Shalmaneser III 022


Obverse
11	aš-šur ^dIŠKUR ^d30 ^dšá-maš	(1) The deities Aššur, Adad, Sîn, Šamaš, (and) Ištar, the great gods who love my kingship (and) who have made great my dominion, power (and) leadership, (as well as) honorable name.
22	^dINANNA^? DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ÁGA-ut
33	MAN-ti-ia šá EN-ut kiš-šu-ti u
44	šá-⸢pi⸣-ru-ti MU kab-tu
55	ú-šar-bu-ú ^m^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ^?	(5b) Shalmaneser (III), king of all of the people, ruler, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, strong king, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria; the conqueror from the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s) to the Sea of the Setting Sun.
66	MAN kiš-šat UN.MEŠ NUN ŠID aš-šur
77	MAN dan-nu MAN KUR aš-šur A ^maš-šur-PAP-A MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur
88	A tukul-ti-^dMAŠ MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma ka-šid TA tam-di
99	šà KUR.na-i-ri a-di tam-di šá SILIM ^dšam-[ši] KUR.ḫat-te	(9b) I conquered the land Ḫatti to its full extent. I entered the passes of the land Enzi (and) conquered the lands Suḫnu, Daiaeni, (and) Urarṭu. For a second time, I received the payment 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.
1010	ana si-ḫír-ti-šá KUR-ud ina né-re-bi šá [KUR].⸢en⸣-zi-[i-te e-ru]-ub
1111	KUR.su-uḫ-me KUR.da-ia-ni KUR.ú-ra-ar-ṭu KUR-ud
1212	2-šú ma-da-tú šá KUR.gíl-za-ni am-ḫur 3-šú ana KUR.na-i-[ri]
1313	al-lik ina SAG <e-ni> 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/Q004627/.