2-3,
7-9,
272,
and
305
(exs.
1-3,
5,
copy, edition)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 25 (translation) and p. 115 n. 468 b i
(exs. 27-31, study)
1979 George, Iraq 41 p. 123 (exs. 1-3, 8-9, 11, 16, study)
308

TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
17)
18)
tfS-SWr-PAB-A MAN GAL-M MAN darO-riU MAN

Ki man k u r a-ur man kl-lat kib-rat 4-ta
am-u [kiat un].mes

NUN- id a-ur et-lu qar-du ina
gi. tukul-ti a-ur u -ma DU.DU-raa ina
[ma]l-ki kib-rat 4-^ta^
-nn- la-a i-u- mu-ka-bi-is re-e-te
KUR.ME-e ka-li hur--a-ni ^mu^-[k-ni
la ma-gi-ru-ut ' a-ur^ zag.zag e-li u
ap-li mu-tal-lik m-ga-[a]-ni
a-me-ru dr-gi u ap--qi lu.gal
kur.kur.me ar-hu ar-hi pa--qu-te
[d]u.du-ku
i-tam-da-hu kur.mes-^ U a.ab.ba.me nabni-t el-lu-t man da-pi-nu mu-di-i tar-gi-gi
sipa-w ^kib-raO 4-ta nap-har ki-at
un.me pa-a 1 -en ---ki-nu mu-ter gimil-li k u r a-ur
mu-ra-pi-u mi-sir kur-w man bi-ib-lat
lb-bi-u a-ur -k-i-du-u-ma nap-har
KR.ME-5W
ik-u-du e-ar-t su -su man man. mes-w
GR.ARAD a-Ur EN KUR.KUR.MES MAN ba-î-
DINGIR.MES n-t IGI.ME
d
BAD e-nu-ma a-nu dBAD u d-a ud-du-ni-ma
ana sipa-ut k u r a-ur ib-bu-ni gi.tukul
GI.GIDRU
a-ga-a u i-bir-ru -at-me-hu be-lu-tl naphar kur.kur.me la ma-gi-ru-ut a-ur a-na
pe-li
u uk-nu-i ag-gi -ma-^D-ru-ni gurus qardu sag.kal ka-la ma-li-ki mu-ka-bi-is f"G"i
mal-ki
ar-hu en en.me a-bu-bu am-ru ma-hir gun
u i-gi-se-e du-i-na kur.kur.me a-na
ti-ib gi. tukul.MES- ez~zu-te gi-mir
kur.kur.me i-hi-la-ma ul-ta-nap--qa gim
ki-ki-te-e
i-su-da mu-pat-ti ^tu^-da-at kur.me-? gim
e-lu-ut pat-ri a-na AN-e zi-qip-ta -ak-nu
gim -ru-ur dam-i an-dil-la- ugu
K.\JR-~~I u-pr-ru-ru-ma it-tab-ba-lu
un.me-5w ina l-mi
a GiJukul-ti-dUA nftfi-ak-ni dBAD id a-ur
kl-lat za-i-ri-u i-n-ru-ma ina ga-i-i
-re-t- pa-ag-r ge-ri-u a a 1 d1
ikur-
1 For the restoration at the end of the line see, for example,
A.0.101.1 i 10. 3 The last word is preserved only in exs. 2 and
7: ex. 2 ^rnu i-[k]-ni; ex. 7 [mu-]k-ni-[i]. 5 LU.GAL: see
Seux, RA 63 (1969) p. 180. Cf. A.0.101.19 line 16.
5 [D]U.du-ku is clear in ex. 2 and there is just room at the
end of the line in ex. 1 to restore it. This means the phrase is

king of the universe, king of Assyria, king of all
the four quarters, sun(god) of [all] people, prince,
vice-regent of Aur, valiant man who acts with
the support of Aur and the god ama and has
no rival among the princes of the four quarters,
who treads upon the mountain peaks in all the
highlands, subduer of those insubmissive to Assur
to the borders above and below, who marches
about on mountain paths, (5) who has seen remote and rugged regions, magnificent king of
lands, who has kept progressing by difficult means
through mountains and seas, holy offspring, martial sovereign, trampler of criminals, shepherd of
the four quarters, who has brought all peoples
under one authority, avenger of Assyria, who extends the borders of his land, the king whose
heart's desire Assur has caused him to achieve so
that his just hand has conquered all his enemies,
king of kings, appointee of Aur, lord of lands,
king, desired object of the gods, chosen of the
god Enlil:
10b-12a) When the gods Anu, Enlil, and Ea

chose me and named me for the shepherdship of
Assyria, granted to my dominion the weapon, the
sceptre, the crown, and the staff, (and) sternly
commanded me to rule and subdue all the lands
insubmissive to Assur;
12b-16) valiant man, foremost of all rulers, who
treads upon the necks of rulers, magnificent, lord
of lords, tempestuous deluge, who receives tribute
and tax from all lands, at the attack of whose angry weapons ail lands convulse, writhe, (and) melt
as though in a furnace, opener of paths in mountains which rise perpendicularly to the sky like the
edge of a dagger, whose protection spreads like
the rays of the sun over his land and who has
governed his people in well-being;
17-19a) son of Tukultl-Ninurta n, appointee of

the god Enlil, vice-regent of Aur, who defeated
all his enemies and impaled the corpses of his ene-
identical with a well-attested phrase in the texts of Shalm. III.

See Seux. ERAS p. 267 and correct the entry there for Asn. n.
9.4 ).M- 'great* instead of e-ar-u 'just*. 9 GR. ARAD a-ur
J
EN KUR.KUR.MES: see the note to A.O.89.4 line 3. 9 ba- i-it:
see RIM A 1 p. 270 note to line 41. 12 ma-li-ki... mal-ki: cf.
Seux, ERAS p. 44 n. 51.
RINL.TH GR.ARAD DINGIR.ME GAL.MES
si-kip-ti
la ma-gi-ri-u il-ta-ka-nu ma-[hi-ra] la i-u-

ka-id TA e-ber-tan
D.IDIGNA a-di KUR lab-na-ni
[AB].BA GAL-
KUR (a)-mur-ri ct sl-um sa m-si

KUR ha-a-ti a-na si-hr-ti- [u]-sw ik-u-du
TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at
a-di KUR -ru-me DAGAL -tu KUR. KUR na-i-ri
[a-n]a pat gim-ri- a-pl KUR la-qe-e
ana si-hr-ti-
KUR-ud KUR Rsu-hi a-di KUR~I
ra-pi-qi a-na GR.MES-I -k-ni-i

TA n-re-bi sa KUR kir-ru-ri a-di KUR gil-za-ni
TA n-re-be URU ba-bi-te a-di KUR nam-ri
ana UN.MES KUR-/T am-nu TA e-ber-tan
za-ba KI.TA EN URU.DU6-ba-a-ri M el-la-an

KUR za-ban
EN vKv.T>Ue-d-mza-ab-da-ni
u URU.DU6-[O]-
ab-ta-a-ni URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-t

URU bi-ra-a-te KUR kar-d[u-n]i- a-na
mi-sir KUR-ia -ter
50 LIM um-ma-ni lu Rad-ki a-na"I KUR mee[h]-ri al-lik KUR me-eh-ri ana si-hr-ti-
SU-ti ik-û^-du GI ga-u-ri a-na ÎNANNA
URU ni-na-a NIN-ia
a-na su-lu-ul -ma-ma u ana su-lu-ul
.GAL.MES-/T? lu ak-kis e-nu-ma
DINANNA s URU r-na-a NIN-// ina
qaq-qar
-mas-m as la-be-ri dam-i-d ISKUR

MAN KUR a-ur NUN-/ DU pa-ni-ia e-pu-u
BI e-na-ah-ma la-be-ru-ta
il-li-ik i-na gi-gal-lu-ti sa nu-dim-mud EN
GAL-E ina uz-ni ra-pal-ti
-a i-ru-ka ana si-mat qar-ra-du-ti- M
D
INANNA NIN-/ U-a-t
a-ar-u -^m^-si dan-na-su ak-u-ud TA

URU4-M a-di gaba-dib-u ar-sip -k-lil
UGU mah-re-e -d-tir -k [a-ra]-ta-a GAL-i
ana mu-ab INANNA NIN-ia ab-ni
DiNGiR-[a/-tt7 gal]-/w ina at-me-ni- n-hi-i
-e-ib DINGIR- ti- GAL -te -t-ib
20 <a)-mur-ri: ex. 1 clearly omits a and ex. 2, which is partly

broken, seems to omit it also. (Ex. 10 has â^-mur-ri and ex.
11 has a-mur-(ri).) The same omission occurs in the parallel
passage of ex. 1 of A.0.101.42 (line 3). Thus Murru may be an
acceptable var. of Amurru. 21.10 KUR hat-t[e]. 23.13 has
URU 'city' instead of KUR 'land* before Rapiqu. 23.10 ra-pi-q.
24.13-14 has URU 'city* instead of KUR 'land* before Gi1znu.
24.14 omits URU 'city' before Babitu. 25.15 has URU 'city'
instead of KUR land' before Zaban. 36 [a-ra]-ta-a: so ex. 2.
309
mies on posts, grandson of Adad-nrrT (II), appointee of the great gods, who always achieved
the defeat of those insubmissive to him (and) had
no rival;
19b-27) conqueror from the opposite bank of the
Tigris to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea of
the land Amurru in the west, (who) has conquered the entire land of Hatti, (I who) have
gained dominion over (the region stretching) from
the source of the River Subnat to the extensive
land Urumu (and) the entire lands Nairi; I conquered the entire land Laq; I subdued the land
Suhu including the land Rapiqu; (25) I regarded
as people of my land (the inhabitants of the regions stretching) from the pass of Mount Kirruru
to the land Gi1znu (and) from the pass of the
city Babitu to the land Namru; I brought within
the boundaries of my land (the region stretching)
from the opposite bank of the Lower Zab to the
city T1-Bri which is upstream from the land
Zaban, to the city TI-a-Zabdni and the city
T1-a-Abtni, the cities Hirimu (and) Harutu
(which are) fortresses of Kardunias:
28-30a) I mustered 50,000 troops. I marched to
the land Mehru (and) conquered the entire land
Mehru. I cut down logs for the goddess Istar of
Nineveh, my mistress, for the roof of Emama
and for the roofs of my palaces.
30b-37) At that time the temple of the goddess
Istar of Nineveh, my mistress, in the grounds of
Emama the old temple which am-Adad,
built this temple had become dilapidated and
fallen into ruin. With the wisdom of the god
Nudimmud, the great lord, with the wide understanding which the god Ea had granted to me, for
the adornment of the heroic nature of the goddess
Istar, my mistress: with regard to this temple, (35)
I delineated its area, dug out its foundation pit,
rebuilt it from top to bottom, and completed (it).
I made (it) larger than before. In the Eku I built
an excellent (throne) in a splendid fashion for the
abode of the goddess Istar, my mistress. I peacefully settled [her great] divinity in her shrine.
(Thus) did I please her great divinity.
All other exs. for which text was available are broken here.
Thompson's edition has a-ra-ta-a and presumably this came
from one or more of the exs. now unavailable. 37 n-hi-i,
not DU]0-/5, is clear in exs. 1 and 2. All other available exs. are
broken here. 37.4 Between fragmentary remains of lines 36
and 39, ex. 4 has, according to Thompson's copy, [...] DAN
As x [...]. This could be placed at the end of line 37 as: [... ina
q]-reb- -k[un] 'I deposited therein my [monumental
inscriptions].'
310
38)
N U N - ~ t f i [EGIR]-RWN an-hu-su lu-di-i MU-/

at-ra a-na KI -SU lu-ter a-ur DINANNA
39) [il rabtu r\a-H-mu-ut UAN-ti-ia EN-SU ina
nap-har KUR.KUR.ME lu-ar-bu- ina li-ti
40) [kiii u metellti l\i-ir-ta-du-[\u GUN kibrat 4-ti a-na i-qi-u
41) [lu]-at-^li-mu-ma nu-u0-[u] ^tu^-uh-du
h-gl-lu ana KUR-SU lu-kn-nu
38-41) May [a later] prince restore its weakened

(portions). May he restore my inscribed name to
its place. (Then) Aur (and) the goddess Itar,
[the great gods] who love my sovereignty, will
make his dominion supreme in all lands. May
they constantly lead him in victory, [might, and
heroism]. May they grant the tribute of the four
quarters as his portion. May they establish for his
land plenty, affluence, (and) abundance.
42-44) As for the one who erases my inscribed
name and writes his (own) name: may the god
Adad, the canal-inspector of heaven and underworld, strike his land with terrible lightning
(and) afflict his land with distress, famine, (and)
hunger.
42) MU-/ at-ra i-pa-i-tu-ma MV-U i-at-[ta]^ra
1IKUR g-fgaP
AN-<?
43) KI-te i-na bir-qi la-mut-te KUR -SU li-ib-ri-iq

su-un-q[u]
44) ni-ib-ri-t hu--hu a-na KUR- li-di
41
This text, on fragments of stone slabs found in the Istar temple and
Ashurnasirpal palace at Nineveh, is a variant of the Standard Inscription of Nineveh, A.0.101.40. The introductory titles and genealogy
(lines 1-3a) are different from that text but what is preserved of the
remainder (lines 3 b - l l ) is a duplicate of A.0.101.40 (lines 19ff).
CATALOGUE
Museum
Publication
Dimensions
Lines
Ex.
number
reference
(cm)
preserved
cpn
2
3
4
5
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
34x44+
3 4 x 57+
48x44+
HI
-
n~~
n
n
n
n
18 no. 6
19 p. 112 no.
19 p. 112 no.
19 p. 112 no.
19 p. 112 no.
1
4
5
6
COMMENTARY
Unfortunately only the text of ex. 1 is known and
that only from Thompson's published copy. Therefore
no scores or vars. can be given. A p h o t o of an inscription on a stone slab fragment in the British Museum
(BM 139998 = 1 9 8 3 - 1 - 1 , 3 5 0 ) was once shown to me
by Christopher Walker (the original object was not
available for study). The inscription in the p h o t o is certainly an ex. of this text. Indeed, it is quite possible
that it is the same inscription as that copied by
T h o m p s o n as A A A 18 no. 6. But because of the poor
quality of t h e photo, this cannot be verified.
39
ex. now available has these traces. Thompson says one ex.
(not available to us) had: [...]-te u e-tel-lu [...].
T h o m p s o n ' s edition has [ii] GAL.MES but n o ex. n o w
available has GAL.MES preserved. 40 For the restoration see

A.0.101.17 v 50-51. Thompson's edition shows A7[s-...] but no
Ashurnasirpal n A,0.101.41
311
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1931 T h o m p s o n , A A A
18 p. 9 4 a n d pl. XVII n o . 6 (ex.
1,
1932 T h o m p s o n , A A A
copy, edition)
19 p. 112 n o s .
1 and 4 - 6 (exs.
2-5,
study)
TEXT
1)
[M]<75R-5W/*-PAB-A GAR d BAD ID a-U A
l-3a) Ashurnasirpal, appointee of the god Enlil,

vice-regent of Assur, son of Tukult-Ninurta (ii),
appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of Aur,
son of Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also appointee
of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of Aur:
3b11) Conqueror from the opposite bank of the
Tigris to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea [of]
the land Amurru in the west, (who) has conquered the entire land of Hatti, [(I who) have
gained dominion over] (the region stretching)
from the source of the River Subnat [to] the extensive [land Urumu (and)] the entire lands [Nairi;
...]
Lacuna
TUKUL-MA
2)
GAR d BAD ID -Ur A 10-RIN. TAH GAR d BAD
3)
iD a-ur-ma ka-id i~TA"I e-ber-tan
4)
D.HAL.HAL EN KUR
5)
A.AB.BA GAL-rW
lab-m-fli
6) [\ KUR a-mur-ri l-mu

7) [d]am-i KUR hat-te a-na si-hr-^t^-
8) [qt]-su ik-u-du TA TSAG e-nP
9) D su-ub-na-at [adi]
10) [mt urume] DAGAL-tu KUR. KUR [nairi]
11) [...] x x [...]
Lacuna
42
This text is on two stone slab fragments found in the Ashurnasirpal
palace at Nineveh. It is yet another variant of the Standard Inscription
of Nineveh (A.0.101.40); the introductory titles and genealogy (lines
l-2a) are different from that text. The preserved remainder of the text
(lines 2b-10) is a duplicate of A.0.101.40 lines 19b-27.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Publication
reference
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
1
2
BCM 229 '78

BCM 228'78
AAA 18 no. 8
-
46 x 48 +
52x46+
TTO
1-10
c
c
COMMENTARY
The master text is a conflation of exs. 1 and 2.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 94 and pi. xvii no. 8 (ex. 1,
copy, edition)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 27 (ex. 1, translation)

1979 George, Iraq 41 p. 123 nos. 61-62 (exs. 1-2, study)
312

TEXT
1)
T.GAL ma-ur-PAB~i-[apli arri danni ar

kiati sar mat aur ap tukult-ninurta]
MAN dan-nu TMAN"! [kiati ar mat aur]
2)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN KIS MAN KUR
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
a-ur-ma
ka-id TA [ebertn idiqlat] EN KUR lab-^nÎni]

u A.AB.BA GAL-ti KUR a-mur-f~rP [a ulum
am] KUR hat-te [ana sihirta]
RU^-su ik-u-du TA I SAG e ^-[ni ]D s[u-ubnat
adi mat urume]
[DAGA]L-[/]W KUR.KUR na-i-ri
ana pat
gim^-
[ri-a apl mat laq ana sihirta]

KUR-ud I KUR I su-hi EN URU r[a]-ipi-qi * [ana
pia ueknii itu nereb a kirruri]
EN KUR i~gl-za-nP TA ^n-re^-be ~uru1
b[a-bite adi mat namri ana ni mtia amnu]
I~TA e-ber-ta-an I D za-ba KI.TTA1 [adi l tbri a elln] KUR za-ban
EN U R U . r v u 6 - - z a f r i - [ d a ] - f a - n i u URU,DU6~I-
[a-abtni] URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-*~ru^-[tu

birte]
10) KUR kar-du-ni-t~s a-na mi-sir KUR-[ia
utr ...] xxx [(...)]
Lacuna
1-2a) (Property of) the palace of Ashurnasir[pa1,

son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II)], strong king, king of
[the universe, king of Assyria], son of Adadnrr (II) (who was) also king of the universe
(and) king of Assyria:
2b-10) Conqueror from [the opposite bank of the
Tigris] to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea of
the land Amurru [in the west], (who) has conquered [the entire] land of Hatti, [(I who) have
gained dominion over] (the region stretching)
from the source of the River S[ubnat to the] extensive [land Urumu (5) (and)] the entire lands
Nairi; I conquered [the entire land Laq; I subdued] the land Suhu including the city Rapiqu; [I
regarded as people of my land (the inhabitants of
the regions stretching) from the passes of Mount
Kirruru] to the land Gi1znu (and) from the pass
of the city B[abitu to the land Namru; I brought]
within the boundaries of [my] land (the region
stretching) from the opposite bank of the Lower
Zab [to the city T1-Bri which is upstream from]
the land Zaban, to the city T1-a-Zabdni and the
city T1-[a-Abtni], the cities Hirimu (and)
Haru[tu (which are) fortresses] of Kardunias:
Lacuna
43
This broken text was on a squeeze taken from a stone object which
presumably was found in the Istar temple at Nineveh. I assume this
provenance because the text is yet another variant, albeit badly
preserved, of the Standard Inscription of Nineveh (A.0.101.40). The
text varies too much to hazard extensive restorations but note the following: lines l'-6' see A.0.101.40 lines 1-5; lines 10'-13' see A.0.101.40
lines 7-11; line 14' see A.0.101.40 lines 1 7 - 1 8 ; lines 15-20' see
A.0.101.40 lines 20-24; lines 23'~24' see A.0.101.40 lines 25-26. Full
bibliography will be found under A.0.101.40. The squeeze was destroyed (see the introduction to A.0.101.1) and the original object
could not be located or collated.
3.1 (a)-mur-ri: see the note to A.0.101.40 line 20.
1907 Le Gac, Asn. pp. xrx and 196-98 (copy)
TEXT
Lacuna(?)
1')
[... amu ki-\at
UN.MES NUN- ID
a-ur
1-24')
No translation warranted.
[...]
20
[...] DU.DU-ku-ma [...]
3')
4')
5')
6')
70
8')
90
10')
11')
120
130
[...] xdeenu
[...]
[... m]u-k-n [,..]
[... mu-tal]-lik sa-an-ga-ni [...]
[...] ar-hpa--qu-te [...]
[...] KUR za-i-r- [...]
[...] ge-ri- id-du-[...]
[,..]-w sa-tum [...]
[,.. r^ kb]-rat 4-ta nap-har [...]
[... muter] g-m//-/[/(?) mt] a-ur [...]
[... enma] da-rtum DBAD u d-a [...]
{"] GI.TUKUL a-ga-a [...]
140 [* akn]
BAD ID a-ur A 10-RIN.TH [...]
150
[ . ]D.IDIGNA [ . . . ]
160
170
180
190
2O0
210
I*- amur]-ri ^H-mu [ami ...]

[...] su-ub-na-at [...]
[... mtti nai]-ri a-na pat gim-ri- [...]
[... su]-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi [...]
[... kr]-ru-ri a-di [...]
[...] URU.BD-lu-tu-ma-a-ia [...]
220 [ . H A KUR-WRF i-tu
[...]
230 [ URU.D]u6-Z?tr-A-/7 [...]

240
URU.DU$--m]za-ab-da-a-ni [...]
Lacuna
44
This broken text is on a piece of stone slab found in the Istar temple
at Nineveh. It represents the remains of yet another variant version of
the Standard Inscription of Nineveh (A.O. 101.40). Indeed this text
varies too much to hazard restorations. But note the following: line 2'
see A.O.101.40 line 3; line 3' see A.0.101.42 lines 1-2; lines 4'-6' see
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 4 0 lines 2 2 - 2 7 . Full bibliography will be found under
A.O. 1 0 1 . 4 0 . The original object could not be located or collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 pp. 118-19 and pi. x u no. 7 (copy)
314

TEXT
Lacuna
N
2')
3')
4')
[ ] >ax [...]
[.. ] ka-li hur-[ni...]
[.. 1 KUR a-ur A 10-RIN.[TH
[.. ] îD-ru-m[e]
1 - 9 ' ) N o translation warranted.
DA[GAL- . . . ]
ba]-bi-te EN [...]
]
6')
[.. I URU"I bi-ra-t[e ...]
T) [.. \-a GM-t ra(?)T [...]
8')
[.. t(?)]-ter [...]
9')
[.. ] x [ . . . ]
Lacuna
50
[..
45
This text is found on stone slab fragments from the Istar temple at
Nineveh. It is an abbreviated version of the construction done by
Ashurnasirpal on that building.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Publication
reference
Dimensions
(cm)
Unes
preserved
1
2
3
Unlocated
BCM 230 '78
Unlocated
AAA W no. 301

AAA 18 no. 9
AAA 18 no. 10 'obv/
55 x 46
4
5
Unlocated
Unlocated
AAA 18 no. 10'iev.'

AAA 18 no. 56
1-9
7-21
2-3, 8-9, 11-12,
15-16, 21-22
9-12
14, 17
cpn
n
c
n
n
n
COMMENTARY
The master text is from either ex. 1 or 2 except in line
22 where it is from ex. 3. The interested reader can
check the scores. It is possible, but not certain, that
t w o or more lines once existed in the break in ex. 2

between lines 13 and 14 of this edition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 95 and pis. xvn and xx nos. 9-10
and 56 (exs. 2-5, copy)

1932 Thompson, A A A 19 p. 113 and pi. LXXXIX no. 304 (ex.
1979 George, Iraq 41 p. 123 no. 63 (ex. 2, study)
1, copy)
TEXT
1)
a-ur-PAB-A
1-12) Ashurnasirpal,
2)
MAN dan-nu
universe,
king of
3)
MAN MAN KUR A
quarters,
ruler
4)
MAN kul-lat
Ninurta
(n),
strong
Assyria,
of
strong
all
king,
king o f
lands,
king,
son
king o f
king
of
all t h e
the
four
of
TukultT-
the
universe,
king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrrT (II) (who was)

also strong king, king of the universe, (and) king
of Assyria:
kib-rat
4-ti
mur-te-du-u
ka-li KUR. KUR
A TUKUL-MA MAN
315
dan-lU
MAN MAN KUR A
A 10-RIN.TH MAN daU-flU

MAN MAN KUR AS-MA
T
13-19) I rebuilt (and) completed the temple of the

goddess [Istar], my mistress, from top to bottom.
[INANNA]
TNINI-Z
TA URU4-5W
a-di
gaba-dib-bi-
ar-sip
-ak-\lin
20-22) [May] a later prince [restore its] weakened
(portions).
NUN-M
I EGIR L-W
an-hu-[su luddis]
46
This text has been reconstructed from two inscribed stone slab fragments from Nineveh which do not physically join but almost certainly
belong to the same object. The badly broken text seems to concern
work on the Istar temple. Unfortunately neither object could be located and the inscriptions could not be collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 118 and pi. XLI no. 2 (copy)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 113 and pi. LXXXIX no. 306
(copy)
1973 Borger (apud Schramm), EAK 2 p. 51 (study)

TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
a-ur-PAB-A MAN da\n~riu ... sar mat a\-ur

ni-i-it a-bi'ki
D
BAD siq-ri- [... a]r-hi pa--qu-te k-sr
hur--ni dan-n[u-tim]a
kl-lat la ma-giri-
U-SU k-[U-ud ,..] XXX f DINANNAL
an-h[u-su ...]
Lacuna
A.0.101.46 line 1 nit abki 'chosen of your father*: 'your*

refers to I Star (see line 4) and her father was variously Anu,
1-5) Ashurnasirpal, strong king, [... king of

As]syria, chosen of your father, the god Enlil
whose commands [are unalterable ... He (the
king) has trod] difficult paths, mighty mountain
chains [...] and he has conquered all those insubmissive to him [...] ... the temple of Istar, its
ruined (portions) [he restored ...]
Lacuna
Enlil (as here), or Aur. Cf. Seux, ERAS p. 208.

A.0.101.46 lines 2b-3a Cf. A.0.101.1 i 43.
316
Ashurnasirpal iI A.O. 101.44
47
This text, on two clay tablet fragments from Kuyunjik, is a later copy
of a text engraved on a statue of Ashurnasirpal, the original of which
has not been discovered. The inscription begins with an invocation of
various deities (see the introduction to A.0.87.1). There follows the
royal name and titles, and just as a general description of the king's
conquests begins the text breaks off. At the bottom of the reverse
there is a scribal note stating that the text was originally on a royal
statue. It is curious that the copy is attested on two distinct exemplars
(a possible piece of exemplar 1 is A.0.101.48). Was it used as a school
text?
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
K 2763
7x6.4+
Obv. 1-19, rev. 1'
K 13835
4.3x3+
Obv. 9-19
cpn
~
c
COMMENTARY
The master text is from ex. 1 except in line 16 where it is a conflation of exs.
1 - 2 and except for lines 17-19 which are entirely from ex. 2.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 Le Gac, Asn. pp. 193-94 (ex. 1, copy)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB I S 548-49 (ex. 1, translation)
1975-76 Schramm, WO 8 pp. 37-39 (exs. 1-2, edition)

TEXT
Obverse
1)
AN.R EN GAL-W MAN g[m-rat
2)
3)
EN KUR.KUR.MES en-ll si-i-ru [abu il ...]
-a MAN ABZU EN n-me-qi

ha-s[i-si...]
4)
5)
IKUR ge-ru
u-tu-ru
l Tbuti
...]
EN H.G[L . . . ]
-ma DI.KUD AN-E u KI-tim mu-ma-H-r
g[i-im-ri il rabtu]
6)
mu-im-mu
(...)]
NAM.ME mu-ar-bu-u
[arr
1 For the restoration see A.0.100.1 line 1 and the note. 2 For
the restoration see A.O. 101.20 line 2 and the note to A.0.100.1
line 2. 4 Cf. A.0.100.1 line 6 and the note. 5 For the restora-
1-5a) Aur, great lord, king of all [the great

gods, ...]; lord of the lands, god Enlil, exalted
one, [father of the gods, ...]; god Ea, king of the
aps, lord of wisdom (and) understanding, [...];
god Adad, the exceptionally strong, lord of abundance, [...]; god ama, judge of heaven and underworld, commander of [all];
5b-19) [Great gods], who decree the destinies
(and) make great the [(...) sovereignty of] Ashurnasirpal, attentive prince, worshipper of the great
gods, [ferocious dragon], conqueror of cities and
tion of gimri see A.0.100.1 line 7 and the note. 5-6 [l .

arrt]: for the restoration cf. A.0.101.17 line 11 and
A.O. 101.20 lines 13-14.
7)
A-PAB-A NUN na-a^-du pa-lih DINGIR.MES
GAL.MES U[UMGAL
ekdu]
ka-id URU.DIDLI u Vhur^--a-ni pat gm-riîD-n[u ar bl]

9) [m]u-la-^H-it ek-^siP-te [pr -l\um-m[a-te
l diru tuqunt]
10) [u]r--nu la pa-du-îD mu-i~rD-[ib anunte
ar kal malkt\
11) EN EN.ME-E UTUL MAN MAN. ~ME$-nP [ppu]
12) [n]a-a-du a ina siq-r a-ur u DMA
8)
D[LNGIR.ME GAL.ME(?)]
13)
UN.ME baû-la-at
BAD U-t[a-ap-ru
gimrta]
14) rai-ga-a si-i-ri (*)--[atmeh ...]

15) [MA]-PAB-A MAN dan-nu ni-b[it...]
16) [e]t-lu qar-du a ina tukul-t[i aur ...]
17)
18)
317
the entire highlands, [king of lords], controller of

the obstinate, [crowned with] splendour, [fearless
in battle], (10) merciless hero, he who stirs up
[strife, king of all princes], lord of lords, chief
herdsman, king of kings, attentive [purification
priest], who by the command of Aur and the
god Ninurta [the great gods who had complete]
Enlil, (and into whose) [grasp] they placed the exalted crown; (15) Ashurnasirpal, strong king,
designate [of the god(s) ...], valiant man who with
the support [of Assur ...] lands/mountains [...]
lands/mountains [...]
Lacuna
[ . . . ] X KUR.KUR.ME X [ . . . ]
[... K]UR.ME x [ . . . ]
19) (traces)
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
Y) TA UGU NU MAN a us D hi-rit a URU [...]
Lacuna
rev. 1') (Inscription) from a statue of the king on
the bank of the moat of the city [...]
48
This broken text is on a small fragment of a clay tablet in the
Kuyunjik collection of the British Museum. It is presumably a pattern
for or copy from a text engraved on stone. Two other fragments of a
text from a statue of Ashurnasirpal n appear in the same collection
and have been edited as A.0.101.47. It is possible, but by no means
certain, that A.0.101.48 is a piece of ex. 1 of A.0.101.47. See the commentary for details.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (K 15273) measures c. 3 x 2 cm and the
inscription has been collated. Physically, the fragment
is very similar to K 2763 (ex. 1 of A.0.101.47). Indeed,
it could come from the lower left of K 2763, with a
large gap in between if one interchanges the obv. and
rev. of K 15273. N o t e that both K 2763 and K 15273
have horizontal lines drawn between each line on the

obv. ('rev.' o n K 15273). If the two pieces really do belong together, it means that a new text was inscribed on
the rev. which began with the king's name. But such a
physical connection is not certain and it is best for now
to keep the fragments separate.
7-11 For the restorations cf. A.0.101.1 i 18b-21a. 12-13 For

the restorations cf. A.0.87.1 i 31-34 and A.0.100.1 lines
22-23. 13.2 e[n-l(\ f o r d B A D . 14 Cf. A.0.98.1 line 3 and see
Seux, ERAS p. 338 and n. 19. For ex. 1 has GA (ex. 2 is

broken).
318
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 115 n. 468 b ix (study)
TEXT
Obverse
1)
Â-UR-PAB-A M[AN . . . ]
2)
[ m Gi.tuku]l-ti- d MA[ ...]
3)
[X] .KUR [ . . . ]
4) [x] X X A X
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
r ) LU x [...]
1-4) Ashurnasirpal, king [... son of Tuku]1tTNinurta (n) [...] the temple [...]
Lacuna
[...]
Lacuna
rev. 1-3') ... [...] the god Adad [...] will erase
2')
3')
i-pa-i-(u x [...]
iKUR [ . . . ]
U ]
49
This text is on a stone fragment now in Berlin (VA 2889). Although
much of the text is missing, particularly the building section, it must
have described work on an Adad temple since this god is mentioned
twice right after Aur. It is known that Ashurnasirpal worked on the
Adad temple at Nineveh (see A.O.101.66) and thus this object may
originally have come from that site. The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 Ungnad, VAS 1 no. 67 (copy)
TEXT
Obverse
1)
[ASSURL-RPABI-A MAN dan-nu MAN [...]
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
[...] MAN KI la -(na)-an x [...]

[rub]- na-a-du x [...]
SANGA-W S-r[u ...]
7)
as ur
AN-E KI-//M i-x
[...]
la ma-gi-ri- x [...]
IKUR [ . . . ]
8) SANGA-su I P-[na
9) L.SIP[A . . . ]
10) na-[...]
...]
A.O. 101.49 obv. 8 For the restoration see A.0.101.1 i 25.
1-10) [Ashur]nasirpa1, strong king, king [...], unrivalled king of the universe, [...], attentive prince
who [...] heaven (and) underworld, [...] those insubmissive to him [...], exalted priest, [...] Aur,
the god Adad [...] whose priesthood in [the ternpies they established forever ...], shepherd [...]
Lacuna
319
Ashurnasirpal n A. 0.101.49
Lacuna
Reverse
Lacuna
x [...]
Lacuna
rev, 1-6') [...] ... [...] may [a later prince] restore
[its weakened (portions). May he restore my] inscribed name [to its place]. (Then) Aur (and) the
god Adad, [the great] lords, [... will listen to his
prayers].
XX [...]
G.ME [ . . . ]
X X X [...]
LU'UD'DIS MU at-[ra
a-ur
...]
IKUR EN.M[E . . . ]
rev. 7-8') As for the one who erases my inscription [and writes his (own) name ...: may Aur,
the god Adad (and)], the goddess Istar, the great
gods [...]
MU at-ra i-pa-[i-tu ...]

D
INANNA DINGIR.MES GAL.ME[ . . . ]
50
This text is engraved on two stone tablets found in a stone box or
coffer at Imgur-Enlil, modern Balawat, which is a short distance from
Calah. The coffer also has this text but in abbreviated form; it omits
the curses (lines 41-49). Yet another stone tablet with this text was excavated by the British at Balawat in 1956 but it has not been published
(see Weidner in the bibliography).
The text begins with the royal names and titles (lines 1-20), a passage with parallels in other texts (see A.0.101.1 ii 125-31). A chronologically significant variant is the phrase 'to the passes of Mount
Kirruru* instead of 'to the interior of the land Nirib' (see the note to
A.0.101.1 iii 122). Then comes a description (lines 21-33) of
Ashurnasirpal's work at Imgur-Enlil, the construction of a temple to
its god Mamu. The text ends with blessings and curses (lines 34-49).
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Object
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
1
2
3
4
BM 90980
BM 90981
BM 135121
Unlocated
Rm 1082
Rm 1083
73
Stone
Stone
Stone
Stone
31X21
1^49
1-49
1-40
c~~
c
c
n
tablet
tablet
coffer
tablet
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA pp. lxiii and 167-73 (exs. 1-3, photo, copy,
dition)
1907 Le Gac Asn. pp. 188-91 (exs. 1-3, copy)
1914 Budge, Sculptures pis. vn-ix (exs. 1-3, photo)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 535 and 537-39 (exs. 1-3, transla-
tion)

1968 Ellis, Foundation Deposits pp. 100-101 and 193 (exs.
1-3, study)
320

TEXT
1)
as-sur-PAB-A MAN GAL- MAN dfl-nU MAN
MAN KUR AS
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL-W MAN dtl-nU MAN

MAN KUR AS A
3)
10-RIN. TAH
MAN GAL-W MAN ddli-itU
MAN MAN KUR A-
ma
et-lu qar-du sa ina GIsJukul-ti a-ur EN-SU
DU. DU7ku-ma ina mal-ki. MES sa kib-ra 4-TO
-ninin-u NU TUK-W MAN sa TA e-ber-ta-an
ID. HAL. HAL a-di KUR ab-na-na A.AB.BA
GAI-te KUR la-qe-e a-na si-hr-ti-

KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi ana GR.II-
-k-ni- TA SAG e-ni
D su-ub-nat a-di n-re-bi
sa KUR k\r-ru-ri a-di KUR gil-za-ni
TA e-ber-ta-an D za-ba KI. TA
a-di URU. DU%-ba-a-ri sa el-la-an
KUR za-ban TA URU. DUe--ab-ta-ni
a-di URU.DU6-sa-mza-ab-da-ni
URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-t KUR bi-ra-a-te
KUR kar-du-ni- a-na mi-is-ri
KUR-iaju-ter DAGAL.MES
KUR. KUR na-i-ri a-na pa-KA-at gim-ri-sa

a-pl URU u- a-na es-su-te DIB-bat
URU im-gr-BAD MU-SW ab-bi
.KUR si-i ina li-bit .GAL-ia
lu- ad-di sa-iam dma-m EN-/7
ina lb-bi lu -e-ib a-na KUR lab-na-na
lu- a-lik GI.R.ME GIS e-re-ni
GI.UR.MN GIS dp-ra-ni a-kis
GIS.R.MES GI e-re-ni UGU .KUR i-i
-sa-bit GI.IG.ME GIS e-re-ni

DJ-U ina me-sir ZABAR -ra-ki-is
ina K.ME-5/ -re-te .KUR i-i
-si-im -ar-rih dma-m EN GAL-W

ina -e-ib NA4.NA.R.A SAR ina .KUR-J
-kun NUN-W EGIR-W ina MAN.ME-^/
DUMU.ME-ia a a-ur i-na-bu- .KUR

i-i e-na-hu NA4.NA.R.A ta-mar-ma
ta-a-su- an-hu-sa ud-di uv-ka KI MU-ia
SAR a-na KI-S/ te-er a-ur EN NUN-W ma-m
a-ib .KUR i-i ina ni-i iGi.n--nu ki-ni*
H-tU-lu- MU-SW NUMUN-M M KVR-U-nU
lu-ki-nu
15.3 has URU 'city' for KUR 'land' before Zaban. 20 pa-HA-at:
preserved in all exs. Thus a reading p a - ^ - a t is indicated (but
cf. Borger, Zeichenliste p. 225). Von Soden, AHw p. 862b
regards the writing as erroneous. 21.2 omits u- 'this (city)'.
23 See Borger, Asarh. p. 106 (to III 21) and cf. CAD 9 (L)

who (5) acts with the support of Assur, his lord,
and has no rival among the princes of the four
Rapiqu. I brought within the boundaries of my
land (the territory stretching) (10) from the source
of the River Subnat to the passes of Mount Kirruru (and) to the land Gilznu, from the opposite
bank of the Lower Zab to the city T1-Bri which
is upstream from (15) the land Zaban, from the
city T1-a-Abtni to the city T1-a-Zabdni, (and)
the cities Hirimu (and) Harutu (which are) fortresses of Kardunias. Finally, I have gained dominion over the entire extensive lands Nairi.
21b-34a) This city I took in hand for renovation.
I called it Imgur-Enlil. I founded this temple in
the environs of my palace. (25) I placed inside a
statue of the god Mamu, my lord. I marched to
Mount Lebanon (and) cut down beams of cedar,
cypress, (and) dapranu-juniper. I made fast the
cedar beams over this temple (and) constructed
cedar doors. (30) I fastened (them) with bronze
bands (and) hung (them) in its doorways. I
decorated this temple in a splendid fashion (and)
placed therein the god Mamu, the great lord. I inscribed my monumental inscriptions (and) deposited (them) in his temple.
34b-40) O later prince among the kings (35) my
sons whom Aur will name: (when) this temple
becomes dilapidated (and) you see and read my
monumental inscriptions, restore its weakened
(portions); write your name with mine (and) return (it) to its place so that Assur, the lord, the
prince, (and) the god Mamu, who dwells in this
temple, (40) may look steadfastly upon him with
their eyes (and) establish his name (and) his seed
in their land.
p. 191. 24 ma-m: for the reading of the name see Schramm,
EAK 2 p. 59. 29 u-sa-bit: for gur subbutu see CAD 16 ($)

p. 36b. An emendation to -sa-lil is unnecessary. 38.2-3 for
NUN- '(the lord), the prince* have GAL-M 'the great (lord)'.
41) NA4.NA.R.A e-ma-ru-ma
an-na-a
41-44a) As for the one who sees my monumental

inscriptions and says, 'What is this?': may the
goddess Istar, mistress of battle and conflict,
smash his weapons (and) take away from him his
throne.
44b-49) As for the one who sees my monumental
inscriptions, (45) reads (them), anoints (them)
with oil, makes sacrifices, (and) returns (them) to
their (lit. 'its') place: Aur, the great lord, will
listen to his prayers (and) in wars with kings on
the battlefield will cause him to achieve success.
mi-na
42)
i-qa-bu-
43)
GIS.TUKUL.ME-5W lu- tU--br
44)
45)
lu te-kim- a NA4.NA.R.A e-ma-ru-ma

i-a-su- .GI.ME i-pa-a-u UDU.SISKUR
ÎNANNA be-lat MURUB4 U M

GI.A.TI-5W
BAL-M
46)
47)
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ana KI-S GUR-ru a-ur EN GAL-M ik-ri-bi-

i-em-me ina M a MAN.ME-/Z/ a-ar
48) tq-ru-ub-te am-mar lb-bi-u

49) -am-sa-u
51
A number of bronze bands with finely engraved scenes and inscriptions were found at the small site of Imgur-Enlil (modern Balawat),
not far from Calah. At one time there was controversy over the provenance of these artifacts but further excavations in the 1950s, which
unearthed even more bronze bands at Imgur-Enlil, confirmed that this
site was the origin of the objects. The majority of the bands belong to
Shalmaneser III but a number belong to Ashurnasirpal II. Originally
the bronze bands decorated monumental gates at Imgur-Enlil, a practice widely attested in Assyria. At Imgur-Enlil itself, where these
bands were found, Ashurnasirpal records decorating the cedar doors
of the temple of Mamu with bronze bands (A.0.101.50 lines 29-31).
Fragments of bronze bands were found at Aur (see Andrae, AAT
pp. 76-77 and pi. xxxm and cf. Weidner, IAK p. 97 n. 7) in the
Anu-Adad temple and Adad-nrr says he decorated the fir doors of
that temple with such artifacts (RIMA 1 p. 153 lines 8-12). The
Craftsman's Gate at Assur was bedecked in a similar manner by
Aur-b1-ka1a (A.0.89.7 v 9-11). At Nineveh the doors of the palace
built by Tiglath-pileser had bronze bands (A.0.87.10 lines 69-70 and
A.0.87.11 lines 7-8'). With regard to Calah, Ashurnasirpal followed
the same practice with doors of his palace (A.0.101.17 v 16-18) and of
various temples (A.0.101.28 v 10-11, A.0.101.29 lines 15'-16', and
A.0.101.30 lines 62-64). References to this practice in Assyrian royal
inscriptions after the time of Ashurnasirpal II may be found in the dictionaries (von Soden, AHw p. 658b sub misarrum 4, and CAD 10/2
[M] p. I l l sub mlserru 2).
The bronze bands of Ashurnasirpal n have numerous scenes and

texts. A full publication of these bands was being prepared by Dr.
R.D. Barnett at the time of his death and this manuscript is now being
edited by the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British
Museum. By courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum and
through the generosity of the aforementioned department, I have been
provided with the transliterations of these texts and permission to include them in this volume. I am deeply grateful. A discussion of the
relationship between the texts and the scenes must await the complete
publication.
Among the various inscriptions one long text and several brief epigraphs are represented. The long text is engraved twice (two
322

exemplars), once on each of the two bronze coverings which were
fitted to the edges of the two leaves of the gates at the point where
they meet. The brief epigraphs are engraved on the bronze bands
which were affixed in horizontal rows on the leaves of the gates. The
relatively long text is edited here while the epigraphs appear under
A.0.101.80-97. The bibliography below is for all texts but more
specific bibliographic references are given under the relevant entries
for epigraphs previously published.
The present text has an introduction (lines l-28a) containing the
royal name and titles and it is parallel to a passage in A.0.101.1
(iii 113b-26a). Note the chronologically significant variant: 'to Mount
Lebanon and the Great Sea' instead of 4to Carchemish of the land
Hatti' (see the note to A.0.101.1 iii 121). The text concludes (lines
28b-30) with a succinct description of work at Imgur-Enlil, the building of a wall and palace, and the installation of the doors which these
bronze bands embellished.
COMMENTARY
The master text is a conflation of the two exs. (ex. 1 ~
B M 124677 + 124678 and ex. 2 = BM 124676) since
there are a number o f lacunae in each. The lines in
both exs. are extremely long and for convenience an arbitrary division into shorter lines has been used in this
edition. The actual line numbers are (RIM lines follow
= ): ex. 1, 1 = l - 4 a , 2 - 4 b - 7 a , 3 = 7 b - l l a , 4
1 l b - 1 4 a , 5 = 14b-17a, 6 - 17b-19a, 7 = 19b-21a,
= 21b-24a, 9 = 2 4 b - 2 8 a , 10 = 28b-30; ex. 2, 1
1 - 4 , 2 = 5 - 8 a , 3 = 8b-11a, 4 = 11b-14a, 5
14b-17a, 6 = 17b-19a, 7 = 19b-22a, 8 = 2 2 b - 2 4 a ,
= 24b-27a, 10 = 27b-30a, 11 - 30b.
=
8
=
=
9
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1915 King, Bronze Reliefs pp. 35-36 and pis. LXXVIII-LXXX
(photo, study)
1973 Barnett, Symbolae Bhl pp. 19-22 and unnumbered plate
following (photo, study)
1974
1975
1976
1983
D. Oates, Iraq 36 pp. 173-78 (provenance)

Wfler, AOAT 26 pp. 232 and 283-84 (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 ci 21 (study)
J. Oates, Essays Wilkinson pp. 40-47 (study)
TEXT
1)
a-Ur-PAB-A MAN GAL-W MAN dan-U MAN
MAN KUR A A TUKUL-MA
2)
MAN GAL-W MAN dan-HU MAN MAN KUR AS

A 10-RIN.TH MAN GAL-W MAN dan-iU
MAN
3)
MAN KUR A-ft et-lu qar-du ina

GI. tukul-ti a-ur EN-S DU. DU-ma
4)
5)
6)
ina mal-ki. MES sa kib-rat 4-ta s-nin- la iu-

LU, SIP A tab-ra-a-te la-di-ru GIS.LAL e-du-
gap- ma-hi-ra
la i-- MAN mu--ak-ni- la kan--te-
nap-har ki-at
2 Ex. 1 omits MAN GAL-W MAN dan-nu 'great king, strong king'
at the beginning of the line. It appears in ex. 2.
1-1 la) Ashurnasirpal, great king, strong king,

has no rival among the princes of the four quarters, (5) marvellous shepherd, fearless in battle,
mighty flood-tide which has no opponent, the
king who subdues those insubordinate to him,
who rules all peoples, strong male, who treads
upon the necks of his foes, trampler of all
UN.MES i-pe-lu NTA dan-nu mu-kab-bi
is o u
a-a-bi- da-îsi
kul-lat LU.KUR.MES mu-pa-ri-ru ki-is-ri multar-hi ina G.tukul-ti
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES EN.ME-5W DU. DU-ma
KUR. KUR. MES n\j-i-na
u-sw KUR-wrf hur--a-ni D-I-nu i-pe-lu-ma
bi-lat-su-nu im-hu-ru
sa-bit li-i-ti GAR-R/FL"! li-i-te UGU Dt-i-na
KUR.KUR.MES e-nu-ma a-ur
EN na-bu- MU-ia mu-ar-bu- MAN -ti-ia
GIS. TUKUL-5W la
pa-da-a
a-na i-da-at EN-ti-ia lu- it-muh

RIN.HI.A.ME-T/1 KUR
lu-ul-lu-me-e
TDAGAL^.MES ina q-reb tam-ha-ri ina

GI.TUKUL.ME lu -am-qit ina re-s[u-t]e
-ma u DIKUR DINGIR.MES tik-li-ia
RIN.HI.A.MES-TF KUR.KUR na-i-ri
KUR hab-hi KUR su-ba-re-e u KUR ni-ir-bi kii~ma~ DIKUR ra-hi-si

UGU--nu -gu-um MAN TA e-be-er-ta-an
D. HAL. HAL a-di KUR lab-no-na
u A.AB.BA GAL-TE KUR la-qe-e a-na
si-hi-ir-ti-
KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi

a-na GR.II.ME-SW --ak-ni-s
TA SAG e-ni D
su-ub-na-at a-di
KUR ni-ir-bi be-ta-a-ni su -su KUR-ud TA^
KUR n-* re-be I sa KUR kir-ru-ri
a-di KUR gil-za-a-ni TA e-ber-ta-an D za-ba
KI.TA a-di VRV.DV 6-ba-a-ri
sa
el-an URU za-ban a-di URU.DU6--mza-ab-daa-ni u URU. DVe-sd-mab-ta-a-ni

URU hi-ri-mu URU ha-ru-tu KUR bi-ra-a-te sa
KUR kar-du-ni- a-na mi-sir
KUR-/A -te-er TA n-re-be sa KUR ba-bi-te adi KUR has-mar a-na UN.MES
KUR-/A am-nu ina KUR.KUR.ME
a-Ur-PAB-A NUN-W
na-a-du pa-lih DINGIR.MES GAL.ME -m-
gal-lu ek-du ka-sid URU.URU U

hur-sd-a-ni pat gim-ri--nu [lu a-n]a i-te rDiB^-[to/]
[URU] im-gr-RAD MU- ab-bi BD ana naal-ban ak-sur .GAL ana u-bat MAN-//-/T ina
lb-bi
GI.IG.ME GI..SUH 5 MAH.ME DV-U
ina K- -rat-t[e]
enemies, the one who breaks up the forces of the

rebellious, he who acts with the support of the
gained dominion over all the highlands, and received their tribute, capturer of hostages, he who
is victorious over all lands:
llb-26a) When Aur, the lord who called my

placed his merciless weapon in my lordly arms, I
Lullumu in battle. With the help (15) of the gods
entire land Laq, (and) the land Suhu including
the city Rapiqu: he conquered from the source of
the River Subnat to (20) the interior of the land
Nirbu. I brought within the boundaries of my
Mount Kirruru to the land Gi1znu, from the opposite bank of the Lower Zab to the city T1-Bari
which is upstream from the city Zaban, to the cities Tl1-a-Zabdni and T1-a-Abtni, the cities
Kardunia. I accounted (the people) from the
passes of Mount Babitu to Mount Hasmar as people of my land. In the lands over which I gained
dominion I always appointed my governors. They
entered (lit. 'performed') servitude (and) I imposed upon them corve.
a-pe-lu-i-
na-a-ni L.GAR-nu-te-ia al-ta-kan

ur-du-te [i]-pu-u ku-dr-ru e-me-su-nu-ti
ab-ni
323
26b-28a) Ashurnasirpal, attentive prince, worshipper of the great gods, ferocious dragon, conqueror of cities and the entire highlands:
28b-30) I took [this city in hand] for renovation.
I named it Imgur-Enlil. I fortified its circumference with a wall (and) built therein a palace as my
sovereign dwelling. I made lofty doors of fir (and)
hung (them) at its gate.
324
52
This text is on a broken stone slab found at Aur and concerns work
on the temple of Sn and amas. The royal epithets and general
description of conquests can be restored on analogy with A.O, 101.53.
COMMENTARY
The stone slab (Ass 20371) has not been located or collated. According to Schroeder it measured 6 cm thick
and 25 cm wide. It was found in fill under the Neo-
Assyrian (Schroeder actually says Neo-Babylonian) gate

floor (ID5i).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1955 Haller, Heiligtmer p. 83 n. 157 (study)
1954-59 Michel, WO 2 pp. 316-21 (edition)

