Shalmaneser I 02
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11 | (1) Shalmaneser (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Adad-nārārī (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Arik-dīn-ili, (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of the god Aššur; founder of holy cult centers, builder of Ekur — the shrine of the gods (and) the dwelling of the god Nunnamnir. | |
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55 | (5b) At that time, (as for) Eḫursagkurkurra, the ancient temple, which Ušpia, my ancestor, the vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, had previously built, (and which when) it became dilapidated, Erišum (I), my ancestor, the vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, built (it and which when) 159 years had passed and it had again become dilapidated, Šamšī-Adad (I), (who was) also my ancestor (and) the vice-regent of the god Aššur, built (it and) 580 years passed, th(at) temple and its sanctuar(ies) were destroyed by fire. I cleared away that temple in its entirety (and) reached its foundation pit. I laid its foundations with hard limestone, just like bedrock. | |
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1111 | 9 šu-ši 40 MU.MEŠ il-li-ka-ma | |
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1515 | (15b) I built two towers, which had not been built before, as an addition. I greatly enlarged the forecourt of the god Nunnamnir and the area of the forecourt of the god Aššur, my lord, more than before. I put stools and cult platforms in their sanctuaries. I placed all of the gods of Ekur inside it. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscriptions and foundation inscriptions (therein). | |
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2222 | (22) (As for) the one who removes my inscriptions and my name, may the god Aššur, my lord, overthrow his kingship (and) make his name and his seed disappear from the land. | |
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2525 | ITI.ša-sa-ra-te UD.20.KÁM li-mu | (25) Ša-sarrāte, twentieth day, eponymy of Aššur-dammiq, son of Abi-ili. |
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Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q005790/.