Position in chronology
Puzur-Aššur III 6add
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Puzur-Aššur (III), vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Aššur-nārārī (I), (who was) also vice-regent of the god Aššur, (5) for his life and the well-being of his city, built the great wall and t[he g]ates of the New City, from the great [wall] of the Inner City up t[o the river in its entirety], from its foundations t[o its cres]t. Moreover, I deposited my clay cone. (10b) [(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 my clay cone to its place.
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
pu-zu-ur-da-šùr / ÉNSI da-šùr / DUMU da-šùr-né-ra-ri / ÉNSI da-šùr-ma / a-na ba-lá-⸢ṭi⸣-šu ù ša-lá-am a-li-šu / BÀD ⸢GAL⸣ [ù] ⸢KÁ⸣.GAL.MEŠ ša URU.KI iš-šé / ⸢iš-tù⸣ [BÀD] GAL ša li-ib-bi-URU.KI / a-[di ÍD a-na si-ḫi-ir]-⸢ti⸣-šu iš-tù uš-šé-šu / a-[di ša-ap-ti]-⸢šu⸣ e-pu-uš ù sí-ik-kà-ti / aš-[ku-un ru-ba-ú] ur-ki-ú i-nu-me / BÀD [šu-ú] e-nu-ḫu-ma e-pu-šu / da-šùr [ù] dIŠKUR / ik-ri-bi-šu i-ša-me-ú sí-ik-kà-ti / a-na aš-ri-ša / 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 Q007686.
Attribution
Image: Created by Nathan Morello 2018. Lemmatized by Nathan Morello (2018) 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/Q007686/..
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/Q007686/.
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