- Museum number
- 91033
- Title
- Series: Library of Ashurbanipal
- Description
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Clay prism with historical inscription of Tiglath-pileser I, recalls civil and military achievements including campaigns against the Muski and Kumuh, the conquest of Carchemish, his hunting expeditions and building activities in Ashur and other cities and repair to the temple of Anu and Adad founded by Samsi Adad I in about 1725 BC; 8 cols; 94 + 102 + 103 + 101 + 100 + 105 + 98 + 90 in 6,5,8,9,9,9,8 sections. The lines of Columns I, II, IV, V, VIII are well preserved, while those of the other columns are partly mutilated. After Column VII, line 48, and between lines 88 and 89 of Column VIII, some blank space is left.
- Production date
- 1112BC-1074BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 39.40 centimetres
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Width: 17.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The text is published, with restorations, insertions, and variants taken from K. 1619a, K. 1620a, K. 1622, in Rawlinson, H.C and Norris, E., 1861. ‘The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia’ I. London: BMP, 9-16. The first translations of the text were given by H. Rawlinson, Edw. Hincks, Fox Talbot and J. Oppert, 'Inscription of Tiglathpileser I., King of Assyria', B.C. 1150, London, 1857. Cf. also Oppert, 'Hist, des Emp. de Chaldee et d'Ass.', p. 44 ff.; Menant, 'Ann.', pp. 35 ff.; Menant, J. 1880. ‘Manuel de la langue assyrienne’. Paris : Imprimerie nationale, pp. 346 ff.; Rawlinson, H.C., '‘The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia’ V, pp. 5 ff.; Delattre, 'Les inscriptions hist, de Nin. et de Bad'., Paris, 1879, pp. 12 f., 73 ff.; Schrader, E., 1878. ‘Keilinschriften und Geschichtsforschung : Ein Beitrag zur monumentalen Geographie, Geschichte und Chronologie der Assyrer’. Giessen : J. Ricker, pp. 185 ff., 227, 266 ff.; Lyon, 'Assyrian Manual', Chicago, 1886, p. 1 ff.; Winckler, in Schrader's 'Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek', Vol. I, Berlin, 1889, pp, 14 ff.; and Sayce, 'Records of the Past : being English translations of the Assyrian and Monuments', N.S., Vol. I, pp. 86 ff. A full commentary and a glossary have been added to the transliteration and translation of the text, by Lotz-Delitzsch, 'Die Inschriften Tiglathpileser's' I. Leipzig 1880.
- Location
- On display (G55/dc14)
- Exhibition history
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2019 2 May-12 Aug, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Royaumes oubliés. De l’empire Hittite aux Araméens
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 91033
- Registration number
- K.1621.a
- Joined objects
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Joined Tablet Group: G13826 (6 objects)