Shalmaneser III 018 (Q004623)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shalmaneser III 018 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004623 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Qalat Sherqat (Assur) |
| Coordinates | 35.4581, 43.2620 |
English translation
By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] 1'1'–4'4' | No translation warranted. |
| Obverse [4:14] 5'5'–14'14' | [I marched] to the land Akkad [... (and) surrounded] the city Gann[anāte ...] (Marduk-bēl)-uṣāti [...] with him ... [...] I killed/defeated (Marduk-bēl)-uṣāti [as well as the traitorous troops] who were with him. [I marched to Babylon] and Borsippa [and made sacrifices] before my gods. [I went down to Chaldea and approached] the city Baqānu, a fortress of A[dinu], the man of Bīt-Dakkuri. I imposed upon him [...] ... |
| Obverse [14:18] 15'15'–18'18' | [At that time] the temple of Aššur, my lord — [its] walls [had become dilapidated. I rebuilt them] entirely with ... and deposited my clay inscription. |
| Obverse [18:22] 19'19'–22'22' | Month Abu (ex. 1 Bēl[at-ekalli]), twentieth day, eponymy of Iḫtadī-libbušu, governor of the land Nairi, [the city Andi], the city Si[nabu, the city Suḫna, the city Mallānu, (and) the land Alzu]. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | a-[...] | |
| 2' | ša₂ [...] | |
| 3' | ta-ni-[it-ti ...] | |
| 4' | u₃ u₄-⸢mi⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | a-na KUR URI{[ki} ...] | |
| 6' | {uru}ga-⸢na⸣-[na-te ...] | |
| 7' | {m}u₂-sa-⸢tu⸣ [...] | |
| 8' | KI-šu₂ lu LU x [...] | |
| 9' | {m}u₂-sa-tu x [...] | |
| 10' | ša KI-šu₂ a-duk-šu₂ [...] | |
| 11' | u₃ {uru}bar₂-sipa{⸢ki⸣} [...] | |
| 12' | a-na IGI DINGIR.MEŠ-ni-ia [...] | |
| 13' | {uru}ba-qa-a-nu ⸢bir⸣-ti-šu₂ ša₂ {m}a-[di-ni] | |
| 14' | A da-ku-u₂-ri [...]-x-nu | |
| 15' | da-aš₂-nu e-mi₃-⸢su⸣ [...] | |
| 16' | E₂ aš-šur EN-ia E₂.SIG₄.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | |
| 17' | a-na si-hir₂-ti-šu₂-nu i-na si-[...] | |
| 18' | u₃ te-me-ni-ia aš₂-kun | |
| 19' | {iti}NE | |
| 20' | UD.20.KAM₂ li-mu | |
| 21' | {m}ih-ta-di-li-bu-šu GAR {kur}na-i-ri {[uru}an-di] | |
| 22' | {uru}si-[na-bu ...] |
Sources & licences
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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