Ashurnasirpal II 057

Obverse
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mAŠ-PAP-A GAR dBAD ŠID AŠ A GISKIM-MAŠ ⸢GAR d⸣BAD ŠID AŠ A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ ⸢GAR⸣ dBAD ŠID AŠ-ma

(1) Ashurnasirpal (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of (the god) Aššur:

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e-nu-ma é-maš-maš É dINANNA šá URU.NINA NIN-ia [ša mšam]-⸢ši⸣-10 ŠID AŠ NUN DU IGI-ia e-pu-šú

(2) At that time, Emašmaš, the temple of the goddess Ištar of Nineveh, my lady, [which Šam]šī-Adad, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, a ruler who has come before me, had built, had become dilapidated. I built (and) completed (it) from its foundations to its crenellations (and) decorated (it) mo[re] splendidly than before. I wrote out my commemorative inscription (and) deposited (it) inside it.

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e-na-aḫ-ma TA UŠ₈-šú EN gaba-dib-bi-šú ar-ṣip ú-šék-lil ú-si-im ú-šar-riḫ UGU maḫ-re-e ú-šá-[tir]

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⸢NA₄.NA⸣.RÚ.A al-ṭur ina qé-reb-šú aš-kun [NUN]-ú ⸢EGIR?⸣-ú an-ḫu-su lu-ud-diš-šú MU šaṭ-ra ana KI-šú lu-ter

(4b) May [[a] future [rule]r restore its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscribed name to its place.

Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q004511/.