Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 005
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) Shalmaneser (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of [Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II)], (who was) also [king of the world (and) king of Assyria], the valiant man who [is active] in the four quarters (of the world), [(...)] merciless [...] who defeats the fierce [... the one (...)] into whose hands are entrusted all (four) quarters (of the world), the destroyer of [...] those insubmissive to (the god) Aššur, the mighty floodtide [that has no opponent, the one] into whose hands [(the god) Aššur (and the…
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/Q004610/
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Transliteration
mdsál-ma-nu-<SAG> MAN GAL-ú MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN [KUR aš-šur DUMU mdaš-šur-PAP-A LUGAL kiš-ša-ti LUGAL KUR aš-šur DUMU mdtukul-ti-dMAŠ LUGAL kiš-ša-ti LUGAL KUR aš]-⸢šur⸣-ma eṭ-lu qar-du šá ina kib-rat LÍMMU-te [it-ta-lak-u-ma? ...] / la pa-du-ú mu-né-er LÚ.al-ṭu-[ti ... ša (...)] UB.MEŠ DÙ-ši-na qa-tu-šú paq-da šá-gi-iš [...] / ⸢la⸣ kan-šú-ut AŠ e-du-ú gap-šú [...] kip-pat KUR.KUR.MEŠ qa-tú-šú…
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 Q004610.
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/Q004610/..
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/Q004610/.
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