Shalmaneser III 011
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| o 1'1' | (1') [... the god Šamaš, the judge of heaven] and netherworld, the commander [of all]; the god Nergal, the perfect one, the king of battle; [the god Nusku], the bearer of the holy scepter, the circumspect god; (and) the goddess Mullissu, the spouse of the god Enlil, [the mother of] the great [gods]; the great gods, who [decree destinies] (and) who aggrandize my kingship. | |
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| o 7'7' | (7'b) [Shalmaneser (III)], king of all of the people, ruler, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, [strong king, king of all] four quarters (of the world), sun(god) of [all of the people, ruler of] all of the lands; son of Ashur[nasirpal (II), exalted priest, whose priesthood] was pleasing to the gods [and] (who) subdued [all lands at his feet, pure] offspring [of Tukultī-Ninurta (II)], who [slew] all of his enemies. | |
| o 8'8' | MAN kiš-šat UN.MEŠ NUN ŠID aš-šur [LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL kul-lat] | |
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| o 11'11' | UGU DINGIR.MEŠ i-ṭi-bu-[ma KUR.KUR.MEŠ nap-ḫar-ši-na a-na GÌR.II-šú] | |
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| o 13'13' | (13'b) [At the beginning of] my reign, after I sat [the throne of my royal majesty], I mustered [my chariots (and) troops. I entered] the pass of [the land Simesi (and)] captured the city Aridu, [the fortified city of Ninni]. | |
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| o 18'18' | (18'b) In [my] first regnal year, [I crossed the Euphrates River (and) marched] to [the Sea of the Setting Sun]. | |
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| r 1'1' | (r 1') [... I slew ten perfect specimens of strong, horned, wild bulls (and)] two calves [by the city Zuqarri], which is on the opposite bank [of the Euphrates River]. | |
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| r 3'3' | ina 20 BALA.MEŠ-ia [20-šú ÍD.A.RAD e-bir MAN.MEŠ-ni] | (r 3') In my twentieth regnal year, [I crossed the Euphrates River for the twentieth time (and) mustered with my (forces)] all of [the kings] of the land Ḫatti. I crossed Mount Amanus (and) went down [to the cities of Katî] of the land Que (Qau). I captured the cities [Lusanda], Abarnāni, (and) [Kisuatni], fortified [cities] together with [innumerable] cities from the nearest of his cities to the [farthest of his cities]. I massacred (and) plundered them. I fashioned two statues of my royal majesty, inscribed thereon my mighty [praises] (and) erected [one in the nearest of] his cities (and) the second in the farthest of [his cities on a cape (jutting) into] the sea. (Thus) I prevailed over the land Que (Qau) with might and main. |
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| r 16'16' | (r 16'b) At that time, the ancient wall [of my city, Aššur], which [had been built previously by] Kikkia, Puzur-[Aššur (I)], Ikūnum, son of Erišum (I), N[arām-Sîn], son of Puzur-Aššur (II), | |
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| r 19'19' | DUMU m<<m>>MAN-aš-šur (traces) | |
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| l.e. i 1l.e. i 1 | (traces) | |
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| l.e. ii 1l.e. ii 1 | 2 LIM 1 GIŠ.⸢GIGIR.MEŠ⸣ 5 LIM 2 ME ⸢42⸣ [pet-ḫal-lu] | (l.e. ii 1) I recruited 2,001 chariots (and) 5,242 [cavalry] for the armed forces of my land. |
| l.e. ii 22 | (l.e. ii 2b) [The name of the great (inner) wall is] “Whose Brilliance Covers the Land.” [Its summit] protrudes ten bricks and it is twenty bricks wide. | |
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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/Q004616/.