This text, which is inscribed on a clay tablet, appears to have been a draft of an inscription carved on a stone slab. Although the tablet is part of the British Museum's Kuyunjik collection, it is quite probable that it was found at Kalḫu. The inscription does not belong to the family of summary inscriptions composed at the close of Tiglath-pileser's reign. Since the description of events in the west does not yet include mention of Damascus, the text must antedate the Syrian campaigns of 734–732, thus being the earliest known summary inscription of Tiglath-pileser. The text, whose narration follows the usual geographical sequence (south, east, north, and west), contains the following: the king's titles (lines 1–5a); the conquest of Aramean tribes beyond the Tigris and in northern Babylonia (745) (lines 5b–11); the conquest of Namri and Media (744, 737) (lines 12–16); the conquest of Ulluba and Naʾiri (739) (lines 17–19); the conquest of Bīt-Agusi and Unqi (740, 738) (lines 20–21); the conquest of north and central Syria (738) (lines 22–24); and the epilogue (lines 25–29). This text is referred to as Summary Inscription 6 (Summ. 6) in Tadmor, Tigl. III.
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This oblong tablet preserves all twenty-nine lines, but only approximately a third to a quarter of each line remains. When complete, the tablet would have measured about 5.5×10–12 cm. The text, although very fragmentarily preserved, can largely be restored with the help of parallel passages from other summary inscriptions and the Kalḫu Annals.
A large fragment of a clay tablet discovered at Kalḫu preserves eighty-six lines of a long summary inscription of Tiglath-pileser III. The extant text represents about half of the original inscription. The size of the tablet appears to be similar in size to the one inscribed with text no. 49; however, the contents of this inscription are more detailed than that inscription. Composed in or shortly after Tiglath-pileser's 17th palû (729) and written for his royal palace in Kalḫu (the Central Palace), as indicated by its building report, this text is the most detailed of Tiglath-pileser's summary inscriptions. Sections, whose lengths vary in size, are separated by horizontal rulings. The inscription opens with the king's titles (obv. 1–4), which are followed by a geographical summary of historical events, beginning with the south, and continuing with events in the east, north, and west. The preserved text contains descriptions of his campaigns to Babylonia (745, 731, 729) (obv. 5–28), Namri and Media (744, 737) (obv. 29–42), Ulluba and Ḫabḫu (739) (obv. 43–44), Urarṭu (743, 735) (obv. 45–50), and after a long gap, which must have dealt with campaigns to the west (partly covered by text no. 48), the defeat of Samsi (733–732) (rev. 1'–6'a). The historical portion concludes with a list of western rulers who brought tribute before the Assyrian king (rev. 6'b–13'). After this list, there are two additional reports of military activities: an engagement against Tabal (rev. 14'–15') and another against Tyre (rev. 16'), the outcome of both resulting in new kings ascending the throne and immediately paying a heavy tribute to Assyria. Since both of these events appear after the list of tributaries and after the framework of the text had been fixed, these campaigns must have taken place sometime after 732. The last preserved portion of text (lines 17'–36') contains the only complete building account of Tiglath-pileser from Kalḫu that has survived. Tadmor referred to this text as Summary Inscription 7 (Summ. 7) in Tigl. III.
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Although K 3751 bears a Kuyunjik British Museum number, it must have been found at Kalḫu since G. Smith marked its provenance, "S. E. Palace, Nimroud," on the tablet. ND 400, a small fragment of a clay tablet also from Kalḫu, may come from the reverse face of this tablet. This may be so, but since it cannot be proved with certainty it is edited separately, as text no. 48; see the commentary to that inscription for further details. The text was collated from the original, which is now in the British Museum, and from photographs (Tadmor, Tigl. III pls. LIV–LV).
This text is inscribed on a fragment of a well-baked tablet found at Kalḫu. Twenty-seven lines on one face of the tablet (probably the reverse) are preserved; the other face (probably the obverse) is completely broken away. The fragment appears to have come from a large tablet similar to the one inscribed with text no. 47, as suggested by the fact that both fragments appear to have been written by the same scribe (as noted by D.J. Wiseman and N. Naʾaman). The extant text contains descriptions of the subjugation of a city in Phoenicia (734 or 733) (lines 1'–9'; unparalleled in any other inscription); the punishment of a country, probably Israel (733–732) (lines 10'–14'a); the campaign against Ḫanūnu of Gaza and the erection of a stele near the Brook of Egypt (734) (lines 14'b–19'); the acknowledgment of Assyrian sovereignty by an Egyptian pharaoh (name not preserved) (734 or 733) (lines 20'–21'); the receipt of gifts from Siruatti the Meʾunite (734) (lines 22'–23'); and the campaign against Samsi (733) (lines 24'–27'). This text was edited as Summary Inscription 8 (Summ. 8) in Tadmor, Tigl. III.
