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Nabonidus 51 (Q005448)

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

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DesignationNabonidus 51
IDQ005448
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotHarran
Coordinates36.8647, 39.0312

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, son of Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, perfect prince.
Obverse [2:4] 33–44For the deities Sîn, Ningal, Nusku and Sadarnunna, my lords, I built Eḫulḫul, the temple of the god Sîn that is inside the city Ḫarrān.

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{m}{d}MUATI-na-ʾi-id LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} za-nin e₂-sag-il₂
2u e₂-zi-da DUMU {m}{d}MUATI-ba-lat-su-iq-bi NUN git₂-ma-lum
3e₂-hul₂-hul₂ E₂ {d}30 ša₂ qe₂-reb {uru}har-ra-na a-na {d}30
4{d}nin-gal {d}nusku u {d}sa-dar₃-nun-na EN.MEŠ-a lu DU₃-uš

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