Position in chronology
Shalmaneser I 1005
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] my lady, the god [...], at the entrance of ... [...]. (3'b) [...] may he return my inscribed [name ...]. (4'b) [(As for) the one who removes] my [name, may] the god Aššur and the god [...].
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/Q005830/
Why it matters
Preserves Shalmaneser I's curse formula invoking Aššur against anyone erasing the royal name — direct evidence of how 13th-century Assyrian kings used divine sanction to protect monumental memory.
Transliteration
[...] x / ⸢NIN-ia⸣ dx [...] x / a-na né-reb ERIM x [... šu-mì šaṭ]-⸢ra⸣ / ⸢a⸣-na aš-ri-šu lu-[te-er ... mu-né-kir₆ šu]-⸢mì⸣-ia / ⸢d⸣a-šur ù ⸢d⸣[...]
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 Q005830.
Attribution
Image: BM 123458 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P422537). source
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/Q005830/.
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