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Shalmaneser III 099
(1) Shalmaneser (III), strong king, king of the world. king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II). strong king. king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II). (who was) also king of Assyria: builder of the wall of the Inner City (Aššur).
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 100
(1) Shalmaneser (III), king of the world, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of the world: belonging to the wall of the Inner City (Aššur).
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 1001
(1') [...] Ashurnasirpal (II) [...] (3') [In] my accession year (and) [in my first regnal year, after I sat on] the throne of (my) royal majesty [in a grandiose manner, ... Simer]ra, Ul[mānia], cities [... I carried off] from them [booty], property, (and) possessions. [(...)] (8') [In my second regnal year, with the support of (the god) Aššur], the great lord, my [lord, I mustered my] chariotry (and) [army (and)] marched [to ... I (besieged and) captured] the city [... I carried off ...] cavalry, [...] their [..., their] oxen [...] (r 1') [...] which Shalman[eser (I), ... who] came before me,…
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 1002
(1') I smashed their cities and [...] their forces [...] I carried off their people and brought (them) to my land [...] the people of the lands Sumbi, Ḫubuškia, [...], Allabria, Namri, Paddira, [...]. (5´) The land Gutium, the warriors of the mountains who [...]. Distant mountains that [...] together they took away [...] the people of the lands Hamath, Ša[..., ...] ... [...]
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Shalmaneser III 1003
Dedicatory inscription naming Ḫallasua as Shalmaneser III's personal lord — one of the few direct attestations of this otherwise obscure deity in the Assyrian royal corpus.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 1004
(1) Palace of Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 1005
(1') [I dedicated this for ...] and my life [(...)]. (2') [(As for) a future ruler who ... The gods Aššur] and Adad [will (then) listen to his] prayers. (3') [(As for) whoever] puts [my inscription in] another place, [... may ..., the gods of] heaven and netherworld, [destroy him].
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 101
(1) Shal[maneser (III)], king of the world, king [of Assyria], son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king [of Assyria], son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), [(who was) also] king of Assyria: builder of the Tabira Gate.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 1011
(1) For the deity [..., ...: ...] strong king, king of the world, king of [Assyria, son of ..., ...], great king, strong king, [king of the world, king of Assyria (...)]. (4) In [my] accession year [..., I crossed the ... River], which was in flood, [...] in ... [...] ... [...]
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 102
(1) Palace of Shalmaneser (III), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of Assyria: facing of the temple of the gods Anu and Adad.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 103
(1) Shalmaneser (III), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, builder of the courtyard of (the god) Aššur.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 104
(1) Palace of Shalmaneser (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of Assyria.
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Shalmaneser III 105
A titulary inscription of Shalmaneser III anchoring three generations of Assyrian kingship — Tukultī-Ninurta II, Ashurnasirpal II, Shalmaneser III — in the legitimising chain of patrilineal succession central to neo-Assyrian royal ideology.
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Shalmaneser III 106
A royal titulary inscription of Shalmaneser III, anchoring his legitimacy through three generations of Assyrian kings and the ideology of world-kingship that drove ninth-century Assyrian imperial expansion.
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Shalmaneser III 107
Royal titulary of Shalmaneser III anchoring his legitimacy in patrilineal descent from Ashurnasirpal II — the standard opening formula through which Assyrian kings projected dynastic continuity in stone and clay.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 108
(1) Shalmaneser (III), appointee of (the god) Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur.
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Shalmaneser III 109
Anchors Shalmaneser III's legitimacy in a three-generation paternal line — Tukultī-Ninurta II, Ashurnasirpal II, himself — the dynastic formula Assyrian kings used to assert continuity of divine kingship.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 110
(1) Palace of Shalmaneser (III), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, king of Assyria.
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Shalmaneser III 111
Records Shalmaneser III's construction of the ziggurat at Kalḫu (Nimrud), anchoring the monumental building programme that transformed his capital into the administrative heart of the expanding Assyrian empire.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 113
(1) [Palace of] Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria, son of] Ashurnasirpal (II), king of Assyria, [son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II)], (who was) also [king of] Assyria: [...] eating, ... [...].
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 114
(1) Palace of Shalmaneser (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also great king, strong king, king of the world, (and) king of Assyria.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 115
(1) [Palace of Shalman]eser (III), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), [king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī]-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria: [...] stone ...
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 116
(1) Palace of Shal[maneser (III), ...], son of Ashurnasirpal (II), great king, [...], son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), great king, [...]: temple of the goddess Ištar of N[ineveh (...)].
