Shalmaneser III 056
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| 11 | mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A AŠ-PAP-A MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A TUKUL-MAŠ | (1) Shalmaneser (III), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of the world (and= king of Assyria; the splendid priest of the god Aššur, the attentive ruler who frequents the shrines of the gods inside Ešarra. |
| 22 | MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ-ma ŠAPRA daš-šur šur-ru-ḫu NUN na-du muš-te-eʾ-u | |
| 33 | (3b) At that time, (as for) the ziggurat of the god Ninurta, the great lord, my lord, the site of which no one among the kings, my ancestors, had ever designated nor had the bricks been laid, with my skill that the god Ea, the lord of wide understanding, had given to me, I built that ziggurat in the city Kalḫu. | |
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| 88 | (8) When the god Ninurta sees that ziggurat, may he rightly rejoice and command that my days be long, may he ordain that my years be many. | |
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| 1212 | (12) May a future ruler restore its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscription to its place. | |
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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/Q004661/.