Shalmaneser III 033

Obverse
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É.GAL mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN kiš-šat UN.MEŠ NUN-ú

(1) Palace of Shalmaneser (III), king of all of the people, ruler, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), appointee of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of (the god) Aššur;

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ŠID -šur A -šur-PAP-A GAR dBAD ŠID -šur A tukul-ti-dMAŠ GAR dBAD

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ŠID -šur-ma ka-šid A.AB.BA šá KUR.na-ʾi-ri A.AB.BA

(3b) the conqueror of the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s), the Sea of the Setting Sun, which is also called (lit. “and”) the Sea of the land Amurru. In my fifteenth regnal year, I crossed the Euphrates River for the twelfth time. I gained dominion over the land Ḫatti to its full extent.

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šá šùl-mu dšam-ši u A.AB.BA šá KUR.a-mur-ri

55

ina 15 BALA.MEŠ-a 12-šú ÍD.A.RAD e-bir KUR.ḫat-ti

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ana paṭ gim-ri-šá a-pél 2-šú a-na tam-ti GAL-ti

(6b) For a second time, I marched to the Great Sea. For a third time, I ascended Mount Amanus (and) cut down beams of cedar. I conquered from the source of the Tigris River to the source of the Euphrates River. For a third time, I marched to the Naʾiri land(s). I overwhelmed like a flood the (territory stretching) from the land Enzi, as far as the lands Daiaeni (and) Suḫnu, as far as the city Arṣaškun, the royal city of Arrāmu of the land Urarṭu, (and) the lands Gilzānu (and) Ḫubuškia.

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a-lik 3-šú a-na KUR.ḫa-ma-ni e-li GIŠ.ÙR.MEŠ

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GIŠ.e-re-ni a-kis TA SAG e-ni šá ÍD.ḪAL.ḪAL a-di

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SAG e-ni šá ÍD.A.RAD qa-ti KUR-ud 3-šú a-na

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KUR.na-ʾi-ri a-lik TA KUR.en-zi a-di KUR.da-ia-ni

1111

KUR.su-uḫ-me a-di URU.ar-ṣa-áš-kun URU MAN-ti-šú šá

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ma-ra-me KUR.ú-ra-ar-ṭa-a-a KUR.gíl-za-ni

1313

KUR.ḫub--ki-a GIM DU₆ a-bu-be áš-pu-nu


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/Q004638/.