TEXT
Obverse
Lacuna
1') [... ka]-i-id[...]
2') [mat nrh a ad kr]-VriP-ri a-di KUR
fgfl(7)-zaMni]
3') [itu r n] D su-ub-na-at a-di
4') [mt ub-r]-e KUR n-er-bi be-ta-ni qa-a-ti
5') [ikud\ KUR la-qe-e a-na pafft) [gim]-^rfi- KUR su-hi a-di URU ra-pi-qi a-na
7) [pf\.ME-a -e-ek-ni- TA n-re-be KUR
ba-fbn-[ti]
8') [a]-^dP KUR ha--mar KUR za-mu-a ana sihr^tP-[\
9') [tw] ~-ber-ta-an D za-ba u-pa-li-[]
10') [adi f] ^jyve^-a-ba-ri el-la-an KUR Rza*[ban]
1V) [ad tl-a]-ma-ba-ta-ni >\j^--mzaâb
[dn]
12') [l hi-r]-mu URU ha-ru-tu bi-ra-[te]
13') [a mat kar]-i diP-ni- a-na mi-[sir mta]
14') [utr ina mtti] V i hur--ni n&fi
[apluunti]
150 [ . . . ] x [ . . . ]
Lacuna
obv. 4' [mQt ub-re]-e: see Schramm, EAK 2 p. 57.
Lacuna
1-15') conqueror [from the passes of Mount
Kirr]uru to the land Gi1z[nu]; I [conquered from
the source of] the River Subnat to [the land
ubr] (and) the interior of the land Nirbu; I subdued the entire land of Laq (and) the land Suhu
including the city Rapiqu; [I brought] within the
boundaries [of my land] (the territory stretching)
from the passes of Mount Babi[tu] to Mount
Hamar, the entire land of Zamua, [from] the opposite bank of the Lower Zab [to] Tl-Abri
which is upstream from the land Z[aban, to T1a]-Abtni and TI-a-Za[bdni; the cities Hiri]mu
(and) Harutu, (which are) fortresses [of
Kard]unia; [in the lands] and highlands over
which [I gained dominion ..,]
Lacuna
325
Ashurnasirpal Ii A.O.101.52
Reverse
Lacuna
L) [...] (traces) [...]
11) [ue-s]a-a a-na URu-/a a-[ur bta]
y)
[bit sn]
Lacuna
rev. 1-20 [I took] out [(and) brought] to my city
A[ur].
rev. 3 - 1 T) [At that time the temple of the gods
Sn] and ama, the great gods, [my] lords,
[which ...] ... who preceded me had previously
built this [temple] had become dilapidated. I
delineated its area, dug out its foundation pit, rebuilt it from top to bottom, (and) completed (it).
I newly founded therein the abode of the gods Sn
and ama, the great gods, [my lords]. I brought
inside the gods Sn and ama. [I inscribed] my
stele [(and) deposited (it) therein ..,]
Lacuna
D UTU DINGIR.MES GAL.MES
EN. ' MES
40
5')
60
T)
[...] x-ni a-iik pa-ni-ia ina pa-na D-[SM]

[btu] iu i-w e-na-ah-ma a-ar- -me-[si]
[dan]-na-su ak-ud TA u-e-u a-di ^gaba^[dibbu]
[aryrsip -k-lil u-bat d 30 u DUTU
DINGIR. MES GAL. [MES]
[blia] â-na e-u-te ina ad-di d 30 u

[ama\
90 [ana iibbi] ^-e^-ri-ib NA4.NA.RU.[A]
1O0 [altur ina btunu ]-i'kun(ip [...]
8')
110
[] X [ . . . ]
Lacuna
53
This text is engraved on numerous stone blocks from Aur and on a
clay tablet from Nineveh which has extracts from royal inscriptions of
various kings. Regarding the clay tablet see A.0.87.21. The text is simply a brief general description of the king's conquests arranged in
rough geographic order. Note that it has 'to the land Hatti' (line 3) instead of 'to Mount Lebanon and the Great Sea', which means that it is
earlier in date than many texts of Ashurnasirpal II (see the note to
A.0.101.1 iii 121).
CATALOGUE
Ex.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
BM
number
251
260
267
2245
2247
2245
268
281
320
326
415
461
462
463
464
465
479
494
517
531
536
2243
2246
2244
2247
2244
2244
2247
2247
2247
2246
2247
2247
2243
2246
rev. 2' [ue-s]a-a: see Schramm, EAK 2 p. 57. rev. 4' Michel
restored [w sff/r].rMEi-m 'which kings (who preceded me)'
cpn
P
P
P
n
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
which is possible. But one would really expect a specific name

or names.
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Ex.
Ass
number
Ass ph
number
BM
number
19
20
21
563
564
565
2246
2246
2246
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
566
567
570
571
572
606
681
2246
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
703
853
957
2257
2311
4155
11108
12696
17823
36
37
38
39
40
P
P
P
P
n
n
2247
2247
2243
2245
P
P
P
P
n
_
_
_
_
_
2248
_
-
2245
2247
2257
P
n
n
P
P
P
n
5451
_
_
_
K 2838+ 13656
386
17427
5164 and 5315
cpn
P
c
n
P
COMMENTARY
Not one of the numerous fragments has a complete text
and the master text is a conflation. None of the pieces
has been located (except ex. 38, see A.0.87.21) but most
could be collated from the excavation photos. Since the
exs. are so numerous and some could not be collated
n o scores have been given. All but two of the exs. were
Line 3: is-tu for TA

ha-at-te
su-hi
n-re-be
Line 4: a for (passim)

KUR ba-bi-te
a-na for ana
TA for is-tu
su-pa-le-e
found in fD5i or fE5i-iii. Ex. 37 (Ass 17823) was found

in the row of steles (see Andrae, Stelenreihen) and
ex. 38 (K 2838+ 13656) is a clay tablet in the Kuyunjik
collection.
Line 5:
Note the following vars.:

Line 1 :
IBILA for A in
URU.DU6-sd-ma-bat-ta-a-ni
sa for (passim)
i-tu for TA
za-ab-da-ni
ha-ru-tu
a-ur-PAB-A
TUKUL MA for G1Jukul~t-MA

a-ur-ma for AS-ma
Line 6: a na for ana
ka-sid for ka-i-id
for KUR. KUR

Line 2: -tu for TA or TA for i-tu (passim)
KUR
K U R - 0 FOR KUR-/7
gim-ri-a
g-za-ni
a-pe-lu--nu-n
omit
L- GAR. MES-J
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1904
1909
1911
1913
1915
1926
Andrae, MDOG 21 pp. 11, 15, 19, and 21 (provenance)

Andrae, AAT pp. 86-89 (provenance)
Messerschmidt, KAH 1 no. 25 (copy)
Andrae, Stelenreihen p. 7 and Blatt 2 Abb. 6 (photo)
Bezold, HKA p. 50 (edition)
1935 Schott, Vorarbeiten pp. 22-23 (study)

1975-76 Schramm, WO 8 pp. 43-44 (ex. 38, copy, study)
327
TEXT
1)
.GAL ma-Ur-PAB-A MAN GAL MAN dan-ilU

of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (IT), king of
the universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr1
(II) (who was) also king of the universe (and) king
of Assyria; conqueror of the lands Nairi in their
entirety from the passes of Mount Kirruru to the
land Gi1znu; he conquered from the source of
the River Subnat to the land ubr; I brought
to the land Hatti, the entire land of Laq, (and)
the land Suhu including the city Rapiqu, from the
passes of Babitu to Mount Hasmar, the entire
land of Zamua, from the opposite bank of the
Lower Zab to T1-Abri which is upstream from
the land Zaban, (5) to Tr1-a-Abatni; from Ta-Abatni to T1-a-Zabdni; the cities Hirimu
(and) Harutu, (which are) fortresses of Kardunias;
in the lands and highlands over which I gained
dominion I always appointed my governors; I received their tribute (and) they entered (lit. 'performed') servitude.
MAN KI MAN KUR d-Ur A GI. tuklll-t-dMA

MAN KI MAN KUR Cl-Ur A DIKUR-RIN.TH
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
MAN KI MAN KUR AS-ld kd--d KUR. KUR

na-i-ri
and paf gim-ri- i-tu n-re-bi KUR klrru-ri a-di KUR g-za-a-ni TA SAG e-ni D SUub-na-at a-di KUR ub-re-e
qa-a-ti ik-ud TA e-ber-ta-an D.IDIGNA a-di
KUR ha-at-ti KUR la-qe-e a-na si-hr-ti- KUR
su-hu a-di URU ra-pi-qi TA n-re-bi
ba-bi-ti a-di KUR ha--mar KUR za-mu-a
ana si-hr-ti- i-u e-ber-ta-an D za-ba upa-li-i a-di t-a-ba-ri el-la-an KUR za-banan
a-di DV6--ma-ba-ta-a-ni TA DUE--ma-ba-taa-ni a-di DU$--mza-ab-da-a-ni URU hi-ri-mu
URU ha-ru- bi-ra-a-te.ME KUR kar-duni-
ana mi-sir KUR-/A -ti-ra ina KUR.KUR.ME
hur--ni a-pe-lu-u-nu-ni L.GAR.ME-

al-k-ka-an ma-da-ta--nu am-hur
L.ARAD- RUP7-PU-
54
This text is engraved on a stone foundation box found at Apqu-saAdad (modern Tell Abu Marya). The box may have originally contained the gold and silver tablets (A.0.101.70) found at the same site.
Unfortunately the object cannot now be found in the Harvard Semitic
Museum and the inscription is known only from the translation published by Speiser (it is illegible on the photos published by Speiser).
On the basis of this translation the text seems to be a duplicate of
A.0.101.1 iii 113-32 (cf. A.0.101.26).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1930 Speiser, Art and Archaeology 30 pp. 190-91 (photo,
translation)
1953 Stephens, JCS 7 p. 74 (provenance)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 167 656 and n. 755 (study)
55
This fragmentary text is on a piece of clay cone which originally must
have come from Calah. The traces of the description of conquests are
clearly similar to other such passages in texts of Ashurnasirpal II
although no exact duplicate is known.
328

COMMENTARY
The fragment
(Rm 2,430),
which measures 9 . 5 x 7 +
this is clearly incorrect. The inscription has been col-
c m , is registered with the provenance 'Kuyunjik' but
lated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 203 n. 876 (edition)
TEXT
Lacuna
T) [...-m)a ina mal-ki sa kib-rat 4~ta
2')
3')
4')
Lacuna
1-4') [...] among the princes of the four quarters
[...] and the Great Sea he conquered [...] to the
west [he] subdued [(...); son of Tukultl-Ninurta
(II) ... son of Adad-nrr (II) (who was)] also
[(...) king of] Assyria: property of the temple of
the god Ninurta.
[...] U A.AB. (HA) GAL- SV-SU KUR-ud

[...] x a-di e-reb d-ma ana GR.II.ME-U
[uekniu ... sar mt] A-ma NG.GA DMA
56
This text, on numerous clay cone fragments from the Istar temple at
Nineveh, records Ashurnasirpal's work on that building. It is very
similar in form and content to A.0.101.40-42. The text begins with the
royal name and epithets, including a general description of campaigns.
There follow sections regarding the building of the Istar temple and
blessings and curses. Assur-uballit is said to have also worked on the
same temple (cf. RIMA 1 pp. 115-16 A.0.73.1001). Regarding the
BTt-nathi see A.0.101.18.
There are a myriad of inscribed clay cones and clay cone fragments
from Nineveh ascribed to this king and it is a monstrous task to distinguish precisely how many different texts they represent. Just as
daunting a problem is the identification of every last fragment. In this
volume I have edited them all under A.0.101.56-66, 111-13, 115-16,
118, and 1001-1003. Such a division may not stand the test of time
and new discoveries but it is the best I can do with the available evidence. Some texts are lengthy (A.0.101.56-66 and 1001-1003) while
others are just labels (A.0.101.111-13, 115-16, and 118). Most concern work on the Istar temple (A.0.101.56-65 and 111-12) while at
least one (A.0.101.66) describes work on the Adad temple.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
\
2
3
4
5
BM
number
Registration
number
AAA 19
no.
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
128154+ 128155
+ 128156
128153
128180
1929 10-12,810+
811 + 812
56-9-9,160( + )161
1929-10-12,809
56-9 9,176
1929-10-12,836
97
IT.MM. 10
16x16.5+
i~19
98
IT.MM.9
16.5 dia.
AP.A.9
7x5.7+
cpn
~
1-19
1-12
1-4
2-16
c
c
c
AshurnasirpalIiA.0.101.30
329
BM
number
Registration
number
AAA 19
no.
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
123450
123496+ 123499
128168
1932-12-10,393
1932-12-10,439 + 442
1929-10-12,824
178
121
IT.Q.O
IT.K.0
6x8.6 +
4x4.5 +
5x8 +
123466
1932-12-10,409
K 14927
81-2-4,184
83-1-18,606
1929-10-12,861
1929-10-12,819
1929-10-12,866
221
1T.R.1
5x8.5 +
4x3 +
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
123477
128382
128206
128193
128353
98721
1932-12-10,420
1932-12-10,639
1929 10 12,862
1929-10-12,849
1932-12-10,610
1905-4-9,227
56-9-9,139
230
124
-
IT.DD.0.72
IT. TT. 4
AP.C.I2
96
131
IT.TT. I
2-10
3-8
5-11
5-10
6-9
8-19
7-14(?)
8-17
8-16
10-13
11-19
11-17
11-14
12-17
14-19
14(?)-16
16-17
16-17
16-17
17-19
Ex.
_
-
128205
128163
128210
_
_
23
24
25
_
_
-
AP.A.ll
IT.NC.15
4.9x4.5
8.5x4.5
3.2x4t
5.4x5.6
4.6x6.5
3.6x4.7
3.7x5.7
3x7.7 +
5.2x2.3
6.2x3.8
_
_
56 9 9 118
1912 12 10,648
1929 10 12,813
128391
128157
_
_
_
Dump
IT.MM.9
179
+
+
+
f
+
f
+
+
5.9x5.7 +
7x8.7 +
cpn
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
COMMENTARY
All the exs. are very fragmentary and the master text,
which is a conflation, may not be entirely accurate. The
interested reader can check the scores. No ex., including ex. 1, is sufficiently preserved to provide a secure
division of lines. Thus I have divided and numbered the
lines arbitrarily, but more or less following the division

given in Thompson's edition. Several fragments once
identified with this text have been edited elsewhere (see
the indexes to this volume). For Thompson, AAA 19
no. 220 see RIMA 1 p. 328 A.0.0.1003.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson,
AAA
19 pp. 100-102, 104, and pis.

and LXXIX nos. 96-98, 121, 124, 131,
178-79, 221, and 230 (copy, edition)
1968 Lambert and Millard, Cat. passim (study)
LxxiLxxiv, Lxxvii,

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 28, 733 no. 7, and p. 115 n. 468 b
viii (translation)
TEXT
1)
2)
a-tr-PAB-A MAN KUR a-Ur MAN GAL MAN
dan-rtu MAN MAN la -(na)-an MAN kiillat

kib-rat 4-i dam-u ki-at UN.MES MAN dannu n-t dBAD dMA
3)
4)
5)
da-l kul-l[at nakir (u) m]u-pa-ri-ru hur-a-ni -qu-ti du-rug--nu la-a e-ti-q[u]
[zikaru da]n-nu mu-kab-bi-(is) G a-a-bi-
mu-hal-liq za-i-ri-u mu-â-bit BD KR.ME
[muakni l ka]-an-u-te- ma-hr GUN
ma-da-a-te kib-rat 4-ta sa-bit
3 da-i kul-l\at nakir[u)]: cf. A.0.101.1 i 15, iii 116, etc.

4 zikaru ... aiibu: this sequence of epithets is well attested
for Asn. II. See, for example, A.0.101.1 i 14-15. Cf. Seux,
ERAS pp. 123 and 378. The original from which all the exs.
1-14a) Ashurnasirpal, king of Assyria, great king,

strong king, unrivalled king of the universe, king
of all the four quarters, sun(god) of all people,
strong king, chosen of the gods Enlil and
Ninurta, trampler of all [(his) enemies], who
breaks open high mountains the distant regions of
which no one had ever traversed, strong [male]
who treads upon the necks of his foes, who destroys his enemies, who destroys the fortifications
of his enemies, (5) [subduer of those] insubordinate to him, receiver of tribute and tax from the
four quarters, capturer of [hostages, he who] is
were copied seems to have omitted the is in mukabbis\

certainly all the preserved exs. (1, 3, 7) omit it. 5 musaknis la
kantu: see, for example, A,0.101.1 i 14. Cf. Seux, ERAS
p. 126. 5-6 so-bit [t(i a-ki]-in li-rp-[te] UGU mal-ki vt-i-
330
6)

[lti a-k]-in li-^P-[t] UGU mal-ki Dt--na
UB.ME DUMU TUKUL-MA MAN dan-till
7)
8)
9)
MAN
KUR a-lir A 10-RIN.TH MAN dan-H MAN

KUR a-ur-[ma]
[etlu qardu \ ina G.tukul-ti a-ur diKUR
d
INANNA DMA TDINGIR1.ME re-S-U DU.DUku-ma ina mal-ki kib-rat 4-ta
-nin- la i-u- MAN dan-nu i-tu e-berta-an D.IDIGNA [adi ad lab-n]a-ni A.AB.BA
GAL-te KUR a-mur-r[i]
[a ulum ami mat hatti ana sihir]-^ti-
u-sw"! ik-u-du TA SAG e-ni D su-ub-na-at adi ni-[ir]-^bP be-ta-a-ni DAGAL.ME
KUR.KUR na-i-ri
10) [ana pt gimra api] KUR la-qe-ê a^-[n]

* sP - h r~ ti- KUR-ud KUR su-[h]i a-di ra-[pi-qi
ana GR].RII(?)-/FF(?)I [\ vk-nis^ i-tu
[nreb] 1 d > KUR kr-ru-ri a-di KUR gl-za-a[ni]
11) [itu nereb] URU ba-bi-ti a-d[i KU]R hamar [mat zamua ana s]hhr-ti- KVR-u[d] TA
e-^beri-ta-an D za-^bari^ KI.TA a-di DU612) [bri a elln mt zaban adi tl-a-zabd]-n u
DU6-[a-a]b^ta-a^-ni URU hi-ri-mu ha-ru-t
bi-ra-a-te KUR kar-du-ni- [ana] me-sir
KUR4a am-nu ina KUR.KUR.ME T>t-i-n[a]
13) [u hur]-nu a-pe-lu--ni LJ.GAR-[ntia
al-ta-k]an ARAD.ME-// -pu-u GUN ma-da-atu
14) u-[kin elunu] e-nu-ma DINANNA URU
^nP-[nu-a a a]-ur-TI.LA MAN KUR a-ur
NUN a-lik pa-ni-ia
15) an-hu-su û(D-di-u E u-a-tu e-na-ah-ma TA
tar-s -na-at-hi a-di [ ] ^^-na-ah-ma P-abrbin
16) a-ar-u -me-si dan-n[a-su akud itu u]e(1)-u a-di gaba-dib-bi- ar-sip -k-lil
UGU mah-re-e -si-im -ar-^riP
17) NA4.NA.R.A al-tu-ur ina lb-bi -kun [rub

ark a]n-hu-su lu-di MU at-ra a-na -r-u
[lutr] diNANNA~i be-lit URU ni-na-(a> > Mriri-bi- i-e-me
18) ina M MAN.ME-W -ra tq-ru-ûb-ti

amP-mar lb-bi- lu-si- m[u-nakki]-ir itri-ia u MU-m-ia
NA UB.ME: see, for example, A.0.101.1 i 16-17 and iii 117-18.

Cf. Seux, ERAS p. 263. The reconstruction is not entirely
certain; see the scores f o r details. 6 . 9 GISKIM-^MAS for TUKUL-
MAS. 9 For the restoration of the beginning of the line see

A.O. 101.40 lines 20-21. 11-12 For the reconstruction of these
victorious over all the princes of the (four) quarters, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (n), strong king, king
of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (II) (who was)
[also] strong king (and) king of Assyria; [valiant
man] who acts with the support of Aur, the
deities Adad, Istar, (and) Ninurta, the gods his
helpers, and has no rival among the princes of the
four quarters; the strong king who has conquered
from the opposite bank of the Tigris [to Mount
Leban]on and the Great Sea of the land Amurru
[in the west, the entire land Hatti. I have gained
dominion over the entire (region)] from the source
of the River Subnat to the interior of the land
Nirbu, the extensive lands Nairi. (10) I conquered
the entire land of Laq. I have subdued the land
Suhu including Ra[piqu]. I conquered (the territory stretching) from the [passes] of Mount
Kirruru to the land Gi1znu, [from the pass] of
the city Babitu to Mount Hasmar, the entire [land
Zamua]. I have regarded as within the boundaries
of my land (the territory stretching) from the opposite bank of the Lower Zab to T1-[Bri which
is upstream from the land Zaban, to T1-aZabd]ni and T1-[a-A]btni, the cities Hirimu
and Harutu (which are) fortresses of Kardunias.
In all the lands [and highlands] over which I
gained dominion I always appointed my governors; they entered (lit. 'performed') servitude
(and) I [imposed upon them] tribute (and) tax:
14b-17a) At that time the temple of the goddess
Istar of N[ineveh], the weakened (portions) of
[which A]ur-uba11it (i), king of Assyria, a prince
who preceded me, had restored this temple had
fallen into ruin and from opposite Blt-nathi as far
as [...] it was dilapidated and ruined. I delineated
its area (and) [dug out its foundation] pit. I rebuilt it from top to bottom, completed it, (and)
decorated (it) more splendidly than ever before. I
inscribed my monumental inscriptions (and)
deposited (them) therein.
17b-18a) May a later [prince] restore its weakened
(portions and) [return] my inscriptions to their
places. (Then) the goddess Istar, mistress of
Nineveh, will listen to his prayers. In wars with
kings on the battlefield may she cause him to
achieve success.
18b-19) As for the one who removes my inscriptions and my name, may the goddess Istar,
the great mistress, take away from him his
lines cf. A.O.101.40 lines 25-27 and A.0.101.53 lines 3-5.

12.5 \ha-r\u-tu. 13 For the restoration at the beginning of the
line cf. A.O. 101.52 obv. 14. 13-14 GUN ma-da-a-tu u-[kin
etunu]: cf. Winckler, Sar. pl. 31 line 32.
331
Ashurnasirpal ii A.0.1 Ol.56

19)
I N A N N A NiN GAL-/W [ina Gi].Gu.ZA-iw li-kimu- ina IGI KTJR.MES-SM ka-mis lu-e-ib-u
throne, (and) may she make him sit in bondage

before his enemies.
57
This is a much shorter text, on clay cone fragments from the Istar
temple at Nineveh, describing work on the same temple.
CATALOGUE
BM
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
1
2
3
56-9-9,152+ 159
56-9-9,156+ 168+191
56-9-9,174
1-4
1-4
1-4
128364
123474
88347
AKA
AKA
AKA
19 no. 93
19 no. 223
AKA
AKA
AKA
AKA
AKA
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
King,
King,
King,
AAA
AAA
King,
King,
King,
King,
King,
King,
AAA
King,
AAA
AAA
Arh.
Arch.
AKA
19 no.
Cat.
19 no.
19 no.
79 no.
79 no,
Ex.
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
1932-12-10,621
1932-12 10,417
1901-2-9,64
56-9-9,155
56-9-9,170
56-9-9,128
56-9-9,132
_
_
_
56 9 9,145
1932-12-10,458
Ki 1904-10-9,356
123515
99323
Unlocated
128406
121139
121142
139285
128360
1932-12-10,663
1929-10-12,148
1929-10-12,151
1932-12-10,739
1932-12-10,617
6.9x7.7 +
7x5.4 +
7.5x9 +
IT.LL.10
IT.U.3
_
_
_
_
_
_
7x6.7 +
5x4-
168
IT.SS.2
114
90
122G
122J
T.F.15
IT.KK.5
NT.xxvn.A.6
NT. xxix. 10
AAA 19 no. 99
AAA 19 no. 19
IT.SS
IT.00.0
4.8x5.9
5.5x7.2
4.2x5.2
7.7x4.1
7.9x8.9
+
+
+
+
+
cpn
1-4
1-4
1-4
14
1-4
1-2
1-2
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
1-2
1-2
1-2
1-2
3-4
2-3
3-4
4
1-2
c
c
c
n
c
c
c
c
c
COMMENTARY
The text is reconstructed from numerous small fragments and no complete text is preserved. Thus the master text is a conflation and the line division is arbitrary.
Interested readers can check the scores. Some fragments
are very tiny and may actually belong to other texts on
clay cones. Some fragments, once grouped with this

text, have been treated elsewhere (see the indexes to this
volume). Regarding the whole problem of identifying
the numerous clay cone fragments from Nineveh see the
introduction to A.0.101.56.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lxxvi,
1902 King, A K A pp. 1 5 8 - 5 9 ( c o p y , edition)
LXXI-LXXIII,
1907 L e G a c , A s n . p p . x i x - x x and 2 0 0 ( c o p y )
15), 93 (ex. 4), 99 (ex. 18), 114 (ex. 14), 168 (ex. 12), a n d
1914 King, Cat. p. 45 (ex. 13, study)
19 p p .
122G (ex.
16) and
1973 S c h r a m m , E A K 2 p. 54 (study)
1976 G r a y s o n , A R I 2 c i 29 (translation)
100, 102,
19 (ex.
1967 Borger, H K L 1 pp. 5 2 6 - 2 7 and 537 (study)
122J (ex. 17) ( c o p y )

1932 T h o m p s o n , A A A
LXXIX n o s .
223 (ex. 5) ( c o p y )
1926 L u c k e n b i l l , A R A B 1 5 4 4 - 4 5 (translation)
1929 T h o m p s o n , A r c h . 7 9 pl. XLVII n o s .
and
104, a n d pis. LXIX,
19),
90
(ex.
332

TEXT
1)
A-PAB-A GAR d BAD ID AS A GISKIM-MA
1) Ashurnasirpal, appointee of the god Enlil,

vice-regent of Aur, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II),
appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of Assur,
of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of Aur:
2-4a) At that time Emama, the temple of the
goddess Istar of Nineveh, my mistress, [which
am]-Adad, vice-regent of Aur, a prince who
preceded me, had built (this temple) had become dilapidated and I rebuilt it from top to bottom. I completed (it and) decorated (it) more
splendidly than ever before. I inscribed my stele
(and) deposited (it) therein.
4b) May a later prince restore its weakened (portions and) return my inscribed name to its place.
GA[r] rdHBAD ID AS A 10-RIN.TH TGAR"!

d
2)
BAD ID -ma
e-nu-ma
-ma-ma
NIN-/TF [a
ÎNANNA URU.NINA
am]^P-0
ID A NUN DU IGI-ia
e-pu-
3)
e-na-ah-ma
TA URU4-S EN gaba-dib-bi-
ar-
sip -k-lil -si-im -ar-rih UGU mah-re-e

--[tir]
4)
TNA4.NA1.R.A al-tur ina q-reb- a-kun

[NUNJ-W 1EGIR(?)1-W an-hu-su
lu-ud-di-
MU
at-ra ana YLI- lu-ter
58
This is a tiny fragment of a text inscribed on a piece of clay cone
found at Nineveh. The original text was clearly of some length but it
cannot be identical with the lengthy texts on clay cones from Nineveh
which are better preserved; on the whole problem of the identification
of the numerous fragmentary inscriptions on clay cones from Nineveh
see the introduction to A.0.101.56. This fragment concerns the reconstruction of the temple of Istar at Nineveh. Regarding the Blt-nathi
see the introduction to A.0.101.18. In the present fragment Aurrabi (n) is said to have previously worked on this structure. Another
clay cone fragment has a broken inscription referring to Aur-rabi (II)
as a previous builder and it too, therefore, must have described
Ashurnasirpal ii's work on Blt-nathi. See A.0.101.65.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 128160 = 1929-10-12,816) measures 6 x 6 . 7 cm and was
found in the IStar temple ( N N . + 2). The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 102 and pi. LXXIV no. 128 (copy)
3 --[tir]: cf. A.0.101.1 ii 85.
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 733 no. 3 (study)
Ashurnasirpal IIA.0.101.30355
TEXT
Lacuna
T) [...
a-d]i
A.A[B.BA
...]
2')
[ . . . ] Ti na-at-hi
3')
[ . . . blt-i]a
sa
4')
[ . . . aaru]
r^-me-si
x [...]
m
a-ur-GAL
TNUNT
dan-na-s[u
[...]
akud
...]
5r) [... uek-I]I -si-im ^tD-[arrih ...]

6') [... naria] ina qer-bi-u a-k[un ...]
T) [... NA4.NA].R.A A-NA A-[R lutr ...]
8') (traces)
Lacuna
59
This is another fragment of a text on a piece of clay cone from
Nineveh concerning the reconstruction of the Istar temple. See the introduction to A.0.101.56.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 122660 = 1930-5-8,93) measures 7 x 8 . 5
f o u n d in A P . H . l l . The inscription has been collated.
cm and was
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1967 Seux, ERAS pp. 208 n. 248 and 287 n. 129 (study)
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 pp. 53 and 55 (study)

TEXT
1)
2)
kib-rat
3)
SANGA-W [~K"! [... l\a
4)
mu-pr-r[-ru
[aur-nsir-apli
... sar]
...]-x
5)
LUGAL [...1 UB.ME
6)
DUMU [...1
1)
^-mas^ - [mas
Lacuna
kNat
4-[/ . . . ] x d MA
I-nu-ma
...]
ma-gi-ri
^zaîa-a-ri
334
60
COMMENTARY
found in A P . D . l l . The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pp. 100-102 and pi. LXXI no. 85
(copy)

TEXT
Lacuna
1') [...] x x [...]
2')
[ . . . ] KUR.KUR.ME [ . . . ]
3')
[ . . . a-d]i
4')
[ . . . ] x MAN dan-nu
A.AB.BA [ . . . ]
5')
[ . . . ] X DINGIR X [ . . . ]
6')
[...]-<? RNIN"I [ . . . ]
x [...]
Lacuna
61
Nineveh. See the introduction to A.0.101.56.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 121135 = 1 9 2 9 - 1 0 - 1 2 , 1 4 4 ) measures
6 . 4 x 7 . 2 cm and was found in N T . x v m . C . 2 0 . The in-
scription has been collated. For line 4' cf. A.O.101.43

line 21'. For line 5' see, for example, A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 4 0 line 25.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 135 and pi. LII no. 122P (copy)
TEXT
Lacuna
V) [...] x [...]
2')
[ . . . ] u(1) GAR-nu-ta-a x [ . . . ]
3')
[ . . . ] x.MEl-ia -x
4')
5')
6')
[... vRV.B]D(1)-lu-lu-ma-a-a [...]

[...] el-{la)-an KUR za-vban^ x [...]
[... mi-s]ir KUR-ia \a\m-nu x [...]
7')
[...] x ma-^da^-tu
8') [...
9') [...
W) [...] x [...]
Lacuna
[...]
x [...]
x [...]
...]
62
Nineveh. See the introduction to A.0.101.56.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 128170 = 1929-10-12,826) measures
4.1 x 7.2 cm and was found in the Istar temple
(MM. 13). The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pp. 100-102 and pi.
(copy)
LXXI
no. 95

TEXT
Lacuna
1') [.,.] x [...]
2') [...] x x sa x [...]
3') [... a-n]a me-sir-ri KUR-[/a ...]
4')
[ . . . ] X-IL NG.DU U[GU ...1
5') [...] x e-na-ah-ma i-[tu ...]

6f)
[...]xxxx[1]
Lacuna
63
336

COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 128404 = 1932-12-10,661) measures 4 . 9 x 4 . 2 c m and was
found in the Istar temple (TT.O). The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pp. 100, 104, and pi. LXXIV no. 123
(copy)

TEXT
Lacuna
V) [...] x x x [...]
2) [... qt-s]u ik-u-u[d ...]
3') [...] rd"liNANNA a [...]
4') [...] a-x [...]
5') [... t-si-\m -a[r-rih ...]
Lacuna
64
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 128181 - 1929-10-12,837) measures 5 . 6 x 6 . 6 cm and was
found in A P . A . 9 . The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
Lacuna
1 - 7 0 No translation warranted.
1')
[...]XX[...]
20
[...]
3')
4')
[...] DUe-itf-uRU-za-a[b-dni...]
[... kal\-i-na u hur-a-a-[nu ...]
5')
[ . . . en]-ma
60
[...] x ra-dP n-reb [...]
70
[...]XX[...]
Lacuna
R a \ - n a UN.MES [ . . . ]
D INANNA
[...]
337
65
This broken text is on a small fragment of a clay cone from Nineveh.
Since Aur-rabi (n) is referred to as a previous builder, this almost
certainly identifies the inscription as a text describing Ashurnasirpal II'S
work on the Blt-nathi. See A.0.101.56 for further details.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (56-9-9,150) measures 8.1 x 6 + cm. The inscription has been
collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA p. 3 59 n. 4 (study)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [...] x x x [...]
2') -k-Ul -x [...]
3') sa a-ur-GAL t-x [... lu-t]er(!)
66
This fragmentary text has been reconstructed from numerous pieces of
inscribed clay cones found at Nineveh (see the introduction to
A.0.101.56) and concerns work on the Adad temple. It begins with the
royal name, titles, and a general description of conquests. This is followed by the badly broken text of a narrative describing reconstruction of the Adad temple.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
BM
number
Registration
number
AAA 19
no.
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
128383
123460
128351
128182+ 128186
1932-12-10,640
1932-12-10,403
1932-12-10,608
1929-10-12,838 + 842
Rm 622
1932-12-10,473
1932-12-10,628
1932-12-10,658
1929-10-12,828
1930-5-8,238
129
148
89
IT.MM.7
IT.QQ dump 10
IT.NN.-5
AP.iv.C.20
5.1 x 7 +
6x5.8 +
6.4x7.8 +
6.7x9.3 +
1-10
3-14
1-9
c
c
c
137
1-8
1-14
2-6
1-6
1-5
2-9
2-6
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
1932-12-10,651
1932-12-10,738
127
88
IT.MM.8
IT.MM. 10
5.8x5.5 +
3-9
3-4
c
c
123530
128371
128401
128172
139325
128394
139284
_
-
247
103
109
-
IT.R.6
IT.LL.13
IT.LL.10
AP.C.15 iv
4.2x2.6 +
7.6x6.4 +
5x4,7 +
5.2x7.1 +
338
Ex,
BM
number
Registradon
number
AAA 19
no.
N neveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
13
14
15
16
17
128402
139283
128372
128190
128175
1932-12-10.659
1932-12-10,737
1932-12-10,629
1929-10-12,846
1929-10-12,831
87
86
125
-
IT.NN.3
IT.LL.12
IT.MM. 10
AP.A.15
AP.C.iv.NE wall
5x5.1 +
6.6x4.5+
5.1x6.1+
6.3x6.8+
Lines
preserved
cpn
<M2
10-13
10-12
10(?)-13
1-4
<T~
c
c
c
c
COMMENTARY
The master text is a conflation of all exs. since a complete text is not preserved on any one ex. Readers interested in details can check the scores. It is not entirely
certain that every fragment belongs to this text. This
edition combines the fragments separated in my ARI 2
as ci 31 and 34. Regarding the problem of identifying

texts among the numerous clay cones from Nineveh see
the introduction to A.O. 101.56. In ex. 1 there are horizontal lines drawn between lines 1-2 and 2-3.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, A A A 19 pp. 100-102, 104, and pis. LXXI,
Lxxm-Lxxv, and LXXX nos. 86 (ex. 14), 87 (ex. 13), 88
(ex. 12), 89 (ex. 3), 103 (ex. 7), 109 (ex. 8), 125 (ex. 15),
127 (ex. 11), 129 (ex. 1), 137 (ex. 10), 148 (ex. 2), and
247 (ex. 6) (copy)
1968 Lambert and Millard, Cat. passim (study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 31, 34, and 733 nos. 1 and 3-4
(translation)
1984 Frame, ARRIM 2 pp. 12-17 (study)
TEXT
1)
2)
MAN GAL MAN DAN-NU MAN MAN KUR G-Ur
-Uf"-PAB - A GAR D BAD TGLDL S SUr
A GJukul-t-dMAS
3)
MAN GAL MAN dan-nu

A
4)
md
MAN MAN KUR
a-Ur
riKUR~I-[RL]N.TH
MAN GAL MAN dan-lU
MAN MAN KUR Q-
sur-ma et-lu qar-du sa ina GIS. tukul-ti a-ur

D
IKUR
RINANNA(?)~L
MA DINGIR.MES
GAL.MES
5)
EN.ME-SW it-tal-la-ku-ma
KUR.KUR
(ana) GR.II-SW -k-ni-
6)
ka-id KUR hat-ti a-na pat gim-r-a [...] TA

nue-ba-a-ri sa [... a]-^di D-mu [am ...]
7)
KUR-? KUR ha-ma-ni
[...] x x
8)
ni u
(...)
na-i-r[i...]
a-di A.AB.BA
[... ]u-sw [ikud ... tl-a-zabd]-âûRu.D[ue-a-abtni...]
[ . . . e-nu-m]a
10) [(...)
a-li]k(1)
[gabadibbu
IKUR EN-/A x x [ . . . ]
pa-ni-i[a
a]-âr^-u
T[A uu
11 )
GI.R.ME GI e-re-ni
KUR.KUR
[(...)] ID x x TURU"! za-ban

GAL-/E
9)
DAGAL-tu
vt-i-na
1-9a) Ashurnasirpal, appointee of the god Enlil,

vice-regent of Aur, great king, strong king, king
universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrrl (n)
the universe (and) king of Assyria; valiant man
who acts with the support of Aur, Adad, Istar,
(and) Ninurta, the great gods, (5) his lords, and
has subdued all lands; conqueror of the entire
land Hatti [...] from Til-Bri of [...] to the west
[...] mountains, Mount Amanus, cedar beams [...]
the extensive lands Nairi, [...] the city Zaban to
the Great Sea [... he conquered ... the cities T1a-Zabd]ni and T[1-a-Abtni ...]
puu(?)
u-me-si
dan-n[a]-su
nahma(1)
ak-ud
adi]
arsip
ueklil
ussim]
-ar-rih
4.5 omits qar-du 'valiant'. 6 - 8 The reconstruction of these

lines is very uncertain, x x DAGAL-W KUR.KUR na-i-ri lands
Nairi' (from ex. 2) might belong to either lines 7 or 8. Ex. 5
has [k]a-id HCUR hat-te^ a-na pa[(] rgim-ri-a
ha(?)-ma(?y
9b-12) [At that] time the temple of the god Adad,

my lord, which [... a prince who] preceded me
[had built, (this temple) had become dilapidated
(...)]. I delineated its area and dug out its foundation pit. [I completely rebuilt it] from [top to
M"(?P A.AB.BA GAL-f[E(?)...]. 9.1 [...] x la hi qu x [...]: this is

a problem. 10-11 Restorations are based on A.0.101.56 lines
14-16 and may not be accurate in detail.
339
bottom], decorated it [appropriately], and made it

[larger] than before. [...] ... [I deposited my]
monumental inscriptions.
13-14) [May a later prince ...] return [his monumental inscriptions] with [my monumental] inscriptions [(to their places ...)]
UGU pa-na -a-[tir ...]

12)
[...] x ri bit su x [...] ê-naâh
NA4.NA.[RU.A
13)
[...] i-tu NA4.N[A.R.a-ici (...) lu]-i-ter
[...]
14) (traces)
67
This text has been reconstructed from a number of fragmentary inscriptions on pieces of clay cone found at Aur. The text concerns the
reconstruction of the Sn-ama temple. It begins with the royal name,
titles, and genealogy followed by a general description of the king's
conquests. The reconstruction of this description may not be accurate
in detail since there are no exact parallels. It concludes with a brief
narrative regarding work on the temple. There are no blessings or
curses (see the introduction to A.0.101.19).
Among the numerous pieces of inscribed clay cones from Assur of
Ashurnasirpal II, this has the longest text and the only one which
specifically refers to the Sn-ama temple. Several more text types can
be distinguished among the numerous fragments (A.0.101.68-69, 114,
and 117-19) and it is possible that they too came from that temple.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Ass
number
Aur
provenance
Publication
reference
Dimensions
(cm)
Lines
preserved
cpn
1
2
3
VA Ass 2061
VA Ass 2064
VA Ass 2060
22952a
22952d
22939b
Sn-ama temple, fD6iii

As ex. 1
As ex, 1
FuB 22 no. 36
FuB 22 no. 39
FuB 22 no. 35
10x12 +
6x5.3 +
8x10 +
2-15
3-13
3-12
c
c
c
VA Ass
A 3427
A 3425
VA Ass
VA Ass
VA Ass
VA Ass
VA Ass
VA Ass
22931
5808
5755
22952d
22952b
22971
21087
22952c
21095
Fill of tomb v, fE5iv
FuB 22
RICCA
RICCA
FuB 22
FuB 22
FuB 22
FuB 22
FuB 22
FuB 22
5.5x6 +
7 . 2 x 10.6 +
9.9x8 +
4.7x5.8 +
6x6 +
5x5.2 +
6.3x7.3 +
6.7x4.3 +
6.5 x 8.5 +
5-14
1-7
2-5
5-8
6-14
6-14
5-15
9-15
14-15
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
2067
2065
2062
2069
2068
2063
2098
As ex. 1
As ex. 1
Sn-ama temple, fC6iv
fA6iv
As ex. 1
fC6n
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
42
133
134
40
37
44
43
38
45
COMMENTARY
No complete text has been preserved and the master
text is a conflation of the various exs. The interested
reader can check the scores. The line division and
numbering is arbitrary. Although the reconstruction
may be inaccurate in some details (especially lines 4, 6,
and 8) it is highly probable that most if not all exs.
come from the same text since most were found in the
Sn-ama temple and the name of that structure is
12 A suitable reconstruction of this line eludes me.
preserved on some exs. Ex. 11 has a horizontal line

drawn between lines 8 and 9. Note that Donbaz and
Grayson, RICCA no. 136 (once assigned to Asn. II)
probably belongs to the same clay cone as RICCA
no. 234 and Rost, FuB no, 109 and is to be assigned to
Sargon II - see Borger ZA 76 (1986), pp. 301-302.
Also note that Rost, FuB 22 no. 41 cannot be Asn. n
since Akkad (line 20 never appears in his texts. Rather
340
it is almost certainly from a text of Sargon II since

Akkad appears in his texts and IJamar appears only
in royal inscriptions of Asn. II and Sargon II.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1955 Haller, Heiligtmer p. 83 F. (exs. 1-3, 7-9, 11, provenance)
1982 Rost, FuB 22 nos. 35-40 and 42-45 (exs. 1-4, 7-12,
copy)
1984 Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA nos. 133-34 (exs. 5-6,
copy, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
[mar tukult-M]AS GAR DBAD ID a-ur
7S-SWR-PAB-A GAR DBAD ID a-Ur
3)
4)
5)
6)
DUMU [adad-nrr akin ^B]AD ID a-ur

ka-id i-[u (...)] i-di KUR lul-lu-m-i
KUR ~hab~-h be-ta-ni KUR za-mu-a
KUR ha--mar
adi[1) mt amu]r(1)-ri KUR ha-ma-ni
I)
u KUR lab-fnd-ni
I-10) Ashurnasirpal, appointee of the god Enlil,

vice-regent of Aur, [son of Tuku1t-Ni]nurta (n),
son of [Adad-nrrT (n), appointee of the god
En]1i1, vice-regent of Assur, conqueror from [(...)]
the slopes of the mountains of the Lullumu, (5)
the interior of the land Habhu, and all the mountains of Zamua and Hasmar [to the land
Amu]rru, Mount Amanus, and Mount Lebanon
as far as the Great Sea; [I regarded (all of this
territory) as within the boundaries] of [my] land.
They annually brought their valuable tribute and I
received (it) in my city Assur.
II-15) At that time the temple of the gods Sn
and [ama], the great gods, my lords, which
kings [who preceded me] had built, had become
dilapidated. I rebuilt it from top to bottom.
a-di tam-di GAL-/[/]
[ana mi-si]r(1) KUR-/[<?(?) amnu(iym]a

9) MU-m-ma GUN -su-nu DUGUD
10) [u-b](1)-lu-ma ina URU-a a-ur am-hur
8)
d30 u
II)
e-nu-ma
12)
DINGIR.MES GAL.MES EN.ME-?
[uT]u
13) sa MAN.ME [lik pnia
e]-^pu^-u
14) e-n[a-a]h [i-t]u u-e- a-di gaba-dib-bi-

15) ar-sip
68
This fragmentary text is preserved on a piece of clay cone fragment
found at Aur. Regarding the numerous inscribed clay cone fragments of Ashurnasirpal from that site see the introduction to
A.0.101.67. The text, so far as it is preserved, is a duplicate of the
'Standard Inscription', A.0.101.23 (lines 8-16).
COMMENTARY
The fragment number is A 3590 (Ass 16696) and the inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
T E X T
Lacuna
1')
[...] X [...]
2') [...
3') [...
4') [...
5') [...
6') [...
Lacuna
na}-rn-ri a^ncH [...]

g\l-za-ni TA [...]
ik-u]d TA e-be[r-ta-an ...]
KU]R su-hi a-d[i...]
z]a-mu-[a .,.]
69
This fragmentary text is preserved on a piece of clay cone from Aur.
It appears to be an abbreviated version of the large text describing
work on the Sn-ama temple, A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 6 7 .
C O M M E N T A R Y
The fragment number is A 3473 (Ass 9517) and the inscription has been collated.
TEXT
1)
[ . . . ] MAN KIS MAN
2)
[... K]UR da-ur A 10-RIN.TH MAN K[I ...]
3)
[ . . . a-I]k pa-ni-a
4)
[ . . . ] x--ni
5)
[...]xflta[...]
dan-nu
e-p[u-u
MAN KUR a-[ur
...]
[...]
Lacuna
70
This text is engraved on two tablets, one of gold and one of silver,
which originally came from the city Apqu (Apqu-a-Adad), modern
Tell Abu Marya. It succinctly records the building of a palace at this
provincial centre, a place where Aur-ra-ii i also built a palace (see
RIMA 1 p. 3 1 9 A . 0 . 8 7 . 1 0 ) . The stone foundation box, listed as
A.0.101.54, may have originally contained our two tablets. The text
shows the ineptitude of provincial scribes in odd sign forms, grammatical slips, and stilted phraseology.
342
CATALOGUE
Ex.
YBC
number
Object
Dimensions
(cm)
cpn
1
2
2398
2399
Gold tablet
Silver tablet
4.1 x 2.1
5.7x3.8
p~~
p
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79, p. 109 n. 1 (exs. 1-2, provenance)
1948 Bottro and Virolleaud, Semitica 1 pp. 25-32 (exs. 1-2,
copy, edition)
1952 J. Lewy, Orientalia NS 21 p. 8 (exs. 1-2, study)
1953 Stephens, JCS 7 pp. 73-74 (exs. 1-2, provenance)
1955 von Soden, Orientalia NS 24 p. 184 (exs. 1-2, study)

1967 Borger, HKL 1 p. 35 (exs. 1-2, study)
1968 Ellis, Foundation Deposits pp. 100, 175, and 193 (exs.
1-2, study)
TEXT
M
1)
.GAL
2)
MAN KUR AS A TUKUL-MA MAN KUR AS
3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR A%-ma

Tukultl-Ninurta (n), king of Assyria, son of
Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also king of Assyria;
conqueror of all lands, (who) has subdued (everything) from east to west:
7-9) I laid the foundation of a palace for my
royal residence in the city Apqu with tablets of
silver (and) gold.
10-12a) O later prince, do not erase my inscribed
name! (Then) Aur, the great lord, will listen to
your (lit. 'his') prayers.
12b-18) As for the one who erases my inscribed
name (and) uses my monumental inscriptions for
his own ends: may Assur, the great lord, smash
his weapon(s), take away from him his throne,
(and) destroy his name (and) his seed from the
land.
A-PAB~A MAN
4)
ka-id
5)
TA D UTU. EN
6)
7)
ana GR.ME-SI# -ak-ni-

.GAL URU ap-qi
8)
ana u-bat man-t-a ina tup-pi
9)
K.BABBAR K.GI URU4-ST SUB
10)
NUN EGIR-W MU SAR
KUR.ME
D
DU-i-na
UTU..A
11) NU ta-pa-sit AS EN GAL

12)
D-5W SE. G A MU
13) SAR i-pa-i-tu

14) NA. R. A-a -a-t
15) ana ip-ri k- DJ-
16) AS EN GAL GIS.TUKUL-W ii-bir
17) GI.A.TI- KAR- MJJ-
18)
NUMUN-W ina KUR /W-ZH
71
This is a caption (no. 1) on the Rassam Obelisk, concerning which see
A.0.101.24. The name of the tributary and the items brought were apparently never engraved, thus indicating that work on the obelisk was
not completed.
1.2 omits MAN m 'king of the universe'. 3.1 omits -ma '(who
was) also'.
343
TEXT
[m]a-da-t m (blank) [...]
The tribute of (blank) [ . . . I received].
72
This is a caption (no. 2 ) on the Rassam Obelisk concerning which see
A.0.101.24. Only traces of this caption are preserved and do not warrant an edition. The identity of the tributary is unknown.
73
A.0.101.24. The name of the tributary is missing but Reade has suggested it might have been the land Patinu because female musicians
are known to have been brought from there (see A.0.101.1 iii 72-76).
TEXT
[ . . . TUG
l]u-bl-ti rbir-me
[The tribute of ...] linen garments with multicoloured trim, female musicians, servant men, [...
/] received.
TUG"I [GADA.M]E
MUNUS.NAR.MES LU.TUR [...
am]-) hur(1)i
74
A.O.101.24. The name of the tributary is missing.
TEXT
[madtu] ^(1) M ( ? ) I [ . . . ] TK.BABBAR.MES
KU.GI.ME" [ . . . ] rtap-hi URUDU TUL(?)XME
URUDU GIS TNA.MES uP-[hu-za]-te TUG lu-bl-t[i
birme TG.GADA].TME am^-[hur]
[The tribute] of [...] silver, gold, [...], bronze

tubs, bronze pots, decorated couches, [linen] garments with [multi-coloured trim], I received.
75
A.0.101.24. The name of the tributary is missing.
344

TEXT
[madtu am...
[The
KU.G]I(?).ME A[N(?).NA].ME
URUDU.[ME AN.B]AR(?).ME [ ( . . . ) ]
tap-hi
U[RUDU
tribute of ...]
gold, tin, b r o n z e , iron,

