Nabonidus 04 (Q005401)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabonidus 04 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005401 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Babylon |
| Coordinates | 32.5434, 44.4222 |
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] Frgm._1_i' 1'1'–Frgm._1_i' 4'4' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [4:8] Frgm._1_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._1_ii' 4'4' | [...] not [...] the seed [...] |
| Obverse [8:13] Frgm._2 1'1'–Frgm._2 5'5' | [...] ... [...] their ... [... (the one who) makes my ome]ns [fav]orable [...] |
| Obverse [13:18] Frgm._3 1'1'–Frgm._3 5'5' | [...] ... [...] the god Mār-bīti, who [...] |
| Obverse [18:21] Frgm._4 1'1'–Frgm._4 3'3' | [...] ... my city [...] ... [... may] I have [no] riv[al(s) ...]. |
| Obverse [21:24] Frgm._4 4'4'–Frgm._4 6'6' | Nabonidus, the ki[ng] who reveres the gre[at] gods, am I. |
| Obverse [24:26] Frgm._4 7'7'–Frgm._4 8'8' | I am attentive to the gods and [goddess(es)] ... [...] |
| Obverse [26:30] Frgm._4 9'9'–Frgm._4 12'12' | (As for) the god Mīšaru (and) the goddess Šarrat-..., [who re]side in Ealtila — [which] is inside Esagi[l — who] had been angry in the past, |
| Obverse [30:35] Frgm._5 1'1'–Frgm._5 5'5' | [...] the god Nabû [...] who in [...] he sought [out ...] ... [...] |
| Obverse [35:41] Frgm._6_i' 1'1'–Frgm._6_i' 6'6' | [...] ... [...] abundance [... the one who (re)con]firmed their [...] ... |
| Obverse [41:48] Frgm._6_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._6_ii' 7'7' | [...] he [did] not [...] just as [...] I reac[hed ...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] |
| Obverse [48:53] Frgm._7_i' 1'1'–Frgm._7_i' 5'5' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [53:64] Frgm._7_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._7_ii' 11'11' | [...] and [in]stalled [door]s (plated with bands of) silver in them. [Af]ter I had inlaid the sides of [th]ese bulls as far as the vault and the wooden doors of the gate of the cella of the goddess Tašmētu with mounting(s) of shining silver, [I had] two fierce wild bulls of copper, which [...] to [...] Elagabgid, [...] |
| Obverse [64:71] Frgm._7_iii' 1'1'–Frgm._7_iii' 7'7' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [71:75] Frgm._7_iii' 8'8'–Frgm._7_iii' 11'11' | ki[ng ...] the god Bēl (Marduk) [...] |
| Obverse [75:82] Frgm._8_i' 1'1'–Frgm._8_i' 7'7' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [82:90] Frgm._8_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._8_ii' 8'8' | [...] in the temple (of) [...] ... [...] ... [...] did not alter [...] the[ir] holding [...] ... [...] |
| Obverse [90:91] Frgm._9_i' 1'1'–Frgm._9_i' 1'1' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [91:102] Frgm._9_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._9_ii' 11'11' | [...] ... [...] (the gods) fl[ew] up to the hea[vens] like birds, who in [...] and [...] thrived, t[o ...] together with [...] booty of the land [...] I made enter the city [...]. The governor [...] |
| Obverse [102:106] Frgm._10_i' 1'1'–Frgm._10_i' 4'4' | [...] firmly established [...] (my) ... [...] ... [...] seed |
| Obverse [106:111] Frgm._10_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._10_ii' 5'5' | [...] before [...] of the main courtyard of Ezid[a ...] I installed. For the god Sîn [...] |
| Obverse [111:116] Frgm._11_i' 1'1'–Frgm._11_i' 5'5' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [116:122] Frgm._11_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._11_ii' 6'6' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [122:126] Frgm._12_i' 1'1'–Frgm._12_i' 4'4' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [126:132] Frgm._12_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._12_ii' 6'6' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [132:137] Frgm._13_i' 1'1'–Frgm._13_i' 5'5' | [... I inla]id [...] ... [...] ... [...] enemy |
