Position in chronology
Adad-narari I 17
Written in modern English
Adad-nārārī I, appointee of Enlil and vice-regent of Aššur, identifies himself as the son of Arik-dīn-ili and grandson of Enlil-nārārī, both of whom held the same titles. He records that the storehouses of the Gate of Anu and Adad — his lords — along with their doors, had fallen into disrepair from an earlier construction. He rebuilt those storehouses from the foundations up to the battlements, then fitted them with new, finely crafted double doors of fir wood, bound with bronze bands and installed — the text breaks off before stating for whom or what purpose.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Adad-nārārī (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Arik-dīn-ili, appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Enlil-nārārī, (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of the god Aššur. (4) At that time, the storehouses of the Gate of the Gods Anu and Adad, my lords, and their [doors], which had been built previously, had become dilapidated. I built th(os)e storehouses from their foundations to their crenellations. I made new magnificent double doors of fir, fastened (them) with bronze bands, (and) installed (them) for…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
mdIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ šá-ak-ni dEN.LÍL ŠID da-šur / DUMU GÍD-DI-DINGIR šá-ak-ni dEN.LÍL ŠID da-šur / DUMU dEN.LÍL-ERIM.TÁḪ šá-ak-ni dEN.LÍL ŠID da-šur-ma / e-nu-ma a-bu-sa-tu ⸢ša⸣ KÁ-an-nim-ù-dIŠKUR / EN.MEŠ-ia ù ⸢GIŠ⸣.[IG.MEŠ]-ši-na ša i-na pa-na / ep-ša e-na-⸢ḫa⸣-[ma] a-bu-sa-te / iš-tu uš-še-ši-[na] a-di gaba-dib-bi-ši-na e-pu-uš / GIŠ.IG.MEŠ a-šu-ḫi [mu]-te-er-re-ti / ṣi-ra-ti GIBIL.MEŠ ⸢e⸣-pu-uš…
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 Q005754.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q005754/..
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/Q005754/.
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