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Šamši-Adad III 1001 (Q005683)

Royal Inscription, Old Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE

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DesignationŠamši-Adad III 1001
IDQ005683
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodOld Assyrian · c. 1950 BCE–1850 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates35.4581, 43.2620

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse Column ii [1:12] ii' 22–The ziggurrats of Šamšī-Adad (I), vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Ila-[kab]kabu, which previously he had built — they had become dilapidated and I restored their tops. ... I deposited.

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)
i'
1[...]
2[...]
3[...]
4[...] x
5[...] x
ii'
1[(x)] ⸢ša ni⸣ x x x x ⸢šu⸣
2⸢zi⸣-iq-qur-ra-ti
3ša {d}UTU-ši-{d}IŠKUR
4ENSI₂ {d}a-šur₃
5DUMU i-⸢la⸣-[kab]-⸢ka-bu⸣
iii'
1⸢ša i⸣-na ⸢pa-na i-pu-šu⸣
2i-na-ha-ma
3re-es-si₂-na u₂-ud-di-iš
4u₃ is x ur ša x
5ša x x-šu₂
6aš-[ku]-⸢un⸣

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