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Nabopolassar 08 (Q005367)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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DesignationNabopolassar 08
IDQ005367
CollectionArkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotBabylon
Coordinates32.5434, 44.4222

English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:4] 11–44For the god Marduk, his lord: Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, surrounded the wall of Babylon on the outside with an embankment of baked bricks. O embankment, speak favorable things about him 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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1a-na {d}AMAR.UTU EN-šu₂ {d}MUATI-A-URU₃
2LUGAL KA₂.DIŠ.DIŠ{ki} KAR a-gur-ru ana ki-da-nu
3BAD₃ ba-bi-i-lu u₂-ša₂-as-hir
4KAR a-na {d}AMAR.UTU MUNUS.SIG₅-šu₂ qi₂-ba

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