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A New Edition of Adad-nērārī I’s inscription A.0.76.5
The article offers a new treatment of the inscription commissioned by the Assyrian king Adad-nērārī I (1295–1264 BC) and now widely known, thanks to A.K. Grayson’s 1987 edition, as A.0.76.5. The text comes from Qalʽat Širqāṭ / Aššur; in the early 1920s it was brought to Lvov, at that time a part of Poland, and entered the collection of the Oriental Institute of the Lvov University, where it was studied by J. Bromski, the author of its first edition (1926). During the Soviet period, in 1952, the inscription was transferred to the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. The text is inscribed on a large piece of limonite covering three sides of the stone. Unfortunately, a considerable part of the monument was lost, probably already in antiquity. The text consisted of a historical introduction describing Adad-nērārī I’s campaigns against Hanigalbat, a main part devoted to the building activities and infrastructure projects of the Assyrian king, including digging of wells, and a standard conclusion with blessings and curses.