Position in chronology
Adad-narari I 35
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Adad-nārārī (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Arik-dīn-ili, (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, applied a facing to the processional avenue of the Abaru Forecourt of the temple of (the god) Aššur, his lord.
Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005772/
Why it matters
Records Adad-nārārī I's renovation of the processional avenue at Aššur's temple, anchoring the physical expansion of Assyrian royal piety to a specific monarch at the dawn of the Middle Assyrian kingdom.
Transliteration
m10-ERIM.TÁḪ ŠID aš-šur / A GÍD-DI-DINGIR ŠID aš-šur-ma / mu-ta-li-ik-ta / šá ki-sa-al a-ba-ri šá É / aš-šur EN-šu ik-si-ir
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q005772.
Attribution
Image: BM 090739 (British Museum, London, UK) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P428320). source
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005772/.
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