Position in chronology
Adad-narari I 14
Written in modern English
Adad-nārārī I, appointee of Enlil and vice-regent of Aššur, was the son of Arik-dīn-ili and grandson of Enlil-nārārī, both of whom held the same titles before him. He records that the wall of the Inner City — originally built by earlier kings and standing opposite the great new ziggurat of Aššur that his father Arik-dīn-ili had erected — had fallen into disrepair. Adad-nārārī tore out the crumbling sections and reached its… the inscription breaks off here before the work is described further.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1) Adad-nārārī (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Arik-dīn-ili, appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Enlil-nārārī, (who was) also appointee of the god Enlil (and) vice-regent of (the god) Aššur. (4) At that time, (as for) the wall of the Inner City, which my ancestors, the kings who came before me, had previously built (and) which is opposite the large new ziggurat of the god Aššur, my lord, which Arik-dīn-ili, my father, had built, that wall had become dilapidated and I removed its dilapidated section(s) (and) reached its…
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
mdIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ šá-ak-ni dEN.LÍL ŠID aš-šur / DUMU GÍD-DI-DINGIR šá-ak-ni dEN.LÍL ŠID aš-šur / DUMU dEN.LÍL-ERIM.TÁḪ šá-ak-ni dEN.LÍL ŠID aš-šur-ma / ⸢e⸣-nu-ma du-ur URU.lìb-bi-URU / ⸢šá⸣ i-na pa-na ab-ba-ú-ia / LUGAL.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-šu / šá tar-ṣi si-qur-re-te GAL-ti / eš-še-ti šá da-šur EN-ia / šá mGÍD-DI-DINGIR a-bi e-pu-šu / du-ru šu-ú e-na-aḫ-ma / an-ḫu-su ú-né-ki-ir / dan-na-su…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q005751.
Attribution
Image: 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/Q005751/..
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q005751/.
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