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~800 BCE·Neo-Assyrian

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Adad-nerari III 20

(1') [Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad V, king of Assyria], son of Shalmaneser (III), (who was) also king of Assyria.

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~800 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRIAo

Adad-nerari III 2002

(1) To the god Nabû, the heroic (and) exalted one, the son of Esagil, the wise (and) splendid one, the mighty ruler, the heir of the god Nudimmud — whose command is supreme — the one who is skilled in the arts, the one who oversees all of heaven and netherworld, the expert in everything, the wise one who can write (lit. “holder of the tablet stylus”), the learned one of the scribal art(s), the merciful (and) judicious one (5) who has the power to depopulate (and) repopulate (a country), the beloved of the god Enlil — the lord of lords, whose might has no rival, without whom there can be no…

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