Position in chronology
Ikunum 5add (formerly Šamši-Adad I 03)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1′) vice-regent of [(the god) Aššur; (and) Il]u-[šūma] (was) the son of Ša[lim-aḫum, vice-re]gent [of (the god) Aššur]. (5′) Ikūnum, vice[-regent of (the god) Aššur, buil]t the temple of the [goddess Ereškigal, for his life and the life of his city]. Moreover, he depo[sited (his) clay c]one (therein). (11′) (May) a f[uture ruler], when th(at) tem[ple ...] has become dilapida[ted, re]turn my clay co[ne t]o its place.
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/Q007286/
Why it matters
Transliteration
⸢ÉNSI⸣ [da-šùr] / ⸢DINGIR⸣-[šu-ma]1 / ⸢DUMU⸣ ša-⸢li?⸣-[im-a-ḫu-um] / ⸢ÉNSI⸣ [da-šùr] / ⸢i⸣-ku-[nu-um] / ⸢ÉNSI⸣ [da-šùr] / ⸢É de⸣-[re-eš-ki-gal] / [a-na ba-la-ṭì-šu (ù ba-la-aṭ a-li-šu)] / ⸢i⸣-[pu-uš] / ⸢ù? sí⸣-[ka-tam iš-ku-un] / ⸢ru⸣-[ba-um ar-ku-um?] / ⸢i-nu-ma? É⸣ [x x]-⸢ti?⸣ / ⸢i-nu⸣-ḫu ⸢sí⸣-ki-ti / [a]-⸢na⸣ áš-ri-ša / [li]-te-er
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 Q007286.
Attribution
Image: Created by Nathan Morello, 2017. Created by Nathan Morello (2017) 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/Q007286/..
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/Q007286/.
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