Shalmaneser III 039


Obverse
11	^m^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ ⸢MAN KUR aš-šur⸣ DUMU aš-šur-PAP-A MAN KUR aš-šur	(1) Shalmaneser (III), strong king, 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]; the conqueror from the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s) [to the Sea of Chaldea], which is called the Bitter Sea. I (lit. “he”) conquered [as far as] the Sea of the Setting Sun. I marched to Babylon (and) Borsippa (and) made sacrifices.
22	DUMU TUKUL-^dMAŠ ⸢MAN⸣ [KUR aš-šur-ma] ka-šid TA tam-di ša KUR.na-i-ri
33	[a-di tam-di šá KUR.kal-di] ša^? ÍD.mar-ra-te i-qa-bu-ši-ni
44	[a-di] ⸢tam⸣-di ša šùl-me ^dšam-ši ŠU-ti ik-šud
55	[a-na] ⸢URU⸣.KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI URU.bár-sipa al-lik UDU.SISKUR.MEŠ
66	aq-qi ina u₄-me-šú-ma É ^da-nim ^dIŠKUR	(6b) At that time, the temple of the gods Anu (and) Adad, my lords, which previously Tiglath-pileser (I), son of Mutakkil-Nusku, <had built>, had become dilapidated (and), in its entirety, I built (it) anew. I brought beams of cedar (and) installed (them) over (it).
77	<EN>.MEŠ-ia ša ina pa-an ^mGIŠ.tukul-ti-IBILA-é-šár-ra
88	⸢DUMU⸣ ^mmu-tàk-kil-^dnusku <e-pu-šú> e-na-aḫ-ma
99	[a]-na si-ḫír-ti-šu a-na iš-šu-ti DÙ-uš
1010	[GIŠ].gu-šur.MEŠ GIŠ.e-re-ni áš-šá-a a-na muḫ-ḫi ú-kín
1111	NUN-ú EGIR-ú an-ḫu-su lu-ud-⸢diš⸣	(11) May a future ruler restore its dilapidated section(s) and return my inscription to its place. The gods Aššur, Anu, and Adad will (then) listen to his prayers. May he return my clay cone to its place.
1212	MU šaṭ-ra a-na áš-ri-šu lu-ter^er
1313	aš-šur ^da-num ^dIŠKUR ik-ri-bi-šu i-še-mu-ú
1414	NA₄.zi-qa-ti a-na áš-ri-ša lu-ter^er
1515	ITI.mu-ḫur-DINGIR.MEŠ UD.15.KÁM MU.1.KÁM 20 BALA.MEŠ-ia	(15) Muḫur-ilāni, fifteenth day, the twentieth year of my reign.

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/Q004644/.