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Shalmaneser III 050 (Q004655)

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

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DesignationShalmaneser III 050
IDQ004655
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 [0:2] 11–22Palace of Shalmaneser, appointee of the god Enlil, 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 [2:7] 33–77At that time the temple of the goddess Šarrat-nipḫi, my mistress, which Tukultī-Ninurta (I), my ancestor, vice-regent of Aššur, had previously built — (this temple) had become dilapidated and I, Shalmaneser, built (it) anew.

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)
1E₂.GAL {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ
2GAR {d}BAD ŠID aš-šur A {m}aš-šur-PAP-A ŠID aš-šur
3A {m}TUKUL-MAŠ ŠID aš-šur-ma e-nu-ma
4E₂ {d}GAŠAN-KUR-ha NIN-a ša {m}TUKUL-MAŠ
5a-bi ŠID aš-šur ina pa-an DU₃-uš
6e-na-ah-ma {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ
7a-na eš-šu₂-te u₂-⸢di⸣-[iš]

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