Position in chronology
Shalmaneser I 28
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Palace of] Shalmaneser (I), [..., son of] Adad-nārārī (I), [...] Assyria: (brick) belonging to the Courtyard of Emblems.
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/Q005816/
Why it matters
Labels a brick from the Courtyard of Emblems, giving Shalmaneser I's filiation through Adad-nārārī I — architectural epigraphy that anchors the physical layout of a 13th-century Assyrian royal precinct.
Transliteration
[É.GAL m]dSILIM.MA-MAŠ / [...] 10-ERIM.TÁḪ / [... aš]-šur šá TÙR-- / [ŠU].⸢NIR⸣.MEŠ
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 Q005816.
Attribution
Image: BM 122663 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P422436). 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/Q005816/.
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