] received.
[(...)],
bronze tubs, b r o n z e [...
ME] URU[DU . . . AM]^HUR(1)^
76
A.0.101.24. The name of the tributary is once again broken.
TEXT
ma-d[a-tu a] r m (?px-[...
tap-hi.ME
URUDU [x x x ] URU [DU x x X.M]E TUG
[lu-bul]-te
bir-me
The tribute [of ...] silver, gold, tin, bronze,

bronze tubs, bronze [... linen] garments with
multi-coloured trim, [7] received.
K].BABBAR.ME
KTGI1.ME AN. [NA.MES] RURUDUI.ME
""TUG^. [GADA, MES
am-h]ur(!)
11
A.0.101.24. Reade (see bibliography to A.0.101.24) has discussed possible sources for these animals.
TEXT
A herd of domesticated (lit. 'town-bred') elephants, a herd of domesticated (lit. 'town-bred')
oxen, a herd [of ...] ... I received.
su-gul-iu AM. si. MES tar-bit fURU^ su-gul-iu d

GU 4 .AM.ME (blank) ta[r-bit] ' URU~I su-gul-l[u x
x] x [...]-i-te x-x-te am-\hur\
78
Traces of yet another caption (no. 8) are preserved on the Rassam
Obelisk, concerning which see A.0.101.24. Not enough can be deciphered for an edition.
79
A fragment of a stone obelisk found at Nineveh by Campbell
Thompson has two faces preserved, each with two panels of reliefs
showing tribute bearers. Between each pair of panels there is an
345
epigraph, which is the broken text edited here. The object is almost
certain to be ascribed to Ashurnasirpal n. Its present location is unknown.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1975 Wfler, AOAT 26 p. 237 (edition)
1982 Brker-Klhn, Bildstelen no. 141 (study)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 pi. xxvi no. 1 (copy)

TEXT
1)
[...
ma-d\a-tu
ma-da]-tu
URU hi-in-da-na-â^-[ia
...
1) [...] tribute of the people of the city Hindanu

[...] tribute [of ...]
...]
80
This epigraph is engraved on a bronze band found at Imgur-Enlil (see
A.O. 101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124685). Regarding
Ashurnasirpal's encounter with Sangara at Carchemish see A.0.101.1
iii 65-69. Also note A.O. 101.90.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1973 Barnett, Symbolae Bhl unnumbered plate
following pp. 19-22 (photo)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 698 (translation)
TEXT
sal-lu-tu
sa-an-ga-ra
Plunder from Sangara, a man of Hatti.
KUR hat-ta-a-a
81
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124686). Cities of
Blt-Adini are mentioned on two other epigraphs of Ashurnasirpal,
A.0.101.86-87. Marin is otherwise unknown. AshurnasirpaPs dealings
with Blt-Adini are described in A.0.101.1 iii 41-43, 50-56, and 60-64.
346

TEXT
ti-du-ku
URU ma-ri-na-a
-ma-di-ni
Battle against the city Marin of Blt-Adini.
82
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124687). A city
E1(I)ipu is otherwise unknown in Assyrian royal inscriptions until this
reign. It is very unlikely that there is any connection with the land
Ellipu in the east known from texts of the Sargonid period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1915 King, Bronze Reliefs p. 35 and pi. LXXVIII (photo, copy,
edition)
1975 Wfler, AOAT 26 pp. 283-84 (study)

TEXT
.GAL
Palace of Ashurnasirpal, king of the

king of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta
of Assyria, son of Adad-nrrT (II) (who
king of Assyria: plunder from the city
the land
(jat[te].
A-PAB-A MAN MAN KUR AS A TUKUL-MA
MAN KUR AS A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR AS-tfiO Qlu-t
URU e-li-pi
KU[R]
hatQ)-[te(1)]
universe,
(II), king
was) also
Ellipu of
83
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124688). The receipt
of tribute from Ahi-ramu, a man of BTt-lahiri (DUMU ia-hi-ri), is listed
in A.0.101.1 ii 21-22 but no city is mentioned. The city name is possibly Magarisu (suggestion of Fales), mentioned in A.0.101.1 iii 3.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1915 King, Bronze Reliefs p. 36 and pis. LXXIX-LXXX (photo,
copy, edition)
1975 Wfler, AOAT 26 p. 232 (study)

TEXT
URU [ma(iyga(?)-r]i(?)-su
-mia-hi-ri
KVR-ud
The city
[Magar]isu
of Bit-Iahiri I conquered.
347
84
A.O.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124689). A city
Sarugu is otherwise unknown in the inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal but
may be identical with a city of the same name near Harran (see
Parpola, Toponyms s.v.; Fales, Censimenti pp. 95-96; and Kessler,
Nordmesopotamien pp. 197-200). Also note the city Saraku in
Hanigalbat captured by Adad-nrr n (A.0.99.2 lines 42-44).
TEXT
ma-da-t
Tribute from the people of the city Sarugu.
URU sa-ru-ga-a-a
85
A.O.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124690).
TEXT
.GAL
Palace of Ashurnasirpal, king of the universe,

king of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II), king
of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (il) (who was) also
king of Assyria: plunder from the land Hatti.
MAN KUR AS A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR AS-ma Silu-tu
KUR
ha-at-te
86
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124691). Regarding
Blt-Adini and its cities see the introduction to A.0.101.81. The city
name is possibly Rug(g)u1utu (suggestion of Fales), regarding which
see Parpola, Toponyms p. 296.
TEXT
.GAL [aur-nsir]-A
tukult-ninurta
MAN [ ar mat aur
ar mat
aur]
KUR A-ma URU [r]u(1)-gu-lu-t

KUR-WRF
apil
A 10-RIN.TH MAN
-ma-di-ni
Palace of [Ashurnasir]pa1, king of the universe,

[king of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II), king
of Assyria], son of Adad-nrrT (II) (who was)
also king of Assyria: the city Rugulutu of BltAdini I conquered.
348
87
BTt-Adini and its cities see the introduction to A.0.101.81. The city
name is possibly a variant of Alligu, which is mentioned in texts of
Shalmaneser m (see Parpola, Toponyms p. 12).
TEXT
URU i[a(l)-l\i-gu [a bt]-ma-di-n KUR-ud
The city I[all]igu [of Bt]-Adini I conquered.
88
tribute from the land Suhu being presented to Ashurnasirpal see
A.0.101.1 i 99-100. Also note the later rebellion of Suhu which the
Assyrians crushed (A.0.101,1 iii 26-38). The encounter with Kudurru
of Suhu is the subject of a separate epigraph (A.0.101.97).
TEXT
.GAL

king of Assyria, son of Tukult-Ninurta (II), king
of Assyria, son of Adad-nrrT (II) (who was) also
king of Assyria: tribute from the land Suhu.
MAN KUR AS A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR A-A77T 7XQ-
da-tu KUR su-hi
89
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124694). I have no
idea what city name to restore here.
TEXT
ma-da-tu URU [x-x]-ga-[x-(x)]
Tribute from the city [...]ga[...]
349
90
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124695). Sagara is
presumably identical with Sangara who is called 'king of the land
Hatti' in A.0.101.1 iii 65-68 (cf. A.O. 101.80). The city Ulluba may be
associated with the land Ulliba which appears in a list of cities conquered in the region of the Upper Tigris (A.0.101.19 line 98).
TEXT
URU -[f]u-ba msa-ga-ra [ar K]UR ha-te KUR-ud
The city Ulluba of Sagara, [king of] the land

Hatti, I conquered.
91
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124696). The
identification of the city and land in this text is difficult. A city Mariru
in the area of the Upper Tigris was conquered by Ashurnasirpal
(A.0.101.1 i 111). A reference to Mari on the Euphrates is unlikely
since the name is not mentioned in Assyrian royal inscriptions after
the late Middle Assyrian period (A.0.89.1 obv. 14').
TEXT
.GAL
A-PAB-A MAN

king of Assyria, son of Tukult-Ninurta (N), king
king of Assyria: plunder from the city Mari[ru] of
the land ffatti.
MAN KUR A A TUKUL-MA
As-Pia salla-tu M URU m-r/(?)-[r/(?) sM?) KUR [h]a(1)-a-te
MAN KUR AS A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR
92
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (BM 124697).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
350

TEXT
ina
GU4.AM.ME
UGU [D]
I slew wild oxen on the Euphrates.
pu-rat-t[e] a-duk
93
TEXT
UR.MAH.MES
ina
UGU D
ba-ii-hi a-duk
I slew lions on the River Balih.
94
TEXT
.GAL [ M A]-PAB-A MAN
RTUKUL^-MA \ar mt
KUR A-ma
MAN [mat
aur]
aur]

king of [Assyria], son of Tukultl-Ninurta (11),
[king of Assyria], son of Adad-nrr (II) (who
was) also king of Assyria: I slew lions on the
River Balih.
A 10-RIN.TH MAN
UR.MAH.MES ina UGU D ba-li-ha
a-duk
95
TEXT
.GA[L
aur-nsir-apli]
MAN MAN KUR AS A
[mat
ID pu-rat-te a-duk
TUKUL-MA MAN KUR AS A 10-RIN.TH MAN

aur-m]a
GU 4 .AM.MES
ina
UGU
Palace [of Ashurnasirpal], king of the universe,

king of Assyria, son of Tukult-Ninurta (11), king
king of [Assyria] : I slew wild oxen on the
Euphrates.
Ashurnasirpal iI A.O.101.99101
96
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (no number).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1973 Barrien, Symbolae Bhl unnumbered plate
TEXT
URU im-gtir-dBAD
The city Imgur-Enlil.
97
A.0.101.51) and now in the British Museum (no number). Regarding
Ashurnasirpal's skirmish with Kudurru see A.0.101.1 iii 16-25. For
other dealings with Suhu see A.0.101.88.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
ma-^da^-t mku-dr-ri KUR [suhi]
Tribute from Kudurru of the land [Suhu].
98
This text is engraved on a stone altar which originally came from
Calah. Regarding the temple of Kidmuru see A.0.101.38.
352
Ashurnasirpal n A.0.101.98
COMMENTARY
The
altar
old no.
(BM 118870 =
71) is 55
cm
high.
The inscription
is 4 6 x 7
cm and has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1891
1902
1907
1914
1925
1926
1936
1976
Strong, J RAS pp. 157-60 (copy, edition)

King, AKA p. 160 (copy, edition)
Le Gac, Asn. p. 201 no. 3 (copy)
Budge, Sculptures pi. VII (photo)
Nassouhi, RA 22 pp. 88-89 (edition)

Gadd, Stones p. 130 (provenance)
TEXT
1)
ana
BAD MAN DNAM. TME
1-3a) To the god Enlil, king of destinies and

designs, the one who shakes the highlands, who
dwells in the temple of Kidmuru, the great lord,
my lord: Ashurnasirpal, vice-regent of Aur, son
of Tukultl-Ninurta (II) (who was) also vice-regent
of Assur:
3b-4) I dedicated (this) for my life, that my days
might be long, my years many, (for) the wellbeing of my seed (and) land.
GI.HUR.ME
mu-na-ri-it
2)
hur--ni a-ib kid9-mu-ri

M
3)
EN GAL-? EN-a
A-PAB-A
SID AS A TUKUL-MA iD AS-ma ana TI ZI.ME-F

GD
4)
uD.ME-tf
Mm-ud
MU.ME-Z SILIM
NUMUF.ME-T KUR-F NG.BA
99
This dedicatory text is engraved on two stone mace heads found at
Calah. Regarding the temple of Kidmuru see A.0.101.38.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
BM
number
Registration
number
cpn
1
2
104411
118771
Rm 893
c~~
c
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1912 King, CT 33 pl. 50 (ex. 1, copy)
1952 Cocquerillat, RA 46 p. 130 n. 5 (ex. 1, edition)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 CI 41 (exs. 1-2, translation)

1976 de Filippi, RA 70 pp. 181-82 (ex. 2, edition)
353

TEXT
1)
2)
ana ar-rat kid9-mu-ri

M
1-2a) To the divine queen of Kidmuru, the great

mistress, his mistress: Ashurnasirpal, vice-regent
of Aur, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II) (who was)
also vice-regent of Assur:
2b-3) I dedicated (this) for my life, that my days
might be long, my years many, (for) the wellbeing of my seed (and) land.
NIN GAL- NIN-
A-PAB-A ID A A TUKUL-MA ID A-WF ANA
TI ZI.ME-TF
3)
GD UD.ME-TF
m-ud MU.ME-A
SILIM
* NUMUN~I.ME-A KUR-A BA
100
This dedicatory text is engraved on a lapis lazuli mace head from
Calah. It almost certainly is an inscription of Ashurnasirpal, although
his name is broken off, and the dedication is almost without doubt to
the god Ea. Indeed the mace head is called in the text a haltapp, an
instrument associated with that deity and used by exorcists to cast out
demons. Further details about this will be found in my article published in Iraq 37. Justification for the restorations will also be found
in that article.
COMMENTARY
The mace head (BM 91452) is c. 7 cm high and approximately two-thirds of t h e c i r c u m f e r e n c e is missing. F o r -
tunately the major portion o f

preserved. It h a s been collated.
the
inscription
is
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1922
1926
1952
1961
1967
1973
1975
1976
BM Guide p. 195 (study)

Luckenbill, ARAB 1 204 (translation)
Cocquerillat, RA 46 p. 131 and n. 2 (edition)
Borger, EAK 1 p. 71 (study)
Borger, HKL 1 p. 62 (study)

Schramm, EAK 2 p. 11 (study)
Grayson, Iraq 37 pp. 69-71 (copy, edition)
TEXT
D
1)
[ana ea ... m]u-im

...]
NAM.ME KUR.[KUR.ME
2)
[... ha]-si-su sa NU BAL-W me-^lik^-[u
3)
[... GISK]IM-MA MAN KUR AS a-na TI Z[I.ME-T
4)
ark mia]
[umd antia atm zr]-â^ KUR-A PAB
...]
GI.A.TI ID-/[/-A . . . ]
5)
[z&eria ana q]a-me(*)-e -tu-ti-a a-n[a hulluq malk nakrtia)
A.0.101.100 line 2 One might restore [... bel nmeqi u ha)-sisu '[... lord of wisdom and] understanding'.
A.O. 101.100 lines 3-6 Cf. A.0.101.4 lines 2'-3'. Further note
Kinnier Wilson, Iraq 24 (1962) p. 94 lines 34-36. More
1-2) [To the god Ea ...] who decrees the destinies

of the lands [...] wise, whose decision is unalterable [...]:
3a) [Ashurnasirpaly king of Assyria, son of
Tuku]1t1-Ninurta (n), king of Assyria:
3b-7) [I] dedicated (this) stone haltapp [...] for
[my] life, [that my days might be long, my years
many, (for) the well-being of] my [seed] (and) my
land, (for) the safekeeping of [my] vice-regal
parallels are cited in Grayson, Iraq 37 (1975) p. 71.

A.0.101.100 lines 4-5 There is probably not enough room to
restore all of H.GL ... aur 'abundance ... Asur* from
A.0.101.4 line 3'. A.0.101.100 line 5 me: text has DIS.
354
6)
[ana epeia uk-nu]-e NA4 hal-tap-pa lu x

[.]
7)
[... a-q]
throne, [..., for] the scorching of [my enemies],

for the [destruction of] my dangerous foes, [to
subdue at my feet rulers who oppose me].
101
This fragmentary dedicatory text is preserved on two pieces of a white
alabaster vase from Calah. On each piece the inscription is engraved
between two registers of scenes carved in relief. It is possible that the
two pieces come from the same vase, although there is no physical
join. However, this would mean that the same text was inscribed
twice, which is very unlikely, and it is more probable that two
separate vases with the same text are involved. A third fragment
(ND 5335) of a white alabaster vase with a scene in relief similar to
that in the upper register of these two fragments was found by
Mailowan at Calah. It might belong to either of the other two fragments or represent yet a third such vase. No text is preserved on the
third piece. Fragments of a similar vase with scenes in relief and a text
dedicated to Nergal have been found at Tarbisu see Curtis and
Grayson, Iraq 44 (1982) pp. 87-94 and pi. III; this is a private dedication of the late ninth-century BC.
The scant remains of our text indicate that it was a dedication to
Ninurta and it can be restored, in part, from the first few lines of
A.0.101.1. This fact strongly suggests it is a text of Ashurnasirpal. Exemplar 2 is published for the first time with the kind permission of the
Trustees of the British Museum.
CATALOGUE
BM
Ex.
number
Registration
number
cpn
91582
91590
K 8555
c
c
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1853 Layard, Discoveries p. 358 (ex. 1, provenance)
1873-75 Lenormant, Choix no. 76A (ex. 1, copy)
1928 Hall, Sculpture pl. LX (ex. 1, photo)
6 At the end one might restore lu ê^-[pu-u[ 1 [made]'.
1966 Mailowan, Nimrud 1 pp. 182-83 n. 38 and no. 119

(photo)
355
TEXT
1)
ana
MA ge[-ru
thzi
2)
ti-bu-
la
. . . ] GARZA.ME X [... a
x [... mukl
markas
am
u K]I-tim
BE- [nagbe
3)
1-3) To the god Ninurta, the strong, [... whose]

attack [in battle is] unequalled, [... the one who
holds the bond of heaven and] underworld, the
one who opens [springs, the one who walks the
wide underworld, (...)] the god Utulu, lord of
lords, [...] he seized [...]
ina
i-a]-na-nu
ut-u\%-lu
EN EN.ME[ . . . u]t(1)-tim
u.uM
i[s(1)-bat(1)
...]
102
This text is engraved on various stone facing slabs (c. 44 cm square)
from the courtyard of Ashurnasirpal's palace, probably at Calah, At
one time it was thought that the palace in question was at Nineveh
since the two exemplars (1 and 2) in Istanbul were said by Nassouhi to
have come from that site. But Reade and Walker have argued cogently
for a Calah provenance. Indeed the exemplar (6) they published may
be identical with one of the Istanbul pieces (exemplar 2).
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Publication
number
cpn
1
2
3
4
Nassouhi no. 37
Nassouhi N o . 38
Le Gac E 327 + 397
I.e Gac E 398
p
p
n
n
5
6
Bhl LKA 1157

Reade and Walker
n
c
COMMENTARY
The various exs. have an identical inscription with the
following vars. (no scores are given since most could
not be collated): some omit MAN GAL-W/E MAN dan-nu
'great king, strong king' all three times while others

omit it only after Adad-nrr.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 Le Gac Asn. pp. 202-203 E 327 + 397 (ex. 3) and E 398
(ex. 4) (copy)
1927 Nassouhi, MAOG 3/1-2 pp. 10-11 no. 3 (exs. 1-2,
photo, edition)
1929 Jeremias, HAOG p. 115 fig. 82a (ex. 1, photo)
1936 Bhl, Leiden Coll. 3 pp. 4-5 (ex. 5, edition)
1981-82 Reade and Walker, AfO 28 pp. 113-14 (ex. 6, copy,

edition)
1982 van Soldt, Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 63 pp. 48-49 (ex. 5,
edition)
1985 Harrak, ARRIM 3 p. 16 (study)
356
TEXT
1)
.GAL ma-Ur-PAB-A
2)
MAN dan-nu MAN MAN KUR a-ur A
3)
MAN GAL-E MAN dan-n MAN MAN KUR Q-
MAN GAL-H
TUKUL-MA
ur
4)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN GAL-E MAN
dan-ni
5)
MAN MAN KUR a-ur-ma ki-sir-t
6)
a TR .GAL

of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (n), great king,
son of Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also great king,
strong king, king of the universe, (and) king of
Assyria: facing slab of the palace courtyard.
103
This text is engraved on the reverse of stone facing slabs which
covered the door sockets in an entranceway of the North West Palace
at Calah. For a text on the obverse see A.0.101.104. The text states
that these are facing (slabs) from the 'Second House/Wing/Room', a
term which is difficult to interpret but obviously distinguishes the
structure from the principal quarters of the palace. See Paley for the
most recent discussion and older bibliography.
COMMENTARY
The slabs are in situ and it is uncertain just how many there are. They measure c. 87x78 cm. The inscriptions have been collated from the photos.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1984 Harrak, ARRIM 2 p. 22 (photo, edition)
1985 Harrak ARRIM 3 pp. 15-17 (study)
1987 Paley, JANES 19 pp. 135-47 (photou edition)
TEXT
1)
.GAL ma-Ur-PAB-A
2)
DUMU GISKIM-DMAS MAN MAN KUR a-Ur
3)
DUMU 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR a-Ur-
4)
ki-sir-tu 2-e
ma
MAN MAN KUR a-Ur

Tukultl-Ninurta (n), king of the universe, king of
Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also
king of the universe and king of Assyria: facing
(slab) of the Second House/Wing/Room.
104
This text is engraved on the obverse of stcne facing slabs which
covered the door sockets in an entranceway of the North West Palace
at Calah. For a text on the reverse of these slabs and further details
about the objects see A.0.101.103. The inscriptions have been collated
357

from photos. The text edited here was used as a label on a stone slab
from Calah with a portion of an annals series, namely A.O.101.11,
where details and bibliography are given.
COMMENTARY
A.0.101.11
has some minor vars.:

DUMU DIKUR-RIN.TH.
line
4 DUMU GISKIM-R'H[ninurta], line
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1987 Paiey, JANES 19 pp. 135-47 (photo, edition)
T E X T
1)
2)
3)
.GAL ma-ur-FAB-A
D
ID a-ur
ni-it
BAD
u MA na-ra-am a-nim u da-gan

ka-u-u
DINGIR.ME GAL.MES MAN
dan-nu
MAN MAN KUR a-ur

4)
A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL-E MAN DAN-NI MAN SU
5)
MAN KUR a-Ur A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN
KUR a-ur-ma

vice-regent of Assur, chosen of the gods Enlil and
of the universe, king of Assyria, son of Adadnrrl (II) (who was) also king of the universe and
king of Assyria.
105
This text was engraved on a stone found at Calah by Layard. The
original has not been located or collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1851 Layard, ICC pl. 84D (copy)
1907 Le Gac, Asn. p. 205 D (copy)
TEXT
1)
.GAL ma-Ur-PAB-A
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN KUR AS A DIKUR-RIN. TH
MAN KUR Ai-ma
MAN MAN KUR a-Ur

Tukultl-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, son of
Adad-nrrT (II) (who was) also king of Assyria.
358
106
This text is inscribed on stone blocks (both obverse and reverse) which
were part of an entranceway in the North West Palace at Calah. The
same text was used as a label on a stone slab from Calah inscribed
with portions of annals series, namely A.0.101.10, where details and
bibliography are given.
COMMENTARY
The master text is the inscription published in photo by
Paley, w h o also refers to vars. o n other exs. Similar
vars. are found o n the inscription published by
Langdon. The latter has the number A s h 1922,198 and
has been collated (Langdon's copy is inaccurate). The
vars. are:
Line 1: GAL-
Line 2:
Line 3:
A for DUMU
TUKUL-MAS
dan-ni
A for DUMU
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 0 adds MAN GAL-e/u MAN
dan-nu 'great king, strong king'
after A d n .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1923 Langdon, OECT 1 pi. 29 (copy)
1976 Grays , ARI 2 ci 62 (translation)

1987 Paley , JANES 19 pp. 135-47 (photo, edition)
TEXT
1)
.GAL mQ-Ur-PAB-A
MAN GAL-? MAN dan-YlU
MAN MAN KUR -Ur

2)
DUMU GISKIM- d nin-urta MAN GAL-e MAN
dan-
nu MAN MAN KUR a-Ur

3)
DUMU 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR a-Urma

of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (n), great king,
son of Adad-nrrT (II) (who was) also king of the
universe (and) king of Assyria.
107
This text (ND 2505) is on a duck weight found in the North West
Palace at Calah. The object is in the Iraq Museum and was collated
for us by Nicholas Postgate.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1953 Mailowan, Iraq 15 p. 36 (provenance)
1966 Mailowan, Nimrud 1 p. 170 and p. 338 n. 8 (provenance)
1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 115 n. 468 a iv (study)
359 Ashurnasirpal iI A.O. 101.2004

TEXT
M
1)
.GAL
A-PAB-A MAN
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN

king of the uni verse, king of Assyria, son of
Tukult-Ninurta (n), king of the universe, king of
Assyria: ten minas.
MAN KUR AS
MAN KUR AS
10
MA. NA
108
This text is engraved on a stone stele (VA Ass 1199 = Ass 15714)
found in the row of steles at Aur. It is 222 cm high and 107 cm
wide. The inscription has been collated from the published photo.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Stelenreihen pp. 12-13 and pi. xi
no. 6 (photo, copy, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
sa-lam
a-ur-PAB-A MAN KIS MAN KUR AS
A GJukul-ti-dMA MAN
1-4) Monument of Ashurnasirpal, king of the

universe, king of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta
(II), king of the universe, king of Assyria, son of
Adad-nrr (II), (who was) also king of Assyria.
MAN KUR AS A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR
AS-ma
109
This text is inscribed on several clay
in colour. Most, and perhaps all,
adorned the temple of Kidmuru (see
commentary, it is not entirely certain
here belong to one text.
cones, some of which are glazed

came from Calah where they
A.0.101.38). As explained in the
that the various fragments edited
CATALOGUE
Ex.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Museum
number
Dimensions
(cm)
cpn
12.7x6.6 +
10.7X6.2 +
c
c
Rm 2,605
Rm 648
Rm 623
11.5x9.6 +
10.6x6.5 +
6.5x5.5 +
VA 2278
c
c
c
n
BM 91687 (91-7-2,2)
Rm 625
Rm 624
360
COMMENTARY
The master text is a conflation of the various exs. and

the interested reader can check the scores. The line
numbering is arbitrary. Exs. 1 and 7 require special
consideration. I believe that the inscription published
by Le Gac is one and the same inscription (despite
minor discrepancies in Le Gac's copy) as BM 91687,
that is ex. 1; this inscription is painted on a large clay
cone. Ex. 7, once in the Berlin museum, was lost during the Second World War and could not be collated.
It is not entirely certain that all of the inscriptions included in this edition belong to one text. For details see
the scores. But let me draw the reader's attention to the
following. It is quite possible that exs. 1 and 7

represent a separate text since they apparently (ex. 7
could not be collated) share major vars. not f o u n d in
the other exs. These major vars. have been commented
upon in the notes.
The provenance of exs. 2 - 3 and 6 is registered in the
British Museum as 'from the temple, Nimrud' which always means the Kidmuru temple (information courtesy
of Walker). Exs. 1, 4, and 7 clearly state that they are
from that temple. Ex. 5 is said to have come from
Kuyunjik but it is well known that many inscriptions
given that provenance in fact came from other sites.
1907 Le Gac, Asn. p. 203 E (ex. 1, copy)
1907 Ungnad, VAS 1 no. 64 (ex. 7, copy)
1922 BM Guide p. 214 (ex. 1, copy)
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 526 and 530 (exs. 1, 7, translation)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 ci 49 (exs. 1-7, edition)
T E X T
1)
.GAL
1-3) Palace of Ashurnasirpal, king of Assyria,

son of Tukult-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, [son
of] Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also king of
Assyria: property of the temple of the divine
Kidmuru in Calah.
A-PAB-A MAN KUR AS A TUKUL-MA
MAN KUR AS
2)
[apii]
3)
NG.GA dkid9-mu-n
10-RIN.TH MAN KUR AS-MA
URU kal-hi
110
This text is painted on a fragment of a glazed coloured clay cone
found at Calah. It is known that Ashurnasirpal II constructed a shrine
for the Sibitti at Calah (see A.0.101.30 line 57 and A.0.101.131) and
this fragment should probably, therefore, be ascribed to this king.
C O M M E N T A R Y
The fragment measures c. 2 . 4 x 5.4 cm and the inscription has been collated.
1.1 AS: text has MA. One might instead read (A)-ma, thus
conforming to ex. 7 (uncollated) which apparently had AS-ma.
Since both exs. 1 and 7 end the genealogy, here the -ma would
be expected. 2.1 and 7 omit the entire line. 3.1 and 7 omit d
before kidmuri. 3.1 has, in error, MAS for kid*. 3.1 and 7 are
the only exs. which preserve URU kal-hi 'in Calah'.
361
Ashurnasirpal n A.0.101.110
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1985-86 Black Sumer 44 pp. 137 and 155 (copy, edition)
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [...] the temple of the divine Sibitti [...]
Lacuna
Lacuna
I1)
[ . . . ] DIMIN.B[L . . . ]
Lacuna
111
Among the huge quantity of inscribed clay cone fragments from
Nineveh several distinct short texts can be identified and are edited as
A.0.101.111-13, 115-16, and 118. Regarding the longer texts and the
whole problem of sorting the Nineveh clay cone pieces see the introduction to A.0.101.56. Among the short texts, some (A.0.101.113,
115-16, and 118) have only the royal name, genealogy, and various
epithets. The remaining (A.0.101.111-12) have an added statement regarding work on the Istar temple.
CATALOGUE
Nineveh
BM
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
1
2
3
56-9-9,133
56-9-9,135
56-9-9,140
King, A K A
King, AKA
King, A K A
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
121 138+ 123521

122668
122672
122676
122682
123462
123479
1929-10-12,147+1932- 12-10,464
1930-5-8,101
1930-5-8,105
1930-5-8,109
1930-5-8,115
1932-12-10,405
1932-12-10,422
Arch.
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
79 no.
19 no,
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
123480
123491
1 2 3 4 9 2 - 128390
123501
123503
123506
123513
1932-12-10,423
1932-12-10,434
1932-12-10,435 + 647
1932-12-10,444
1932-12-10,446
1932-12-10,449
1932-12-10,456
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
123519
123523
128196
128197
128340
122662+ 128356
128380
1932-12-10,462
1932-12-10,466
1929 10-12,852
1929-10-12,853
1932-12-10,597
A A A 19 no. 31
A A A 19 no. 245
Ex,
1930-5-8,95 + 1932-12- 10,613

1932-12-10,637
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
139288
1932-12-10,742
128395
128407
1932-12-10,652
139281
139246
139263
139267
1932-12-10,735
1932-12-10,700
1932-12-10,717
1932-12-10,721
32
33
139270(?)
139271
1932-12-10,724
1932-12-10,664
1932-12-10,725
122Q + A A A 19 no. 243

55
46
79
75
176
259
no. 238
no. 258
nos. 69 + 224
no. 56
no. 57
no. 231
no. 239
A A A 19 no. 53
A A A 19 nos. 67 + 71
A A A 19 no. 47
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
19
19
19
19
19
19
19
no. 115
no. 54 = 61
no. 78
no. 81
nos. 15 + 45
no. 30
no. 39
A A A 19 no. 49
A A A 19 no. 50
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
_
_
12.7x7.2 +
6.7x8.2 +
6.6x5 +
c
c
c
IT.CC.4
AP.B.9
AP.Ch.rv,C.17
IT.I. + 1
7.5x5.8 +
5.5x9
6.5x7.6 +
5.5x6 +
3.2x5 +
6x7.3 +
5.5x9 +
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
IT.X20
IT.0. + 2
AP.C.25/IT.OO.-1
IT.1.2
IT.M.6
IT.00, + 1
Surface
6.7x7.2 +
6.7x7.5 +
5x7.7 +
5x6.1 +
4.8x7 +
4.8x8.2 +
4.5x7 +
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
A P . F dump
IT.00. + 1
AP.iv.C.17
AP.B.12
IT.MM.ID
A P . H . 13/IT.NN.-10
IT.SS.3
4x5.9 +
3.1 x 5 +
4.4x5.7
2.8x5.4
5.3x9.5
6.2x8.6
7.2x7.5
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
AP.C.19
-
IT.NN.6
rr.NN.o
IT.LL.4
IT.XX.4
IT. WW. + 4 / N N . + 3
f
+
+
+
+
cpn
c
c
c
IT.SS.0
IT.LL.10
5.8x5.7 +
4.4x4.5 +
8.6x5 +
13.9x10.4 +
5x4.3 +
5.6x5.1 +
c
c
c
c
IT.LL
IT.PP.O
5.5x4 +
9.2x6.9 +
c
c
362
Ex.
BM
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
34
35
36
139273
139278
139279
1932-12-10,727
1932-12-10,732
1932-12-10,733
A A A 19 no. 60
A A A 19 no. 72
A A A 19 no. 77
IT.00.1
11.4x8 +
IT .00.3
IT.NN.4
9.9x8.8 +
5.2x4 +
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
139280
1M no number
Unlocated
98554
98555
1932-12-10,734
AAA
AAA
AAA
King,
King,
IT.NN.l
IT.TT.3
IT.LL.4
8.2x4.8 +
5x7 +
6x5 +
7.3x4.9 +
_
-
1905 4 9,60
1905-4-9,61
56-9-9,141
'S' 2025
19 no. 80
19 no. 51
19 no. 64
Cat.
Cat.
_
-
cpn
c
c
c
c
c
n
c
c
c
c
COMMENTARY
A complete text is not preserved o n any o f the fragments and the master text is a conflation. Since the exs.
are s o numerous and fragmentary, n o scores have been
given. The many inscribed pieces o f clay cone which
have traces of a note regarding the Itar temple but
cannot positively be identified with this text or
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 1 2 have been included here. The joins (exs. 4,
13, and 23) were made by Grant Frame. N o t e the following vars. which appear on sundry exs.:
A for a-ur
KIS for
GISKIM-DMA for TUKUL-MA

10 for 10
GAR DBAD iD a-ur 'appointee o f the g o d Enlil,
vice-regent of Aur' inserted after T N .
and A d n .
sa for
m
ni-na-a or NINA for ni-nu-a

NIN-W for GAAN-
D t-u-ma
Ex. 43 has mistakenly repeated MAN GAL in line 3.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA p. 158 n. 3 (exs. 1-3, study)
1914 King, Cat. pp. 55-56 (exs. 40-41, study)
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 134 and pi. ui no. 122Q (ex. 4,
copy)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pp. 99-100 and pis. LXIX-LXXI,
LXXVII, LXXIX-LXXX n o s . 15 + 4 5 ( e x . 2 9 ) , 3 0 ( e x . 3 0 ) , 3 1
(ex. 18), 39 (ex. 31), 46 (ex. 6), 47 (ex. 24), 49 (ex. 32),
50 (ex. 33), 51 (ex. 38), 53 (ex. 22), 54 = 61 (ex. 26), 55
(ex, 5), 56 (ex. 14), 57 (ex. 15), 60 (ex. 34), 64 (ex. 39),
1967
1968
1973
1976
67 (ex. 23), 69 (ex. 13), 71 (ex. 23), 72 (ex. 35), 75 (ex.

8), 77 (ex. 36), 78 (ex. 27), 79 (ex. 7), 80 (ex. 37), 81 (ex.
28), 115 (ex. 25), 176 (ex. 9), 224 (ex. 13), 231 (ex. 16),
238 (ex. 11), 239 (ex. 17), 243 (ex. 4), 245 (ex. 19), 258
(ex. 12), and 259 (ex. 10) (copy)
Borger, HKL 1 pp. 526-28 and 537 (study)
Lambert and Millard, Cat. passim (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 ci 51 and p. 115 n. 468 b ix (translation)
TEXT
1)
a-Ur-PAB-A
GAR DBAD SID S-Ur MAN GAL

2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL MAN DAN-NU MAN
MAN KUR a-ur

3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN GAL MAN DAN-NU MAN
MAN KUR as-sur-ma

4)
DINANNA URU ni-nu-a GASAN-/ D t - m a
ar-sip
1-4) Ashurnasirpal, appointee of the god Enlil,

vice-regent of Assur, great king, strong king, king
of the universe, king of Assyria, son of TukultNinurta (II), great king, strong king, king of the
universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (ii)
the universe and king of Assyria: (I) who built
and repaired the temple of the goddess Istar of
Nineveh, my mistress.
363
112
This is one of two short texts (the other being A.0.101.Ill) on clay
cone fragments from Nineveh, with a note mentioning the Istar temple. For further details see the introduction to A.0.101.111.
CATALOGUE
BM
Registration
Publication
Nineveh
Dimensions
Ex.
number
number
reference
provenance
(cm)
cpn
2
3
4
5
128339
128343
128389
139247
139252
1932-12-10,596
1932-12-10,600
1932-12-10,646
1932-12-10,701
1932-12-10,706
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
IT.LL.4
IT.TT.-3
IT.NN.7
IT.NN. + 7
IT.LL.4
11.3x10.5+
8.3x9.7+
6.3x6.1+
6.3x6.1+
5.3x5+
c~~
c
c
c
c
19
19
19
19
19
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
4
1
48
2
3
COMMENTARY
N o c o m p l e t e text is preserved on any o f the fragmentary exs. and the master text is a conflation. The interested reader can check the scores. S o m e of the f r a g -
ments listed under A . 0 . 1 0 L 1 1 1 may in fact be of this

text.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 99 and pis. LXIX-LXX nos. 1 (ex.
2), 2 (ex. 4), 3 (ex. 5), 4 (ex. 1), 48 (ex. 3) (copy)

1984 Frame, ARRIM 2 pp. 12-13 (study)
TEXT
1)
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN GAL MAN d[an-nu] MAN
3)
MAN KUR [aur]

A n0-RIN.Tp [arru G]AL MAN dan-nu MAN
a-ur-PAB-A [(akin enlil iak aur) arru

rab arru dannu ar kiati ar mat aur]
MAN [mat
ninua]
aur]-ma
NG.GA J INANNA [
1-3) Ashurnasirpal, [(appointee of the god Enlil,

vice-regent of Aur), great king, strong king,
king of the universe, king of Assyria], son of
Tukultl-Ninurta (ii), great king, strong king, king
of the universe, king of [Assyria], son of Adadnrr (n) (who was) also great [king], strong
king, king of the universe, and king of [Assyria]:
property of the temple of the goddess Istar of
[Nineveh].
113
This text is on numerous clay cone fragments from Nineveh, regarding
which see the introduction to A.0.101.111. In the bibliography and
catalogue I have included (as ex. 61) a fragmentary inscription
engraved on a piece of red stone found in the Nab temple at Calah.
364
CATALOGUE
Ex.
I
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
Museum
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
BM 121132
BM 121140
BM 121141
1929-10-12,141
1929-10-12,149
1929-10-12,150
1929-10 12,153
1929-10-12,154
1932-12-10,740
1930-5-8,111
1930-5-8,114
1930-5-8,116
1932-12-10,390
1932-12-10,419
1932-12-10,436
1932-12-10,447
1932-12-10,448
1932-12-10,455
1932-12-10,457
1932-12-10,460
1932-12-10,461
1932-12-10,463
Arch.
Arch.
Arch.
Arch.
Arch.
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
BM 121144
BM 121145
BM 139286
BM 122678
BM 122681
BM 122683
BM 123447
BM 123476
BM 123493
BM 123504
BM 123505
BM 123512
BM 123514
BM 123517
BM 123518
BM 123520
BCM no number
BM 128344
BM 128347
BM 128348
BM 128361
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
128362
128366
128377
128378
134511
139253
139254
139255
139256
139257
139258
139260
139261
139262
139264
139265
139266
139268
139272(7)
139277
139282
139294
139322
139323
139324
139326
139330
139331
IM no number
IM no number
IM no number
IM no number
Unlocated
Unlocated
-
Unlocated
BM 128158
BM 128176
_
_
_
79 no.
79 no.
79 no.
79 no.
79 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
122K
122H
122E
122L
122C
108(?)
76
73
74
11
255
233
235
236
250
246
244
240
242
24
33
62
37
63
26
6
35
9
5
7
8
13
18
21
23
27
28
32
36
38
40
52
70
82
163
34
133A
135A
169
248
249
1932-12-10,601
1932-12-10,604
1932-12-10,605
1932-12-10,618
1932-12-10,619
1932-12-10,623
1932-12-10,634
1932-12-10,635
1932-12-12,506
1932-12-10,707
1932-12-10,708
1932-12-10,709
1932-12-10,710
1932-12-10,711
1932-12-10,712
1932-12-10,714
1932-12-10,715
1932-12-10,716
1932-12-10,718
1932 12-10,719
1932-12-10,720
1932-12-10,722
1932-12-10,726
1932-12-10,731
1932-12-10,736
1932-12-10,748
1930-5-8,235
1930-5-8,236
1930-5-8,237
1930-5-8,239
1930-5-8,243
1930-5-8,244
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
19 no.
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
King,
19 no. 14
19 no. 25
19 no. 43
19 no. 44
19 no. 167A
19 no. 237
AKA p. 158 n. 3
56-9-9,146
56-9-9,163
ND 5446
1929-10-12,814
1929-10-12,832
56-9-9,129
56-9-9,130
56-9-9,131
Wiseman, Iraq 26
Nineveh
provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
NT.xvui.C.18
NT.xix.C.20
NT.xvin.C.14
NT.xix.C. 16
NT.xvr.C.13
Dump
AP.E.14
AP.D.15
AP.G.2
IT AV. 17
II.CC. + 2
IT.00.0
IT.00. + I
IT .1.0
IT.J. + 2
IT.PP.0
IT.BB.4.19
IT.X.17.60
IT.00.-1
E-8
IT.MM.+ 2
IT.MM.5
IT.NN.O
IT.NN.Dump
IT.PP.0
IT.NN. + 4
IT.NN. + 6
8.7x8.2 +
4x10.5 +
6.2x5.2 +
IT.LL.2
IT.NN. + 3
IT.NN. + 8
IT.
IT.MM.3
IT.00. + 1
IT.NN.5
IT.MM.10
IT.MM.10
IT.LE,4
IT.00.1
IT.TT.-4
IT.00.1
IT.TT.3
IT.MM.10
IT. A .2
IT.00.3
IT .00.3
IT.I. + 1
IT.Q. + 2
IT.CC.l
IT.EE.3
IT.DD.O
IT.surface
IT. MM. + 1
IT. MM. 7
IT.
iT.rr.i
IT.DD.l
IT.K.O
-
_
_
AP.D.20
Wall iv NE
_
_
3x5.5 +
3.5x3.1 +
5.7x4.5 +
6.2x6.7 +
4.5x4.2 +
2.5x3.7 +
7.2x9 +
5.5x7.4 +
4.2x8.2 +
5.2x5.7 +
6.9x6.9 +
5.7x7.5 +
5x6 +
5.9x4.3 +
5.5x3.8 +
4.7x6.8 +
12.6x8.5 +
8.5x8.9 +
8.7x7.6 +
9.4x9 +
6x7.8 +
5.3x8 +
4.8x7.9 +
6.5x6.3 +
3,5x6.6 +
3.7x4.6 +
11.4x10.3 +
6.5x6.4 +
6.8x5.2 +
6.4x6.4 +
7.2x8.7 +
6x6.8 +
5.3x3.5 +
4.2x3.8 +
7.1 x 7.5 +
6.8x6 +
5.5x5.5 +
6.4x6 +
5.1 x 3 . 3 +
5.8x3.9 +
5.4x5.2 +
9.3x7.3 +
6x6.3 +
6.8x3.3 +
5.7x5.2 +
6x4.7 +
9.8x6.2 +
9x5.8 +
4.2x3.3 +
10.8x6.5 +
8.3x6.5 +
6.2X2.2 +
5.1x8.4 +
6.3x5.8 +
7.7x7.9 +
8.7x5.2 +
8.2x8.3 +
cpn
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
n
n
n
n
n
n
c
c
n
c
c
c
c
c
365
Ashurnasirpal n A,0,101.113
COMMENTARY
m
omitted
AS for a-ur
KI for
A for DUMU
GISKIM-(d)MA or TUKUL-MA for G1.tUkul-t-dMA
10 for diKUR
A complete text is not preserved o n any of the fragments and the master text is a conflation. Since the exs.
are so numerous and fragmentary, no scores have been
given. The many inscribed pieces of clay cone which
cannot be positively assigned to any one of the other
short texts have been included here. N o t e the following
vars. which appear on sundry exs.:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA p. 158 n. 3 (ex. 59, study)
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 134 and pl. xivn nos. 122C
(ex. 5), 122E (ex. 3), 122H (ex. 2), 122K (ex. 1), and
122L (ex. 4) (copy)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pp. 99, 104, and pis. LXIX-LXXI,
IXXIV, LXXVI, LXXIXLXXX n o s . 5 (ex. 30), 6 (ex. 27), 7
1964
1967
1968
1973
1976
1984
(ex. 31), 8 (ex. 32), 9 (ex. 29), 11 (ex. 10), 13 (ex. 33), 14
(ex. 53), 18 (ex. 34), 21 (ex. 35), 23 (ex. 36), 24 (ex. 21),
25 (ex. 54), 26 (ex. 26), 27 (ex. 37), 28 (ex. 38), 32
(ex. 39), 33 (ex. 22), 34 (ex. 47), 35 (ex. 28), 36 (ex. 40),
37 (ex. 24), 38 (ex. 41), 40 (ex. 42), 43 (ex. 55), 44
(ex. 56), 52 (ex. 43), 62 (ex. 23), 63 (ex. 25), 70 (ex. 44),
73 (ex. 8), 74 (ex. 9), 76 (ex. 7), 82 (ex. 45), 108 (ex.
133A (ex. 48), 135A (ex. 49), 163 (ex. 46), 167A (ex.
169 (ex. 50), 233 (ex. 12), 235 (ex. 13), 236 (ex. 14),
(ex. 58), 240 (ex. 18), 242 (ex. 19), 244 (ex. 17),
(ex. 16), 248 (ex. 51), 249 (ex. 52), 250 (ex. 15), and
(ex. 11) (copy)
Wiseman, Iraq 26 p. 124 and pi. xxvii (ex. 61, copy)
Borger, HKL 1 pp. 526-28 and 537 (study)
Frame, ARRIM 2 pp. 5-20 (study)
6?),
57),
237
246
255
TEXT
1)
a-Ur-PAB-A
GAR DBAD ID a-Ur MAN GAL

of the universe, king of Assyria, son of TukultlNinurta (II), appointee of the god Enlil, viceregent of Aur, great king, strong king, king of
the universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr
(II) (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil,
vice-regent of Aur, great king, strong king, king
of the universe and king of Assyria.