| Obverse [137:142] Frgm._13_i' 6'6'–Frgm._13_i' 10'10' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [142:152] Frgm._13_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._13_ii' 10'10' | I made [the ... of] the god Marduk and the goddess Zarpa[nītu], my lords, glorious. I had two censers of reddish gold, whose (weight is) two talents (and) two minas, (re)made according to their original appearance(s). [A stat]ue of my royal majesty, (shown as) a pious person, ... |
| Obverse [152:159] Frgm._13_iii' 1'1'–Frgm._13_iii' 7'7' | and [...] temple (of) [...], which [...] up to [...] ... [...] gate (of) [...] |
| Obverse [159:164] Frgm._14 1'1'–Frgm._14 5'5' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [164:167] Frgm._15_i' 1'1'–Frgm._15_i' 3'3' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [167:175] Frgm._15_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._15_ii' 8'8' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [175:180] Frgm._16_i' 1'1'–Frgm._16_i' 5'5' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [180:186] Frgm._16_ii' 1'1'–Frgm._16_ii' 6'6' | (No translation possible) |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| Frgm._1_i' | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x | |
| 3' | [...] x | |
| 4' | [...]-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| Frgm._1_ii' | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | la [...] | |
| 3' | NUMUN [...] | |
| 4' | x [...] | |
| Frgm._2 | ||
| 1' | [...] [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x ad-⸢da⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...]-an-ni-šu₂-nu [...] | |
| 4' | [x (ša₂) mu-dam]-⸢mi⸣-qu ⸢te⸣-[re-ti-ia x x] | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢tum⸣ [...] | |
| Frgm._3 | ||
| 1' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x x [...] | |
| 3' | [...] {⸢d⸣}DUMU-E₂ ša₂ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] ID [...] | |
| 5' | [...] x [...] | |
| Frgm._4 | ||
| 1' | [...] x-a URU-⸢ia⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ar a a x [...] | |
| 3' | [a-a] ar-ša₂-a ša₂-ni-[na ...] | |
| 4' | {[m]}{d}AG-NI₂.TUKU ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 5' | ⸢ša₂⸣ <ana> DINGIR.DINGIR GAL.⸢GAL⸣ | |
| 6' | ⸢na⸣-a-du a-na-[ku] | |
| 7' | ⸢a⸣-na DINGIR.MEŠ u {d}[EŠ₁₈.TAR₂] | |
| 8' | pu-tuq-qa₂-ku KUR UB x [x x] | |
| 9' | {⸢d⸣}mi-⸢šar⸣-ru {d}⸢GAŠAN⸣-NI-x | |
| 10' | [a]-šib e₂-al-ti-la | |
| 11' | [ša₂] qe₂-reb e₂-sag-⸢il₂⸣ | |
| 12' | [ša₂ i]-⸢na⸣ pa-ni iz-nu-[u₂] | |
| Frgm._5 | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢TA⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] {d}AG [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ša₂ ina x [...] | |
| 4' | [...] iš-te-⸢ne₂⸣-[eʾ-u₂ ...] | |
| 5' | [...] x ⸢AN⸣ x [...] | |
| Frgm._6_i' | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 2' | [...] x-da | |
| 3' | [...] HE₂.GAL₂ | |
| 4' | [... mu]-kin-ni | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢ti⸣-šu₂-nu | |
| 6' | [...]-⸢ki-in⸣ | |
| Frgm._6_ii' | ||
| 1' | ⸢gu⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | ul i-[...] | |
| 3' | ki-ma ša₂ x [...] | |
| 4' | ak-⸢šu⸣-[ud ...] | |
| 5' | i-⸢da⸣-[...] | |
| 6' | KU x [...] | |
| 7' | x x [...] | |
| Frgm._7_i' | ||
| 1' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [...] UD | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢tum⸣ | |
| 4' | [...]-ni | |
| 5' | [...] x | |
| Frgm._7_ii' | ||
| 1' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [...]-ma | |
| 3' | {[giš}IG].⸢MEŠ⸣ KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 4' | [u₂]-⸢ra⸣-at-tu-ši-na-tu₂ | |
| 5' | [iš]-⸢tu⸣ i-ta-at AM.AM | |
| 6' | ⸢šu₂⸣-nu-ti a-di SIG₇.IGI.KU₃ | |
| 7' | u {giš}IG.MEŠ iṣ-ṣi ša₂ KA₂ | |
| 8' | pa-pa-hi {d}taš-me-tum | |
| 9' | ih-zu KU₃.BABBAR eb-ba uh-hi-iz | |
| 10' | 2 AM.MEŠ URUDU ek-du-ti | |
| 11' | ⸢ša₂ a-na e₂-lagab-gid₂⸣ | |
| Frgm._7_iii' | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢u₂⸣-[...] | |
| 3' | i-x [...] | |
| 4' | ⸢u₂⸣-[...] | |
| 5' | te-[...] | |
| 6' | x [...] | |
| 7' | i-[...] | |
| 8' | ⸢LUGAL⸣ [...] | |
