Seven texts fall into this category and the objects upon which they are written are a clay vessel, enameled tiles, a bead, several stone objects, and a glazed brick. The attribution to Tiglath-pileser III is probable in some cases. However, Tilgath-pileser II may be the better candidate for a few of these texts. Most of the texts edited as 1000 numbers have been included here arbitrarily.
Six inscriptions fall into this category: a building inscription of Ninurta-bēlu-uṣur written on a pair of lions placed in the West Gate of the city Ḫadattu, modern Arslan Tash (text no. 2001); a votive inscription of Aššur-rēmanni, a servant of Tiglath-pileser III, dedicated to the god Adad and written on a metal disk discovered at Tell Taʿyinat (text no. 2002); three inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III's queen and wife, Yabâ — a funerary inscription written on a stone tablet and two gold bowls, all of which were discovered during Iraqi excavations (1989) of a tomb that was hidden under the pavement of a room in the domestic wing of the North-West Palace at Kalḫu (text nos. 2003–2005); and a brick inscription (provenance not known) of Kīdītê, a provincial governor, dedicated to a Tiglath-pileser, possibly the third king with that name (text no. 2006).
The text on a stele from Tell Abta commissioned by Bēl-Ḫarrān-bēlu-uṣur, who held the office of palace herald during the reigns of Shalmaneser IV and Tiglath-pileser III (see Radner, in PNA 1/2 p. 301), mentions Tiglath-pileser III by name; Shalmaneser's name was erased and Tiglath-pileser's name written in its place. Although this text belongs to the corpus of texts edited in this volume, it is excluded since it was edited in Grayson, RIMA 3 (A.0.105.2). Numerous other texts were written during Tiglath-pileser III's reign, but they fall outside the scope of this volume. These are three land grants (Kataja and Whiting, SAA 12 nos. 14–15 and 75), administrative documents, and royal correspondence found at Kalḫu (Postgate, Governor's Palace; Dalley and Postgate, Fort Shalmaneser; and Saggs, Nimrud Letters). Three chronographic texts, the Eponym Chronicle and two Babylonian chronicles, record the events of his reign. The relevant passages of those texts are translated below (pp. 17–18). Bar-rakib, king of Samʾal and a vassal of Assyria, refers to Tiglath-pileser in an Aramaic inscription of his (KAI no. 217). The Bible (II Kings 16:7, 10, etc.) also mentions his military activities in and around the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. For other references to him, including those using his byname Pūl(u) (meaning uncertain) in Akkadian, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek traditions, see Brinkman, PKB pp. 240–243, with n. 1544.
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada, 'Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III and Related Texts, Part 4', RINAP 1: Tiglath-pileser III and Shalmaneser V, The RINAP 1 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap1/RINAP1Introduction/InscriptionsofTiglath-pileserIII/Part4/]