Adad-narari I 22 (Q005759)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Adad-narari I 22 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005759 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 [0:6] 5555–6060 | When I saw the deserted (and) uncultivated areas of ... the city Ta[idu ...] ... I delineated its territory (and) therein founded a palace. I built (it) from top to bottom and deposited my monumental inscription. |
| Obverse [6:11] 6161–6565 | In the future may a later prince restore it. May he restore my inscribed name to its place. (Then) Aššur will listen to his prayers. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | {uru}⸢ta⸣-i-[da (x)] x-ah-ri ha-⸢ar⸣-bi | |
| 56 | na-du-ti ŠA₂ x x MA/KU BE | |
| 57 | a-mu-ur-⸢ma qa-qar⸣-šu u₂-me-es-si | |
| 58 | E₂.GAL-⸢la⸣ [i-na qe₂]-er-bi-šu ad-di | |
| 59 | iš-tu uš-še-ša a-di gaba-dib-bi-ša | |
| 60 | e-pu-uš u₃ na-re-ia aš-ku-un | |
| 61 | a-na ar-⸢ka⸣-at UD.MEŠ | |
| 62 | ru-bu-u₂ ar-ku-u₂ | |
| 63 | an-hu-sa lu-di-iš šu-mi ša₂-aṭ-ra | |
| 64 | ⸢a-na⸣ aš-ri-šu lu-te-er | |
| 65 | ⸢aš⸣-[šur] ⸢ik⸣-ri-be-šu i-še-em-me |
Sources & licences
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