Shalmaneser III 044 (Q004649)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shalmaneser III 044 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004649 |
| 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 [0:3] 11–33 | Shalmaneser, 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: |
| Obverse [3:9] 44–99 | For his life and the well-being of his city, the wall and its gates which previously (other) kings who preceded me had built — they (the wall and gates) had become dilapidated and I completely rebuilt them (lit. “it”) from top to bottom. My clay cones I deposited. |
| Obverse [9:15] 1010–1515 | A later prince, when the wall and its gates become dilapidated, must rebuild (them). (Then) Aššur and the god Adad will listen to his prayers. May he return my clay cone to its place. |
| Obverse [15:18] 1616–1818 | Month of Šakināte, fourteenth day, eponymy of the twenty-third year of my reign, of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. |
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 | {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-SAG ENSI₂ {d}a-šur | |
| 2 | DUMU {m}aš-šur-PAP-IBILA ENSI₂ {d}a-šur | |
| 3 | DUMU {giš}tukul-ti-{d}MAŠ ENSI₂ {d}a-šur-ma | |
| 4 | a-na ba-la₂-ṭi₂-šu u₃ ša-la₂-am a-li-šu | |
| 5 | BAD₃{ki} u₃ KA₂.GAL.MEŠ-šu ša₂ ina pa-an MAN.MEŠ-ni | |
| 6 | a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-uš | |
| 7 | e-na-ah-ma a-na si-hi-ir-ti-šu | |
| 8 | iš-du us₂-si-šu a-di₂ ša-ap-ti e-pu-uš | |
| 9 | u₃ {na₄}zi-iq-qa-ti aš₂-ku-un | |
| 10 | ru-ba-u₂ ur-ku-u₂ | |
| 11 | e-nu-me BAD₃{ki} u₃ KA₂.GAL.MEŠ-šu | |
| 12 | e-nu-hu-u₂ e-pu-uš | |
| 13 | aš-šur u₃ {d}IŠKUR ik-ri-bi-šu₂ | |
| 14 | i-ša-me-u₂ {na₄}zi-iq-qa-te | |
| 15 | a-na aš₂-ri-šu lu-ter{er} | |
| 16 | {iti}ša-ki-na-a-te UD.14.KAM₂.MEŠ | |
| 17 | li-mu MU.23.KAM₂ BALA.MEŠ-ia | |
| 18 | ša₂ {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KUR ⸢aš⸣-[šur] |
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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