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The tablet was found at Nimrud in 1950 and published by D.J. Wiseman (Iraq 13 [1951] pl. XI). It is possible that this tablet and the one inscribed with text no. 47 are both part of the same tablet, but without any direct physical join. Note that the last preserved line of this text (line 27'), which narrates the campaign against Samsi, is directly continued in the first line of the previous text (rev. 1'). Since it cannot be proven that the two pieces belong to the same tablet, it is best to edit them separately. It is also possible that the two tablets bear different copies of the same text, and that ND 400 supplies some of the text missing in K 3751 (text no. 47), in the long gap between the last line of its obverse and the first line of its reverse. The text was collated from the original, which is now in the British Museum, and from a photograph (Tadmor, Tigl. III pl. LVI).
The identification of the cities and countries mentioned in lines 1'–10'a and 10'b–14'a has been long disputed. A. Alt (Kleine Schriften 2 pp. 152–153) suggested that the city in question in lines 1'–10'a is Arvad, which is not mentioned among the conquests of 738 and whose king Mattan-biʾil (Mattan-Baʾal) does not appear in the lists of the western vassals in the Kalḫu Annals or in the Iran Stele (text no. 35). This view of Alt's was followed by a number of scholars, including Tadmor in Tigl. III. However, it is more probable that this passage concerns Tyre, whose king, Hiram, cooperated with Raḫiānu (Rezin) of Damascus in 734, as described in text no. 49 rev. 5 (Ephʿal, Arabs p. 30; and Naʾaman, Tel Aviv 22/2 [1995] pp. 268–271). The country dealt with in lines 10'b–13' is to be identifed with Israel, Damascus, or Tyre. The lines do not contain any geographical or topographical data to point to a specific country. However, as Naʾaman (Tel Aviv 22/2 pp. 268–269) argues, the sequence of the episode in text no. 49 rev. 5–31 and this text + text no. 47 rev. 1'–16' seems to be more or less the same, i.e., Tyre, Israel, Philistia (Ashkelon and Gaza), the Arabs, and Egypt. This may support the identification of the two countries in question as Tyre and Israel.
A large fragment of a clay tablet that was reconstructed from three smaller fragments and that was discovered in the Nabû temple (Ezida) at Kalḫu preserves fifty-eight lines of a long summary inscription of Tiglath-pileser III. The beginning of the obverse and the end of the reverse are now missing, and the extant text contains descriptions of the following events: the defeat of Sarduri (743), the campaign to Urarṭu in which the Assyrians marched as far as Ṭurušpâ (735) (obv. 1'–5'); the conquest and annexation of Urarṭu (739, 736-735) — the conquest of Ulluba (obv. 6'–8'), the enlargement of the provinces of Aššur-iqīša (obv. 9'–10'), the chief steward (obv. 11'–13'), the chief cupbearer (obv. 14'–16'), the land Naʾiri (obv. 17'–19'), and the turtānu (obv. 20'–23'); the conquest of Bīt-Agusi (743–740) (obv. 24'–25'); the conquest of Unqi (740, 738) (obv. 26'–27'); the annexation of the north Syrian coast (738) (rev. 1–2); the conquest of Bīt-Hazaʾili (733–732) (rev. 3–4); the submission of Tyre (733–732) (rev. 5–8); the conquest of northern Israel (733–732) and the replacement of its king, Peqah, with Hoshea (731) (rev. 9–11); the forceful extraction of tribute from a king (of Ashkelon?) (rev. 12); the campaign against Ḫanūnu of Gaza and the submission of Gaza (734) (rev. 13–16); the defeat of Samsi (733) (rev. 17–22); the acknowledgment of Assyrian sovereignty by an unknown ruler, possibly an Egyptian pharaoh (734 or 733) (rev. 23–25); the receipt of tribute from Metenna of Tyre (730?) (rev. 26); the receipt of tribute from Ḫullî of Tabal (730 or 729?) (rev. 27–29); and the receipt of tribute, probably from some distant Arabian tribes (733–732) (rev. 30–31). Although the beginning of the inscription is missing, the text must have originally included an account concerning events in Babylonia and Media since the inscription follows a geographic pattern that is common to other summary inscriptions. Either text no. 51 or text no. 52 may represent that missing portion. Tadmor referred to this text as Summary Inscription 9 (Summ. 9) in Tigl. III.
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In its current state of preservation, the tablet is reconstructed from three smaller fragments, all of which were discovered during Mallowan's excavations of the Nabû Temple in 1955 and published by D.J. Wiseman in Iraq 18 (1956) and Iraq 26 (1964). Since the tablet was not available for study, the present edition is based on Wiseman's published copies. As suggested by R. Borger (HKL 1 p. 639) and B. Oded (JNES 29 [1970] p. 178 n. 6), K 2649, the tablet fragment bearing text no. 50, may belong to the same tablet as ND 4301+, the object inscribed with this text. The two pieces may join at iš-ku-na pi-i-šú in rev. 5. The physical join, however, cannot be confirmed since ND 4301+ is in the Iraq Museum (Baghdad) and K 2649 is in the British Museum (London). Since it cannot be proven that the two pieces belong to the same tablet, it is best to edit them separately, exactly as H. Tadmor did in Tigl. III. Text no. 50 is fully included in the restoration of obv. 26'–rev. 5.
