Position in chronology
Shalmaneser I 19
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [Shalmaneser (I)], appointee of [the god Enlil], vice-regent of the god Aššur, [strong king], king of Assyria, [son of Adad-nārārī (I)], king of Assyria, [(and) son of Arik-dīn-ili], (who was) also king of Assyria. (6b) [...] Emašmaš, the temple [of the goddess Ištar]
Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005807/
Why it matters
Attests Shalmaneser I's three-generation royal genealogy — Arik-dīn-ili, Adad-nārārī I, Shalmaneser I — anchoring the mid-thirteenth-century Assyrian dynastic sequence and linking it to Ištar's temple Emašmaš.
Transliteration
md[sál-ma-nu-SAG] / šá-ak-ni [dAB] / ŠID da-šur [LUGAL dan-nu] / LUGAL KUR da-šur ⸢DUMU⸣ [dIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ] / LUGAL KUR da-šur ⸢DUMU⸣ [GÍD-DI-DINGIR] / LUGAL KUR da-šur-ma [...] / é-maš-maš ⸢É?⸣ [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q005807.
Attribution
Image: BM 122664 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P422437). source
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005807/.
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