Nabopolassar 01 (Q005360)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabopolassar 01 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005360 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; British Museum, London, UK; Nebuchadnezzar Museum, Babylon, Iraq; Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Babylon |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] 11–44 | Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk, am I. |
| Obverse [4:17] 55–1717 | (As for) Imgur-Enlil, the great wall of Babylon, which had become weak (and) had collapsed before my time, I firmly set its foundations on (its) original socle. I built (it) anew using people mustered from my land and I surrounded Babylon on (all) four sides. I raised its superstructure just like the one in earlier times. |
| Obverse [17:19] 1818–1919 | O wall, speak favorable things (about me) to the god Marduk, my lord. |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {d}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ | |
| 2 | LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 3 | ti-ri-iṣ qa₂-ti {d}na-bi-um | |
| 4 | u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU a-na-ku | |
| 5 | im-gur-{d}EN.LIL₂ | |
| 6 | BAD₃ ra-bi₂-a-am | |
| 7 | ša KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 8 | ša ul-la-nu-u₂-a | |
| 9 | i-ni-šu i-qu₂-pu | |
| 10 | in ki-gal-lim re-eš-ti-im | |
| 11 | u₂-ki-in uš-ši-šu | |
| 12 | in um-ma-nim di-ku-ut ma-ti-ia | |
| 13 | eš-ši-iš lu ab-ni-ma | |
| 14 | a-na IM LIMMU₂.BA KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 15 | lu u₂-ša-as₃-hi-ir | |
| 16 | ki-ma ša u₄-um ul-lu-tim | |
| 17 | re-ši-šu lu u₂-ul-lu | |
| 18 | BAD₃ a-na {d}AMAR.UTU EN-ia | |
| 19 | da-mi-iq-ta ti-iz-ka-ar |
Sources & licences
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