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Šamši-Adad V 09 (Q004746)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationŠamši-Adad V 09
IDQ004746
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:4] 11–44Palace of Šamšī-Adad, strong king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, king of Sumer (and) Akkad, son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), (who was) also king of the universe and king of Assyria.

Transliteration (ATF)

From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1E₂.GAL {m}{d}UTU-ši-{d}IŠKUR LUGAL dan-nu
2LUGAL ŠAR₂ LUGAL KUR aš-šur LUGAL KUR šu-me-ri URI{ki}
3A {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ LUGAL kib-rat LIMMU₂-ti
4A {m}aš-šur-PAP-A LUGAL ŠAR₂ LUGAL KUR aš-šur-ma

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