Position in chronology
Šamši-Adad I 01
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Šamšī-Adad (I), king of the world, builder of the temple of the god Aššur, pacifier of the land between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River, by the command of the god Aššur, who loves him, (and the one) whom the gods Anu and Enlil called by name for greatness among the kings who came before (him). (18) (As for) the temple of the god Enlil, which Erišum (I), the son of Ilu-šūma, had built, it had become dilapidated and I abandoned it. Then, I built the temple of the god Enlil, my lord, the fearful dais, the large chapel, the seat of the god Enlil, my lord, (all of) which were…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
dUTU-ši-dIŠKUR / LUGAL KIŠ / ba-ni É / da-šur₄ / mu-uš-te-em-ki / ma-tim / bi-ri-it ÍD.IDIGNA / ù ÍD.BURANUN.NA / i-na qí-bi-it / da-šur₄ / ra-i-mi-šu / ša AN ù dEN.LÍL / i-na LUGAL.MEŠ / a-li-ku-ut / maḫ-ra / šum-šu a-na ra-bé-e-tim / ib-bu-ú / É dEN.LÍL / ša e-ri-šum / DUMU DINGIR-šum-ma / i-pu-šu / É i-na-aḫ-ma / ⸢ú⸣-ša-⸢as⸣-sí-ik-šu-ma / É dEN.LÍL / be-lí-ia / BÁRA ra-aš-ba-am / wa-at-ma-nam…
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 Q005645.
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/Q005645/..
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/Q005645/.
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