Shalmaneser III 044
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| 11 | (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. | |
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| 44 | (4) For his life and the well-being of his city, the wall and its 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 crest(s). I deposited my clay cone (therein). | |
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| 1010 | (10) May a future ruler, when the wall and its gates become dilapidated, rebuild (them). The gods Aššur and Adad will (then) listen to his prayers. May he return (my) clay cone to its place. | |
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| 1616 | ITI.ša-ki-na-a-te UD.14.KÁM.MEŠ | (16) Ša-kināte, fourteenth day, eponymy of the twenty-third year of my reign, of Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria. |
| 1717 | li-mu MU.23.KÁM BALA.MEŠ-ia | |
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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/Q004649/.