Shalmaneser III 034

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

(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, 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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A -šur-PAP-A GAR dBAD ŠID -šur A tukul-ti-dMAŠ GAR dBAD ŠID -šur-ma

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ka-šid A.AB.BA šá KUR.na-ʾi-ri A.AB.BA šá šùl-mu

(3) 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 year, I crossed the Euphrates River for the twelfth time (and) gained dominion over the land Ḫatti to its full extent.

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dšam-ši u A.AB.BA šá KUR.a-mur-ri ina 15 BALA.MEŠ-a 12-šú

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ÍD.A.RAD e-bir KUR.ḫat-ti a-na paṭ gim-ri-šá a-pél

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ma-ḫu-nu A ma-di-ni a-di ERIM.ḪI.A.MEŠ-šú DINGIR.MEŠ-šú a-su-ḫa

(6) I deported Aḫūnu of (Bīt-)Adini (lit. “son of Adinu”), together with his troops (and) his gods, (and) counted them among the people of my land.

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a-na UN.MEŠ KUR-ia am-nu-šú 2-šú ana tam-ti GAL-ti a-lik 3-šú

(7b) For a second time, I marched to the Great Sea. For a third time, I ascended Mount Amanus (and) cut down cedar beams. I marched to Mount Lallar, where the image of Anum-ḫirbe stands, (and) (10) erected my image together with his. I conquered from the source of the Tigris River to the source of the Euphrates River.

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ana KUR.ḫa-ma-ni e-li GIŠ.ÙR.MEŠ GIŠ.e-re-ni a-kis ana KUR-e

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KUR.lal-la-ar a-šar ṣal-mu šá mAN-ḫi-ir-be zaq-pu a-lik

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ṣal- it-ti ṣal--šú ú-še-ziz TA SAG e-ni šá ÍD.ḪAL.ḪAL

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a-di SAG e-ni šá ÍD.A.RAD qa-ti KUR-ud


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/Q004639/.