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11 | (1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Shalmaneser (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, (and) son of Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur. | |
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1717 | (17) At that time, I, Tukultī-Ninurta (I), the appointee of the god Enlil, the vice-regent of the god Aššur, added twenty layers of brick to them. I installed (its) beams and doors. I built (and) completed th(at) temple. I erected a dais (inside it). During a joyous celebration, I made the goddess Ninuaittu (Nunaittu), my lady, sit on (that new) dais of hers. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscription (therein). | |
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3030 | (30) May a future ruler renovate its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscribed name to its place. The goddess Nunaittu will (then) listen to his prayers. | |
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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/Q005853/.