Names

  • Ilu-šumma 2

Numbers

  • Q005620
  • Ilu-šumma 2

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  • brick
  • Old Assyrian
  • Written ca. early 20th century
  • Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
  • Royal Inscription
  • Ilu-shumma

Ilu-šumma 2

Obverse
11

mDINGIR-šu-ma ŠIGₓ(URU×GU)

(1) Ilu-šūma, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, beloved of the god Aššur and the goddess Ištar, son of Šalim-aḫum, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur. Šalim-aḫum, vice-regent of Aššur, (was) the son of Puzur-Aššur (I) (and) vice-regent of (the god) Aššur.

22

ÉNSI

33

a-šùr.KI

44

na-ra-am

55

da-šùr

66

ù dINANNA

77

DUMU ša-lim-a-ḫu-um

88

ÉNSI

99

a-šùr.KI

1010

ša-lim-a-ḫu-um

1111

ÉNSI

1212

a-šùr.KI

1313

DUMU -zur₈-a-šùr

1414

ÉNSI

1515

a-šùr.KI

1616

DINGIR-šu-ma

(16) Ilu-šūma, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, built a temple for the goddess Ištar, his lady, (and) for his life, and he constructed a façade (and) new wall.

1717

ÉNSI

1818

a-šùr.KI

1919

a-na dINANNA

2020

NIN.A.NI

2121

a-na ba-la-ṭì-šu

2222

É i-pu-

2323

ù -ra-kam

2424

BÀD.KI

2525

e-ša-am

2626

i-ṣí-ir-ma

2727

a-na a-li-a

(27) I subdivided house-plots for my city. The god Aššur opened up for me two springs on Mount Ebiḫ (Abiḫ) and (then) I made bricks for th(at) wall using (the water of) those two springs. The water of one spring flowed down to the Aušum Gate, (while) the water of the other spring flowed down to the Wertum Gate.

2828

-ta-tim

2929

a-zu-uz

3030

2 e--en

3131

i-na a-bi-iḫ

3232

ša-du-im

3333

da-šùr

3434

ip-ti-a-ma

3535

i-na e--en

3636

šu-ni-ti

3737

SIG₄ BÀD.KI

3838

al-bi-in

3939

1 e-nu-um

4040

ma-ú-ša

4141

a-na ba-ab--

4242

a-ú-ší-im

4343

im---nim

4444

1 e-nu-um

4545

ša-ni-tum <ma-ú-ša>

4646

a-na ba-ab--

4747

dwe-er-tim

4848

im---nim

4949

a-du-ra-ar

(49) I established the freedom (andurāru) of the Akkadians and their children. I purified their copper. I established their freedom (andurāru) from the marshes and Ur and Nippur, Awal, and Kismar, (and) Dēr of the god Ištarān, as far as the city (Aššur).

5050

a---i

5151

ù ma-re-šu-nu

5252

áš-ku-un

5353

e-ru-šu-nu

5454

am-

5555

- -

5656

-id-ri-im

5757

ù ŠEŠ.UNUG.KI.MA

5858

ù EN.LÍL.KI

5959

a-wa-al.KI

6060

ù ki-is-mar.KI

6161

BÀD.AN.KI

6262

ša dKA.DI

6363

a- a-lim.KI

6464

a-du-ra-ar-šu-nu

6565

áš-ku-un


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/Q005620/.