Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 003
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(85b) Moving on from the city AliMUŠ, I went down to the Sea of the Setting Sun. I washed my weapons in the sea (and) made sacrifices to my gods. I made a colossal statue of my lordly majesty (and) wrote thereon (a description of) the praises of [(the god) Ašš]ur, the great lord, my lord, and the mighty conquests that I had been achieving in the land Ḫatti. I erected (it) by the sea. (89b) On my return march from the sea, I ascended Mount Amanus (and) cut down beams of cedar (and) juniper. I ascended Mount Atalur (and) proceeded to the place where the image of Anum-ḫirbe stands. I erected my…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
TA URU.a-li-MUŠ at-tu-muš / a-na tam-ti šá šùl-mu dšam-ši at-ta-rad GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-a ina tam-ti ú-lil / UDU.SISKUR.MEŠ [a]-na DINGIR.MEŠ-ni-a BAL-qí ṣa-lam EN-ti-a šur-ba-a DÙ-uš / ta-na-ti [aš]-⸢šur⸣ EN GAL EN-ia u li-ti kiš-šú-ti-a šá ina KUR.ḫat-ti / e-tap-pa-šú ina qé-reb-šú al-ṭùr ina UGU tam-ti ú-še-ziz ina ta-ia-ar-ti-a / šá tam-ti a-na KUR-e KUR.ḫa-ma-ni e-li GIŠ.ÙR.MEŠ GIŠ.e-re-ni…
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 Q004608.
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/Q004608/..
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/Q004608/.
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