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Šamši-Adad IV 4
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To (the god) Aššur, [his] lord, [...]: (2) Šamšī-Adad (IV), appointee of [the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur], son of Tiglath-pile[ser (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur], son of Aššur-rēša-i[ši (I), (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil and vice-regent of (the god) Aššur], dedicated (this) long pestle [...] for his life, the well-being of [his] seed, [...]. Whither purification [...]. (8) [If someone] takes (it) either to (another) temple, or [to ...], or to a storehouse, [or to ... and does not return it] to its place [...]
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/Q006004/
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Transliteration
a-na aš-šur be-[li-šu ...] / mšam-ši-dIŠKUR ⸢GAR⸣ [dBAD ŠID aš-šur] / A GIŠ.tukul-ti-A-⸢é⸣-[šár-ra GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur] / A aš-šur-SAG-⸢i⸣-[ši GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur-ma] / a-bat-tu a-ri-[ik-tu? ...] / a-na TI-šu SILIM ⸢NUMUN?⸣-[šu ...] / i-qiš e-em te-⸢lil⸣-[te ...] / lu a-na É DINGIR ⸢lu⸣ [...] / lu a-na É ḫu-⸢ur⸣-[še ...] / i-la-qe ú-x-[...] / [a]-⸢na⸣ aš-ri-šá [...] / [...] x x [...]
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 Q006004.
Attribution
Image: Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q006004/..
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/Q006004/.
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