Shalmaneser III 047


Obverse
11	^m^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ	(1) Shalmaneser (III), 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.
22	MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A AŠ-PAP-A
33	MAN KUR AŠ A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN KUR AŠ-ma
44	e-nu-ma KÁ.GAL TIBIRA	(4) At that time, the ancient Tabira Gate, which Aššur-dān (II), my ancestor, had previously built, had become dilapidated and I restored its dilapidated section(s). I built (it) from its foundations to its crenellations.
55	maḫ-ri-tú šá ^maš-šur-KAL-an a-bi
66	ina IGI DÙ-uš e-na-aḫ-ma
77	an-ḫu-sa ud-diš
88	TA uš-še-šá a-di
99	gaba-dib-bi-šá DÙ-uš
1010	NUN EGIR-ú an-ḫu-sa	(10) May a future ruler restore its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscription to its place. The gods Aššur and Nergal will (then) listen to his prayers.
1111	lu-diš MU šaṭ-ra ana KI-šú lu-ter
1212	aš-šur u ^dU.GUR ik-ri-bi-šú
1313	i-še-mu-u

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/Q004652/.