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Shalmaneser III 019
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For the god Ninurta, the strong (and) almighty one, the exalted one, the foremost one among the gods, the splendid (and) perfect warrior whose attack in battle is unequalled, [the who resides in] the city Kalḫu, the great lord, [my] lord: (6b) Shalmaneser (III), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, [son of Ashurnasir]pal (II), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Tukul[tī-Ninurta (II) (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur]. (8b) No translation possible. (r 1) [I] brought about their defeat (and) deprived them of their chariots (and) cavalry. Upon my return march, I ascended Mount Amanus. [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] ...
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/Q004624/
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Transliteration
ana dMAŠ geš-ri / dan-dan-ni MAḪ SAG.KAL / DINGIR.MEŠ qar-⸢di⸣ šar-ḫu gít-ma-lu / ⸢šá⸣ ina MÈ la iš-šá-na-nu* / ti-bu-šú [a-šib] URU.kal-ḫi / EN GAL EN-[ia m]dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ / ŠID aš-šur [A aš-šur-PAP]-A ŠID aš-⸢šur⸣ / A TUKUL-[ti-dMAŠ ...] x x [x].MEŠ / x x x [x] A x / x [...] / [BAD₅].BAD₅-šú-[nu áš]-⸢kun⸣ / GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ-šú-nu / pet-ḫal-la-šú-nu / e-kim-šú-nu / ina ta-ia-ar-ti-ia / a-na KUR-e KUR.ḫa-ma-⸢ni⸣ / e-⸢li⸣ [x].MEŠ? x x x / x x [...] x / x x [...] x / KUR.x [...] x x
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 Q004624.
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/Q004624/..
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/Q004624/.
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