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Shalmaneser III 051 (Q004656)

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

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DesignationShalmaneser III 051
IDQ004656
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
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] 11–22Shalmaneser, king of the universe, king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the universe, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), (who was) also king of Assyria:
Obverse [2:6] 33–66At that time the temple of Šarrat-nipḫi, my mistress, which Tukultī-Ninurta (I), my ancestor, had previously built — (this temple) had become dilapidated and I, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 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)
1{⸢m⸣}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN ŠU₂ MAN ⸢KUR AŠ⸣
2A {⸢d⸣}a-šur-PAP-A MAN ŠU₂ A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN KUR AŠ-⸢ma⸣
3⸢e⸣-[nu]-ma E₂ {d}GAŠAN-KUR-⸢ha NIN⸣-a ša
4{m}TUKUL-MAŠ a-bi ina ⸢pa-an⸣
5⸢e⸣-pu-šu₂ e-na-ah-⸢ma⸣ [(...)]
6⸢sal₂⸣-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KUR AŠ ana eš-šu₂-ti u₂-diš

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