Adad-nerari III 2012 (Q004792)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Adad-nerari III 2012 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q004792 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| 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 riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] 1'1'–1'1' | chief of the extensive army: |
| Obverse [1:8] 2'2'–8'8' | At that time I built a city on the border of the city Baltil (Aššur), by Mount Ebiḫ on the bank of the Tigris, and surrounded it entirely (with a wall). I completed its construction from top to bottom. The name of this city I called Šarru-iddina. |
| Obverse [8:15] 9'9'–15'15' | I wrote my monumental inscription and thus established my name for eternity. May those who come after see this monumental inscription of mine. May they heed my name and [...] |
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' | {lu₂}GAL um-ma-a-ni.⸢MEŠ DAGAL⸣-[šu ...] | |
| 2' | ina u₄-me-šu-ma ina qa-ni {uru}bal-til{ki} | |
| 3' | ina a-hat {kur}e-bi-ih ina GU₂ {id₂}IDIGNA | |
| 4' | URU DU₃-uš-ma a-na si-hir₂-te-šu₂ al-mi | |
| 5' | TA uš-še-e-šu₂ a-di ga-ba-an-dib-ba-e-šu₂ | |
| 6' | ar₂-ṣip u₂-šak-lil | |
| 7' | u₃ MU URU šu-a-tu | |
| 8' | {m}LUGAL-SUM.NA MU-šu ab-bi | |
| 9' | {na₄}na-ra-a-a al-ṭu-ur | |
| 10' | u₃ MU a-na da-riš | |
| 11' | al-⸢ta⸣-kan | |
| 12' | EGIR-u₂ {na₄}NA.RU₂.A-a | |
| 13' | an-na-a IGI.LA₂-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 14' | šu-mi li-ʾi-du-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 15' | [x x] ⸢u₂⸣-[...] |
Sources & licences
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