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Shalmaneser III 041
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Shalmaneser (III), the chosen of [the god Enlil, the vanquisher of] all of (his) enemies, the subduer of the insubmissive, strong [king], king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashur[nasirpal (II), king of] the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), [(who was) also] king of the world [and] king of [Assyria]. (2b) At that time, (as for) the temple of the god Adad, which [...], an ancestor of mine who came before me, had previously built, that temple had become dilapidated. I delineated its area (and) reached its foundation pit. I built [(and completed (it) [from its…
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/Q004646/
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Transliteration
mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ ni-⸢šit⸣ [IGI.II.MEŠ dEN.LÍL ... kúl]-lat KÚR.MEŠ mu-še-ek-ni-šú [la kan]-⸢šu⸣-ú-te / [MAN] ⸢dan⸣-nu MAN ⸢ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A⸣ mAŠ-[PAP-A MAN] ⸢ŠÚ⸣ MAN KUR AŠ A mTUKUL-MAŠ MAN ŠÚ ⸢MAN⸣ [KUR aš-šur-ma] ⸢e-nu⸣-ma É dIŠKUR ša ina pa-ni [x] / a-bi a-⸢lik⸣ [IGI]-⸢ia⸣ DÙ-uš-ma É BI e-na-aḫ-ma a-šar-šú ú-ma-si dan-⸢na-su ak-šu⸣-[ud] / [iš-tu uš-še-šú a-di gaba-dib-bi-šú?] ar-ṣip [ú-šek-lil]…
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 Q004646.
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/Q004646/..
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/Q004646/.
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