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Adad-narari I 02 (Q005739)

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

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Designation	Adad-narari I 02
ID	Q005739
Collection	British Museum, London, UK; Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Language	Akkadian
Period	Middle Assyrian · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
Genre	Royal Inscription
Find spot	Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates	35.4581, 43.2620

English translation

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

Line	English
Obverse [0:12] 3636–4747	He who erases my inscribed name and writes his (own) name; or discards my monumental inscriptions, hands (them) over for destruction, consigns (them) to oblivion, covers (them) with earth, burns (them) with fire, throws (them) into the water, puts (them) in a Taboo House where there is no visibility; or because of these curses he incites a stranger, a foreigner, a malignant enemy, (a man who speaks) another language, or anyone else (to do any of these things); or conceives of and does anything (injurious):
Obverse [12:27] 4848–6262	May the god Aššur, the exalted god, dweller of Eḫursagkurkurra, the gods Anu, Enlil, Ea, and Ninmaḫ, the great gods, the Igīgū of heaven, the Anunnakū of the underworld, may they all glare at him angrily and inflict upon him in their wrath an evil curse. May they destroy his name, his seed, his clan, and his kin from the land. May the dispersal of his land, the destruction of his people and his heirs be decreed by their weighty edict. May the god Adad overwhelm him with a terrible flood. May deluge, hurricane, insurrection, confusion, storm, need, famine, hunger, (and) want be established in his land. May (Adad) cause (these things) to pass through his land like a flood and turn (it) into ruin hills. May the goddess Ištar, my mistress, bring about the defeat of his land. May he not stand firm before his enemy. May the god Adad strike his land with terrible lightning (and) afflict his land with want.

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English

Obverse [0:12] 3636–4747

He who erases my inscribed name and writes his (own) name; or discards my monumental inscriptions, hands (them) over for destruction, consigns (them) to oblivion, covers (them) with earth, burns (them) with fire, throws (them) into the water, puts (them) in a Taboo House where there is no visibility; or because of these curses he incites a stranger, a foreigner, a malignant enemy, (a man who speaks) another language, or anyone else (to do any of these things); or conceives of and does anything (injurious):

Obverse [12:27] 4848–6262

May the god Aššur, the exalted god, dweller of Eḫursagkurkurra, the gods Anu, Enlil, Ea, and Ninmaḫ, the great gods, the Igīgū of heaven, the Anunnakū of the underworld, may they all glare at him angrily and inflict upon him in their wrath an evil curse. May they destroy his name, his seed, his clan, and his kin from the land. May the dispersal of his land, the destruction of his people and his heirs be decreed by their weighty edict. May the god Adad overwhelm him with a terrible flood. May deluge, hurricane, insurrection, confusion, storm, need, famine, hunger, (and) want be established in his land. May (Adad) cause (these things) to pass through his land like a flood and turn (it) into ruin hills. May the goddess Ištar, my mistress, bring about the defeat of his land. May he not stand firm before his enemy. May the god Adad strike his land with terrible lightning (and) afflict his land with want.

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)

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
36	ša šu-mi₃ šaṭ-ra
37	i-pa-ši-ṭu-ma MU-šu i-ša-ṭa-ru u₃ lu-u₂
38	na-re-ia u₂-ša-am-sa-ku a-na ša-ah-lu-uq-te
39	i-ma-nu-u₂ a-na mi-ši i-na-du-u₂
40	i-na e-pe-ri u₂-ka-ta-mu i-na IZI
41	i-qa-lu-u₂ a-na A.MEŠ i-na-du-u₂
42	a-na E₂-a-sa-ak-ki a-šar la a-ma-ri
43	u₂-še-re-bu-ma i-ša-ka-nu u₃ lu-u₂
44	aš-šum er-re-ti ši-na-ti-na na-ka-ra
45	a-ha-a a-ia-ba le-em-na li-ša-na na-ki-ir-ta
46	lu-u₂ ma-am-ma ša-na-a u₂-ma-ʾa-ru-ma u₂-ša-ha-zu
47	u₃ lu-u₂ mi-im-ma i-ha-sa-sa-ma e-pu-šu
48	{d}a-šur DINGIR ṣi-ru a-ši-ib e₂-hur-sag-kur-kur-ra
49	{d}a-nu {d}EN.LIL₂ {d}e₂-a u₃ {d}nin-mah DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ {d}i-gi-gu
50	ša ša-me-e {d}a-nun-na-ku ša er-ṣe-ti i-na nap-ha-ri-šu-nu
51	ez-zi-iš li-kil₂-mu-šu-ma er-re-ta ma-ru-uš-ta ag-gi-iš
52	li-ru-ru-uš MU-šu NUMUN-šu el-la-su u₃ ki-im-ta-šu i-na ma-ti
53	lu-hal-li-qu na-as-pu-uh ma-ti-šu ha-la-aq ni-še-šu
54	u₃ ku-du-ri-šu i-na KA-i-šu-nu kab-ti lu-ṣa-am-ma
55	{d}IŠKUR i-na ri-hi-iṣ le-mu-ti li-ir-hi-is-su a-bu-bu
56	im-hu-ul-lu sah-maš-tu te-šu-u₂ a-šam₃-šu-tu su-qu
57	bu-bu-tu a-ru-ur-tu hu-ša₂-hu i-na ma-ti-šu
58	lu ka-ia-an KUR-su₂ a-bu-bi-iš lu-uš-ba-i
59	a-na ti-li u₃ kar-me lu-te-er {d}iš₈-tar₂ be-el-ti
60	a-bi-ik-ti KUR-šu li-iš-ku-un i-na pa-ni na-ak-ri-šu
61	ia iz-zi-iz {d}IŠKUR i-na be-ri-iq le-mu-ti KUR-su
62	li-ib-ri-iq a-na KUR-šu hu-ša₂-ha li-di

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