Position in chronology
Shalmaneser IV 1
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Shalmaneser (IV), strong king, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (III), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of the four quarters (of the world): (4) When Šamšī-ilu, the field marshal, marched to Damascus, I received the payment of Ḫadiānu of Damascus: silver, gold, copper, his royal bed, his royal couch, his daughter, together with her extensive dowry, the property of his palace, without number. (11) On my return march, I gave this boundary stone to Uspilulume, the king of the city Kummuḫu. (13b) (As for) whoever (dares) to take (this boundary…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KAL MAN KUR aš-šur / A m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KAL MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / A mšam-ši-10 MAN kib-<rat> LÍMMU-ti / mšam-ši-DINGIR LÚ.tar-ta-nu / ki-i a-na KUR.ANŠE-šú i-lik-ú-ni / ma-da-tú šá mḫa-di-a-ni KUR.ANŠE-šú-a-a / KÙ.BABBAR KÙ.GI URUDU GIŠ.NÁ MAN-ti-šu / GIŠ.né-mat-tú MAN-ti-šú DUMU.MUNUS-su / KI nu-du-ni-šá ma-aʾ-di / NÍG.GA É.GAL-lim la ma-ni am-ḫur-šú / ina ta-a-a-ár-ti-ia…
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 Q006687.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) (RIMA 3), Toronto, 1996. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2016) 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/Q006687/..
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/Q006687/.
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