Nabopolassar 02 (Q005361)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabopolassar 02 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005361 |
| Collection | Nebuchadnezzar Museum, Babylon, Iraq; Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq |
| 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 [0:3] 11–33 | Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk, I: |
| Obverse [3:13] 44–1313 | (As for) Imgur-Enlil, the great wall of Babylon, I sought out its original foundation from the bank of the Araḫtu River on the north side, that of the gate of the goddess Ištar, to the south side, that of the gate of the god Uraš, and I built (it) in the same way for the god Marduk, my lord. |
| Obverse [13:14] 1414–1414 | O wall, speak favorable things about me to the god Marduk. |
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-ṣur | |
| 2 | LUGAL ba-bi-lim{ki} | |
| 3 | ti-ri-iṣ ŠU.II {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU ana-ku | |
| 4 | im-gur-{d}EN.LIL₂ | |
| 5 | BAD₃ ra-ba-a ša ba-bi-lim{ki} | |
| 6 | ul-tu GU₂ {id₂}a-ra-ah-tim | |
| 7 | UŠ AN.TA ša₂ KA₂.GAL-{d}INANNA | |
| 8 | a-di UŠ KI.TA ša₂ KA₂.GAL-{d}uraš | |
| 9 | te-me-en-šu la-bi-ri | |
| 10 | u₂-ṣab-bi-ma | |
| 11 | mi-it-ha-ri-iš | |
| 12 | a-na {d}AMAR.UTU EN-ia | |
| 13 | lu-u₂ e-pu-uš | |
| 14 | BAD₃ a-na {d}AMAR.UTU qi₂-bi SIG₅-ti |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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