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A Fragmentary Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser III from Nimrud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

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Most of the inscriptions relating the events of the reign of Tiglath-pileser III, king of Assyria 745–727 B.C., have been found in the ruins of Nimrud (Kalḫu). The latest of these finds are two fragments, which have been subsequently joined to form the lower left part, or about a fifth, of one large baked clay tablet (see Pl. XXIII). The first of these fragments (ND 4301) was found during the 1955 excavation of the Nabu Temple. It lay in the rubbish 80 cm. above the centre of the stone floor of the Tašmetum cella, not far from the cylinder seal ND. 4179 which was in the S.W. corner (Sq. C4. NTV). The other fragment, ND. 4305, was found in surface soil cleared from the west end of a trench (E-W at H.6). Even when joined these fragments do not afford a single complete line and the broken nature of all fifty-eight lines precludes the full understanding of the text and prevents more than a tentative treatment especially in the translation and comment.

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IRAQ , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1956 , pp. 117 - 129
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1956

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page 117 note 1 Two further small fragments (ND 5419 and 5422) found in 1956 are in Baghdad but will be published as soon as possible.

page 117 note 2 The Tablet when complete measured c. 13 × 9 inches, i.e., it was the same size as K 3751.

page 117 note 3 9 × 8 cm.; parts of 18 + 9 11.

page 117 note 4 5 × 9·5 cm.; parts of 24 + 18 11.

page 117 note 5 2 Kings xv, 7·29; 1 Chronicles v, 6. 26; 2 Chronicles xxviii, 20.

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page 117 note 9 cf. Rost. I, III. The squeezes referred to may well have been the work of Layard; according to his notes he made “paper impressions” of some inscriptions for comparative purposes.

page 117 note 10 e.g. B.M. 118936 see p. 118, n. 3.

page 117 note 11 Schrader, E., Zur Kritik der Inschriften Tiglath Pileser's II, des Asarhaddon und des Asurbanipal. (Berlin, 1879Google Scholar.)

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page 118 note 4 i.e. it includes the attack on Ṭurušpa in 735 B.C. Rost considers a date of 731 B.C. for this text (Plat. I) not impossible, (op. cit. II, p. III).

page 118 note 5 Smith, G., Assyrian Discoveries, 74Google Scholar. The find-place is marked in Smith's writing on the tablet itself.

page 118 note 6 II R, 67 (cf. Rost, op. cit. II, 54–77). It includes the battle against Ukin-zēr in 731 B.C. (11. 2jff). DT 3 is a partial duplicate.

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page 118 note 8 ibid, p. 23, 11. 20–27 (probably the Damascus region).

page 118 note 9 Smith, G., Assyrian Discoveries, 241fGoogle Scholar. Original in situ, copy made after squeezes now lost.

page 119 note 1 The abbreviations used here, and in the notes, follow Rost, op. cit. pp. i–iv (Pl. (or Plat.) =Platteninschrift; Kl. = Kleinen Inschriften).

page 119 note 2 The use of these terms, following Schräder, is open to objection since this “Tontafelinschrift” is closely paralleled by “Plattenschriften” I and II; see also p. 118 n. 3.

page 119 note 3 see p. 127.

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page 120 note 2 Plat. I, 28.

page 120 note 3 See p. 127.

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page 120 note 6 See p. 128.

page 120 note 7 See p. 128.

page 120 note 8 Rost, op. cit., I. p. 78 (Kl. I.7.).

page 120 note 9 See p. 118, n. 7.

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page 121 note 6 See p. 129.

page 121 note 7 cf. Rost, op. cit. II, 80 (11. 17–18); cf. 2 Kings xv, 30.

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page 122 note 1 Nimrud letter XVI (Iraq XVII, Pt. 2, pp. 134–5, 152)Google Scholar.

page 122 note 2 e.g. Rost, op. cit. I, 54 (1. 4); cf. ibid, I, 72 (1. 11).

page 122 note 3 Probably a duplicate of K 3751 r. 17–36.

page 125 note 1 cf. 1. r. 15′.