Adad-nerari III 01 (Q004749)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud (Kalhu) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Adad-nerari III 01 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004749 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Nimrud (Kalhu) |
| Coordinates | 36.0992, 43.3275 |
English translation
By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] 11–88 | Palace of Adad-nārārī (III), great king, strong king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, the king in whose youth Aššur, king of the Igīgū gods, chose and entrusted him with unrivalled rulership: he conquered and gained dominion over everything from the great sea in the east to the great sea in the west. |
| Obverse [8:27] 99–2727 | Son of Šamšī-Adad (V), great king, strong king, king of the universe, king of Assyria, unrivalled king, (grand)son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters, who slew all his enemies and annihilated (them) like a flood, (great) grandson of Ashurnasirpal (II), virile warrior who extended habitations, offspring of Adad-nārārī (II), attentive prince whom the gods Aššur, Šamaš, Adad, and Marduk assisted so that he extended his land, offspring of Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of Assyria, king of Sumer and Akkad, offspring of Shalmaneser (I), great king, strong king, who enlarged Eḫursagkurkurra, “the mountain of the lands,” offspring of Ilu-kabkabi (Enlil-kapkapi), an earlier king, a predecessor from before the sovereignty of Sulili, whose name Aššur called from of old. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | E₂.GAL {m}10-ERIM.TAH₂ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu | |
| 2 | MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ MAN ša₂ ina TUR-šu₂ aš-šur | |
| 3 | MAN {d}i₂-gi₃-gi₃ ut-tu-šu₂-ma mal-kut | |
| 4 | la ša₂-na-an u₂-mal-lu-u₂ | |
| 5 | qa-tuš-šu₂ TA tam-tim GAL-ti | |
| 6 | ša₂ KUR-ha {d}UTU-ši a-di tam-tim | |
| 7 | GAL-ti ša₂ šul₃-mu {d}UTU-ši | |
| 8 | qat-su KUR-ma i-pe-lu-ma | |
| 9 | DU₃ gim-ri A {m}{d}UTU-ši-10 | |
| 10 | MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ | |
| 11 | MAN la ša₂-na-an A {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ | |
| 12 | MAN kib-rat LIMMU₂-ti ša₂ kul-lat za-ʾi-i-ri-šu₂ | |
| 13 | i-ne₂-ru-ma is-pu-nu a-bu-ba-niš | |
| 14 | DUMU.DUMU ša₂ {m}aš-šur-PAP-A NITA₂ qar-du | |
| 15 | mu-ra-piš da-ad₂-mi pir₂-ʾi | |
| 16 | {m}10-ERIM.TAH₂ NUN na-aʾ-du ša₂ aš-šur {d}UTU | |
| 17 | {d}IŠKUR u {d}AMAR.UTU re-ṣu-su | |
| 18 | i-li-ku-ma u₂-ra-pi-šu₂ KUR-su | |
| 19 | ŠA₃.BAL.BAL {m}tukul-ti-{d}MAŠ MAN KUR aš-šur | |
| 20 | MAN KUR šu-me-ri u URI{ki} | |
| 21 | lib-lib-bi ša₂ {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu | |
| 22 | mu-šam-di-il e₂-hur-sag-kur-kur-ra | |
| 23 | ša₂-ad ma-ta-a-ti lib-lib-bi | |
| 24 | ša₂ {m}{d}BAD-kap-ka-pi MAN pa-ni | |
| 25 | a-lik mah-ri qu-ud-mu MAN-ti | |
| 26 | ša₂ {m}su-li-li ša₂ ul-tu₂ | |
| 27 | ul-la-a aš-šur ib-bu-u si-⸢qar⸣-šu₂ |
Sources & licences
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