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Adad-nerari III 03 (Q004751)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kizkapanlı · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationAdad-nerari III 03
IDQ004751
CollectionKahramanmaraş Museum, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKizkapanlı
Coordinates37.3750, 37.2931

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:6] 11–66Boundary stone of Adad-nārārī, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), king of Assyria, (and of) Semiramis, the palace-woman of Šamšī-Adad, king of Assyria, mother of Adad-nārārī, strong king, king of Assyria, daughter-in-law of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters.
Obverse [6:10] 77–1010When Ušpilulume, king of the Kummuḫites, caused Adad-nārārī, king of Assyria, (and) Semiramis, the palace woman, to cross the Euphrates;
Obverse [10:14] 1111–1414I fought a pitched battle with them — with Ataršumki, son of Adramu, of the city of Arpad, together with eight kings who were with him at the city Paqaraḫubunu. I took away from them their camp. To save their lives they dispersed.
Obverse [14:18] 1515–1818In this (same) year they erected this boundary stone between Ušpilulume, king of the Kummuḫites, and Qalparuda, son of Palalam, king of the Gurgumites.
Obverse [18:20] 1919–2020Whoever (dares) to take (it) away from the possession of Ušpilulume, his sons, his grandsons:
Obverse [20:22] 2121–2222may the gods Aššur, Marduk, Adad, Sîn, (and) Šamaš not stand (by him) in his lawsuit.
Obverse [22:23] 2323–2323Taboo of Aššur, my god, (and) Sîn, who dwells in Ḫarrān.

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)
1ta-hu-mu ša₂ {m}10-ERIM.TAH₂ MAN KUR aš-šur
2A {m}šam-ši-10 MAN KUR aš-šur
3{munus}sa-am-mu-ra-mat MUNUS E₂.GAL
4ša₂ {m}šam-ši-10 MAN KUR aš-šur
5AMA {m}10-ERIM.TAH₂ MAN KAL MAN KUR aš-šur
6kal-lat {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ
7MAN kib-<rat> LIMMU₂-ti ina u₄-me {m}uš-pi-lu-lu-me
8MAN {uru}ku-mu-ha-a-a a-na {m}10-ERIM.TAH₂ MAN KUR aš-šur
9{f}sa-am-mu-ra-mat MUNUS E₂.GAL
10{id₂}pu-rat-tu₂ u₂-še-bi-ru-u-ni
11{m}a-tar-šum₂-ki A {m}AD-ra-a-me {uru}ar₂-pa-da-a-a
12a-di 8 MAN.MEŠ-ni ša₂ KI-šu₂ ina {uru}pa-qi-ra-hu-bu-na
13si-dir-ta-šu₂-nu KI-šu₂-nu am-dah-iṣ uš-ma-na-šu₂-nu
14e-kim-šu₂-nu-ti a-na šu-zu-ub ZI.MEŠ-šu₂-nu
15e-li-u₂ ina MU.AN.NA ša₂-a-te
16ta-hu-mu šu₂-a-tu₂ ina bir-ti {m}uš-pi-lu-lu-me
17MAN {uru}ku-mu-ha-a-a ina bir-ti {m}qa-al-pa-ru-da
18A {m}pa-la-lam MAN {uru}gur₂-gu-ma-a-a u₂-še-lu-ni
19man-nu ša₂ <TA> ŠU-at {m}uš-pi-lu-lu-me
20DUMU.MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU.DUMU.MEŠ-šu₂ e-ki-mu
21aš-šur {d}AMAR.UTU {d}IŠKUR {d}30 {d}UTU
22a-na di-ni-šu₂ lu la i-za-zu
23ik-kib aš-šur DINGIR-ia {d}30 a-šib {uru}KASKAL

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