SALMANASSAR IV. _ SALMANASSARV. fencesof Kallu which had been begun by zoor, z8).

his father (Oates/Oates At Nineveh S. is known to have carried out work on the IStar Temple (Ninive" SSrf 4 t7.t); other monumentsof his include an inscribedaltar dedicatedto the Sebettu(Siebengotter"). Like his father, S. erectedat Imgur-Enlil* (Balawdt)a pair of enormous gates of cedar bound with bronze strips bearingrelief decorationand inscriptions (Schachner zooT). Other works include the IStar Temple at Sibaniba* and the Adad Templeat Tall al-HawA. Inscriptions of S. have been found also at Tarbisu*-and Til-Barsip",though without shedding light on what construction projects he carried out in those places.An inscribed statue of S. dedicatedto Adad of Kurba'il*' but found in Fort Shalmaneser could derive from a shrineof that deity in Kalbu (rather than from Kurba'il itself). Inscriptions of Assurbanipal name S. as the original builder of the Sin temple (Ebultrul) in Uarrdno (R. Borger,BI\flA 4z).
A. Fuchs ry98. Die Annalen des Jahres 7r v . C h r . ( = S A A S8 ) . - M . L i v e r a n i z o o 4 : A s syria in the Ninth Century: Continuity or Change?, Fs. A. K. Grayson (= PIHANS ror) z 1 3 - 2 2 6 . - A . M i l l a r d t 9 9 4 : T h e E p o n y m so f the Assyrian Empire, 9rc-6rz BC (= SAAS z). J . O a t e s / D . O a t e s z o o r :N i m r u d . A n A s s y r i a n I m p e r i a lC i t y R e v e a l e d . - J . . R e a d e r y 7 8 : A s E syrian Campaigns, 84o-8t B. C., and the Babylonian Frontier, ZA, 68, z5t-26o. - M. Roaf ry95: The Chief Cupbearer,his daughter, the king, and the eponym official for 86o B.C., NABU 7995194.- A. Schachner zooT: Bilder e i n e s \ ( e l t r e i c h s ( = S u b a r t uz o ) . - S . Y a m a d a zooo: The Construction of the Assyrian Empire: A Historical Study of the Inscriptions of Shalm a n e s e rI I I ( 8 5 9 - 8 2 4 B . C . )R e l a t i n gt o H i s C a m paigns in the West (= CHANE :). H. D. Baker

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(M i l l a rd t9 94,3S ). The E ponymC hroni cl e entry for 772 refersto the number of years (broken)completedby S., king of Assyria (Millard 1994, 3gl. Fewconcretedetailsconcerningthe reign of S. are preserved. Two of his highestofficials figure prominently in the extant contemporary inscriptions,acting with a considerabledegreeof independence. stele A found near Maraq, written at the end of his reign in 723, relatesthat the Commanderin-Chief, SamSi-ilu",marched to Damascus,whereuponS. received precioustribute from its king Hadianu", including his daughter together with a rich dowry. On returning from Damascus set up the said S. steleas a boundary marker on behalfof U5pilulume, the king of Kummulru" (RIMA 3 A.o.ro5.r). A secondstele,from Thll Abta on the Wadi Tharthar, was inscribedin the name of Bel-Harran-belu-usur't', originally stated to be the palace herald of S. However. S.'s name was later effaced and replaced by that of Tiglath-pileser(III). The inscription commemorates founding of the the city Dur-Bel-Harran-bclu-u$ur'r', acr an attributed - unusually- to the palaceherald himselfrather than to the king (RIMA 3 A. o .ro 5 .z ). A nother pal ace heral d of S ., (Blli5ir"), Bel-le5ir was eponymofficial for the year lZ8 (lvltllardry94,9o).
A tablet which contains decrees from various kings' reigns includes details (mostly broken away) of items due from various members of the palace staff as laid down by S. (SAA rz, 77 i r'-ro'). Finally, a 'Letter to the God' may have been written early in the reign of S., in 78o, to commemorate the aforementioned campaign against Urartu (RIMA 3 A.o.lo5.3); however, the attribution of the text is u n c e r t a i n( s e eA . K . G r a y s o n ,R I M A t p . ; - 4 3 i r . A . M i l l a r d r y 9 4 : T h e E p o n y m so f t h e A s s y r i a n Empire,9to-6tz BC (= SAAS z). H. D. Baker

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aSard), king of Assyria,782-773. -dSILIM-ma-nu-MAS. S., the son of his predecessor Adad-nrdrI III (Adadnirdri III.*) and brother of his successor A55urdan*' III, ruled for ten years accordingto the Assyrian King List (Konigslisten"und Chroniken p.M4 S Zl). He was the eponym official for his first full regnal year, 78r, when a campaignto Urartu took place

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Salmanassar (Shalmaneser, V. Salmdnuaiard), king of Assyria and Babylonia 727-722. ITritten Sul-man-a-id-red(Bab. -ma-nu-MA S/ -S ILtvC h ro n .)/ - dS ILIA 4 man-MAS.S.,son and successor Tiglathof pileser" III, ruled for five years according to the Assyrian King List (Konigslisten" und Chronikenp.aLS S ZZ). The Eponym