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Shalmaneser III, Kurkh Monolith
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In the eponymate of Dayan-Ashur, on the 14th of Aiaru (Iyyar), I set out from Nineveh . . . I set out from the Euphrates and approached Aleppo. They (i.e., the inhabitants of Aleppo) were afraid of…

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Kurkh, Assyria (Üçtepe, Türkiye)

Date:

853–824 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, War, Calendar, Government, Monarchy, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Yado ba-kol (His Hand Against Every Man)
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A song I engraved on the tombstone (matzevet) of my master, my father, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come. The holy seed shall be its stock (matzavtah; Isaiah 6:13), is it not the…

Contributor:

Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Türkiye)

Date:

Beginning of the 18th Century

Subjects:

Mourning, Community, Burial, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Inscriptions