Records of the Reign of Tukulti-Ninib I, King of Assyria, about BC 1275

The text and translation of an Assyrian cuneiform foundation tablet, dating to the thirteenth century BCE, published in 1904.

This 1904 work presents a tablet, buried under the wall of a city founded by Tukulti-Ninib I (who reigned in the thirteenth century BCE) to commemorate his military achievements, including the invasion of Babylonia. It gives an introduction on the tablet, the cuneiform text and a parallel translation, along with an appendix of related documents.In the preface to this 1904 work by Leonard King (1869–1919) of the British Museum's department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, he states that the text it presents 'is of great historical value, inasmuch as it supplements our knowledge of the history of Assyria and her relations with Babylonia during the early part of the thirteenth century BC'. The tablet containing the text was buried under the wall of a city founded by King Tukulti-Ninib I (transliterated as Tukulti-Ninurta by modern scholars), to commemorate its building and his previous military achievements, which included the invasion of Babylonia. This account confirms earlier documents, and gives more detail on the chronology of a crucial period in the ancient history of the Near East. The book offers a lengthy introduction on the tablet and on the tradition of such foundation documents, as well as the cuneiform text and a parallel translation, along with an appendix of related documents.