Shalmaneser III 043


Obverse
11	^m^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ ÉNSI ^daš-šur	(1) Shalmaneser (III), vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) [also] vice-regent of the god Aššur.
22	DUMU ^maš-šur-PAP-A ÉNSI ^daš-šur
33	DUMU ^mGIŠ.tukul-ti-^dMAŠ ÉNSI ^daš-šur-[ma]
44	a-na ba-lá-ṭí-šú ù ša-lá-am a-li-⸢šu⸣	(4) For his life and the well-being of his city, both walls and their gates, which previously (other) kings who came me had built, had become dilapidated and, in their (text: “its”) entirety, I built (them) from its foundation(s) to its crest(s). I deposited my clay cones (therein).
55	BÀD.KI ki-la-le ù KÁ.GAL-šú-nu ša ina pa-an MAN.MEŠ-ni
66	a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-uš e-na-ḫu-ma
77	a-na si-ḫír-ti-šú TA uš-še-šú a-di šap-ti-šu e-pu-⸢uš⸣
88	ù NA₄.zi-qa-a-te áš-ku-un
99	NUN-ú ar-ku-ú e-nu-ma BÀD.KI ù KÁ.GAL.MEŠ	(9) May a future ruler, when the walls and gates become dilapidated, rebuild them. The gods Aššur (and) Adad, the great gods, (and) the Assyrian Ištar will (then) listen to [his] prayers. [May he return] (my) clay cones to their places.
1010	e-na-ḫu-ma e-pu-uš aš-šur [^d]IŠKUR DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ^dINANNA áš-šu-ri-[tu] ik-ri-bi-[šu]
1111	i-šá-me-⸢ú⸣
1212	zi-qa-ti ana áš-ri-šú-⸢nu⸣ [lu-ter]
1313	ITI.ša-ki-na-te UD.1.⸢KÁM^?⸣	(13) Ša-kināte, first day, eponymy of Nergal-mudammiq, the governor [(of ...)].
1414	lim-mu ^m^dMAŠ.MAŠ^*-mu-SIG₅ LÚ.EN.NAM [(...)]

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/Q004648/.