Shalmaneser I 35

~1300 BCE·Middle Assyrian·Q005823

Translation — scholar edition

RIAo

High confidence

(1) Palace of Shalmaneser (I), king of the world.

Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).

Why it matters

One of the corpus of royal inscriptions through which Shalmaneser I projected Assyrian royal authority, attesting the titulary 'king of the world' that would define imperial self-presentation for centuries.

Transliteration

É.GAL / dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KIŠ

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 Q005823.

Attribution

Image: BM 122033 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Assur (mod. Qalat Sherqat) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P428477). 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/Q005823/.

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