2)
DUMU mG.tuku-t-UA
GAR DBAD SID a-Ur
MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN MAN KUR a-ur

DUMU
3)
MD
IKUR-RIN. TH
GAR BAD ID a-Ur MAN GAL MAN dan-nu
MAN MAN KUR a-ur-ma
114
This text is on some clay cones from Aur. They were probably originally in the Sn-ama temple, regarding which see the introduction to
A.0.101.67.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
2
3
4
Museum
Ass
Lines
number
number
preserved
cpn
A 3383a
A 3495
VA Ass 2097
10297
3311
101811 "
22458
1-4
1-4
1-4
1-4
c
c
c
366
C O M M E N T A R Y
The master text is ex. 1 and, since the other exs. have only a few minor vars.,
they can be summarized here (no scores are given): A for a-ur3 KIS for or
for KI.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1913 Andrae, Festungswerke p. 168 (ex. 1, photo, edition)
1982 Rost, FuB 22 no. 46 (ex. 4, copy)
1)
.GAL ma-Ur-PAB-A
2)
A GISKIM-AMA MAN KI MAN KUR AS
3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR A
4)
A a-ur-KAL-an
1984 Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA nos. 128-30 (exs. 1-3,

copy)

Tukult-Ninurta (II), king of the universe, king of
Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (II), king of the
universe, king of Assyria, son of Aur-dn (II)
(who was) also king of the universe and king of
Assyria.
MAN KI MAN KUR A
MAN MAN KUR A s - m a
115
This text is inscribed on bricks, clay cones, clay hands, and a stone
sarcophagus, from a variety of sites, namely Calah, Nineveh, ImgurEnlil, and Assur. Regarding clay cones see the introduction to
A.0.101.Ill and on clay hands see the introduction to A.0.101.120.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Excavation
number
Publication
reference
Provenance
Object
cpn
1
2
3
BM 90256
BM 90714 + 90758
BM 90738
1979-12-20,157
1979-12-20,320
48-11-4,60
A K A p. 156 no. 3
CBI no. 150
As ex. 2
Ca1ah(?)
Ca1ah(?)
N W P , Calah
Brick
Brick
Brick
c
c
c
4
5
6
7
8
BM 90757
BM 90810
48-11-4,44
1979-12-20,362
48-11-4,58
1929-10-12,169
9
10
BM 137445
BM 137459
BCM 1081 '30
BCM 321 '79
BCM 331 '79
As ex. 2
AKA p. 156 no. 3
As ex. 2
As ex. 2
As ex. 2
As ex. 3
Ca1ah(?)
As ex. 3
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
11
BCM A51 '87
Nineveh
Brick
12
13
14
15
16
17
BCM A52 '87

BCM A53 '87
Nineveh
Brick
Nineveh
Imgur-Enlil
Asur
Aur
ASur
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
c
c
c
n
c
c
c
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
18
19
20
21
22
VA Ass 3256a
VA Ass 3256b
VA Ass 3256c
VA
VA
E
E
Ass 3257b
Ass 3259c
6657
9009
ES 9265
--
_
-
_
_
_
_
_
-
As ex. 2
As ex. 2
_
_
_
Ass 545
Ass 2208
Ass 15671
CBI no.
VAS 23
VAS 23
VAS 23
_
_
150, Rassam letter

no. 93
no. 94
no. 95
Ass 4146
VAS 23 no. 98
VAS 23 no. 102
Aur
Aur
Aur
Aur
Aur
c
c
p
p
p
367
Ex.
23
24
25
Museum
number
Registration
number
Excavation
number
Publication
reference
ES 9351
E$ 9357
E$ 9358
E$
E$
E$
ES
E$
E$
Provenance
Object
cpn
Aur
Aur
Aur
Brick
Brick
Brick
P
P
P
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Brick
Brick
P
n
Brick
Bricks
Bricks
Brick
E$ no number
Asur
Aur
Aur
Aur
Aur
Aur
Aur
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
ES no number
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Aur
WZKM 12 pp. 271-72

Lehmann-Haupt, Mat. pp. 22-23
Arch. 79 no. 59
A A A 18 p. 99 n. 1
A A A 19 no. 292
KAH 2 no. 95
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
BM U 5635
BM 139259
BM 122665
YBC 16947
YBC 16946
BCM 891 '79
BCM 892 '79
DT 382
1932-12--10,713
1930-5-15,98
47
48
49
50
Ash 1954,745
BCM 1131 '52
M M A 54.117.30
Unlocated
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
9453
9455
9456
9457
9458
9149
_
_
_
_
_
Ass 22913
A A A 19 no. 22
A A A 19 no. 58
Calah
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Aur
Stone sarcophagus
P
n
n
n
n
Calah(?)
Nineveh
Clay hand
Clay cone
c
c
Nineveh
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
Nineveh
Nineveh
Clay cone
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
N D 1404
N D 1974
Iraq 41 p. 123 no. 51
N-14/70
Calah
Calah
Calah
Calah
Clay
Clay
Clay
Clay
hand
hand
hand
hand
COMMENTARY
The numerous exs. have exactly the same text, with few
vars., and therefore scores are not given. N o t e that the
references Arch. 79 no. 59 (ex. 36) and A A A 18 p. 99
n. 1 (ex. 37) each include several exs. It is not absolutely certain that the two clay cone fragments (exs.
41-42) are of the same text and, in fact, ex. 42 could be
from a text of T N . IL The stone sarcophagus was left
in situ by Andrae and re-excavated by an Iraqi expedition as reported by Abed M. J uru at the Second International Symposium in Baghdad, October 1979.
The vars. found in the various exs. are:
Line 1: '"S-W-PAB-A/IBILA
Line 2:
Line 3:
omit MAN 'king of the universe'

Ki for
DUMU for A
m
before the R N
GISKIM-(D)MA
KI for ; omit MAN
KUR a-ur for KUR AS
DUMU for A
m
before the RN
D
IKU R-RIN. TH
KIS for ; omit MAN
MAN KUR.KUR 'king of the lands' instead
of MAN KUR AS-ma 'and king of Assyria'
(Layard and Le Gac's D uncollated)
KUR a-ur-ma for KUR AS-ma
omit -ma
KUR a-ur for KUR AS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1851 Layard, ICC pi. 83B and D (copy)
1875 G. Smith, Assyrian Disc. pp. 76 and 429 (ex. 40, copy,
translation)
1898 Dedekind, WZKM 12 pp. 271-72 (ex. 34, copy, edition)
1902 King, AKA p. 156 no. 3 (ex. I, copy, edition)
1906 Lehmann-Haupt, Mat. pp. 22-23 no. 9 (ex. 35, photo,
edition)
1907 Le Gac, Asn. p. 204 B and D (copy)
1914 Andrae, MDOG 54 pp. 41-43 (ex. 39, provenance)
1922 BM Guide p. 71 (ex. 5, study)
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 122 and pi. XLIV no. 59 (ex. 36,
copy)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 n. 1 (ex. 37, study)
1932 Thompson, A A A 19 pp. 99 and 115 pis. LXIX-LXX and
LXXXVIII n o s . 2 2 (ex. 4 1 ) , 5 8 ( e x . 4 2 ) , a n d 2 9 2 ( e x .
1953
1967
1968
1976
1979
1981
(copy)
Haller, Grber p. 180 (ex. 39, edition)
Borger, HKL 1 pp. 528 and 536 (study)
Grayson, ARI 2 ci 50 and 63 (translation)
George, Iraq 41 p. 123 no. 51 (ex. 48, study)
Walker, CBI no. 150 (edition)
38)
368
1984 Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1 nos. 273-75, 282, and 285
(exs. 15-19, study)
1985 Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23 nos. 93-95, 98, and 102
(exs. 15-19, copy)

1988 Beckman, ARRIM 6 p. 2 (exs. 43-44, study)
1991 Frame, Bagh. Mitt. 22 (exs. 40, 47-50, photo, edition)
TEXT
M
1)
.GAL
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN MAN KUR A
3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR A-ma

Tukult-Ninurta (n), king of the universe, king of
king of the universe and king of Assyria.
A-PAB-A MAN MAN KUR A
116
This text, which is virtually identical with A.0.101.115, is inscribed on
bricks from Nineveh and Aur and on clay cone fragments from
Nineveh. Regarding clay cones see the introduction to A.0.101.111.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
Object
Provenance
1
2
3
BM 123495
BM 128338
BCM A54 '87
1932-12-10,438
1932-12-10,595
A A A 19 no. 10
A A A 19 no. 20
Clay cone
Clay cone
Brick
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
4
5
6
7
8
9
E$ 9359
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Allur (?)
Arch.
Arch.
Arch.
Arch.
Arch.
_
-
79
79
79
79
79
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
60
60
60
60
60
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
COMMENTARY
Information about ex. 3 was generously provided by
Philip Watson of the Birmingham City Museum. Various exs. (no scores are given) show the following vars.:
Line 1: ma-ur~PAB-A
L i n e 2:
Line 3:
omit m
a-ur for A
DUMU for A
omit m
DUMU f o r A
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 T h o m p s o n , Arch. 79 p. 122 and pi. x n v no. 60 (exs.
5-9, copy)
1932 Thompson, A A A 19 p. 99 and pl. LXIX nos. 10 and 20
(exs. 1-2, copy)

Ashurnasirpal Ii
A.0.101.112
369
TEXT
1)
2)
A MTUKUL-MA MAN MAN KUR AS
3)
1-3) Ashurnasirpal, king of the universe, king of

Assyria, son of Tukult-Ninurta (II), king of the
(who was) also king of the universe and king of
Assyria.
A-PAB-A MAN MAN KUR A

M
10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR A-/W?
117
This text is inscribed on two brick fragments from Nineveh and on a
glazed clay cone plate from Assur,
CATALOGUE
Excavation
number
Ex.
1
2
3
Ass 28
Publication
reference
Object
Provenance
cpn
AAA 18 no. 30
AAA 18 no. 30
MDOG 20 p. 21
Brick
Brick
Glazed clay cone plate
Nineveh
Nineveh
Aur
n
n
n
COMMENTARY
N o n e of the exs. has been located or collated. Ex. 3 has
been published in translation only, o n the basis of
which it appears to have had .GAL '(Property o f ) the
palace o f at the beginning of line 1. Since this cannot

be verified, ex. 3 has been included here,
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1903-04 Andrae, MDOG 20 p. 21; 21 p. 11 (ex. 3, translation)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 and pi. xix no. 30 (exs. 1-2,
copy)
TEXT
1)
2)
A TUKUL-MAS MAN KUR AS-ma
A - P A B - A MAN KUR AS
1-2) Ashurnasirpal, king of Assyria, son of

Tukultl-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of
Assyria.
118
This short text, which consists simply of the royal name, genealogy,
and epithets, is on numerous clay cone fragments from Nineveh and
one clay cone fragment from Assur. Concerning clay cone fragments
from the two sites see the introductions to A.0.101.111 (Nineveh) and
A.0.101.67 (Assur).
370
CATALOGUE
Museum
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
Excavation
number
1
2
3
5 6 - 9 - 9 , 1 3 6 + 1 4 3 + 184
56-9-9,144
56-9-9,154
King, AKA
King, AKA
King, AKA
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
BM
BM
BM
BM
121131
121143
122667
123507
56-9-9,158
56-9-9,165
56-9-9,134 + 201
1929-10-12,140
1929-10-12,152
1930-5-8,100
1932-12-10,450
King,
King,
King,
Arch.
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
123508
123516
128166
128167
128169
128178
128183
1932-12-10,451
1932-12-10,459
1929-10-12,822
1929-10-12,823
1929-10-12,825
1929-10-12,834
1929-10-12,839
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
BM 128188
BM 128374
BM 134813
BM 139269
BM 139274
BM 139321
IM no number
25
26
27
IM no number
Unlocated
A 3421
Ex.
_
-
AKA
AKA
AKA
79 no. 122B
A A A 19 no. 59
A A A 19 no. 42
A A A 19 no. 169B
A A A 19 no. 241
1929-10 12,844
1932-12-10,631
1932-12-12,608
1932-12-10,723
1932-12-10,728
1930-5-8,234
A A A 19 no. 16
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
_
_
19
19
19
19
no.
no.
no.
no.
41
65
12
17
_
_
_
_
_
A A A 19 no. 29
A A A 19 no. 133
RICCA no. 131
Ass 5574
Provenance
Dimensions
(cm)
cpn
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
11.7x10.8
7.1x7 +
9.6x5 +
c
c
c
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
8.7x1.3 +
9.2x9.2 +
11.1x9.6 +
6.5 x 12 +
3.9x4.5 +
6x9.5 +
7.6x8.6 +
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
6x9.5 +
5.5x5.5
6x6 +
6.5x7.2
7.5x5.2
6.3x6.5
5.8x6.5
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
NT.xx.C
NT.xix.C.12
AP.Ch.tv.C.16
AP.F.16.1930.9
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
IT.NN.O
IT.PP. + 1
AP.C.13
IT.HH.ll
AP.B.8
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
Nineveh
AP.C.17.iv
IT.MM. + 9
AP.iv.C.17
+
+
+
+
+
4.6x5.7 +
3.8x7.7 +
5x6.5 +
7x3.8 +
7.3x5 *
6.6x4.5 +
IT.MM. 10
IT.AA.O
IT.L0
IT.MM.15
Nineveh IT.MM.9
Nineveh IT. 1.0
Aur
9.3x12 +
c
c
c
c
c
c
n
n
n
c
COMMENTARY
A
complete
text is n o t
preserved
on
any
of
the
L i n e s 2 - 3 : A f o r DUMU
frag-
L i n e 2:
m e n t s a n d t h e m a s t e r text is a c o n f l a t i o n . S i n c e t h e e x s .
are s o n u m e r o u s a n d fragmentary, n o scores h a v e
given. N o t e the following vars. which appear o n
insert
before the
RN
TUKUL-MA OR GISKIM- D MA FOR

d
been
G.tUkul-t- UA
sundry
L i n e s 2 - 3 : GAL-.
exs.:
L i n e 3:
Lines 1-3: Kii f o r
10 f o r
iKUR
BIBLIOGRAPHY
133 ( e x . 2 6 ) , 1 6 9 B ( e x . 11), a n d 2 4 1 ( e x . 12) ( c o p y )
1902 K i n g , A K A p p . 1 5 7 - 5 8 (exs. 1 - 6 , copy, edition)
1967 B o r g e r , H K L 1 p p . 5 2 6 - 2 8 a n d 5 3 7 ( s t u d y )
1907 L e G a c , A s n . p p . x x i a n d 2 0 3 - 2 0 4 ( e x s . 1 - 6 , c o p y )
1968 L a m b e r t a n d M i l l a r d , C a t . p a s s i m ( s t u d y )
1926 L u c k e n b i l l , A R A B 1 5 3 2 ( e x s . 1 - 6 , t r a n s l a t i o n )
1929 T h o m p s o n ,
Arch.
79
p.
134 and
pi.
XLVII n o .
122B
1932 T h o m p s o n ,
1973 S c h r a m m , E A K 2 p. 5 6 ( s t u d y )
1 9 7 6 G r a y s o n , A R I 2 c i 50 ( t r a n s l a t i o n )
( e x . 7, c o p y )
AAA
19 p .
99
and
pis.
LXIX-LXX, LXXIV,
LXXVI, LXXX n o s . 12 ( e x . 2 3 ) , 16 ( e x . 19), 17 ( e x . 2 4 ) , 2 9

( e x . 2 5 ) , 41 (ex. 2 1 ) , 4 2 ( e x . 10), 5 9 ( e x . 9 ) , 65 (ex. 2 2 ) ,
1 9 8 4 D o n b a z a n d G r a y s o n , R I C C A n o . 131 ( e x . 2 7 , c o p y , e d i tion)
1984 Frame, A R R I M 2 pp. 5 - 1 8 (study)
TEXT
1)
a-Ur-PAB-A
GAR
B A D I D -UT
M A N GAL

2)
DUMU GIS.tukuI-ti-DUAS MAN GAL MAN dan-nu
3)
DUMU
MAN MAN KUR

MD
a-Ur
I K U R - R I N . T H M A N GAL M A N
nu MAN MAN KUR a-ur-ma
dan-

of the universe, king of Assyria, son of TukultNinurta (n), great king, strong king, king of the
universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (n)
the universe, and king of Assyria.
371
119
This text is on a glazed clay plate (Ass 227) found in the Old Palace
(fE5m) at Aur (37x37 cm).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1925 Andrae, Coloured Ceramics p. 70 and pis. 31-32 (copy)
TEXT
1)
.GAL
1) (Property of) the palace of Ashurnasirpal, king

of the universe, king of Assyria, son of TukultlNinurta (II), (who was) also king of the universe
and king of Assyria.
A - P A B - A M A N M A N K U R AS A
T U K U L - d M A S M A N M A N K U R A S - m a
120
A number of inscribed clay hands of Ashurnasirpal have been found
at Nineveh and Calah. Their inscriptions represent a variety of texts
which have been edited as A.0.101.115 and 120-29. The present text is
from Calah.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Excavation
Ex.
number
number
cpn
1
2
3
4
BSAI
IM 55728
BSAI
BSAI
ND 561
ND 565
ND 2551B
-
n
c
c
C O M M E N T A R Y
At the time of writing, Grant Frame was sending an article with a full edition of all known inscribed clay
hands for publication in Bagh. Mitt. I am grateful to
him for allowing me to use a copy o f this article in
preparing editions of Ashurnasirpal's inscribed clay

hands. A m o n g the exs. for this text there are no vars.
except that ex. 4 seems to omit the first MAN in line 2.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1991 Frame, Bagh. Mitt. 22 (edition)
372
TEXT
1)
.GAL m A-FAB-A MAN GAL
2)
MAN dan-nu MAN MAN KUR AS
3)
A TUKUL-MA MAN MAN KUR AS
4)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR
5)
NG.GA DMA
1-5) (Property of the) palace of Ashurnasirpal,

of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (ii), king of
the universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrrl
(II) (who was) also king of the universe and king
of Assyria: property of the temple of the god
Ninurta.
AS-ma
121
Two further texts on clay hands have been recovered from the Ninurta
temple at Calah and these have been edited as A.0.101.121 -22.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Excavation
Ex.
number
number
cpn
]
2
3
BSAI
BSAI
VA 8999
N D 634
-
<T~
c
c
COMMENTARY
For details on each ex. see the article o n clay hands by Grant Frame (see the
commentary to A.0.101.120).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1906 Lehmann-Haupt, Mat. pp. 23-24 no. 10 (photo)
1908 Bezold, ZA 21 p. 397 (provenance)
1957-58 Sollberger, AfO 18 p. 129 (study)

TEXT
M
1)
.GAL
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN KUR AS
A-PAB-A MAN KUR AS
3)
4)
5)
A 10-RIN.TH
MAN KUR A-MA
NG.GA DMA

king of Assyria, son of Tukult-Ninurta (n), king
of Assyria, son of Adad-nrr (n) (who was) also
king of Assyria: property of the temple of the god
Ninurta.
Ashurnasirpal II
A.0.101.1006
373
122
This text on a clay hand from the Ninurta temple at Calah (VA 3128)
is almost identical with A.0.101.121.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1921 linger, Babylonisches Schrifttum (Leipzig) p. 15 and 22
(photo)

TEXT
1)
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN [mt aUr]
3)
A 10-RIN.TAH

Tulkultl-Ninurta (u), king of [Assyria], son of
Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also king of Assyria:
property of the temple of the god Ninurta.
A-PAB- MAN KUR AS
4)
MAN KUR AS-ma
5)
NG.GA DMA
123
This text is on several clay hands from Calah. Regarding inscribed
clay hands see the introduction to A.0.101.120.
CATALOGUE
Museum
number
Registration
number
Excavation
Ex.
number
cpn
1
2
BM 91706
BCM 20 '24-1
48-11-4,173
Ash 1951,50
N D 656(?)
c
c
4
5
6
7
8
9
10-13
BM 90976
M M A 57.27.30
IM
BSAI
BSAI
BSAI
BSAI
14
Private possession
_
_
_
_
_
-
_
-
_
-
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
567
1402
1403
1405
2551A
c
c
n.
c
c
c
c
p
COMMENTARY
For details on each ex. see the article on clay hands by Grant Frame (see the
374
Ashurnasirpal II A.O. 1 0 1 . 2 0 0 4
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1979 George, Iraq 41 pp. 123, 136 (fig. 5), and
139 no. 50 (ex. 2, copy, edition)
1991 Frame, Bagh. Mitt. 22 (exs. 1-14, edition)
TEXT
M
1)
.GAL
2)
MAN dan-nu MAN MAN KUR AS
3)
A TUKUL-MA MAN TJ MAN KUR AS
4)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR AS-MA
5)
NG.GA URU kal-hi

of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II), king of
the universe, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nrrT
(II) (who was) also king of the universe and king
of Assyria: property of the city Calah.
A-PAB-A MAN GAL
124
This is a text on clay hands from Calah. Regarding inscribed clay
hands see the introduction to A.0.101.120.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Registration
Excavation
Ex.
number
number
number
2
3-4
BM 91701
BSAI
BSAI
48-11-4,174
-
ND 585
cpn
c
c
COMMENTARY
For details on each ex. see t h e article o n clay hands by Grant Frame (see the
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1991 Frame, Bagh. Mitt. 22 (exs. 1-4, edition)
TEXT
1)
.GAL ma-Ur-PAB-A
2)
3)
4)
A TUKUL-MAS MAN GAL-E MAN dan-ni

MAN MAN KUR a-ur A 10-RIN.TH
5)
MAN GAL-e MAN dan-ni MAN MAN KUR asur-ma
MAN GAL-W

of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (II), great king,
son of Adad-nrr (II) (who was) also great king,
strong king, king of the universe, and king of
Assyria.
375
125
This text is on a clay hand and numerous inscribed bricks from the
North West Palace at Calah. Regarding the clay hand see the introduction to A.0.101.120.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Excavation
number
1
2
3
BM 91705
BM 90255
BM 90752
48-11-4,175
48-11-4,25
R 18 = br. 289
4
5
6
7
8
Ash 1957,182
YBC 2023
IM 55352
Unlocated
Mutansiriyah,
Baghdad
N D 3490
9
10
Publication
reference
Object
cpn
A K A pp. 155-56 no. 2

CBI no. 146
Clay hand
Brick
Brick
c
c
c
N D 285
N D 827
N D 828
Iraq
YOS
Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
148
128
197
119
119
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
c
c
n
n
n
Unlocated
N D 3493
Iraq 15 p. 149
Brick
Unlocated
N D 3494
Iraq 15 p. 149
Brick
15 p.
9 no.
12 p.
13 p.
13 p.
COMMENTARY
The master text is ex. 1 and the exs. o n bricks (2-10) have no vars.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1851
1902
1907
1937
1950
1951
Layard, ICC pi. 83A (ex. 2, copy)

King, AKA pp. 155-56 no. 2 (ex. 2, copy)
Le Gac, Asn. p. 203 D (ex. 2, copy)
Stephens, YOS 9 no. 128 (ex. 5, study)
Wiseman, Iraq 12 p. 197 (ex. 6, study)
Wiseman, Iraq 13 p. 119 (exs. 7-8, study)
1953
1976
1981
1988
1991
Wiseman, Iraq 15 pp. 148-49 (exs. 4 9-10, study)

Walker, CBI no. 146 (exs. 2-4, edition)
Beckman, ARRIM 6 p. 2 (ex. 5, study)
Frame, Bagh. Mitt. 22 (ex. 1, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN KUR A
3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR A-MA

king of Assyria, son of Tukultl-Ninurta (n), king
king of Assyria.
126
This text, on clay hands from Nineveh (see the introduction to
A.0.101.120), concerns the Istar temple at Nineveh; a Nineveh provenance can also be established for A.0.101.127-28.
376
AshurnasirpaliIA . 0 . 1 0 1 . 2 0 0 5
CATALOGUE
Museum
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
1
2
BCM 202 '78
BM 98S54
4
5
6
7
BCM 203 '78

BM 138720
See commentary
K 14182
Ex.
55-12-5,456
Th 1905-4-9,360
-
cpn
c
c
CT 36,14
1932-12-12,1253
A A A 18 no. 58
King, Cat.
c
c
n
c
COMMENTARY
For details on each ex. see the article on clay h a n d s by
Grant Frame (see the commentary to A.O.101.120).
A A A 18 no. 58 is actually a conflation of four exs.,
one of which is ex. 4 and another is possibly ex. 1. The
identity and location o f the other two are unknown.
Ex. 7 is described by Bezold as 'part of a votive dish'
and, because o f its fragmentary state, it is not certain
that it is a piece of a hand. N o scores are given since
the few vars. a m o n g the various exs. can be easily sum-
marized:
Line 2:
Line 3:
Line 4:
Line 5:
GISKIM- Or GI.TUKUL- for

QJukul-tm
before R N
omits -ma
NG.GA.ME
for sa
ni-nu-a
1893
1914
1921
1926
Bezold, Cat. 3 p. 1366 (ex. 7, study)

King, Cat. p. 75 (ex. 3, copy)
Gadd, CT 36 pl. 14 (ex. 3, copy)
Luckenbill, ARAB 1 547 (ex. 3, translation)
1931
1976
1979
1991
Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 and pi. xx no. 58 (ex. 6, copy)

George, Iraq 41 p. 123 nos. 54-55 (exs. 1, 4, study)
Frame, Bagh. Mitt. 22 (exs. 1-6, photo, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
A 10-RIN.TH GAR DBAD ID
4)
NG.GA D INANNA
5)
sa URU ni-na-a
a-Ur-PAB-A
GAR DBAD ID S-Ur
G1. tlikul-ti-dMAS GAR
BAD ID a-Ur
-Ur-ma

vice-regent of Assur, son of Tukult-Ninurta (n),
son of Adad-nrr (II), (who was) also appointee
of the god Enlil and vice-regent of Aur: property of the temple of the goddess Istar of
Nineveh.
127
This text is inscribed on a number of bricks and on a clay hand from
Nineveh. Regarding clay hands see the introduction to A.O. 101.120.
377
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
Object
cpn
1
2
3
BM 90452 + 90806
BM 90467
BM 90736
1979^^20^258
R 23 = br. 421
1979-12-20,330
CBI no. 151

CBI no. 151
CBI no. 151
Brick
Brick
Brick
c
C
c
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
BM 90756
BM 137456
Ash 1930,717a
Ash 1930,717b
BCM 1082 '30
BCM 330 '79
BCM 334 >79
1979-12-20,337
1929-10-12,166+183
L 302
-
CBI no. 151

Arch. 79 no. 61
Arch. 79 no. 61
Arch. 79 no. 61
CBI no. 151
CBI no. 151
CBI no. 151
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
11
12
Unlocated
Unlocated
A A A 18 p. 99 n. le
As ex. 11
Brick
Brick
n
n
13
14
Unlocated
BCM 100 '33
As ex. 11
A A A 18 no. 57
Brick
Clay hand
n
c
COMMENTARY
sloppily and the numerous errors are included in the
Line 3:
following list of vars. (no scores are given) found on

sundry exs.:
Line 1 : ma-ur-?AB-A
D
A BAD (ex. 14)
a-ur for A
Line 2: (DUMU) for A (ex. 14)
DUMU for A
10-RIN.TH is written TH.
(ex. 14)
omit GAR DBAD 'appointee of
Enlir
D
(BAD) (ex. 14)
a-ur for AS
GISKIM is written DUB.IGI (ex. 14)
add -ma at the end
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 123 and pi. XLIV no. 61 (exs.
5-7, copy)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 n. 1(e) (exs. 11-13, study) and
pi. xx no. 57 (ex. 14, copy)
1976
1979
1981
1991

George, Iraq 41 p. 123 no. 53 (ex. 14, sti
Frame, Bagh. Mitt. 22 (ex. 14, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
A-PAB-A GAR DBAD SID AS

A TUKUL-MA GAR DBAD ID AS
1-3) Ashurnasirpal, appointee of tt

vice-regent of Assur, son of Tukult
3)
A 10-RIN.TH GAR DBAD SID AS
appointee of the god Enlil, vice-reg

son of Adad-nrr
Adad-nrri (II), appointee of the god
Enlil, vice-regent of Aur.
128
This text is on a clay hand from Nineveh. Regarding the clay hands
see the introduction to A.0.101.120. The object has not been located.
378
Ashurnasirpal II A.O.101.128
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 and pl. xx no. 55 (copy)

TEXT
Tukultl-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, son of
Adad-nrr (II) [(who was also)] king of Assyria.
2)
3)
4)
A TUKUL-MA MAN KUR AS

A 10-RIN.TH
MAN KUR A-[(TF7TF)]
129
This text is stamped on a number of bricks found at Aur and inscribed on a clay hand, the provenance of which is unknown. Regarding inscribed clay hands see the introduction to A.0.101.120.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Museum
number
VA Ass 43091
VA Ass 3255
VA Ass 4311e
VA Ass 3257c
BM 90257
BM 90258
BM 90259
E$ 9242
ES 6634
E$ 9010
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
BM 90627
Registration
number
Ass ph
number
2748
6065
Ass
number
11652
19515a
5372
1979-12-20,158
1979-12-20,159
1979-12-20,160
5833
35
123
18150
19515b
1979-12-20,306
Object
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Brick
Clay hand
cpn
COMMENTARY
Exs. 2 and 15 are given the s a m e excavation nos., A s s
19515a-b, as A . 0 . 9 2 . 1 (see the commentary to that text)
in Schroeder, K A H 2. The clay hand (see the commen-
tary to A.O.101.120), ex. 16, has t w o minor vars. from

the brick stamps: line 2 TUKUL-MAS, line 3 omits -ma.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902 King, AKA p. 155 no. 1 (exs. 5-7, copy, edition)
1903 Andrae, MDOG 20 pp. 21 and 25 (exs. 12-13, provenance)
1904 Andrae, MDOG 21 p. 11 (exs. 12-13, provenance)
1908 Bezold, ZA 21 pp. 396-97 n. 1 (ex. 6, copy)
1913
1922
1922
1973
1976
Andrae, Festungswerke pl. xci (ex. 1, photo)

Schroeder, KAH 2 no. 93 (exs. 2, 14-15, copy)
BM Guide p. 71 (exs. 5-7, study)
379
1981 Walker, CBI no. 152 (exs. 5-7, edition)
1984 Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1 nos. 276-78 and 283 (exs.
1-4, study)
1985 Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23 no. 100 (ex. 4, copy)
1985 Miglus, MDOG 117 p. 42 (provenance)

1986 Miglus, MDOG 118 p. 195 (provenance)
1991 Frame, Bagh. Mitt. 22 (ex. 16, edition)
TEXT
1)
.GAL

Tukult-Ninurta (II), I who was) also king of
Assyria.
A-PAB-A MAN
2)
MAN KUR AS A GISKIM-MA
3)
MAN KUR A-ma
130
This text is inscribed on bricks from the Ninurta temple at Calah.
C A T A L O G U E
Ex.
2
3
4
5
Museum
number
BM 136400
BCM 272 '61
E$ 51
Private possession
Registration
number
1966-6-6,1
Excavation
number
ND 1129
Publication
reference
CBI no. 144
CBI no. 144
MAOG 3/1-2 no. 4
Le Gac, Asn. p. 203 c
cpn
c~~
c
p
n
c
C O M M E N T A R Y
Ex. 5 is in the possession of Dr. and Mrs. A . D .
Tushingham and published with their kind permission.
On it are preserved portions of lines 1-3. Exs. 1 - 2 omit

-ma at the end of line 3.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1907 Le Gac, Asn. p. 203 c (ex. 4, copy)
1927 Nassouhi, MAOG 3/1-2 pp. 11-12 no. 4 (ex. 3, photo,
edition)
1952 Wiseman, Iraq 14 p. 67 (ex. 2, study)

TEXT
1)
.GAL mA-PAB~A MAN MAN KUR AS
2)
3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN KUR A$~MA
4)
NG.GA DMA

Tukultl-Ninurta (II), king of the universe, king of
king of the universe and king of Assyria: property
of the temple of the god Ninurta.
380
131
This text is inscribed on a trapezoid brick from the well of the temple
of the Sibitti at Calah (cf. A.0.101.30 line 57 and A.O.101.110).
COMMENTARY
The brick (Ash 1957,183 = N D 3491) was actually
found in the North West Palace, ' R m . A B (Layard's
w e l l ) / It measures 3 3 . 5 - 2 7 . 5 cm wide x 28.5 cm radius x 7 c m . Since the text on the brick in the Ashmolean Museum, collated by Walker, varies from the
copy published by Wiseman, Walker has suggested that
there may have been two bricks with the same excava-
tion number. This edition follows the text on the Ashmolean brick. Wiseman's copy shows a complete text
(no signs missing) with the following vars.:
Lines 1 - 2 = Line 1
Line 2: MAN 'king o f the universe' omitted
Line 3: MAN inserted after the R N
Line 4: -ma omitted
1953 Wiseman, Iraq 15 pp. 149 and 154 (copy)
1981 Walker , CBI no. 145 (edition)
TEXT
1)
[].GAL "TA1-[FAB]-A
2)
MAN
[ar]

king of the universe, [king of] Assyria, [son of]
Tukultl-Ninurta (n), king of Assyria, son of
facing (brick) of the well of the temple of the
divine Sibitti.
KUR A
3)
[apil\ TUKUL-MA MAN KUR AS
4)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN KUR AS-ma
5)
ki-sir-ti P
6)
IMIN.BI
132
This text is inscribed on a trapezoid brick from the well of the temple
of Kidmuru at Calah (cf. A.0.101.30 line 58).
COMMENTARY
The brick ( N D 3492) was found in the same place as
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 3 1 . It is said to have measured 3 3 x 2 9 x 7 cm.
The brick has not been located or collated. The omis-
sion of MAN 'king of the universe' in line 1 is certainly an error (cf. A.0.101.131).
381
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1953 Wiseman, Iraq 15 pp. 149 and 154 (copy)
TEXT
M
1)
.GAL
2)

(king of the universe), king of Assyria, son of
Tukultl-Ninurta (II), king of the universe, king of
king of the universe and king of Assyria: facing
(brick) of the well of the temple of the divine
Kidmuru.
A-PAB-A (MAN > MAN KUR AS
3)
A 10-RIN.TH MAN MAN
4)
5)
KUR AS-ma ki-sir-ti

P kid9-mu-ri
133
This text is inscribed on bricks from the Istar temple at Nineveh.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
1
2
3
BCM 350 '79

BCM 325 '79
BCM A55 '87
Publication
reference
cpn
A A A 18 no. 33
c~~
A A A 18 no. 29
COMMENTARY
I n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t ex. 3 w a s generously provided by
Philip W a t s o n o f the B i r m i n g h a m City M u s e u m . Ex. 2
h a s LU.GAR in line 1 a n d probably also in lines 2 and 3.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 and pi. xix nos. 29 and 33
(exs. 1-2, copy)

1981 Walker, CBI no. 147 (ex. 1-2, edition)
TEXT
1)
AS-PAB-A GAR D BAD ID A A

D
2)
GAR
3)
GAR D BAD SID A D INANNA
4)
sa
5)
TA URU4-1/
6)
TUKUL-MA
BAD SID AS A 10-RIN.TH
ni-na-a NIN-MT
a-di gaba-dib-bi-
fi4-ak-(ii u ak-sir1
URU

vice-regent of Aur, son of Tukult-Ninurta (11),
son of Adad-nrr (II), appointee of the god
Enlil, vice-regent of Aur:
3b-6) I completely rebuilt the temple of the goddess Istar of Nineveh, my mistress, from top to
bottom.
382
134
This text is inscribed on a fragmentary alabaster bowl and two bricks
from the Istar temple at Nineveh. The text is very similar to
A.0.101.133.
CATALOGUE
Ex.
1
2
3
Museum
number
K 8549
Unlocated
Unlocated
Publication
reference
Bezold, Cat 3 p. 938
AAA 18 no. 26
AAA 19 no. 299
Object
Alabaster bowl frgm.
Brick
Brick
cpn
c
n
n
COMMENTARY
S o m e minor vars. appear on the alabaster bowl fragment: line 1 a-ur for AS;
tukul-ti-MAS; line 3 NIN-#.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1893 Bezold, Cat. 3 p. 938 (ex. 1, copy)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 and pL xix no. 26 (ex. 2,
copy, edition)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 115 and pi. LXXXIX no. 299 (ex.
3, copy)
TEXT
1)
M
D
2)
AS-PAB-A GAR DBAD ID AS A TUKUL-MA GAR
BAD
SID AS A 10-RIN.TH GAR DBAD SID AS-MA -
nu-ma
3)
4)
DINANNA sa URU ni-na-a NIN-ia

TA URU4-W a-di gaba-dib-[bi-u]
ar-sip

vice-regent of Aur, son of Tukult-Ninurta (II),
of the god Enlil and vice-regent of Assur:
2b-4) At that time I rebuilt the temple of the goddess Istar of Nineveh, my mistress, from top to
bottom.
135
This text is inscribed on numerous bricks from the temple of Istar at
Nineveh.
383
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
Registration
number
Publication
reference
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
BM 90260
BM 90465
BM 137454
BM 137457
BM 137460
BM 137461
BM 137475
BM 137483
BCM 322 '79
BCM 323 '79
BCM 324 '79
BCM 326 '79
BCM A46 '87
BCM A47 '87
BCM A48 '87
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocated
Unlocatcd
1979-12-20,161
1979-12-20,266
1929-10-12,164
1929-10-12,167
1929-10-12,170
1929-10-12,171
1929-10-12,187
1932-12-10,25
AKA pp. 156-57 no. 4

-
Arch. 79 nos. 56-57

As ex. 3
As ex. 3
As ex. 3
As ex. 3
AAA 19 no. 289
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
AAA
19
19
19
19
18
no. 290
no. 291
no. 293
no. 296
p. 99 n. 1
cpn
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
n
n
n
n
n
COMMENTARY
Several exs. are included under ex. 20. I am grateful to
Philip Watson for providing information about exs.
13-15 in the Birmingham City Museum. A major var.
in ex. 2 is the omission of .GAL '(Property OF) the
palace of at the beginning of line 1 and usually in this
volume this would mean that ex. 2 would be regarded
as representing a separate text. But otherwise it is an
exact duplicate of the other numerous exs. Some minor
vars. appear on some exs.

Line 1: omit MAN "king of the universe'
m
Line 2: insert before both names
o m i t MAN
Line 3: omit - m a
o m i t
Line 4: D-W
for ar-sip either r-sip or ak-sir
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1902
1922
1926
1929
King, AKA pp. 156-57 no. 4 (ex. 1, copy, edition)

BM Guide p. 71 (ex. 1, study)
Luckenbill, ARAB 1 544 and 546 (translation)
Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 122 and pl. XLIV nos. 56-57 (exs.
3-7, copy)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 n. 1 (ex. 20, study)
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 pis. Lxxxvm-Lxxxix nos. 289-91,

293, and 296 (exs. 8, 16-19, copy)
1967 Borger, HKL 1 pp. 218 and 536 (study)
1975 Grayson, Assur 1/4 pp. 3-4 (study)
T E X T
m
1)
.GAL
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN MAN K U R A A 1 0 -
A - P A B - A MAN MAN K U R AS
RIN.TH
3)
MAN MAN K U R AS-MA
4)
URU. NINA o-us-ma
ar-sip
INANNA

Tukult-Ninurta (II), king of the universe, king of
Assyria, son of Adad-nrrl (II) (who was) also
king of the universe and king of Assyria: (I) who
built and repaired the temple of the goddess Istar
of Nineveh.
384
136
This text is inscribed on a brick (VA 3020) from the Istar temple at
Nineveh. In line 1 the scribe mistakenly omitted 'king of the universe*
and in line 2 he has mistakenly inscribed AS = Aur for INANNA =
Istar. The text, which has been collated, is similar to A.0.101.135.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1973 Schramm, EAK 2 p. 56 n hh (study)

1)
.GAL
2)
A TUKUL-MA MAN MAN K U R A S - m a

D
3)

<king of the universe), king of Assyria, son of
Tukultl-Ninurta (n), (who was) also king of the
universe and king of Assyria: the temple of the
goddess Istar of Nineveh I built and constructed.
A S - P A B - A M A N KUR AS
INANNA(*)
U R U . NINA
DV-ma ar-sip
137
This text is inscribed on numerous bricks from the Blt-nathi shrine of
the Istar temple of Nineveh (see the introduction to A.O.101.18).
CATALOGUE
Ex.
Museum
number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
BM 137458
~~
BCM 327 '79
BCM 328 '79
BCM 329 '79
BCM A49 '87
BCM A50 '87
Unlocated
Unlocated
Registration
number
^
1929-10-12,168
-
Publication
refercncc
^
AAA 18 p. 99 n. 1
AAA 19 no. 294
cpn
Arch 79 no. 58
c
c
c
c
c
n
n
COMMENTARY
Thompson included numerous exs. under Arch. 79 no.
58 and AAA 18 p. 99 n. 1(c). I am grateful to Philip
Watson for information about exs. 5-6 in the Birmingham City Museum. Some vars. are evident in some
exs.:
Line 1:
A-PAB-A
insert MAN dan-nu 'strong king' after

the RN
omit MAN 'king of the universe'
Lines 1-2: KUR AS for KUR a-ur
385
Line 2:
Line 3:
TUKUL-( )MA
omit A 10-RIN. TH MAN KUR d-Ur
ma 'son of Adad-nrr (II), king
of Assyria'
for ni-nu-a either ni-na-a or ni-ni-a

(ex. 8, uncollated)
omit URU
omit URU ni-nu-a 'of Nineveh'
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932
1967
1976
1981
1929 Thompson, Arch. 79 p. 122 and pi. XLIV no. 58

(numerous exs., copy)
1931 Thompson, AAA 18 p. 99 n. 1(c) (numerous exs., study)
Thompson, AAA 19 pi. LXXXIX no. 294 (ex. 8, copy)

Borger, HKL 1 p. 536 (study)
TEXT
1)
.GAL ma-Ur-PAB-A
2)
A GISKIM-DMAS MAN KUR a-Ur A 10-RIN.TH
3)
MAN KUR a-ur-ma

na-at-hi URU ni-nu-a

Tukult-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, son of
(brick) belonging to the Blt-nathi of Nineveh,
MAN MAN KUR d-Ur
138
This text is inscribed on bricks from the Aur temple
(Ehursagkurkurra) at Assur. The inscriptions are badly preserved and
the decipherment difficult. Nevertheless, the towers of the Kalkal Gate,
in the Assur temple, are clearly mentioned and exemplar 1 was found
in that temple complex. The text, in fact, seems similar to a passage in
a text of Shalmaneser i (RIMA 1 p. 190 lines 22-25) and has been restored accordingly, although some of the readings and restorations are
uncertain.
CATALOGUE
Museum
Ass
Ass ph
Ex.
number
number
number
cpn
T~
VA Ass 3257a
989
158
2
3
4
VA Ass 3259a
VA Ass 3259b
Unlocated
17283
5662
17885
5611
c
c
p
COMMENTARY
A few minor vars. appear in the different exs.:
a-ur, line 3 A-ma for a-ur.
line 2 TUKUL-MA and AS for
386
1926 Weidner, IAK pp. 130-31 n. 6 (ex. 4, study)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 pp. 115-16 n. 468 c ii (ex. 4, study)
1984 Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln I nos. 280-81 and 284 (exs.
1-3, study)
1985 Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23 nos. 97, 99, and 101 (exs.
1-3, copy)
1986 Galter, ZA 76 p. 304 (study)
TEXT
1)
GAR DBAD
a-Ur-PAB-A
d
BID Ct-Ur
S-Ur

vice-regent of Assur, son of Tukult-Ninurta (II),
appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of Assur,
son of Adad-nrr (II), appointee of the god
Enlil, vice-regent of Assur:
4-8) The five towers from the towers of the
Kalkal Gate to the towers of the gates [(which one
uses) when entering] the forecourt of the god
Nunnamnir: [...]
Lacuna
GAR DBAD SID
2)
A tukul-ti- MAS
3)
A 10-RIN.TH GAR DBAD SID d-Ur
4)
5)
5 ^na-me^-ru i-^tu^ na-me-ri

a K kaI-kalÎa(tip a-di na-me-^rP
6)
a K.GAL.ME a-na
TJQSAL(?) D(?)NW/Z(?)-
nam(1)-nir(1)^
7) [...] (traces)
8) [...] (traces)
Lacuna
1001
Some fragmentary texts on pieces of clay cones found at Nineveh may
belong to Ashurnasirpal and are edited here as A.0.101.1001-1003.
None can positively be identified with any of the known Ninevite clay
cone texts of this king (see the introduction to A.0.101.56).
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 128405 = 1932-12-10,662) measures 4 . 5 x 5 . 4 cm and was
f o u n d in the Istar temple (00. + 1). The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT
Lacuna
1') [... GIJ]ukul(1)-ti-[ninurta(1)...]
2') [... a]k-ud URU x [...]
3') [... NA 4 ,NA-R].A-ia al-t[u-ur ...]
4') [... ana d\s-ri-su-nu [...]
Ashurnasirpal iI A.O.101.99409
1002
This fragment of text appears on a piece of clay cone from Nineveh.
See the introduction to A.O.101.1001.
COMMENTARY
The fragment (BM 139289 = 1932-12-10,743) measures 6 x 4 cm and was
found in the Itar temple (MM.0). The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 104 and pi. LXXIII no. 116 (copy)

TEXT
Lacuna
1') [...] x x x [...]
T) [...] x it-ti N[A4(?).NA.R.A-/tf(?) ...]
Lacuna(?)
1-20 No translation warranted.
1003
This fragment of text appears on a piece of clay cone from Nineveh.
See the introduction to A.O.101.1001.
COMMENTARY
f o u n d in the Istar temple ( C C . l ) . The inscription has been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1932 Thompson, AAA 19 p. 104 and pi. LXXX no. 253 (copy)
TEXT
Lacuna
V) [... dannassu(1)] ak-[ud(1)]
2') [... -si]-itn
3') [... a\l-tu-ur
4') [...] x it-ti
Lacuna
388
1004
This text is on a small fragment of an obelisk (VA 7274 = Ass 18616)
found at Aur (iC5i). The original object may have been similar in
form and content to the Rassam Obelisk (A.0.101.24). Certainly there
is good reason to ascribe it to Ashurnasirpal II (see my article in BiOr)
although either Adad-nrr II (cf. A.0.99.2 lines 109, 111) or
Tukultl-Ninurta II (cf. A.O. 100.5 line 109) is a possibility. Regarding
Ashurnasirpal's dealings with Qattnu/Qatnu see A.0.101.1 i 78 and
iii 5.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1926 Luckenbill, ARAB 1 p. 211 n. 1 (translation)

1976 Grayson, ARI 2 p. 212 (translation)
1976 Grayson, BiOr 33 p. 143 (edition)
TEXT
[ . . , U]RU
qat-ta-na-ia
GESTIN.MES ANSE.MES
na-i
[...], a man of the city Qattnu, brings wine (and)

asses.
1005
This fragmentary text is inscribed on a piece of a brick (VA Ass 3256d
= Ass 361) found in the Ashurnasirpal palace at Assur (in a hole
north of trench 2). The provenance suggests attribution to Ashurnasirpal but the traces in line 1 could be of several royal names. In particular Aur-ra-ii (i), Ashurnasirpal (II), or Esarhaddon comes to mind
since in texts of each of these kings the phrase gimilla turru 'to avenge'
(cf. line 5) occurs (see Seux, ERAS pp. 341-42). The text has been collated. Not enough is preserved to warrant an edition.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1985 Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23 no. 96 (copy)
1006
BM 115023 is an inscribed stone slab from Calah which is badly worn.
It contains the concluding portions of a building inscription in which
Ninurta and Ninlil are mentioned. It may be part of a hitherto unknown text describing the work of Ashurnasirpal II on the Ninurta
temple at Calah. The inscription is too badly preserved to warrant edition. It is mentioned in BM Guide 1922 p. 71 and Grayson, ARI 2
p. 115 n. 468 a i.
2001
Fragments of three private dedicatory inscriptions on stone were
found in the Nab temple at Calah and they are catalogued here as
A.0.101.2001-2003. Not enough is preserved to warrant an edition of
any of the texts and none of them has been collated. A.0.101.2001 is
on a stone bowl fragment (ND 5429, 4.5 x 11 cm) and BA-e = iq 'he
dedicated' can be deciphered in the last line.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1964 Wiseman, Iraq 26 p. 124 and pi. xxvn (copy)
2002
This bit of text is engraved on a piece of a grey stone bowl (ND 5506,
6 x 5 . 5 cm). For further discussion and bibliography see A.0.101.2001.
2003
This bit of text is engraved on a fragment of agate cylinder (ND 5540,
1.9 x 2.1 cm). For further discussion and bibliography see
A.0.101.2001.
2004
This text is engraved on a stone statue found at Tell Fekherye on the
Upper Habur River. On the same statue there is also a version of the
text in Aramaic, one of the oldest Aramaic inscriptions ever
discovered. The statue was uncovered by accident at the south-eastern
edge of the Tell, where it had probably fallen or been thrown in antiquity.
The inscription actually consists of two texts, one earlier (lines 1-18)
and one later (lines 19-38). The first is a dedication to the god Adad
(Hadad in Aramaic and Hebrew) of the city Guznu (Tell Halaf on
the Habur River). The man making the dedication, and portrayed in
the statue, is Adad-itH (Hadad-yisci in the Aramaic version) who calls
himself governor of the city Guznu. The first text concludes with a
389
390

wish for the future and a curse on anyone who would erase the ruler's
name from the statue.
The second text (lines 19-38) begins with a statement that the statue
is of Adad-it5i who is now called governor of the cities Guznu,
Siknu, and Zarnu. He states that he erected it before the god Adad
'who resides in the city Siknu, lord of the Habur River'. The text
concludes with several colourful curses. Clearly Adad-itM, at the time
the first text was composed, did not rule over as extensive a territory
as he did when the second text was written. The object upon which
the first text was inscribed must have been erected at Guznu. When
Adad-iPi gained control over Siknu, he used the first text again but
added lines 19-38 to make it appropriate for the local deity and, at
the same time, to record his greater authority.
As to date, the inscription must be ninth century BC. Adad-it>i, and
his father ama-nr, are otherwise unknown but clearly this is an independent dynasty since, unlike B1-ri (A.0.96.2001), no mention is
made of an Assyrian king. Assyrian control over the Jezireh was reestablished by the ninth century although this control was relatively
loose. So long as individual rulers paid tribute on 'show of strength'
campaigns (see the introduction to A.0.99.1), they were left independent. That Adad-it>i ruled during this period is evident from the close
affinity of various features in his inscription to the texts of Ashurnasirpal II (see the commentary).
COMMENTARY
The statue (200 x 165 cm) is in the Damascus Museum
and the inscription has been collated from the excellent
published photographs. In the few years since the
monument's discovery it has excited extensive commentary in print because of its unique importance. In keeping with the principles of the RIM series, lengthy discussions must be avoided in this edition. Here and in
the notes t o lines I shall only mention matters of basic
i m p o r t a n c e f o r an understanding of the text or points
n o t m a d e by previous c o m m e n t a t o r s . T h e reader is referred t o t h e bibliography f o r fuller expositions.
A s t o t h e close affinity of this text t o texts of A s h u r n a s i r p a l , this has been a m p l y d e m o n s t r a t e d by Millard
in the editio princeps (1982) but one point needs emphasis. Not only is the phrase DINGIR RM-W si-pu-
DUG. GA (lines 6 - 7 ) found in Ashurnasirpal's inscriptions
(A.0.101.1 i 9), but the curious writing RM-W =
rmn
is a f e a t u r e of Ashurnasirpal's texts (see the
note to A.0.101.1 i 9 for references).
A s n o t e d in the introduction, the inscription actually
consists o f t w o texts. Each text begins with Adad-iPi
speaking in t h e third p e r s o n a n d then each text switches
t o the first person (lines 13 a n d 26 respectively). T h e r e
are some scribal errors in t h e last few lines (34, 35, a n d
38) which indicate t h a t t h e scribe was in a h u r r y t o
finish his w o r k .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1981 Assaf, MDOG 113 pp. 3-22 (photo, edition)
1981 Bordreuil, Millard, and Assaf, CRAI pp. 640-55 (study)
1982 Fales, Annali di Ca> Foscari 21/3 pp. 1-12 (study)
1982 Millard, Fekherye (photo, edition)
1982 Kaufman, Maarav 3 pp. 137-75 (edition)
1982 von Soden, ZA 72 pp. 293-96 (study)
1982 Zadok, Tel Aviv 9 pp. 117-29 (study)
1982-85 Delsman, TUAT 1 pp. 634-37 (translation)
1983 Fales, Syria 60 pp. 233-50 (edition)
1983 Greenfield and Shaffer, Iraq 45 pp. 109-116 (study)
1983 Greenfield and Shaffer, AnSt 33 pp. 123-29 (study)

1983 Millard, Iraq 45 pp. 101-108 (study)
1983-84 Muraoka, Abr-Nahrain 22 pp. 79-117 (edition)
1984 Biggs and Pardee, JNES 43 pp. 253-57 (study)
1984 Kaufman, JAOS 104 pp. 571-73 (study)
1984 Lipiriski, OLZ 79 455-57 (study)
1984 Segert, AfO 31 pp. 90-94 (study)
1985 Dion, AOAT 215 pp. 139-47 (study)
1988 Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies, Supplement 4 (more bibliography)
391
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
ana
u KI-// mu--az-nin
na-din ri-i-ti u ma-q-te
ana UN.MES D U R U . U R U na-din
-qu u nin-da-b-e
D
IKUR G.GAL A N - e
H.NUN
5)
ana
6)
mu-ta-hi-du kib-ra-ti DINGIR RM-W

s-pu- DG.GA a-ib URU gu-za-ni
7)
DINGIR PAP.ME-SW G.GAL D. MES
EN GAL EN-W
L Q-lt-H GAR. KUR URU GU-ZA-ni
A mdUTU-zLAG GAR. KUR URU

ana
gu-za-ni-ma
TI-ut ZI.ME- GD.DA UD.ME-W
m-ud MU.ME-5W SILIM - NUMUN. ME-SW

u UN.ME-5W ana zi-ah GIG
d su- ik-ri-bi-a ana e-me-e
q-bit pi-ia ana ma-ga-r ik-rum-ma
NG.BA
MU-WA
ma-nu EGIR-W an-hu-su lu-di

li-kun ma-nu u-m
-na ka-ru u MU- -ak-ka-nu

10 qar-du lu- EN di-ni-
NU
10-I- 3 I GAR.KUR URU gu-za-ni
URU si-ka-ni u URU za-ra-ni

ana teg-re-es G.GU.ZA-U GD.DA pa-lu-
qi-bit KA- UGU DINGIR.MES U UN.MES
tu-ub-bi NU u-a-te UGU mahre-e -d-tir ina IGI DIKUR
a-ib URU si-ka-ni EN D ha-bur
NU-t iz-qu-up ma-nu u-m TA lb-bi
-nu-te DIKUR EN-/T
i-pa-i-tu-ni DIKUR be-li NINDA-SW
A- la i-ma-har- da-la be-si
NINDA-S A- KI.MIN U-r lu- la
e-si-di 1 LIM l-ri 1 BN
li-is-bat 1 ME U la --ba-a
UDU.NIM 1 ME GU 4 .B la --ba-a mu-ri
1 ME a-li-(da)-a-te la --ba-a DUMU
1 ME a-pl-a-te la-a -(mal)-la-a
N i N D u UGU tub-ki-na-te la-qi-te
lil-qu-te di-û ib-tu
d-(U)-p-te TA KUR-5W NU KUD.ME
3 u r u . u r u = dadm: see Greenfield and Shaffer,

114. 6 rm-m: see the commentary. 14 ik-rum-ma:
1 p. 32 note to ii 3. 21 ana te^re-es gis.gu.za-5m:
probably an ellipsis for ana ters andulli/sulli ei
Iraq 45 p.
see R1MA
this is
kussu
1-8a) To the god Adad, canal-inspector of heaven

and underworld, who sends abundant rain, who
provides pasturage and watering for the peoples
in all communities, who provides temple shares
and offerings (5) for the gods his brothers, canalinspector of rivers, who brings prosperity to the
(four) quarters, the compassionate god to whom
it is good to pray, who resides in the city Guznu,
great lord, his lord:
8b-15a) Adad-itM, governor of the city Guznu,
son of ama-nr (who was) also governor of the
city Guznu, has devoted and dedicated (this object) (10) for his life, that his days might be long,
his years many, for the well-being of his family,
seed, and people, to tear out illness from his
body, that his (lit. 'my') prayers may be heeded,
that his (lit. 'my') utterances may be acceptable
(to Adad).
15b-16a) Whoever comes later, may he restore its
weakened (portions) and re-establish my (inscribed) name.
16b-18) Whoever removes my (inscribed) name
and puts his (own) name: may Adad, the warrior,
be his adversary.
19-26a) Monument of Adad-itî, governor of the
cities Guznu, Siknu, and Zarnu: he made this
monument better than before and erected it before the god Adad who resides in the city Siknu,
lord of the Habur River, that his throne might be
protected, his reign long, (and) his utterances
pleasing to gods and peoples.
26b-38) Whoever erases my name from the furnishings of the temple of the god Adad, my lord:
may the god Adad, my lord, not accept his bread
(and) water (offerings). May the goddess Sala, his
mistress, also not accept (30) his bread (and) water (offerings). May he sow but not reap. May he
sow 1,000 (measures and) gain a profit of only
one seah. May one hundred (of his) ewes be unable to nourish a single lamb. May one hundred
(of his) cows be unable to nourish a single calf.
May one hundred mothers be unable to nourish a
single baby. (35) May one hundred bakers be unable to fill a single oven. May he be a garbage
picker who picks over refuse dumps. May (the
diseases called) dPu, sibtu, and dillptu not cease
in his land.
that his (Adad's) protection might be extended over his

