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Shalmaneser III 013
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [I captured] the cities of Arrā[mu of the land Urarṭu, as far as the source] of the Tigris River (and) as far as the source [of the Euphrates River]. (2'b) [In my sixteenth regnal year, I crossed Mount Kullar (and)] conquered the lands Mannea (Munna), Allabr[ia, Parsua, (Bit-)Abdadāni, (Bīt-)Ḫamban, Namri], (and) Tupliyaš (Tugliyaš). (4'b) [In my seventeenth regnal year, I crossed the Euphrates River (and) received the payment] of the kings of the land Ḫatti. [I ascended Mount Amanus], cut down [beams of] cedar, [(and) brought (them)] to my city, [Aššur. On my return march] from Mount…
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/Q004618/
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Transliteration
URU.MEŠ-ni ⸢ša ma-ra⸣-[me KUR.ú-ra-ar-ṭa-a-a a-di SAG e-ni] / ša ÍD.ḪAL.ḪAL a-di ⸢SAG⸣ [e-ni ša ÍD.A.RAD ak-šud ina 16 BALA.MEŠ-ia KUR.kúl-la-ar at-ta-bal-kát] / KUR.mu-un-na KUR.al-lab-⸢ri⸣-[a KUR.par-su-a KUR.ab-da-da-nu KUR.ḫa-ban KUR.na-mur] / KUR.tug-li-ia-áš qa-a-ti [ik-šud ina 17 BALA.MEŠ-ia ÍD.A.RAD e-bir ma-da-tu] / ša MAN.MEŠ-ni ša KUR.ḫat-ti ⸢am⸣-[ḫur a-na KUR-e KUR.ḫa-ma-ni e-li…
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 Q004618.
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/Q004618/..
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/Q004618/.
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