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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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• Wetzel 1914 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#wetzel1914], p. 28 (transliteration)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], p. 140 n. 843 (translation)
• George 1992 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#george1992], p. 344 (transliteration)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], p. 51 (edition)

• Wetzel 1930 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#wetzel1930], pp. 64 and 79, and pl. 37 (provenance, study by Unger)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 5 and 336 no. 8.2.1 (study)

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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• Brinkman and Donbaz 1974 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman-donbaz1974], p. 157 (transliteration)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], p. 52 (edition)

• Brinkman and Donbaz 1974 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman-donbaz1974], p. 157 (copy)

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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• Ismail 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#ismail1981], pp. 114–115 (edition)
• Ismail in The Land Between Two Rivers 1985 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#ismail1985], p. 388 no. 151 (edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 52-53 (edition)

• Ismail 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#ismail1981], p. 114 (copy)
• Ismail in The Land Between Two Rivers 1985 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#ismail1985], p. 320 no. 151 (photo)

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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• Smith 1872 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#smith1872], p. 72 no. 52 (ex. 1, translation)
• Ménant 1875 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#menant1875], p. 125 (ex. 1, translation)
• Smith 1875 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#smith1875], p. 86 no. 50 (ex. 1, translation)
• Langdon 1924 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#langdon1924], pp. 16–17 and 65 (ex. 1, edition)
• Walker 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#walker1981], no. 72 (exs. 1–3, transliteration [Ash. 1924.634, instead of Ash. 1930.39, said to be complete])
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 53-54 (edition)

• Porter 1822 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#porter1822], pl. 77a (copy in type)
• Rawlinson and Norris 1861 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#rawlinson-norris1861] , pl. 5 no. 22 (ex. 1, copy in type)

• Porter 1822 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#porter1822], p. 394 (provenance)
• Bezold 1886 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1886], p. 123 §68.2 (ex. 1, study)
• BM Guide 1922 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bmguide1922], p. 69 no. 206 (ex. 1, study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 5, 140 and 336 no. 8.2.3 (exs. 1, 4, study)
• Walker in Barnett 1974 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#barnett1974], p. 27 no. 8 (ex. 1, study)

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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• Gadd 1925 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#gadd1925], pp. 29–31 (ex. 1, edition)
• Hunger 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hunger1968], p. 135 no. 498 (ex. 1, edition of colophon)
• Parpola 1983 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#parpola1983], pp. 452–453 no. 14 (ex. 1, edition of colophon)
• Borger 1991 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#borger1991], pp. 65–66 [27–30] (exs. 1–2, transliteration)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 54-56 (edition)

• Gadd 1925 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#gadd1925], pp. 32–33 (ex. 1, copy [by S. Smith])
• Langdon 1931 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#langdon1931], p. 136 (ex. 2, copy)

• Meissner 1937 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#meissner1937], pp. 46–47 (ex. 1, study)
• Weidner 1941–1944 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#weidner1941-1944], p. 314 n. 133a (ex. 1, study)
• Falkenstein 1953 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#falkenstein1953], pp. 4–5 (ex. 1, study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 5, 140, and 336 no. 8.2.2 (ex. 1, study)
• Sommerfeld 1982 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#sommerfeld1982], p. 186 n. 1 (ex. 1, study)
• Borger 1991 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#borger1991], pp. 63–66 [27–30] (exs. 1–2, study)

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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• Oppert in Place 1867-1870 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#place1867-1870], vol. 2, p. 308 (edition)
• Oppert 1870 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#oppert1870], p. 28 (edition)
• Smith 1872 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#smith1872], p. 72 no. 52 (translation)
• Ménant 1875 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#menant1875], p. 125 (translation)
• Smith 1875 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#smith1875], p. 86 no. 50 (translation)
• Winckler 1889 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#winckler1889], p. 28 n. 2 (edition)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], p. 140 n. 846 (translation)
• George 1992 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#george1992], p. 350 (edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 56-57 (edition)

• Oppert in Place 1867-1870 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#place1867-1870], vol. 2, p. 308 (copy in type) and vol. 3, pl. 78 no. 4 (heliograph facsimile)
• Oppert 1870 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#oppert1870], p. 28 (copy in type)

• Bezold 1886 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1886], p. 123 §68.1 (study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 5 and 336 no. 8.2.4 (study)

