Shalmaneser III 095
Obverse | ||
11 | [ana dIMIN].BI DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ a-li-li gít-ma-lu-tú ra-ʾi-mu-ut ṣu-ṣe-e mu-⸢tal⸣-li-ku sa-an-ga-ni ḫa-i-ṭu | (1) [For the] Sebetti, the great gods, the noble warriors, the lovers of marshes who march about on mountain paths, the one(s) who survey heaven (and) netherworld, the one(s) who maintain shrines, heed prayers, accept petitions, (and) receive requests, [the one(s) who] fulfil desires, the one(s) who lay low enemies, the compassionate (gods) to whom it is good to pray, the one(s) who dwell in [Nineveh], my [city], the great lords, my lords: |
22 | ⸢AN⸣-e KI-ti mu-ki-nu eš-re-ti še-mu-ú ik-ri-bi TI-ú un-ni-ni ma-ḫi-ru tés-li-ti | |
33 | [mu-šam]-⸢ṣu⸣-ú mal lìb-bi mu-šam-qi-tú za-a-a-ri re-me-nu-tú šá su-pu-šú-nu DÙG.GA a-ši-bu-ut | |
44 | [NINA.KI URU?]-a EN.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-a mdsál-ma-nu-SAG.KAL GAR dBAD ⸢ŠID⸣ aš-šur ⸢DUMU⸣ aš-šur-PAP-IBILA | (4b) Shalmaneser (III), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), [appointee of the god Enlil], vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur. |
55 | [GAR dBAD] ŠID aš-šur DUMU tukul-ti-d⸢MAŠ⸣ GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur ana TI ZI.MEŠ-a GÍD.DA UD.MEŠ-a ⸢šúm⸣-ud ⸢MU⸣.MEŠ-a | (5b) I dedicated (this) to the Sebetti, my lords, for my life so that my days might be long, my years be many, (for) [the well-being of] my seed (and) land, (for) the safekeeping of my vice-regal throne, for the scorching of my enemies, for the destruction of all of my foes, (and) to make [rulers who oppose] me bow down at my feet. |
66 | [SILIM] ⸢NUMUN⸣-a KUR-a PAP GIŠ.AŠ.TI ŠID-⸢ti⸣-a za-i-ri-ia ana qa-me-e kúl-lat ge-ri-a ana ḫu-lu-qi | |
77 | [mal-ki KÚR].MEŠ-a ana GÌR.II.MEŠ-a šuk-nu-⸢še ana⸣ dIMIN.BI EN.MEŠ-a NÍG.BA |
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/Q004700/.