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Shalmaneser III 059
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High confidence(45) At the time of Marduk-zākir-šumi, the king of Karduniaš (Babylonia), Marduk-bēl-usāti, his brother, rebelled against him. Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria, marched to the aid of Marduk-zākir-šumi. He struck down Marduk-bēl-usāti with the sword (and) confirmed Marduk-zākir-šumi on his father’s throne. I marched about justly in the wide land Karduniaš (Babylonia). I marched to Babylon, Borsippa, and Cutha. I made sacrifices to the gods in the shrines of the cities of Karduniaš (Babylonia). I went down to Chaldea (and) gained dominion over Chaldea to its full extent. I received tribute from the kings of Chaldea, as far as the sea, (and) imposed my powerful might upon the Sealand.
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/Q004664/
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Transliteration
ina tar-ṣi mdAMAR.UTU-MU-MU MAN KUR.kar-du-ni-áš mdAMAR.UTU-EN-ú-sa-te ŠEŠ-šú it-ti-šú ib-bal-kit mdsál-ma-[nu]-MAŠ MAN KUR aš-šur ana ERIM.TÁḪ-te šá mdAMAR.UTU-MU-MU a-lik mdAMAR.UTU-EN-ú-sa-te / ina GIŠ.TUKUL ú-šam-qit mdAMAR.UTU-MU-MU ina GIŠ.AŠ.TI AD-šú ú-kín ina KUR.⸢kar⸣-du-ni-áš DAGAL-ti me-še-ri-iš lu at-tal-lak ana URU.[KÁ].⸢DINGIR⸣.RA.KI URU.bár-sipa.KI u URU.GÚ.DU₈.ERIM.KI a-lik ana…
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 Q004664.
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/Q004664/..
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/Q004664/.
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