Position in chronology
Adad-nerari III 16
Written in modern English
This is the palace of Adad-nārārī III, king of the world and king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad V — himself king of the world and king of Assyria — and grandson of Shalmaneser III, king of the four quarters of the world.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Palace of Adad-nārārī (III), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world).
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Why it matters
Royal titulary of Adad-nārārī III anchors his legitimacy in two generations of conquest kings, Šamšī-Adad V and Shalmaneser III, illustrating how Assyrian rulers constructed dynastic authority through inscribed genealogy.
Transliteration
É.GAL m10-ERIM.TÁḪ / MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur / A mšam-ši-10 MAN KIŠ MAN KUR AŠ / A mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN kib-rat LÍMMU
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 Q004764.
Attribution
Image: BM 132264 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P428494). 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/Q004764/.
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