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A brick from Babylon is stamped on its edge with an inscription of Adad-apla-iddina, king of Babylon, of which only the first two lines, which give the name and title of the king, are fully decipherable. Line 3 may contain reference to Imgur-Enlil, the inner wall of Babylon; the rest of the text is broken. Because of its fragmentary state of preservation, it is not possible to determine whether the inscription was written in Sumerian or Akkadian.
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The Babylon Collection of the Eski Şark Museum in Istanbul owns a fragment of a clay cylinder on which an Akkadian inscription of Adad-apla-iddina is partially preserved. Only the first three lines are legible: they contain the name of the king, a very unusual royal title (ŠÀ.TÙR KÁ.DINGIR.RA.[KI]), and part of the king's filiation („legitimate heir of ..."; possibly the name of one or more gods should be restored here).
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A Sumerian votive inscription on a bead in the Iraq Museum states that the king had given this object to the god Marduk.
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Four bricks from Kish are stamped with a Sumerian inscription of Adad-apla-iddina that refers to Emeteursaga, the temple of the god Zababa. Although all signs are clearly recognizable, at present, it is only possible to translate the first six lines of the text.
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| (1) BM 090286 | (2) Ash 1924.0634 (HMR 342) |
| (3) Ash 1930.0039 | (4) FMNH 156011 |
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Two Neo-Assyrian tablets contain copies of a bilingual votive inscription of Adad-apla-iddina. A colophon from the time of Esarhaddon (written by the scribe Urad-Gula, son of Adad-šuma-uṣur) on one of these tablets states that this text had originally been written on "the belt of the lord of Borsippa" (i.e., the god Nabû); according to the inscription itself, the object was made of gold and precious stones, and decorated with rampant bulls facing the four directions.
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| (1) BM 079503 (1889-10-14, 0051) | (2) Sm 0397 |
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An Akkadian inscription of Adad-apla-iddina written on a small truncated cone found at Khorsabad reports that this king conducted building work on Nēmet-Marduk, the outer wall of Nippur, for the god Enlil. It seems likely that the object had originally been deposited there and was taken to Khorsabad only later, after an Assyrian campaign into Babylonia.
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Several bricks at Isin are stamped with a Sumerian building inscription recording renovation work by Adad-apla-iddina on the temple Egalmaḫ for the goddess Ninisina.
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| (1) IM 076547 (IB 0148a) | (2) IB 0148b |
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A Sumerian inscription of Adad-apla-iddina has been copied by a later scribe in Uruk. Due to the poor state of the (unbaked) tablet, the end of the text on the reverse and the Akkadian colophon following it are barely legible.
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Work on the enclosure wall of the temple Ebabbar by Adad-apla-iddina is recorded in a Sumerian inscription on numerous stamped bricks that were found (and left in situ) at Larsa.
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At least two bricks from Ur (reportedly from the great court of Nanna) are stamped with a Sumerian inscription stating that Adad-apla-iddina, "son of the goddess Ninisina" and "son-in-law of the divine (moon) crescent," had renovated the temple Egišnugal for the god Nanna. Deviating from standard practice, the inscription does not contain a main clause, and the addressee of the inscription (and/or the bricks?), the god AŠimbabbar, comes at the end. An Akkadian translation of this text (using a participle instead of a final verbal form) is given in the following inscription (no. 11).
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| (1) BM 116989 (U 03130) | (2) IM 001038 (U 03130) |
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A brick from Ur (not found in situ) is stamped with an Akkadian version of the previous (Sumerian) text (no. 10), indicating that Adad-apla-iddina did renovation work on the temple Egišnugal for the god AŠimbabbar.
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A bronze dagger in the St. Louis Art Museum is inscribed with a short Akkadian possession inscription of Adad-apla-iddina, "king of the world."
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A fragment of a clay cylinder from Babylon bears a Sumerian inscription recording restoration work on Imgur-Enlil, the inner wall of Babylon. Unfortunately, the name of the king is not fully preserved, but the arguments of Al-Rawi (1981, 116) for an attribution to Adad-apla-iddina seem rather convincing.
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Alexa Bartelmus
Alexa Bartelmus, 'Inscriptions', RIBo, Babylon 2: The Inscriptions of the Second Dynasty of Isin, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/Rulers/Adad-apla-iddina/Inscriptions/]