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Shalmaneser III 016
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Shalmaneser (III), strong (and) wise ruler, chosen [of the gods Enlil and Ninurta], ..., expert, [...], faithful shepherd, king of the four (quarters of the world), worshipper of the [great] gods, [...]; son of Ashurnasirpal (II), exalted priest, who [always achieved] the defeat of those insubmissive [to him], pure offspring of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), who slew his enemies [and annihilated (them) like a flood]: (6) At the beginning of my reign, after [I sat on] the throne of my royal majesty [in a grandiose manner], I mustered [my chariots] (and) troops. I entered the pass of the land Simesi…
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/Q004621/
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Transliteration
mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ ma-al-ku dan-nu it-pe-šu ni-[šit-e-ni dEN.LÍL u dMAŠ?] / x x x x-ʾu-ú-du mu-du-ú [x] / LÚ.SIPA* ki-nu MAN kib-rat LÍMMU-ti pa-liḫ DINGIR.[MEŠ GAL.MEŠ] / DUMU maš-šur-PAP-A LÚ.SANGA MAḪ šá si-kip-ti la ma-⸢gi⸣-[ri-šu il-tak-ka-nu-ma] / nab-ni-tum KÙ-tu šá GISKIM-dMAŠ šá za-ʾi-ri-šú i-né-ru-[ma iš-pu-nu a-bu-ba-ni-iš] / i-na šur-rat LUGAL-ti-ia šá i-na GIŠ.GU.ZA LUGAL-ti GAL-[iš…
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 Q004621.
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/Q004621/..
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/Q004621/.
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