Nabonidus 14 (Q005411)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Kish · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabonidus 14 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005411 |
| Collection | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kish |
| Coordinates | 32.5520, 44.5853 |
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 [0:7] i 1'1'–i 7'7' | [who] con[stantly ...] ..., [(the one) who] never cea[ses (provisioning) Esag]il and Ezi[da], (the one who) regularly [... fo]r the great gods, (the one) who constantly strives to renovate the cult centers of the gods, son of Nabû-balāssu-[iqbi], wise prince, [am I]. |
| Obverse Column i [7:17] i 8'8'–i 17'17' | When the god Marduk, the gre[at] lord, called [my name] for ruling over the land, made the fame of [my royal majesty] great among all of the black-hea[ded] (people), gave [me] the people of the fo[ur] quarters (of the world) to shepherd, [...] ... [... of hi]s people, [...] ... [...] ... [... the fo]ur quarters (of the world), |
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' | [...] x NU DU qa₂-⸢qa₂⸣-[da-a] | |
| 2' | [ša₂ a-na e₂-sag]-⸢il₂⸣ u₃ e₂-zi-[da] | |
| 3' | [la ip-pa]-⸢ra⸣-ak-ku-u₂ ka-a-[a-na] | |
| 4' | [a]-⸢na⸣ DINGIR GAL.GAL su-ud-du-ru i-[x x] | |
| 5' | ud-du-šu ma-ha-zi DINGIR.MEŠ iš-te-ne₂-eʾ-[u₂] | |
| 6' | DUMU {m}{d}na-bi-um-ba-la-at-su-[iq-bi] | |
| 7' | ru-bu-u₂ e-em-qa₂ [a-na-ku] | |
| 8' | i-nu-um {d}AMAR.UTU be-el ra-[bu-u₂] | |
| 9' | a-na be-lu-ut ma-a-ti ib-bu-u₂ [ni-bi-ti] | |
| 10' | i-na na-ap-ha-ar ṣa-al-ma-at qa₂-⸢qa₂⸣-[du] | |
| 11' | ⸢u₂-šar⸣-bu-u₂ zi-ik-⸢ra⸣ [LUGAL-u₂-ti-ia] | |
| 12' | ⸢ni⸣-ši ki-ib-⸢ra⸣-a-ti er-be₂-⸢et⸣-[ti] | |
| 13' | [a]-na re-⸢e₂⸣-u₂-ti id-di-na [x] | |
| 14' | [...] ba-u₂-la-a-ti-⸢šu⸣ [...] i-x [x x] | |
| 15' | [...] ⸢AL TE KI ŠU₂⸣ [...] | |
| 16' | [x x] x x ⸢MU⸣ x x [...] | |
| 17' | [ki]-⸢ib⸣-ra-at er-⸢bet⸣-[ti ...] | |
Sources & licences
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