Ilu-šumma 2 (Q005620)
Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
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| Designation | Ilu-šumma 2 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005620 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland; World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Australian Institute of Archaeology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 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 [0:15] 11–1515 | Ilu-šūma, vice-regent of Aššur, beloved of the god Aššur and the goddess Ištar, son of Šalim-aḫum, vice-regent of Aššur: Šalim-aḫum, vice-regent of Aššur, (was) the son of Puzur-Aššur (I), vice-regent of Aššur: |
| Obverse [15:48] 1616–4848 | Ilu-šūma, vice-regent of Aššur, built the temple for the goddess Ištar, his mistress, for his life. A façade (and) new wall I constructed and subdivided house-plots for my city. The god Aššur opened for me two springs in Mount Abiḫ and I made bricks for the wall by these two springs. The water of one spring flowed down to the Aušum Gate (while) the water of the other spring flowed down to the Wertum Gate. |
| Obverse [48:65] 4949–6565 | I established the freedom (andurāru) of the Akkadians and their children. I purified their copper. I established their freedom (andurāru) from the marshes and Ur and Nippur, Awal, and Kismar, Dēr of the god Ištaran, as far as the city (Aššur). |
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 | {m}DINGIR-šu-ma ŠIGₓ(|URU×GU|) | |
| 2 | ENSI₂ | |
| 3 | a-šur₃{ki} | |
| 4 | na-ra-am | |
| 5 | {d}a-šur₃ | |
| 6 | u₃ {d}INANNA | |
| 7 | DUMU ša-lim-a-hu-um | |
| 8 | ENSI₂ | |
| 9 | a-šur₃{ki} | |
| 10 | ša-lim-a-hu-um | |
| 11 | ENSI₂ | |
| 12 | a-šur₃{ki} | |
| 13 | DUMU pu₃-zur₈-a-šur₃ | |
| 14 | ENSI₂ | |
| 15 | a-šur₃{ki} | |
| 16 | DINGIR-šu-ma | |
| 17 | ENSI₂ | |
| 18 | a-šur₃{ki} | |
| 19 | a-na {d}INANNA | |
| 20 | NIN.A.NI | |
| 21 | a-na ba-la-ṭi₃-šu | |
| 22 | E₂ i-pu-uš | |
| 23 | u₃ pi₂-ra-kam | |
| 24 | BAD₃{ki} | |
| 25 | e-ša-am | |
| 26 | i-ṣi₂-ir-ma | |
| 27 | a-na a-li-a | |
| 28 | be₂-ta-tim | |
| 29 | a-zu-uz | |
| 30 | 2 e-ne₂-en | |
| 31 | i-na a-bi-ih | |
| 32 | ša-du-im | |
| 33 | {d}a-šur₃ | |
| 34 | ip-ti-a-ma | |
| 35 | i-na e-ne₂-en | |
| 36 | šu-ni-ti | |
| 37 | SIG₄ BAD₃{ki} | |
| 38 | al-bi-in | |
| 39 | 1 e-nu-um | |
| 40 | ma-u₂-ša | |
| 41 | a-na ba-ab-; | |
| 43 | im-qu₂-tu₃-nim | |
| 44 | 1 e-nu-um | |
| 45 | ša-ni-tum <ma-u₂-ša> | |
| 46 | a-na ba-ab-; | |
| 48 | im-qu₂-tu₃-nim | |
| 49 | a-du-ra-ar | |
| 50 | a-ka₃-di₃-i | |
| 51 | u₃ ma-re-šu-nu | |
| 52 | aš₂-ku-un | |
| 53 | e-ru-šu-nu | |
| 54 | am-si₂ | |
| 55 | iš-tu₃ pa₂-ne₂ | |
| 56 | mi₃-id-ri-im | |
| 57 | u₃ ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki.}MA | |
| 58 | u₃ EN.LIL₂{ki} | |
| 59 | a-wa-al{ki} | |
| 60 | u₃ ki-is-mar{ki} | |
| 61 | BAD₃.AN{ki} | |
| 62 | ša {d}KA.DI | |
| 63 | a-di₃ a-lim{ki} | |
| 64 | a-du-ra-ar-šu-nu | |
| 65 | aš₂-ku-un |
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