Shalmaneser III 027


Obverse
11	^m^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur DUMU aš-šur-PAP-A	(1) Shalmaneser (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; (and) the conqueror from the Great Sea of the land Amurru of the Setting Sun to the Sea of Chaldea, which is called the Bitter Sea: I gained dominion (over this entire region).
22	MAN KUR aš-šur DUMU GISKIM-^dMAŠ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma
33	ka-šid TA tam-di GAL-ti ša KUR.a-mur-ri
44	ša šùl-me ^dšam-ši a-di tam-di
55	ša KUR.kal-di ša ÍD.mar-ra-tú
66	i-qa-bu-ši-ni lu a-pél e-nu-ma BÀD.KI	(6b) At that time, with regard to the old wall of my city, Aššur, which Tukultī-Ninurta (I), son of Shalmaneser (I), had previously built, I cleared away its dilapidated section(s) (and) reached its foundation pit. I built (and) completed (it) from its foundations to its crenellations. I splendidly decorated (it) more than before. I deposited my stone and clay inscriptions (therein).
77	URU-ia aš-šur maḫ-ru-ú ša ^mGISKIM-^dMAŠ DUMU ^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ
88	ina IGI DÙ-uš an-ḫu-su ú-na-kir₆
99	dan-na-su ak-šud TA uš-še-šu a-di
1010	gaba-dib-bi-šú ar-ṣip ú-šak-lil
1111	UGU maḫ-ri-i ú-si-im [ú]-šar-riḫ
1212	NA₄.NA.RÚ-ia ù te-me-ni-ia
1313	aš-kun NUN EGIR-ú an-ḫu-su	(13b) May a future ruler restore its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscription to its place. (The god) Aššur will (then) listen to his prayers.
1414	lu-ud-diš MU šaṭ-ra a-na áš-ri-šú
1515	lu-te-er aš-šur ik-ri-be-šú i-še-me
1616	šu-mu šal-ḫe-e	(16) The name of the outer wall is “Who Convulses the Regions.”
1717	mu-nàr-riṭ UB.MEŠ

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/Q004632/.