Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 002
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) The god Aššur, the great lord, the king of all of the great gods; the god Anu, the king of the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods: the lord of the lands, the god Enlil, the father of the gods, the one who decrees destinies (and) who devises the designs of heaven (and) netherworld; the god Ea, the wise one, the king of the apsû, the creator of clever devices; the god Sîn, the light of heaven (and) netherworld, the noble one; the god Šamaš, the judge of the (four) quarters (of the world), the one who leads aright humankind; (and) the goddess Ištar, the lady of war and battle whose game is fighting;…
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/Q004607/
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Transliteration
da-šur EN GAL-ú MAN gim-rat DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ da-nu MAN dNUN.GAL.MEŠ u da-nun-na-ki EN KUR.KUR dBAD a-bu DINGIR.MEŠ mu-šim NAM.MEŠ / mu-ṣir e-ṣu-rat AN-e KI-tim dé-a er-šu MAN ZU.AB ba-nu-ú nik-⸢la⸣-ti d30 na-nàr AN-e KI-tim DINGIR e-tel-lu dšá-maš / DI.KU₅ UB.MEŠ muš-te-šir te-né-še-te dINANNA be-lat MURUB₄ u MÈ šá me-lul-ta-šá GIŠ.LAL DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ÁGA-ut MAN-ti-ia / šá EN-ti kiš-šu-ti u…
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 Q004607.
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/Q004607/..
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/Q004607/.
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