| 9' | pa-[...] | |
| 10' | {⸢d}EN⸣ [...] | |
| 11' | u₂-[...] | |
| Frgm._8_i' | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...]-⸢su₂⸣ | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢IG⸣ | |
| 4' | [...] x | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 6' | [...]-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 7' | [...] | |
| Frgm._8_ii' | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢ma⸣-[...] | |
| 3' | ina ⸢E₂⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | GIŠ x [...] | |
| 5' | lu-du-x [...] | |
| 6' | ul u₂-⸢nak-kir₃⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | ku-ul-li-šu₂-nu-[ti ...] | |
| 8' | ⸢u₂⸣-x x x [...] | |
| Frgm._9_i' | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢MI⸣ | |
| Frgm._9_ii' | ||
| 1' | [x] ⸢u₂⸣-[...] | |
| 2' | ⸢iṣ⸣-ṣu-riš ip-[par-šu₂-ma] | |
| 3' | i-lu-u₂ ⸢ša⸣-[ma-miš₂] | |
| 4' | ša₂ i-na ⸢ba⸣-[...] | |
| 5' | u₃ ta-[...] | |
| 6' | i-ši-ru ⸢a⸣-[na ...] | |
| 7' | it-ti [...] | |
| 8' | šil-lat KUR [...] | |
| 9' | qe₂-reb {⸢uru⸣}[...] | |
| 10' | u₂-še-⸢rib⸣ [...] | |
| 11' | ⸢GIR₃.NITA₂⸣ [...] | |
| Frgm._10_i' | ||
| 1' | [...] x [x] | |
| 2' | [...] x-ti u₂-⸢kin⸣ | |
| 3' | [...] x-na | |
| 4' | [...] NUMUN | |
| Frgm._10_ii' | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | pa-ni x [...] | |
| 3' | ša₂ KISAL.MAH e₂-zi-⸢da⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | ⸢u₂-kin⸣ a-na {d}30 [...] | |
| 5' | [x x] x [...] | |
| Frgm._11_i' | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x | |
| 3' | [...] x | |
| 4' | [...] x | |
| 5' | [...] x | |
| Frgm._11_ii' | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | x [...] | |
| 3' | i-[...] | |
| 4' | {d}[...] | |
| 5' | x [...] | |
| 6' | [...] | |
| Frgm._12_i' | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢su₂⸣ | |
| 2' | [...] x.MEŠ | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢zi⸣ | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢AN⸣ | |
| Frgm._12_ii' | ||
| 1' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢ra⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢LU₂⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | [x (x)]-⸢ta⸣-nu ⸢ša₂⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | x-⸢ga⸣-[...] | |
| Frgm._13_i' | ||
| 1' | [x x uh]-⸢hi⸣-iz | |
| 2' | [...] x A KU x | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢ta⸣-šu₂-nu | |
| 4' | [...] x-bir | |
| 5' | [...] {⸢lu₂⸣}KUR₂ | |
| 6' | [...] x KI | |
| 7' | [...] x | |
| 8' | [...] | |
| 9' | [...]-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 10' | [...] | |
| Frgm._13_ii' | ||
| 1' | {⸢d⸣}AMAR.⸢UTU⸣ u {d}⸢zar-pa⸣-[ni-tum] | |
| 2' | EN.MEŠ-e-a u₂-še-pa | |
| 3' | 2 NIG₂.NA ⸢KU₃.GI⸣ HUŠ.A | |
| 4' | ša₂ MIN₆ GUN 2 MA.NA | |
| 5' | ⸢ki⸣-ma si-ma-ti-šu₂-nu | |
| 6' | reš-ta-a-ti | |
| 7' | u₂-še-pi-iš | |
| 8' | ⸢ṣa⸣-lam ⸢ša₂-ru⸣-ti-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 9' | ⸢mu⸣-ut-nen-nu-u₂ | |
| 10' | x x x x x | |
| Frgm._13_iii' | ||
| 1' | u x [...] | |
| 2' | E₂ [...] | |
| 3' | ša ⸢im⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | a-di x [...] | |
| 5' | x x [...] | |
| 6' | ⸢KA₂⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | [...] | |
| Frgm._14 | ||
| 1' | [...] [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x [...] | |
| 3' | [...] x [...] | |
| 4' | [...] x [...] | |
| 5' | [...] x [...] | |
| Frgm._15_i' | ||
| 1' | [...]-⸢ba⸣ | |
| 2' | [...] | |
| 3' | [...] x | |
| Frgm._15_ii' | ||
| 1' | x x [...] | |
| 2' | x-ma [...] | |
| 3' | ⸢i-na⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | ⸢u₂-ra⸣-[...] | |
| 5' | ⸢UG⸣-[...] | |
| 6' | u₂-[...] | |
| 7' | i-[...] | |
| 8' | x [...] | |
| Frgm._16_i' | ||
| 1' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [...] x | |
| 3' | [...] x | |
| 4' | [...] x | |
| 5' | [...] x | |
| Frgm._16_ii' | ||
| 1' | x [...] | |
| 2' | x [...] | |
| 3' | x [...] | |
| 4' | x [...] | |
| 5' | x [...] | |
| 6' | x [...] | |
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