Shalmaneser III 042
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| 11 | (1) Shalmaneser (III), [strong] king, [king of the world, king of Assyria], son of Ashurnasirpal (II), [strong] king, [king of the world, king of Assyria], son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) [also strong] king, [king of the world, and king of Ass]yria: | |
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| 44 | (4) For his life and the well-being of his [city], its wall and gates, which previously (other) kings who came before me had built, had become dilapidated and, in their (text: “its”) entirety, I built (them) from its foundation(s) to its crenellations. I deposited my clay cone (therein). | |
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| 1010 | (10) May a future ruler restore its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscription to its place. The gods Aššur (and) Adad, the great gods, will (then) listen to his prayers. May he return my clay cone to its place. | |
| 1111 | diš MU šaṭ-ra a-na áš-ri-šá [lu]-⸢ter⸣ | |
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| 1414 | ITI.ša-ki-na-te UD.28.KÁM | (14) Ša-kināte, twenty-eighth day, eponymy Aia-ḫālu, the chief treasurer. |
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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/Q004647/.