Chapter 07 · 911 – 609 BCE
Neo-Assyrian
Empire, library, terror, scholarship.
~850 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Shalmaneser III 079
“(1) Payment of Adīnu of (Bīt-)Dakkūri (lit. “son of Dakkūru”), of Chaldea.”
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/Q004684/
Read the full tablet entry~850 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Shalmaneser III 080
“(1) I captured the city Arnê, which belonged to A(b)-rāmu (Abi-rāmu).”
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/Q004685/
Read the full tablet entry~850 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Shalmaneser III 081
“(1) I captured the city [...]agdâ, which belonged to A(b)-rāmu (Abi-rāmu) of (Bīt-A)gūsi (lit. “son of Gūsu”).”
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/Q004686/
Read the full tablet entry~850 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Shalmaneser III 082
“(1) I captured Aštammaku, a royal city of Irḫulena of the land Hamath, together with eighty-six (other) cities.”
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/Q004687/
Read the full tablet entry~850 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Shalmaneser III 083
“(1) [I erected] a statue of my royal majesty.”
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/Q004688/
Read the full tablet entry~850 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Shalmaneser III 084
“(1) I received the payment of the cities of the people of Tyre (and) Sidon: silver, gold, tin, bronze, wool, lapis lazuli, (and) carnelian.”
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/Q004689/
Read the full tablet entry~850 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Shalmaneser III 085
“(1) Battle against the city Baqānu of Chaldea.”
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/Q004690/
Read the full tablet entry~850 BCE · Reconstructed composite — see ORACC entry for manuscript witnesses
Shalmaneser III 086
“(1) Battle against the land of the people of the land Hamath.”
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/Q004691/
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