Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 1003
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) For the god Ḫallasua, his lord: Shalmaneser (III), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, dedicated (this).
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
Dedicatory inscription naming Ḫallasua as Shalmaneser III's personal lord — one of the few direct attestations of this otherwise obscure deity in the Assyrian royal corpus.
Transliteration
ana dḫal-la-- / su-a UMUN-šú / mdSILIM-MAŠ / ŠID aš-šur BA
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 Q004724.
Attribution
Image: BM 089907 (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P452081). source
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/Q004724/.
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