Shalmaneser III 057


Obverse
11	É.GAL ^m^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur A aš-šur-PAP-A	(1) Palace of 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 desired one of the gods, the chosen of the god Enlil, the splendid vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, the attentive ruler who frequents the shrines of the gods inside Ešarra, the one who has seen (5) remote and rugged regions (and) who has trodden upon the mountain peaks in the highlands, the receiver of booty (and) tax from all (four) quarters (of the world), (and) the who opens paths above and below.
22	MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma MAN ba-ʾi-it DINGIR.MEŠ
33	ni-šit IGI.II.MEŠ ^dBAD ŠID aš-šur šur-ru-ḫu NUN na-a-du
44	muš-te-ʾu-ú áš-rat DINGIR.MEŠ šá qé-reb é-šár-ra a-mi-ru
55	du-ur-gi ù šap-šá-qi mu-kab-bi-si SAG.MEŠ-ti šá KUR-e ḫur-šá-ni
66	ma-ḫir GUN igi-se₁₁-e šá ka-liš UB.MEŠ mu-pa-tu-ú ṭu-da-ti
77	šá e-liš u šap-liš ^m^dUTU-EN-PAP LÚ.šá-kìn URU.kal-ḫi DÙ-uš	(7b) Šamaš-bēlu-uṣur, the governor of the city Kalḫu, made (this).

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/Q004662/.