The Nimrud Slab

Nimrud Slab or Kalah Orthostat (797 BCE): inscription by Assyrian king Adad-Nirari III, in which he describes his successes in the west.

Adad-Nirari III

In the first half of the ninth century BCE, the Assyrian kings Aššurnasirpal II (r.883-859) and Šalmaneser III (r. 858-824) had expanded the Assyrian Empire across the Euphrates to the Mediterranean Sea, adding what is now Syria. After that, there had been a crisis and the expansion had been interrupted, but Šalmaneser’s grandson Adad-Nirari III (r.811-783) resumed the western offensive.

Among the evidence are the Antakya Stela, the