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Nabonidus 39 (Q005436)

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

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DesignationNabonidus 39
IDQ005436
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; Montserrat Museum, Barcelona, Spain; 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 [0:2] 11–22Nabonidus, king of Babylon, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida.
Obverse [2:5] 33–55For the god Sîn, my lord, I built Egipar, the house of the ēntu-priestess that is inside Ur.

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}
2za-nin e₂-sag-il₂ u₃ e₂-zi-da
3e₂-gi₆-par₃ E₂ NIN.DINGIR.RA
4ša qe₂-re-eb uri₂{ki}
5a-na {d}EN.ZU EN-ia e-pu₂-uš

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