Names

  • Shalmaneser III 024

Numbers

  • Q004629
  • Shalmaneser III 024

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  • rock face
  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. 858-824
  • Tigris Tunnel
  • Royal Inscription
  • Shalmaneser III

Shalmaneser III 024

Obverse
11

mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-[nu MAN kiš-ša-ti MAN KUR -šur MAN kiš-šat]

(1) Shalmaneser (III), great king, strong king, [king of the world, king of Assyria, king of all of] the people, (the one) who [has always acted mightily] with the support of the gods Šamaš (and) Adad, the gods [who support him, and they have put under his control] the mighty mountains from sunrise [to sunset; the fierce (and)] merciless [king] who has defeated ... and [gone] after [his enemies and victoriously] swept over [rivers and difficult mountains] (leaving them) like ruin hill(s) left by the Deluge;

22

UN?.MEŠ? šá ina re-ṣu-te šá dUTU dIŠKUR DINGIR.MEŠ [tik-le-šú le- DU.DU-ma]

33

KUR.MEŠ-e KAL.MEŠ TA ṣi-it d[šam-ši a-di e-reb dšam-ši ú-šat-me-ḫa a-na ŠU.II-šú MAN ek-du]

44

la pa-du-ú šá ina [x?] SAG? i-du-ku-ma EGIR? [za-i-ri-šu? DU.DU-ma? ÍD.MEŠ? KUR-e? GIG.MEŠ?]

55

ki-ma DU₆ a-bu-bi [ú-kab-bi]-sa [šal-ṭiš?] ka-šid [TA tam-di šá KUR.na-i-ri a-di tam-di GAL-te šá]

(5b) the conqueror [from the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s) to the Great Sea of] the Setting Sun, the land Ḫatti to its full extent, [the lands Melid, Daiaeni, Suḫnu], the city Arṣaškun, (which is) a royal city of [Arrāmu of the land Urarṭu, (and) the lands Gilzānu] (and) Ḫubuškia. I subdued the land Urarṭu [from the source of the Tigris River] to the source of the Euphrates River, [from] the Sea of the interior of the land Zamua to the Sea of Chaldea.

66

SILIM [dšam-ši]-ma? šá? KUR.ḫat-te EN paṭ gim-[ri-šá ...]

77

URU.ar-ṣa-áš-ku-un URU MAN-ti-šú šá [ma-ra-me KUR.ú-ra-ar-ṭa-a-a KUR.gíl-za-ni]

88

URU.ḫub--ki-[a KUR].ú-ra-ar-[ṭi TA SAG e-ni šá ÍD.ḪAL.ḪAL]

99

EN SAG e-ni šá ÍD.BURANUN.KI [TA tam]-di [šá] KUR.za-mu-a

1010

šá É-a-ni EN tam-di šá KUR.kal-di ana GÌR.II-ia ú-šak-niš

1111

ana URU.TIN.[TIR.KI] a-lik UDU.SISKUR.MEŠ [ina URU.TIN.TIR.KI URU].bár-sipa.KI

(11) I marched to [Babylon] (and) made sacrifices [in Babylon], Borsippa, (and) Cutha. [I went down to] Chaldea, conquered their cities, (and) [received] the payment of the kings of Chaldea. Awe of my weapons [overwhelmed them] as far as [the Bitter Sea].

1212

URU.ku-te₉-e - [a-na] KUR.kal-di [ú-ri-di] URU.MEŠ-šú-[nu]

1313

KUR-ud ma-da- šá LUGAL.MEŠ-ni TA KUR.kal-di [am-ḫur]

1414

šu-ur-ri-bat [GIŠ.TUKUL].MEŠ-a <a>-di [mar-ra-ti is-ḫu-up mdIŠKUR-id-ri]

(14b) [Hadad-ezer (Adda-idrī)], the king of Damascus, together with twelve kings of [the land] Ḫatti, [attacked me (and)] I fought with them for a fourth time. I defeated them. I [destroyed their chariotry (and) cavalry (and)] took away their military equipment. In order to [save their (own) lives, they ran away].

1515

MAN KUR.ANŠE-šú EN 12 MAN.MEŠ šá [KUR].ḫat-te [a-na GABA-ia it-bu-ni]

1616

4-šú it-te-šú-nu am-daḫ-ḫi-iṣ BAD₅.BAD₅-šú-nu áš-kun GIŠ.[GIGIR.MEŠ-šú-nu pet-ḫal-li-šú-nu a-ṣe-]

1717

ú-nu-[ut] -šú-nu e-kim-šú-nu ana [šu-zu-ub ZI.MEŠ-šú-nu e-li-ú]


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/Q004629/.

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