Names

  • Shalmaneser III 026

Numbers

  • Q004631
  • Shalmaneser III 026

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  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. 858-824
  • Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
  • Royal Inscription
  • Shalmaneser III

Shalmaneser III 026 [via RIAO/RIA5]

Obverse
11

mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ

(1) Shalmaneser (III), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II) (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur; (and) the conqueror from the Upper Sea to the Lower (Sea), the Sea of Chaldea, which is called Bitter Sea. I marched to the land Ḫatti (and) gained dominion (over it) to its full extent. I marched to Babylon, Borsippa, (and) Cutha (and) made my sacrifices.

22

GAR dBAD ŠID -šur

33

A -šur-PAP-A ŠID

44

A TUKUL-MAŠ ŠID -ma

55

ka-šid TA tam-di

66

AN.TA u KI.TA

77

u tam-di šá KUR.kal-di

88

šá ÍD.mar-ra-

99

i-qa-bu-ši-ni

1010

a-lik KUR.ḫat-ti ana paṭaṭ

1111

gim-ri-šá a-pél

1212

ana URU..DINGIR.KI

1313

URU.bár-sipa.KI

1414

URU.ku-te-e a-lik

1515

UDU.SISKUR.MEŠ-ia

1616

aq-qi e-nu-ma

(16b) At that time, the old wall of my city, Aššur, which Tukultī-Ninurta (I), son of Shalmaneser (I), a king who came before me, had previously built, had become dilapidated and I built it anew.

1717

BÀD URU-ia -šur.KI

1818

maḫ-ru-ú

1919

šá ina IGI TUKUL-dMAŠ

2020

A dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ

2121

MAN a-lik IGI-ia

2222

ina IGI -

2323

e-na-aḫ-ma

2424

ana -šu-ti -


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/Q004631/.