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 2001
(1) [For the god] Nergal, the all-powerful (and) exalted one, the splendidly preeminent one, [..., the one who possesses] strength, the perfect one who is replete with [...], the one who dwells in the city Tarbiṣu, the great lord, [my] lord: (4) [(I,) Bēl]-lūballiṭ, the field marshal (and) [chief] herald, [dedicated (this) for] my life so that [my] days might be long [(...)].
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 2002
(1) Monument of Bēlu-lū-balliṭ, the field marshal, the great herald, the administrator of temples, the chief of the extensive troops, (and) the governor of the cities Tabite, Ḫarrān, Ḫuzīrīna, (and) Dūru, the lands Qipāni (and) (I)zalla, (and) the city Balīḫu.
LawMythologyShalmaneser III 2003
(1) (The god) Aššur, the great lord, (and) the god Adad, the great lord: die of Aya-ḫālu, (5) the chief treasurer of Shalmaneser (III) — king of Assyria — the governor of (10) the city Kipšūnu, the lands Qumanî, Meḫrāni, Uqi, (and) Erimi; chief of customs: (16) In his eponymy (and the period allotted by) his die, may the harvest of Assyria prosper well. (20) May he throw his die before the gods Aššur (and) Adad.
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 01
(i 1) To the god Ninurta, the strong lord, the majestic (and) exalted one, the noble one, the warrior of the gods, the one who holds the bond of heaven and netherworld, the commander of all, (i 5) the noble one among the Igīgū gods, the hero, the splendid one whose strength cannot be matched, the foremost one among the Anunnakū gods, the brave one of the gods, the magnificent one whose might is unrivalled, the god Utulu, (i 10) the exalted lord, the rider of the Deluge, the one who like the god Šamaš — the light of the gods — watches (all four) quarters (of the world), the hero of the gods…
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 02
(iii 1') [...] strong [...]. Upon my return march, [(the people of) ...], his royal city, together with [N] (5´) cities in their environs, abandoned [their cities] in the [face of] the awesomeness of the ferocious weapons of (the god) Aššur and my mighty warfare, which, like [...], know no mercy. They entered [...] (10´) their fortified city. I pursued them. I massacred 650 of them (and) (15´) took away from them 30 of their cavalry, 1 chariot, as well as their possessions, property, oxen, (and) sheep. I destroyed, devastated, (and) burned with fire their cities. (iii 17') On my fifth…
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 04
(1') [(By the command of my great divinity it came about that): ... In order to] save his (Marduk-balāssu-iqbi) (own) life, [he entered the city Nēmetti-šarri (and) you pursued him]. You slaughtered his (people) (and) [took from him his] chariots, [cavalry, (and) battle equipment]. You [pressed] the battle right inside his city (and) [carried out a massacre at its city gate. You cut down his orchards, (and then) destroyed, devastated, (and) burned with fire 2]56 cities in [its] environs. (6') With regard to what you wrote to me, as follows: “[I marched] to the city Dēr. [The city Dēr, the…
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 05
(1) For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, his lady: Šamšī-Adad (V), appointee of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Shalmaneser (III), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Ashurnasirpal (II) (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, dedicated (this) for his life.
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 06
(1) For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, his lady: Šamšī-Adad (V), king of Assyria, son of Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria. son of Ashurnasirpal (II), (who was) also king of Assyria, dedicated (this) [for] his life.
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 07
(1) For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, his lady: Šamšī-Adad (V), king of Assyria, dedicated (this) for his life.
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 08
(1) For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, [his] lady: [Šamšī-Adad (V)], son of Shalmaneser (III), son of Ashurnasirpal (II), (dedicated this).
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Šamši-Adad V 09
Asserts Šamšī-Adad V's legitimacy through a three-generation patrilineal chain — Ashurnasirpal II, Shalmaneser III, himself — while claiming the archaic titles 'king of Sumer and Akkad,' anchoring neo-Assyrian imperial ideology in deep Mesopotamian tradition.
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 10
(1) Šamšī-Adad (V), king of Assyria, son of Shal[maneser (III), king of Assyria], son of Ashurnasirpal (II), (who was) also king of Assyria: throne [...]
LawMythologyŠamši-Adad V 2001
(1) Property of Ilu-ittīya, eunuch of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of Assyria, the governor of Baltil (Aššur).
