Nabopolassar 15 (Q005374)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabopolassar 15 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005374 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Sippar |
| Coordinates | 33.0592, 44.2538 |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:19] i 1i 1–i 1919 | Nabopolassa[r], strong king, king of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, the one who makes the foundations of the land firm, pious prince, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk, favorite of the god Šaššu (Šamaš), beloved of the goddess Aya, the warrior of war[riors] whom the aweso[me] god Erra allowed to attain his desire, the humble (and) respectful one who strives after the rites of the great gods, the king whose deeds surpass those of the kings, his ancestors, am I. |
| Obverse Column i [19:33] i 2020– | When the god Šaššu (Šamaš), the great lord, came to my side and [I] killed [the Subarean (Assyrian) and turned the land of] my [ene]my into a mound [of] ruins (lit. “a mound [and] ruins”), at that time, I built anew Eedinna, the temple where she (lit. “he”) can relax, for the Divine Lady of Sippar — the exalted princess, my lady — and made (it) as bright as day. |
| Obverse Column ii [10:22] ii 1111–ii 2222 | On account of this, O Divine Lady of Sippar, supreme [la]dy, whenever I complete this temple and you take up residence inside it, for me — Nabopolassar, the king who provides for you — prolong (my) kingship until the distant future like the bricks of Sippar and Babylon, which are firmly in place for eternity. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| i | ||
| 1 | {d}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-⸢ṣu⸣-[ur₂] | |
| 2 | LUGAL da-⸢num₂⸣ | |
| 3 | LUGAL ⸢KA₂.DINGIR⸣.RA{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 4 | LUGAL MA.DA-šu-me-ri₂-im u₃ ak-ka-di-i | |
| 5 | ⸢mu⸣-ki-in iš-di MA.DA | |
| 6 | ru-ba-a-am na-aʾ-dam | |
| 7 | ti-ri-iṣ qa₂-at | |
| 8 | {d}na-bi-um u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 9 | mi-gi-ir ša-aš-šu | |
| 10 | ⸢na⸣-ra-am {d}⸢a-a⸣ | |
| 11 | qar-ra-ad qar-ra-⸢de⸣-[e] | |
| 12 | ⸢ša⸣ {d}er₃-ra ra-šu-⸢ub⸣-[bu] | |
| 13 | u₂-ša-ak-ši-du-šu ni-iz-⸢ma-su⸣ | |
| 14 | a₃-aš-ri-im ša-ah-ṭam | |
| 15 | ⸢mu⸣-uš-te-eʾ-e-em sak-ke-e-em | |
| 16 | ša DINGIR.DINGIR GAL.GAL | |
| 17 | LUGAL ša ep-še-tu-šu | |
| 18 | e-li LUGAL.LUGAL AD.AD-šu | |
| 19 | šu-tu-qa₂ a-na-ku | |
| 20 | e-nu-ma ša-aš-šu | |
| 21 | EN ra-bi₂-u₃ | |
| 22 | i-da-a-a il-li-ku-ma | |
| ii | ||
| 1 | [su-ba-ru-um a]-na-ru | |
| 2 | [u₃ MA.DA za-ʾe-e]-ri-ia | |
| 3 | [u₂-te-er-ru] ⸢a⸣-na DU₆ | |
| 4 | ⸢u₃ ka⸣-ar-mu | |
| 5 | ⸢i₃⸣-nu-mi-šu | |
| 6 | a-na {d}NIN ZIMBIR{ki} | |
| 7 | ru-ba-tim ṣi-ir-tim GAŠAN-ia | |
| 8 | e₂-edin-na E₂ ta-ap-šu-uh₂-ti-šu | |
| 9 | e-eš-ši-iš e-pu-uš-ma | |
| 10 | ki-ma u₄-mi-im u₂-na-mi-ir | |
| 11 | a-na ša-at-tim {d}NIN ZIMBIR{ki} | |
| 12 | [be]-⸢el-tim⸣ šu-ur₂-bu-tim | |
| 13 | ⸢e-ma⸣ E₂ šu-a-ti | |
| 14 | uš-ta-ak-la-lu-ma | |
| 15 | ta-ra-am-mi-i-im qe₂-re-eb-ša | |
| 16 | ia-a-ši {d}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ | |
| 17 | LUGAL za-ni-in-ki | |
| 18 | ki-ma SIG₄.SIG₄ ZIMBIR{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 19 | u₃ KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 20 | ku-un-na-am a-na ṣi-a-tim | |
| 21 | šar-ru₄-tim šu-ul-bi-ri-im | |
| 22 | a-na u₄-mi-im re-e-qu₂-tim | |
Sources & licences
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