Position in chronology
Aššur-rem-nišešu 1
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Aššur-rêm-nišēšu, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Aššur-nārārī (II), vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Aššur-rabi (I), vice-regent. (5) (As for) the wall that Kikkia, Ikūnum, Sargon (I), Puzur-Aššur (II), (and) Aššur-nārārī (I), son of Išme-Dagan (II), my ancestors, had built, it had become dilapidated and I built (it) from its foundations to its crest, for my life and the well-being of my city. Moreover, I returned its clay cones to their places. (12) When a future ruler builds that wall when it becomes dilapidated, the gods Aššur (and) Adad will (then) listen to his prayers. May he return its clay cones to their places.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
mda-šùr-re-em-ni-še-šu / ÉNSI da-šùr / DUMU da-šùr-né-ra-ri / ÉNSI da-šùr DUMU da-šùr-GAL / ÉNSI BÀD ša mki-ki-a mi-ku-nu-um / mLUGAL-ke-en pù-zur₈-da-šùr / mda-šùr-né-ra-ri DUMU iš-me-dda-gan / ab-ba-ia ú-up-pí-šu-ni e-na-aḫ-ma / a-na ba-lá-ṭí-ia ù ša-lá-am URU.KI-ia / iš-tu uš-še-šu a-di ša-ap-ti-šu / e-pu-uš ù sí-kà-ti-šu a-na aš-ri-ší-na / ú-te-er ru-ba-ú ur-ki-ú / e-nu-ma BÀD šu-ut e-nu-ḫu-ma / e-ep-pu-šu da-šùr ù dIŠKUR / ik-ri-bi-šu i-ša-mé-ú-šu / sí-kà-ti-šu a-na aš-ri-ší-na / lu-te-er
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 Q005708.
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/Q005708/..
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/Q005708/.
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