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 01
(1) Palace of Adad-nārārī (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, the king in whose youth (the god) Aššur, king of the Igīgū gods, chose and entrusted him with unrivalled rulership: he conquered and gained dominion over everything from the Great Sea of the Rising Sun to the Great Sea of the Setting Sun; (9b) son of Šamšī-Adad (V), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, unrivalled king, (grand)son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world), who slew all of his enemies and annihilated (them) like a flood, (great) grandson of…
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 02
(1) Adad-nārārī (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world): (4) The boundary that Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria, (and) Šamšī-ilu, the field marshal established between Zakkūru of the land of Hamath and Attār-šumki, son of Abi-rāmu: the city Naḫlasi, together with all its fields, gardens, [and] settlements, is (the property) of Attār-šumki. They divided the Orontes River between them. This is the border. (8b) Adad-nārārī (III),…
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 03
(1) Boundary stone of Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of Assyria, (and of) Semiramis, the palace-woman of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of Assyria, mother of Adad-nārārī (III), strong king, king of Assyria, daughter-in-law of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world). (7b) When Ušpilulume, king of the city Kummuḫu, caused Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria, (and) Semiramis, the palace woman, to cross the Euphrates River, I (Adad-nārārī) fought a pitched battle with them — with Attār-šumki, son of Abi-rāmu, of the city Arpad, together with eight kings…
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 04
(1') ... [...] they drew the yoke of [my lordly majesty. The kings of the wide land Ḫatti], who, in the time of Šamšī-[Adad (V), my father, had become strong and caused] the lords of the Orontes/Euphrates River [to rebel, ...] he heard [of my approach] and Attār-š[umki, ...] trusting [in his own strength, attacked to wage war and strife. I defeated him (and)] took away his camp. [...] the treasure of [his] palace [I carried off ... Attār-šumki], son of A(bī)-rāme, [...] I received, without number. [...] ... [...]
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 05
(1) [Adad-nārārī (III), great king], strong [king], king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), [king of the world, king of Assyria, son of] Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world): (3) I mustered (my) [chariotry, troops] and armed forces and [gave the order to march] to the land Ḫatti. I crossed the Euphrates River in flood. (5) I went down [to the city Paqarḫu]buni. Attār-šumki, [son of Abi-rāmu, together with eight kin]gs of the land Ḫatti, who had rebelled and [trusted in their strength] – the awesome radiance of the god Aššur, my lord, [overwhelmed…
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 06
(1) [To] the god Adad, canal inspector of heaven and netherworld, son of the god Anu, the perfectly splendid hero whose strength is mighty, foremost of all of the Igīgū gods, warrior of the Anunnakū gods, who is bedecked with luminosity, who rides the great storms (and) is clothed with fierce brilliance, who lays low the evil, who bears a holy whip, who makes the lightning flash, the great lord, his lord: (6) [Adad-nār]ārī (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, unrivalled king, marvelous shepherd, the exalted vice-regent whose prayers (and) sacrifices the great…
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 07
(1) To the god Adad, the almighty lord, powerful noble of the gods, son of the god Anu, unique, awesome, supreme, canal inspector of heaven and netherworld, who rains down abundance, who dwells in the city Zamaḫu, the great lord, his lord: (3) Adad-nārārī (III), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world): (4) I mustered my chariotry, troops, (and) armed forces (and) ordered the march to the land Ḫatti. In one year, I made lands Amurru (and) Ḫatti in their (text…
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 08
(1) Palace of Adad-nārārī (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; the king in whose youth (the god) Aššur, king of the Igīgū gods, chose, entrusted him with unrivalled rulership, made his shepherdship pleasing like a healing drug to the people of Assyria, (and) established his throne; the holy priest who unceasingly provides for Ešarra (and) maintains the rites of Ekur, the one who campaigns with the support of (the god) Aššur, his lord, and subdues the rulers of the four quarters (of the world); (5b) the conqueror from Mount Siluna in the east, the lands Namri,…
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 09
(1) [Adad-nārārī (III), great king], strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, [son of Šamš]ī-Adad (V), strong king, king [of the world], king of Assyria, [son of Shal]maneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world): (4) Decree: he entrusted the land Ḫindānu to Pālil-[ēreš], the governor of the land Raṣappa. The state service is under his authority. (6) Whoever lays claim against the provisions of the decree, which is (in favor) of Pālil-ēreš, the governor of the land Raṣappa (and) governor [of the land Ḫindānu], ... [...] his agent. Whoever [... files a] suit before the king…
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 10
(1) For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, his lady: Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), (who was) also king of Assyria, dedicated (this) for his life.
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 1001
(1') No translation warranted. (1'') No translation warranted.
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 11
(1) For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, his lady: Adad-nārārī (III), son of Šamšī-[Adad] (V), dedicated (this) for his life.
LawMythologyAdad-nerari III 12
(1) Palace of Adad-nārārī (III), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of the world, king of Assyria, (and) son of Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria: belonging to the facing [of the temple of (the god) Aššur].
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Adad-nerari III 13
Records Adad-nārārī III completing a palace left unfinished by his father Šamšī-Adad V, attesting the dynastic continuity rhetoric Assyrian kings used to legitimise building projects inherited across reigns.
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