The Sultantepe Tablets (continued)VIII. Shalmaneser In Ararat

Abstract

Among the Sultantepe tablets one attracts attention by its unexpectedness. It is, to quote O. R. Gurney's description, an account of the campaign of Shalmaneser III against Urartu [the Biblical Ararat], preceded by a speech in which reference is made to previous campaigns against Bit-Adini, Til-Barsip and the Kings of the Hittites. The Sultantepe Tablets, I, p. 4, on No. 43. Accounts of the campaigns undertaken by Assyrian kings did not ordinarily circulate along with epics, hymns, incantations and the other categories of texts which went to make up a library in an Assyrian town. Such historical accounts were incorporated in inscriptions composed to glorify the king concerned, and however busy scribes may have been multiplying copies during the reign of a particular king, the coming to power of his successor resulted in an immediate and total neglect of these inscriptions.

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