Nabonidus 52 (Q005449)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Harran · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabonidus 52 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005449 |
| Collection | Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Harran |
| Coordinates | 36.8647, 39.0312 |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] 11–11 | For the god Sîn, king of the gods, the one who resides [in the great] hea[vens, lord of Eḫulḫul, which is inside the city Ḫarrān, my lord]: Nabonidus, king of Babylon, the one who provides for E[sagil and Ezida, am I]. |
| Obverse [1:6] 22–66 | I ma[de a kallu-bowl and] a šulpu-vessel of alallu-stone for carrying water for the [(washing of) hands in ...], the ziggurat of Eḫulḫul, which is inside (the city) Ḫarrān [and, as an emblem of his (Sîn’s)] great [divinity], who daily and constantly [speaks his] wo[rd(s)] in the heavens and (who) does no[t go back] on his promise, [I ...]. |
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 | a-na {d}30 LUGAL ša₂ DINGIR.MEŠ a-šib ⸢AN⸣-[e GAL.MEŠ EN e₂-hul₂-hul₂ ša₂ qe₂-reb KASKAL{ki} EN-ia] | |
| 2 | {d}MUATI-NI₂.TUKU LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} za-nin e₂-⸢sag⸣-[il₂ u e₂-zi-da a-na-ku kal-lu u] | |
| 3 | šul-pi ša₂ {na₄}a-lal₂-lum a-na na-še-e me-⸢e⸣ [ŠU.II ina ...] | |
| 4 | ziq-qur-rat e₂-hul₂-hul₂ ša₂ qe₂-reb KASKAL{ki} e-pu-⸢uš⸣-[ma a-na si-mat DINGIR-u₂-ti-šu₂] | |
| 5 | GAL-ti ša₂ u₄-mi-šam-ma ana gi-ne₂-e ina ša₂-ma-mu a-⸢ma⸣-[at-su i-qab-bu-u] | |
| 6 | u a-na qi₂-bit-šu₂ ⸢la⸣ [i-tur-ru ...] |
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