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Erišum I 11 (Q005631)

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

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DesignationErišum I 11
IDQ005631
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
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 Column i [0:8] i 1'1'–i 8'8'No translation warranted
Obverse Column ii [0:14] ii 1'1'–ii 14'14'I expropriated houses [from] the Sheep [Gate] to the People's Gate. I fashioned two beer vats for the god Aššur, my lord. [I placed two] bronze duck figures, [each (weighing)] one talent, [at their] base ...

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)
i
1'[...]
2'[...]-na
3'[...]
4'[...]
5'[...]
6'[...]
7'[...]
8'[...]-li
ii
1'⸢iš-tu₃ a⸣-[bu-ul]-;
3'a-di₃ a-bu-ul-;
5'⸢be₂-ta⸣-tim
6'u₂-⸢ša⸣-di₂
7'2 ⸢hu⸣-bu-ri-in
8'a-na {d}a-šur₃
9'be-⸢li₂⸣-a
10'u₂-⸢li₂-id⸣
11'2 MUŠEN.⸢UZ⸣
12'⸢ša⸣ 1 GU₂-[ta]
13'⸢ZABAR⸣
14'[i]-⸢na iš⸣-[di₃-šu-nu]
iii
1'⸢ša⸣ [...]
2'⸢iš⸣ [...]
3'E₂ [...]
4'i-[...]
5'ša [...]
6'x [...]
1''x [...]
2''⸢li⸣-[...]
3''ša [...]
4''la [...]
5''⸢iš⸣-[...]

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