Shalmaneser III 013
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o 1'1' | (1') [I captured] the cities of Arrā[mu of the land Urarṭu, as far as the source] of the Tigris River (and) as far as the source [of the Euphrates River]. | |
o 2'2' | ša ÍD.ḪAL.ḪAL a-di ⸢SAG⸣ [e-ni ša ÍD.A.RAD ak-šud ina 16 BALA.MEŠ-ia KUR.kúl-la-ar at-ta-bal-kát] | (2'b) [In my sixteenth regnal year, I crossed Mount Kullar (and)] conquered the lands Mannea (Munna), Allabr[ia, Parsua, (Bit-)Abdadāni, (Bīt-)Ḫamban, Namri], (and) Tupliyaš (Tugliyaš). |
o 3'3' | KUR.mu-un-na KUR.al-lab-⸢ri⸣-[a KUR.par-su-a KUR.ab-da-da-nu KUR.ḫa-ban KUR.na-mur] | |
o 4'4' | KUR.tug-li-ia-áš qa-a-ti [ik-šud ina 17 BALA.MEŠ-ia ÍD.A.RAD e-bir ma-da-tu] | (4'b) [In my seventeenth regnal year, I crossed the Euphrates River (and) received the payment] of the kings of the land Ḫatti. [I ascended Mount Amanus], cut down [beams of] cedar, [(and) brought (them)] to my city, [Aššur. On my return march] from Mount Amanus, [I slew] sixty-[three perfect specimens of strong, horned, wild bulls by the city Zuqarri, which is on the] opposite bank of the Euphrates River, (and) [ I captured four alive]. |
o 5'5' | ša MAN.MEŠ-ni ša KUR.ḫat-ti ⸢am⸣-[ḫur a-na KUR-e KUR.ḫa-ma-ni e-li GIŠ.gu-šur.MEŠ] | |
o 6'6' | [GIŠ].e-re-ni ⸢a-ki-si a-na URU-ia⸣ [aš-šur ub-la ina ta-ia-ar-ti-ia] | |
o 7'7' | [ša] ⸢TA⸣ KUR.ḫa-ma-a-ni 1 ⸢šu-ši⸣ [3 GU₄.AM.MEŠ dan-nu-te šu-ut qar-ni gít-ma-lu-te ina URU.zu-qar-ri] | |
o 8'8' | [ša GÌR].⸢II⸣ am-⸢ma⸣-a-te ⸢šá ÍD⸣.A.[RAD a-duk 4 TI.LA.MEŠ ina qa-te] | |
o 9'9' | [aṣ-bat ina] ⸢18⸣ BALA.⸢MEŠ-ia⸣ [...] | (9'b) [In] my eighteenth regnal year, [...] |
o 10'10' | [...] x x x [...] | |
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r 1'1' | [x] x x [...] | (r 1') [I fashioned two royal statues of myself, inscribed thereon] my mighty [praises ...] (Thus) I prevailed over the land (lit. “city”) Que (Qau) [with might and main]. |
r 2'2' | kiš-šú-ti-ia [...] | |
r 3'3' | (traces) [...] | |
r 4'4' | ⸢UGU URU?.qa-ú-e al-ta⸣-[kan ...] | (r 4'b) [In my twenty-first regnal year, ...] ... Moving on [from ... I went down to ...] the cities of Hazael [of Damascus ...] ... [... By means of tunnels], battering-rams, (and) siege towers, I conquered the cities [...], Danabu, Mala[ḫu, ...]. I destroyed, demolished [(and) burned with fire th(os)e cities ...] |
r 5'5' | x x x x x x x [...] | |
r 6'6' | ⸢at-tu-muš⸣ x x x [...] | |
r 7'7' | URU.MEŠ-ni šá mḫa-<za>-aʾ-⸢DINGIR⸣ [...] | |
r 8'8' | x x x x x x [...] | |
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l.e. 1'1' | (l.e. 1') [In the future], may [a future ruler ...] hear [of my heroic deeds (and)] recount my praiseworthy power Just as I anointed with oil, made sacrifices, (and) [returned] the commemorative inscriptions of former kings to their places, | |
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Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) (RIMA 3), Toronto, 1996. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2016) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q004618/.