(Adad-it>i's) throne'. For the full phrase see von Soden, AHw
p. 1326b sub tarsu G4.
392
2005
Some short texts of Muzib-Ninurta, ruler of adikanni (modern
Arban or Tell Ajaja) on the Habur River, must date to about this
time and are edited as A.0.101.2005-2007. In the present text the ruler
gives the name of his grandfather, Samanuha-ar-i1ni, and the same
person is included by Ashurnasirpal II as the ruler of Sadikanni who
paid tribute (A.0.101.1 i 78) to the Assyrian king. The grandson,
Muzib-Ninurta, therefore would date to late in the reign of
Ashurnasirpal or sometime during the long reign of Shalmaneser HI.
The present inscription is engraved on a cylinder seal found by Layard
at TarMsu (modern Sherif Khan).
COMMENTARY
The seal (BM 89135) measures 4 . 9 x 1.7 cm and the inscription has been engraved as a positive so that one
needs a mirror to read the impression. The text has

been collated.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1853 Layard, Discoveries p. 603 (study)
1927 Nassouhi, MAOG 3/1-2 p. 10 n. 1 (older bibliography)
1939 Frankfort, Cylinder Seals pi. xxxnia (photo)
1953 Unger, BASOR 130 pp. 15-21 (photo, edition)

1982 Curtis and Grayson, Iraq 44 pp. 87-94 (study)
1987 Collon, First Impressions no. 341 (photo, study)
TEXT
1)
NA4.KiiB mmu-e-zib~MAS
2)
3)
A mds-ma-nu-ha-MAN-mNGm.ME$-ni 2-ma
n,d
L.ID
MA-KAM 2 - m a
1-3) Seal of Muzib-Ninurta, vice-regent, son of

Ninurta-ri, the same (i.e. vice-regent), son of
Samanuha-ar-i1ni (who was) also the same (i.e.
vice-regent).
2006
This text is engraved on a broken cylinder seal which was dedicated to
the god Samnuha by Muzib-Ninurta, ruler of Sadikanni (see
A.0.101.2005). In antiquity it was transported as tribute or booty to
Babylon where Koldewey found it in the Esagil temple among the
'treasure of Marduk'. The seal was tampered with in ancient times for,
as Unger observed, line 2, which probably had the first owner's name,
was chipped out leaving only a few traces. Line 1 was added at this
time with the new owner's name.
393
COMMENTARY
The seal (VA Bab 1510 = B E 6407) measures 5 x 3 . 3
cm and the inscription has been engraved as a positive
so that one needs a mirror to read the impression. The
text has been collated from a photo. Lambert made

some important improvements in reading,
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1900 Koldewey, MDOG 5 p. 5 14 (provenance)
1911 Koldewey, Tempel pp. 46-47 (provenance)
1914 Koldewey, WEB pp. 215-16 (provenance)
1940 Moortgat, Rollsiegcl pp. 67, 140, and pi. 71 no. 600
(photo)
1953 Unger, BASOR 130 pp. 15-21 (photo, copy, edition)
TEXT
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
m x-[...]
(erasure)
ana dsa-a[m-nu-ha]
m
mu-se-zi[b-ninurta]
ana TI-S[M iq]
1) Property of [...]
2) (erasure)
3-5) Muzi[b-Ninurta dedicated] (this) to the god
Sa[mnuha], for his life.
2007
This label of Muzib-Ninurta, ruler of Sadikanni (see A.O. 101.2005),
was engraved on two winged human-headed bulls found at Sadikanni
(modern Arban or Tell Ajaja) by Layard. More than a century after
Layard's discovery, Asad Mahmoud reported the accidental
rediscovery of the two monumental bulls at the site. One had fallen
from its original position but the inscription was still clear. The
second bull was still in situ but so badly weathered that apparently the
inscription was no longer visible. According to Layard, on one of the
inscribed bulls the title SID Vice-regent* was omitted and this seems to
be the rediscovered bull on which an inscription is still preserved. It
has not been possible to collate the text. Each bull measures 142x 134
cm.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1853 Layard, Discoveries pp. 275-76 (provenance, copy)
1983 Mahmoud, Assur 4 pp. 67-70 and pis. i-iv (provenance,
edition)
1986 Moortgat-Correns, ZA 76 pp. 295-300 (study)

1988 Mahmoud and Rllig, Damas. Mitt. 3 pp. 141-49 (copy,
edition)
TEXT
1)
.GAL
mu-e~zib-MAS
SID
1) (Property of) the palace of Muzib-Ninurta,

vice-regent.
Unidentified Fragments
A.0.0
For A.0.0.1001-1012 see RIMA 1 pp. 328-29.
1013
This fragmentary text, inscribed on a stone fragment found at
Nineveh, could be a text of Ashurnasirpal n; but it could just as well
be of various kings whose texts are edited in this volume. It seems to
describe work on the Istar temple. The original has not been located.
A copy was published by Thompson, AAA 19 p. 113 and pi. LXXVH
no. 182. Cf. Schramm, EAK 2 p. 51 and Grayson, ARI 2 ci 45.
1014
This broken text on a piece of clay tablet (K 9264) mentions [...] Samsi-10 MAN KUR AS 'amI-Adad, king of Assyria'. Cf. Bezold, Cat. 3
p. 998.
1015
This fragmentary text, on a broken clay tablet (K 11256), is very
difficult to decipher but the object has the general appearance of a
ninth-century annals tablet. Cf. Bezold, Cat. 3 p. 1151.
1016
This bit of text is inscribed on a tiny clay tablet fragment (K 4529).
Not enough is preserved for any coherent phrases to be deciphered but
it is probably a piece of a royal inscription of this period. Cf. Bezold,
Cat. 2 p. 639; Winckler, OLZ 1 70; and Grayson, ARI 2 p. 115 n. 468
b vii.
394
Unidentified Fragments A.0.0.1017
1017
This piece of text is inscribed on a clay tablet fragment (K 6712) which
has the red slip characteristic of late MA tablets (see the introduction
to this volume). Nothing meaningful can be deciphered, although it is
a royal inscription. Cf. Bezold, Cat. 2 p. 804.
1018
This bit of text is on a minuscule fragment of a clay tablet (K 20242)
which W.G. Lambert kindly drew to my attention. It appears to be
from a late MA royal inscription.
Clay Cone Fragments from Nineveh

A.0.0
There are numerous clay cone fragments from Nineveh which cannot
be identified with any particular king. Since the vast majority of such
fragments which can be identified belong to Ashurnasirpal n (see the
introduction to A.O.101.56), I have placed the unidentified fragments
at the end of this volume as A.0.0.1019-1026.
1019
This clay cone fragment (BM 98719 = 1905-4-9,225) mentions
[L].SIPA KUR a-ur.KI 'shepherd of Assyria' (cf. Seux, ERAS p. 248)
and construction work (on the Istar temple?) by previous kings. Cf.
King, Cat. p. 67.
1020
This fragmentary clay cone (BM 98720 - 1905-4-9,226) refers to
d
[...] 'the temple of the deity [Istar]' which was 'built for the life of
a-na TI.LA X x [... e]-pu-u. Cf. King, Cat. p. 67.
1021
This clay cone fragment (56-9-9,137) has only the beginnings of two
lines: a-na d x [...] a-na d x [...] 'For the deity [...], for the deity [...]*.
1022
Nothing certain can be identified on this clay cone fragment
(56-9-9,166).
396
Clay Cone Fragments from Nineveh A.0.0.1023
1023
This clay cone fragment, like A.0.0.1024-1025, is in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and published with their permission.
I am grateful to John A. Brinkman for drawing my attention to these
fragments and allowing me to study them. They were purchased by
Chiera in Mosul in 1928. The present fragment (A 16932) has remains
of titles in the first two lines: [... akin] BAD ID a-ur [... akn B]AD
ID a-ur [...] '[... appointee of] Enlil, vice-regent of Aur, [... appointee of E]n1i1, vice-regent of Assur [...]'. Traces of a third line, and
possibly more lines, are indecipherable.
1024
This fragmentary clay cone in the Oriental Institute, Chicago (A 16938
see A.0.0.1023), has traces of ten lines but nothing coherent can be
deciphered.
This fragmentary clay cone in the Oriental Institute, Chicago (A 16960

see A.0.0.1023), has traces of eight lines. It is inscribed in 'archaic*
script (see RIMA 1 p. 6). The name a-ur appears in line 4 and
NUMUN-5W 'his seed* in line 5.
1026
Only the geographic name Nairi (na-rH-rP) can be read with certainty
in this minuscule clay cone fragment (BM 128211 = 1929-10-12,867).
Cf. Lambert and Millard, Cat. p. 55.
Minor Variants and Comments
Tiglath-pileser i
ii 49.3, 5, 10, 18 nr-ma-ak for nam-har. ii 50.3, 18 nam-har

for nr-ma-ak. ii 50.3-4, 10 ZABAR.MES. ii 50.2, 4-5, 10 omit
-,te. ii 51.3-4, 10 omit MES after amlte. ii 52.3, 5 insert UDU
before sent, ii 52.3 se-e-ni. ii 52.2, 4-5 SE-W.ME.
ii 52.2, 5 ma-da-ta. ii 55.3 kab-ta for DUGUD. ii 55.2-3 w4me for UD.MES. ii 56.10 si-hr-ti-a. ii 57.2-4 -k-ni.
ii 57.10 -k-ni-i. ii 59.2-5, 9-10 ma-da-at-te. ii 60.5 ifrfi
for Sa. ii 62.3-4, 9 ds-ru-uk. ii 63.2-3 for Sa. ii 63.3 aSSur for da-Sur. ii 66.2-3 omit MES. ii 68.5 al-q. ii 69.2 la
(omits -a), ii 69.4 ma-gi-(ri). ii 70.2, 4-5 -te for -ti.
ii 70.21 omits namrasi. ii 71.3, 5 omit MES after GIGIR.
ii 71.3, 5 omit . ii 72.3-5, 21 e-te-ti-iq. ii 73.4
me-^ti-iq\
ii 74.3-5, 7 la-a. ii 74.3 \]u-. ii 75.2, 4 qu-ra-di-ia.MES.
ii 76.3, 5 sib-bi. ii 77.2 pa-[S-q]a-a-ti. ii 77.7 pa-S-qa-te.
ii 77.4 al-(i. ii 77.5 e-te-tiq. ii 81.5 bu-Sa-Su-nu.
ii 81.3 [S-l]u-ul. ii 82.2, 4-5, 7, 12 URU.ME's-Su-nu.
ii 82.3 URU.URU-.VW-WW. ii 83.5 //-//'.MES. ii 83.7 omits ME.
ii 83.2-5, 12 ma-da-at-ta. ii 85.3, 5, 7, 12 GURUS for et-lu.
ii 86.3 mu-pe-et-ti. ii 87.2, 4 mu-Sk-ni-iS. ii 87.7 la (omits
-a), ii 89.2, 12, C 47 la (omit -a), ii 92.1
ma-da-{ta)-u-nu.
ii 92.3, 5 ma-da-at-ta-u-nu. ii 94.3, 5-7, 12 ma-da-at-ta.
ii 95.5-6 aS-Sur for da-Sur. ii 96.2-5, 7 lit- for ti-.
ii 96.2-6 omit -w'-. ii 96.C 42 -te-ia-ma for -ti-ia-ma.
ii 97.C 43 a-ur for da-Sur. ii 98.5, C 43 la (omits -a).
ii 99.5 ru-up-Se. ii 99.C 43 ru-pu-Se. ii 100.2-3, 5 kas-ka-aia.MES. ii 101.3 -ru-ma-a-ia.MES. ii 101.2 ha-te-ê^.
A.0.87.1
i 2.4-5
LUGAL-/E f o r MAN-//, i 4.3 5
EN. i 7 . 3 , 5, 10 AN-E.
i 8.2-5, 10 -bi for -be. i 9.3 -S- for -sa-, i 15.2, 4 AN for
AN-e. i 18.3 NUN-e for NUN. i 21.2-3 si-ra. i 25.3, 5 kis-Su-ti.
i 29.4, C 49 kiS-Sat for KI. i 29.2-3 la for la-a. i 32.3 -summa for -u-ma. i 34.2-3 ke-e-nu but exs. 1 and 4 have, incorrectly, ke-e-ni. i 36.4 si-i-ru. i 39.4 S for a. i 42.2-5 Sa
for . i 43.4 -ii for -te. i 44.3, 7 la for la-a. i 45.4 -m- for
Sami 46.3 MAN- for LUGAL-. i 49.2-3 iq-bu--ni.
i 50.2, 4, C 10 -te for -ti. i 51.3 qa-a-ti. i 52.3 ma-ha-zi.M^.
i 52.7 mal-ki (omits MES), i 52.3 aS-Sur for a-ur. i 53.3 -tiu-nu for -te-u-nu. i 54.2-5 MAN for LUGAL. i 56.2, 4 li-ta.
i 57.2, 4-5, 7 -kan for -ka-an. I 57.3 a-ni-na for GABA.RI-C.
i 58.3 ma-hi-ra for Sa-ni-na. i 58.5 x [x]-r[a]: there is hardly
room in this ex. for and therefore it probably had only
rma^-[hi]-r[a], omitting . i 61.5, 7 KUR.KUR.MES-.
i 62.3 MAN- for LUGAL-. i 63.2
mu-ka-ia.MES.
i 64.3 MU.ME-?e. i 65.3 na-. i 66.2, 4 ma-da-te.

i 71.3 um-ma-na-te-[i]a for qu-ra-di-ia.ME. i 72.2 ar-ka-a for
EGIR-. i 73.2-4 lu-. i 73.5, 7 lu (omit -u).
i 75.3 LUGAL.ME-ni-su-nu. i 78.5, 19 tu-Sa-a-ri.
i 80.2, 4, 7 l-Sr-di. i 81.2 lu -na-ki-sa. i 82.3, 5 URU.MESni-Su-nu. i 82.12 [l\u-Si-pi-ik. i 83.3 bu-a-a-u-nu.
i 84.4-5, 19 (a (omits -a), i 84.3 lu-Se-$a-a. i 85.7 -su-nu.
i 87.3 -Su-nu--ti-ma. i 89.3, 5, 7 /a-a. i 90.3, 5 ma-da-at-ta.
i 90.7 ma-da-a-ta. i 92.4, 6 si-Air-. i 92.3, 5 lu- ak-Sud.
ii 102.5 la (omits -a), ii 102.5 r&fi f 0 r Sa. iii 2.2, 4-5 omit
-ma after usehhipsunti. iii 2.2, 5 ta-ha-zi for M. iii 3.3 -SuSi in error for -Su-nu. iii 3.2 omits . iii 7.3, 11 qar-du-ti-iama. iii 7.5 Sa-nu-ite^-ia for 2-te-ia. iii 8.3 omits lu-.
iii 8.5 lu (omits -u). iii 9.3 U[RU.M]E-ni-Su-nu.
iii 10.3 inserts before namkurSunu. iii 10.2, 4-5, 14 la
(omit -a), iii 11.3 U[RU.M]E-/-5U-Û. iii 12.3, 5 insert after
aqqur. iii 16.3, 5 -t~a~l- for -S-, iii 16.4-5 dan-nu-ti.
iii 17.2-3, 5, 14 lu (omit -u). iii 18.3, 11 hur-Sa-a-ni.
iii 18.3 a-qu--te. iii 19.11 pa--qa-^te^. iii 20.5 la (omits
-F). iii 21.3, 5 ar-ki- for EGIR-. iii 21.4-5 qab-la for MURUB4.
iii 22.5, 27 ta-ha~za for M. iii 22.3, 5 it-te-ia.
iii 22.2-5, 14 lu (omit -). iii 23.3 omits lu-. iii 23.5, 27 lu
(omit-U). iii 23.3 Sal-mat. iii 24.C 14 gi-sal-la-at. iii 25.2 lu
-^ke^[mir]. iii 27.2-5 bu-Sa-Su-nu. iii 28.3 inserts
before namkurSunu. iii 29.2 dan-nu-ti. iii 29.2, 4 lu -Se-ri-da.
iii 29.3 lu-Se-ri-ia in error, iii 30.6 gim-ri-S. iii 31.2-5 -ter.
iii 32.3 MAN for LUGAL. iii 33.3 [l\a (omits -a), iii 35.3-6 sira-a-ie. iii 36.5 um-(ma)-na-at.
iii 36.3, 5 omit ME.
iii 37.2, 4, 6 omit MES. iii 39.6 a-la-a-ki. iii 40.6 um-ma-nate-ia.UBi. iii 43.3, 10 Sa-qu-te. iii 44.2-3, 5-6 me-teq.
iii 45.3 ta-a-ba-ni. iii 46.4-6, 10 lu (omit -). iii 46.10 e-mid.
iii 47.3, 5, 10 e-te-tiq. iii 47.4-5 omit MES. iii 48.3 omits
ME-/\ iii 48.5-6 omit -te. iii 48.3 lu-ul- for lui-.
iii 49.2, 5-6 omit ME. iii 49.3, 5 ta-ha-zi for M.
iii 50.2-6, 10 dp-nS. Cf. Ungnad, OLZ 8 (1905) 580.
i 94.3, 5 URU.ME-M-W-/?W. ii 2.3 /-/w GIS pa-an. Presumably the GIS is a badly formed PA which the scribe then
corrected by inscribing a proper PA. ii 4.7, 23 S for a (first
occurrence), ii 4.3, 5 GR.MES. ii 4.3 am-ma-a-te. ii 4.7 omits
second sa. ii 5.C 33 lu-. ii 6 GIGIR: the form published in
King is incorrect, ii 9.3, 5 hu-la. ii 9.4-5, 23 me-teq.
ii 10.4 adds MES after ummntia. ii 10.2 R/M t -t-ib.
ii 11.5 e-be-er. ii 12.3 ak-Su-ud. ii 14.2, 4 ser-ma-e.
ii 14.3 lu -m-si. ii 15.3 ba-mat KUR-i. ii 15.2 for a.
ii 17.2-5 add ME after paph. ii 18.4 n-ra-ru-te (omits -ut-).
ii 18.5 n-ra-ru-ut-ti. ii 18.3 omits Sa. ii 19.3, 5 il-li-ku-ni.
ii 20.3 Su-be. ii 20.2-3, 10 lu uS-na-il. ii 21.3 gu-ru-na-te.
ii 23.3 sal-mat. ii 23.3 qu-ra-a-di-Su-nu. ii 26.5 [...-S]u-nu.
ii 31.3 K.GI.me. ii 31.3, 10 have before K.BABBAR.MES.
ii 31.10 omits ME after K.BABBAR. ii 32,3, 5, 10 omit w.
ii 34.3, 5 a-a-tu, ii 34.2 ina: King mistakenly has i-ti for ina. ii 37.1 erroneously has na-pa-ri. ii 39.3, 5 have lu at the
beginning, ii 39.2, 4-5, 18 is- for i-. ii 39.3 -hu-up- for
-hup-, ii 39.3, 10 omit -ma. ii 40.3, 5 nap-a-a-te-u-nu.
ii 41.3 sa-qu-rii-\t)i. ii 43.3
um-ma-(na)-a-te-ia.ME.
ii 43.2 omits me, ii 43.3, 10 omit lu before alqe.
ii 43.5, 18 omit lu before bir. ii 44.2, 4-5 ha-tu-hi.
ii 46.5 omits MES. ii 47.10 fb-be-. ii 48.4 li-tu-te.
399
400
iii 50.6 iu-u. iii 51.3 KUR (omits -e). iii 51.28 am- for nam-.
iii 53.2-3, 5 ba-mat. iii 54.2 gu-ru-na-te. iii 54.5 [... gu-r]una-a-te.MES. iii 54.3 ' /t/T w-rq-ri-in. iii 56.6 for sa.
iii 56.5 lu -r-di. iii 58.2-6, 9, 28, 30 lu (omit -).
iii 58.2-4, 6, 9, 28-30 as-niq. iii 62.6
sa-al-û--ni.
iii 63.3, 27(?) insert b e f o r e namkrunu.
iii 63.5, 30 insert
lu before alul. iii 64.3 URU. RME~I-W-W-RTW. iii 65.2-4, 9 ap~
pu-uL iii 66.2 ti-(ib). iii 66.2-6, 9 Mt-ia for ta-ha-zi-ia.
iii 67.2, 4 omit first /. iii 67.3, 5, 9 lu (first occurrence, omit
-u). iii 67.2-5, 9 lu-ma-e-ru. iii 68.3
a-qu--ti.
iii 69.2-3, 5-6, 9 insert lu before ipparu. iii 69.3 a-ur for
d
a-sur. iii 70.3 i-hu-ûp^-. iii 70.2, 4 omit -ma. iii 71.3 urdu-ni-ma. iii 72.3, 5 - 6 , 9 ma-da-at-ta. iii 74.2-3
ka-na-a-a.
iii 75.5-6 la (omit -a), iii 75.2 a-f~bu-bP.
iii 76.5, 9, 31 DAGAL.ME (omit -t), iii 77.5 omits KUR.
iii 78.4, C 1 3 sal-mat. iii 80.2-6, 9 lu-me-si.
iii 80.3 [u]RU.ME-rt/-itt-/zM. iii 80.9 --nu for -u-nu.
iii 81.3, 6(?) DINGR-ME-/H-5W-HM. iii 84.3
kar-mi.
iii 86.3 a-ur for da-ur. iii 88.25, C l
ap-su--te.
iii 89.2, 4-5 la (omit -a), iii 90.2-3, 25
ma-da-at-ta.
iii 91.3 pa-ian}.
iii 91.3 -u-nu-te. iii 92.4
-re-du-te-ia-ma.
iii 93.4 omits . iii 93.2-6, 25 omit last ME. iii 96.4 Sd for
a. iii 96.3, 5 omit . iii 97.2, 4 insert lu before akud.
iii 101.3 [a]k-u-ud. iii 102.3 DINGIR.ME-ni-u-nu.
iii 102.5, 20 bu-a-a-u-nu. iv 1.3 omits MES. iv 2.3 omits .
iv 3.3, 11 a-a-tu. iv 5.11 (u4)-mi-u-ma.
iv 5.3 omits ME.
iv 6.2-3, 5, 11, 20 AGA-ia for ra-H-mi-ia. iv 7.2, 4, 11 si-ra-ate. iv 8.3, 5 la (omit -a), iv 8.3 ka-ni-ut. iv 9.3, 5, 11 omit
lu. iv 10.4 RIN.H.- for um-ma-na-teiv
10.5 r u m ^ - m a (na)-^te^-.
iv 10.2 --nu. iv 11.3 a-ri-ir-gi. iv 12.3
pap-hi-i.
iv 12.4-5 pap-he-e.MES. iv 13.1-2, 4 DAGAL.MES (omit -ti).
iv 13.5, 11 DAGAL.ME-/E. iv 15.4-5, 11 KUR.KUR.ME-U-nU.
iv 16.2, 11, 14 lu (omit -u). iv 19.2
gu-ru-na-te:
iv 19.11 rgu'1-ru-na-a-te.ME. iv 21.3 lu-. iv 22.4 si-hir- for
si-hir. iv 23.3 DINGIR.MEl-ni-u-nu. iv 23.5 --nu for -u-nu.
iv 24.2-4 bu-a-a-u-nu. iv 25.3 URU.MES-ni-u-nu.
iv 27.17 ERIN.HI.A.MES- for um-ma-na-te-.
iv 29.3-4 ma-daat-ta. iv 33.3, 5 ki-i-ti. iv 34.2, 26 for a. iv 37.5 a-u[r]
for da-ur. iv 38.2-4 ÎNANNA. ME-/. iv 38.6 The INANNA
sign lacks the final vertical, iv 40.5, 26 LUGAL for MAN.
iv 42.26 LUG[AL.ME] for MAN.ME. iv 43.2-6
U4-mi-u-ma.
iv 43.4 si-ra-a-te. iv 46.2-5 sa for . iv 47.3 me- for mi-.
iv 48.2-3, 5 omit . iv 48.3 la (omits -a).
iv 49.3, 5 KUR. KUR. MES. iv 49.5 MAN. MES. iv 50.2-3 e-le-nite. iv 50.5 dam-e. iv 51.2-3, 5 a for . iv 51.5, 13 ka-naa-a. iv 52.13 EN-r/ai. iv 53.2 ^mar-su--t^.
iv 53.3-5 marsu-te. iv 53.2, 13 n-re-be-te. iv 53.3, 5
n-re-b-te.
iv 53.4 [n-re-b]-ftn.
iv 54.5 -ti for -te. iv 55.2 - for libba-. iv 55.3 la (omits -). iv 56.2-5, 13 -ti for -te.
iv 57.2, 4 -ti for -te. iv 65.2-4 KUR.MES (omit -ni).
iv 66.2-3 GI.GIGIR-I. iv 66.3, 5 omit . iv 69.3, 13 -ra-a-ti.
iv 69.2-5, 13 omit MES after titurrte. iv 69.5
me-teq.
iv 69.6 me-te-e[q]. iv 70.3 um-ma-na-a-te-ia.
iv 70.2, 4 add
MES after ummQntia. iv 71.2, 4-5 lu (omit -u).
iv 71.3 omits lu-. iv 74.3 an-di-a-be. iv 83.3, 5 LUGAL.MES
(omit -nu). iv 83.3, 25 KUR.KUR.MES.
iv 8 4 . 3 , 5 KUR. KUR. MES-. V 8 4 . 3
GI.GIGIR.ME-5-/M.
iv 85.2, 4 lul-tak- for ul-tk-. iv 87.2, 4, C 2

it-bu--ni.
iv 89.2 a-gal-te. iv 89.2 DAGAL.MES-<?. iv 91.3, 6
-ku-un.
iv 92.3 EDIN for se-ri. iv 93.3 URU.ME-ni-u-nu. iv 94.3 lum-si. iv 95 -lup{*)-: the sign is LAP. For the reading see
Renger, ZA 61 (1971) p. 37 n. 29 and cf. C A D 6 (H) p. 46.
iv 96.3 MAN for LUGAL. iv 97.3 has an erasure before a-di.
iv 98.2-3, 5, 33 -ti- for -te-, iv 99.2 mul-mul-li (omits -ia).
iv 100.2-3 -ti for -te. iv 100.2, 5, 8 -Su-nu (omit -ti).
v 1.2-3, 5, 8 bu-a-u-nu. v 4.5, 8 kar-me. v 5.2-5, 8 su-
gul-lat.
V 5 . 2 DAGAL.ME-TE. V 5 . 3
DAGAL.MES-//.
v 6.2, 4 - 5 pa-re-e.ME. v 6.2-3, 5, 8 a-ga-li.ME.

v 7.3, 5, 8, 11, 20 la (omit -a), v 8.20 inserts before naphar. v 10.5 MAN for LUGAL. V 10.2-5, 8, 11
a-tu-nu.
v 12.2-3, 5, 8 al-la-su-nu. v 14.3 ap-tu-ur-ma. v 16.5 ta m-me-, v 18.2-4, 8 li-tu-ut-te. v 20.4 ma-da-^ta^. v 20.3 ina muh-hi-ku-nu
for UGU-su-nu (the erroneous -ku- is clear),
v 20.3 -kun for -kn. v 21.2-3, 5-6, 8
-ma-r-.
v 23.3, 5 la (omit -a), v 25.2, 4 ub-la (omit -su), v 26.4 asSur for a-ur. v 27.8, 17 da-gil erroneously for da-lil.
v 27.3 GAL.MES-//. V 28.2-4, 6 da-la-li. v 28.2-4, 8, 17 napi~. v 28.4, 17 -te for -ti. v 29.3, 6
-ma-r-u.
v 29.3
KUR.KUR.MES. v 3 0 . 8 , 17 DAGAL.MES ( o m i t
-t).
v 30.3 gim-(ri)-i-na.
v 31.3 LUGAL.dE-ni-u-nu.
v 32.2-3 -k-ni-i. v 35.5 la (omits -a), v 36.3 e-du-ru (omits -ma), v 38.2-3, 24 li-t-u-nu. v 38.4
li-i-t.MEl-i-u^nu^.
v 39.3-5, 17 kur-ba-a-ni. v 45.2-3, 5 omit MES.
v 45.3, 5 omit lu-. v 46.4 inserts r/u"i before as-bat.
v 46.2-3 -mi-i for -mi-i. v 47.3
ar-ma-a-ia.ME.
v 48.3, 5 omit lu-. v 48.4 lu (omits -u). v 51.2, 4
a-du-uk.
v 52.2, 4 bu-a-u-nu. v 52.3 inserts before marssunu.
v 53.2-3 la (omit -a), v 53.3, 5 ma-n-e for mi-na. v 53.3 te-er-ra. v 54.3 um-ma-na-te-u-nu.MEl.
v 56.3
ip-pr-i-duma. v 56.3, 5 omit lu. v 57.2-3 EGIR- for ar-ki-, v 58.3 lu-.
v 58.2-5 e-bir. v 59.3 URU.MES. w'-Sw-rta. v 62.3 inserts at
beginning of line, v 65.2-3 la-a. v 70.2-3 -hir- for -hir-.
v 72.3 URU.MES-w. v 73.3 qu-ma-ni-i. v 75.5 du-Oi/H for illi-ku-ni. v 76.3, 5 omit lu. v 76.4 lu-. v 77.5 1 (omits -en).
v 77.3 for a. v 78.3, 13 lu (omit -). v 79.3, 13 insert lu
before is-ba-tu. v 80.2, 4 ma-da-ta. v 81.3 i-na
muh-hi-u-nu
for UGU-su-nu. v 81.3 -ku-un for -kin. v 82.2-3 qu-mani-i. v 83.3 i-- for i-a-. v 84.2, 4 id-ku-ni. v 84.3 id-kuni-ma. v 85.2 omits MES. V 85.3-5 omit GIS.TUKUL.MES.
v 85.2-5 MURUB4 for qab-li. v 85.3 ta-ha-zi for M.
v 86.3-4 iz-zi-zu-ni-ma.
v 87.3 it-(ti). v 88.2-5 omit -ma.
v 89.3, 5 lu-. v 92.34 sal-mat. v 95.3 for Sa. v 96.2 lu
-r-di. y 98.3 erroneously omits -ter. vi 2 . 2 - 4 lu (omit -).
vi 3.3 lu-. vi 4.2, 4 hur-a-ni. vi 4.3, 5
hur--ni.
vi 5.2-3, 8, 39 u-be. vi 5.2-4, 8, 39 omit lu. vi 7.8 [ba]ma-te. vi 7.2, 4 sa for . vi 12.2-3, 8 -hir- for -hir-.
vi 13.4 ap-p-ul. vi 13.3 kar-mi. vi 14.2-3 omit ME.
vi 15.4 ro-win for e-pu-u. vi 16 The master text is entirely
from ex. 2 since ex. 1 is badly broken, vi 16.3 ki-i-ti.
vi 16.1 KUR.KUR.ME-Z?. vi 16.3 omits MES.
vi 17.2-3, 5, 39 la (omit -a), vi 20.3, 5, 39
a-a-tu-nu.
vi 23.3, 39 qu-ra-a-di-ia. vi 23.3 omits MES. vi 23.3, 5 omit
lu. vi 23.15 [lu]-. vi 24.3, 5 omit lu. vi 24.39, C 1 3 lu-.
vi 24.3 rqu^-ma-ni-i. vi 25.4 [ta-h]a-zi-ia for m-ia.
vi 25.5 omits -ma. vi 27.3
vi 28.3 aq-ba^n0-ma.
vi 28.15 [aqba]-u-um-ma.
vi 29.3, 35 u-i-u.
vi 30.5 ip-pu-ul. vi 31.2, 4, 35 qi-in-na-a-te.ME (ex. 35 omits
-a-), vi 31.4 hi-i-t.UE. vi 32.2 W (omits -a), vi 33.1 The
last sign is, mistakenly, -nu. vi 33.4, 35 U-H-U.UE (ex. 35
omits -i-). vi 34.2, 4-5, 15, 35 ma-da-at-ta. vi 36.4, 35 ku-un. vi 36.3 inserts before KUR. vi 36.3
qu-ma-ni-i.
vi 37.5 [si-ir-ti-[s]a,
vi 38.3, 5 -e-ek-n-i. vi 40.1
(e)ber-ta-an. vi 41.2-5, 35 i-di. vi 41.4-5, 35
hur-a-ni.
vi 41.3 n-su-ti. vi 42.3 pu-^raP-ta.
vi 43.3
e-l[e-n]i-te.
vi 44.2-4, 35 dam-i. vi 44.3, 5 SAG for ri-i.
vi 45.4 BALA, MES-/ff. vi 45.2-5 qa-ti. vi 45.3 inserts lu before
ik-ud. vi 47.3 li-i-ti-u-nu. vi 47.4 li-i-t.MF-u-nu.
vi 47.5, 35 li-ti-u-nu. vi 48.3 ma-da-at-ta. vi 48.35
-ki-in.
vi 50.4 qer-ba. vi 51.4 ta-a-ba for DG.GA. vi 51.5 omits
ME. vi 52.5, 35, C 3 1 , C 3 3 EGIR- for ar-ki-. vi 53.4-5, 35 atta-lak. vi 53.4-5, 35 GR (omit MES), vi 54.5 KUR-ia.
vi 54.2, 5, 22, 35 lu (omit -). vi 55.3, 5, 22, 35 GURUS for
401 Minor Variants and Comments

et-lu. vi 56.22, 35 la (omit -a), vi 56.2, 22 Sa-na-an.
vi 59.3 [$]i-ir-ta. vi 61.22 DMA for dnin-urta.
vi 61.3-5, 22 QA-ia for ra-H-mi-ia. vi 62.2, 4 Su-tu-ru-ti.
vi 70.2-4 dan-nu-te. vi 72.3 lu-. vi 72.4 bal-tu-ti. vi 73.3 lu
-sa-bi-ta. vi 74.2-3, 5 omit -ma. vi 75.5 bal-(u-ti.
vi 79.3-4 lu-M. vi 81.2, 4 lu-em-qt. vi 83.3, 5 omit MES.
vi 84.3-6 at-ta-ad-di. vi 85.3 inserts a-na after a-ur.
vi 85.3 -- nu ' for -u-nu. vi 86.3 -u-ri-i-te.
vi 88.2, 4 omit MES after .HI.A. vi 88.3 .HI.A.MES-/.
vi 89.3 puts an-hu-te after da-ur. vi 89.2-3 DJ-U for e-puu. vi 90.2-4 omit ME. vi 92.2-3, 5 -Se-ri-ib.
vi 94.2, 4-5 .GAL.MES (omit -te), vi 94.3 Su-bt.
vi 94.3 LUGAL-te. vi 94.4 MAN- for LUGAL-. vi 95.2 ma-ha(za)-ni. vi 95.4 ma-ha-za-ni.MES. vi 95.2, 5 omit -te.
vi 96.3 i-i{d\-di. vi 97.2 omits -te. vi 98.3 dan-na-a-i te*.
vi 98.3 um-da-e-ra-ma. vi 99.3, 5 e-pu-u for Dt-u.
vi 102.3 lufor -. vi 102.5 -Sr-[k]i-is5. vi 102.2 tab-ka.
vi 103.3 AD.ME-FAR in error, vi 104.3, 5 ut-ter.
vi 104.3, 5 lu-ti before at-bu-uk. vii 1.2-4 insert Sa before
a-ur. vii 2.4 KUR.KUR.ME-FE. vii 3.3 ki-i-it-ti qa-a-ti-ia.

vii 4.2-4, 8 Sa for . vii 4.3 su-gul-la-at. vii 5.8 na-a-li (omits MES), vii 5.2, 4 ar-mi (omit MES), vii 6.3 tu-ra-a-hi.MEL.
vii 6.8, 16 omit MES. This is clearly the case in both exs.
despite the breaks. There is no room in the break in ex. 8 for
MES and [tu\-ra-hi is at the end of the line in ex. 16.
vii 6.3 dnin-urta for DMA. vii 7.3 AGA-ia, vii 7.3 e-pe-eS.
vii 8.3 inserts Sa after q-reb. vii 8.2-4, 8 hur-Sa-ni.
vii 9.3 Sa-qu--te -tam-mi-hu. vii 11.2, 4-5, 8 S for Sa.
vii 11.3 mar-Si-it. vii 12.3, 35 insert UDU at beginning of line,
vii 12.5, 8, 35 omit MES. vii 12.5, 8, 35 lu (omit -u).
vii 15.3, 5 UDU.SISKUR.ME-W. V 15.2-3, 8 K.ME-FE.
vii 16.5, 35 lu-. vii 21.4 mah-ru-tL vii 22.2, 4, 35 la-a.
vii 22.2, 4 insert lu before al-qa-am-ma. vii 22.4 al-qa-ma.
vii 23.35 omits MES. vii 24.4 inserts lu at beginning of line,
vii 24.35 GURUN.MES. vii 27.2, 4 lu-uS-me-li. vii 28.3 ni-i-ri.
vii 29.4 e-mu-ûq^. vii 29.2 S for Sa. vii 30.3, 5, 35 omit lu
both times, vii 30.2, 5, 35 ut-ter. vii 30.4 lu-ter lu-Sr-ki-is.
vii 32.2 -Sa for -Sa. vii 32.3 lu-re-ed-di. vii 32.15 ^lu^-re-di.
vii 33.2 uzu (omits MES), vii 34.3, 15 Su-ub-ta. vii 35.3 -afor -Se-, vii 36.35
MILA-A-E vii 37.5 DMA for dninurta. vii 39.3, 5, 15 EGIR for ar-ki. vii 40.3 DU.ME-/:-/NFF for
it-tal-la-ku-ma. vii 41.2-5, 15 ka-US for gi-mir. vii 42.3 MAN
for LUGAL. vii 43.3, 8 TKUR.KURXMES. vii 44.3 al-tu--te.
vii 45.15 seems (but passage badly broken) to omit the first
Sa. vii 47.3, 15 ih-Su-hu-ma. vii 48.2-4 ki-niS. vii 50.4 mif-ti.
vii 51.3 DBAD for den-l. vii 52.4-5 zi-be-Su. vii 57.2-3, 5 ri-in-ni. vii 59.3 um-ma-nat. vii 59.2-5 ki-ni.
vii 62.2 d aS-Sur. vii 62.3 aS-Sur (omits d ). vii 63.4 aS-Sur
(omits d ). vii 66.5 MAN for LUGAL. vii 66.2, 4-5 da-Sur.
vii 67.3 A for DUMU. vii 67.2-5, 7, 22 dnin-urta- for DMA-.
vii 67.4-5 MAN for LUGAL. vii 67.4 aS-Sur-ma. vii 67.5 aur-ma. vii 68.5, 7 ip-pl. vii 68.2, 4 Dts-uS for e-pu-uS.
vii 69.4 MU.MES (omits -te), vii 70.3, 5 in-na-du-.
vii 75.2-3, 5, 7 iq-bu--ni. vii 77.2-3, 5, 7 uS-Se-Su.
vii 79.4 -hir for -hir-. vii 84.4 pu--li. vii 85.3 gaba-bi-dibSu. vii 86.4 D-W for e-pu-uS. vii 87.4 si-qur-ra-te.
vii 87.2-4 add ME after siqqurrte. vii 87.4 GAL.ME (omits
-te), vii 88.2 si-ma-at. vii 88.2 GAL-/. vii 89.3 lu-.
vii 91.4 hi-da-ti-. vii 94.3, 5 L.ITIM-te. vii 96.4 e-pu-us for
Dt-u. vii 99.3 i-ga-ra-a-te-Su. vii 99.2, 4, 7 i-ga-ra-te-u.MES.
vii 101.2-4, 7, 16 na-me-re-Su. vii 102.3 si-qur-ra-a-te-Su.
vii 107.2 GAL-te. vii 110.6 [fb-b]e. vii 110.4-7 -e-rib.
vii 111.3, 5 si-ir-te. vii 113.3, 7 insert at beginning of line,
vii 113 3, 5, 7 GAL-te. viii 2.3 -DIKUR-MF. viii 2.3-4 aS-Sur
(omit d ). viii 5.4 erroneously has a-Sar-Su twice, viii 5.4 ume-es-si. viii 5.3 u-i-Su. viii 7.2, 4-5 ar-sip. viii 8.3 -Sr-
Si-id. viii 9.3 UDU.SISKUR.MES. viii 9.2-4 omit -te after

SISKUR.ME. viii 9.2, 4 omit -te after K.MES. viii 10.2, 4 lu-.
viii 10.3 at-ta-aq-qi. viii 11.3 u4-mi-u (omits -ma).
viii 13.3, 8 KUR for KUR.KUR. viii 14.2, 4-5 lu (omit -u).
viii 16.2-5 UD.MES for u4-me. viii 17.2, 5 si-ra.
viii 18.5, C41 omit M. viii 19.2 la-pr- (omits a-), viii 19.3 apr-ku-ma. viii 21.3 -li-lu--ma. viii 22.2 lib-be.
viii 24.2-3, 5, 8 ki-niS. viii 27.3 zu--ni. viii 27.2 S-na-at.
viii 28.3, 5 BAL A-ia. viii 29.3, 5 ta-ha-zi for M.
viii 30.5, C41 lit-tar-ru-ni. viii 31.3 KUR.KUR.MES.
viii 33.3, 5 lu -Sk-ni-Su. viii 35.2-3, 5 DG.GA-/T for ta-abta. viii 35 For -ru- King has, in error, -ID-. viii 36.3 DINGIRti-s-nu. viii 37.5 GAL -te. viii 38.2, 4 ki-ni-iS.
viii 38.2, 4-5, 36 lu -Sr-Si-du. viii 40.2-5 tam-ha-ri-ia.
viii 42.5 -te for -ti. viii 42.2, 4-5 is-ru-ku-ni. viii 46.3 dS-kuun. viii 50.5 sa-a-ti. viii 53.3 GAL.ME-te. viii 53.38 [s]i-qurra-a-tu.MEi. viii 53.C 24 si-qur-ra-tu. viii 55.7 lu--ud-di-iS.
viii 56.2-5, 7, 38 tem-me-ni-ia. viii 57.3 li-ip-Su-uS.
viii 57.3-5, 7, 38 liq-qi. viii 58.7 S-ri-Su (omits -nu).
viii 58.4-5, 7, C 20 lu-ter. viii 59.3 it-ti-ia (omits uu-ia).
viii 60.2-5, 7 ia-ti-ma. viii 61.3 fu-ub for DG.GA.
viii 61.4 lib-be. viii 62.3 ta-biS for DG.GA-Z.
viii 63.2-5, 7 tem-me-ni-ia. viii 68.2-5, 7 la a-ma-ri.
viii 69.5 inserts Sa at beginning of line, viii 70.5 i-S- for /Sa-, viii 70.3 inserts lu after . viii 70.3 mi-ma. viii 70.5
-im(*)~: the scribe has mistakenly inscribed LIM. viii 75.3 -kflfor -kil-. viii 76.3 -S for -Su. viii 78.3-5 MAN- for LUGAL-.
viii 79.3 lu-bal-lu-. viii 80.3, 5, 7 lu-Sab-bi-ru.
viii 84.4 HUL-/7. viii 87.2, 4, 7 la-a. viii 88.7 NUMUN (omits
-Su), viii 88.3 ina for i-na. viii 88.3 KUR (omits -ti).
viii 88.7 KUR-ti-Su. viii 88.3, 5, 7, 19 lu-hal- for lu--hal-.
viii 88.3 -li-iq for -liq. viii 90.2, 4-5, 7, 19 -ia-a-lak.
viii 90,7 omits MES.
A.0.87.2
5.3 Sa-giS. 5.5 -gi{S\. 21.2- 3 -k niS. 21.4 -Sk-(ni).
23.4 omits -ni-. 24.4 a-qi-iS. 25.1 [DAGAL.ME-/]E, not
[DAGAL.M]E. 25.1 tumt-mi. 25.2 tum4-me. 26.4 omits -ni-.
27.1 [serr-t]i. 27.2 se[r-r]e-ta. 30.2 omits-. 31.1 kar-mi.
31.2 [k]ar-me. 31.2 î-na muh-hi-Su (no -nw), mistakenly
omitted by King as noted by Luckenbill, AJSL 43 p. 222.
2' King read the second sign as Sa but d\a\ seems better.
10" GAL written twice in error,
A.0.87.3
I.3-4 da-Sur. 5.2 mistakenly omits A/DUMU at beginning of
line. 9.3 omits -te at end of line. 13.2 li-(.IIE-Su-nu.
14.2 ni-ri. 16.2 lab-na-a-ni al-lik. 18.2 ak-ki-is$. 18.5, 7 etiq. Weidner says ex. 2 also has this var. but ex. 2 has a lacuna here (collated from excavation photo and from original).
19.7 lu ak-Sud. 20.2 rma^-da-ta. 21.7 omits -ia at end of
line. 27.7 ma-da-at-ta. 44.3-4 [... -ku]-un. 47.3 [... S]a-atra. 49.3-4 i-Se-me. 51.6 da-Sur-.
A.0.87.4
6.26 uRi.KI for ak-ka-di-i. 8.26 gim-me-ra. 8.26 ez-zu-te.
9.7 uS-ra-bu-ma. 9.26 i-hi-lu da-ad-mu.MES. 9.1 [dadm
ihil-l\u{) w, cf. Borger, EAK 1 p. 118 n. 1. 9.7 al-tu-te
KR.ME-ut. 10.7, 26 tq-ru-ub-te. 11.26 da-ap-pa-nu.
II.1 Sa for Sa. 11.1 [kibr-t)i. 17.4 lu- (twice). 18.6 lu-.
19.2 Sal-la-a t. 19.6, 22 lu-me-$i. 21.8 omits -a after la- (ex. 2
has -a, against Weidner). 22.8 [l]u-lu-m[-e()]. 22.3 [sihirt]Sa. 24.6-7 lu-. 26.10 omits lu before e-tiq. 27.8 Weidner
402
reads [lu]-, but this is a mistaken confusion with its

occurence in line 28. 28.8 [u]-t. 28.9 [ha-at-te]-e.
30.8 [GI.]R.ME, not [GU]N.ME (against Weidner).
30.13 [h]a-at-ti. 31.23 S[a ...] for . 32.13 lu-. 32.12 Sa.
33.7 KUn-ia. 34.23 omits KUR before ahlam. 35.11, 16-17,
23 sa. 35.14 ra-pi-q. 36.9 Sa. 36.11, 15, 23 a-Sur. 36.11 lu
ub-[la]. 38.11 Schroeder's copy has ra-da-na but nothing is
now preserved after r[a~...]. 39.12 lu e-bir. 39.9 [lu]-îP akSud. 39.15 before GR clear in photo (against Weidner).
40.9 bu-[a-u-nu]. 40.11 lu ub-la. 41.16, 23 lu al-lik.
41.15 has A.LU for fD. 42.15 [l\u- ak-Sud. 42.18 ak-u-ud ...
-lul. 43.12 ma-a-du-te. 43.16 -Sa-a. 43.18 aS-Sur.
44.15 al-l[i-ik]. 45.23 -^- d uxu. 45.12 -S-da-nu-. 46.23 pi-i. 46.15 [GAL].ME, not [GR].ME (against Weidner).
46.12 s (both occurrences). 47.23 lu a[k-ud]. 48.7 mi-i-na
lu-S-lul. 48.7, 12 s. 48.7 omits .RA.KI. 48.12 omits KI.
49.9 nfei. 49.9, 12 -E.ME for -a-h. 49.9 lu- lu ak-Sud.
49.12 lu ak-ud. 49.7 lu- S-ru-up. 49.9 <//>-me. 49.7 //mi. 50.7 li-mi. 50.20 . 51.9 .E.ME for -a-hi. 51.9, 12,
23 LUGAL for MAN. 51.9 -kun. 52.12 S. 52.9, 19 MGISKIMD
MA, 53.18 \p]u-ta-te-Su. 53.12 S. 54.12 rf. 54.9,
12 .E.ME for-a-fa. 55.12 [a-Jw-r]. 56.12 omits NA*.
57.12 -ra-pi-iS. 57.18 [wwjê]f(?). 58.12
59.12 e-reni.mes. 60.12 ak-ki-su-ni. 61.12 -ka-i-nu-ni. 63.7 &f (first
occurrence). 65.9 omits -to after .GAL. 67.15 (twice).
68.21 [S]a. 68.9, 21 si-qir dnin-urta. 69.15 bal-taS.
70.15 na-u-ni ta-am-Si-. 71.15 GB --zi-iz. 74.15 a-gu-urri S. 78.7 MAN Ar/S-. 78.9 [IW-W]M-IA for uv-Sa. 79.7 [CFOR]A-TF-TE. 86.6 [DI]NGIR-I-E.
A.0.87.27
A.0.87.10
A.0.98.1
4.3 GAL.MES (omits -te). 6.1 fsa]-maS for DUTU. 7.2 e-le-^nitn. 8.3 ik-u-du-û^-[ma]. 13.4 kib-ra-a-te for UB.ME.
14.4 Su-ut-ti-ni. 15.2 [ar-r]a-pe. 15.4 rar^-ra-bi. 16.1 MAN
for LUGAL (passim). 16.4 DUMU aS-Sur-. 17.4 r3~i-fo a-na
KUR.KUR na KUR.KUR [...]: scribal error. 20.1 -Su--nu.
37 u- ba 1-: although slightly damaged the ba instead of pa is
clear in ex. 1 (only ex. preserved). Cf. the note to lines 41 and
60. 41 sa-bi-: the parallel A.0.87.4 line 41 has sa-pi-. Cf. the
note to line 37. 54.8 [ni-nu-a] x [...]: the x looks rather like
T(?)-!. 60 For -ki ex. 1 (only ex. preserved) has -PI. 60 Suba-: cf. the note to line 37. 66.6 [NA4.Z]U for NA4 sur-ri.
85.4 MAN- for LUGAL-. 89.1 [ana EGI]R for a-na ar-kat (ex. 4).
89.1 UD.ME not un. MES. 93.4 omits-ii w.
59.2 S-Sa-a.
A.0.87.12
5'.2 TLUGALT for MAN. 21'.2 omits . 27'.2 Winckler mistakenly omitted this line in his copy in AOF 3.
1.1 [mtukuf]-ti- for MGISKIM- (ex. 2).
Aur-b1-ka1a
A.0.89.1
obv. 4' The reconstruction of this line from exs. 1-2 is very
uncertain, obv. 6'.2 uRU.ME-n/-5u(?)-/i ...].
obv. 7'.3 EN.URU.MES-ni-u-nu. obv. 8'.3 URU. TAE-ni-Su-nu.
obv. 10'.3 -n-pi-iL
A.0.89.2
iii 20\4 -Se-s[a-a].
amT-Adad iv
A.0.91.1
1.5, 7 LUGAL for MAN. 2.2 GISKIM-RA^- f o r
2.3, 8 TUKUL-. 3.1, 5 TLUGAL"! for MAN. 4.3

