Royal Inscription

Neo-Assyrian

Adad-nerari III [42]

Ashur-dan III [1]

Ashur-nerari V [1]

Shalmaneser III [131]

Shalmaneser IV [4]

Shamshi-Adad V [11]

Unidentified Ruler [75]

Names

Shalmaneser III 004

Numbers

Q004609
Shalmaneser III 004

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Neo-Assyrian
Written ca. 858-824
Tell Ahmar (Til Barsip)
Royal Inscription
Shalmaneser III

Shalmaneser III 004


Obverse
o 1o 1	^da-šur EN GAL-ú [...]	(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 father of [the gods, the one who decrees destinies (and), who devises the designs of [heaven (and) netherworld]; (5) the god Ea, the wise one, the king of the apsû, [the creator of] clever devices; the god Sîn, the light [of heaven (and) netherworld], the noble one; the god Šamaš, [the judge of the (four) quarters (of the world), the one who leads aright] all of humankind; (and) [the goddess Ištar, the lady of war and battle] whose game [is fighting; the great gods, who love] (10) my kingship, [who] have made great [my dominion, power, and leadership, (who) have richly established for me my honorable name (and) my lofty command] over [all of the (other) lords].
o 22	^da-nu MAN ^dNUN.GAL.MEŠ u ^da-nun-na-ki
o 33	EN KUR.KUR.MEŠ ^dBAD a-bu [...]
o 44	mu-ṣir e-ṣu-rat [...]
o 55	^dé-a er-šu MAN ZU.AB [...]
o 66	nik-la-te ^d30 na-[nàr ...]
o 77	^de-tel-lu ^dšá-maš [...]
o 88	gim-ri te-né-[še-te ...]
o 99	šá me-lul-ta-šá [...]
o 1010	MAN-ti-ia [...]
o 1111	ú-šar-bu-ú [...]
o 1212	UGU [...]
o 1313	[...]	(13) [Shalmaneser (III), king of all of the people, ruler, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, strong king, king of Assyria], king of all four quarters (of the world), [sun(god) of all of the people], (15) ruler of all of [the lands, the king (who is the) desired object of the gods], chosen of the god Enlil, [trustworthy] appointee [of (the god) Aššur], the attentive [ruler] who has seen [remote] and rugged regions, the one who has [trodden upon the] mountain [peaks] in all of the highlands, the receiver [of booty] (20) and tax from all [(four) quarters (of the world)], the one who opens paths [above and below], at whose [strong] attack [for combat the (four) quarters (of the world)] are distressed [...]
o 1414	MAN kul-lat ⸢kib⸣-[rat ...]
o 1515	mur-te-du-ú ka-[liš ...]
o 1616	ni-šit e-ni ^dBAD ⸢GÌR⸣.[NÍTA ...]
o 1717	na-a-⸢du a-me-ru⸣ [...]
o 1818	u ⸢šap-šá-qi mu⸣-[kab-is ...]
o 1919	šá KUR-e ka-[liš] ⸢ḫur-šá-a-ni ma⸣-[ḫír ...]
o 2020	u i-gi-se-e ⸢šá DÙ⸣-[ši-na ...]
o 2121	mu-pat-tu-ú ⸢ṭu-da⸣-[ti ...]
o 2222	šá a-na ⸢ti⸣-[ib ...]
o 2323	⸢ul-ta-nap-šá-qa⸣ [...]
	Lacuna
Left
l.e. 1l.e. 1	a-na GÌR.II.MEŠ-[šú]	(l.e. 1) [son of Ashurnasirpal (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, whose priesthood was pleasing to the gods and (who)] made [all of the lands] bow down at his feet, pure offspring of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (L.E. 5) who slew all of his enemies and annihilated (them) like a flood;
l.e. 22	ú-šak-ni-šu
l.e. 33	nab-ni-tú KÙ-⸢tú⸣
l.e. 44	šá GIŠ.tukul-ti-^d[MAŠ]
l.e. 55	šá kul-lat
l.e. 66	za-i^*-ri-šu
l.e. 77	i-né-ru-ma
l.e. 88	is-pu-nu
l.e. 99	a-bu-ba-ni-iš
l.e. 1010	ka-šid TA tam-di	(l.e. 10) the conqueror from the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s) to the Sea of the Setting Sun. He conquered.
l.e. 1111	šá KUR.na-⸢i-ri⸣
l.e. 1212	a-di A.AB.BA
l.e. 1313	šá SILIM ^dšam-še
l.e. 1414	ŠU ik-⸢šú-du⸣
l.e. 1515	e-nu^?-ma^?	(l.e. 15) When he filled the wide plain,
l.e. 1616	um-ta^?-al^?-[lu^?]
l.e. 1717	EDIN^? DAGAL

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/Q004609/.

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