Shalmaneser I 16 (Q005804)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Shalmaneser I 16 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005804 |
| Collection | Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 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 Column iii [0:5] iii 1'1'–iii 5'5' | In [the city Tarbiṣu ...]. As for its wall [... for] the god Nergal, my lord, [...] I ... [...]. |
| Obverse Column iii [5:10] iii 6'6'–iii 10'10' | The temple of the goddess Ištar my mistress [in the city Talmuššu] I restored. [Her] ziggurrat, the holy shrine, the peaceful abode, I [(re)constructed] inside the city Talmuššu for the goddess Ištar, mistress of the city Talmuššu. |
| Obverse Column iii [10:12] iii 11'11'–iii 12'12' | Egašankalamma, the temple of the goddess Ištar, mistress of the city Arbela, my mistress, and her ziggurrat I (re)built. |
| Obverse Column iii [12:14] iii 13'13'–iii 14'14' | The great ziggurrat I (re)built for the god Aššur my lord inside my city Aššur. |
| Obverse Column iii [14:17] iii 15'15'–iii 17'17' | The temple of the god Adad of the city Kaḫat and the god Adad of the city Isani, my lords, I (re)built. |
| Obverse Column iii [17:22] iii 18'18'–iii 22'22' | I made those cult centers (and) shrines better than previously, (re)built them from top to bottom, (and) made them magnificent. I deposited my monumental inscription. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| iii | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | i-⸢na⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | u₃ ⸢BAD₃⸣-šu x [...] | |
| 4' | {d}U.GUR EN-⸢ia⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | lu u₂-ša-ši-x [x x x (x)] | |
| 6' | E₂ {d}INANNA NIN-⸢ia⸣ [x x x (x)] | |
| 7' | u₂-di-iš si-qur-⸢ra⸣-[su (x x)] | |
| 8' | E₂ el-la šu-bat ne₂-eh-⸢ti⸣ [x (x)] | |
| 9' | a-⸢na⸣ {d}INANNA NIN {uru}tal-⸢mu⸣-[še] | |
| 10' | i-na qe₂-reb {uru}tal-mu-še lu x [(x x)] | |
| 11' | e₂-gašan-kalam-ma E₂ {d}INANNA NIN {uru}⸢ar⸣-[ba-il] | |
| 12' | NIN-ia u₃ si-qur-ra-su e-pu-uš | |
| 13' | si-qur-ra-ta GAL-ta a-na {d}aš-šur | |
| 14' | EN-ia i-na qe₂-reb URU-ia {d}aš-šur | |
| 15' | e-pu-uš E₂ {d}IŠKUR ša₂ {uru}⸢ka⸣-hat | |
| 16' | ⸢u₃⸣ {d}IŠKUR ša {uru}i-sa-ni EN.MEŠ-ia | |
| 17' | lu-u₂ e-pu-uš ma-ha-zi | |
| 18' | E₂.KUR.MEŠ ša-tu-nu el ša₂ pa-na | |
| 19' | u₂-ša-te-er iš-tu uš-še-šu-nu | |
| 20' | a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu-nu ab-ni | |
| 21' | ta-ši-la-ti-šu-nu e-pu-uš | |
| 22' | u₃ na-re-ia aš-ku-un | |
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