Adad-nerari III 02

Obverse
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mdIŠKUR-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN GAL MAN KAL MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR

(1) Adad-nārārī (III), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Šamšī-Adad (V), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Shalmaneser (III), king of the four quarters (of the world):

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A mšam-ši-10 MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR -<<>>-šur

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A mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN kib-rat LÍMMU

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[ta]-ḫu-mu šá ina bir-ti mza-ku-ri KUR.ḫa-ma-ta-a-a

(4) The boundary that Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria, (and) Šamšī-ilu, the field marshal established between Zakkūru of the land of Hamath and Attār-šumki, son of Abi-rāmu: the city Naḫlasi, together with all its fields, gardens, [and] settlements, is (the property) of Attār-šumki. They divided the Orontes River between them. This is the border.

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[(u ina) bir]-ti ma-tar-šúm-ki A mAD-ra-mu m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KUR mšam-ši-DINGIR .tar-ta-nu

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[-ku]-nu-ni URU.na-aḫ-la-si a-di A.ŠÀ.MEŠ-šú GIŠ.KIRI₆.MEŠ-šú

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[u] di-ma-ti-šú gab-be šá ma-tar-šúm-ki šu- ÍD.ar-am- ina bi-ri-šú-nu

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[ú-šam]-ši-lu-ma i-zu-zu mi-ṣir NAM-A m10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KUR mšam-ši-DINGIR .--

(8b) Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria, (and) Šamšī-ilu, the field marshal, have given it free and clear to Attār-šumki, son of Abi-rāmu, to his sons, and his subsequent grandsons. He made firm his city (and) its territories [...] to the border of his land.

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[tar]-ta-nu ú-za-ki-ú-ma a-na ma-tar-šum-ki A mAD-ra-mu a-na DUMU.MEŠ-šú

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DUMU DUMU.MEŠ-šú EGIR.MEŠ ki ri-mu-ti i-ri-mu URU-šú ta-ḫu-ma-ti-šú

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[x x] a-na mi-ṣir KUR-šú ú-kín MU -šur dIŠKUR u dbe-er dBAD -šur-ú

(11b) By the name of the gods Aššur, Adad, and Ber, the Assyrian Enlil, (and) the Assyrian [Ninli]l (Mullissu), and the name of Sîn, who dwells in the city Ḫarrān, the great gods [of] Assyria, whoever afterwards speaks ill of the terms of this stele and takes this border by force from the possession of Attar-šumki, his sons, or his grandsons, and destroys the written name (and) writes another name, may the gods [Aššur], Adad, and Ber, (and) Sîn, who dwells in the city Ḫarrān, the great gods of Assyria [whose] names are recorded on this stele, not listen to his prayers.

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[dNIN].LÍL -šur- MU d30 a-šib URU.KASKAL-ni DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ

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[šá] KUR -šur man-nu EGIR-ú šá pi NA..A šú-a-

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[ú]-šam-sa-ku-ma mi-ṣir an-na-a TA qa-at ma-tar-šúm-ki

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[DUMU].MEŠ-šú u DUMU DUMU.MEŠ-šú ina dan-na-ni e-ki-mu

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[(x)] u? šu-mu šaṭ-ri i-pa-ši-ṭa MU šá-nam-ma i-šaṭ-ṭar

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[-šur] dIŠKUR u dbe-er d30 a-šib URU.KASKAL DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ šá KUR

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[šá ina] NA..A an--e MU-šú-nu zak-ru

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ik-ri-bi-šú ul i-šá-mu-ú


Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC II (858-745 BC) (RIMA 3), Toronto, 1996. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2016) 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/Q004750/.