Tiglath-pileser III, Summary Inscription
745–727 BCE
The land of Bit-Humria (the House of Omri) . . .
[ . . . his] auxiliary [troops . . . ] all of its people . . . to Assyria I carried off. Pekah, their king, [I/they ki]lled . . . and I appointed Hoshea [as king] over them. I received ten talents of gold, x talents of silver, [with] their [property] from them and I carried them off [to Assyria].
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