Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 014
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) The god Aššur, the great lord, the king of all of the great gods; the god Anu, the king of the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods: the lord of the lands, the god Enlil, the exalted one, the father of the gods, the creator of (5) all; the god Ea, the king of the apsû, the one who decrees destinies; the god [Sîn, the wise one], the king of the lunar disk, the lofty luminary; the god Adad, the exceptionally strong one, the lord of abundance; the god Šamaš, the judge of heaven and netherworld, the commander of all; [the god Mardu]k, the sage of the gods, the lord of omens; the god Ninurta, the warrior…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
daš-šur EN GAL-ú LUGAL gim-rat / DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ da-nu LUGAL di-gi-gi / ù da-nun-na-ki dEN KUR.KUR dBAD / ṣi-i-ru a-bu DINGIR.MEŠ ba-nu-ú / DÙ-⸢ma⸣ [d]é-a LUGAL ZU.AB mu-šim NAM.MEŠ / ⸢d⸣[30 er-šu] LUGAL a-ge-e šá-qu-ú nam-ri-ri / ⸢dIŠKUR⸣ geš-ru šu-tu-ru EN ḫé-gál-li dšá-maš / DI.KU₅ AN-e ù KI-ti mu-ma-ʾe-er gim-ri / [dAMAR].⸢UTU⸣ ABGAL DINGIR.MEŠ EN te-re-e-te dMAŠ qar-rad / [d]NUN.GAL.MEŠ ù…
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 Q004619.
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/Q004619/..
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/Q004619/.
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