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===Significant inscriptions===
One panel of the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III has an inscription which includes the name ''<sup>m</sup>Ia-ú-a mar <sup>m</sup>Hu-um-ri-i'' While [[Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet|Rawlinson]] originally translated this in 1850 as "Yahua, son of Hubiri", a year later Reverend [[Edward Hincks]], suggested that it refers to King [[Jehu]] of [[Israel]] (2 Kings 9:2 ff. While other interpretations exist, the obelisk is widely viewed by biblical archaeologists as therefore including the earliest known dedication of an Israelite. Note: all the kings of Israel were called "sons of Omri" by the Assyrians ("mar" means "son").

A number of other artifacts considered [[List of artifacts in biblical archaeology|important to Biblical history]] were excavated from the site, such as the [[Nimrud Tablet K.3751]] and the [[Nimrud Slab]]. The bilingual [[Assyrian lion weights]] were important to scholarly deduction of the history of the alphabet.