Position in chronology
Erišum I 14
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Erišum (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Ilu-šūma, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur; Ilu-šūma (was) the son of Šalim-aḫum, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur; (and) Šalim-aḫum (was) the son of Puzur-Aššur (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur. (14) Erišum, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur: With the god Adad standing by me and for the god Adad, my lord, for my life, and the life of my city, I built the temple and its temple area. Moreover, I installed (its) doors. (27) (As for) the one who would remove th(is) tablet, may the gods Aššur, Adad, [and] Bēl, my god, destroy his [seed].
Source: 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/Q005634/
Why it matters
Transliteration
i-ri-šum / ÉNSI / a-šùr.KI / DUMU DINGIR-šu-ma / ÉNSI / a-šùr.KI / DINGIR-šu-ma / DUMU ša-lim-a-ḫu-um / ÉNSI / a-šùr.KI / ša-lim-a-ḫu-um / DUMU pù-zur₈-da-šùr / ÉNSI a-šùr.KI / i-ri-šum / ÉNSI a-šùr.KI / dIŠKUR / i-zi-za-ma / a-na dIŠKUR / be-lí-a / a-na ba-la-ṭì-a / ù ba-la-aṭ / a-li-a / É ù i-sà-ri-šu / i-pu-uš / ù GIŠ.IG.ḪI.A / áš-ku-un / ša DUB.BI-am / ú-ša-sà-ku / a-šùr.KI ù dIŠKUR / [ù] be-lúm ì-lí / [za]-⸢ra-šu li-ik?-sú?-ma?⸣
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 Q005634.
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/Q005634/..
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/Q005634/.
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