Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 106
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of Shalmaneser (III), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Why it matters
A royal titulary inscription of Shalmaneser III, anchoring his legitimacy through three generations of Assyrian kings and the ideology of world-kingship that drove ninth-century Assyrian imperial expansion.
Transliteration
É.GAL mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A AŠ-PAP-A MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / A TUKUL-dMAŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ-ma
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 Q004711.
Attribution
Image: BM 090298 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P427916). 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/Q004711/.
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