This small section of a summary inscription is inscribed on a small fragment of a clay tablet, most probably from Kalḫu. The inscription mentions the land Unqi, the cities Kašpūna and Gilead, and Hiram of Tyre, and it supplements text missing in text no. 49 obv. 26'–rev. 5. This text was edited as Summary Inscription 10 (Summ. 10) in Tadmor, Tigl. III.
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Although the inscription was collated from both the original in the British Museum and a photograph, the edition is also based on a draft copy of G. Smith (reproduced in Tadmor, Tigl. III pl. LVII). As suggested by R. Borger (HKL 1 p. 639) and B. Oded (JNES 29 [1970] p. 178 n. 6), ND 4301+, a fragment of a tablet inscribed with text no. 49, may belong to the same tablet as K 2649. The pieces may join at iš-ku-na pi-i-šú in rev. 5. The physical join, however, cannot be confirmed since K 2649 is in the British Museum (London) and ND 4301+ is in the Iraq Museum (Baghdad). Since it cannot be proven that the two pieces belong to the same tablet, it is best to edit them separately, following H. Tadmor, Tigl. III. Text no. 49 obv. 26'–rev. 5 are fully included in the restoration of damaged text.
A fragment of a large clay tablet found at Kalḫu preserves the first twenty lines of a summary inscription of Tiglath-pileser III. The inscription is a shorter version of text no. 47 and may represent the missing beginning of text no. 49. The extant text includes the following: the king's titles (lines 1–4); the conquest of Aramean tribes (lines 5–9a); the offering of sacrifices to gods in Babylonia (lines 9b–11); the conquest of Bīt-Šilāni and Bīt-Šaʾalli (lines 12–15); the conquest of Bīt-Amukāni (line 16); the conquest of Ḫilimmu and Pillatu (line 17); the receipt of tribute from Chaldean rulers (line 18); the delivery of tribute by Marduk-apla-iddina II (Merodach-baladan) (line 19); and a campaign to Namri and the east (line 20). Tadmor edited this text as Summary Inscription 11 (Summ. 11) in his Tigl. III.
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The fragment is the upper part of the obverse of a large clay tablet that was discovered by G. Smith at Nimrud on the 25th of April 1873 (Notebook 17 p. 27). According to the heading added to G. Smith's translation in Assyrian Disc. (pp. 254–256), the piece was a "Fragment of Annals ... from a Tablet discovered in the Temple of Nebo (Nimrud)." This text parallels text no. 47 as follows: lines 1-4 // text no. 47 obv. 1–4; lines 5–9a // text no. 47 obv. 5–10; lines 9b–11 // text no. 47 obv. 11b–13a; lines 12–15 // text no. 47 obv. 15–23a (for more details about the correspondence in these passages, see Tadmor, Tigl. III p. 193); line 16a // text no. 47 obv. 23b–25; line 17 // text no. 47 obv. 13b–14a; line 18 // text no. 47 obv. 26a; line 19 // text no. 47 obv. 26b and 27b–28; and line 20 // text no. 47 obv. 29. The text was collated from the original in the British Museum and from a photograph (Tadmor, Tigl. III pl. LVIII).
R. Borger (in Galling, Textbuch2 p. 58) and W. Schramm (EAK 2 p. 135) suggest that either this text or the text written on ND 5419 (text no. 52) is the missing beginning of ND 4301+, our text no. 49. When complete, the tablets would have been approximately the same width. Although it is possible that DT 3 (this text) or ND 5419 (text no. 52) could belong to the same tablet as ND 4301+ (text no. 49), there is no actual physical join between either of these two fragments and ND 4301+, and therefore the texts on DT 3 and ND 5419 have been edited separately from ND 4301+, exactly as Tadmor did in Tigl. III.
This text is inscribed on a fragment of a clay tablet that was discovered in the Nabû temple at Kalḫu and it is a partial duplicate of text no. 51 (lines 1–9). This text is referred to as Summary Inscription 12 (Summ. 12) in Tadmor, Tigl. III.
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Since the tablet was not available for study, the present edition is based on D.J. Wiseman's published copy. For the possibility that ND 5419 or DT 3 (text no. 51) may belong to the same tablet as ND 4301+ (text no. 49), see the commentary to text no. 51.
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada, 'Summary Inscriptions, Part 2', 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/SummaryInscriptions/Part2/]