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Šamši-Adad I 06 (Q005650)

Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Tell Hariri (Mari) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE

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DesignationŠamši-Adad I 06
IDQ005650
CollectionLouvre Museum, Paris, France
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodOld Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotTell Hariri (Mari)
Coordinates34.5504, 40.8892

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:5] 11–55To the goddess Ištar-šarrum ("Ištar is King"), controller of the entire heaven and underworld, who favorably receives his prayers (and) goes at his right hand:
Obverse [5:14] 66–1414Šamšī-Adad, strong king, king of Akkad, conqueror of all his enemies, has devoted a bronze kettledrum with good sound (and) befitting his being a warrior.

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)
1a-na {d}INANNA.LUGAL
2ša-pi₂-ra-at ki-ša-at
3ša-me-e u₃ er-ṣe₂-tim
4ma-gi-ra-at ni-iš qa-ti-šu
5a-li-ka-at im-ni-šu
6{d}UTU-ši-{d}IŠKUR LUGAL KALA.GA
7LUGAL a-ga-de₃{ki}
8ka-ši-id ki-ša-at
9a-ia-bi-šu
10LI.LI.IZ₃ ZABAR
11ša ri-gi-im-šu ṭa-bu
12a-na si₂-ma-at qar-ra-du-ti-šu
13šu-lu-ku
14u₂-še-li

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