The manipulative counting of the Euphrates crossings in the later inscriptions of Shalmaneser III

From: Journal of Cuneiform Studies | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Shalmaneser III (859-824) undertook his first campaign to the lands west of the Euphrates river in his first regnal year (858). Thereafter, the king repeatedly crossed the Euphrates to subjugate states in Syria and southeastern Anatolia, as meticulously noted in his annalistic inscriptions.l The extant versions of Shalmaneser's annals contain narrations of the king's campaigns up to and including the first, second, sixth, ninth, sixteenth, eighteenth, twentieth and thirty-third regnal year, respectively.2 In the early annalistic texts, the account of each year is dated mainly by the name of ...

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