A fragment of a carved orthostat found during nineteenth-century exploratory excavations of Kalḫu preserves five lines of Tiglath-pileser III's Annals that are inscribed over the images of the king and one of his courtiers; the same slab may have also been inscribed with text nos. 31 and 32 (see below). This section of the Kalḫu Annals preserves part of a report of events of the king's 8th palû (738), in particular the enumeration of places in northern Syria annexed as Assyrian provinces in that year. This text represents Annals Series C, Unit 6, which corresponds to Ann. 22 in Tadmor, Tigl. III.
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The text is inscribed on two adjoining colossal, sculpted slabs (BM 118899 + BM 118900), with the inscription written over the images of the king and one of his courtiers, and thus this Annals unit is classified as part of Annals Series C. It is assumed here that the inscription, which breaks off after only five lines, is continued in text nos. 31 and 32, both of which are now known only from draft copies of G. Smith and H. Rawlinson and which were inscribed further down on the same slabs from which BM 118899 + BM 118900 originate. See the commentary of text no. 32 for further information about the compositional arrangement of text nos. 30–32. C.J. Gadd (Stones p. 155) thought that H. Rassam discovered these pieces in 1853, but M. Falkner (Barnett and Falkner, Tigl. pp. 17–18) has found evidence suggesting that the slabs were actually discovered by H. Rawlinson in 1854 and sent to England by Rassam. G. Smith made a draft copy of the text (reproduced in Tadmor, Tigl. III pl. XXV). Lines 1–5 duplicate and are used in the restoration of text no. 13 lines 5–7. See that text for notes on the edition.
A fragment of a sculpted and inscribed orthostat that once lined a wall of Tiglath-pileser III's palace at Kalḫu preserves nine lines of the Kalḫu Annals; that same slab may have also been inscribed with text nos. 30 and 32. Because the object was left in the field, the text is known only from draft copies made by G. Smith and H. Rawlinson. These lines of the Annals preserve part of a report of events of the king's 8th palû (738). This text, which corresponds to Ann. 26 in Tadmor, Tigl. III, represents Annals Series C, Unit 7.
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G. Smith copied this text from torn squeezes then in the British Museum (now lost or destroyed); his copy appears on the same page of his notebook as his copy of text no. 30 (Notebook 5 fols. 13r–13v; reproduced in Tadmor, Tigl. III pl. XXV top), just below that section of the Annals. The arrangement of these two copies in G. Smith's Notebook 5 suggests that this text is a direct continuation of text no. 30. H. Rawlinson also copied the left part of this Annals unit (reproduced in Tadmor, Tigl. III pl. XXV bottom); the text was probably written on a single fragment. See the commentary of text no. 32 for further information about the compositional arrangement of text nos. 30–32.
Lines 1–8 duplicate and are used in the restoration of text no. 13 lines 7–11; line 9 also parallels text no. 14 line 10. Curiously, this text appears to omit between lines 8 and 9 a seventeen-line passage that describes a war with Aramean tribes living on the border of Babylonia and their subsequent deportation to Syria (text no. 13 line 12–text no. 14 line 9). Rawlinson's draft copy has only six lines of text (lines 3–8), and thus omits the problematic last line (line 9). If G. Smith's copy is accurate, then this text represents part of an abridged version of the Kalḫu Annals; cf. the longer account now preserved in text nos. 13 and 14. The abridgement may not be accidental since the omitted passage is a stylistic intrusion into the report of Tiglath-pileser's campaigns to northern Syria during his 8th palû (738).
As mentioned above, Rawlinson's copy of this part of the Annals omits line 9. Rawlinson, however, copied that line as the first line of text no. 32. This may indicate that this text originally comprised only lines 1–8. See the commentary of text no. 32.
A fragment of a colossal slab from Tiglath-pileser III's palace at Kalḫu discovered during nineteenth-century exploratory excavations of the site preserves thirteen lines of the Kalḫu Annals; text nos. 30 and 31 may have been inscribed on that same slab. This text is known only from a draft copy made by H. Rawlinson since the object was left at Nimrud. This section of the Annals preserves part of a report of events of the king's 8th palû (738); specifically, it lists Syrian and Anatolian rulers who brought tribute before Tiglath-pileser. The text represents Annals Series C, Unit 8, which Tadmor referred to as Ann. 27 in Tigl. III.
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This must be the inscription whose discovery was announced by H. Rawlinson in a letter read by E. Norris at the meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1854 (Athenaeum no. 1373 p. 216; the letter is dated to 18 February, 1854) since that text is said to have contained a list of Syrian rulers subdued by Tiglath-pileser in his 8th palû. Norris reports: "The list contains eighteen names, among which we find Rezin of Damascus, Menachem of Samaria, and Hiram of Tyre ... Several of these names are found in the inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser, published by the Trustees of the British Museum (= ICC); but the list now found is far more complete than any there given."
Lines 1–12 duplicate and are used in the restoration of text no. 14 line 10–text no. 15 line 4. Line 13, which is fragmentarily preserved, has no known parallels. The first line of the text duplicates exactly text no. 31 line 9, even the unusual spelling of Damascus (KUR.ša-ANŠE.NÍTA.MEŠ-šu-a-a). This repetition may indicate that this passage of the Annals is a direct continuation of text no. 31, which contained only eight lines, without line 9 (see the commentary of text no. 31). Thus, text no. 31 lines 1–8 and text no. 32 represent the middle and lower parts of a unit of the Kalḫu Annals that is written over and around images of the king and one of his courtiers. Text no. 30 is inscribed on the upper part of the same slab (BM 118899 + BM 118900; see Tadmor, Tigl. III p. 36 fig. 5 for a reconstruction of the original relief and texts). The lines of this text are longer than those of text nos. 30 and 31. This is due to the fact that the inscription is not written over the king's woolen, wavy garment; cf. the distribution of signs written on the image of the king on the Iran Stele (text no. 35). The slab, part of which comprises BM 118899 + BM 118900, may have originally borne thirty lines of text (exactly like NA 19/76 [text no. 33]). The complete Annals unit would have comprised text nos. 30–32, as well as additional lines that are now lost. Because the the original was left at Nimrud, the present edition is based on Rawlinson's draft copy.
A colossal slab with a relief and traces of a thirty-line inscription was discovered towards the end of the Polish excavations in 1976 at Kalḫu. The relief, showing two standing courtiers, was found in several pieces and the inscription was reported to be very abraded and difficult to decipher. Since the slab was discovered just before the end of the dig, the inscribed fragments were not copied or photographed properly. Moreover, many of J. Meuszyński's field notes and materials were lost after his tragic death in Turkey in 1976 (Sobolewski, private communication). The text is partly visible in a photograph of the slab published by Sobolewski and in electronic copies of unpublished Nimrud excavation photographs made from the prints (the negatives are now lost) kindly supplied by S. Paley. Although some traces of signs are legible in the unpublished Nimrud excavation photographs, not enough of the text can be read to present an edition. This Annals unit probably belongs to Series C (C, x).
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A slab inscribed with eighteen lines of text was discovered towards the end of the Polish excavations in 1976 at Kalḫu. The piece, which is mentioned in an unpublished inventory of slabs held at the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology (Warsaw), was left in the field. It is reported to be from the middle of a corner slab and to be inscribed on the "back side" and the "longer side." The text is not edited here since no further information about the inscription is known. This Annals unit is tentatively assigned to Series C (C, y).
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Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada, 'Annals, 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/Tiglath-pileserIII:TextIntroductions/Annals/Part4/]