Šamši-Adad IV 4 (Q006004)
Royal Inscription, Middle Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 1400 BCE–1000 BCE
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| Designation | Šamši-Adad IV 4 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q006004 |
| 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 [0:1] 11–11 | To Aššur, [his] lord, [...]: |
| Obverse [1:4] 22–44 | Šamšī-Adad, appointee of [Enlil, vice-regent of Aššur], son of Tiglath-pile[ser (I), appointee of Enlil, vice-regent of Aššur], son of Aššur-rēša-i[ši (I) (who was) also appointee of Enlil and vice-regent of Aššur]: |
| Obverse [4:7] 55–77 | dedicated (this) long pestle [...] for his life, the well-being of [his]seed, [...]. Whither purification [...] |
| Obverse [7:12] 88–1212 | [If someone] takes (it) either to (another) temple, or [to ...], or to a storehouse, [or to ... and does not return it] 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | a-na aš-šur be-[li-šu ...] | |
| 2 | {m}šam-ši-{d}IŠKUR ⸢GAR⸣ {[d}BAD ŠID aš-šur] | |
| 3 | A {giš}tukul-ti-A-⸢e₂⸣-[šar₂-ra GAR {d}BAD ŠID aš-šur] | |
| 4 | A aš-šur-SAG-⸢i⸣-[ši GAR {d}BAD ŠID aš-šur-ma] | |
| 5 | a-bat-tu a-ri-[ik-tu ...] | |
| 6 | a-na TI-šu SILIM ⸢NUMUN⸣-[šu ...] | |
| 7 | i-qiš e-em te-⸢lil⸣-[te ...] | |
| 8 | lu a-na E₂ DINGIR ⸢lu⸣ [...] | |
| 9 | lu a-na E₂ hu-⸢ur⸣-[še ...] | |
| 10 | i-la-qe u₂-x-[...] | |
| 11 | [a]-⸢na⸣ aš-ri-ša₂ [...] | |
| 12 | [...] x x [...] |
Sources & licences
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