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  • Erišum I 02

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  • Q005622
  • Erišum I 02

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  • door socket
  • Old Assyrian
  • Written ca. ca. 1974-1935
  • Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
  • Royal Inscription
  • Erishum I

Erišum I 02

Obverse
11

i-ri-šum

(1) Eriš[um (I)], vice-regent of the god Aššur, son of Ilu-šūma, vice-regent of the god Aššur.

22

ÉNSI

33

da-šùr

44

DUMU DINGIR-šu-ma

55

ÉNSI*

66

da-šùr

77

É gi-me-er-ti

(7) He built the temple (and) all of the temple area for the god Aššur, his lord, for his life, and the life of his city.

88

i--re

99

a-na da-šùr

1010

be--šu

1111

a-na ba-la-ṭì-šu

1212

ù ba-la-aṭ

1313

a-li-šu

1414

i-pu-

1515

i-nu-me *-ti

(15) When I started the work, (when) my city was under my command, I made silver, gold, copper, tin, barley, and wool, as well as the payment of bran and straw, exempt from taxes.

1616

a-na e*-ep-ší

1717

a--ú

1818

a*-li a-na -a

1919

ú-ší-ib-ma

2020

a-du-ra-ar

2121

.BABBAR .GI

2222

URUDU AN.NA še-im

2323

SÍK a- e-

2424

tuḫ-ḫe ù -e

2525

áš-ku-un

2626

i-na -ma

(26) I mixed ghee and honey into (the mortar of) every wall and (then) laid one layer of bricks. With the god Aššur, my lord, standing by me, I cleared houses from the Sheep Gate to the People’s Gate. My father had constructed a wall, but I made th(at) wall higher than my father had.

2727

i-ga-re

2828

Ì.NUN ù LÀL

2929

ú-ší-il-ma

3030

ti-ib-kam

3131

-te₉-en

3232

as*-bu-uk

3333

da-šùr be-

3434

i-zi-za-ma

3535

- a-bu-ul--

3636

ṣé-nim a-

3737

a-bu-ul-ni-šé

3838

-ta-tim

3939

ú-ša- a-bi-i

4040

BÀD i-ṣí-ir-ma

4141

a-na ma-la

4242

ša a-bi-a-ma

4343

BÀD e-li-

4444

ú-ṣí-ma

4545

ša -ma li-ip-ti-a

(45) (As for) the one who disrespects and removes any of my work (mentioned) in (this) tablet, [may] the gods A[ššur (and) ...]

4646

ša ṭup--am

4747

la <i>-ḫí-ṭù-ma

4848

ú-ša--[ku]

4949

da-[šùr]

5050

d[...]

Lacuna


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/Q005622/.