Šamši-Adad I 05 (Q005649)
Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Tell Hariri (Mari) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
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| Designation | Šamši-Adad I 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005649 |
| 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 [3:17] 44–1717 | When the god Itūr-Mēr heard my prayers and petitions and entrusted to me the entire land of Mari, the bank of the Euphrates, and its domains, I dedicated, devoted, and offered to him for his divine splendor a great throne of ebony which was methodically made with everything pertaining to the goldsmith's art (lit. ‘by gold and skilled craftsmen’). |
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-šur] | |
| 4 | ⸢i-nu⸣-[ma] {⸢d}i-tur₂-me⸣-[er] | |
| 5 | ik-ri-⸢bi⸣-ia | |
| 6 | u₃ ta-as₂-li-ti | |
| 7 | iš-mu-ma | |
| 8 | ma-a-at ma-ri{ki} | |
| 9 | a-ah {id₂}⸢BURANUN⸣.[NA] | |
| 10 | u₃ nam-la-ka-ti-šu | |
| 11 | u₂-ša-ak-li-lam | |
| 12 | ak-ru-ub-šum-ma | |
| 13 | 1 GU.ZA {gi}ESI GAL | |
| 14 | ša i-na KU₃.GI u₃ DUMU.MEŠ um-me-nu-⸢tim⸣ šum-šu | |
| 15 | šu-ta-aṣ-ba-a-at | |
| 16 | a-na zi-im i-lu-ti-šu | |
| 17 | u₂-še-li |
Sources & licences
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