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Nabonidus 53 (Q005450)

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

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DesignationNabonidus 53
IDQ005450
CollectionPrivate collection: anonymous
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 [0:1] 11–11(This is) the dagger, a request of the god Sîn, lord of the god(s), that he requested from Nabonidus, king of Babylon, in a dream.

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)
1GIR₂ hi-ših₂-ti {d}EN.ZU EN DINGIR ša₂ ina MAŠ₂.GI₆ {m}{d}AG-I MAN TIN.TIR{ki} i-ri-šu₂

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