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Aššur-bel-nišešu 1001 (Q005707)

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

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DesignationAššur-bel-nišešu 1001
IDQ005707
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] 1'1'–4'4'I sought [and the ... {of}] the city with/in [...] I built (it) from top to bottom. I [deposited] [my clay] cone.
Obverse [4:9] 5'5'–9'9'The gods Aššur (and) Adad [will listen] to the prayers of a later prince when [...] 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)
1'⸢aš⸣-te-⸢e⸣-[ma ... ša]
2'URU i-na za-ak-[...]
3'iš-tu uš-še-šu a-[di ...]
4'e-pu-uš u₃ si₂-[ik-ka₃-ti aš-ku-un]
5'ru-ba-u₂ ur-ki-u₂ e-[nu-ma ...]
6'⸢e⸣-nu-hu-ma e-pu-šu [...]
7'{[d}a]-⸢šur₃⸣ {d}IŠKUR ik-ri-bi-⸢šu⸣ [i-ša-me-u₂]
8'[u₃] ⸢si₂⸣-ik-ka₃-ti a-na aš-ri-[ša]
9'[(...)] lu-te-er [(...)]

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