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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• Edzard and Wilcke 1977 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#edzard-wilcke1977], pp. 89–90 (exs. 1–2, edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 57-58 (edition)

• Edzard 1973 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#edzard1973], p. 43 no. 1 (study)
• Hrouda 1973 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hrouda1973], pp. 38–39 (provenance)
• Hrouda 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hrouda1981], pp. 13 and 20 (provenance)
• Wilcke 1987 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#wilcke1987], p. 120 and pl. 2 fig. 1 (provenance)

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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• Cavigneaux 1979 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#cavigneaux1979], pp. 123–124 no. 8 (partial transliteration)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 58-59 (edition)

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• Cavigneaux 1979 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#cavigneaux1979], pp. 123–124 no. 8 (copy)

• Cavigneaux 1983 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#cavigneaux1983], pp. 55–56 (study)

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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• Birot 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#birot1968], p. 247 no. 6 (edition)
• Arnaud 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#arnaud1981], p. 82 (edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 59-60 (edition)

• Birot 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#birot1968], p. 246 no. 6 (copy)
• Arnaud 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#arnaud1981], p. 99 (copy)
• [Arnaud, D.,] Sumer 41 (1985), p. 143 [Arabic section] (copy)

• Arnaud 1971 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#arnaud1971], p. 291 (study)
• Arnaud 1976 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#arnaud1976], pp. 48–49 nos. 7 and 22–23 (study)
• Arnaud 1978 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#arnaud1978], p. 165 nos. 7 and 22–23 (study)
• Arnaud 1983 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#arnaud1983], p. 229 no. 1 (study)
• Huot 1989 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#huot1989], p. 32 (study)

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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• Gadd 1925 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#gadd1925], pp. 27–28 (edition)
• Gadd 1928 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#gadd1928], no. 166 (ex. 1, edition)
• Poebel 1928-1929 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#poebel1928-1929], pp. 103–104 (edition)
• Walker 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#walker1981], no. 73 (ex. 1, transliteration)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 60-61 (edition)

• Gadd 1928 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#gadd1928], no. 166 (ex. 1, photo, copy)

• Woolley 1965 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#woolley1965], pp. 4, 69, and 103 (provenance; ex. 2, study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 5, 140–141, and 336–337 no. 8.2.5 (exs. 1–2, study)
• Brinkman 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1969], p. 335 (study)

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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• Gadd 1928 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#gadd1928], no. 167 (edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], p. 61 (edition)

• Gadd 1928 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#gadd1928], no. 167 (copy)

• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 5, 140–41, and 337 no. 8.2.6 (study)
• Brinkman 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1969], p. 335 (study)
• Behrens 1985 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#behrens1985], p. 239 no. 52 (study)

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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• Herzfeld 1941 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#herzfeld1941], p. 134 no. 3 (transcription)
• Herzfeld 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#herzfeld1968], p. 30 no. 8 (transcription)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], p. 164 no. 40 (transliteration)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], p. 62 (edition)

• Herzfeld 1941 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#herzfeld1941], pl. XXVIII no. 3 (photo)
• Nagel 1959-1960 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#nagel1959-1960], p. 99 fig. 7 (drawing)
• Herzfeld 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#herzfeld1968], p. 30 no. 8 (copy)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], p. 61 fig. 61 (drawing)

• Porada in Man in the Ancient World 1958 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#porada1958], p. 15 no. 45 (study)
• Nagel 1959-1960 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#nagel1959-1960], pp. 95–96 no. 8 (study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], p. 337 no. 8.2.7 (study)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], p. 61 no. 31Q (study)
• Moorey 1971 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#moorey1971], p. 32 no. 11 (study)

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 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#alrawi1981], 116) for an attribution to Adad-apla-iddina seem rather convincing.

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• Al-Rawi 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#alrawi1981], p. 117 (on)
• George 1992 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#george1992], p. 344 (partial edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 62-63 (edition)

• Al-Rawi 1981 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#alrawi1981], p. 117 (photo, copy)
• Al-Rawi 1985 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#alrawi1985], pp. 25–26 no. 5 (photo, copy)

• Al-Rawi 1985 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#alrawi1985], pp. 25–26 no. 5 (study)

Alexa Bartelmus

Alexa Bartelmus, 'Inscriptions', RIBo, Babylon 2: The Inscriptions of the Second Dynasty of Isin, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2017 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/rulers/adadaplaiddina/inscriptions/]