Position in chronology
Šamši-Adad V 09
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of Šamšī-Adad (V), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of Sumer (and) Akkad, son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world), son of Ashurnasirpal (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
Asserts Šamšī-Adad V's legitimacy through a three-generation patrilineal chain — Ashurnasirpal II, Shalmaneser III, himself — while claiming the archaic titles 'king of Sumer and Akkad,' anchoring neo-Assyrian imperial ideology in deep Mesopotamian tradition.
Transliteration
É.GAL mdUTU-ši-dIŠKUR LUGAL dan-nu / LUGAL ŠÁR LUGAL KUR aš-šur LUGAL KUR šu-me-ri URI.KI / A mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-ti / A maš-šur-PAP-A LUGAL ŠÁR LUGAL KUR aš-šur-ma
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 Q004746.
Attribution
Image: BM 123525 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P422601). 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/Q004746/.
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