Position in chronology
Shalmaneser I 13
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) [Shalma]neser (I), appointee [of the god Enlil], vice-regent of the god Aššur, [builder of] Eḫursagkurkurra, [the temple of the god Aš]šur — [his] lord — [son of Adad-nār]ārī (I), appointee [of the god Enlil, vice-regent] of the god Aš[šur, (and) son of Arik-dīn-ili], (who was) also appointee of the god [Enlil (and) vice-regent of the god Aššur]. (r 1') May [a kin]g who is [his] ene[my] take aw[ay his throne and under his very] eyes rule [his land]. (r 5') [Eponymy of M]ušallim-A[ššur].
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[mdsál-ma]-⸢nu⸣-SAG šá-⸢ak⸣-[ni] / [dBAD] ⸢ŠID⸣ da-⸢šur₄⸣ / [ba-nu] ⸢é⸣-ḫur-sag-⸢kur⸣-[kur-ra] / [É da]-⸢šur₄ EN⸣-[šu] / [A 10-ERIM].TÁḪ šá-⸢ak⸣-[ni] / [dBAD ŠID] ⸢d⸣a-⸢šur₄⸣ / [A GÍD-DI-DINGIR] ⸢šá⸣-ak-[ni] / [dBAD ŠID da-šur₄-ma] / ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN le-[mu-ti-šu] / [GIŠ.GU.ZA-šu] li-⸢ṭi-ir⸣ [ana] / [ni]-⸢iṭ⸣-li IGI.⸢MEŠ⸣-[šu] / [KUR-su] li-iš-[pur] / [li-mu m]⸢mu⸣-šal-lim-da-[šur₄]
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 Q005801.
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/Q005801/..
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/Q005801/.
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