Erišum I 10 (Q005630)
Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
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| Designation | Erišum I 10 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005630 |
| Collection | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK; British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 Column i [0:7] i 1i 1–i 77 | [Eri]šum, vice-regent of [the god Ašš]ur, [son of Ilu-šūm]a, [vice-regent of Ašš]ur, |
| Obverse Column ii [0:14] ii 1ii 1–ii 1414 | for the god Aššur, his lord, he dedicated. Into the mortar of every wall I mixed ghee and honey and (then) laid one layer of bricks. The name [of the temple] is ‘Wild Bull.’ |
| Obverse Column iii [0:13] iii 1iii 1–iii 1313 | In the future if the temple should become [dilapidated and] old and a prince of [my] status wishes to rebuild [the temple]: he must not [disturb the] clay cone (but) [restore the] clay cone to [its place]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| i | ||
| 1 | [i-ri]-⸢šum⸣ | |
| 2 | ⸢ENSI₂⸣ | |
| 3 | {[d}a]-⸢šur₃⸣ | |
| 4 | [DUMU DINGIR-šu]-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 5 | [ENSI₂ {d}a]-⸢šur₃⸣ | |
| 6 | [...] x | |
| 7 | [...] x | |
| ii | ||
| 1 | a-na {d}a-šur₃ | |
| 2 | be-li₂-šu | |
| 3 | ik-⸢ru⸣-ub-ma | |
| 4 | i-na mi₃-ma | |
| 5 | i-ga-ri | |
| 6 | I₃.NUN u₃ LAL₃ | |
| 7 | u₂-ši₂-il₅-ma | |
| 8 | ti-ib-kam | |
| 9 | iš-te₉-en | |
| 10 | [as]-bu-uk | |
| 11 | [E₂]-tum | |
| 12 | [ri]-mu-um | |
| 13 | [šu]-um-šu | |
| 14 | [...]-⸢na⸣-[...] | |
| iii | ||
| 1 | ma-⸢ti⸣-[ma] | |
| 2 | ša [be-tam₂] | |
| 3 | i-pu-[šu] | |
| 4 | ru-ba-[um (šu-um-šu)] | |
| 5 | ša ki-ma [ia-ti] | |
| 6 | šu-ma E₂-[tum] | |
| 7 | i-ta-[na-ah] | |
| 8 | i-la-[bi-ir] | |
| 9 | si₂-⸢ka₃⸣-[tam₂] | |
| 10 | la u₂-[ra-ab₂] | |
| 11 | si₂-ka₃-[tam₂] | |
| 12 | a-⸢na⸣ [iš-ri-ša-ma] | |
| 13 | [lu-ta-e-er] | |
Sources & licences
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