Shalmaneser I 09
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11 | (1) Shalmaneser (I), appointee of the god Enlil, vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Adad-nārārī (I), vice-regent of (the god) Aššur, son of Arik-dīn-ili, (who was) also vice-regent of (the god) Aššur. | |
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55 | (5) At that time, (as for) the Libūr-šalḫī Gate, which is adjacent to the shrine of the Gate of (the God) Aššur, my lord, (and) which had been built previously, it had become dilapidated and dilapidated section(s). I repaired (its) weakened portion(s) and (then) built (its) ruined section from its foundations to its crenellations. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscription (therein). | |
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1818 | (18) May a future ruler restore its (the gate’s) dilapidated section(s) and return my inscribed name to its place. (The god) Aššur will (then) listen to his prayers. | |
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2424 | (24) (As for) the one who removes my inscription and my name, may (the god) Aššur, my lord, overthrow his kingship (and) afflict his land with want. | |
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2727 | (27) Ḫibur, eponymy of Mušabšiʾu-Sebetti. | |
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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/Q005797/.