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Nabonidus 54 (Q005451)

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

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DesignationNabonidus 54
IDQ005451
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotPadakku
Coordinates25.9786, 40.4670

English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:9] 11–99[(...)] gods [...] ... [... in]side the city P[adakku], the cit[y ...], in the city of [(my)] lordly ma[jesty], to build [...].
Obverse [9:14] 1010–1414Nabonidus, king of Babylon, [..., great] king, king of the land of [Sumer and Akkad], ... [...] ... [...] ... [...]
Obverse [14:20] 1515–2020The god Sîn, king of the gods, lord of the gods, [...] ... [...] ... [...] the deities [Sî]n, Nusku, [...] ..., Ištar, and [...]

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[(x)] DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...]
2[...].MEŠ [...]
3[(x) x].MEŠ [(x x)] x [...]
4[...]
5[ina] ⸢lib₃⸣-[bi] {uru}⸢pa⸣-[dak-ku]
6x {⸢uru⸣}[...]
7lib₃-bi URU ⸢EN⸣-[u₂-ti-(ia)]
8ana DU₃ [...]
9[...]-⸢ti⸣ [...]
10{d}⸢MUATI-I⸣ LUGAL E{ki} [...]
11LUGAL [GAL-u₂] ⸢LUGAL KUR⸣-[šu-me-ri u KUR-URI{ki]}
12x x (x) [(x)] x (x) [...] x [...]
13[x (x)] DINGIR GAL [...]
14[x (x)] x-lu-tu₂ x (x) A [...]
15{⸢d⸣}30 ⸢LUGAL DINGIR⸣.MEŠ ⸢EN⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ [...]
16[...] x x (x) [...]
17[x] x ⸢ša⸣ u {d}[...]
18{[d]}30 {d}nusku {d}[...]
19[x (x)] NI {d}x {d}15 u {d}[...]
20[...] x [...]

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