fortification of the city is repeated in one of the later king's, Salmānu-ašarēd III, own inscriptions. It was recovered from an old adobe wall three meters...

Shalmaneser (Salmānu-ašarēd) was the name of five kings of Assyria: Shalmaneser I (r. c.  1274–1245 BC) Shalmaneser II (r. 1030–1019 BC) Shalmaneser III (r. 859–824...

Shalmaneser II (Salmānu-ašarēd II, inscribed mdSILIM-ma-nu-MAŠ/SAG, meaning "Being peaceful is foremost") was the king of Assyria in 1030–1019 BC, the...

Ashur-nirari V and Tiglath-Pileser III. Tiglath-Pileser III claimed in his own inscriptions to be a son of Adad-nirari III, but the Assyrian King List designates...

Shalmaneser IV (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform:  Salmānu-ašarēd, meaning "Salmānu is foremost") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 783 BC to his death...

Shalmaneser V (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Salmānu-ašarēd, meaning "Salmānu is foremost"; Biblical Hebrew: שַׁלְמַנְאֶסֶר‎ Šalmanʾeser) was the king of the...

Shalmaneser I (𒁹𒀭𒁲𒈠𒉡𒊕 mdsál-ma-nu-SAG Salmanu-ašared; 1273–1244 BC or 1265–1235 BC) was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian Empire. Son...

and a dearth of contemporary inscriptions. He succeeded his father, Salmānu-ašarēd II, whose twelve-year reign seems to have ended in confusion, as the...

visited the city in the summer of the next year, he renamed it Kar-Salmanu‐ašared ("fortress of Shalmaneser"), settled a substantial number of Assyrians...

used simultaneously. For instance, the Neo-Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III (r. 729–727 BC in Babylon), used all three of the aforementioned titles....