Shalmaneser III 004

Obverse
o 1o 1

da-šur EN GAL-ú [...]

(1) The god Aššur, the great lord, [the king of all of the great gods]; the god Anu, the king of the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods; the lord of the lands, the god Enlil, the father of [the gods, the one who decrees destinies (and), who devises the designs of [heaven (and) netherworld]; (5) the god Ea, the wise one, the king of the apsû, [the creator of] clever devices; the god Sîn, the light [of heaven (and) netherworld], the noble one; the god Šamaš, [the judge of the (four) quarters (of the world), the one who leads aright] all of humankind; (and) [the goddess Ištar, the lady of war and battle] whose game [is fighting; the great gods, who love] (10) my kingship, [who] have made great [my dominion, power, and leadership, (who) have richly established for me my honorable name (and) my lofty command] over [all of the (other) lords].

o 22

da-nu MAN dNUN.GAL.MEŠ u da-nun-na-ki

o 33

EN KUR.KUR.MEŠ dBAD a-bu [...]

o 44

mu-ṣir e-ṣu-rat [...]

o 55

dé-a er-šu MAN ZU.AB [...]

o 66

nik-la-te d30 na-[nàr ...]

o 77

de-tel-lu dšá-maš [...]

o 88

gim-ri te--[še-te ...]

o 99

šá me-lul-ta-šá [...]

o 1010

MAN-ti-ia [...]

o 1111

ú-šar-bu-ú [...]

o 1212

UGU [...]

o 1313

[...]

(13) [Shalmaneser (III), king of all of the people, ruler, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, strong king, king of Assyria], king of all four quarters (of the world), [sun(god) of all of the people], (15) ruler of all of [the lands, the king (who is the) desired object of the gods], chosen of the god Enlil, [trustworthy] appointee [of (the god) Aššur], the attentive [ruler] who has seen [remote] and rugged regions, the one who has [trodden upon the] mountain [peaks] in all of the highlands, the receiver [of booty] (20) and tax from all [(four) quarters (of the world)], the one who opens paths [above and below], at whose [strong] attack [for combat the (four) quarters (of the world)] are distressed [...]

o 1414

MAN kul-lat kib-[rat ...]

o 1515

mur-te-du-ú ka-[liš ...]

o 1616

ni-šit e-ni dBAD GÌR.[NÍTA ...]

o 1717

na-a-du a-me-ru [...]

o 1818

u šap-šá-qi mu-[kab-is ...]

o 1919

šá KUR-e ka-[liš] ḫur-šá-a-ni ma-[ḫír ...]

o 2020

u i-gi-se-e šá -[ši-na ...]

o 2121

mu-pat-tu-ú ṭu-da-[ti ...]

o 2222

šá a-na ti-[ib ...]

o 2323

ul-ta-nap-šá-qa [...]

Lacuna
Left
l.e. 1l.e. 1

a-na GÌR.II.MEŠ-[šú]

(l.e. 1) [son of Ashurnasirpal (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, whose priesthood was pleasing to the gods and (who)] made [all of the lands] bow down at his feet, pure offspring of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (L.E. 5) who slew all of his enemies and annihilated (them) like a flood;

l.e. 22

ú-šak-ni-šu

l.e. 33

nab-ni- -

l.e. 44

šá GIŠ.tukul-ti-d[MAŠ]

l.e. 55

šá kul-lat

l.e. 66

za-i*-ri-šu

l.e. 77

i--ru-ma

l.e. 88

is-pu-nu

l.e. 99

a-bu-ba-ni-

l.e. 1010

ka-šid TA tam-di

(l.e. 10) the conqueror from the Sea of the Naʾiri land(s) to the Sea of the Setting Sun. He conquered.

l.e. 1111

šá KUR.na-i-ri

l.e. 1212

a-di A.AB.BA

l.e. 1313

šá SILIM dšam-še

l.e. 1414

ŠU ik-šú-du

l.e. 1515

e-nu?-ma?

(l.e. 15) When he filled the wide plain,

l.e. 1616

um-ta?-al?-[lu?]

l.e. 1717

EDIN? DAGAL


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/Q004609/.