Names

  • Šamši-Adad IV 2

Numbers

  • Q006002
  • Šamši-Adad IV 2

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Details

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

Šamši-Adad IV 2

Obverse
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[mšam-ši-d]IŠKUR MAN KAL [MAN KIŠ MAN KUR aš-šur?]

(1) [Šamšī]-Adad (IV), strong king, [king of the world, king of Assyria ...], chosen of the gods Aššur and [Šamaš, ...] beloved of the gods, [...], his [lords]; son of Tiglath-pileser (I) [...].

22

[...] ni-šit ⸢aš⸣-šur ⸢ù⸣ [dUTU? ...]

33

[...] x-nu ÁGA-am d[...]

44

[...].⸢MEŠ⸣-šu DUMU GISKIM-A-é-šár-[ra ...]

55

[... diš₈]-⸢tár⸣ URU.ni-nu-a NIN-ia ša m[...]

(5) [The ... of the goddess Išta]r of Nineveh, my lady, which [... had previously restored] had again become dilapidated and [... rebuilt it and again] it had become dilapidated. Now its terrace [...] I built anew (and) finished (it) [...] ... [...]

66

[...] x-ú? i-túr e-na-aḫ-⸢ma⸣ [...]

77

[...] x e-na-aḫ-ma ù tam-la-šu x [...]

88

[... a-na eš]-⸢šu⸣-ut-te ar-ṣip ú-⸢šék⸣-lil ⸢UGU⸣ [...]

99

[...] ŠÀM 3-at ra ka ni ša ut x [...]

1010

[...] x x x x x ⸢ia? al?⸣ [...]

Lacuna

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/Q006002/.