Shalmaneser I 17

• šā-ak-ni dEN.LÍL — Conventionally 'appointee / nominee of Enlil'; šāknu can also mean 'governor/viceroy' in administrative contexts, but in royal titulary 'appointee' is standard.
• eṭ-[li-iš? kúl]-la-at — Heavily broken; restoration eṭliš kullat 'heroically, all of' is supplied from parallel Shalmaneser I inscriptions (RIMA 1.A.0.77). Other restorations are possible.
• dIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ — Logographic writing for Adad-nērārī (I); transliteration straightforward but the ERIM.TÁḪ = nērārī reading is well established.
• GÍD-DI-DINGIR — Logographic writing for Arik-dēn-ili; GÍD = arku/arik, DI = dīnu/dēnu, DINGIR = ili, hence 'Long is the justice of my god'. Conventional rendering retained.
• KUR.mu-uṣ-ri — Muṣri: debated whether this refers to a region in northern Mesopotamia/Anatolia distinct from Egypt (Miṣir), or occasionally equated with Egypt by some scholars. In Shalmaneser I context the former (northern Muṣri) is almost universally accepted.
• dáb-du za-e-ri-šu — dabdu zāʾirīšu, 'the defeat of his enemies'; dabdu is a technical term for 'rout/defeat in battle', sometimes rendered 'carnage'.
• [ma? ...]-gi-šu-nu — Completely broken; ending -gišunu is possibly a 3pl. possessive suffix on a noun, but restoration is speculative without parallel context.

Photo examined: the object is a small, heavily worn lens-shaped clay tablet (bun-shaped, possibly a barrel cylinder or tablet fragment) photographed from six angles. The surface visible in the central obverse view shows two horizontal register lines and a band of cuneiform wedges between them, but at the resolution provided individual signs are almost entirely illegible — only the general presence of closely packed wedge impressions can be confirmed visually. The reverse/side views show additional weathered inscription traces but no signs can be individually read. Museum labels visible read '121137' and 'TH 1929 10 146', consistent with a field number from a Tigris-Euphrates region excavation. Because the cuneiform signs themselves cannot be read from the photo, I rely on the scholar-provided transliteration for Layer 2, flagging that this is transliteration-driven. The text is a standard Shalmaneser I (Shalmaneser I of Assyria, c. 1274–1245 BCE) royal titulary inscription; the formulaic structure — epithet chain, ancestry (Adad-nērārī I → Arik-dēn-ili → Shalmaneser I), conquest list (Šubari, Lullumu, Gutians, Muṣri), and battle narrative — matches well-known parallels in RIMA 1.A.0.77 (Grayson 1987). The lacunae in lines 4–5 prevent full translation; restorations follow the parallel RIMA texts.