Šamši-Adad I 08 (Q005652)
Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Ashara (Terqa) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
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| Designation | Šamši-Adad I 08 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005652 |
| Collection | Louvre Museum, Paris, France |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Ashara (Terqa) |
| Coordinates | 34.9231, 40.5681 |
English translation
By ORACC project riao · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] 11–99 | Šamšī-Adad, king of the universe, appointee of the god Enlil, worshipper of the god Dagan, vice-regent of the god Aššur, builder of Ekisiga — ‘His Silent Temple’ — temple of the god Dagan within Terqa. |
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 | LUGAL KIŠ | |
| 3 | ša-ki-in {d}EN.LIL₂ | |
| 4 | pa-li-ih {d}da-gan | |
| 5 | ENSI₂ {d}a-šur₄ | |
| 6 | ba-ni e₂-ki-si-ga | |
| 7 | E₂ qu₂-ul-ti-šu | |
| 8 | E₂ {d}da-gan | |
| 9 | qe₂-re-eb ter-qa{ki} |
Sources & licences
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