Position in chronology
Arik-din-ili 5
Written in modern English
Arik-dīn-ili, vice-regent of the god Aššur and son of Enlil-nārārī — who was likewise vice-regent of Aššur, and grandson of Aššur-uballiṭ I, also vice-regent of Aššur — begins a statement here, but the remainder is almost entirely lost; the few surviving signs indicate that something had fallen into disrepair before the text breaks off completely.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) [Ar]ik-dīn-i[li, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of E]nlil-nārārī, [vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Ašš]ur-uball[iṭ (I), (who was) also vice-regent of the god Aššur]. (4) [...], it had become dila[pidated and ...]
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[ma]-⸢ri-ik-DI-DINGIR⸣ [ÉNSI da-šur] / [DUMU d]⸢EN⸣.LÍL-ERIM.TÁḪ [ÉNSI da-šur] / [DUMU mda]-⸢šur⸣-ú-TI.⸢LA⸣ [ÉNSI da-šur-ma] / [...]-⸢gi⸣ e-na-[aḫ-ma ...]
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 Q005734.
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/Q005734/..
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/Q005734/.
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