Sîn-šarru-iškun 12 (Q003873)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sîn-šarru-iškun 12 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003873 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Qalat Sherqat (Assur) |
| Coordinates | 35.4581, 43.2620 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap5 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] 11–77 | I, Sîn-šarra-iškun, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; son of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyri[a]; son of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Ass[yria]; (5) son of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria; [de]s[cenda]nt of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, [governor of B]abylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad: |
| Obverse [7:13] 88–1313 | At [the beginning of] my [king]ship, when the deities Aššur, Bēl (Marduk), Nabû, (and) [Ištar] gladly placed me (10) on the th[rone of the fa]ther who had engendered me, in place of an empty lot I built (and) completed the temple of the god Nabû [that is] i[nsi]de Baltil (Aššur), which had not been created (lit: “born”) from distant days, from its foundations to its crenellations. |
| Obverse [13:16] 1414–1616 | I made the god Nabû (and) the goddess Tašmētu enter inside it and made (them) dwell on (their) eternal da[i]s(es). |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | a-na-ku {m}{d}30-LUGAL-iš-kun | |
| 2 | MAN GAL MAN KAL MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 3 | A {m}aš-šur-DU₃-A MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-⸢šur⸣{[ki]} | |
| 4 | A {m}aš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-⸢šur⸣{ki} | |
| 5 | A {m}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ | |
| 6 | ⸢ŠA₃⸣.[BAL].BAL {m}LUGAL-GI.NA MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ | |
| 7 | [GIR₃.NITA₂] ⸢KA₂⸣.DINGIR{ki} MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u ⸢URI{ki⸣} | |
| 8 | ina [SAG] ⸢LUGAL⸣-ti-ia ša₂ AN.ŠAR₂ {⸢d}EN {d⸣}MUATI | |
| 9 | {d}[iš-tar] ⸢ṭa⸣-biš u₂-⸢še-šib-u-in⸣-ni | |
| 10 | ina {giš}⸢GU⸣.[ZA] ⸢AD⸣ DU₃-ia E₂ {⸢d}AG⸣ [ša₂] | |
| 11 | ⸢qe₂-reb⸣ bal-til ša₂ ul-⸢tu₂⸣ UD.MEŠ SU₃.MEŠ | |
| 12 | la ma-al-du ke-e-mu-u ⸢ni-du-tu₂⸣ | |
| 13 | ul-tu₂ UŠ₈-šu₂ a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu₂ ar-ṣip | |
| 14 | u₂-šak-lil {d}AG {d}PAPNUN qe₂-reb-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 15 | u₂-še-rib-ma u₂-⸢šar-ma⸣-a | |
| 16 | pa-⸢rak⸣ da-ra-a-ti |
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