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Nabopolassar 12 (Q005371)

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

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DesignationNabopolassar 12
IDQ005371
CollectionVorderasiatisches 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 [0:5] 11–55Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk, the one who provides for Esagil and Babylon, the one who built the embankment of the Araḫtu River for the god Marduk, his lord. 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)
1{d}AG-IBILA-u₂-ṣur LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}
2ti-ri-iṣ ŠU.II {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU
3za-nin e₂-sag-il₂ u₃ KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}
4DU₃-iš₃ KAR {id₂}a-ra-ah-ti a-na {d}AMAR.UTU EN-šu₂
5KAR a-na {d}AMAR.UTU MUNUS.SIG₅-šu qi₂-bi

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