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Erišum I 04 (Q005624)

Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE

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DesignationErišum I 04
IDQ005624
CollectionArkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Merseyside County Museum, Liverpool, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodOld Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates35.4581, 43.2620

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:19] 11–1919Erišum, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Ilu-šūma, vice-regent of the god Aššur, built the entire temple area of the temple of the god Aššur and the holy Step Gate, (and) the chapel of Aššur for the god Aššur, his lord, for his life and the life of his city.

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)
1i-ri-šum
2ENSI₂
3{d}a-šur₃
4DUMU DINGIR-šu-ma
5ENSI₂
6{d}a-šur₃
7a-na {d}a-šur₃
8be-li₂-šu
9a-na ba-la-ṭi₃-šu
10u₃ ba-la-aṭ
11a-li-šu
12si₂-hi-ir-ti
13i-sa₃-re
14ša E₂ {d}a-šur₃
15u₃ mu-uš-la-lam
16qa₂-ša-am
17wa-at-ma-nam
18ša a-šur₃
19i-pu-uš

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