Nimrud Tablet K.3751


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, discovered by George Smith in 1873 in Nimrud. 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.
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 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, it was most probably actually discovered at Nimrud since it was inscribed by the excavators with "S.E. Palace Nimroud".
The most well known excerpt of the text, including the reference to king Ahaz of Judah, as translated by the University of Pennsylvania's RINAP project, is as below:
"In all of the lands that... t of Kuštašpi of the land Kummuḫu, Urik of the land Que, Sibitti-biʾil of the city -il of the land Hamath, Panammû of the city Samʾal, Tarḫulara of the city Gurgum, Suluassurme of the land Tabal, Ušḫitti of the city Tuna, Urballâ of the city Tuḫana, Tuḫamttan-biʾil of the city Arvad, Sanīpu of the land Bīt-Ammon, Salāmānu of the land Moab,...tinti of the land Ashkelon, Jehoahaz of the land Judah, Qauš-malaka of the land Edom, Muṣ...nūnu of the city Gaza: gold, silver, tin, iron, lead, multi-colored garments, linen garments, the garments of their lands, red-purple wool, costly articles, produce of the sea dry land, commodities of their lands, royal treasures, horses mules broken to the yo."