Naram-Sin

I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the original translators as having made mistakes in good faith, according to what was known at the time-- many of those early references, frex, refer to Naram-Sin as the son of Sargon rather than his grandson, as seems to be the more recent consensus.

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Or if we fall back to the Constantinople museum walkthrough, then even if The Quote isn't related to Naram-Sin himself, it's probably based however loosely on some other artifact in the same area?

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Search for "Naram-Sin" until you find the start of the translation.

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My French is pretty crummy, but it appears to me that it says this tablet falls into the common format of I, Naram-Sin, powerful king, beloved of Goddess X, favored of Goddess Y, have constructed a temple.

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Naram-Sin seems to have a curse legend attached to him, but so far I haven't found any text from it along the lines of "Naram-Sin's reign became corrupt because he failed in his piety toward the gods, disregarding many oracular tablets from the priests."

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Julie: Here's your Scheil translation of the Naram-Sin tablet, in raw OCR text:

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In any case, Naram-Sin expanded Assyria's rule to the west.

d. The Amorite Kingdoms 2001

Naram-Sin (2291–2255) brought the kingdom of Akkad to its zenith.

c. The Sumerians and the Akkadians 2001

Under Naram-Sin (2291–2255) a treaty (the earliest known) was made with the king of Elam who was made a vassal.

c. The Elamites 2001

The Assyrian king Naram-Sin (c. 1830) may be the same as a contemporaneous king Naram-Sin of Eshnunna, and the two kingdoms may have united under him.

d. The Amorite Kingdoms 2001