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Shalmaneser III 010
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) (The god) Aššur, the great lord; the god Anu, the exalted god; the god Enlil, the perfectly magnificent one; the god Adad, canal inspector of heaven and netherworld; the god Ninurta, the foremost one among the gods, the lord of battle and strife; (i 5) the goddess Ištar, the foremost one in heaven and netherworld; the god Ea, the king of the apsû, the lord of wisdom (and) understanding; the god Sîn, the king of the lunar disk, the lord of brilliance; (and) the god Marduk, the sage of the gods (and) lord of omens; the great gods who decree destinies. (i 10) Shalmaneser (III), king of all…
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/Q004615/
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Transliteration
aš-šur EN GAL-ú da-num DINGIR MAḪ / dBAD šur-bu-ú gít-ma-lu / dIŠKUR gú-gal AN-e ù KI-ti / dMAŠ SAG.KAL DINGIR.MEŠ EN MURUB₄ ù MÈ / dINANNA SAG.KAL AN-e ù KI-ti / dé-a MAN ZU.AB EN né-me-qi ḫa-si-su / d30 MAN a-ge-e EN nam-ri-ri / dAMAR.UTU ABGAL DINGIR.MEŠ EN te-re-ti / DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ mu-ši-mu dNAM.MEŠ / mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN kiš-šat UN.MEŠ / NUN ŠID aš-šur MAN dan-nu MAN kúl-lat kib-rat /…
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 Q004615.
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/Q004615/..
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/Q004615/.
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