Names

  • Šamši-Adad IV 1

Numbers

  • Q006001
  • Šamši-Adad IV 1

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Details

  • cone
  • Middle Assyrian
  • Written ca. 1053-1050
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Royal Inscription
  • Shamshi-Adad IV

Šamši-Adad IV 1

Obverse
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mšam-ši-dIŠKUR MAN dan-nu MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur

(1) Šamšī-Adad (IV), strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tiglath-pileser (I), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Aššur-rēša-iši (I), (who was) also king of the world (and) king of Assyria.

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DUMU GIŠ.tukul-ti-IBILA-é-šár-⸢ra⸣ MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur

33

DUMU aš-šur-SAG-i-ši MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma

44

e-nu-ma É na-me-⸢ri⸣ [ša É diš₈-tár] áš-šu-ri-te NIN-ia

(4) At that time, the towers [of the temple of] the Assyrian [Ištar], my lady, which a ruler who came before me [had built, had become dilapidated (and)] I built (them) [in] their (text: “its”) entirety.

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ša NUN-ú a-lik pa-ni-ia [... a-na] si-⸢ḫír⸣-ti-šu ak-še-er

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⸢NA₄⸣.[NA.RÚ.A.MEŠ ù?] ⸢sik⸣-ka-te.MEŠ al-ṭu-ur i-na qer-bi-šu [áš-ku-un]

(6) I inscribed commemorative inscriptions and clay cones (and) [deposited] (them) therein.

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[ITI....] ⸢u₄⸣-me 8.KÁM li-mu [mšam-ši-dIŠKUR MAN KUR?] aš-šur

(7) [Month ...], eighth day, eponymy of [Šamšī-Adad (IV), king of] Assyria.

Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project 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/Q006001/.