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T1 A Sumerian Royal Inscription Describing The (Re)Building of a Chapel for Annunītum by King Enlil-Bāni of Isin
A1 Sánchez Muñoz, Daniel
K1 Epigrafía cuneiforme
K1 Lengua sumeria
K1 Inscripciones reales
K1 Early Old Babylonian Period
K1 Isin
K1 Enlil-bāni
K1 Annunītum
K1 Sumerian Royal Inscriptions
K1 5505.03 Epigrafía
K1 55 Historia
K1 5502 Historia General
K1 5503 Historia de Países
K1 5504.01 Historia Antigua
K1 5505.10 Filología
K1 5506.13 Historia de la Literatura
K1 6301.05 Lengua y Cultura
AB This article presents a new Sumerian royal inscription in which King Enlil-bāni of Isin claims to have built a residence for the goddess Annunītum. It is argued here that this construction work could have simply involved the maintenance of a chapel for Annunītum within the temple of Inana at Isin. Whatever the case, the work might have been very significant to Enlil-bāni, since he could have carried it out when Isin had lost control of Nippur due to its conquest by the rival kingdom of Larsa. In this way, Enlilbāni’s maintenance of the chapel of Annunītum, a goddess associated with kingship, could have been intended to gain her favor and thus reaffirm his royal status after this great loss, even though he later reintegrated Nippur into the kingdom of Isin. The Sumerian inscription in question appears with a presentation of the two foundation nails currently preserving this text, a score edition, and a philological commentary, as well as a hand copy and photographs of the duplicate preserved in the Sephardic Museum (Toledo, Spain). Photos and further details of another object from this museum, a votive cone containing a duplicate of Gudea 37 (= RIME 3/1, 1.7.37), also appear in the present paper.
PB Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
SN 0044-8699
YR 2023
FD 2023-07-01
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81762
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81762
LA eng
NO Archiv orientalní, vol. 91, n. 1, p. 1-17
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 04-feb-2026