ABSTRACT
I. Ashur, the great lord, who ruleth the host of the gods,
1 For a previous publication of the text, see Rawlinson's Czmejform Inscriptions, Vol. I., pll. 9 ff. This inscription was selected by the committee appointed by the Royal Asiatic Society to test the results obtained by the early decipherers of Assyrian, see Proc. Roy. As. Soc., 23rd May, 1857; for the translations made on that occasion by Rawlinson, Hincks, Fox Talbot and Oppert, see Inscription of Tiglalh Pileser I. (1857). Other translations have been given by Oppert, Histoire des empires de Chaldf:e et d'Assyrie, pp. 44-59 (1865); Menant, Annales des rois d' Assyrie, pp. 35 ff. (I874); Rawlinson, Records of the Past, Vol. V., pp. 7 ff. (1875); Lotz, Die Ittschriften Tiglathpileser's I. (1880); Sayee, Records of the Past, Vol. 1. (New Series), pp. 92 ff. (1888); Winckler, in Schrader's Keilins. Bibl" 1., pp. 14 ff. (1889) ; and Muss-Arnoldt, in The World's Great Books, Ass. and Bab. Lit., pp. II ff. (1901).
