Shalmaneser III 009
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) [Shalmaneser (III), great king], strong king, king of the world, [unrivalled king], dragon, the weapon the destroys [all (four) quarters (of the world), commander of] rulers everywhere, [...] valiant [man], appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Ašš[ur, ... the one who] has smashed all of his enemies [like a pot, the strong] male, [the merciless (and)] unsparing one in battle, [the one who] slew [... in the] mountains [... with] mighty weapons, annihilated (them) [like a flood], and the corpses of his enemies [...] extensive, strong king, [...], 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) Ašš]ur, [... into whose hands] the gods of heaven [and netherworld] entrusted the just [scepter ...] ... | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | [... ša] kúl-lat na-ki-ri-šú | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | [x x x x x x x]-⸢u?⸣ GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-šú dan-nu-te | |
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| o 1111 | ||
| o 1212 | [x x x x x x x x]-i mur-te-du-ú | |
| o 1313 | ||
| o 1414 | ||
| o 1515 | [x x x x x x x] ⸢DINGIR⸣.MEŠ šá AN-e | |
| o 1616 | [u KI-tim (x x) GIŠ.GIDRU] e-šìr-tu | |
| o 1717 | [x x x ŠU.II-šú ú]-ma-lu-ú | |
| o 1818 | [...] x x x | |
| Lacuna | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e.r.e. | Lacuna | |
| r.e. 1'1' | [...].⸢MEŠ-šú⸣ [...] | (r.e. 1') [In my eighteenth regnal year, ...] his [.. . Hazael] of Damascus [...] and [...] his [...] I [...] ... extensive. I defeated [him] and took away from him [his] walled [camp]. In order to [save] his (own) life, he ran [away, (but)] I [pursued (him) as far as] Dam[ascus], his royal city. [I cut down] his gardens (and) burned [his] sheaves. [...] of D[amascus ...] |
| r.e. 2'2' | ||
| r.e. 3'3' | [...]-uk ù [...] | |
| r.e. 4'4' | [...]-di-šú AŠ [...] | |
| r.e. 5'5' | x [...]-e DAGAL.⸢MEŠ⸣ [(...) a-bi-ik-ta-šú] | |
| r.e. 6'6' | ||
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| r.e. 9'9' | ||
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| r.e. 11'11' | ||
| r.e. 12'12' | ||
| r.e. 13'13' | áš-⸢ru⸣-up [...] | |
| r.e. 14'14' | ||
| r.e. 15'15' | x [...] | |
| Lacuna |
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/Q004614/.