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===== Tiglath-pileser III =====

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==== Introductory remarks ====

In the annals of Tiglath-Pileser III, the //palû// is counted from the accession year not from the first full year of this reign as is the case in the annals of Sargon II and Salmanasar III.

==== palûs of Tiglath-pileser III ====


| **Year** | **Year number ** | **//pâlu//** **dating** | **Major event(s)** | **[[List of Neo Assyrian limmu officials|Eponym]]** |
| 745 | Acc. year | //palû// 1 | Campaign in northern and eastern Babylonia ; Tiglath-phalazar III ascends the throne | Nabû-bēlu-uṣur |
| 744 | 1 | //palû// 2 | Campaign against Media | Bēl-dān, 10 //šanāti// [Aššur-nērārī] |
| 743 | 2 | //palû// 3 | Victory over the king of Urartu and his anatolian allies | Tukultī-apil-Ešarra (III) |
| 742 | 3 | //palû// 4 | Arpad besieged | Nabû-daʾʾinanni |
| 741 | 4 | //palû// 5 | Arpad besieged | Bēl-Ḫarrān-bēlu-uṣur |
| 740 | 5 | //palû// 6 | Victory over Arpad | Nabû-ēṭiranni |
| 739 | 6 | //palû// 7 | Victory over Unqi and Hatarikka | Sîn-taklāk |
| 738 | 7 | //palû// 8 | Campaign against Media | Adad-bēlu-kaʾʾin |
| 737 | 8 | //palû// 9 | Campaign to the Urartian border. | Bēl-ēmuranni |
| 736 | 9 | //palû// 10 | Campaign against Media | Ninurta-ilāya |
| 735 | 10 | //palû// 11 | Campaign against Urartu | Aššur-šallimanni |
| 734 | 11 | //palû// 12 | Campaign to Philistia and Egyptian border | Bēl-dān |
| 733 | 12 | //palû// 13 | Siege of Damascus, Campaigns against Arabs and to Gilead and Galilee | Aššur-daʾʾinanni |
| 732 | 13 | //palû// 14 | Victory over Damascus | Nabû-bēlu-uṣur |
| 731 | 14 | //palû// 15 | Victory over Chaldean tribes and siege of Šapīya | Nergal-uballiṭ |
| 730 | 15 | //palû// 16 | - | Bēl-lū-dāri |
| 729 | 16 | //palû// 17 | Victory over Mukīn-zēri and conquest of Babylon | Lipḫur-ilu |
| 728 | 17 | //palû// 18 | Tiglath-phalasar III participates in the //akītu//-festival in Babylon | Dūr-Aššur |
| 727 | 18 | //palû// 19 | Death of Tiglath-Phalasar III | Bēl-Ḫarrān-bēlu-uṣur |

 

From Yamada S., “Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III: Chronographic-Literary Styles and the King’s Portrait”, //Orient// 49, 2014, p. 32-33.

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