Shalmaneser III 021


Obverse
11	aš-šur ^d30 ^dšá-maš	(1) The deities Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, (and) Ištar, the great gods who love my kingship (and) who make great my name.
22	^dIŠKUR ^dINANNA DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ
33	ra-ʾi-mu-ut MAN-ti-ia mu-šar-bu-u
44	MU-ia ^m^dsál-ma-nu-[SAG]	(4b) Shalman[eser (III)], king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), [king of Assyria], son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was also) king of Assyria; the conqueror [from] the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s) to [the Sea of] the of the Setting Sun.
55	MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur A ^maš-šur-PAP-A [MAN KUR aš-šur]
66	A ^mTUKUL-MAŠ MAN KUR aš-šur ka-šid [TA]
77	A.AB.BA šá KUR.na-i-ri a-⸢di⸣ [tam-di]
88	šá SILIM ^dšam-ši KUR.ḫat-ti	(8b) I conquered the land Ḫatti to its full extent. [I entered] the passes of the land Enzi (and) conquered all of the lands Suḫnu, Daiaeni, (and) Urarṭu. I passed on to the land Gilzānu (and) received the payment of the people of the land Gilzānu. For a third time, I marched to the Naʾiri land(s) (and) wrote my name at the source of the Tigris River.
99	a-na si-ḫír-te-šá ⸢ŠU⸣ KUR-ud^? [(x)]
1010	ina né-re-bi šá KUR.en-⸢zi-te⸣ [e-rub]
1111	KUR.su-uḫ-⸢me⸣ KUR.da-ia-ni
1212	KUR.ú-ra-ar-ṭu
1313	a-na si-ḫír-te-šá
1414	ŠU KUR-ud
1515	a-na KUR.gíl-za-ni e-tiq ma-da-tú
1616	šá KUR.gíl-za-na-a-a am-ḫur 3-šú^? ana
1717	KUR.na-i-ri a-lik ina SAG IGI šá ÍD.ḪAL.ḪAL MU al-ṭu-ur

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/Q004626/.