Names

  • Šamši-Adad IV 3

Numbers

  • Q006003
  • Šamši-Adad IV 3

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Details

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

Šamši-Adad IV 3

Obverse
Lacuna
1'1'

[...] x x [...] x

(1') [...] ... [... had become] dilapidated. Two (monumental) lions on right and left [...]

2'2'

[... e-na]-aḫ 2 UR.MAḪ.MEŠ ša ZAG u GÙB

3'3'

[...] x diš₈-tár NIN-ia ú-šal-ba-ru-⸢ma⸣

(3') [When the ...] of the goddess Ištar, my lady, becomes old and [dilapidated], may [a future ruler] restore it.

4'4'

[...] x a-na áš-ri-šu lu-ter x [x]

5'5'

[... LUGAL-su] ⸢lis⸣-ki-pu MU-šu ù NUMUN-[šu]

(5') [As for the one who does not restore it], may [(the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar] overthrow [his kingship and make] his name and [his] seed [disappear from his land].

6'6'

[i-na KUR-šu lu-ḫal-li-qu ITI.... UD ... li-mu m]⸢šam⸣-ši-dIŠKUR MAN KUR [AŠ]

(6'b) [Month ..., ...th day, eponymy of Š]amšī-Adad (IV), king of Assyria.

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/Q006003/.