刻有铭文的砖块：阿达德·舒玛·乌苏勒（Adad shuma Suur）的专用铭文 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	刻有铭文的砖块：阿达德·舒玛·乌苏勒（Adad shuma Suur）的专用铭文
品名（英）	Inscribed brick: dedicatory inscription of Adad-shuma-usur
入馆年号	1959年，59.41.82
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
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创作年份	公元前 1216 - 公元前 1187
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尺寸	Brick: 13.4 × 10.9 × 7 厘米 (5 1/4 × 4 5/16 × 2 3/4 英寸) Inscription: 10.6 × 8.6 厘米 (4 3/16 × 3 3/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	维护寺庙及其邪教是古代近东统治者的首要责任，需要投入大量资源。最重要的宗教综合体之一是尼普尔的埃克尔，主神恩利尔的住所。统治者至少从公元前三千年中期开始，一直持续到公元前一千年，留下了刻有铭文的砖块，作为他们建筑工程的记录。在建筑物的地基内，冲压砖保存了统治者的记忆，供未来的建筑商发现这块部分破碎的砖上刻有卡斯特时期的统治者阿达德·舒马·乌瑟尔的铭文。这一时期统治者的典型铭文是用早已消亡的苏美尔语书写的，并使用了古文字楔形文字标志。上面写着：对于恩利尔，所有土地的国王，他的国王—— Adad shuma高利贷顺从的牧羊人，尼普尔的供养者，他一直在照顾埃库尔人，在新卡斯特城市杜尔库里加尔祖建造的宗教建筑群中包括了一座供奉这位神的神庙。
介绍（英）	Maintenance of temples and their cults was a primary responsibility of ancient Near Eastern rulers, requiring the investment of significant resources. Among the most important religious complexes was the Ekur of Nippur, the residence of the chief god Enlil. Rulers, beginning at least in the mid third millennium B.C. and continuing through the first millennium B.C., left behind bricks stamped with their inscriptions as records of their building works. Buried within the foundations of a building, stamped bricks preserved the memory of a ruler for a future builder to discover. This partially broken brick was stamped with the inscription of Adad-shuma-usur, a ruler of the Kassite period. Typical for the rulers of this period, the inscription is written in the long-dead Sumerian language and uses archaizing cuneiform signs. It reads: For Enlil, the king of all the lands, his king – Adad-shuma-usur the obedient shepherd, the provider of Nippur the one who constantly cares for the Ekur [has built the Ekur, his beloved temple, out of kiln-fired brick] Kassite rulers seem to have taken a particular interest in the god Enlil: in addition to rebuilding the temple and the enclosure walls of the Ekur at Nippur, a temple to this god was included in the religious complex constructed at the new Kassite city Dur-Kurigalzu.