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Erišum I 14 (Q005634)

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

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DesignationErišum I 14
IDQ005634
CollectionArkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey; Vorderasiatisches 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 [0:13] 11–1313Erišum, vice-regent of Aššur, son of Ilu-šūma, vice-regent of Aššur; Ilu-šūma (was) the son of Šalim-aḫum, vice-regent of Aššur; Šalim-aḫum (was) the son of Puzur-Aššur (I), vice-regent of Aššur:
Obverse [13:26] 1414–2626Erišum, vice-regent of Aššur: With the god Adad standing by me I built the temple and the temple area for the god Adad, my lord, for my life and the life of my city, and installed the doors.
Obverse [26:31] 2727–3131He who would remove the inscribed tablet may Aššur, Adad, [and] Bel, my god, destroy his [seed].

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
3a-šur₃{ki}
4DUMU DINGIR-šu-ma
5ENSI₂
6a-šur₃{ki}
7DINGIR-šu-ma
8DUMU ša-lim-a-hu-um
9ENSI₂
10a-šur₃{ki}
11ša-lim-a-hu-um
12DUMU pu₃-zur₈-{d}a-šur₃
13ENSI₂ a-šur₃{ki}
14i-ri-šum
15ENSI₂ a-šur₃{ki}
16{d}IŠKUR
17i-zi-za-ma
18a-na {d}IŠKUR
19be-li₂-a
20a-na ba-la-ṭi₃-a
21u₃ ba-la-aṭ
22a-li-a
23E₂ u₃ i-sa₃-ri-šu
24i-pu-uš
25u₃ {giš}IG.HI.A
26aš₂-ku-un
27ša DUB.BI-am
28u₂-ša-sa₃-ku
29a-šur₃{ki} u₃ {d}IŠKUR
30[u₃] be-lum₂ i₃-li₂
31[za]-⸢ra-šu li-ik-su₂-ma⸣

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