Read Chronology Themes Tablets Engine About

Read
Chronology
Themes
Tablets
Engine
About

Sumerian · Book

Reading the tablets…

A curated narrative reconstruction of humanity's first great civilization, sourced from the tablets themselves. Open scholarship, beautifully accessible.

The site

About the project The engine Dossiers FAQ Methodology Sources & licensing Provenance & ethics Contact & support

Legal

Independent scholarship · No academic affiliation · No institutional funding · Tablet imagery attributed per item via CDLI, ETCSL, ORACC, Wikimedia, and public museum collections.

Home
All tablets

The corpus

All tablets.

Every tablet in the corpus — sortable by date, title or period; filterable by theme and period. Use the controls below or change the URL parameters directly.

Sort

Oldest first Newest first Title (A–Z)By period

Theme

Religion & Myth Law Economy Astronomy & Mathematics Daily Life Writing & Literature

Period

Ubaid Uruk Period Early Dynastic Akkadian Empire Ur III · Neo-Sumerian Old Babylonian Old Assyrian Middle Babylonian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian Achaemenid Persian

Source

Editorial Sumerian literature Sumerian royal Assyrian royal Assyrian archives

1,647 of 102,257 tablets · 4 filters activeClear filters

601–650 of 1647

Page 13 / 33

~850 BCE·Neo-Assyrian

RIAo

Shalmaneser III 100

(1) Shalmaneser (III), king of the world, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of the world: belonging to the wall of the Inner City (Aššur).

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~850 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Shalmaneser III 1001

(1') [...] Ashurnasirpal (II) [...] (3') [In] my accession year (and) [in my first regnal year, after I sat on] the throne of (my) royal majesty [in a grandiose manner, ... Simer]ra, Ul[mānia], cities [... I carried off] from them [booty], property, (and) possessions. [(...)] (8') [In my second regnal year, with the support of (the god) Aššur], the great lord, my [lord, I mustered my] chariotry (and) [army (and)] marched [to ... I (besieged and) captured] the city [... I carried off ...] cavalry, [...] their [..., their] oxen [...] (r 1') [...] which Shalman[eser (I), ... who] came before me,…

Shalmaneser III 100

Shalmaneser III 1001

Shalmaneser III 1002

Shalmaneser III 1004

Shalmaneser III 1005

Shalmaneser III 101

Shalmaneser III 1011

Shalmaneser III 102

Shalmaneser III 103

Shalmaneser III 104

Shalmaneser III 108

Shalmaneser III 110

Shalmaneser III 113

Shalmaneser III 114

Shalmaneser III 115

Shalmaneser III 116

Shalmaneser III 2001

Shalmaneser III 2002

Shalmaneser III 2003

Šamši-Adad V 09

Šamši-Adad V 01

Šamši-Adad V 02

Šamši-Adad V 04

Šamši-Adad V 05

Šamši-Adad V 06

Šamši-Adad V 07

Šamši-Adad V 08

Šamši-Adad V 10

Šamši-Adad V 2001

Adad-nerari III 13

Adad-nerari III 14

Adad-nerari III 15

Adad-nerari III 16

Adad-nerari III 01

Adad-nerari III 02

Adad-nerari III 03

Adad-nerari III 04

Adad-nerari III 05

Adad-nerari III 06

Adad-nerari III 07

Adad-nerari III 08

Adad-nerari III 09

Adad-nerari III 10

Adad-nerari III 11

Adad-nerari III 12

Adad-nerari III 20

Adad-nerari III 2002

Adad-nerari III 2005

Adad-nerari III 2006

Adad-nerari III 2010