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The palace of Ashur-resha-ishi I at Nineveh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Leonard W. King  and
A. Kirk Grayson
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Among the papers of L. W. King in the Department of the Ancient Near East in the British Museum there is a copy of a hitherto unknown inscription, on a brick, of the twelfth-century Assyrian king Ashur-resha-ishi I. This inscription is of special importance because it records the name of a palace, Egalshahulla “The Palace of Joyfulness”, at Nineveh, a palace name previously unattested.

It is well known from other inscriptions that Ashur-resha-ishi I sponsored building works at Nineveh. One such text, attested on three brick fragments, may in fact refer to this palace but the name is unfortunately broken (RIMA 1 p. 315 A.0.86.5 lines 10–11 šá É.GAL […] šá URU ni-n[a-a…]).

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 63 , 2001 , pp. 169 - 170
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2001

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2 King has the following note above his copy “Brick from the long conduit at top(?) of mound”.

3 I am grateful to Douglas Frayne for helping me decipher the Sumerian name of the palace. There are, of course, temples called É.Š.Á.ḪÚL.LA — see George, , House Most High (Winona Lake, 1993) pp. 143–4Google Scholar.

4 See Grayson, RIMA 1 pp. 309–16 A.0.86.1–6.