Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 026
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Shalmaneser (III), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II) (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur; (and) the conqueror from the Upper Sea to the Lower (Sea), the Sea of Chaldea, which is called Bitter Sea. I marched to the land Ḫatti (and) gained dominion (over it) to its full extent. I marched to Babylon, Borsippa, (and) Cutha (and) made my sacrifices. (16b) At that time, the old wall of my city, Aššur, which Tukultī-Ninurta (I), son of Shalmaneser (I), a king who came before me, had previously built, had become dilapidated and I built it anew.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ / GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur / A aš-šur-PAP-A ŠID AŠ / A TUKUL-MAŠ ŠID AŠ-ma / ka-šid TA tam-di / AN.TA u KI.TA / u tam-di šá KUR.kal-di / šá ÍD.mar-ra-tú / i-qa-bu-ši-ni / a-lik KUR.ḫat-ti ana paṭaṭ / gim-ri-šá a-pél / ana URU.KÁ.DINGIR.KI / URU.bár-sipa.KI / URU.ku-te-e a-lik / UDU.SISKUR.MEŠ-ia / aq-qi e-nu-ma / BÀD URU-ia aš-šur.KI / maḫ-ru-ú / šá ina IGI TUKUL-dMAŠ / A dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ / MAN a-lik IGI-ia / ina IGI DÙ-uš / e-na-aḫ-ma / ana iš-šu-ti DÙ-uš
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 Q004631.
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/Q004631/..
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/Q004631/.
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