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Šamši-Adad I 03 (= Ikunum 5add) (Q005647)

Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE

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DesignationŠamši-Adad I 03 (= Ikunum 5add)
IDQ005647
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodOld Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33Šamšī-[Adad], appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur:
Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010The temple of the goddess Ereškigal which Ikūnum, son of Erišum (I), built had become dilapidated and Šamšī-A[dad], son of

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)
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1{d}UTU-⸢ši⸣-{[d}IŠKUR]
2ša-ki-⸢in⸣ {d}EN.⸢LIL₂⸣
3ENSI₂ {⸢d⸣}a-šur
4E₂ {d}⸢ereš⸣-ki-gal
5ša i-ku-nu-um
6DUMU ⸢e⸣-ri-šum
7e-pu-šu
8i-na-ah-⸢ma⸣
9{d}UTU-⸢ši⸣-{d}⸢IŠKUR⸣
10DUMU [...] x (x) [...]

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