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Ikunum 3 (Q005641)

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

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DesignationIkunum 3
IDQ005641
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 [0:7] 11–77[Ikūnum, vice-regent of Aššur, son of] E[rišum (I), vice-regent of Aššur]; Er[išum (was) the son of Ilu-šumma], vice-regent of [Aššur]; [Ilu-šumma (was) the son of Š]alim-a[ḫum, vice-regent of Aššur]; Šalim-a[ḫum (was) the son of Puzur-Aššu]r, vice-regent [of Aššur]:
Obverse [7:10] 88–1010[Ikūnum, vice]-regent of Ašš[ur, 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)
1[i-ku-num ENSI₂]
2{[d}a-šur₃ DUMU] i-[ri-šum]
3[ENSI₂ {d}a-šur₃] i-⸢ri⸣-[šum]
4[DUMU DINGIR-šu-ma] ⸢ENSI₂⸣ {[d}a-šur₃]
5[DINGIR-šu-ma DUMU] ⸢ša⸣-lim-⸢a⸣-[hu-um]
6[ENSI₂ {d}a-šur₃] ⸢ša⸣-lim-⸢a⸣-[hu-um]
7[DUMU pu-zur₈-{d}a]-⸢šur₃ ENSI₂⸣ {[d}a-šur₃]
8[i-ku-num] ⸢ENSI₂⸣ a-⸢šur₃⸣
9[a-na ba-la-ṭi₂-šu] u₃ ba-la₂-[aṭ]
10[a-li]-⸢šu⸣
11[...]
12[...] a-na
13[...]
14[...] x
15[...] x

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