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Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC)
A. Kirk Grayson · 1996
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Document and modern access
- Type
- critical inscription corpus
- Publication
- University of Toronto Press
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Aramean polities and communities — date assertioninforms · contextualizes · western campaign inscriptions
Provides external Assyrian attestations of Syrian polities.
- date assertion Assyrian recovery and transition toward renewed first-millennium expansion — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · contextualizes · early first-millennium Assyrian royal sequence
Provides primary-text corpus context.
- event Assyrian recovery and transition toward renewed first-millennium expansionEvidence confidence: highinforms · contextualizes · early first-millennium Assyrian royal sequence
Provides primary-text corpus context.
- entity Aramean polities and communitiesEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · contextualizes · western campaign inscriptions
Provides external Assyrian attestations of Syrian polities.
- date assertion Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III tribute inscriptions
Provides critical edition.
- entity AramEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Assyrian western records
Provides external polity labels.
- date assertion Aram — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Assyrian western records
Provides external polity labels.
- entity Neo-Assyrian imperial actorsEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III inscriptions, including the Kurkh Monolith and Black Obelisk records
Provides critical editions of royal inscriptions and imperial claims.
- date assertion Neo-Assyrian imperial actors — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III inscriptions, including the Kurkh Monolith and Black Obelisk records
Provides critical editions of royal inscriptions and imperial claims.
- event Battle of Qarqar and Levantine coalition against Shalmaneser IIIEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · RIMA 3 A.0.102.2, Qarqar passage
Critical text edition.
- event Jehu's tribute to Shalmaneser IIIEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III tribute texts
Critical edition.
- event Neo-Assyrian westward military and diplomatic pressure reaches Levantine politiesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III western campaigns
Primary corpus.
- relationship Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser III — attests — Kingdom of IsraelEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary evidence · Qarqar passage
Direct attestation.
- relationship Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser III — documents — Battle of Qarqar and Levantine coalition against Shalmaneser IIIEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary evidence · A.0.102.2
Direct documentation.
- date assertion Battle of Qarqar and Levantine coalition against Shalmaneser III — date assertionEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · RIMA 3 A.0.102.2, Qarqar passage
Critical text edition.
- date assertion Jehu's tribute to Shalmaneser III — date assertionEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III tribute texts
Critical edition.
- date assertion Neo-Assyrian westward military and diplomatic pressure reaches Levantine polities — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III western campaigns
Primary corpus.
- claim The Kurkh Monolith securely names Ahab the Israelite at Qarqar, while coalition troop totals and Assyrian victory claims are rhetorically shaped.Evidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary evidence · RIMA 3 A.0.102.2
Critical edition.
- claim The Black Obelisk provides direct external evidence that Jehu's Israel paid tribute to Shalmaneser III.Evidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III inscriptions
Critical text context.
- entity Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser IIIEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · RIMA 3 A.0.102.2, Qarqar passage
Critical edition and translation.
- date assertion Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser III — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · RIMA 3 A.0.102.2, Qarqar passage
Critical edition and translation.
- entity Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser IIIEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Shalmaneser III tribute inscriptions
Provides critical edition.