A Fragmentary Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser III from Nimrud

Bibliographic Data

ID24075331
AuthorsD J Wiseman (corresponding author)
Year1956
Volume18
Issue2
Pages117
Publication date1956-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIraq (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-0889 • E-ISSN: 2053-4744
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/4199606
OpenAlexW2315263385
LanguageEN
Citations received15

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.

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Clearance · Composite material · Hoard · Politics · Reign · Trench · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Geology · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Materials Science