Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 012
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) For the god Adad, the canal inspector of heaven (and) netherworld, the lofty one, the lord of all, the almighty among the gods, the awesome (god) whose strength is unrivalled, the who bears a holy whip that chums up the seas, the who controls all of the winds, the who provides abundant water, the who brings down rain (and) makes lightning flash, the one who creates vegetation, at whose shout the mountains shake (and) the seas are churned up, the compassionate god whose sympathetic concern is life, the one who dwells in the city Kurbail — the holy shrine — the great lord, his lord: (9)…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
a-na dIŠKUR gú-gal AN-e KI-tim šá-qé-e EN gim-ri / kaš-kaš-šu DINGIR.MEŠ ra-šub-bu šá la iš-šá-na-nu dan-nu-su / na-a-ši qí-na-an-zi KÙ mu-sa-an-bi-iʾ ta-ma-a-te / ṣa-bit kip-pat IM.MEŠ mu-kil A.MEŠ ḪÉ.NUN / mu-šá-az-nin ŠÈG mu-šab-ríq NIM.GÍR mu-šab-šú-u ur-qé-e-ti / šá ina KA-šú ḫur-šá-a-ni i-nu-šú i-sa-bu-ʾa ta-ma-a-te / DINGIR re-mé-nu-ú šá na-as-ḫu-ur-šú TI.LA / a-šib URU.kur-ba-ìl ki-iṣ-ṣi…
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 Q004617.
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/Q004617/..
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/Q004617/.
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