6.2 omits MES.
Gl.tukul-t-lBLA-.
na-mi-r[i...].
Aur-dn n
A.0.98.3
1 . 9 LUGAL for MAN. 2 . 2 , 6, 9 -IBILA- f o r -A-. 3.1
/-(/>.
3.9 for MAN (before KIS) has KUR. 4.1 KUR aS-Sur-KVK-ma.
6.6, 10 -IBiLA- for -A-. 7.1 (aur)-ma. 8.1
pa-{ni)-ia.
8.2 e-pu-Su. 9.2, 6 an-hu-sa. 9.5 u-na-kir6. 10.2 -m-si
10.5 has [-m]e-si, not [-m]a-si (against Schramm).
13.2 qu-maS-tu. 13.3 qu-maS-tu.MES. 13.2 e-pu-u. 14.3 mistakenly has uA-me twice after EGIR. 14.2 for u*-um sa-a-tu has
UA-me um sa-a-te. 17.12 lu-[ud-di]-i. 17.2, 3 Su-mi for MU.
17.2 lu-ter. 18 w, not (so exs. 2 and 12) is clear in ex. 1, cf.
Schramm. 18.2 d-ma for d uru. 18.2 GAL.MES for GAI-/C.
19.2 ik-ri-be-su i-Se-em-me.
A.0.98.4
A.0.87.22
l . l clearly has ME, not ME (against Messerschmidt). 1.1 for

-te- has -e-. 2.2 omits d before aS-Sur at end of line.
2.2, 5 A for DUMU. 2.11 DUMU m aS-sur-. 3.2 an-nim for danim.
Adad-nran n
A.0.87.23
A.0.99.1
2.2, 4
A f o r DUMU.
obv. 1.2 MAN for LUGAL, first occurrence (second broken in

ex. 2). o b v . 5 . 2
A.0.87.25
1.3
GISKIM- for MGI.TUKUL-. 3.3 ki-sir-te Sa [...]. 3.2 hu~sir.
a n d o b v . 8 . 2 MAN f o r LUGAL. o b v . 9 . 2
GXL-S
u-Si-bu. obv. 10.2 ina. obv. 12.2 ina MURUB4 for i-na qa-bal.
rev. 8'.2 S for Sa. rev. 8'.2 ak-ta-Sad for ak-Sud.
rev. 9\2 ME- for MES-, rev. 10\2 Sa ... da-Sur. rev. 11'.2 S
M
10-RIN.TH. rev. i r . 2 adds -ma after the last aS-Sur.
rev. 12'.2 -ha- for -ah-, rev. 13'.2 an-hu-sa ... uS-Si-S.
rev. 14'.2 gaba-dib-bi-S. rev. 15'.2 al-tu-ru ina qer-bi-S.

rev. 16'.2 Despite Schroeder's comment (n. 15), ex. 2 has
[an]-thu-sai lu-ud-dis. rev. 20'.2 -ana- for -a-na-.
rev. 21'.2 ki-sir-te.
A.0.99.2
3.2 K-[te]: Schroeder says the -te is missing. 4 for qar-du-ti
ex. 2 has qar-ra-du-ti and ex. 3 [q)ar-du-te. 4 uk-lu-la, not
uk-lu-ia-[at] (so Seidmann), is correct as shown by ex. 2
where end of line fully preserved. 5.2-3 diKUR- for m10-.
6.3 u-te-e[n^)-nu-]: cf. Schroeder. 7.3 zu-{mur). 7.2 belu-ti-ia for EN-ti-ia. 7.1 Rar(?)-Ar/(?)^ for EGIR (ex. 2).
8 Schroeder says ex. 3 has su-ia for qa-ti-ia but this part of
the ex. is no longer preserved. 8.2 u-tne- for u-me-. 9 Despite
the broken space in ex. 1 after kab-tay there is nothing missing. This is clear from ex. 2 which has a complete text here.
10.3 KUR a-ur for KUR AS, Schroeder says ex. 2 has da-ur
but the ex. is now broken here. 10.2-3 dam-. 11.2 omits
-ma after i-n-ru. 11.3 ""GISKIM-IBILA- for MGISKIM-A-.
12.3 tar-gigi. 13.2 [i-n]a pi-i. 13.3 [-]a-al. 15.3 u for u
(second occurrence). 16.3 â^-na-ku. 17 -tu-te-: the reading, confirmed by collation, was originally proposed by Ebeling apud Seidmann and cf. Schramm. 21 Despite the broken
spacc in ex. 1 between a-kt-tam and a-na, there is nothing
missing. This is clear from A.0.99.4 obv. 10* which has a complete text here. 27.1 -: the shape of the sign is anomalous.
62.4 ana for a-na. 63.4 [na-si-b]e-na e-si-ir-. 64.4 sa i-na
for ina. 66.4 lu-e-e[k-id{i)). 67.1 Ti^d-\su-u\
67.4 ia-su-. 68.4 -za-ma- (in ex. 1 read lu-za-ma-u with
Schroeder). 69.4 KUR-/ u-qu-ru. 69.1 (broken in ex. 4) -im-:
mistakenly inscribed as -HI-. 70.4 seems (badly broken) to
omit ME after BANSUR. 71.1 us: text has UH. 75.1 is: text has
DU. 107-108 -rkan^-: appears to be - m - (both occurrences).
131.2 [NA.r].a.ME-/0 for na-ri-ia. 132.2 -ri-.
133.2 NUMUN: the sign is as copied and a clear NUMUN
(against Seidmann). 133.2 lu-hal-liq.
Tukultl-Ninurta II
A.0.100.13
1.2 [...]
tukul-ti-[...}.
Ashurnasirpal II
A.0.101.1
i 1 var. dnin-urta for DMA. i 1 A.0.101.3 and 5-6 qar-du for
UR.SAG. i 1 var. and A.O.101.5 NU for la-a. i 2 var. tu*-qufor tuq-. i 3 var. for u (both occurrences); var. and
A.0.101.3 and 5 omit u (both occurrences), i 3 var. and
A.0.101.3 KI-tim (last two occurrences), i 3 var. E.BAR.ME.
i 3 var. KI-ti (last occurrence), i 3 var. la for NU. i 4 var. enu-u.
i 5 A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 3 la-a. i 5 var. EN.MES or EN.MES-C
(A.O. 101.5-6) for EN-E. i 5 var. kip-pa-at. i 6 var. omits u

(first occurrence), i 6 var. KI-ti. i 6 var. tui-qufor tuq-.
i 7 var. la for la-a. i 7 A.0.101.3 and 5 e-nu- for BAL-k.
i 8 A.0.101.3 lem-nu-ti for lem-nu-te. i 9 var. and A.0.101.3
qa~i. i 9 var. EN-a for EN-ia. i 10 var. 4-i for 4-ta. i 10 var.
omits d before am-u. i 10 var. dnin-urta for DMA. i 11 var.
[ru]-bu- for NUN-U. i 12 DINGIR-ti-ka appears on two exs.
citcd by Le Gac. DINGIR-ut-ka (grammatically incorrect) appears in his master text as well as three other exs. including
A.0.101.3. i 12 var. and A.0.101.3 Dv-ku-ma for Dv.ou-kuma. i 13 A.0.101.3 LU. SIP A for SIP A. i 13 A.0.101.3 and 5
tab-ra-te. i 14 A.0.101.3 la for la-a. i 14 var. -nis (A.0.101.3)
or -ni- for -ntf*. i 15 A.0.101.3 and 5 EN-sw for EN.ME-.
i 17 var. uv-ia for MU-a. i 18 var. la-a for la. i 18 var. ana.
i 18 var. and A.0.101.3 EN-ti-ia. i 18 var. and A.0.101.3 lu-
for lu. i 18 var. and A.0.101.17 r N U N i for NUN-w. i 18 var.
na-a-da. i 18 A.0.101.17 GAL. MES-te. i 19 var. adds u after
URU.URU. i 19 var. hur--a-ni. i 19 var. gim-ri-u-nu or
gim-ri-u. i 19 var. MAN for LUGAL. i 19 var. and A.0.101.17
a-pi-ir. i 20 var. -lum-. i 20 var. la-di-ru. i 20 var. ur-a-nu or ur--a-ni or ur-sa-nu (A.0.101.17). i 20 var. mu-ri-ib.
i 20 var. a-nunun-te. i 20 A.0.101.17 MAN for LUGAL.
i 20 var. omits MES after mal-ki. i 21 var. and A.0.101.17
MAN MAN.ME-W for LUGAL LUGAL.ME-W. i 21 var.
A.0.100.1
9.2, 3 NUN.GAL.MES. 9.3 omits d before NUN. 9.3 for u.
11.3 na-a-. 11.3 Kt-ti. 13.3 omits u. 13.3 KI-//. 13.1 [a]
for (ex. 3). 14.3 omits -te after GAL.MES. 19.3 nab-ni-it.
20.3 [b]u-un-n[a-...].
A.O. 100.4
rev. 3' (?): the sign could be KI.MIN.
A.O.100.5
6 na si li hi: note si, not sa (Schramm). 29 GAL MUEN.ME:
mistake for MUEN.ME GAL.ME. Cf. line 110 and CAD 7 (I/J)
p. 214b. 44.2 [it]-tu-mu. 82.2 TA for i-^ti0. 82.2 URU heen-da-n[i]. 87.2 [ha-ma-t)a-a-a KUR la-qa-a-a. 90.2 TA for
r/s-/Mi.
A.O. 100.9
4.2 omits -ma at end.
i 22 var. LUGAL for MAN. i 22 var. DUTU for
na-a-du.
-ma.
i 22 A.0.101.17 tik-li-. i 22 var. me--ri. i 22 var.

DU.T>v-ku-ma or it-tal-la-ku-ma or it-ta-la-ku-ma (A.0.101.17)
for DU-ku-ma. i 22 A.0.101.17 ap-su-te. i 22 var. for u
(second occurrence), i 22 A.0.101.17 omits MES after mal-ki.
i 22
v a r . KUR.MES-SW. i 2 3
v a r . KUR.KUR.ME-U-HW. i 2 3
var.
and A.0.101.17 a-na. i 23 var. GR.II.MES-IO. i 23 var. -kni- or -k-ni-a (A.0.101.17). i 24 A.0.101.17 ru-bu- for
NUN-W. i 24 A.0.101.17 ke-e-nu. i 24 A.0.101.17 sa (both occurrences). i 24 A.0.101.17 par-si for GARZA.MES. i 24 var.
KUR -su. i 24 var. and A.0.101.17 ka-ia-na or ka-a-a-nu.
i 24 A.0.101.17 sa for (last occurrence), i 24 var. u-f or
qa-ti-su for qa-ti-. i 24 A.0.101.17 for u. i 25 var. na-din
in error for na-dan. i 25 A.0.101.17 zi-bi-. i 25 A.0.101.17
sa. i 25 var. omits u. i 25 var. KI-//M. i 25 var. and
A.0.101.17 i-ra-mu-ma. i 25 var. i-na. i 25 A.0.101.17 da-rii. i 25 var. and A.0.101.17 u-kin-nu. i 26 var.
GI.TUKUL.ME-W-/IW. 26 var. a-na. i 26 var. i-r(k-ti.
i 26 var. EN-ti- (A.0.101.17) or EN-//-/? or EN-//.
i 26 GI.TUKUL.ME-U. i 26 var. me-lam-me. i 26 var. be-lufor EN-, i 26 var. EN-ti-u. i 27 var. 4-ta. i 27 var. -ar-rihu-u. i 2 7 var. KR.ME (omits -ut), i 2 7 var. gim-ri-u-nu;
var. omits pat gim-ri--nu. i 27 var. for u (both occurrences). i 27 var. and A.0.101.17 ap-li or KI.TE (in error)
for KI.TA. i 27 var. omits u (last occurrence), i 27 var. mada-tu or ma-da-ta (A.0.101.13 and 17). i 28 var. -ki-in or -
404
kin-nu (A.0.101.17). i 28 var. ia-a-bu-ut or a-ia-bu-ut

(A.0.101.17). i 28 var. and A.0.101.13 and 17 DUMU for A.
i 28 A.0.101.17 GiSKiM-dMA for TUKUL-MAS. i 28 var. za-i-riu, i 29 var. ina GI ga-Si-Si. i 29 var. and A.0.101.13 and 17
pag-ri for pa-gar. i 29 A.0.101.17 ge-ri-S. i 29 A.0.101.17
md
10-RiN.TH. i 3D var. and A.0.101.13 and 17 si-kip-te.
i 30 var. and A.0.101.17 il-ta-ka-nu-ma. i 30 var. gim-ra.
i 30 var. omits S. i 30 var. and A.0.101.13 ma ur-KAL-an.
i 30 var. S for a (last occurrence), i 30 var. ma-ha-zi.MES.
i 31 var. -ki-in-nu. i 31 var. iS-re-e-te or iS-re-te. i 31 var.
u4-me-Su-ma. i 31 var. and A.0.101.13 and 17 pi-i.
i 32 A.0.101.17 Sar-ra-ku for MAN-ku. i 32 var. b-la-ku or
EN-ku for be-la-ku. i 32 var. and A.0.101.13 na-da-ku and
A.0.101.17 na-a^-da-ku. i 32 var. and A.0.101.17 kab-ta-ku
for DUGUD-&W. i 32 var. a-Sd-re-da-ku for SAG.KAL-A:m.
i 32 A.0.101.17 ur-Sa-na-ku. i 32 var. UR.SAG-fcw for qar-rada-ku. i 33 var. for u or omits, i 33 A.0.101.17 me-gir.
i 33 A.0.101.17 diKUR for d 10. i 34 var. a-na-ku. i 34 var.
la-a. i 34 A.0,101.17 /hj-KR.ME-&' for KR.ME-w.
i 34 A.0.101.17 a-na-ku (second occurrence), i 34 A.0.101.17
le-e^-u. i 34 var. MURUB4 for qab-li. i 34 A.0.101.17 omits u.
i 35 var. a-S-red for SAG.KAL. i 35 var. and A.0.101.17
Gis.LAL for tuq-ma-te. i 35 var. mu-uS-har-me-ti or mus-harme-/'(A.0.101.17). i 35 A.0.101.17 kib-ra-a-te for UB.MES.
i 35 A.0.101.17 omits MES after mal-ki. i 36 var. and
A.0.101.17 mu-S-ak-m-si. i 36 var. la-a. i 36 A.0.101.17
ka-an-S-te-S. i 36 var. EN for i-pe-lu. i 36 vars. i-ma-te or
Si-ma-a-te.ME$. i 36 var. and A.0.101.17 an-na-a-te or an-nati. i 36 var. i-na. i 36 var. and A.0.101.17 pi-i. i 37 var.
.MEs-ni for ti-sa-ni-ma. i 37 var. a-na. i 37 var. and
A.0.101.17 Si-im-ti-a. i 37 var. and A.0.101.17 ki-ni-i.
i 37 A.0.101.17 -kn-nu. i 37 var. and A.0.101.17 lib-bi-ia
for s A-ia. i 37 A.0.101.17 for u. i 37 A.0.101.17 tir-si for
ti-ri-is. i 37 A.0.101.17 u-a. i 37 var. and A.0.101.17 NIN for
G A S AN. i 38 var. SANGA-ti-a. i 38 A.0.101.17 lu-.
i 38 A.0.101.17 u for u. i 38 var. and A.0.101.17 b-ba-a
for Ik-sa. i 38 A.0.101.17 NUN (omits -u). i 39 var. bi-btt or
bi-ib-li (A.0.101.17) for bi-ib-lat. i 39 var. sk-Su or lb-bi-S
(A.0.101.17) for Ub-bi-Su. i 39 var. and A.0.101.17 u-Se-ekSi-du-S-ma. i 39 A.0.101.17 omits MES after mal-ki. i 39 var.
ik-ud or ik-u-da or ik--du (A.0.101.17). i 39 var. and
A.0.101.17 GAL -tu. i 39 A.0.101.17 qa-a-su for ivsu.
i 40 var. a-a-bi-Su. i 40 var. ki is-ri. \ 40 var. GAL-w-c.
40 A.0.101.17 na-bu-u. i 40 var. MU-T. i 41 var. MAN-/i-ff.
i 41 var. 4-ta. i 41 var. and A.0.101.17 la (omits -a).
i 41 A.0.101.17 a-na. i 41 var. i-da-at for i-di. i 41 var. and
A,0,101.17 N-ti-ia. i 42 var. lu -Sat-mi-ih or lu-Sat-m-hi
(A.0.101.17). i 42 var. hur-S-a-ni. i 42 A.0.101.17 dan-nu-te
for KAL.MES. i 42 var. ana. i 42 var. and A.0.101.17 u for .
i 42 A.0.101.17 ag-gi-is. i 42 var. EN-T. i 43 var. and
A.0.101.17 KUR.ME-e. i 43 var. mar-s-te. i 43 var. i-na.
i 43 var. RIN.HI.A.MES-. i 43 var. lu-. i 43 var. omits -ma
after at-ta-lak. i 43 A.0.101.17 S-ni-ni. i 43 var. and
A.0.101.17 MAN-//-7. i 44 var. and A.0.101.17 mah-re-e.
i 44 A.0.101.17 BALA.ME-. i 44 var. and A.0.101.17 -a for -ia
after BALA.(MES). i 44 var. sa-lui-S for AN.DL-SW, i 44 var.
DG (omits ,GA). i 44 var. uGu-a. i 44 var. GAR-W/Z for iS-kunu. i 44 var. and A.0.101.17 GIS.GU.ZA for GI.A.TI. i 45 var.
ana (both occurrences), i 45 var. ERIN.HI.a.MES-/a. i 45 var.
ge-ri. i 45 var. pa-a-qu-te. I 45 var. KUR.MES (omits -e).
i 45 var. GIG.MES for mar-su-te. i 46 var. u for w. i 46 var.
GAR-rtu for -ak-nu. i 46 var. nm-iq for e-te-tiq. i 46 var.
ana. 1 46 var. li-be-e. i 47 var. a-ru-b-e. i 47 var. URU.MES
'cities' in error for KUR.MES-^ 'mountains', i 48 var. and
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 HI.A.ME. I 48 var. NG..ME-5W-/IW for bu-S-Snu. i 48 var. as-lui. i 48 var. ig-dr-ru. i 48 var. KUR (omits
-u) (first occurrence), i 48 var. GIG or GIG.MES for mar-su.

i 48 var. is-ba-(tu) or is-sa-ab-(tu) (A.0.101.17) and -tu for
-tu. i 48 A.0.101.17 KUR-zi (second occurrence), i 48 var.
GIG.ME or mar-si (A.0.101.17) for GIG. i 48 A.0.101.17 danni-i. i 48 A.0.101.17 EGiR.ME-rifi-m^. i 49 var. and
A.0.101.17 e-e-su. i 49 A.0.101.17 for u. i 49 A.0.101.17
mu-tap-rrP-[]. i 49 var. and A.0.101.17 GIM for ki-ma.
\ 49 var. qt-ni or qi-in-ni (A.0.101.17). i 50 var. GAR-un for
is-ku-nu. i 50 var. and A.0.101.17 AD.MES-. i 50 var. te-hu-
for TE-W. i 50 A.0.101.17 at end of line [....K]M. i 51 var.
gap-su. i 51 var. sk- for lb-ba-. i 51 var. gr-w.
i 51 var. -sa-hi-pi or ^-sa-hi-pa > (A.0.101.17).
i 51 A.0.101.17 ^qP-in-na--nu. i 52 A.0.101.17 mar-si-it.
i 52 var. a-lu-la. i 53 var. na-pa-a-si. i 53 var. si-ta-ti--nu.
i 53 var. and A.0,101.13 and 17 KUR-e. i 53 var. a-kl or GU?
for e-kl. i 53 var. URU.MES-sw-w. i 54 A.0.101.13 and 17
-ru-up for GIBIL-W/?. i 54 var. and A.0.101.13 and 17 TA for
is-tu. i 54 var. at-tu-mu. i 54 var. and A.0.101.17 a-na.
i 54 var. and A.0.101,13 ma-da-t. i 55 A.0.101.13 and 17
har-ga-a-ia. i 55 A.0.101.17 [har]-^ma^-sa-a-ia. i 56 var. omits MES after TUL. i 56 var. adds ME after ZABAR.
i 56 A.0.101.17 za-bi-il. i 57 A.0,101.13 and 17 g-za-na-a-ia.
i 57 A.0.101.17 hub-u-ki-a-ia. i 57 A.0.101.17 EN-?.
i 58 var. omits MES after ZABAR and TJTUL. i 58 var. adds MES
after ZABAR (second occurrence), i 58 var. ma-da-tu--nu.
i 58 var. ana. i 58 A.0.101.9, 13, and 17 UGU-/<7 for muh-hia. i 58 var. at-tum4-mu or a-tum4-mus or a-tu-mu. i 59 var.
ana (both occurrences), i 59 A.0.101.17 ina KUR n-re-be for
a-na KUR n-reb. i 59 var. hu-lu-na or hu-lu-un (A.0.101.13).
i 59 var. and A.0.101.17 be-ta-a-ni (var. omits -a-), i 59 var.
KU4-ib or e-ru-ba or e-tar-ba (A.0.101.9 and 17) for KU4-ab.
i 60 A.0.101.9 [t]i-e-la. i 61 var. omits -e after KUR.ME.
A.0.101.9 KVK-e. i 61 A.0.101.9 dan-nu-te or rKAL~i.ME-te
(A.0.101.17) for KAL.MES. i 61 var. omits ME after HI.A;
another var. has RIN.HI.A for HI.A. i 61 A.0.101.9 and 17
bu-M--nu for NG.U.ME-W-/?W. i 61 var. a-lu-la. i 62 var.
-ban-nu -ban-ni or -ba-nu (A.0.101.9 and 17) for u.si. Cf.
Schramm, EAK 2 p. 23. i 62 var. a~$ht. i 62 var. sa for
(first occurrence), i 62 A.0.101.17 has an extra URU after puut. i 62 var. ni--t-un. i 62 A.0.101.9 sa for (second occurrence). 62 var. -qa-lu-lat or u-qu-lu-lat or u-qa-lu-laat (A.0.101.9). i 62 var. KUR-ud or is-bu-t (A.0.101.9) for
DIR /w. i 63 var. for Sa. i 63 var. AD.MES-/. i 63 var. TE-<?
or te-hu-[]. i 63 A.0,101.9 and 17 insert L before qu-ra-diia. i 63 var. ki-ma for GIM. i 64 A.0.101.9 L.RIN.MES.
i 64 A.0.101.9 mu-un-dah- or A.0.101.17 mu-dah- . i 64 var.
SAG.DU-S-nu. i 64 A.0.101.9 and 17 -n-kis for KUD-/5.
i 64 var. ana. i 64 var. sit-ta-te-S-nu or si-ta-ti-S-nu.
i 64 A.0.101.9 GIM for ki-ma. i 64 A.0.101.9 MUEN.ME.
i 65 A.0.101.9 and 17 qi-in-ni. i 65 var. ana. i 65 var. ka-pi.
i 65 var. Sa for S (first occurrence), i 65 A.0.101.9 and 17
UB.UB.ME-W. i 65 A.0.101.9 bu-S-S-nu for NG.U.ME-5Wnu. i 65 var. KUR.ME-A/ 'mountains' (in error) for URU.MES-/
'cities', i 66 var. hur-S-ni. i 66 A.0.101.9 dan-nu-te or
A.0.101.17 [KAL.M]E-R/EI. i 66 var. a-pl or i~ap~i-[pl]
(A.0.101.17). i 66 var. a-qur. i 66 var. GIBIL-up.
i 66 According to King and Le Gac A.0.101.17 has
L.RIN.ME but the passage is now broken off. i 66 var. paan for IGI. i 66 A.0.101.9 and 17 GI.TUKUL.ME-/7. i 66 var.
GR.n.ME-a. i 67 A.0.101.9 and 17 is-bu-t for DIB-I.
i 67 var. ma-da-t. i 67 According to King A.0.101.17 has
for u but the passage is now broken off. i 67 var. omits L
before zQbil. i 67 A.0.101.9 and 17 za-bi-il. i 67 A.0.101.9
-kun. i 67 var. LU.DUMU. i 67 A.0.101.9 and 17 L.EN.URU.
i 67 A.0.101.9 Sa for Sa. i 67 var. omits URU before Nitun.
i 67 var. ni-S-tu-un. i 68 var. ina. i 68 A.0.101.9 a-ku-su ~

akssu. i 68 var. bu-na-ni-a. i 68 var. ki-u-ti-ia or ki--tiia (A.O. 101.9). i 69 var. for lb-bi. i 69 A.O. 101.9 and, according to King and Le Gac, A.0.101.17 (passage now broken
off) al-tu-ur for al-tr. i 69 var. ina KUR-e KUR e-qi. i 69 var.
omits m . i 69 A.O.101.9 --zi-iz. i 69 A.0.101.9 Ki.MiN-ma
for an-ni-ma. i 70 var. EN.ME-. i 70 var. is-tu for TA.
i 70 A.0.101.9 NiNA for ni-nu-a. i 70 var. ana. i 70 var.
URU.DIDLI for URU.me-^/. i 70 According to King A.0.101.17
has for u but the passage is now broken oft'. 70 var. pasa-ta. i 70 var. and A.0.101.9 KUR.ME-e. i 70 A.0.101.9
dan-nu-te and, according to King (passage now broken off),
A.0.101.17 KAL.ME-Ze. i 71 var. at-ku-nu. i 71 var.
URU.DIDLI for URU.MES-/, i 71 var. HI.a.mes and, according
to King (passage now broken off), A.0.101.17 HI.a.[ME].
A.0.101.9 omits the word, i 72 A.0.101.9 and, according to
King (passage now broken off), A.0.101.17 bu-S--nu for
NIG, u. ME-s-nu. i 72 var. and A.0.101.9 and, according to
King and Le Gac (passage now broken off), A.0.101.17 t-lula. i 72 var. URU.DIDLI for URU.ME-w. i 72 var. GBiL-up or
-ru-up (A.0.101.9). i 72 A.0.101.9 and 17 L.RIN.ME.
i 72 A.0.101.9 and, according to King (passage now broken
off), A.0.101.17 pa-an for IGI. i 72 A.0.101.9 GI.TUKUL.MEia. i 73 var. GR.n.ME-tf. i 73 A.0.101.9 and, according to
King (passage now broken off), A.0.101.17 is-hu-t for DIB-/w.
i 73 var. ku-du-ru or ka-du-ru (A.0.101.9). i 73 A.0.101.9 emi-su-nu-ti. I 73 var. URU.DIDLI for URU. MES-/. I 73 var. omits u. i 73 var. at-tu-mu. i 74 var. ma-da-tu. i 74 var. and
A.0.101.9
T
U
L
M
. E
. i 74 var. ina or omits word,

i 74 A.0.101.9 adds -ma at end of line, i 75 var. us-pa-ku-ni.
i 75 var. a for . i 75 A.0.101.9 i-ta-bal-kt. i 75 var. hama-ta-a-a. i 76 var. a-hi-a-ba-ba. i 76 var. ma-ma-na or maam-ma-na (A.0,101.9). i 76 var. inserts st before TA.
i 76 A.0.101.9 omits - after ub-lu-ni. i 76 A.0.101.9 ana
(first occurrence), i 76 A.0.101.9 and, according to King (passage now broken), A.0.101.17 MAN-fe. i 76 var. muh-hi--nu
for UGXJ--nu. i 76 var. i-ku-na or i-kun. i 76 var. ina.
i 76 var. re-su-ti. i 77 var. MAN-/h'. i 77 var. and A.0.101.9
as-bat. i 77 var. ina. i 77 var. me-tq-ti-a. i 77 var. ma-datiL i 78 var. HI. A.MES or omits word, i 78 A.0.101.9 omits .
i 79 var. omits ME after TJTUL. i 79 var. ZABAR.ME. i 79 var.
omits tg before GADA.MES; A.0.101.9 GI.GADA.ME.
i 80 A.0.101.9 pu-ul-hi. i 80 var. v.\-a. i 80 var. is-sah-pu-nu. i 80 var. ana (first occurrence), i 80 According to King
(passage now broken) A.0.101.17 -zu-ub. i 80 var. zi--nu.
i 80 A.0.101.9 ana (second occurrence), i 80 var. GABA-.
i 80 A.0.101.9 ri-su-ni for -ni. i 81 var. and A.0.101.9
GR.II,ME-? or GR.ME-/0. i 81 var. DIB-t for is-bu-t.
i 81 var. and A.0.101.9 ha-di-a-ta for ha-da-at (first occurrence), A.0.101.9 and, according to King (passage now broken), A.0.101.17 (second occurrence), and A.0.101.9 (third occurrence). i 81 var. omits ma-a (both occurrences), i 81 var.
ba-lit or bai-Ii-tt (A.A1.9 and, according to King [passage
now broken], A.0.101.17). i 81 A.0.101.9 lib-ba-ka-ni for ka-ni. i 81 var. D-M5 or e-pu- (A.0.101.9). i 81 var. maman or ma-am-ma-na (A.0.101.9). i 82 var. ub-lu-ni--nu or
ub-lu-ni (A.0.101.17, according to King [passage now broken]). i 82 A.0.101.9 as-ba-ta for Din-at. i 82 var. lib-bi-a or
-/J. i 82 A.0.101.9 for u. i 82 var. GI.TUKUL.ME-T or
GI.TUKUL- (A.0.101.9). i 82 A.0.101.17 L.RIN.ME.
now broken), A.0.101.17 hi-i-t. i 83 var. and A.0.101.9 sab-bi-tu-ni. i 83 var. ia-ta-nu-ni or (i)-ta-nu-ni. i 83 var.
.GAL-lh. i 83 var. NG.U.ME-W or bu-- (A.0.101.9).
i 84 var. and, according to King (passage now broken),
A.0.101.17 omits ME after AN.BAR. i 84 var. TUL ZABAR.MES
or TUL ZABAR. i 84 var. tap-ha-ni or tap-ha-ni.MES
(A.0.101.9). i 84 var. omits ZABAR (second occurrence),

i 84 var. adds MES after ZABAR (third occurrence), i 84 var.
and A.0.101.9 and, according to King and Le Gac (passage
now broken), A.0.101.9 ma-a-du or ma-du. i 84 A.0.101.9 GIS
pa-ur for GI.BANUR. i 85 A.0.101.9 omits MUNUS before
DUMU,MUNUS.ME-. i 85 var, and A.0.101.9 and, according
to King and Le Gac (passage now broken), A.0.101.17 hi-i-ti.
85 var. NG.GA.ME-5M-HH. i 86 A.0.101.9 GI.GIGIR.ME-SW.
i 86 var. Gi.LAL-ff/or LAL-A/(A.0.101.9). i 86 A.0.101.9
GI.GI-IVW for GI ni-ri-. i 87 var. TLJG.GADA.MES (correctly),
i 87 var. or + GI.ME (A.0.101.9). i 87 var, e-re-ni (first occurrence). i 87 A.0.101.9 iM.Hi.A.MES- i 87 var. and
A.0.101.9 omits ME after DG.GA. i 87 A.0.101.9 ki-sit-ti.
i 88 var. SG.ZA.SA5 (omits GN in error), i 88 var. and
A.0.101.9 GIS.MAR.GID.DA.ME-M, i 88 var. ka-bi-ta for
DUGUD-/A. i 88 var. ki-ma for GIM. i 88 var. omits MES after
MUL. i 88 A.0.101.9 me-nu-ta for iT-to. i 88 var. and
A.0.101.9 la (omits -a), i 88 A.0.101.9 i-- for TUK-H.
i 89 var. a-lu-la. i 89 var. ra-me-ni-iai-a. 1 89 A.0.101.9 inserts a-na before UGU--nu. i 89 A,0,101.9 -ku-un.
now broken), A.0.101.17 a-ku-us, i 90 var, and A.0.101.9
an-nu-te (both occurrences), i 90 A.0.101.9 i-si-te (first occurrence) and var. i-si-te (second occurrence), i 90 var. and
A.0.101.9 -ma-gi-gi. i 91 var. and A.0.101.9 a-si-te (first occurrence). i 91 A.0.101.9 and, according to King and Le Gac
(passage now broken), A.0.101.17 a-na for ina before ziqp
(both occurrences), i 91 var. and A.0.101.9 GIS zi-qi-pi (both
occurrences), i 91 A.0.101.9 and, according to King and Le
Gac (passage now broken), A.0.101.17 -za-qi-pi. i 91 var.
omits ina before battubatti. i 91 var. bat-tu-bat-te. i 91 var.
ma-ay-du-ti or ma-a-d.ME. i 92 A.0.101.9 and, according to
King and Le Gac (passage now broken), A.0.101.17 a-ku-us.
i 92 var. omits -ni after BD.ME. i 92 var. and A.0.101.9
omit (second occurrence), i 92 var. omits MAN (in error),
i 92 var. uzu--nu. i 92 var. -ba-ti-qi or -bat-tiq.
i 93 var. a-na. i 93 A.0.101.9 NINA for ni-nu-a (first occurrence). i 93 var. and A.0.101.9 ub-fa-it. i 93 A.0.101.9
li-i-ti. i 93 var. and A.0.101.9 u for . i 94 var. al-ta-ka-an.
i 94 var. ma-da-tu. i 94 var. ana. i 95 var. omits MES after
uzu. i 95 var. TUG,GADA.MES. i 95 var. GUN-SA-[RTW]. i 96 var.
and A.0.101.9 u for . i 96 A.0.101,9 ta-mar-ta.
i 96 A.0.101.9 -ku-un. i 96 var. mha-ia-ni or mha-a-ia-ni
(A.0.101.9). i 96 var. omits MES after K.BABBAR.
i 96 A.0.101.9 and 17 ma-da-t. i 96 According to King (passage now broken) A.0.101.17 sa for . i 97 var. omits MES
after ZABAR. i 98 var. and A.0.101.9 MAN-ti-ia. i 98 var. li-ta.
i 98 var. and A.0.101.9 u for w. i 98 A.0.101.9 ta-na-a-ti.
\ 98 var. -tu-ur or al-tu-ur (A.0.101.9). i 98 var. --zi-iz.
i 99 var. ge-ru-ti-ia. i 99 var. al-tr or al-tu-ur (A.0.101.9)
for SAR. i 99 var. a-kun. i 99 A.0.101.9 uv-ia-ma. i 99 var.
and A.0.101.9 EN-W. I 99 var. and A.0.101.9 SANGA-/W#.
i 100 var. and A.0.101.9 AD.MES-/<7. i 100 var. and A.0.101.9
LU.GAR.KUR for L.GAR. i 100 var. and A.0.101.9 DU-ka-ni.
i 100 var. L.GAR (omits KUR). i 100 A.0.101.9 -zu-ub.
i 100 var. zi- or z-MEs--nu (A.0.101.9). i 101 A.0.101.9
omits ME after K.BABBAR. i 101 var. ma-da-tu-u. i 101 var.
a-na (first occurrence), i 101 var. and A.O. 101,9 ni-nu-a for
NINA. i 101 var. ana (second occurrence), i 101 var. muh-hiia/a for UGU-R//ff. i 101 var. omits lu. \ 101 var. and
A.0.101.9 KI.MIN-MA for t-ma. i 102 var. NUN-W.
i 102 A.0.101.9 DU for a-lik. i 102 var. IGI-/ or IGI-?
(A.0.101.9) for pa-ni-a. i 103 var.
it-ta-bal-ku-t/tu.
i 103 var. MAN -ti-ia. i 103 var. ana. i 103 var. sa-ba-te.
i 103 var. il-li-ku or DU-ku. i 104 var. tik-li-a. i 105 var.
m
Gi.TUKUL-DMA. i 105 AD.ME-/A. i 105 var. i-za-zu-ni.
406
i 105 var. MAN-ti-a. i 105 var. --zi-iz. 106 var. omits -ma
after uA-me-. i 107 var. mhu-la-a-ia. i 107 According to
King (passage now broken) A.0.101.17 Mt-ia. i 107 var. KURud. 107 var. mun-dah-si--nu or mu-ci-si--nu (in error?),
i 108 var. GIS.TUKUL.ME. i 108 var. al-la-su (omits -nu).
i 108 var. GBIL-w/?. i 108 var. lib-bi--nu for k--nu.
i 109 var. URU-SH-/W, i 109 var. as-ba-ta. i 109 var. pag-ri-nu for L.D.MES--nu. i 109 var. ana (both occurrences),
i 109 var. omits LU. i 110 var. a-ku-us. i 110 var. dam-damu-sa. i 110 var, a-qur. i 111 var. omits -up after GBIL.
i 113 var. i-tu for TA. i 113 var. ana (second occurrence),
i 114 var. omits -ni after BD,MES. i 114 var. la-a-bi.
i 114
var. B D . M E - n i - - n u . i 1 1 4
te. i 1 1 4 var. u f o r . i 1 1 4
var. KAL.MES f o r
var. la-a.
i 115
dan-nu-
v a r . GR.h-/.
i 115 var. ina (first occurrence), i 115 var. for u. i 116 var.
NG.sxj--nu. i 116 var. GBIL-K/?. i 117 var, -ba-tiq.
i 117
var. IGI.II.ME-SA-RTW. i 1 1 8
var. 1 -et ( s e c o n d o c -
c u r r e n c e ) , ii 1 v a r . GIBIL-/E. ii 1 var. GBLL-WJP. ii 1
A.0.101.17
URU.ME-/I. ii 2 var. a-pl or ap-piil (A.0.101.17).

ii 2 A.0.101.17 GBIL for -ru-up. ii 2 A.0.101.17 TA for itu. ii 2 A.0.101.17 ana. ii 3 var. e-u-te. ii 3 var. DiB-at for
as-bat. ii 4 A.0.101.12 [-]<?-w. ii 4 A.0.101.17 omits -lum
after .GAL. ii 4 A.0.101.17 ana. ii 4 A.0.101.17 MAN-ti-ia.
ii 4 A.0.101.12 and 17 for lib-bi. ii 5 A.0.101.12 and 17
.GAL-lum. ii 5 var. bu-na-ni-ia. ii 6 var. ki-u-ti-ia. ii 6 var.
u-tr-te or -tu-ur-te (A.0.101.12). ii 6 A.0.101.12 and 17 u
for . ii 6 A.0.101.12 and 17 il-ka-ka-at. ii 6 var. and
A.0.101.17 qur-di-a. ii 6 var. e-tap-pa-u. ii 7 A.0.101.17 -zi-iz.
ii 7
v a r . NA 4 .NA.R.A- or NA 4 .NA.R.A.ME-<7
(A.0.101.17). ii 7 A.0.101.12 and 17 -kun for GAR-un. Le

Gac is incorrect in saying that A.0.101.17 has as-kun.
ii 7 A.0.101.12 and 17 IGI for pa-an. ii 8 A.0.101.12 and 17
ana (both occurrences), ii 8 var. and A.0.101.12 --as-bisu-nu or -{)-as-bi-su-nu (A.0.101.17). ii 8 var. ra-ma-ni-a
or ra-me-ni-ia. ii 9 A.0.101.12 and 17 E.UM.ME U
E.IN.NU.MES (A.0.101.12 omits second MES), ii 9 A.0.101.17
for lib-bi. ii 9 A.0.101.17 at-bu-uk for DUB-W*. ii 9 var.
pa-an for IGI. ii 10 var. GIR.II-. ii 10 var. and A.0.101.17
URU,WS-ni--nu or URU.MES-M'-H ( A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 2 ) f o r
URU.DIDLI-W-/ZM. ii 10
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 2 a n d 17 o m i t u. ii 10
var.
and A.0.101.17 ma-da-tu. ii 11 var. omits MES after

ANE.GR.NUN.NA. ii 11
var. o m i t s MES a f t e r TUL. ii 11
var.
adds MES after ZABAR. ii 11 A.0.101.12 omits L and has zab ku-du-[ri ...]. ii 11 var. a-na. ii 11 var. li-tu-ti. ii 12 var.
ma-da-tu. ii 12 var. mam-me-ba-a^la. ii 12 var. inserts
after za-ma-ni. ii 12 A.0.101.17 MDINGIR-fo'-te. ii 12 var. subri-a-ia. ii 13 A.0.101.12 and 17 omit (first occurrence),
ii 13 A.0.101.12 and 17 mla-ab-tu-ru. ii 13 A.0.101.12 and 17
be-ta-a-ni.
ii 1 4 v a r . o m i t s MES a f t e r ANSE. GR.NUN.NA.
ii 14 A.0.101.17 adds MES after TUL. ii 14 A.0.101.12 mada-tu. ii 15 var. za-bd. ii 15 var. ku-dr-ri. ii 15 var. al-taka-an. ii 15 A.0.101.17 ta-a-ar-ti-a. ii 15 var. omits before
KUR.KUR. ii 15 A.0.101.12 []a lib-bi for d $k.
ii 16 A.0.101.12 and 17 i-ta-bal-k^
for BAL-kt.
ii 16 A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 2 a n d 17 URU.ME%-ni--nu f o r URU.DIDLI-SW-
ii 20 var. and A.0.101.12 and 17 mi-tk-ti-ia/a. ii 20 var.

URU.MES (omits -ni) or URU.DIDLI. ii 20 var. KUR n-re-bi.
ii 20 A.0.101.12 and 17 ak-ta-ad for KUR-ad. ii 21 var. aslu-la or -lu-la (A.0.101.12 and 17). ii 21 var. and
A.0.101.12 URU.MES-/1/. ii 21 A.0.101.17 ana after assarap.
ii 21 var. at-ti-si (omits -a), ii 21 var. a-na for ina (last occurrence). ii 22 A.0.101.12 and 17 zaNa-a-ia.
ii 22 A.0.101.17 ha-ta-a-a. ii 23 A.0.101.17 adds MES after
TJTUL. ii 24 A.0.101.17 i-ta-bal-kdt for BAL-kt.
ii 24 A.0.101.17 [s]i-hr-ti-u. ii 24 A.0.101.17 a-[h]a-i{*)
(sign TA), ii 24 var. inserts KUR before n-ru-bu.
ii 25 A.0.101.17 ana (both occurrences), ii 25 A.0.101.17
i[t]-ibui--ni. ii 26 var. and A.0.101.12 a-lik pa-ni-a for DU
IGWFF. ii 26 var. is6-ru-ka or is-ruk (A.0.101.17).
ii 26 A.0,101.17 omits a-na before a-ia-si. ii 26 A.0.101.12
and 17 ia-a-i. ii 26 A.0.101.17 ana before nrebe. ii 26 var.
inserts KUR before nrebe. ii 27 A.0.101.17 omits s (first occurrence). ii 27 A.0.101.17 ana. ii 27 var. e-pu- or i e-pu i[u] (A.0.101.17). ii 27 A.0.101,17 DU for a-lik.
ii 28 A.0.101.17 rIGi~i-/tf for pa-ni-a. ii 28 var. it-ti--nu.
ii 28 var. as-kun. ii 28 A.0.101.12 and 17 L.RIN.ME; var.
omits RIN.ME. ii 28 A.0.101.12 and 17 mu-un-dah-si--nu.
ii 28 A.0.101.17 n-reb; var. KUR n-re-be. ii 29 A.0.101.17
probably has ru(?p-z[e]-f"e"> but King suggested û^-ze-e.
ii 29 A.0.101.17 d[an]-rnu^-t[i-] (omits -nu).
ii 29 A.0.101.17 URU.ME-w for URU.DIDLI, ii 30 var. al-lasu--nu. ii 30 var. a-lu-la. ii 30 A.0.101.17 rana^ (first occurrence). ii 31 var. and A.0.101.17 TA for i-tu. ii 32 var.
ak-ta-ad for KUR -ad. ii 32 var. DUGUD-ta for DUGUD.
ii 32 var. -te-ra for GUR-ZYZ. ii 33 var. and A.0.101.17 i-tu
for TA. ii 33 var. n-re-bi or n-reb. ii 35 var. ak-udud or
KDR-ud. ii 36 var. GIM for ki-ma. ii 36 var. omits LU before
D.ME-SW-RCW. ii 36 var. e-kim-. ii 37 var, ak-su-ud or
KUR-W/. ii 3 8
var. NG.U-5M-WM. ii 3 8
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 GI'HIL f o r
-ru-up. ii 38 A.0.101.17 ina for a-na. ii 38 A.0.101.17 uma-ni-a-ma. ii 38 A.0.101.17 b-dk. ii 39 A.0.101.17 ana.
ii 40 A.0.101.17 li-me-t-. ii 40 var. ig-dr-ru. ii 40 var.
DIS-t for is-$ab-tu. ii 41 var. e-su. ii 41 A.0.101.17 na-di.
ii 41 A.0.101.17 EGIR, MES--nu. ii 41 var. pag-ri--nu or
ADDA.ME-W-HW (A.0.101.17) for L.D.ME--nu. ii 41 var.
GAz--nu for ti-du-ki--nu. ii 41 A.0.101.17 a-duk.
ii 41 A.0,101.17 L.RIN.ME (last occurrence), ii 42 var. atbu-uk for DUB-uk. ii 42 A.0.101.17 bu---nu for
NG.U.ME-W-/W. ii 42 A.0.101,17 -te-ra for GUR-ra.
ii 4 2
v a r . URU.MES-W o r URU.DIDLI-W-HW ( A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 ) .
ii 43 A.0.101.17 omits -up after GBIL. ii 43 var. SAG.ME-Mnu for SAG.DU.ME-5M-/IW. ii 43 var. gup-ni. ii 43 var. e-il or
e-H-li. ii 43 A.0.101.17 ba-tul--nu. ii 43 A.0.101.17 us-mani-ia-ma. ii 43 A.0.101.17 b-dk. ii 44 var. TA for ina.
ii 44 var. URU.DIDLI.ME. ii 45 var. GAz--nu. ii 45 var. omits DIDLI after URU or has URU.DIDLI-SW-^W (A.0.101.17).
ii 45 var. ap-pl or a-pl (A.0.101.17). ii 45 var. aq-qur.
ii 45 A.0.101.17 omits -up after GBIL or var. has -ru-up.
ii 46 var. a-na. ii 46 var. EN-ia. ii 46 var. is-hu-pu--nu.
ii 46 var. GR.II-. ii 46 var. adds MES after K.BABBAR and
nu. ii 16 A.0.101.17 omits (in error) a-na. ii 16 A.0.101.12

and 17 u for . ii 17 A.0.101.17 i-tk-lu-ma. ii 17 var. and
A.0.101.17 q-reb KUR-<?. ii 17 var. ki-ma for GIM. ii 18 var.
lu- or omits (A.0.101.12 and 17) (first occurrence), ii 18 var.
lu- (second occurrence), ii 18 A.0.101.17 e-kl. ii 18 var.
NG.U.ME-W-/M or bu---nu (A.0,101.12 and 17).
ii 18 A.0.101.17 -lu-la, not a-lu-la (so Le Gac). ii 19 var.
kud-5 for -n-kis. ii 19 var. di-im-tu. ii 19 var. L ba-tu-
K.GI. ii 4 7
ti. ME--nu.
ii 48 A.0.101.17 a-ar--nu for Ki-s-nu. ii 48 A.0.101.17

ru-qu. ii 49 A.0.101.17 ana. ii 49 var, omits URU after KURud. ii 49 var. -ru-up for GBIL. ii 49 A.0.101.17 omits -ni
ii 19 var. ana.
ii 19
var. GBIL-te. ii 19 v a r . KUR
n-re-be or n-reb (A.0.101.17). ii 19 A.0.101.12 and 17 buli-ia-na. ii 20 var. KU4-ab for e-tar-ba. ii 20 var. as-bat.
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 KUR-FU, n o t KUR-/U ( s o L e G a c ) .
ii 47 A.0.101.17 gab-be. ii 47 var. omits MES after

ANSE.KUR.RA. ii 4 7
var. K.BABBAR.MES. ii 4 7
var. K.GI.ME.
ii 47 A.0.101.17 E.AM.ME. ii 47 var. and A.0.101.17 omits

u. ii 47 var. E.IN.NU.ME. ii 47 var. ka-dur-ru or ku-dr-ru.
ii 47 A.0.101.17 omits -ti after e-me-su-nu. ii 48 A.0.101.17
a$-bat. ii 48 A.0.101.17 D mu-(i) ar-di. ii 48 A.0.101.17
ana.
ii 4 8 A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 7 URU.DIDLI f o r URU,MES-ni.

