Position in chronology
Adad-nerari III 14
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Adad-nārārī (III), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Shalmaneser (III), (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil and vice-regent of (the god) Aššur: (as for) the temple of the god Nabû, his lord, that is in Nineveh, he (re)built (it) from its foundation(s) to its crenellations for his life (and) the well-being of his seed and his land.
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/Q004762/
Why it matters
Documents Adad-nērārī III's reconstruction of Nabû's Nineveh temple, anchoring the god's growing cult prominence in the Assyrian heartland to a datable early eighth-century royal patron.
Transliteration
m10-ERIM.TÁḪ GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur / A mdUTU-ši-10 GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur / A mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ GAR dBAD ŠID aš-šur-ma / É dAG EN-šú šá qé-reb URU.ni-na-a / iš-tu UŠ₈-šú a-di gaba-dib-bi-šú / ana TI-šú šùl-mu NUMUN-šú u KUR-šú DÙ-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 Q004762.
Attribution
Image: BM 137463 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P428785). source
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/Q004762/.
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