Position in chronology
Adad-narari I 21
Written in modern English
Adad-narari describes building or restoring a wall — the earlier sections are too damaged to read clearly, but the work happened after Enlil-narari's reign and was carried out with the support of the god Aššur. He then marched his troops to Kār-Ištar and fought Nazi-Maruttaš, king of Babylonia, though the account of what followed is largely lost. The final legible lines turn to the ziggurat of Aššur: something had previously destroyed it, and Adad-narari was attending to it, but the surface breaks off before the details are given.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(5'b) At that time, the wall [...], which previously [...] before Enlil-nār[ārī ...] ... [... with the] mighty [weapons] of (the god) Aššur, [my] lord, [... I mustered] my troops with [... and fought against Nazi-Maruttaš, the king] of Karduniaš (Babylonia), in [the city Kār-Ištar] ... [...] that camp [...] mighty, I/he brought [...]. (15'b) [At that time, the ziggu]rat of (the god) Aššur, my lord, [...] the location of which [... had destroyed ...]
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
e-nu-ma BÀD [...] / [...] šá i-na maḫ-⸢ri⸣ [...] / [...] ma-ḫar BE-⸢ERIM.TÁḪ?⸣ [...] / [...] a? x ḫi i x [...] / [i-na GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ? dan]-⸢nu?⸣-te šá aš-šur ⸢EN⸣-[ia ...] / [... uš]-man-ni-ia it-ti x [... ad-ke-ma ...] / [...] KUR.kar-du-ni-aš i-⸢na?⸣ [...] / [...] x-ti-x-ma am-da-ʾ [...] / [...] ka-ra-ši šu-⸢ú?⸣ [...] / [...] x gaš-ru-tu ú-⸢bil?⸣ [...] / [... si-qur]-ra-te šá aš-šur EN-ia ⸢AN?⸣ [...] / [...] x šá a-⸢šar?⸣-šá ⸢ú?⸣-[né-ki-ir? ...] / (traces)
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 Q005758.
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/Q005758/..
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/Q005758/.
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