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Arik-din-ili 2 (Q005731)

Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE

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DesignationArik-din-ili 2
IDQ005731
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodMiddle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 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] 11–44Arik-dīn-ili, legitimate prince, strong king, king of Assyria, builder of the temple of the god Šamaš, the exalted shrine:
Obverse [4:11] 55–1111Whoever erases my inscribed name or removes my inscription, may the god Šamaš, my lord, overthrow his sovereignty and afflict his land with famine.

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{m}GID₂-DI-DINGIR NUN ki-nu
2LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL KUR aš-šur
3ba-ni E₂ {d}UTU
4E₂.AN.NA ṣi-ri
5ša MU šaṭ-ra
6i-pa-aš-ši-ṭu
7u mu-ša₂-re-ia u₂-na-ka-ru₃
8{d}UTU be-li₂
9LUGAL-su li-is-ki-ip
10u hu-ša₂-ah-ha
11a-na KUR-šu li-id-di

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