Position in chronology
Adad-nerari II 3
Written in modern English
The opening lines are too damaged to translate. What survives is a closing formula: the king deposited his commemorative inscriptions here, and calls on any future ruler who finds the monument to restore it and return his inscribed name to its place — if he does, Aššur, the great lord, will hear his prayers. Any ruler who removes the inscriptions or erases the king's name will have his kingship overthrown by Aššur and his name and descendants wiped from the land. The date at the end is missing.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(r 1') (No translation possible.) (r 11'b) [... and deposited] my [commemorative inscrip]tions. (r 12'b) [May a future ruler restore it (and) return my inscribed name t]o its place. [(The god) Aššur, the great lord, will (then) listen to his prayers]. (r 13'b) [(As for) the one who removes] my [insc]riptions [and my name, may (the god) Aššur overthrow his kingship (and)] make [his name (and) his seed] disappear [from the land]. (r 15') (Date missing)
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
[...] x / [...].MEŠ / [...] x / [...] x.MEŠ / [...]-ta / [... ak?]-šud / [...] x MAḪ / [...] x-be-šú / [...] ⸢ú⸣-šal-ba-ru-[ma] / [...] a-na šap-liš / [... NA₄.NA].⸢RÚ⸣.A.MEŠ-ia / [aš-ku-un NUN-ú EGIR-ú an-ḫu-su lu-diš MU šaṭ-ra i]-na áš-ri-šú / [lu-te-er aš-šur EN GAL-ú ik-ri-be-šu i-še₂₀-me mu-né-kir₆] ⸢šiṭ⸣-ri-ia / [ù MU-ia aš-šur MAN-su lis-ki-pu MU-šu NUMUN-šu ina KUR] lu-ḫal-liq / [...]
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 Q006022.
Attribution
Image: 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/Q006022/..
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/Q006022/.
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