Shalmaneser IV 3 (Q006689)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Shalmaneser IV 3 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006689 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the god Aššur, father of] the gods, [great lord, who dwells in Eḫursaggalkurkurra], his great temple, may it be [extremely] good! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | [To the gods of destinies (and)] the goddesses, [who dwell in Eḫursaggalkurkurr]a, their great temple, may it be [extremely] good! |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | [To the gods of destinies (and)] the goddesses, [who dwell in the city Aššur] at their great [temple], may it be [extremely] good! |
| Obverse [9:12] o 1010–o 1212 | It is [extremely] good with [Shalmaneser/Aššur-dān], holy priest, [the servant who worships your great divinity], and with [his] military forces. |
| Obverse [12:15] o 1313–o 1515 | No translation possible. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [One charioteer, two] cavalrymen, [three light troops] were killed. [The orator (lišān rēšēti), Pān]-Aššur-lāmur [...] had (the bodies) brought [into the presence of the god Aššur, my lord]. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [In the eponymy of Šamšī-ilu], the field marshal, they (the bodies) were presented. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | [...] DINGIR.MEŠ | |
| 2 | [...] e₂-kur-ri-šu₂ GAL-e | |
| 3 | [...] lu-u₂ šul₃-mu | |
| 4 | [...] {d}INANNA.MEŠ | |
| 5 | [... e₂-hur-sal-gal-kur-kur]-⸢ra⸣ e₂-kur-ri-šu₂-nu GAL-e | |
| 6 | [...] lu-u₂ šul₃-mu | |
| 7 | [...] {d}INANNA.MEŠ | |
| 8 | [...]-šu₂-nu GAL-e | |
| 9 | [...] lu-u₂ šul₃-mu | |
| 10 | [...] ⸢SANGA⸣ el-⸢li⸣ | |
| 11 | [...] u KARAŠ-[šu₂] | |
| 12 | [...] šul₃-[mu] | |
| 13 | [...] e-te-[x] | |
| 14 | [...] x-šu ad-x-[x] | |
| 15 | [...] x x [x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢ša⸣ pet-hal-li | |
| 2' | [...] de-e-ku | |
| 3' | [... {m}IGI]-{d}aš-šur-la-mur | |
| 4' | [...] u₂-še-bi-la | |
| 5' | [... {lu₂]}tur-ta-ni na-ṣu | |
Sources & licences
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