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Zambiya 1 (Q001995)

Royal Inscription, Old Babylonian, Isin · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE

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Designation	Zambiya 1
ID	Q001995
Language	Sumerian; Akkadian
Period	Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
Genre	Royal Inscription
Find spot	Isin
Coordinates	31.8852, 45.2688

Transliteration (ATF)

From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)

Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
1	{d}za-am-bi-ya	Zambiya
2	sipa ni₂ tuku	the shepherd who has fear
3	nibru{ki}	of Nippur,
4	engar gu mah tum₂	farmer who brings a great neck,
5	še mah tum₂	to bring in great barley
6	eš₃ dur-an-ki-še₃	to the shrine Duranki
7	u₂-a zid	the righteous provider
8	kisal e₂-gal-mah-a	in the courtyard of Egalmaḫ
9	nig₂-nam-he si-si	to make everything right,
10	lugal i₃-si-in{ki}-na	king of Isin
11	lugal ki-en-gi₄ ki-uri	king of Sumer and Akkad,
12	dam igi il₂-la	the spouse with the raised eye
13	{d}inanna	For Inanna
14	ki ag₂ {d}en-lil₂	beloved of Enlil,
15	u₃ {d}nin-isin₂{si}-na-ka-ke₄	and Nininsina
16	bad₃ gal	the great wall
17	i₃-si-in{ki}-na	of Isin
18	mu-du₃	he built.
19	bad₃-ba	of that wall
20	{d}za-am-bi-ya	Zambiya
21	na-ra-am eš₄-tar₂	beloved of Eštar
22	mu-bi-im	that name

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