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Shalmaneser III 055 (Q004660)

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

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DesignationShalmaneser III 055
IDQ004660
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 [0:3] 11–33Shalmaneser, 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 the god Aššur:
Obverse [3:6] 44–66I made with skill a gold (statue of) the god Armada of the temple of Aššur, my lord, which had never been previously made.

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 GAR {d}BAD
2ŠID aš-šur DUMU aš-šur-PAP-A ŠID aš-šur
3DUMU TUKUL-MAŠ ŠID {d}a-šur-ma
4{d}ar-ma-da ša E₂ aš-šur EN-ia
5ša₂ ina pa-na la ep-šu
6ina hi-sa-at ŠA₃-ia ša KU₃.GI e-pu-šu

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