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Šamši-Adad I 2002 (Q005659)

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

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DesignationŠamši-Adad I 2002
IDQ005659
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 [0:3] 11–77The name of [this] lion is: “Drinker of the blood of the enemies of Ša[mšī-Adad] by [the command of] the goddess [Ištar].”
Obverse [3:6] 88–1010Temple of Gathering Together Divine Powers.

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)
1⸢UR.MAH⸣ [an-ni-u₂-um]
2.-6ša-a-ti;-⸢da⸣-mi-na-⸢ak⸣-[ri];-sa-⸢am-si⸣-{[d}IŠKUR];-i-⸢na⸣-[qa-be₂-e];-{d}[INANNA]
7šu-⸢um⸣-[šu]
8e₂-me-[ur₄-ur₄]
9E₂ mu-ha-mi-im
10pa-ar-ṣi₂

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