Nabonidus 38 (Q005435)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Ur · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabonidus 38 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005435 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK; Montserrat Museum, Barcelona, Spain; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; St. Andrew's Memorial Church, Church of Scotland, Jerusalem; Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| 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 [0:5] 11–55 | Nabonidus, king of Babylon, the one who provides for Ur, renovated and restored Elugalgalgasisa, the ziggurat of Ekišnugal. |
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 E{ki} | |
| 2 | za-nin uri₂{ki} | |
| 3 | e₂-lugal-galga-si-sa₂ | |
| 4 | ziq-qur-rat e₂-giš-nu-gal₂ | |
| 5 | ud-diš-ma ana KI-šu₂ GUR |
Sources & licences
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