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Shalmaneser III 017
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The god Aššur, the great lord, the lord of] the lands, the shepherd of all of the rulers; (2) [the goddess Ištar, ...], the lofty one , lady of Nineveh; (3) [the god Šamaš ...] ... justice; (4) [Shalmaneser (III) ...] the world, (5) [...] ... [...] ... (6) The gods Bēl (Marduk) (and) Anu entrusted to you the distant [mountains]. (7) The obstinate slave of Bīt-Adini (and) his allies, [they (the gods) defeated], (8) The city Tīl-Barsip, the fortified town, they (the gods) burned with fire, (9) The kings of the land Ḫatti, they (the gods) destroyed their abodes. (10) He (Shalmaneser) spoke…
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/Q004622/
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Transliteration
[daš-šur? EN? GAL-ú EN] ⸢KUR⸣.KUR.MEŠ ⸢re⸣-ʾu-u ša DÙ ma-li-⸢ki⸣ / [x x x x x x x]-⸢li⸣ ša-qu-u ša! be-let URU.NINA.KI / [x x x x x x x x] x x x x-i mi-šá-ri / [...]-x kiš-šá-⸢tú⸣ / [x x x x]-⸢ʾa⸣-x [x] x x [x x x] ⸢ga-mil⸣ / [ip]-taq-du-ka dbe-lum da-ni ⸢KUR⸣.[MEŠ-e ru]-⸢ú⸣-qu-te / ⸢ARAD⸣ ek-ṣu DUMU ma-di-ni ib-ri-šú x [x x x x x x] / ⸢URU⸣.DU₆-bar-si-pí ma-ḫa-zu dan-nu ina dGIŠ.BAR x x [x x] /…
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 Q004622.
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/Q004622/..
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/Q004622/.
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