Two fragmentarily preserved clay cones from Aššur have been assigned to Shalmaneser V, but an examination of the originals in the Vorderasiatisches Museum reveals that the king in whose name this text was inscribed is not Shalmaneser V. The passage containing the king's genealogy in ex. 1 (VA Ass 2105) reads: 1) x [...] 2) DUMU x [...] 3) DUMU d⸢aš⸣-[šur-...] 4) DUMU daš-šur-[...] "... [...], son of ...[...], son of Aš[šur-...], son of Aššur-[...]." The corresponding passage in ex. 2 (VA Ass 2107) reads: 1´) ⸢DUMU⸣ [...] 2´) ⸢DUMU d⸣[...] 3´) ⸢DUMU⸣ daš-⸢šur⸣-[...] "son of [...], son of [...], son of Aššur-[...]." The genealogy suggests that these two inscribed cones date to the reign of Ashurnasirpal II, or perhaps an earlier king (such as Tiglath-pileser II or Aššur-dān II), because the names of the grandfather and great-grandfather of the ruler who commisioned these cones contain the theophoric element Aššur. Since this text does not belong to the Shalmaneser V corpus, it is not edited here. It is, however, mentioned for the sake of completeness.
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An unpublished fragmentarily preserved brick discovered at Tell Abu Marya (ancient Apku) was ascribed by J. Laessøe to Shalmaneser V. Because the present location of the brick is not known, the inscription could not be collated and thus it is not edited here. It is included as a 1000-number as the royal name and other details (titles, genealogy, etc.) cannot be confirmed and since there is no other evidence to suggest that Shalmaneser V sponsored building activities at Apku.
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A lion weight discovered at Kalḫu by A.H. Layard is stylistically similar to other lion weights of Shalmaneser V, and was thus assigned to him. The lion, with a handle on its back, weighs 14933.157g. It is inscribed with two Aramaic texts, one (Inscription 1) on the right flank and the other (Inscription 2) on the base. Fifteen strokes, indicating the lion weighed fifteen (heavy) minas, are incised on the left flank. Since the object does not bear an Akkadian inscription, its attribution to Shalmaneser V, rather than some other Assyrian king (Sargon II, Tiglath-pileser III, or Sennacherib), cannot be proven. The Aramaic texts are included here arbitrarily for the sake of completeness.
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Two baked oval-shaped clay disks are stamped with an image of an inscribed lion weight. The stamp impressions depict a left-facing crouching lion on a base and a handle extending from the back of the lion's neck to its lower back. A three-line Akkadian inscription on its torso states that the weight belonged to an Assyrian king (name damaged) and weighs one mina, and a one-line Aramaic inscription on the base also records the weight of the lion. Because the image (with its inscriptions) closely resembles the bronze lion weights discovered by A.H. Layard in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (see the introduction to Shalmaneser V text no. 1–9 and figs. 11–12), these clay disks may have belonged to one of the kings whose name is inscribed on those weights: Tiglath-pileser III, Shalmaneser V, Sargon II, or Sennacherib. Since the royal name begins with both the masculine personal determinative (m) and the divine determinative (d), Shalmaneser V (as suggested by H. Galter and B. Scholz) or Sennacherib are the most likely candidates; however, other later Sargonid kings, including Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal, cannot be excluded. This text is included here as a 1000-number since it cannot be proven with certainty that these stamped disks belonged to Shalmaneser V and not some other Neo-Assyrian king.
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The provenance of the stamp impressions is not known. Because the objects are much lighter than one mina (ca. 500g), it seems unlikely that the disks were actually used as weights; ex. 1 (complete) weighs only 296g and ex. 2 (damaged) weighs just 158g. Moreover, these clay disks do not appear to be dockets since they are not perforated. They may have been used as covers for containers that stored one mina of goods. Because the objects were not collated from the originals in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), the edition is based on the photographs published by H. Galter and B. Scholz (AfO 35 [1988] p. 32 fig. 4 and p. 34 fig. 5). The authors, however, regard the alphabetic inscription as Aramaic, rather than Hebrew as suggested by Galter and Scholz. The edition is a conflation of exs. 1 and 2. Because both impressions were probably made from the same stamp, no score is included in the volume.
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada
Hayim Tadmor & Shigeo Yamada, 'Uncertain Attribution', RINAP 1: Tiglath-pileser III and Shalmaneser V, The RINAP 1 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap1/shalmaneservtextintroductions/uncertainattribution/]