Shalmaneser III 041
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11 | mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ ni-⸢šit⸣ [IGI.II.MEŠ dEN.LÍL ... kúl]-lat KÚR.MEŠ mu-še-ek-ni-šú [la kan]-⸢šu⸣-ú-te | (1) Shalmaneser (III), the chosen of [the god Enlil, the vanquisher of] all of (his) enemies, the subduer of the insubmissive, strong [king], king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashur[nasirpal (II), king of] the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), [(who was) also] king of the world [and] king of [Assyria]. |
22 | [MAN] ⸢dan⸣-nu MAN ⸢ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A⸣ mAŠ-[PAP-A MAN] ⸢ŠÚ⸣ MAN KUR AŠ A mTUKUL-MAŠ MAN ŠÚ ⸢MAN⸣ [KUR aš-šur-ma] ⸢e-nu⸣-ma É dIŠKUR ša ina pa-ni [x] | (2b) At that time, (as for) the temple of the god Adad, which [...], an ancestor of mine who came before me, had previously built, that temple had become dilapidated. I delineated its area (and) reached its foundation pit. I built [(and completed (it) [from its foundations to its crenellations]. I splendidly decorated (it) more than before. |
33 | a-bi a-⸢lik⸣ [IGI]-⸢ia⸣ DÙ-uš-ma É BI e-na-aḫ-ma a-šar-šú ú-ma-si dan-⸢na-su ak-šu⸣-[ud] | |
44 | [iš-tu uš-še-šú a-di gaba-dib-bi-šú?] ar-ṣip [ú-šek-lil] ⸢ú⸣-si-⸢im⸣ ú-šar-riḫ UGU maḫ-re-e ut-tir ⸢ru⸣-[bu-ú EGIR-ú] | (4b) May [a future] ruler restore its [dilapidated section(s)] (and) return my inscription [to] its place. The god Adad will (then) listen to his prayers. |
55 | [an-ḫu]-⸢su⸣ lu-ud-⸢diš⸣ MU.⸢SAR⸣ [a-na] ⸢KI⸣-šú lu-ter dIŠKUR ŠÙD-šú i-⸢šem⸣-[mi] |
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/Q004646/.