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Nabonidus 37 (Q005434)

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

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DesignationNabonidus 37
IDQ005434
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK; Montserrat Museum, Barcelona, Spain; Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotUr
Coordinates30.9616, 46.1047

English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:5] 11–55Nabonidus, king of the world, king of Babylon, the one who built Enunmaḫ, the ḫilṣu-building (that is) inside Ekišnugal, for the goddess Ningal, his lady.

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 ŠAR₂
2LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}
3ša e₂-nun-mah E₂ hi-il-ṣi
4qe₂-reb e₂-giš-nu-gal₂
5a-na {d}nin-gal GAŠAN-šu i-pu₂-šu

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