Shalmaneser IV 1


Obverse
11	^m^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KAL MAN KUR aš-šur	(1) Shalmaneser (IV), strong king, king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (III), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of the four quarters (of the world):
22	A ^m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KAL MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur
33	A ^mšam-ši-10 MAN kib-<rat> LÍMMU-ti
44	^mšam-ši-DINGIR LÚ.tar-ta-nu	(4) When Šamšī-ilu, the field marshal, marched to Damascus, I received the payment of Ḫadiānu of Damascus: silver, gold, copper, his royal bed, his royal couch, his daughter, together with her extensive dowry, the property of his palace, without number.
55	ki-i a-na KUR.ANŠE-šú i-lik-ú-ni
66	ma-da-tú šá ^mḫa-di-a-ni KUR.ANŠE-šú-a-a
77	KÙ.BABBAR KÙ.GI URUDU GIŠ.NÁ MAN-ti-šu
88	GIŠ.né-mat-tú MAN-ti-šú DUMU.MUNUS-su
99	KI nu-du-ni-šá ma-aʾ-di
1010	NÍG.GA É.GAL-lim la ma-ni am-ḫur-šú
1111	ina ta-a-a-ár-ti-ia ta-ḫu-mu šú-a-tu	(11) On my return march, I gave this boundary stone to Uspilulume, the king of the city Kummuḫu.
1212	a-na ^muš-pi-lu-lu-me MAN URU.ku-mu-ḫa-a-a
1313	a-din man-nu šá TA ŠU-at ^muš-pi-lu-lu-me	(13b) (As for) whoever (dares) to take (this boundary stone) away from the possession of Ušpilulume, his sons, (and) his grandsons, (15) may the gods Aššur, Marduk, Adad, Sîn, (and) Šamaš not stand (by him) at his lawsuit. May they not listen to his prayers and quickly smash his country like a brick. May he no longer give advice to the king.
1414	DUMU.MEŠ-šú DUMU.DUMU.MEŠ-šú e-ki-mu
1515	aš-šur ^dAMAR.UTU ^dIŠKUR ^d30 ^dUTU
1616	a-na di-ni-šú lu la i-za-zu
1717	pi-ti up-ni-šú la i-šá-me-u-šú
1818	KUR-su ki-i SIG₄ lu-šá-⸢bi^?-ru^?⸣ ur-ru-uḫ
1919	mim-ma ina UGU MAN la i-ma-lik
2020	ik-kib aš-šur DINGIR-ia ^d30 a-šib URU.KASKAL	(20) Taboo of (the god) Aššur, my god, (and) Sîn, who dwells in the city Ḫarrān.

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/Q006687/.