Šamši-Adad I 04 (Q005648)
Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Tell Hariri (Mari) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
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| Designation | Šamši-Adad I 04 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005648 |
| Collection | Louvre Museum, Paris, France |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Tell Hariri (Mari) |
| Coordinates | 34.5504, 40.8892 |
English translation
By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] 11–33 | Šamšī-Adad, appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur: |
| Obverse [3:14] 44–1414 | When the god Itūr-Mēr, my lord, entrusted to me entire rule and control over the land of Mari and the bank of the Euphrates, I made a dedication and [devoted] to him a throne of light-colored medlar wood ... which was perfected by the goldsmith's art (lit. ‘by gold and skilled craftsmanship’). Its [name ...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {d}UTU-ši-{d}IŠKUR | |
| 2 | ša-ki-in {d}EN.LIL₂ | |
| 3 | ENSI₂ {d}a-šur₄ | |
| 4 | i-nu-ma {d}i-tur₂-⸢me⸣-[er] | |
| 5 | be-li₂ ma-at ma-ri{[ki]} | |
| 6 | u₃ a-ah {id₂}⸢BURANUN⸣.[NA] | |
| 7 | a-na be-[li-im] | |
| 8 | u₃ ša-pa-ri-⸢im⸣ | |
| 9 | u₂-ša-ak-li-la-[am] | |
| 10 | ak-ru-ub-šu-⸢um-ma⸣ | |
| 11 | 1 {giš}GU.ZA {giš}ŠENNUR.⸢BABBAR⸣.RA x x x [...] x | |
| 12 | ša i-na ⸢KU₃⸣.GI u₃ um-me-nu-tim | |
| 13 | šu-uk-lu-lu [šum]-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 14 | [...] x x [...] |
Sources & licences
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