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Nabonidus 08 (Q005405)

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

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DesignationNabonidus 08
IDQ005405
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; Institute of Archaeology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; 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 [0:3] 11–33Nabonidus, king of Babylon, the one nominated by the gods Nabû and Marduk, heir of Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, wise prince, am I.

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-na-ʾi-id LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}
2ni-bi-it {d}na-bi-um u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU
3IBILA {d}AG-TIN-su-iq-bi NUN em-qa₂ a-na-ku

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