Names

  • Aššur-bel-nišešu 1001

Numbers

  • Q005707
  • Aššur-bel-nišešu 1001

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Details

  • cone
  • Old Assyrian
  • Written ca. ca. 1407-1399
  • Qalat Sherqat (Assur)
  • Royal Inscription
  • Ashur-bel-nisheshu

Aššur-bel-nišešu 1001

Obverse
Lacuna
1'1'

⸢aš?⸣-te-⸢e?⸣-[ma ... ša?]

(1') I sought [and the ... {of}] the city with/in [...] I built (it) from its foundations t[o its crest. Moreover, I [deposited my clay] cone (therein).

2'2'

URU i-na za-ak-[...]

3'3'

iš-tu uš-še-šu a-[di ...]

4'4'

e-pu-uš ù sí-[ik-kà-ti aš-ku-un]

5'5'

ru-ba-ú ur-ki-ú e-[nu-ma ...]

(5') (When) a future ruler builds [that …] w[hen] it becomes dilapidated, the gods [Aššu]r (and) Adad [will (then) listen to] hi[s] prayers. [Moreover], may he return my [cl]ay cone to [its] place.

6'6'

⸢e⸣-nu-ḫu-ma e-pu-šu [...]

7'7'

[da]-⸢šùr⸣ dIŠKUR ik-ri-bi-⸢šu⸣ [i-ša-me-ú]

8'8'

[ù] ⸢sí⸣-ik-kà-ti a-na aš-ri-[ša]

9'9'

[(...)] lu-te-er [(...)]

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/Q005707/.