Third Year of Neriglissar (ABC 6)
Assyrian relief from Nimrod
(Louvre, Paris)
For a very brief introduction to the literary genre of chronicles, go here. The translation on this webpage was adapted from A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975) and Jean-Jacques Glassner, Mesopotamian Chronicles (Atlanta, 2004).
This chronicle, like Chronicles
2, 4,
9,
and 15,
is inscribed on a tablet, BM 25124 (98-2-16, 178), which has the shape
of a Neo-Babylonian business tablet. It measures 58 mm wide and 46 mm long.
There are only minor lacunae in the tablet.
Translation
| 1 The third year (557/556): on the Nth day of the month [...], Appuašu, the king of Pirindu, |
| 2 mustered a large army and set out[3] to plunder and sack |
| 3 Syria. Neriglissar |
| 4 mustered his army and marched to Hume [Cilicia] to oppose him. |
| 5 Before his arrival Appuašu placed[7] |
| 6 the army and cavalry which he had organized |
| 7 in a mountain valley ambush. |
| 8 When Neriglissar reached them he inflicted a defeat upon them |
| 9 and conquered the large army. The army and numerous horses |
| 10 he captured. He pursued[12] Appuašu |
| 11 for a distance of fifteen double-hours and marched through difficult mountains, where men must walk in single file, |
| 12 as far as Ura, the royal city. |
| 13 He captured him, seized Ura, and sacked it. |
| 14 [Erasure] |
| 15-17 When he had marched for a distance of six double hours through rough mountains and difficult passes, from Ura to Kirši -his forefather's royal city- |
| 18 he captured Kirši, the mighty city, his royal metropolis. |
| 19 He burnt its wall, its palace, and its people. |
| 20 Pitusu, a land in the midst of the ocean, |
| 21 and six thousand combat troops who were stationed in it |
| 22 he captured by means of boats. He destroyed their city |
| 23 and captured their people. In that same year from the pass |
| 24 of Sallune to the border |
| 25 of Lydia he started fires. Appuašu |
| 26 fled, so he did not capture him. In the month of Addaru the king of Akkad |
| 27 went home. |
Babylonian Chronicles
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Babylonian Chronicles