Nabonidus 55 (Q005452)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Selaʾ · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabonidus 55 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005452 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Selaʾ |
| Coordinates | 30.7502, 35.7267 |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:11] i 1'1'–i 11'11' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse Column i [11:17] i 12'12'–i 17'17' | (During my) fifth year [...] with each other [....] ... [...] the kings of ... [...] ... [...] |
| Obverse Column iii [0:21] iii 1iii 1–iii 2121 | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse Column iv [0:3] iv 1iv 1–iv 33 | I am Nabonidus, king of Babylon, [...] the god Šamaš, the [...] lord, [...], the god S[în, ...] |
| Obverse Column iv [3:8] iv 44–iv 88 | (No translation possible) |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| i | ||
| 1' | x x [...] | |
| 2' | ⸢KASKAL⸣ x x [...] | |
| 3' | x x (x) x [...] | |
| 4' | x x (x) {uru}x [...] | |
| 5' | x (x) x [...] | |
| 6' | [...] | |
| 7' | [...] | |
| 8' | x [...] | |
| 9' | ⸢šu⸣-x [(x)] x [...] | |
| 10' | [...] | |
| 11' | x ⸢KASKAL⸣ x [...] | |
| 12' | MU.5.KAM [...] | |
| 13' | ⸢KI⸣ a-ha-miš₂ [...] | |
| 14' | x x x [...] | |
| 15' | LUGAL.MEŠ x x [(x)] x (x) BU [...] | |
| 16' | x [(x)] x x x x [...] | |
| 17' | x [...] x [(x)] x [...] | |
| iii | ||
| 1 | [...]-IZ-x | |
| 2 | [...] x (x) x | |
| 3 | [...] x (x) x | |
| 4 | [...] x [(x)] | |
| 5 | [...] x [(x)] | |
| 6 | [...] x [(x)] x | |
| 7 | [...] {d}na-⸢bi-um⸣ | |
| 8 | [...] x x x | |
| 9 | [...] x x (x) x | |
| 10 | [...] x x x x [x] | |
| 11 | [...] x [...] | |
| 12 | [...] x [...] | |
| 13 | [...] | |
| 14 | [...] RAB x {uru}x [...] | |
| 15 | [...] x x x [...] | |
| 16 | [... MU].5.KAM [...] | |
| 17 | [...] x ra [...] | |
| 18 | [...] AB (x) x [...] | |
| 19 | [...].MEŠ ša₂ x x (x) x [...] | |
| 20 | [...] APIN x [...] | |
| 21 | [...] x x x [...] | |
| iv | ||
| 1 | ⸢ana⸣-ku {m}{d}MUATI-⸢I⸣ LUGAL E{⸢ki⸣} x [...] | |
| 2 | {⸢d⸣}UTU EN x [...] | |
| 3 | {⸢d}EN⸣.[ZU ...] | |
| 4 | x x [...] | |
| 5 | [(x)] x [...] | |
| 6 | [x] ma x [...] | |
| 7 | [(x)] x [...] | |
| 8 | [(x)] x [...] | |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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