Shalmaneser I 1008
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| i 1'1' | (i 1') [(who was) also] vice-rege[nt of] the god Aš[š]u[r]. | |
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| i 3'3' | (i 3') (As for) the temple of the god Enl[il], my lord, which Eri[šum (I)] … [...] | |
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| i 5'5' | x x [...] x [...] | |
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| ii 1'1' | (ii 1') [I bu]ilt (it) [fr]om [its foundations t]o its [cren]ellations. I laid its foundations [with li]mestone, [li]ke a mountain. (In) that wall, [I set] silver, gold, lapis-lazuli, (and) cornelian [and, into (its) mortar, I mixed] ghee, best oil, [...] | |
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| ii 7'7' | [(x)] ú-⸢ki⸣-in | |
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| ii 12'12' | [...] x | |
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| iii 1'1' | x [...] | (iii 1') (No translation possible) |
| iii 2'2' | x [...] | |
| iii 3'3' | a-⸢na⸣ [...] | |
| iii 4'4' | lu x [...] | |
| iii 5'5' | (iii 5') I depo[sited my] commemorative [inscriptions] and foun[dation inscriptions wi[th the commemorative inscriptions of Šamšī-Adad (I). ... an] offe[ring]. | |
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| iii 10'10' | AŠ [...] | |
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| iv 1'1' | (x) [...] | (iv 1') (No translation possible) |
| iv 2'2' | ša [...] | |
| iv 3'3' | e-[...] | |
| iv 4'4' | a-na [...] | |
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| iv 6'6' | d⸢IŠKUR⸣ [(...)] | |
| iv 7'7' | LUGAL [...] | |
| iv 8'8' | šá x [...] | |
| iv 9'9' | NA₄.[...] | |
| iv 10'10' | ŠU x [...] | |
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| v 1'1' | (v 1') May [the god Enlil] seek out [...] for goodness. May he love my kingship. May he cause my shepherdship and patronage (of temples) to shine forth forever. | |
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| v 9'9' | x x | |
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| v 11'11' | x lá x | |
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| vi 1'1' | [...] x [...] | (vi 1') [May a future ruler return my commemorative inscriptions and inscriptions to their places. The god Enlil] will (then) listen to his prayers. |
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| vi 4'4' | (vi 4') (As for) the one who does not anoint my commemorative inscriptions and foundation inscriptions with oil, does not make an offering, (and) does not [return] them to their places, but (instead) alters [my commemorative inscriptions], discards my name, and writes his (own) name may the god En[lil ...] that king, [...] | |
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| l.e. 9'9' | [...] (x) x (x) [...] | |
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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/Q005833/.