Nabonidus 45 (Q005442)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylonia · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabonidus 45 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005442 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Babylonia |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] 1'1'–3'3' | [...] the gods Ea, Šamaš, and [...] prolong my days (and) [...] my y[ears ...] so that I may grow old [...]. |
| Obverse [3:6] 4'4'–6'6' | Nabonidus, king of Babylon, the wise (and) pio[us one, ...] ... [...] the deity [...] |
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' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | [x x] {⸢d⸣}IDIM {d}UTU u {⸢d⸣}[...] | |
| 3' | ⸢ur-ri⸣-ik UD.MEŠ-ia ⸢MU⸣.[AN.NA.MEŠ-ia ...] lu-lab-bi-⸢ir⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | {m}{d}AG-I LUGAL ⸢E{ki⸣} em₄-qa mu-ut-⸢nen⸣-[nu-u₂ ...] | |
| 5' | x x x [x] KU MU TE x [...] | |
| 6' | [...] {d}x [...] |
Sources & licences
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