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The Nimrud Tablet K.3751, also known as Kalhu Palace Summary Inscription 7 is an inscription on a clay tablet dated c.733 BC from the reign of
Tiglath-Pileser III Tiglath-Pileser III ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , meaning "my trust belongs to the son of Ešarra"), was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 745 BC to his death in 727. One of the most prominent and historically significant Assyrian kings, T ...
(745 to 727 BC), discovered by George Smith in 1873 in
Nimrud Nimrud (; syr, ܢܢܡܪܕ ar, النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city located in Iraq, south of the city of Mosul, and south of the village of Selamiyah ( ar, السلامية), in the Nineveh Plains in Upper Mesopotamia. It was a m ...
. The tablet describes the first 17 years of Tiglath-Pileser III's reign and was likely composed in or shortly after his 17th year. It contains the first known archeological reference to Judah (Yaudaya or KUR.ia-ú-da-a-a).The Pitcher Is Broken: Memorial Essays for Gosta W. Ahlstrom, Steven W. Holloway, Lowell K. Handy, Continuum, 1 May 1995
Quote: "For Israel, the description of the battle of Qarqar in the Kurkh Monolith of Shalmaneser III (mid-ninth century) and for Judah, a Tiglath-pileser III text mentioning (Jeho-) Ahaz of Judah (II Rs 16.7 = K. 3751), dated 734-733, are the earliest published to date."
The text consists of 50 and 35 lines of inscription on the two main pieces. It is the most detailed of Tiglath-Pileser III's summary inscriptions, and it contains the only known complete building account of Tiglath-Pileser III from Nimrud. Though it has the identification code K 3751, where K stands for
Kouyunjik Nineveh (; akk, ; Biblical Hebrew: '; ar, نَيْنَوَىٰ '; syr, ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern ban ...
(usually the Library of Ashurbanipal), it was most probably actually discovered at Nimrud since it was inscribed by the excavators with "S.E. Palace Nimroud".Identifying Biblical Persons In Northwest Semitic Inscriptions, Lawrence J. Mykytiuk
/ref> The most well known excerpt of the text, including the reference to king
Ahaz Ahaz (; gr, Ἄχαζ, Ἀχάζ ''Akhaz''; la, Achaz) an abbreviation of Jehoahaz II (of Judah), "Yahweh has held" (; akk, 𒅀𒌑𒄩𒍣 ''Ya'úḫazi'' 'ia-ú-ḫa-zi'' Hayim Tadmor and Shigeo Yamada, ''The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath ...
(written in the inscription as Jeho-ahaz, his longer name) of Judah, as translated by the
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's RINAP project (The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period), is as below:
"In all of the (foreign) lands that ... .. I received the paymen of Kuštašpi of the land Kummuḫu, Urik(ki) of the land Que, Sibitti-biʾil of the city yblos, Hiram of the land Tyre, Pisīris of the city Carchemish, Ēnīil of the land Hamath, Panammû of the city Samʾal, Tarḫulara of the city Gurgum, Sulu al of the land Melid, Dadīlu of the city Kaska, Ussurme of the land Tabal, Ušḫitti of the city Tuna, Urballâ of the city Tuḫana, Tuḫam i of the city Ištunda, Urimmi of the city Ḫubišna, (rev. 10´) Matan-biʾil (Mattan-Baʾal) of the city Arvad, Sanīpu of the land Bīt-Ammon, Salāmānu of the land Moab, ... .. of ..., ... of ..., Miinti of the land Ashkelon, Jehoahaz of the land Judah, Qauš-malaka of the land Edom, Muṣ... .. of ..., ... of ..., (and) Ḫaūnu of the city Gaza: gold, silver, tin, iron, lead, multi-colored garments, linen garments, the garments of their lands, red-purple wool, .., all kinds ofcostly articles, produce of the sea (and) dry land, commodities of their lands, royal treasures, horses (and) mules broken to the yo e, ..."


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* COS 2, 289, 2.117D (The Context of Scripture. 3 volumes. Eds. William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger. Leiden: Brill, 1997–2002)
RINAP 1 Tiglath-pileser III 47, ex. 01
* http://bibleresources.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/archaeology-series-20tiglath-pileser.html?m=1 * http://rbedrosian.com/Classic/Luck/arab282.htm
The tablet at the British Museum
* http://cdli.ucla.edu/P313082 8th-century BC inscriptions 1873 archaeological discoveries Assyrian inscriptions Kingdom of Judah Library of Ashurbanipal K.3751