Shalmaneser I 09


Obverse
11	⸢^m⸣^dsál-ma-nu-SAG šá-ak-ni ^dAB	(1) Shalmaneser (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Adad-nārārī (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Arik-dīn-ili, (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur.
22	⸢ŠID⸣ aš-šur
33	⸢A⸣ ^dIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ ŠID aš-šur
44	A GÍD-DI-DINGIR ŠID aš-šur-ma
55	e-nu-ma KÁ.GAL-šá-li-bur-šal-ḫi	(5) At that time, (as for) the Libūr-šalḫī Gate, which is adjacent to the shrine of the Gate of (the God) Aššur, my lord, (and) which had been built previously, it had become dilapidated and dilapidated section(s). I repaired (its) weakened portion(s) and (then) built (its) ruined section from its foundations to its crenellations. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscription (therein).
66	šá SUḪUR É ṣa-al-me
77	šá KÁ aš-šur EN-ia
88	šá i-na pa-na ep-šu
99	e-na-aḫ-ma
1010	an-ḫu-sa
1111	ú-né-ki-ir
1212	an-ša ak-še-er
1313	ù ma-aq-ta iš-tu uš-še-šu
1414	a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu
1515	e-pu-uš
1616	ù na-re-ia
1717	aš-ku-un
1818	NUN ar-ku-ú	(18) May a future ruler restore its (the gate’s) dilapidated section(s) and return my inscribed name to its place. (The god) Aššur will (then) listen to his prayers.
1919	an-ḫu-sa
2020	lu-di-iš
2121	šu-mi šaṭ-ra
2222	a-na aš-ri-šu lu-te-er
2323	aš-šur ik-ri-be-⸢šu i⸣-še-me
2424	mu-né-kir₆ ši-iṭ-ri-ia ù šu-mì-ia	(24) (As for) the one who removes my inscription and my name, may (the god) Aššur, my lord, overthrow his kingship (and) afflict his land with want.
2525	aš-šur be-li LUGAL-su lis-kip
2626	a-na KUR-šu ḫu-šá-ḫa li-di
2727	ITI.ḫi-bur li-mu	(27) Ḫibur, eponymy of Mušabšiʾu-Sebetti.
2828	^mmu-šá-ab-ši-ú-^dIMIN.BI	(27) Ḫibur, eponymy of Mušabšiʾu-Sebetti.

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/Q005797/.