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Assyrian Chronicle Fragment 4

Excavation #:VAT 10453: 

Source: Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles, 189

References: see Grayson. AfO 17, 384

 

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...Lacuna

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[....they] ate one another's flesh...

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....to the houses of the Arameans

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[...to] render aid they set out

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...Assyria they captured, they took

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[...t]o the mountains of Kirriuri for (their) lives

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[they fled]. Their [...], their silvre and all their possessions they took

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[Marduk-nadin-ahhe, king of.]  Karduniash passed away. Marduk-[šapik]-zeri

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...he entered. (There were) eighteen regnal years of Marduk-[nadin-a]hhe.

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...the harvest of the land of Assur, all of it [was rava]ged.
11 ...they were numerous, they captured, the ho[uses of the A]ram[eans]
12 ...fortress of Nineveh, the land downsstream...
13 ...Tiglathpil]eser, king of Assyria, [marched] to Kadmuhi.
14 Lacuna

 

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