==Tiglath-pileser's Annalistic Text==

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//Artifact//: Clay prism\\ 
//Provenience//: Assur\\ 
//Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ 
//Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\ 
//Text genre, language//: Royal/Monumental; Akkadian\\ 
[[http://cdli.ucla.edu/P467316|CDLI page]]\\ 

//Description//: In the early days of the decipherment of cuneiform specific texts were chosen to proof proposed readings. This annalistic text from the reign of the Middle Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser I. is but one manuscript among many. The text served the Royal Asiatic Society as test case for the successful decipherment of Babylonian-Assyrian cuneiform. The manuscript in Berlin is one of the few well-preserved octagonal prisms with this particular composition that contains besides an extensive titulature of the king a minute description of his campaigns. (Klaus Wagensonner, University of Oxford)

//Editions//: Grayson, A.K. 1991. //The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian Period, 2: Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC)//, Toronto, p. 7ff. 

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