after us-ba-ku. ii 50 A.0.101.17 -te-ru--ni. ii 50 var. ma-ra-tu-a. ii 50 var. ma-da-tu. ii 50 var. ku-dr-ru. The var.
given by Le Gac, Asn. p. 60 nn. 10-11 should be read u kudr-ru not ki-dr-ru. See Deller, Orientalia NS 26 p. 152 n. 7.
ii 50 var. a-ur EN-ia. ii 50 var. omits lu. ii 50 A.0.101.17
a-ur EN GAL EN-fl. ii 50 A.0.101.17 for u (second occurrence). ii 50 A.0.101.17 DU iGi-tf for a-lik pa-ni-a.
ii 51 A.0.101.17 di-ku-t. ii 51 A.0.101.17 for u. ii 52 var.
e-te-bir. ii 52 A.0.101.17 ina n-reb. ii 52 var. KU4~ub or etar-ba (A.0.101.17) for e-ru-ub. ii 52 var. a-na or ana for ina
before GIR. ii 52 var. GR.II. ii 52 var. VD.ME-ia. ii 53 var.
ma-da-tu. ii 53 var. omits ME after GIS.GIGIR.
ii 53 A.0.101.17 SAG-sw. ii 53 A.0.101.17 i-si-a.
ii 53 A.0.101.17 ad-di. ii 54 A.0.101.17 tr-na-at. ii 54 var.
e-te-bir. ii 54 A.0.101.17 sa-a?-te. ii 54 A.0.101.17 ana.
ii 54 A.0.101.17 dan-nu-te-. ii 54 A.0.101.17 mar--tu-a.
ii 55 A.0.101.17 KUR-ud for KVR-ad. ii 55 A.0.101.17 muun-dah-si--nu.
ii 55 A.0.101.17 omits MES after GIS.TUKUL.
ii 55 A.0.101.17 l.D.MES--nu for pag-ri.ME--nu.
ii 55 A.0.101.17 su--qi for SILA. ii 56 var. omits L before
ERIN.MES. ii 56 var. omits -te after Su. ii 56 var. -sa-bi-ta.
ii 56 var. omits ME after HI.A (after allassunu). ii 56 var.
a-lu-la. ii 56 A.0.101.17 ap-pt aq-qur. ii 56 A.0.101.17 rU'Up for GBIL-wp. ii 57 var. URU.ME or URU.MEl-ni for
URU.DIDLI. ii 57 var. li-me-tu-. ii 57 var. ak-ud.
ii 57 A.0.101.17 GAZ.ME-SW-/M. ii 57 A.0.101.17 a-duk.
ii 57 var. a-lul. ii 57 var. URU.ME-w-h for URU.DIDLI-swnu. ii 57 var. a-pl a-qur. ii 57 var. -ru-up for GBIL.
ii 57 A.0.101.17 ba-tul--nu. ii 58 A.0.101.17 ba-tu-la-te-nu. ii 58 var. a-na. ii 58 var. dan-nu-ti--nu.
ii 58 var. msabi-ni. ii 58 var. Gkz--nu. ii 59 var. as-lul. ii 59 A.0.101.17
omits after driia. ii 59 A.0.101.17 ap-ptil aq-qur.
ii 59 GBIL (omits -up) or -ru-up (A.0.101.17).
ii 60 A.0.101.17 te-er for GVR-er. ii 60 var. i-tu for TA.
ii 60 var. ma-ra--tu-a. ii 60 var. KUR.MES or KUR-e
(A.0.101.17) for KUR.MF-e. ii 60 var. a-na (last occurrence),
ii 61 var. u for . ii 61 var. omits -te after HI.A.MES.
ii 61 var. GAR-T for GAR-HM. ii 61 var. KUA-ub for e-tar-ba.
ii 61 A.0.101.17 dan-nu-ti for KAL.MES. ii 61 A.0.101.17 Ma. ii 62 A.0.101.17 KUR- mar-su for KUR GIG.
ii 62 A.0.101.17 t.GAL-lb. ii 62 var. and A.0.101.17 e-tebir. ii 62 A.0.101.17 ana. ii 63 A.0.101.17
q-reb--nu.
ii 63 A.0.101.17 r Q n a \ (before KUR-e). ii 64 A.0.101.17 e-^lP
for DU6.. ii 64 A.0.101.17 NG.GA.ME-W. ii 64 A.0.101.17
bu--îP for NIG. su. MES-SW. ii 64 Le Gac says A.0.101.17
has ma-a^-t for HI.A (but the passage is broken off),
ii 64 A.0.101.17 omits MES after ZABAR. ii 64 var. zu-qa-a-te.
ii 64 A.0.101.17 [n]i-s[ir-x] ri.GA[L]-rtTi
na-km-ma-te-.
ii 65 A.0.101.17 ana u-^ ma-ni-a-ma^. ii 65 var. omits u.
ii 65 var. at-t-mu. ii 66 A.0.101.17 e-di-^nP. ii 66 var. ete-bir. ii 66 var. a-na bi-rit for ina bir-ti. ii 66 A.0.101.17
KUR-E KAL.ME-?E. ii 66 var. a-dk. ii 66 var. NG.U.ME-W
or bu-- (A.0.101.17). ii 67 A.0.101.17 TUL.ME.
ii 67 A.0.101.17 na-zi-ra~-te.vLE. ii 67 A.0.101.17 GI pa-ur
for GI.BANUR. ii 68 var. i-tu for TA. ii 68 var. -lu-la.
ii 68 A.0.101.17 -zu-ub. ii 68 A.0.101.17 ana (second occurrence). ii 69 var. adds ME after URU.DIDLI. ii 70 var. apl. ii 70 A.0.101.17 r a q \ - q u r . ii 70 var. omits MES after IZI.
ii 70 A.0.101.17 omits -up after GBIL. ii 70 A.0.101.17 -ter
for GUR-<?R. ii 70 var. adds MES after pit-hal-lu.
ii 71 A.0.101.17 ana. ii 71 A.0.101.17 ub-te -s[e] i-ib.
ii 71 var. inserts RIN.MES before
mundahsu.
ii 71 A.0.101.17 mu-un-dah-si-.
ii 71 var. and A.0.101.17
-n-kis for KUD-/S. ii 71 var. GI gup-{ni) or GIS gu-up-ni
(A.0.101.17). ii 71 A.0.101.17 -e>-il. ii 72 A.0.101.17 omits
MES after TELA, ii 72 A.0.101.17 u ^te^
-sab-bi-ta.
il 72 A.0.101.17 omits - after .GAL. ii 72 A.0.101.17 uma-gi-i[g]. ii 72 A.0.101.17 i-si-a. ii 73 A.0.101.17 ana.
ii 73 var. and A.0.101.17 r-zi-za-a-a. ii 74 A.0.101.17 danrnu^-te-. ii 74 A.0.101.17 ' URU i.DIDLI for URU.ME-/.
ii 74 A.0.101.17 ina q-^reb KUR ni-is-pi. ii 74 A.0.101.17
RKUR-EI mar-si for KUR GIG. ii 74 A.0.101.17 GAZ.ME--nu,
ii 74 A.0.101.17 a-duk. ii 74 var. ap-pl. ii 75 A.0.101.17
ana û-ma^-ni-a-ma
GUR-ra. ii 75 var. km-ma-a-te or kmma-at. ii 75 var. -a-ri-a-te. MES or -ri-a.MES.
ii 75 A.0.101.17 ma-da-t. ii 75 A.0.101.17 MUNUS.MES-^.
ii 76 A.0.101.17 at-tum4-d (not a-tum4-, so Le Gac) and
omits a-na. ii 76 var. and A.0.101.17 KUR-M (before mar-si).
ii 76 var. mar-su. ii 76 A.0.101.17 ana (before me-teq).
ii 76 var. omits ME after GIS.GIGIR. ii 76 A.0.101.17 a-ki-^sP.
ii 77 A.0.101.17 Tak^-ki-Tin URUDU (omits MES).
ii 77 A.0.101.17 a[q]-rqur^. ii 77 A.0.101.17 -e-ti-qi.
ii 77 var. i-q-bu--ni. ii 77 A.0.101.17 at-tar-da.
ii 78 A.0.101.17 na-mu-^ra^-at.
ii 78 A.0.101.17 Su[r-b\a-VaO
be-lu-ti-a. ii 78 A.0.101.17 inserts u after GUN.
ii 78 A.0.101.17 ma-da-t. ii 79 var. omits MES after ZABAR
and IJTUL. ii 79 var. adds MES after ZABAR (second occurrence). ii 79 var. omits TUG. ii 79 A.0.101.17 ^muh-hP for
UGU (first occurrence), ii 79 var. and A.0.101.17 -kun for
GAR-un. ii 79 var. Rka-du^-ru--nu (A.0.101.17) or ku-du-ru-nu. ii 80 A.0.101.17 [e-p]u-^^ for uv-u.
ii 80 A.0.101.17 hu[b-u]-ki-a-a. ii 80 According to King
A.0.101.17 has pu-luh-hP
but the passage is now broken,
ii 81 A.0.101.17 REN-FI, ii 81 var. K.BABBAR.MES K.GI.MES.
ii 81 var. a-na. ii 82 var. omits GI before TUKUL.MES-.
Ii 82 var. ip-pr-i-du-ni or [i]p- <par > - i-du^-[ni]
(A.0.101.17). ii 82 var, a-na (before KVR.ME-ni). ii 83 var.
pag-ri--nu. ii 84 var. al-la-su--nu.
ii 84 var. -lul.
ii 84 var. -ru-up for GBIL-up. ii 85 var. a-na (before subat), ii 85 var. MAN-ti-a. ii 85 var. a-di for ad-di. ii 85 var.
--te-er. ii 86 var. omits ina before li-me. ii 87 A.0.101.10
a-na (after e-te-bir). ii 87 According to King (passage now
broken) A.0.101.17 [e-tar]-ba for KU*-ab. ii 87 var. and
A.0.101.17 at-tu-mus. ii 88 A.0.101.17 e-tar-ba for KVi-ab.
ii 88 var. ma-da-tu. ii 88 A.0.101.17 at-tah-ra.
ii 88 A.0.101.17 at-tu-mus. ii 89 A.0.101.17
kap-ra-ni-.
ii 89 A.0.101.17 ak-ta-ad. ii 89 A.0.101.17 HI.A.ME.
ii 90 var. GR.II-/ or GR.II.ME-C7 (A.0.101.17).
ii 90 A.0.101.17 is-bu-t for DIB-tu. ii 90 A.0.101.17
URU.DIDLI-SW-RTW for URU.ME-/7/-M-/1 u. ii 90 var. and
A.0.101.17 insert LTJ before -ra-si. ii 90 var. -ra-si.ME.
ii 90 A.0.101.17 -dan-ni-ni. ii 91 var. and A.0.101.17 kun. ii 91 A.0.101.15 and 17 li-te for li-ta-at. ii 91 var. kis-ti-ia or ki--ti-a (A.0.101.17) or omits -iafa.
ii 91 A.0.101.17 ina SAR for ina lib-bi al-tr.
ii 91 A.0.101.17 --zi-iz. ii 91 var. at-t-mu (A.0.101.10)
or at-tumA-mu (A.0.101.17). ii 91 var. a-na or ana for ina
(before URU za-za-bu-ha). ii 92 A.0.101.17 a-sa-kan for GARan. ii 92 var. ma-da-tu. ii 92 var. adds ME after ZABAR (after
qur-pi-si). ii 92 A.0.101.17 at-ta-har. ii 92 var. at-t-mu.
ii 93 var. GAR-/I for a-sa-kan. ii 93 var. GBL-M/> or [a]-ruup. ii 93 var. a-ta-har. ii 94 var. GAR-an for a-sa-kan.
ii 94 var. URU.ME or URU.ME-W for URU.DIDLI. ii 94 var.
ak-ud for KUR-ud. ii 95 A.0.101.17 URU.DIDLI for URU.MEni. ii 95 var. -ru-[up] or GBIL (omits -up, A.0.101.17).
ii 95 A.0.101.17 for lib-bi. ii 95 A.0.101.17 KVR-e (before
dan-ni). ii 95 ana (before me-teq). ii 95 var. omits MES after
GIS.GIGIR. ii 96 A.0.101.10 ka-la-ba-te or A.0.101.17 ka-la-pate. 'ii 96 A.0.101.17 ak-kis. ii 96 A.0.101.17 ak-kl-li URUDU.
ii 96 A.0.101.17 omits u. ii 96 var. e-tiq or lu e-tiq
(A.0.101.10) or -e-ti-qi (A.0.101.17) for DIB-/?.
ii 96 A.0.101.9 and 10 omit ina before URU.DIDLI.
408
ii 96 A.0.101.9 and 10 hu-li-ia. ii 96 A.0.101.10 lib-bi for ,

ii 97 A.0.101.17 ana (after 2-te-u). ii 97 A.0.101.10 a-ta-rad
or A.0.101.17 at-tar-da. ii 97 var. omits ina (before URU Ifgi-d). ii 98 A.0.101.17 at-tu-mu. ii 98 A.0.101.17 a-na.
ii 98 A.0.101.17 mlab-tu-ri. ii 98 var. omits -ni after BD.ME.
ii 99 A.0.101.17 la-a-bi. ii 99 A.0.101.17 dan-nu-te for
KAL.MES, ii 99 A.0.101.10 NIG.ga-w. ii 99 var. NG.U-/ or
NIG.U.ME-5W (A.0.101.10) for bu---nu. ii 99 var. a-na
(both occurrences), ii 99 A.0.101.17 L ap-ra-te.
ii 100 A.0.101.17 inserts L before -ra-si and omits MES.
ii 100 A.0.101.17 -kun. A.0.101.17 aq-qur.
ii 100 A.0.101.17 kar-me. ii 100 A.0.101.17 -ter for
GUR-er. ii 100 var, and A.0.101.17 TA for i-tu.
il 100 A.0.101.9 and 10 ana (before URU tuS-ha-an).
ii 101 A.0.101.17 e-tar-ba for KU4-. ii 101 A.0.101.17 sa-ri. ii 101 A.0.101.17 a for . ii 101 A.0.101.10 ma-da-t.
ii 102 A.0.101.17 at-ta-har. ii 102 var. KAL.MES for dan-nu-te.
ii 102 var. mla-ab-tu-ri. ii 102 var. a-qur. ii 103 var. GUR-er
for -ter. ii 103 A.0.101.17 EN-a. ii 103 A.0.101.17 at-tumu. ii 103 var. i-si-a. ii 103 A.0.101.17
^ra-kaMs]u-[t]e.
ii 104 var. D.HAL.HAL for D.IDIGNA. ii 104 A.0.101.17 [mui-te r]-rte-di ana~ - restored vars. according to King and Le
Gac (passage now broken), ii 104 var. di-ir-ra-a-a.
ii 104 A.0.101.17 mar-si for GIG. ii 105 A.0.101.17 omits -ni
after BD.ME. ii 105 var. la-a-be. ii 105 A.0.101.17 ki-ir-hu. ii 105 A.0.101.17 -ba-an for u.si. ii 105 A.0.101.17 ENa. ii 105 A.0.101.17 u ui-a. Var. omits -ia/a. ii 106 var. KI-nu for it-ti--nu. ii 106 A.0.101.17 am-dah-hi-si.
ii 106 var. A.0.101.17 la-a-am -ma. ii 106 var. --zani-in or --az-nHin)
(A.0.101.17). ii 107 var. A.0.101.17
dan-na-ni. ii 107 var. mun-dah-si-ia or mu-dah-si-a
(A.0.101.17). ii 107 A.0.101.17 omits MUSEN.
ii 107 A.0.101.17 KUR-uf. ii 107 A.0.101.17
mu-dah-si--nu.
ii 108 A.0.101.17 -n-kis for KUD-Z5. ii 108 var. TI.MES for
TL LA. MES. ii 108 A.0.101.17 -sa-bi-ta for DIB-ta.
ii 108 A.0.101.17 si-ta-te--nu. ii 108 A.0.101.17 omits -up
after GBIL. ii 108 A.0.101.17 a-si-tu. ii 108 var. TI.MES for
TI.LA.ME. ii 108 var. omits MES after SAG.DU.
ii 109 A.0.101.17 M-za-qi-pi. ii 109 A.0.101.17 ap-pl r a q \ qur. ii 109 A.0.101.17 -ter for GUR-er. ii 110 var. ba-tu-late--nu. ii 110 A.0.101.14 pi (omits -i). ii 110 A.0.101.17 inserts GAR-ww after ma-at-ni. ii 110 A.0.101.17 KVK-ud for akud. ii 111 var. al-la-su--nu. ii 111 A.0.101.14 and 17
HI.A.ME. ii 111 A.0.101.17 URU.DIDLI for URU.ME-W.
ii 111 A.0.101.17 a-duk. ii 111 A.0.101.14 TI.MES for
TI.LA.ME. ii 111 A.0.101.17 inserts ina su before ii-sa-bi-ta.
ii 111 A.0.101.14 URU.ME-M for URU.DIDLI. ii 111 var. a-pL
ii 112 A.0.101.17 aq-qur. ii 112 var. -ru-up or GBIL
(A.0.101.17) for GBIL-W/?. ii 112 A.0.101.14 and 17 me-lamme. ii 112 A.0.101.14 vcv-u-nu.
ii 112 A.0.101.17 at-bu-ku.
ii 112 A.0.101.17 [a] for . ii 112 A.0.101.14 b-ta-a-ni or
be-ta-ni (A.0.101.17). ii 112 var. a-tar-da or a-ta-rad
(A.0.101.14). ii 113 A.0.101.14 um-ti-ia. ii 113 A.0.101.17
URU.DDLi--nu BD.ME. ii 113 A.0.101.17 u-Se-ru.
ii 113 var. a-na (both occurrences), ii 113 var. zi--nu.
ii 113 A.0.101.17 ma-at-na. ii 113 A.0.101.17 KUR-*>.
ii 113 var. dan-nu. ii 114 A.0.101.14 ar-ti-di. ii 114 var.
muq-tab-li.tAE-ni-s-nu.
ii 114 A.0.101.17 L.D.MEs--nu
for pag-ri.ME-s-nu. i 115 A.0.101.17
na-da-ba-^ku.
ii 115 A.0.101.17 -mal-li. ii 115 A.0.101.17 TI.rLAL.ME.
ii 115 A.0.101.17 -sa-be-ta for DIB-to. ii 115 var. se-ni.ME-nu. ii 116 A.0.101.17 ana. ii 116 A.0.101.14 ma-n-e.
ii 116 A.0.101.17 -te-ra^ for uvR-ra. ii 116 A.0.101.14
URU.MES-ni or URU.DIDLI (A.0.101.17). ii 116 A.0.101.17 dannu-te for KAL.MES. ii 116 var. GAZ.MES (omits --nu).
ii 116 A.0.101.14 al-la-su (omits -nu). ii 116 A.0.101.14 and
17 as-lul. ii 117 var. URU.MEs-ni--nu or URU.ME-W~/?W

(A.0.101.14) or URU.DIDLI (A.0.101.17). ii 117 A.0.101.14
BD.MF-n-t-nu. ii 117 A.0.101.17 dan-^nu^-te for KAL.ME.
ii 117 A.0.101.17 ap-pi aq-qur. ii 117 A.0.101.17 for u.
ii 117 A.0.101.17 -[)er for GUR-er. ii 117 var. GI e-sadi.MES or GI e-sa-di (A.0.101.17) for SE,KIN.TAR. ii 117 var.
inserts u after SE.KIN.TAR. ii 117 A.0.101.17 KVR-ti--nu.
ii 117 A.0.101.17 E.UM.ME. ii 118 A.0.101.17 omits u.
ii 118 A.0.101.17 RGI.IN.NU.MEI. ii 118 var. DUB-W for atbu-uk. ii 118 var. L.GAL.ME-W or L. GAL. ME-te-
(A.0.101.17). ii 118 A.0.101.17 {ib]^bal-ki-tu-^-ma
for
BAL.ME--ma. ii 118 A.0.101.17 TGAZI.MES-SW.
ii 118 A.0.101.17 tu-ru gi-me-l[im]. ii 119 A.0.101.17 na-mura-at. ii 119 A.0.101.17 Sur-ba-at. ii 120 A.0.101.17 e-du-ruma. ii 120 A.0.101.17 ^hal-lu-up-te^. ii 121 var. omits MES
after K.BABBAR and K.GI. ii 122 A.0.101.17 [ZABAJR.TMES
sa-ap-li.ME. ii 123 var. GI.NA5. ii 124 var. .GAI-I.
ii 127 A.0.101.15 RYI f 0 r u. ii 128 A.0.101.15 GAL-te.
ii 128 A.0.101.15 [a]-na GR.II.ME-SU ii 130 A.0.101.15 i-tu
for TA. ii 132 A.0.101.15 --pi-li. iii 1 var.
am-(ma)-te.
iii 2 var. HI.A.MES. iii 2 var. at-tum4-. iii 3 var. be-e-dk.
iii 3 var. a-sa-Q.ME for a-sa-kan. iii 8 var. a-tu-mu.
iii 9 var. omits MES after UDU. iii 9 var. ma-da-tu. iii 9 var.
omits MES after K.BABBAR. iii 11 var. na-qa-ra-ba-ni (both
occurrences), iii 11 var. omits MES after GU4. iii 12 var. attum4-mu. iii 12 var. hi-in-da-a-ni (second occurrence),
iii 13 var. ma-da-tu. iii 13 var. hi-in-da-na-a (first occurrence). iii 14 var. at-ta-mu (first occurrence), iii 15 var.
i-tu for TA. iii 16 var. a for . iii 17 var. lib-bi-ia.
iii 18 var. URu-si-bi, i.e. ala-si-bi. iii 18 var. GIS.TUKUL.MESia. iii 19 var. for sa. iii 21 var. omits MES after K.GI,
iii 22 var. omits - after GI.GIGIR.MES. iii 23 var. a-ptil.
iii 23 var. da-na-a-ni. iii 25 var. e-pu-us for DU-US.
iii 25 var. li-i-ti. iii 25 var. da-na-ni. iii 26 var. hu-te-ni-.
iii 27 var. u-te-ru-ni. iii 28 var. TA for i-tu. iii 32 var. has IA
for the SI sign in si-ba-te and e-si-di. iii 32 var. BURU4-t4-nu.
iii 33 var. omits ina before GIS.TUKUL.MES. iii 34 var. TA-ni.
iii 34 var. pu-rat-t. iii 34 var. e-te-bir. iii 36 var. GI.GIGIR-nu. iii 36 var. a-is-H for a-si-H, iii 37 var, i-tu for TA.
iii 37 var. omits -ni after URU.MES. iii 38 var. omits (first
occurrence), iii 38 var. al-la-su--nu. iii 39 var. TA for i-tu.
iii 40 var. <KUR>-M. iii 43 var. GIM for ki-ma. iii 43 var. u4me--ma. iii 44 var. du-mu-t. iii 44 var, pu-rat-ti.
iii 45 var. a-na. iii 46 var. ana. iii 46 var. e-sir-.
iii 46 var. EN*ia. iii 47 var. omits MES after AN.NA. iii 47 var.
omits MES after ZABAR (after AN.NA.ME). iii 47 var. adds MES
after ZABAR (after TUL). iii 47 var. am-hur-. iii 48 var.
ma-da-tu. iii 48 var. pa-na. iii 48 var. a-ku-un. iii 48 var.
am-ma-ti. iii 48 var. pu-rat-ti. iii 49 var. pu-rat-ti. iii 49 var.
an-na-ti. iii 50 var. pu-rat-te. iii 50 var. ma-ur-PAB-A.
iii 50 var. am-ma-ti. iii 50 var. pu-rat-ti. iii 50 var. ab-bima(*): the -ma lacks the upright vertical, iii 51 var. e-ti-bir.
iii 51 var. KVR.-a-di-ni. iii 52 var. la (omits -a), iii 52 var.
GR.ii-0. iii 52 var. Es-ia. iii 53 var. pil-e\ var. pil-te (in error). iii 53 var. sa-bi-te/ii. iii 53 var. al-la-su (omits -nu).
iii 53 var. NG.U.ME-M-H. iii 55 var. ma-da-tu. iii 56 var.
-ku-na--nu. iii 58 var. TUL.MES. iii 59 var, a-zal-la.
iii 59 var. ma-da-t. iii 59 var. zal-ia-a-a. iii 60 var.
TUL.ME. iii 60 var. ia-si-ia. iii 61 var. omits MI:s after UTUL.
iii 61 var. GI.N.ME. iii 62 var. K.BABBAR.ME K.GI.ME
(first occurrence), iii 62 var, omits MES after HAR. iii 62 var.
sa-yu-ru. iii 63 var. omits ME after GI.GIGIR. iii 64 var. mada-tu. iii 64 var. muh-hi- for UGU-W. iii 64 var. a-kun for
GAR-un. iii 64 var. has GA for DUH in DUH.SI-*?.
iii 65 A.0.101.11 ma-da-t. iii 66 var. inserts before
AN.BAR, iii 66 var. AN. BAR.AN.MES. iii 66 var. omits MES

after tap-hi. iii 66 A.0.101.U [n)r-ma-ka-a-e. iii 66 var.
KI.L ( o m i t s -So), iii 6 8
v a r . SK.HI.ZA.GN.MI. iii 6 8
var.
NA4.NU11.NU.MA (in error) f o r NA4.GI.NUH.GAL. S e e S c h r a m m ,
EAK 2 p. 26. iii 68 var. eb-bi-te. iii 68 var. tam-li-ti.

iii 69 var. adds MES after KUR.KUR, iii 71 var. u-ta-Sir9.
iii 72 var. e-te-bir. iii 73 var. IGI for pa-an. iii 74 var. nmat-ti.ME. iii 74 var. Sa for Sa. iii 76 var. NU for la-a.
iii 80 var. a-ta-bal-kt. iii 90 var. ha-ma-na. iii 103 var. u
for w. iii 103 var. ar-ka-a-ni-a. iii 104 var.
muh-hi-(S)-nu.
iii 104 var. IA (in error) for si in at-t i-si-a. iii 105 var. mi-lani. iii 105 var. i-Se-m. iii 108 var.
ba-{tu)-ba-at-te.
iii 110 var. NA4-sw (in error) for kib-su. iii 110 var. KUi-ab.
iii 110 var. omits a-na. iii 115 var. la-a for NU. iii 118 var.
pa-da (omits -a), iii 119 A.0.101.3 RIN.HI.A.MES (omits -at).
iii 120 A.0.101.3 tik-li-ia. iii 121 A.O. 101.3 D.HAL.HAL for
D.IDIGNA. iii 121 A.0.101.3 CAL-ti. iii 122 A.0.101.3
GR.II.ME-U. iii 123 A.0.101.3 gil-za-a-ni. iii 123 var. el-an.
iii 123 za-ban(*): the BAN sign has one vertical too many,
iii 123 A.0.101.15 [3RV.T>}V6-rd-mza-a[b-dn].
iii 124 A.0.101.15 ha-ru-t. iii 124 var. KUR-G. iii 124 var.
and A.0.101.3 n-re-be. iii 125 A.0.101.3 ana (before
UN.ME). iii 1 2 5
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 3 KUR-0. iii 1 2 5
A.0.101.3
KUR.KUR.ME (omits -t), iii 125 var. and A.0.101.3 and 15

L.GAR-nu-te-ia/a. iii 125 A.0.101.3 al-tak-ka-an.
iii 125 A.O. 101.15 -pu-Su. iii 125 var. and A.0.101.3 NG.DU
for ku-dr-ru. iii 127 var. ek-su-te. iii 127 var. a-nun-ti.
iii 127-28 DMA for dnin-urta (both occurrences),
iii 1 2 8
A . 0 . 1 0 1 . 1 5 IGALI.MK-TE DIS MAN. iii 1 2 8
(DINGIR). MES ( s e c o n d o c c u r r e n c e ) , iii 1 2 8
var.
33.8 u for (before GI.TIR.ME). 34.2-3 omit ME after

UR.MAH. 34.2 lufor lu (both occurrences). 34.3 lufor lu
(first occurrence). 34.2-3 i-na (first occurrence). 34.2-3 e-siir. 34.2 mu-ra-ni-S-nu. 35.2 ma-ay-di-iS. 35.1 has ME twice
(in error) after TI.LA.
A.0.101.3
38 ID(*): A omitted at beginning of sign.
A.0.101.17
i 5 UTU(*): text has REN. i 5 ap-ak-lu: error for ap-ka-lu.
ii 80 /(*): text has TA. v 17 me{*): the sign is engraved over
an erasure, v 50 ti(*): text has IA. V 51 rat{*)\ text has MAR.
v 53 W(*): text has KI.MIN. V 83 (*): text has LU.
A.0.101.19
12 r/(*): text has LUH, 21 S-pi-ir: the last sign is clearly IR
(so King), not NI (so Le Gac). 22 MAN is clear. 56 There is an
erasure between TA and HAR in at-ta-har. 74 -Sam-(qit): cf.
King, AKA p. 233 n. 1. 78 The sign LA in the second a-iuda
lacks the vertical wedge at the end. 82 tiq(*): text has ID.
85 sa{*): text has AS. See Deller, Orientalia NS 26 (1957)
p. 145. 88 ZABAR, first occurrence, is written SAB (not
UD).KA.BAR. 100 /vz(*): the sign has an extra vertical wedge at
the end.
var. L.KR.ME-.
A.O. 101.26
A.0.101.2
1.2-3 for u (after D BAD). 1.2 dnin-urta (text has -UR) for
D
MA. 1.6 BAR (in error) for DINGIR before a-nim.
1.2-3, 6-7 u for W (before dda-gan). 2.2-3, 6-7 A for DUMU
(both occurrences). 2.4 A for DUMU (first occurrence only).
2.2 omits (in error) MAN before KUR aS-Sur-m a. 2.2-3 EN -Su.
3.5 S-nin-Su. 3.2, 6-7 tab-ra-a-te. 4.2-3 la-a kan-u-te-u.
5.2-3 a-a-bi-u da-i. 6.2-7 Dv-S-nu before ipluma.
7.2-3 im-hur. 8.2-3 MU-, 8.2 mu-Sar-bu-u. 8.2-3 la-a.
8.2-3 ana. 9.2-3 lu for lu- (first occurrence).
9.7 RIN.HI.A.ME-at. 10.2-3 DUTU for -maS. 10.6-7 tik-lia. 10.2-3 ERIN. HI.A. ME-/. 11.2-3 ni-ir-bi. 11,2-3 e-ber-taan.
11.6-7
D.HAL.HAL f o r D.IDIGNA. 1 2 . 6 - 7
GR.II.ME-M.
13.2-3 n-er-bi. 14.2-3 e-ber-ta-an. 15.5 -s-ab-ta-ni.

15.2-3 ha-ru-t. 15.2-3 KUR -a. 15.2-3, 6-7 -ter.
16.2-3 ana. 16.2-3 KUR-T, 16.3 t.GAR-nu-te.UE-ia.
17.6-7 -pu-S. 17.6-7 URU.URU for URU.DIDLI.
17.2 URU.DINGIR (in error). 18.1 gim-ri--nu(*): text has -AS.
18.2-3, 6-7 la a-di-ru. 18.2-3 la-a pa-du-. 19.2-3 LUGAL for
MAN (first occurrence), 19,6-7 sa-lu-lu. 19.6-7 omit ina.
20.2-3 A. AB,BA.MES-/\ 20.23 la-a pa-du-te. 20.2-3 dS-ma.
22.6-8 --az-nin. 22.2-3, 8 URU.URU for URU.DIDLI.
22.2, 8 KA-/. 23.3 -sa-pu-u. 23.8 GESTU.II.MES for uz-ni.
23.6-8 insert before -a. 23.4-5 i-i-ma-ni. 23.6-8 i-Siman-ni. 23.7 ZA (for ia)-Si. 23.8 ana a-a-i. 24.6-7 u for .
24.3 ki-in-ni for ke-e-ni. 25.3 for u (first occurrence).
25.3, 6-7 KAL.ME-/e for dan-nu-te. 25.6-7 a-na. 25.6-8 pe~
li. 25.3 Sap-ri for S-pa-ri. 26.2-3 for u. 26.2-3, 5-6 ana
KUR lab-na-na. 26.2-3 lu for lu-ii (both occurrences).
27.2 lu- a?-bat. 27.2-3 u4-me-su-ma. 28.4, 8 sur-ra-a-a.
28,2-3, 8 si-du-na-a-a ... gu-bal-a-a. 29.3 omits MES after
K.BABBAR. 29.2-3 omit MES after K.GI. 29.2-3 omit MES
after TUL and put it after the following ZABAR. 30.2-3 paga-a-te.ME. 31.5 am-hur--nu. 31,4, 8 ana KUR-ia.
31.2-3 lufor lu. 31.4, 8 ina URU kal-hi. 32.2-3 a-na.
2.2-3 MTUKUL-. 2.5 GAL-e. 2,3 erroneously omits aS-Sur.

2.2-3 m10-. 4.12 EN-SU. 4.3-5 it-tal-la-ku-ma for DU.DU-A:Wma. 5.3-4, 12 S-nin-. 5.5 -ninM-SU. 5.2-4, 12 la-a for
la. 5.2-5, 12 i-S-. 5.2 LU.SIPA-W. 6.2, 4 tab-ra-a-te.
6.2-4, 12 la a-di-ru. 6.2-5 gap-Sit. 7.2-4 la-a i-S-.
7.2 mu--ak-ni. 8.2-4 kan--te-S. 8.5 kan-u-ti-S.
8.3
Sa f o r S. 1 0 . 2 , 12 L.KR.ME. 1 1 . 5
EN.ME-JTW DU.DU-
ma. 11.2-4 omit -te at end of line. 12.5 ik-Su-du for KUR-ud.
1 4 . 2 - 4 , 12 o m i t -te a f t e r KUR.KUR.ME. 1 5 , 4
MU-7.
16.2, 5 la-a for la. 16.12 EN-ti-ia. 17.2, 4 omit -at after
RIN.HI.A.MES. 18.4-5 omit MES after GIS.TUKUL. 18.3 re-su-ti.
19.2-5 tik-li-a. 19.2 omits -at after RIN.HI.A.ME.
20,2-5 ni-ir-bi. 21.3, 5 iS-tu for TA. 22.4 hat-ti. 22.3 a-na
for ana. 23.2-3, 5 ana for a-na. 23,5 GR.II-5. 24.2 bi-ta-ani. 24.2 ik-Su-du for KUR-ud. 24.2-5, 12 omit KUR before
nreb. 24.2 n-{re)-be. 24.3, 5 n-re-bi. 25.2, 4 g-za-ni.
26.4 has, in error, a-di URU.DU6 twice. 26.2-5, 12 omit the
gloss an after za-ban. 27.9 URU.DU^-S-ab-ta-a-ni. 28.2-5 haru-tu. 28.5 omits KUR before brte. 28.3-4 bi-ra-te.
28.2-5 kar-du-ni-S. 28.4 ana for a-na. 29,5 iS-tu for TA.
29.2-5 omit KUR before nreb. 29.2 n-re-bi. 30.2-5 omit
-te after KUR.KUR.ME. 31.2-5 L.GAR-nu-te-a. 32.2 e-me-sunu-te. 32.2 na-a^-du. 33.2 omits, in error, URU.URU 'cities'.
34.2-3 la-a for la. 35-36.2 omits, in error, DINGIR.MES
GAL.MES ... tik-li-S. 37.5 KUR.ME-E. 37.4 omits me after
mal-ki. 37.4 omits -S after L.KR.ME. 37.2, 4-5 KUR.KURS-nu. 38.2, 4-5 ana for a-na. 39.3 ma-da-t. 40.5 has, in
error, dME (DIS 4- 30) for d 30, 41,2-5 pa-du-.
41.12 [KR.M]E-5M. 42.4 le-'u-u. 43.2-4, 12 omit -te after
KUR.KUR.ME, 43.5 dan-na~a-te. 44.5 is-tu for TA. 45.12 a-na
f o r ana.
4 5 . 2 , 5 GR.H-. 4 5 . 3 - 4
GR.II.MES-cn 4 7
MAN KUR is
broken off in exs. 1 and 3 but preserved in exs. 2, 4-5.

47.2-5, 14 omit - after NUN. 47.2-5 pa-ni-a, 47,4 DV-US.
48.2-5, 14 ana for a-na. 48.5 has, in error, GUR for URU
(affected by preceding GUR). 48.2-5 su-. 49.2-5 U.II-.
410
51.2-5 S for Sa. 52.4 for lb-bi. 54.2 has NI.A.BI, in

error, for D.A.BI. 56.2-4 lu- -S-p. 57,3 a-na for ana
(first occurrence). 57.4 e-S-te-S. 59.3, 5 ana for a-na.
60.4 MAN-//-?. 60.4-5 ana for a-na. 60.4 ES-ti-ia. 60.5 omits, in error, -a/-ia after EN-ti. 62.2-4 si-kt. 63.2 dp-ra-ani. 64.4 -re-ti. 66.2-3 U.II-. 66.2-3 ana for a-na.
A.0.101.31
5.1 /(*): text has LA/MA, 5.3 i--. 6.2 omits u. 6.2 a-(na).
6.1 si-hr-ti-(S). 9.3 \e\l-la-an. 10.3 ana. 11.1
12.2-3 EN for a-di. 12.2-3 fl^cr ... lu-. 12.2-3 -ta->a-bi: an
anomalous form of teb. The scribe must have confused it
with tbu. 13.2-3 q-reb-u. 13.3 u-a-t. 14.3 DINGIR-ti-Su.
14.3 KUR-E(*) w(*): text has, in error, KUR kal-hi lu. 15.3 ana ... (ina). 15.1 (lu-) am-nu-. 16.3 (*): text has KID.
17.3 BRA(*): the sign has been formed badly. 17.3 BARA(*)u ... at-(ma)-ni-s ... (ina). 19.2-3 lu-. 19.3 -(S)-aki-da-ni.
A.0.101.34
A.0.101.45
7.1 Thompson in a footnote to his copy says -u is 'from a duplicate', presumably ex. 2. 17.5 bi(*): copy has UD.
A.0.101.50
1.2 for MAN (last occurrence) has, in error, u. 2.3 KUR a-ur
for KUR AS. 2.2 omits m . 4.2-3 for sa. 4.2-3 EN-W.
5.2-3 for Sa. 6.2 d-nin-S. 6.3 S-nin-Su. 6.3 la-a i-Su-
for NU TUK-W. 6.2 for Sa. 6.3 is-tu for TA. 7.2-3 tam-di
for A.AB.BA. 8.2 ana. 9.3 a-na. 10.3 -k-ni-a. 12.2-3 S
for Sa. 13.3 iS-tu for TA. 14.3 -ba-ri (omits a).
16.2-3 URU. DUE-'Za-ab-da-ni. 17.2 ha-ru-tu. 17.3 ha-r-t.
17.3 omits KUR. 18.2-3 ana. 20.2-3 ana. 20.2 gim-ri-S.
21.2-3 ana. 21.3 iS-Su-te. 21.3 as-bat for ma-bat. 22.2 MU. 25.2-3 lu-. 30.3 e-pu-uS for T>V-US. 30.3 -ra-ki-si.
33.3 lib-bi for . 33.2 .KUR-W. 35.2-3 Sa for Sa.
37.2-3 ta-S-su-. 38.3 ana. 38.2 KI-SU. 44.2 S for Sa.
45.2 i-S-su-. 45.1 i-pa-u-Su. 45.2 i-pa-S-Su. 46.2 a-na.
47.2 S for Sa. 47.2 omits -ni after MAN.MES. 48.2 lb-bi-S.
1.3, 6 dan-nu. 2.2 DUMU for A (both occurrences).

TUKUL-DMA. 2 . 2 DIKUR-RIN.TH. 3 . 3 , 6
dan-nu.
4 . 2 - 3 , 6 EN-5W. 5 . 3 omits MES after mal-ki. 6 . 2 i-u-. 6 . 2 a
for d. 9 . 2 - 3 , 6 a-na for ana. 1 0 . 3 , 6 -k-ni-. 1 2 . 2 , 6 niri-bi. 13.2 n-re-be,
A.0.101.51
A.0.101.35
A.0.101.56
2.2
1.8
TUKUL-DMAS, 1 L e G a c h a s GAL-W f o r GAL-E. 1 . 7
GAL-W'
4.2 i-S-. 5.2 la a-di-ru. 17.2 e-ber-ta-an. 18.2 si-hr-ti-S.

19.2 has repeated TA in error. 21.2 a-(di) (second occurrence). 25.2 a-pe-lu-Si-na-ni. 28.2 hu-ur-S-a-ni. 29.2 a-na
for ana (first occurrence). 30.2 GIS..<SUH5).
(last occurrence). 1.8 Ai-ma for aS-Sur-ma. 1.1 omits -ma.

2.4 -ni-in-. 2.8 tab-ra-a-te. 3.7 D.HAL.HAL for D.IDIGNA.
5.6 bi-ta-ni. 5.4 ik--du. 6.4 URU.j>v6-Sa-ab-ta-ni.
7.4-5 ha-ru-t. 7.5 a-na for ana (first occurrence), 7.6 GURra for u-ter. 7.6 u for . 8.5 a-as-bat. 8.1, 4-5 EU-ti-ia. 8.1,
4-5 q-reb-S. 8 Le Gac has u. 8.6 omits . 8 Le Gac has
da-ra-te. 9 Le Gac has pi-li. 10.4-6 -S-zi-iz/zi.
3.2 hur-Sd-ni. 3,4 du-rug-Su-[nu].5.2 [ma]-da-a-ti. 5.3 for

. 6 dan-nu/ni in various exs.; see the scores. 7.9 re-si-S.
8.1 RAN.AB. <BA>. Fully preserved in ex. 9. 8.8 TA for iS-tu.
10.12 rak(?p-[Sud] for KUR-W/. 13.2,17 -pu-S. 13.16 [m]ada-tu. 15.16 [ud]-fdn-S. 16.17 [aSar]-^SD. 16.16 [u-s]e(1)S. 17.24 [NA4,NA,R].A-ia, 17,1 ina for ana. 17.1,16 Ki-S
for -ri-Su. 17.20 be-lat. 17.2 i-Se-me-S. 19.11 [li-k]i-mu-Su.
19.16 [/w-5e]-5/0-w.
A.0.101.36
A.0.101.57
4'.2 [l\ib-bi-Su for k-. 5'.2 [i]~r t^-bu-? ^. T.2 CI.A.TI-
1.8,19 a-Sur for A. 1.10,19 TUKUL-MAS for GISKIM-MA.

2.10 [UR]U ni-nu-a for URU.NINA. 2.6 a-lik pa-ni-[ia] for DU
IGI-IA. 3.8 [gaba]-dib-u. 4.5 [al-t]u-ur qer-bi-[]. 4.8 [...
q-re]b-Su. 4.5 [a-n]a S-ri-u for ana KI-S.
su.
A.0.101.40
1.2 omits -u after GAL. 2.2 DUTU-W for d-ma. The Su is
written very small at the base of the UTU. 2.2 [ina ma]l-ki
kib-rat A-^ta^: the scribe forgot this part of the line and later
squeezed it in between lines 2 and 3. 6.2-3 nab-ni-tu. 6.2 ellu-tu. 12 -S-()-ki-nu. 9.2 e-ar-tu, 9.2 omits MES after
IGI. 10.2, 4 a-na for ana. 10.2 ib-bu--ni. 10.1 TUKUL(*): ex.
1 has an anomalous form. 12.4 D for ka-la. 12.2 mu-ka-bisi. 14.2 GIS.TUKUL.MES-SW. 14.4 [i]-hi-il-la. 16.2 KUR-SW.
18.2 -re-tu-. 18.2 fge^-ri-Su. 20.10 r E Ni for a-di.
22.4,13 DAGAL-/W. 23.2,13 a-na for ana (first occurrence).
23.10 ana for a-na (last occurrence). 23.13-14 EN for a-di.
2 3 . 1 0 , 14 -k-ni. 24.2 n-re-be. 24.11 [n\-reb KUR [kirruri]. 24.10, 13-14 EN for a-di. 25.2,4 a-na for ana.
25.15 e-ber-ta-[an]. 25.6 [n]v6-ba-ri. 26.15 a-di for EN.
27.15 has KUR instead of URU before birtu. 28.2 a-na for
ana. 31.2 la-be-ra. 32.2,4 a-lik for DU. 32.4 iGi-ia for pa-niia. 32.1 la-be-ru-rte~i. 32.2 la-be-ru-ta. 34.2 a-na for ana.
34.2 Su-a-tu. 36.4 [a-n]a for ana. 38.2 lu-di. 38.6 ana ri-[w] for a-na Ki-u. 38.2 KI-. 42.4 omits i after the first
MU. 42 i-at-[ta]-fra^: ex. 1 has rSAR(?)-r(?)I, ex. 2 has i-at[ta-rah and ex. 16 has [sAR(?)-r]a(?).
A.0.101.66
2.3 GAL-W. 2.8 KI for . 2.5 m[ci.tuku]l-ti-. 3.10 [K]I for
. 3.3 AS for aS-Sur. 4.6 KI for . 4.5 S for Sa. 4.9 omits
MES after GAL. 5.1,9 EN.MES-5W, 5.7 [G]R.ME-5W. 5.6,10 Sk-ni-S[u]. 10.15 -m[e-si].
A.0.101.67
5.3, 6, 10 be-ta-a-ni. 6.7 [a-mu]r(?)-ri-i. 6.2 [ha-m]a-a-nu.
6.8 ha-ma-a-n[i]. 7.1 lab-(na)-ni. 10.1 am(*): text has MAH.
14.10 [gaba-d\ib-u.
A.0.101.70
6.2 GR.II-5W. 6.2 -Sak-niS. 8.2 mu-Sab for Su-bat. 13.2 ipa-Sit.
A.0.101.99
1.1 GAL(*): text has MA. Ex. 2 has correctly GAL. Cf. Grayson,
ARI 2 p. 197 n. 864.
Index of
Museum Numbers
British Museum
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
No.
BM 88347
BM 89135
BM 90252
BM 90255
BM 90256
BM 90257
BM 90258
BM 90259
BM 90260
BM 90452 +
BM 90465
BM 90467
BM 90627
BM 90714 +
BM 90736
BM 90738
BM 90752
BM 90756
BM 90757
BM 90758 +
BM 90760
BM 90806 +
BM 90810
BM 90830
BM 90853
BM 90867
BM 90868
BM 90915
BM 90925 +
BM 90925 +
BM 90976
BM 90979
BM 90980
BM 90981
BM 90982
BM 91033
BM 91034
BM 91452
BM 91582
BM 91590
BM 91687
BM 91701
BM 91705
BM 91706
BM 92985
BM 92986
BM 93077
BM 98061 +
101.57.6
101.2005
87.23.4
101. 125.2
101. 115.1
101. 129.5
101. 129.6
101. 129.7
101. 135.1
101. 127.1
101. 135.2
101. 127.2
101, 129.16
101. 115.2
101. 127.3
101. 115.3
101. 125.3
101. 127.4
101. 115.4
101. 115.2
101.23.15
101. 127.1
101. 115.5
101.9
99.7.8
101.26.2
101.26.1
101.26.3
101.24
101.71-78
101..123.4
101.34.2
101.50.1
101.50.2
101.34.1
87.1.3
87.1.4
101..100
101..101.1
101 .101.2
101 .109.1
101 .124.1
101 .125.1
301 .123.1
101.34.3
101.38
89.2001
101.23.189
BM 98062 +
101.23.16
101.23.17
BM 98063
BM 98064
101.23.18
BM 98066
101.35.1
BM 98554
101.111.40
101.111.41
BM 98555
BM 98572
87.1006
BM 98719
0.1019
BM 98720
0.1020
BM 98721
101.56.21
BM 98854
101.126.3
87.1.20
BM 99051
100.7
BM 99128
BM 99323
101.57.13
BM 102400
101.23.19
BM 102401 + 101.23.194
BM 102487 + 101.23.20
BM 104411
101.99.1
BM 108833 + 101.23.195
BM 108836
101.23.21
BM 115021
99.7.7
BM 115023
101.1006
BM 115631
101.26.16
BM 115635
101.115.40
BM 115693
87.4.12
BM 115705
100.15.2
BM 115706
100.15.1
BM 115708
100.15.3
BM 118771
101.99.2
BM 118800 + 101.24
BM 118800 + 101.71-78
BM 118801
101.2.6
BM 118802
101.2.7
BM 118803 + 101.23.196
BM 118804
101.23.22
BM 118805
101.17
BM 118807
101.18
BM 118870
101.98
BM 118871
101.39
BM 118872
101.2.5
BM 118873
101.2.2
BM 118874 + 101.23.197
BM 118875
101.23.23
BM 118876 + 101.23.198
BM 118877 + 101.23.198
BM 118883
101.19
BM 118895
101.28
BM 118895
101.32
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
411
A.O.
89.7
118898
101.23.24
118906
118921 + 101.23.199
101.14
118924
118926 + 101.23.200
118927 + 101.23.200
118928 + 101.23.201
118930
101.23.25
99.4.2
121044
99.5
121044
121067
87.10.5
101.118.7
121131
121132
101.113.1
121135
101.61
121138 + 101.111.4
121139
101.57.16
101.113.2
121140
121141
101.113.3
101.57.17
121142
121143
101.118.8
101.113.4
121144
121145
101.113.5
99.7.1
121149
122622 + 87.10.1
122623 + 87.10.1
89.8
122628
122630
87.13
122632
87,10.4
122659
91.1.8
122660
101.59
122661
91.1.3
122662 + 101.111.23
122665
101.115.42
122667
101.118.9
122668
101.111.5
122672
101.111.6
101.111.7
122676
122678
101.113.7
122680
101.60
122681
101.113.8
122682
101.111.8
122683
101.113.9
123361 + 87.10.1
123387
87.1002
123391
87.1003
123447
101.113.10
123450
101.56.6
123460
101.66.2
No.
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
A.O.
123461
100.13.1
123462
101.111.9
123466
101.56.9
123467
90.2
123468
91.3
101.57.5
123474
101.1003
123475
123476
101.113.11
101.56.16
123477
123479
101.111.10
123480
101.111.11
101.111.12
123491
123492 + 101.111.13
101.113.12
123493
123495
101.116.1
123496 + 101.56.7
100.1002
123497
123499 + 101.56.7
101.111.14
123501
123503
101.111.15
123504
101.113.13
123505
101.113.14
123506
101.111.16
123507
101.118.10
123508
101.118.11
123510
91.1.5
123512
101.113.15
101.111.17
123513
123514
101.113.16
123515
101.57.12
123516
101.118.12
123517
101.113.17
123518
101.113.18
123519
101.111.18
123520
101.113.19
123521 + 101.111.4
123523
101.111.19
123530
101.66.6
124530
101.23.26
124531
101.23.27
124532 + 101.23.28
124533 + 101.23.28
124534 + 101.23.29
124535 + 101.23.29
124536 + 101.23.30
124537 + 101.23.30
124538 + 101.23.31
124539 + 101.23.31
412
Index of Museum Numbers
No.
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
124540 +
124541 +
124542 +
124543 f
124544 +
124545 +
124546 +
124547 +
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
124548 +
124549 +
124550 +
124551 +
124552 +
124553 +
124554 +
124555 +
124556 +
124557 +
124558 +
124559
124560 +
124561 +
124562
124563
124564
124565
124566
124567
124568
124569
124570
124571
124571
124572
124572
124573
124573
124574 +
124575
124576
124577
124578 +
124579
124580 +
124581 +
124582 +
124583 +
124584
124585
124586
124589
124589
124676
124677 +
124678 +
124685
124686
124687
124688
124689
124690
124691
124692
124693
A.O,
No.
101.23.32
101.23.32
101.23.33
101.23.33
101.23.34
101.23.34
101.23.35
101.23.35
101.23,36
101.23.36
101.23.37
101.23.38
101.23.38
101.23.39
101.23.39
101.23.40
101.23.40
101.23.41
101.23.41
101.23.42
101.23.43
101.23.202
101.23.44
101.23.45
101.23.46
101.23.47
101.23.48
101.23.49
101.23.50
101.23.51
101.3
101.5
101.31.1
101.6
101.31.2
101.7
101.31.3
101.23.204
101.23.52
101.23,53
101.23.54
101.23.205
101.23.55
101.23.206
101.23.56
101.23.207
101.23.208
101.23.57
101.23.58
101.23.59
101.7
101.31.3
101.51.2
101.51.1
101.51.1
101.80
101.81
101.82
101.83
101.84
101.85
101.86
101.87
103.88
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
124694
124695
124696
124697
124698
124699
124700
124963
128030
128069
128137
128153
128154 +
128155 +
128156 +
128157
128158
128160
128163
128166
128167
128168
128169
128170
128172
128174
128175
128176
128178
128180
128181
128182 128183
128186 +
128187
128188
128190
128193
128196
128197
128205
128206
128210
128211
128338
128339
128340
128343
128344
128347
128348
128351
128353
128356 +
128360
128361
128362
128364
128366
128371
128372
128374
128377
128378
A.O.
No.
101.89
101.90
101.91
101.92
101.93
101.94
101.95
89.10
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
87.1018
87.1016
87.1019
101.56.3
101.56.1
101.56.1
101.56.1
101.56.25
101.113.62
101.58
101.56.14
101.118.13
101.118.14
101.56.8
101.118.15
101.62
101.66.9
87.1025
101.66,17
101.113.63
101.118.16
101.56.5
101.64
101.66.4
101.118.17
101.66.4
100.13.2
101.118.18
101.66.16
101.56.19
101.111.20
101.111.2)
101.56.13
101.56.18
101.56.15
0.1026
101.116.2
101.112.1
101.111.22
101.112.2
101.113.21
101.113.22
101.113.23
101.66.3
101.56.20
101.111.23
101.57.19
101.113.24
101.113.25
101.57.4
101.113.26
101.66.7
101.66.15
101.118.19
101.113.27
101.113.28
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
A.O.
No.
128380
128382
128383
128387
128389
128390 +
128391
128394
101.111.24
101.56.17
101.66.1
91.1.7
101.112.3
101.111.13
101.56.24
101.66.11
128395
128401
128402
128404
128405
128406
128407
132013 +
132013 +
134497
134498
134511
134564
134585
134813
134821
135121
135156 +
135736 +
135910
136400
137445
137454
37456
137457
137458
137459
137460
137461
137472
137475
137477
137479
137483
137488
137489
137492
138720
139246
139247
139252
139253
139254
139255
139256
139257
139258
139259
139260
139261
139262
139263
139264
139265
139266
139267
101.111.26
101.66.8
101.66.13
101.63
101.1001
101.57.15
101,111.27
101.24
101.71-78
89.9
87.1017
101.113.29
87.10.6
87.1020
101.118.20
87.1021
101,50.3
101.23.209
101.23.37
87.1001
101.130.1
101.115.6
101.135.3
101.127.5
101.135.4
101.137.1
101.115.7
101.135.5
101.135.6
87.25.1
101.135.7
87.24.1
87.28.1
101.135.8
87.26
87.24.2
87.24.3
101.126.5
101.111.29
101.112.4
101,112.5
101.113.30
101.113.31
101.113.32
101.113.33
101.113.34
101.113.35
101.115.41
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
BM
101.113.36
101.113.37
101.113.38
101.111.30
101.113.39
101.113.40
101.113.41
101.111.31
A.O.
139268
139269
139270(?)
139271
139272(7)
139273
139274
139275
139277
139278
139279
139280
139281
139282
139283
139284
139285
139286
139288
139289
139294
139321
139322
139323
139324
139325
139326
139330
139331
139983
139984
139998
139999
48-11-4,25
48-11-4,44
48-11-4,58
48-11-4,60
48-11-4,173
48-11-4,174
48-11-4,175
50-12-28,1
50-12-28,2
51-9-2,32
51-9-2,37
55-12-5,456
56-9-9,58
56-9-9,59
56-9-9,60
56-9-9,128
56-9-9,129
56-9-9,130
56-9-9,131
56-9-9,132
56-9-9,133
56-9-9,134 +
56-9-9,135
56-9-9,136 +
56-9-9,137
56-9-9,139
56-9-9,140
56-9-9,141
56-9-9,143 +
56-9-9,144
101.113.42
101.118.21
101.111.32
101.111.33
101.113.43
101.111.34
101.118.22
100.12
101.113.44
101.111.35
101,111.36
101.111.37
101.111.28
101.113.45
101.66.14
101.66.12
101.57.18
101.113.6
101.111.25
101.1002
101.113.46
101.118.23
101.113.47
101.113.48
101.113.49
101.66.10
101.113.50
101.113.51
101.113.52
101.23.60
101.23.61
101.41(?)
101.23.62
101.125.2
101.115.4
101.115.6
101.115.3
101.123.1
101.124.1
101.125.1
101.2.2
101.2.5
101.17
101.14
101.126.2
101.18
89.7
89.10
101.57.9
101.113.64
101.113.65
101.113.66
101.57.10
101.111.1
101.118.6
101.111.2
101.118.1
0.1021
101.56.22
101.111.3
101.111.42
101.118.1
101.118.2
413 Index of Museum Numbers

