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Puzur-Aššur III 1 (Q005696)

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

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DesignationPuzur-Aššur III 1
IDQ005696
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 [0:4] 11–44Puzur-Aššur, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Aššur-nārā[rī] (I), vice-regent of the god Ašš[ur]:
Obverse [4:10] 55–1010For his life and the well-being of his city the wall of the Step Gate — it had become dilapidated — I restored and deposited my clay cone.
Obverse [10:15] 1111–1515The gods Aššur and Adad will listen to the prayers of a later prince when that wall becomes dilapidated and he rebuilds (it). [May] (the same prince) restore my clay cone to [its] place.

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)
1pu-zu-ur-{d}a-⸢šur₃⸣
2ENSI₂ {d}a-⸢šur₃⸣
3DUMU {d}a-šur₃-ne₂-⸢ra⸣-[ri]
4ENSI₂ {d}a-⸢šur₃⸣-[ma]
5a-na ba-la-ṭi-⸢šu⸣
6u₃ ša-la-am a-li-šu
7BAD₃ ša mu-uš-la-lim
8e-na-ah-ma
9u₂-ud-di-iš
10u₃ si₂-ka₃-ti aš-ku-un
11ru-ba-u₂ ur-ki-u₂ i-nu-ma
12BAD₃ šu i-na-hu-ma e-pu-šu
13{d}a-šur₃ u₃ {d}IŠKUR ik-ri-bi-šu
14i-ša-me-u₂ si₂-ka₃-⸢ti⸣
15a-na aš-ri-⸢ša⸣ [lu-te]-⸢er⸣

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