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Shalmaneser III 049 (Q004654)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationShalmaneser III 049
IDQ004654
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates35.4581, 43.2620

English translation

By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] 11–11Shalmaneser, vice-regent of Aššur, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), vice-regent of Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also vice-regent of Aššur:
Obverse [1:5] 22–55At that time the temple of Šarrat-nipḫi, the great mistress, my mistress, which Tukultī-Ninurta (I), son of Shalmaneser (I), my forefather, vice-regent of Aššur, had previously built — (this temple) had become dilapidated and I completely rebuilt it from top to bottom. I deposited my stone inscriptions.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1{m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ ŠID AŠ A aš-šur-PAP-A ŠID AŠ
2A TUKUL-MAŠ ŠID AŠ-ma e-nu-ma E₂ {d}GAŠAN-KUR-ha NIN-ti GAL-ti
3NIN-ti-ia ša₂ GISKIM-{d}MAŠ DUMU {d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ a-bi ŠID aš-šur
4ina pa-na DU₃-uš e-na-ah-ma TA uš-še-šu a-⸢di⸣ gaba-dib-[bi-šu]
5ar-ṣip u₂-šek₂-lil {na₄}NA.RU₂.MEŠ.A-a aš₂-kun

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