Position in chronology
Shalmaneser I 01
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Shalmaneser (I), appointee of the god Enlil, holy vice-regent of the god Aššur, appointee of the gods, ruler, favorite of the goddess Ištar, the one who keeps rituals and offerings pure, the one who makes abundant the presentation offerings for all of the gods, founder of holy cult centers, builder of Eḫursagkurkurra — the shrine of the gods (and) mountain of the lands — astonishing great dragon, shepherd of all of the settlements, the one whose conduct is abundantly pleasing to (the god) Aššur, valiant hero, capable in battles, crusher of enemies, the one who makes the noise of battle…
Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005789/
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Transliteration
mdsál-ma-nu-SAG šá-ak-ni dBAD ŠID daš-šur / el-lu GÌR.ARAD DINGIR.MEŠ NUN mi-gir dINANNA / mu-bi-ib šu-luḫ-ḫi ù NIDBA / mu-šá-tir ana ŠU.NÍGIN DINGIR.MEŠ zi-i-bi / ták-li-me mu-kín ma-ḫa-zi el-lu-ti / ba-nu é-ḫur-sag-kur-kur-ra ki-iṣ-ṣi DINGIR.MEŠ / KUR-ú KUR.KUR BÚR.GAL tab-ra-ti re-ú1 / pu-ḫur da-ad-me šá al-ka-ka-- / tu-šu šu-tu-ra el aš-šur ṭa-a-ba / ur-šá-nu qar-du le-ú tu-qu-ma-ti / qa-am…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q005789.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q005789/..
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005789/.
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