Position in chronology
Shalmaneser III 011
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [... the god Šamaš, the judge of heaven] and netherworld, the commander [of all]; the god Nergal, the perfect one, the king of battle; [the god Nusku], the bearer of the holy scepter, the circumspect god; (and) the goddess Mullissu, the spouse of the god Enlil, [the mother of] the great [gods]; the great gods, who [decree destinies] (and) who aggrandize my kingship. (7'b) [Shalmaneser (III)], king of all of the people, ruler, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, [strong king, king of all] four quarters (of the world), sun(god) of [all of the people, ruler of] all of the lands; son of…
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/Q004616/
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Transliteration
x [... dšá-maš DI.KU₅ AN-e] / ù KI-te ⸢mu-ma-ʾe⸣-[er gim-ri] / dU.GUR gít-ma-lu MAN tam-ḫa-⸢ri⸣ [dnusku] / na-ši GIŠ.GIDRU KÙ-ti DINGIR ⸢mul⸣-[ta-lu] / dNIN.LÍL ḫi-rat d<BAD> [um-mi DINGIR.MEŠ] / GAL.MEŠ DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ⸢mu⸣-[ši-mu ši-ma-ti] / mu-šar-bu-ú MAN-ti-⸢ia⸣ [mdsál-ma-nu-SAG] / MAN kiš-šat UN.MEŠ NUN ŠID aš-šur [LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL kul-lat] / kib-rat LÍMMU-i dšam-⸢šu⸣ [kiš-šat UN.MEŠ…
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 Q004616.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) (RIMA 3), Toronto, 1996. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2016) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q004616/..
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/Q004616/.
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