Adad-nerari III 01

Obverse
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É.GAL m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu

(1) Palace of Adad-nārārī (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, the king in whose youth (the god) Aššur, king of the Igīgū gods, chose and entrusted him with unrivalled rulership: he conquered and gained dominion over everything from the Great Sea of the Rising Sun to the Great Sea of the Setting Sun;

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MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR MAN šá ina TUR-šú -šur

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MAN dí-- ut-tu-šú-ma mal-kut

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la šá-na-an ú-mal-lu-ú

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qa-tuš-šú TA tam-tim GAL-ti

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šá KUR-ḫa dUTU-ši a-di tam-tim

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GAL-ti šá šùl-mu dUTU-ši

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qat-su KUR-ma i-pe-lu-ma

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gim-ri A mdUTU-ši-10

(9b) son of Šamšī-Adad (V), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, unrivalled king, (grand)son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world), who slew all of his enemies and annihilated (them) like a flood, (great) grandson of Ashurnasirpal (II), virile warrior who extended habitations, offspring of Adad-nārārī (II), attentive ruler whom the gods Aššur, Šamaš, Adad, and Marduk assisted so that he extended his land, offspring of Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of Assyria, king of Sumer and Akkad, offspring of Shalmaneser (I), great king, strong king, who enlarged Eḫursagkurkurra (the house of) the mountain of the lands offspring of Ilā-kabkabī (Enlil-kapkapī), a king of the past who came before the reign of Sulīlu, whose name (the god) Aššur called from the distant past.

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MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR

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MAN la šá-na-an A mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ

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MAN kib-rat LÍMMU-ti šá kul-lat za-ʾi-i-ri-šú

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i--ru-ma is-pu-nu a-bu-ba-niš

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DUMU.DUMU šá m-šur-PAP-A NÍTA qar-du

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mu-ra-piš da-ád-mi pír-ʾi

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m10-ERIM.TÁḪ NUN na--du šá -šur dUTU

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dIŠKUR u dAMAR.UTU re-ṣu-su

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i-li-ku-ma ú-ra-pi-šú KUR-su

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ŠÀ.BAL.BAL mtukul-ti-dMAŠ MAN KUR -šur

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MAN KUR šu-me-ri u URI.KI

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lib-lib-bi šá mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu

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mu-šam-di-il é-ḫur-sag-kur-kur-ra

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šá-ad ma-ta-a-ti lib-lib-bi

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šá mdBAD-kap-ka-pi MAN pa-ni

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a-lik maḫ-ri qu-ud-mu MAN-ti

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šá msu-li-li šá ul-

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ul-la-a -šur ib-bu-u si-qar?-šú


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/Q004749/.