In addition to long inscriptions that were written on stone slabs lining the walls and floors of his palace in Kalḫu, Tiglath-pileser III had his scribes write shorter inscriptions on a variety of stone, clay, and mud objects. At Kalḫu, several reliefs in the king's palace included one-word epigraphs with the name of the city shown under siege (text nos. 55–57). In the traditional religious capital, Aššur, a stone block (text no. 54), which may originally have been a stele, was found in secondary context and several stamped and inscribed bricks recording work on the temples of the gods Aššur and Adad (text nos. 58–60) were discovered in the ruins of those buildings. At the entrances of the provincial city Ḫadattu (modern Arslan Tash), which Tiglath-pileser boasts of rebuilding, the king had colossal inscribed stone bulls erected as gateway guardians; the inscription on one of those bulls (text no. 53) survives today. Moreover, two stone duck weights, a bronze lion weight, and a stone bead (text nos. 61–64) bear proprietary labels of this king.
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada, 'Miscellaneous Texts: General', 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/MiscellaneousTexts/]