Shalmaneser III 1001
| Obverse | ||
| oo | Lacuna | |
| o 1'1' | [...] x [...] | |
| o 2'2' | [...] AŠ-PAP-IBILA [...] | |
| o 3'3' | (3') [In] my accession year (and) [in my first regnal year, after I sat on] the throne of (my) royal majesty [in a grandiose manner, ... Simer]ra, Ul[mānia], cities [... I carried off] from them [booty], property, (and) possessions. [(...)] | |
| o 4'4' | ||
| o 5'5' | [x x x] x ú x [...] x x [...] | |
| o 6'6' | ||
| o 7'7' | [šal-la-su?]-⸢nu⸣ NÍG.ŠU.MEŠ-šu-⸢nu⸣ [NÍG].⸢GA⸣.MEŠ-šu-⸢nu⸣ [...] | |
| o 8'8' | [ina 2 BALA.MEŠ-ia? ina tukul-ti aš-šur?] EN GAL-i [EN]-ia GIŠ.⸢GIGIR⸣.[MEŠ ERIM.ḪI.A.MEŠ-ia ad-ke] | (8') [In my second regnal year, with the support of (the god) Aššur], the great lord, my [lord, I mustered my] chariotry (and) [army (and)] marched [to ... I (besieged and) captured] the city [... I carried off ...] cavalry, [...] their [..., their] oxen [...] |
| o 9'9' | ||
| o 10'10' | [... pit?]-⸢ḫal⸣-le-e.MEŠ ú-[...] | |
| o 11'11' | [...]-šú-nu GU₄.⸢MEŠ⸣-[šu-nu ...] | |
| o 12'12' | [...] ⸢šá⸣ x [...] | |
| Lacuna | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | Lacuna | |
| r 1'1' | [...] ša ⸢sál?⸣-ma-nu-[SAG? ...] | (r 1') [...] which Shalman[eser (I), ... who] came before me, had built, [had become old and dilapidated]. I delineated its area [... I built (it) from] its foundations to its crenellations. [...] baked bricks ... surrounded [...]. I wrote out commemorative inscriptions (and) [deposited them] therein. |
| r 2'2' | ||
| r 3'3' | ||
| r 4'4' | [... TA] ⸢uš⸣-še-šu ⸢a-di⸣ gaba-dib-be-⸢šu⸣ [...] | |
| r 5'5' | [... a]-⸢gu?⸣-re-e x [(x)] il-mi [...] | |
| r 6'6' | [... NA₄.NA].⸢RÚ⸣.A.MEŠ ⸢áš?⸣-[ṭu]-⸢ur⸣ i-na qé-[re-bi-šú áš-kun] | |
| r 7'7' | [(...) man-nu ša ši]-ṭir ⸢šu⸣-[mi-a] ú-⸢na⸣-[ak-ki-ru ...] | (r 7') [(...) (As for) whoever] removes [my] inscriptions, [...] who among the kings, (my) ancestors, [...], may [...] |
| r 8'8' | [...] ⸢šá⸣ i-na MAN.MEŠ ⸢AD?⸣.[MEŠ ...] | |
| r 9'9' | [...] ⸢lu⸣-ú [...] | |
| Lacuna |
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/Q004722/.