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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
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…]).
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.