No.
A.O.
No.
56-9-9,145
56-9-9,146
56-9-9,148
56-9-9,150
56-9-9,152 +
56-9-9,154
56-9-9,155
56-9-9,156 +
56-9-9,157
56-9-9,158
56-9-9,159 +
56-9-9,160( + )
56-9-9,161( + )
56-9-9,163
56-9-9,165
56-9-9,166
56-9-9,168 +
56-9-9,169
56-9-9,170
56-9-9,172
56-9-9,174
56-9-9,176
56-9-9,179
56-9-9,184 +
56-9-9,191 +
56-9-9,196
56 9 9,198
56 9 -9,201 +
79 7-8,11
79-7-8,280
81-2-4,184
81-2-4,220 +
81-7-27,79 +
82-5-22,499 +
82-7-14,1750
83-1-18,606
91-7-2,2
1901-2-9,64
1903-10-12,4
1905-4-9,60
1905-4-9,61
1905-4-9,225
1905-4-9,226
1905-4-9,227
1914-4-7,2
1922-8-12,68
1922-8-12,174
1922-8-12,175
1922-8-12,177
1929-10-12,40
1929-10-12,40
1929-10-12,63
1929-10-12,140
1929-10-12,141
1929-10-12,144
1929-10-12,147 +
1929-10-12,148
1929-10-12,149
1929-10-12,150
1929-10-12,151
1929-10-12,152
1929-10-12,153
1929-10-12,154
1929-10-12,158
101.57.11
101.113.59
101.56.23
101.65
101.57.1
101.118.3
101.57.7
101.57.2
91.1.6
101.118.4
101.57.1
101.56.2
101.56.2
101.113.60
101.118.5
0.1022
101.57.2
91.2
101.57.8
91.1.1
101.57.3
101.56.4
91.1.2
101.118.1
101.57.2
91.1.9
91.1.4
1929- 10-12,164
1929- 10-12,166 +
1929- 10-12,167
1929- 10-12,168
1929- 10-12,169
1929- 10-12,170
1929- 10-12,171
1929- 10-12,183 +
1929- 10-12,184
1929- 10-12,187
1929--10-12,189
1929--10-12,191
1929- 10-12,686
1929- 10-12,725
1929-10-12,793
1929- 10-12,809
1929- 10-12,810 +
1929- 10-12,811 +
1929- 10-12,812 +
1929- 10-12,813
1929--10-12,814
1929- 10-12,816
1929--10-12,819
1929- 10-12,822
1929- 10-12,823
1929- 10-12,824
1929--10-12,825
1929--10-12,826
1929--10-12,828
1929--10-12,830
1929--10-12,831
1929--10-12,832
1929--10-12,834
1929--10-12,836
1929--10-12,837
1929--10-12,838 +
1929--10-12,839
1929--10-12,842 +
1929--10-12,843
1929--10-12,844
1929--10-12,846
1929--10-12,849
1929--10-12,852
1929--10-12,853
1929--10-12,861
1929--10-12,862
1929--10-12,866
1929--10-12,867
1930--5-8,11 +
1930-5-8,12 +
1930--5-8,17
1930--5-8,19
1930--5-8,21
1930 5-8,92
1930--5-8,93
1930 -5-8,94
1930--5-8,95 +
1930--5-8,98
1930-5-8,100
1930-5-8,101
1930--5-8,105
1930--5-8,109
1930--5-8,111
1930--5-8,113
101.118.6
87.1.6
87.10.7
101.56.11
87,2.1
87.1.6
101.33
89.2001
101.56.12
101.109.1
101.57.6
101.35.1
101.111.40
101.111.41
0.1019
0.1020
101.56.21
101.23.21
87.4.12
100.15.2
100.15.1
100.15.3
99.4.2
99,5
87.10.5
101.118.7
101.113.1
101.61
101.111.4
101.57.16
101.113.2
101.113.3
101.57.17
101.118.8
101.113.4
101.113.5
99.7.1
A.O.
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
101.135.3
101.127.5
101.135.4
101.137.1
101.115.7
101.135.5
101.135.6
101.127.5
87.25.1
101.135.7
87.24.1
87.28.1
87.1018
87.1016
87.1019
101.56.3
101.56.1
101.56.1
101.56.1
101.56.25
101.113.62
101.58
101.56.14
101.118.13
101.118.14
101.56.8
101.118.15
101.62
101.66.9
87.1025
101.66.17
101.113,63
101.118.16
101.56.5
101.64
101.66.4
101.118.17
101.66.4
100.13.2
101.118.18
101.66.16
101.56.19
101.111.20
101.111.21
101.56.13
101.56.18
101.56.15
0.1026
87.10.1
87.10.1
89.8
87.13
87.10.4
91.1.8
101.59
91.1.3
1930 5 8,114
1930-5-8,115
1930-5-8,116
1930-5-8,234
1930-5-8,235
1930-5-8,236
1930-5-8,237
1930-5-8,238
1930-5-8,239
1930-5-8,243
1930-5-8,244
1932-12-10,25
1932-12-10,31
1932-12-10,33
1932-12-10,36
1932-12-10,304+
1932-12-10,390
1932-12-10,393
1932-12-10,403
1932-12-10,404
1932-12-10,405
1932-12-10,409
1932-12-10,410
1932-12-10,411
1932-12-10,417
1932-12-10,418
1932-12-10,419
1932-12-10,420
1932-12-10,422
1932-12-10,423
1932-12-10,434
1932-12-10,435+
1932-12-10,436
1932-12-10,438
1932-12-10,439+
1932-12-10,440
1932-12-10,442+
1932-12-10,444
1932-12-10,446
1932-12-10,447
1932-12-10,448
1932-12-10,449
1932-12-10,450
1932-12-10,451
1932-12-10,453
1932-12-10,455
1932-12-10,456
1932-12-10,457
1932-12-10,458
1932-12-10,459
1932-12-10,460
1932-12-10,461
1932-12-10,462
1932-12-10,463
1932-12-10,464+
1932-12-10,466
1932-12-10,473
1932-12-10,595
1932-12-10,596
1932-12-10,597
1932-12-10,600
1932-12-10,601
1932-12-10,604
1932-12-10,605
101.113.8
101.111.8
101.113.9
101.118.23
101.113.47
101.113.48
101.113.49
101.66.10
101.113.50
101.113.51
101.113.52
101.135.8
87.26
87.24.2
87.24.3
87.10.1
101.113.10
101.56.6
101.66.2
100.13.1
101.111.9
101.56.9
90.2
91.3
101.57.5
101.1003
101.113.11
101.56.16
101.111.10
101.111.11
101.111.12
101.111.13
101.113.12
101.116.1
101.56.7
100.1002
101.56.7
101.111.14
101.111.15
101.113.13
101.113.14
101.111.16
101.118.10
101.118.11
91.1.5
101.113.15
101.111.17
101.113.16
101.57.12
101.118.12
101.113.17
101.113.18
101.111.18
101.113.19
101.111.4
101.111.19
101.66.6
101.116.2
101.112.1
101.111.22
101.112.2
101.113.21
101.113.22
101.113.23
1932- 12- 10,608

1932- 12- 10,610
1932- 12- 10,613 +
1932- 12- 10,617
1932- 12- 10,618
1932- 12- 10,619
1932- 12- 10,621
1932- 12- 10,623
1932- 12-10,628
1932- 12-10,629
1932- 12- 10,631
1932- 12-10,634
1932- 12-10,635
1932- 12-10,637
1932- 12- 10,639
1932--12- 10,640
1932-12- 10,644
1932-12- 10,646
1932- 12-10,647 +
1932--12- 10,648
1932--12- 10,651
1932-12-10,652
1932--12-10,658
1932--12--10,659
1932--12- 10,661
1932- 12--10,662
1932--12--10,663
1932--12--10,664
1932--12--10,700
1932--12--10,701
1932--12--10,706
1932--12--10,707
1932--12--10,708
1932--12--10,709
1932--12--10,710
1932--12--10,711
1932--12--10,712
1932--12--10,713
1932--12--10,714
1932--12--10,715
1932--12-10,716
1932--12--10,717
1932--12--10,718
1932--12--10,719
1932--12--10,720
1932--12--10,721
1932--12--10,722
1932--12--10,723
1932--12--10,724
1932--12--10,725
1932--12--10,726
1932--12--10,727
1932--12--10,728
1932--12--10,729
1932--12--10,731
1932--12--10,732
101.66.3
101.56.20
101.111.23
101.57.19
101.113.24
101.113.25
101.57.4
101.113.26
101.66.7
101.66.15
101.118.19
101.113.27
101.113.28
101.111.24
101.56.17
101.66.1
91.1.7
101.112.3
101.111.13
101.56.24
101.66.11
101.111.26
101.66.8
101.66.13
101.63
101.1001
101.57.15
101.111.27
101.111.29
101.112.4
101.112.5
101.113.30
101.113.31
101.113.32
101.113.33
101.113.34
101.113.35
101.115.41
101.113.36
101.113.37
101.113.38
101.111.30
101.113.39
101.113.40
101.113.41
101.111.31
101.113.42
101.118.21
101.111.32
101.111.33
101.113.43
101.111.34
101.118.22
100.12
101.113.44
101.111.35
101.111.36
101.111.37
101.111.28
101.113.45
101.66.14
101.66.12
101.57.18
101.113.6
101.111.23
101.115.42
101.118.9
101.111.5
101.111.6
101.111.7
101.113.7
101.60
1932- 12--10,733
1932--12- 10,734
1932--12--10,735
1932--12--10,736
1932--12--10,737
1932--12--10,738
1932--12--10,739
1932--12--10,740
414
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
1932-12-10,742
1932-12-10,743
1932-12-10,748
1932-12-12,492
1932-12-12,493
1932-12-12,506
1932-12-12,559
1932-12-12,580
1932-12-12,608
1932-12-12,616
1932-12-12,1253
1966-6-6,1
1979-12-20,154
1979-12-20,157
1979-12-20,158
1979-12-20,159
1979-12-20,160
1979-12-20,161
1979-12-20,258
1979-12-20,266
1979-12-20,306
1979-12-20,320
1979-12-20,330
1979-12-20,337
1979-12-20,338
1979-12-20,362
1983-1-1,344
1983-1-1,345
1983-1-1,350
1983-1-1,351
101.111.25
101.1002
101.113.46
89.9
87.1017
101.113.29
87.10.6
87.1020
101.118.20
87.1021
101.126.5
101.130.1
87.23.4
101.115.1
101.129.5
101.129.6
101.129.7
101.135.1
101.127.1
101,135.2
101.129.16
101.115.2
101.127.3
101.127.4
101.23.15
101.115.5
101.23.60
101.23.61
101.41(?)
101.23.62
DT 382
101
648
856
857-862
865-869
871
873
874 +
875
878
883
883 +
888
890
892
893
895-896
900-901
1082
1083
1084
1085
1086 +
1087 +
1088 +
1089( + )
1090
1091
1096
101.109.5
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.38
101.99.2
101.38
101.38
101.50.1
101.50.2
101.36.2
101.36.1
101.26.12
101.26.12
101.26.12
101.26.12
101.26.15
101.26(7)
101.37
87.10.8
87.12.2
Ki 1904-10-9,80
Ki 1904-10-9,158
Ki 1904-10-9,356
87.1.20
100.7
101.57.13
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
2,93 +
2,261( + ?)
2,430
2,605
2,607
2,608
2,609-613
87.1.6
90.1
101.55
101.109.4
101.26.16
101.38
101.12
Th
Th
Th
Th
87.1006
101.126.3
87.1002
87.1003
87.1.4
87.1.5
87.1.3
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.4
87.1.5
87.1.5
87.1.5
90.1
87.1.5
101.47.1
87.2.1
87.10.3
87.2.2
87.12.1
87.2.1
89.1.3
87.21
101.53.38
87.1004
87.1005
101.33
0.1016
87.1.6
87.1.5
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.6
87.1.5
0.1017
100.1003
101.23.39
101.15.3
101.15.3
101.15.4
101.134.1
101.101.2
101.23.109
0.1014
87.4.25
0.1015
87.2.5
87.1.6
87.21
101.53.38
87.1.5
87.1.5
87.1.5
87.1.5
87.1.5
87.1.5
101.47.2
87.1.5
87.1.5
87,1.5
87.1.3
87.1.5
87.1.5
87.1.5
101.126.7
87.1.5
87.1.5
101.56.10
101.48
87.1.3
87.1.6
0.1018
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Bu 89-4-26,28
Bu 91-5-9,196
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
K
Sm
Sm
Sm
Sm
785 +
1874
1874
1889 +
87.1.6
87.10.2
87.11
87.1.6
1905-4-9,78
1905-4-9,360
1932-12-10,330
1932-12-10,334
1619a +
1620 +
1621a +
1622 +
1623 +
1624 +
1625
1626
1627 +
1628 +
1629 +
1630
1632 +
1633 +
1740 +
1803
1804
2693( + ?)
2749 +
2763
2804( + )
2805
2806
2807
2815 +
2817
2838 +
2838 +
2842
4468
4526 +
4529
6363 +
6706
6707 +
6709
6710
6711+
6712
8539
8543 +
8545 +
8547 +
8548
8549
8555
8887
9264
10042
11256
12009
13646 +
13656 +
13656 4
13714 +
13715 +
13716 +
13717 +
13781 +
13788 +
13835
13836 +
13844 +
13869 +
13871 +
13882
13883
14153 +
14182
14204 +
14212
14927
15273
16923 +
17665
20242
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
Rm
4+
573
576
622
623
624
625
87.1.6
87.1015
87.1.6
101.66.5
101.109.6
101.109.3
101.109.2
A.0.
City of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

No.
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
20 '24-1
1081 '30
1082 '30
118 '32
100 '33
898 '37
1131 '52
272 '61
588 '65
202 '78
203 '78
219 '78
222 '78
A.0.
No.
101.123.2
101.U5.8
101.127.8
101.40.1-3
101.127.14
99.1001
101.115.48
101.130.2
101.23.14
101.126.1
101.126.4
101.15.2
101.40.8
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
223
224
227
228
229
230
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
'78
'78
'78
'78
'78
'78
'79
'79
'79
'79
'79
'79
A.0.
No.
101.40.16
101.40.9
101.40.11
101.42.2
101.42.1
101.45.2
101.115.9
101.135.9
101.135.10
101.135.11
101.133.2
101.135.12
101.137.2
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
A.0.
328
329
330
331
334
350
356
360
370
371
891
892
893
'79
101.137.3
'79
101.137.4
'79
101.127.9
'79
101.115.10
'79
101.127.10
'79
101.133.1
100.17
'79
87.28.2
'79
'79 + 101.40.10
'79 + 101.40.10
'79
101.115.45
101.115,46
'79
'79 + 101,40.10
No.
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
BCM
A.0.
A44
A45
A46
A47
A48
A49
A50
A51
A52
A53
A54
A55
'87
'87
'87
'87
'87
'87
'87
'87
'87
'87
'87
'87
87.25.4
87.28.3
101.135.13
101.135.14
101.135.15
101.137.5
101.137,6
101.115.11
101.115.12
101.115.13
101.116.3
101.133.3

Istanbul
No,
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
98.1.1
87.4.9
89.1.1
98.1.2
87.1.13
87.1.11
87.1.21
87.1.23
87.1.15
87.1.34
87.1.13
87.1.16
87.1.22
87.1.29
87.1.24
87.1.17
87.4.6
87.7
87.1.38
87.4.5
87.8
87.8
87.2.4
87.4.18
87.4.16
87.4.17
87.1.27
87.4.19
89.2.1
87.1014
87.4.10
87.8
98.4.1
92.1001
101.114.2
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
101.118.27
101.67.6
101.67.5
98.1001
98.4.2
87.1007
98.3.9
101.69
98.5.4
98.3.7
101.114.3
98.3.12
98.3.3
87.1010
87.1.42
89.1001
87.1008
101.68
87.1009
98.3.8
ES 9242
ES 9265
ES 9351
ES 9357
ES 9358
ES 9359
ES 9449
ES 9450
ES 9451
ES 9452
ES 9453
ES 9455
ES 9456
ES 9457
ES 9458
ES 9525(?)
ES 9527
ES 9528
ES 9529
ES 9530
ES 9531
ES 9532
E$ 9533
ES 9534
ES 9535
ES 9536
ES 9537
ES 9538
ES 9539
HS 9540
ES 9541
ES 9542
ES 9543
ES 9544
ES 9545
101.129.8
101.115.22
101.115.23
101.115.24
101.115.25
101.116.4
87.23.6
87.23,5
87.22.6
87.22.5
101.115.26
101.115.27
101.115.28
101.115.29
101.115.30
87.29.1
87.29.10
87.29.11
87.29.12
87.29.13
87.29.14
87.29.15
87.29.16
87.29.17
87.29.18
87.29.19
87.29.20
87.29.21
87.29.22
87.29.23
87.29.24
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
19
33
34
39
78 +
88
89
90
91
98
101 +
102
103
104
106
109
111
635
638
644
646 +
661 +
662
668
672
674
684
690
696
760
2126
2512 +
3381
3382
3383a
3421
3425
3427
3439
3442
3449
3471
3473
3475
3493
3495
3496
3515
3529
3572
3574
3588
3590
3611
3636
ES
E
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
ES
51
4689
5950
6234
6634
6657
6698
6702
7171
7850
7890 +
9009
9010
9149
101.130.3
87.29.7
87.29.8
87.29.9
101.129.9
101.115.20
87.4.15
96.2001
87.4.7
89.11
87.1.7
101.115,21
101.129.10
101.115.31
87.29.25
87.29.26
87.29.27
87.29.28
A.0.
9546
9547
9548
9549(?)
9551
9552
9554
9555
9556
9557
9558
9560
9560(?)
9561
9562
9563
9564
9565
9566
9566(?)
9568
9569
9570
9571
.4
5
6
22 1
4649
7036 +
7037 +
87.29.29
87.29.30
87.29.31
87.29.3
87.29.32
87.29.33
87.29.34
87.29.35
87.29.36
87.29.37
87.29.38
87.29.39
87.29.2
87.29.40
87.29.41
87.29.42
87.29.43
87.29.44
87.29.45
87.29.4
87.29.46
87.29.47
87.29.48
87.29.49
101.23.104
101.23.105
101.23.106
101.23.208
101.23.107
101.23.234
101.23.231
Metropolitan Museum of Art

No.
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
17.190.2077
17.190.2078
17.190.2079
17.190.2080
17.190.2081
17.190.2082
31.72.1 +
+
+
+
+
+
+
A.0.
No.
101.23.237
101.23.237
101.23.238
101.23.239
101.23.239
101.23.240
101.23.100
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
31.72.2
31.72.3
32.143.1
32.143.2
32.143.3 +
32.143.4
32.143.6
A.0.
No.
101.23.131
101.23.132
101.2.4
101.2.3
101.23.241
101.23.133
101.23.134
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
MMA
A.0.
32.143.7
32.143.8
32.143.11 +
32.143.12 +
32.143.14 +
54.117.30
57.27.30
101.23.135
101.23.136
101.23.92
101.23.227
101.23.229
101.115.49
101.123.5
Nimrud
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
1+
3-5 I
6+
7-8 t
11-17 +
18-19 +
20 +
21-22 +
24 +
101.23.246
101.23.247
101.23.141
101.23.201
101.23.248
101.23.249
101.23.37
101.23.250
101.23.143
25-28 +
29 +
30 +
31 +
32 +
33 +
34 +
35 +
36 +
101.23.83
101.23.92
101.23.144
101.23.144
101.23.121
101.23.144
101.23.145
101.23.146
101.23.146
38 +
40 +
41 +
42 +
43 +
45 +
44 +
46 +
47 +
101.23.209
101.23.206
101.23.188
101.23.189
101.23.189
101.23.189
101.23.251
101.23.208
101.23.252
48 +
49 +
50 +
51 +
52 +
53 +
5455-57 +
58-59a-b +
101.23.192
101.23.199
101.23.253
101.23.252
101.23.254
101.23.229
101.23.255
101.23.220
101.23.213
416
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
60+
61+
62
63-68 +
101.23.256
101.23.126
101.23.147
101.23.148
69-71 +
73-76 +
77 r
78-79+
101.23.63
101.23.256
101.23.148
101.23.63
80+
81-82
85
86
101.23.255
101.23.149
101.23.150
101.23.151
8889a-d +
101.23.258
101.23.255
Vorderasiatisches Museum
No.
A.O.
No.
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
938 +
939a
939b
939c
940
941 +
942
943
944
945
946
947
948a
948b
949 +
950 +
951
952
959
2278
2889
3020
3128
3863
5633
5637
7274
7515
8255
8747 +
8999
101.23.143
101.23.164
101.23.165
101.23.166
101.23.167
101.23.261
101.23.168
101.23.169
101.23.170
101.23.171
101.23.172
101.23.173
101.23.174
101.23.175
101.23.262
101.23.263
101.23.176
101.23.177
101.23.178
101.109.7
101.49
101.136
101.122
101.23.179
98.3.2
87.1.8
1001.1004
87.1.25
87.1.1
101.23.264
101.121.3
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
90.3
101.108
93.1
96.1
91.5
89.13
98.3.1
1197
1199
1201
1202
2015
2017
2053
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
2054
2055
2056
2057
2060
2061
2062
2063
2064
2065
2067
2068
2069
2097
2098
2269
3238c
3251a
3251b
3251c
325 ld
3251e
325 lf
3251g
3251b
325 li
3251k
32511
3251m
325 ln
3251s
3254a
3254b
3255
3256a
3256b
3256c
3256d
3257a
A.O.
No.
98.3.4
98.3.6
98.3.11
98.3.10
101.67.3
101.67.1
101.67.8
101.67.11
101.67.2
101.67.7
101.67.4
101.67.10
101.67.9
101.114.4
101.67.12
89.3
87.1011
87.22.7
87.22.1
87.22.8
87.22.9
87.22.11
87.23.7
87.23.9
87.23.2
87.23.10
87.23.11
87.23.12
87.23.13
87.23.14
87.23.16
100.16.4
100.16.5
101.129.2
101.115.15
101.115.16
101.115.17
101.1005
101.138.1
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
VA
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
Ass
3257b
3257c
3259a
3259b
3259c
4299a
4299b
4305a
4306a
4306b
4306c
4309d
43091
4311b
4311e
4315
A.O.
No.
101.115.18
101.129.4
101.138.2
101.138.3
101.115.19
98.5.3
98.5.1
87.28.4
87.28.6
87.28.7
87.28.5
87,23.8
101,129.1
87.23.15
101.129.3
87.22.10
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VA Bab 1510
101.2006
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
VAT
99.2.1
98.2
87.3.2
87.3.3
100.1.3
100,4
87.4.14
89.2,3
87.4.1
87.4.11
87.6
87.9
89.6
87.5
100.1.2
100.3
87.4.1
98.1.3
89.2.4
89.5
8288
8890
9360
9422
9477
9477
9484
9486
9489 +
9496
9497
9511
9539
9540
9550
9550
9557 +
9562
9590
9595
A.0.
9601
9616
9624
9627
9630
9631
9631
9632
9632
9636
9637 +
9638
9639
9640
9641 +
9646
%50 +
9657
9752
9782
9899(+)
10136
10332( + )
10422
10444
10749
10944
11240
11242 +
11316
11318
13562
13563 +
13564
13565
14399
89.2.5
87.1.30
87.3.6
89.1.2
99.4.1
100.1.1
100.2
99.2.2
99.3
87.4.23
99.1.2
101.16
87.4.8
99.1.1
99.1.2
87.4.22
87.4.13
89.2.2
101.21.1
101.21.2
87.2.3
100
87.2.3
100.5.2
87.4.3
87.4.21
101.22
89.4.2
87.1.7
99.2.4
99.2.3
87.4.4
87.4.13
87.3.4
87.3.5
87.4.2
MISCELLANEOUS
Albany, Institute of History and Art
Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College
No.
A.O.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
101.23.1
1+
2
3
101.23.3
101.23.4
101.23.5
4+
5+
101.23.6
101.23.188
Aleppo Museum
No.
A.O.
3165 (1)
100.1004

Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, The Academy of the
New Church Museum
Baltimore , Walters Art Gallery

No.
A.0.
WAG 21.8
WAG 21.9+
101.23.180
101.23.266
No.
A.0.
09.SP. 1549+
101.23.208
Bern, Abegg-Stiftung
Burlington, University of Vermont, Fleming Museum
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
12.2.63 +
101.23.193
101.23.80
Bombay, Prince of Wales Museum
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
1+
2+
3
8+
9+
101.23.210
101.23.63
101.23.64
101.23.10
101.23.204
F8 +
F9 +
F10 +
101.23.190
101.23.192
101.23.199
FM 2 +
FM H1 -1908 +
FM E2-1908 t
101.23.43
101.23.226
101.23.227
FM E3-1942 +
FM E45-1927
101.23.228
101.23.88
VAM 77
101.23.65
Chicago, Oriental Institute

No.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
MFAB 35.731
MFAB 35.753
101.23.127
101.23.128
MFAB 81.56
101.23.129
A 1+
A 16932
A.0.
No.
A.0.
101.23.220
0.1023
A 16938
A 16960
0.1024
0.1025
Cincinnati Art Museum
Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery

No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
H-794
H-795
101.23.70
101.23.71
H-796
101.23.72
Brooklyn Museum
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
55.145
55.146 +
55.147
55.148
55.149 +
55.150 +
101.23.73
101.23.214
101.23.74
101.23.75
101.23.215
101.23.216
55.151 +
55.152 +
55.153
55.154
55.155
55.156
101.23.217
101.23.218
101.23.76
101.23.77
101.23.78
101.23.79
No.
A.0.
L 1962.14
101.23.81
Cleveland, Museum of Art

No.
A.0.
43.246+
101.23.222
Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
836 +
836a +
1723 +
101.23.223
101.23.224
101.23.83
AS 1 +
AS 2 +
AS 3 +
101.23.20
101.23.191
101.23.82
Detroit, Institute of Arts
Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College

No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
487
489
490 +
491.2-
101.23.66
101.23.67
101.23.212
101.23.219
1860.1 +
1860.2 +
1860.4 +
1860.5
101.23.68
101.23.211
101.23.212
101.23.69
47.181 +
101.23.189
Brussels, Muses Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire

No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
O
O
O
O
O
101.23.152
101.23.259
101.23.153
101.23.154
101.23.155
O
O
O
O
O
101.23.156
101.35.10
101.23.157
101.23.249
101.23.148
270
271 +
272
273
274
275
276
277
278 +
1934 +
Dresden, Staatliche Skulpturen-Sammlung

No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
19
20 +
101.23.84
101.23.225
21
22
101.23.85
101.23.86
Edinburgh, National Museum of Antiquities

No.
A.0.
101.23.87
418
Genoa, Civico Museo di Archeologia
Leningrad, Gosudarstwiennyj Ermitage
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
1+
101.23.37
GE 1
GE 2 +
GE 3
101.23.89
101.23.90
101.23.91
GE 4 +
GE 5 +
101.23.229
101.23.229
Glasgow, Burrell Collection

No.
A.0.
28/35+
101.23.92
Lisbon, Fundaco Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

No.
A.0.
Hamburg, Museum f i r Kunst und Gewerbe
118
101.23.120
No.
A.0.
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art
1965,101 +
101.23.213
Hanover, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum

No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
1/2
3
4
5
101.23.93
101.23.94
101.23.95
101.23.96
6
7
8+
101.23.97
101.23.98
101.23.100
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum

No.
A.0.
1917.83 +
1955.101 +
101.23.6
101.23.68
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
LA 66.4
LA M.71.73.1
101.23.121-124
101.23.111
LA M.71.73.3a
LA M.71.73.3b
101.23.112
101.23.113
Lycklama Collection (now in Muse de la

Castre, Cannes)
No.
A.0.
L 564
L 566
101.35.7
101.35.8
Lyon
No.
A.0.
531
101.23.125
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts

No.
A.0,
Manchester Museum
80.53 +
101.23.206
No.
A.0.
VII-A-8 +
101.23.126
Iraq Museum
No.
IM
IM
IM
IM
IM
IM
26472
26473
28143 +
29053 +
29059 +
45964(?)
A.0.
No.
101.2
101.2
101.23.230
101.23.301
101.23.231
101.40
IM
IM
IM
IM
IM
IM
A.0.
55352
55728
55744
55745
60498
60635
101.125.6
101.120.2
101.8
101.26.6
101.26.7
101.26.9
Jerusalem, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum
Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College

No.
A.0.
101.23.130
Minneapolis, Institute of Arts

No.
A.0.
1+
101.23.3
No.
A.0.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Gallery
SF 3972
101.23.162
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
373 +
374 +
101.35.9
101.35.9
375
101.34.5
Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson

Gallery of Art
No.
A.0.
Montreal, National Museum
101.23.110
No.
A.0.
64.EA.3 +
101.23.68
Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

No.
A.0.
B 1939/2.1 +
LKA 1157
101.23.90
101.102.5

Mosul Museum
Philadelphia, University Museum
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
101.2.1
101.23.137
U M 29-21-1
U M 33-4-144
101.23.163
99.8
Munich, Staatliche Sammlung gyptischer Kunst
Princeton University
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
1+
2+
3
101.23.242
4+
101.23.244
1+
101.23.260
101.23.243
101,23.139
5
7+
101.23.140
101.23.141
Newark
No.
A.0.
82152a-b
101.23.142
Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery

No.
A.O.
44.10+
101.23.251
San Jose, California, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Literary and

Philosophical Society
No.
A.O.
No.
A.O.
1 +
2
101.23.121
101.23.122
3
4
101.23.123
101.23.124
No.
A.O.
1801
101.34.4
St. Louis, City Art Museum

No.
A.O.
1+
101.23.82
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences

No,
A.O.
56.22 +
56.49.la +
101.23.233
101.23.253
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
No.
A.0,
856
101.23.161
Ottawa, National Art Gallery
Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum
No.
A.O.
No.
A.0.
2918+
101,23.254
ROM 939.11.2+
ROM 950.6.1+
101.23.56
101.23.254
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

No.
Ash
Ash
Ash
Ash
Ash
Ash
A.O.
No.
101.106
101.127.6
101.127.7
101.23.191
101.123.3
101.26.4
Ash
Ash
Ash
Ash
Ash
1922.198
1930.717a
1930.717b
1950.241 +
1951.50
1951.61
A.O.
1954.745
1957.182
1957.183
1982.224
1982.225+
101.115.47
101.125.4
101.131
101.23.12
101.23.192
Oxford, Christ Church College

No.
A.O.
1+
101.23.221
AO
AO
AO
AO
AO
AO
4655
19.845
19.846
19.847
19.848 +
19.849 +
No.
A.0.
9+
10 +
101.23.251
101.23.103
Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe

No.
A.0.
193335+
101.23.229
Williamstown, Williams College
Paris, Louvre
No.
Vatican City, Museo Vaticano
No.
A.0.
1
2+
101.23.181
101.23.144
A.O.
No.
A.O.
100.5.1
101.23.7
101.23.8
AO 19.851
AO 19.868 f
A O 22.198 i
101.23.11
101.23.190
101.23.189
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum

No.
A.0.
101.23.9
101.23.10
101.23.189
N III 3399
100.11
1930.32
101.23.182
420
Yale University
No.
YBC
YBC
YBC
YBC
YBC
YBC
1854.1+
1854.2a-b+
1854.3+
1854.4+
1854.5+
2023
Zrich, Archologische Sammlung der Universitt
A.O.
No.
101.23.258
101.23.267
101.23.188
101.23.188
101.23.188
101.125.5
YBC
YBC
YBC
YBC
YBC
YBC
2313
2398
2399
2445
16946
16947
A.O.
No.
A.0.
101.13
101.70.1
101.70.2
101.23.183
101.115.44
101.115.43
1910
1911-13
101.23.184
101.23.185-87
Index of
Excavation Numbers
A.O
No.
A.O.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
101
101
101
87.:
87.:
87.:
87.:
87.:
101
101
87.:
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
87.:
101
101
101
87.:
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
101
681
703
842b
853
957
977
989
1000
1007 +
1016 +
1017
1017
1070
13261
13261
1515
1548 +
1553
1567 +
1576 +
1758
1793
2096
2208
2257
2311
2551
2880
3023 +
3127
3128
3311
4106
4140
4146
4150
4151b
4155
4184
41841-m
4184n
4184t
4193
4193v
4199a
4211
4211a
4212b
101.53.28
101.53.29
87.1.39
101.53.30
101.53.31
87.4.15
101.138.1
87.1.8
99.4.1
99.4.1
99.2.2
99.3
87.4.20
100.1.2
100.3
87.29.5
87.4.8
87.29.50
87.4.8
87.4.8
96.2001
87.1.25
100.16.4
101.115.16
101.53.32
101.53.33
101.21.1
87.4.13
99.1.2
98.4.1
92.1001
101.114.2
87.17
87.18-20
101.115.18
87.18-20
87.18-20
101.53.34
87.18-20
87.17
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.17
87.18-20
4233
4236
4236a
4279a
4292g
4312 +
4312a +
4330f(?)
4428
4428 +
4463o
4489a+
44891
4489r+
4530 +
4533e +
4533m +
4533k+
4533r
4533t
4565
4565a+
4565 k
4585 +
5165
5169
5372
5423
5462
5574
5603
5611
5640
5651
5683
5683a
5683b
5683c
5683d
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.18-20
87.4.9
98.1.1
87.4.4
101.22
87.4.9
87.3.3
98.1.1
99.1.1
99.1.2
87.4.9
101.21.2
101.21.2
87.4.9
89.1.2
99.2.3
87.4.23
99.1.2
98.2
98.1.1
87.4.16
87.2001
101.129.4
87.1.29
87.1.27
101.118.27
87.22.7
87.23.7
87.23.8
89.11
87.23.9
87.22.3
87.23.1
87.23.2
87.23.3
87.22.1
87.22.2
87.22.4
87.23.10
87.23.11
87.23.11
101.67.6
87.1.10
101.67.5
5838 +
5879 +
5936a+
5936b+
5998
6138
6236
6276 +
6277a-d
6311 +
6469a
6556
6702
6719
6730
6792
6796a
6796b
6816
6847 +
7278
7341
7378a+
7378b +
7378c+
74..
7408
7418
7428
7429
7433
7434
7470a+
7470b +
7472
7502
7547
7553
7553a
7553b
7558
7562
7564a
7564b
7565
7567
7574
7579
87.4.1
87.4.1
87.28.5
87.28.5
98.1001
87.4.5
87.1.17
98.4.2
87.22.8
98.4.2
87.4.11
89.1.1
87.1.18
87.1007
99.6
89.12
89.6
89.2.3
87.1.11
87.1.10
87.1.34
101
87.1.13
87.1.13
87.1.13
87.23.13
100.15.3
87.23.12
87.1.9
87.1.15
100.15.2
100.15.1
87.1.23
87.1.23
87.22.9
87.1.24
87.1.38
87.1.31
87.1.31
87.1.31
87.1.37
87.1.40
87.1.26
87.1.14
87.1.21
87.1.33
87.1.41
87.1.36
5683c
5683f
5683x
5703a-c
5703c+
5703d+
5755
5807 +
5808
421
422
Index of Excavation Numbers
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
7588
7599a
7599b
8193
8569
8825a
8911
9008
9150
9467
9517
9891
9945
9945
10178
10181111
10182
10219 +
10297
10306 +
10314
10331 +
1033lc +
10345 +
10346
10347
10348
10524
10561
10583
10583(7)
10766
87.1.16
87.1.30
87.1.32
87.3.6
87.4.10
87.22.11
99.1003
89.3
100.16.3
98.3.9
101.69
98.5.4
100.1.3
100.4
98.3.7
101.114.3
98.1.3
98.3.12
101.114.1
98.3.12
87.4.17
98.3.3
98.3.3
98.3.3
98.5.1
98.5.2
98.5.3
98.3.1
98.3.2
98.3.6
98.3.5
87.6
11049
11108
11327
11518
11601
11652
12614
12694
12696
12705
12719
12722
12733
12901
13181
13199
13265
14306
14786
14809 +
15134 +
15241
15259
15269
15270 +
15271
15272
15436
15549
15550
15671
15714
98.3.11
101.53.3 5
98.3.10
98.3.4
87.1010
101.129.1
87.18-20
87.17
101.53.36
87.28.6
87.18-20
87.17
87.28.7
87.9
87.1.12
87.1014
87.1.22
87.4.18
87.4.2
87.4.24
87.4.24
87.1.42
91.5
87.1013
89.13
93.1
91.5
89.1001
96.1
97.1
101.115.17
101.108
15739
16308k
16474
16696
17132
17148
17184
17283
17427
17558
17707
17819
17823
17861
17874a+
17874b+
17874c+
17874d( + )
17885
18148
18150
18251
18268
18274
18393
18398
18431
18435a
18438
18474
18497
18616
99.1002
89.4.1
87.1008
101.68
89.2.1
89.5
89.2.4
101.138.2
101.53.40
91.4
97.2001
90.3
101.53.37
87.7
87.8
87.8
87.8
87.8
101.138.4
100.14.1
101,129.14
99.1003
89.4.2
87.4.6
100.14.2
100.16.2
87.1.28
87.1.35
87.4.12
87.1009
99.2.1
101.1004
18641
18723
18829
19086
19334
19515a
19515b
19569
19698
20371
20570
20999
21087
21095
21105a
21105b
21105c
22251
22458
22913
22931
22939b
22952a
22952b
22952c
22952d
22952d
22971
22980
..77f
87.4.7
87.5
98.1.2
87.4.14
101.129.2
101.129.15
87.4.19
98.3.8
101.52
89.2.5
87.28.4
101.67.10
101.67.12
87.3.2
87.3.4
87.3.5
87.2.4
101.114.4
101.115.39
101.67.4
101.67.3
101.67.1
101.67.8
101.67.11
101.67.2
101.67.7
101.67.9
87.1.1
87.22.10
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
101.26.6
101.8
101.125.7
101.125.8
101.30
101.26.5
101.2.1
101.130.2
101.123.6
101.123.7
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
101.115.47
101.123.8
101.115.48
101.107
101.123.9
101.120.3
101.125.4
101.131
101.132
101.125.9
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
100.16.1
Nimrud
No.
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
201
285
561
565
567
585
634
656(?)
811
816
101.26.13
101.125.6
101.120.1
101.120.2
101.123.5
101.124.2
101.121.1
101.123.3
101.8
101.26.4
817
820
827
828
1104
1121
1122
1129
1402
1403
1404
1405
1974
2505
2551A
255IB
3490
3491
3492
3493
3494
5429
5446
5506
5540
6232
6233
6234
6235
6236
101.125.10
101.2001
101.113.61
101.2002
101.2003
101.26.7
101.26.8
101.26.9
101.26.10
101.26.11
Concordances of Selected Publications
Andrae, Stelenreihen
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
6
9
10
11
101.108
99.1002
92
97.1
12
13
14
15
96.1
94-95
93.1
91.5
16
17
27
57
87.1013
89.13
90.3
97.2001
Abb. 6
101.53.37
Donbaz and Grayson, RICCA

No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
115
116
117
118
119
120
87.1007
87.1008
87.1009
87.1010
89.1001
92.1001
121
122
123
124
125
126
98.3.9
98.3.7
98.3.12
98.3.3
98.4.1
98.5.4
127
128
129
130
131
132
98.1001
101.114.1
101.114.2
101.114.3
101.118.27
101.69
133
134
135
280
300
101.67.5
101.67.6
101.68
98.4.2
87.1.42
Grayson , ARI 2
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
LXXXVII 1
87.1
87.2
87.3
i-xxxix 2
XCVIII 5
LXXXIX 5
98.6
101.21
99.1
99.2
99.5
99.7
99.1002
100.5
100.1
100.2
100.4
100.6,1001-1002
100.14
100.15
100.16
100.12
100.13
100.17
100.9
100.1004
100.11
ci 6
87.4,10
87.5
87.6
87,7
87.8
87.9
87.10
87.11
87.12
87.13
87.10
87.14
87.15
87.16
87.17
87.21
87.22
87.23
87.24-25
87.26
87.28
87.29
89.1-2,4-5
89.7
89.3
89.6,9
89.8
89.10
89.11
89.12
89.13
89.2001
90.1
90.3
90.2
91.1
91.4
91.2
91.3
91.5
92.1
93.1
96.1
96.2001
97.1
98.1-2
98.3
98.4
98.5
101.9
101.10
101.11
101.17
101.18
101.19
101.20
101.23
101.27
101.25
101.26
101.28
101.29
101.30
101.31
101.38
101.50
101.51
101.34
101.35
101.36
101.40
101.41
101.42
101.56,64
101.57,65
LXXXVII 2
LXXXVII 3
LXXXVII 4
LXXXVII 5
LXXXVII 6
LXXXVII 7
LXXXVII 8
LXXXVII 9
LXXXVII 1 0
LXXXVII 11
LXXXVII 1 2
LXXXVII 1 3
LXXXVII 1 4
LXXXVII 1 5
LXXXVII 1 6
LXXXVII 1 7
LXXXVII 1 8
LXXXVII 1 9
LXXXVII 2 0
LXXXVII 2 1
LXXXVII 2 2
LXXXVII 2 3
LXXXVII 2 4
LXXXVII 2 5
LXXXIX 1
LXXXIX 3
LXXXIX 4
LXXXIX 6
LXXXIX 7
LXXXIX 8
LXXXIX 9
LXXXIX
xc 1
xc 2
xc 3
XCI 1
xci 2
xci 3
xci 4
xci 5
xcn 1
XCIII 1
XCVI 1
xcvi 2*
XCVII 1
XCVIII 1
XCVIII 2
xcvm 3
XCVIII 4
10*
XCVIII 6
XCIX 1
xcix
xcix
xcix
xcix
c 1
c 2
c 3
c 4
c 5
c 6
c 7
c 8
c 9
c 10
c 11
c 12
c 13
c 14
ci 1
CI 2
ci 3
ci 4
ci 5
423
2
3
4
5
101.1
101.2
101.3-7
101.8
101.13
7
ci 8
ci 9
ci 10
CI
CI 1 1
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
12
13
13a
13b
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
424
Concordances of Selected Publications
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
CI
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
101.45
101.66
101.47
101.79
101.66
101.49
101.52
101.53
101.70
101.39
101.98
101.99
101.100
101.101
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
101.46
0.1013
101.102
101.126
101.128
101.109
101.113,115,118
101.111
101.112
101.114
101.121-22,130
101.131
101.132
101.105
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
ci
101.125
101.133
101.135-36
101.137
101.106
101.115
101.116
101.127
101.117
101.129
101.119
101.108
101.24
101.22
ci 72
101.134
698
101.80,82-83,
92,96-97
101.60,66
101.58,66
101.66
101.59
101.1001
101.56
101.62
101.61
101.63
101.1002-1003
P.
A.0.
P.
A.0.
P.
A.0.
P.
A.0.
27-108
109-113
113-16
116-20
120-21
121-25
125-26
127
87.1
87.10.2-3
87.11
87.2.2
89.1
87.12
87.2.1
87.23
127 n. 1
128-49
150-51
152-53
154
155 no. 1
155-56 no. 2
156 no. 3
87.15
89.7
91.1
89.10
99.7
101.129
101.125.2
101.115
156-57 no . 4
157-58
158-59
160
161
162-67
167-73
173-76
101.135
101.118
101.57
101.98
101.39
101.38
101.50
101.34
177-88
189-205
206-208
209-11
212-21
222-42
242-53
254-387
101.26
101.2
101.28
101.31
101.23
101.19
101.17
101.1
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
CI
ci
ci
ci
ci
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
733
733
733
733
733
733
733
733
733
733
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
no.
1
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
111
King, AKA
Layard, ICC
PL
A.0.
PI.
A.0.
PI.
1-11
43-45
101.23
101.2.1
48-49
75F
101.10
87.1022
83B and
83A
A.0.
PI.
A.0.
101.115
101.125.2
84D
84 bottom
101.105
101.14
Le Gac, Asn.
p.
A.0.
P.
A.0.
P.
A.0.
P.
A.0.
1-122
101.1
101.4
101.10
101.11
101.17
101.19
101.23
166-68
169-70
172-79
181-86
188-91
193-94
194-95
101.35.2-8
87.21
101.2.8
101.28.1
101.50.1-3
101.47.1
101.33
195-96
196-98
200
201 no. 2
201 no. 3
202-203
203 c
101.29
101.43
101.57
101.39
101.98
101.102.3-4
101.130.4
203 D
203 E
203-204
204 B and D
205 D
207-209
101.125.2
101.109.1
101.118.1-6
101.115
101.105
101.24
123-25
126
126-27
129-36
137-51
152-70
Lehmann-Haupt, Mat.
P.
A.0.
P.
A.0.
P.
A.0.
15-16 no. 6
16-18 no. 7
87.16
87.15
19-22 and pl. i

22-23 no. 9
101.20
101.115.35
23-24 no. 10
24-26 no. 11
101.121
101.1
Marzahn and Rost, Ziegeln 1

No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
165
247
248
87.1011
87.22.7
87.22.1
249
250
251
87.22.8
87.22.9
87.22.10
252
253
254
87.23.7
87.23.8
87.23.9
255
256
257
87.23.2
87.23.10
87.23.11
425 Concordances of Selected Publications

No.
A.0.
No.
A.O.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.O.
258
259
260
261
262
263
268
87.23.12
87.23.13
87.22.11
87.23.14
87.23.15
87.23.16
98.5.1
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
98.5.3
100.16.4
100.16.5
101.136
101.115.15
101.115.16
101.115.17
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
101.129.1
101.129.2
101.129.3
101.1005
101.138.1
101.138.2
101.115.18
283
284
285
399
401
402
403
101.129.4
101.138.3
101.115.19
87.28.4
87.28.5
87.28.6
87.28.7
Messerschmidt, KAH 1
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
20
22
98.4.1
87.29.1,3,5
24
25
99.1.2
101.53
Rost, FuB 22
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
29
30
31
32
33
98.3.2
98.3.1
98.3.4
98.3.6
98.3.11
34
35
36
37
38
98.3.10
101.67.3
101.67.1
101.67.8
101.67.11
39
40
42
43
44
101.67.2
101.67.7
101.67.4
101.67.10
101.67.9
45
46
101.67.12
101.114.4
Rost and Marzahn, VAS 23

No.
A.0.
No.
A.O.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
36
85
86
87
93
87.1011
87.23.8
87.23.15
87.23.16
101.115.15
94
95
96
97
98
101.115.16
101.115.17
101.1005
101.138.1
101.115.18
99
100
101
102
147
101.138.2
101.129.4
101.138.3
101.115.19
87.28.4
149
150
152
87.28.5
87.28.6
87.28.7
Schroeder, KAH 2
No.
A.0.
No.
A.O.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
63
65
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
87.4.7
87.22.1-4
87.23.1-3
87.4.12
87.5
87,3,2-6
87.4.11
87.6
87.4.2-3,8,13,
18,21-24
71a
72
73
74
75
77
78
79
80
82
87.4.6
87.9
87.4.1
89.5
89.2.3
89.1.2
98.1.3
91.4
92.1
98.5.1-3
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
89
90
90
99.1.1
99.2.1-4
100.14.1
100.16.1-3
101.22
101.21.2
100.2
100.1.1
100.1.2
100.3
91
91
93
94
95
99
144
100.4
100.1.3
101.129.2,14101.52
101.115,39
101.1004
89.2.5
Walker, CBI
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
No.
A.0.
137
138
139
140
87.23.4
87.24.1-4
87.25.1
87.26
141
142
143
144
87.28.1-3
100.15.1-3
100.17
101.130.1-2
145
146
147
148
101.131
101.125.2-4
101.133.1-2
101.135.1-12
149
150
151
152
101.137.1-4
101.115
101.127.1-10
101.129.5-7

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ASSYRIAN

A. Kirk Grayson (Toronto)

Lou is D. Levi ne (Toronto)

Ronald F.G. Sweet (Toronto)

Veysel Donbaz (Istanbul)

Dietz O. Edzard (Munich)

Fawzi Rashid (Baghdad)

Liane Jakob-Rost (Berlin)

the Early First Millennium BC

4 Old Babylonian Period

Toronto Buffalo London

University of Toronto Press 1991

Printed on acid-free paper

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

The research and publication of this volume

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Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology. Liverpool, 1908-48

Bhl, Leiden Coll.

F.M.T. Bhl, Medcelingen uit de Leidischc Vcrzameling van spijkerschrift-Inscripties, 3 vols.

xviii Bibliographical Abbreviations

xviii Bibliographical Abbreviations

S. Smith, Early History of Assyria to 1000 B.C. London, 1928

1) Between object numbers indicates physical join

1) Assur collection of the Arkeoloji Miizeleri, Istanbul

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On the 'annals series', see the introduction to the reign of

Cf. A.0.96.2001 and A.0.101.2004-2007.

The reign of Tiglath-pileser i (1114-1076 BC) marks a new rise in

South corner of west

viii 17-29, 58-63,

Recent fill over

fill over rock

Clay fill over

1123, 3303, 3304

surface, AnuAdad temple, eB5nt

1123, 2019, 2020,

696, 875(?), 3294

1123, 3298, 3301

text since he did not have exs. 1 and 2) in order to

and illegible ('...' in our scores).

vii 3 3 - 4 2 is partially legible.

divisions with a few exceptions. In exs. 2 and 4 - 5 a line

1955 von Soden, Orientalia NS 24 p. 384 and n. 1 (study)

sa-al-pat a~a-be mu-e-eb-ru se-ni

KUR.ME AB. MES-//

11) nin-urta qar-du -gi lem-ni a-a-bi

INANNA SAG-// DINGIR.ME be-lit

14) mu-ar-ri-hat MURUB4.ME-/E

i 5.3-5 The number 30 is written p&fr* rather than

i 10 See Borger, EAK 1 pp. 121-22.

a ti-bu-u-nu GIS.LAL --mu

i 15-27) Great gods, managers of heaven (and)

a-na man-za-az -hur-sag-kur-kur-ra