Nabonidus 36 (Q005433)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Ur · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabonidus 36 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005433 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Ur |
| Coordinates | 30.9616, 46.1047 |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] 11–22 | [Nab]onidus, king of Babylon, [the one who reveres] the god Sîn (and) the goddess Ningal, am I. |
| Obverse [2:5] 33–55 | [Fo]r the god Sîn, my lord, I built [Eg]ipar, the house of the ēntu-priestess, [which] is inside Ur. |
| Obverse [5:8] 66–88 | (For the) the ramku-priests of Ekišnugal, I secured their privileged status and established their freedom from service obligations. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {[d]}⸢AG⸣-I LUGAL KA₂.DIŠ.DIŠ{ki} | |
| 2 | [pa-lih] {d}30 {d}nin-gal ana-ku | |
| 3 | [e₂]-⸢gi₆⸣-par₃ E₂ NIN.DINGIR.RA | |
| 4 | [ša] qe₂-reb uri₂{ki} | |
| 5 | [a]-⸢na⸣ {d}30 be-li₂-ia e-pu-uš | |
| 6 | ⸢ra⸣-am-ku-ut e₂-giš-nu₁₁-gal | |
| 7 | ki-di-nu-ut-su-nu ak-ṣur-ma | |
| 8 | šu-ba-ra-šu-un aš-ku-un |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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