Shalmaneser III liked to call himself "The mighty king, king of the universe, the king without a rival, the autocrat, the powerful one of the four regions of the world, who shatters the might of the princes of the whole world, who has smashed all of his foes like pots," but despite his boasts, he died amidst revolts with which his son Shamshi-Adad V had to contend.

—Jack Finegan, Light from the Ancient Past: the Archeological Background of the Hebrew-Christian Religion