Nabonidus 56 (Q005453)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Tayma · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nabonidus 56 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005453 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Tayma |
| Coordinates | 27.6228, 38.5497 |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] 11–77 | [I am Nabonidus, king of Babylon, ...] |
| Obverse [7:11] 88–1111 | [... e]tern[al ...] |
| Obverse [11:14] 1212–1414 | [...] the deity ... [...] I [mag]nificently com[pleted. ....] for the god Nabû ... [...] ... [...]... [...] |
| Obverse [14:20] 1515–2020 | [...] of [...] precious [sto]ne(s), va[luable] stone(s), [...] ... [...] ... [... tal]ents (and) 6 minas of [...] ... [...] ... 6 gur of al[abaster(-stones), ...] 6,600 precio[us] stones, [...] ..., pappardilû-stone(s), ..., carnelian, lapis lazuli, ... [...] ... [...] revealed his [...] to [me]. |
| Obverse [20:25] 2121–2525 | [...] ... I magnificently returned (it to) its ... and I [...] made (it) befitting. I had a censor of shiny gold completed. [...] the residence of the god Marduk (and) the goddess Zarpan[ītu ...] ... the goddesses Tašmētu, Nanāya, (and) [... of] Bēltīya (Zarpanītu), which is inside Ebara<dur>gara, [...] ... [...] |
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-ku {m}{d}MUATI-I LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} ...] | |
| 2 | [...] | |
| 3 | [...] | |
| 4 | [...] | |
| 5 | [...] | |
| 6 | [...] | |
| 7 | [...] | |
| 8 | [... da]-ri-u-⸢tu₂⸣ [...] | |
| 9 | [...] | |
| 10 | [...] | |
| 11 | [...] x [...] x (x) [...] | |
| 12 | [...] {⸢d⸣}x x [...] ⸢ra⸣-biš u₂-⸢šak⸣-[lil] | |
| 13 | [...] ⸢a-na {d}MUATI⸣ x x (x) x [...] x x x [x x (x)] | |
| 14 | [...] x x x (x) x [x (x)] x (x) [...] x x [...] | |
| 15 | [...] ša₂ [...] ⸢NA₄⸣ ni-siq-tu₂ NA₄ šu₂-[qu-ru-tu₂] | |
| 16 | [...] {⸢na₄⸣}x [...] x (x) x [...] x x x [...] | |
| 17 | [...] ⸢GUN⸣ 6 MA.NA [...] x x x x x x {na₄}x [...] x [...] | |
| 18 | [...] x 6 GUR {na₄}⸢GIŠ⸣.[NU₁₁.GAL ...] 6 LIM 6 ME ⸢NA₄.MEŠ⸣ ni-siq-[tu₂ ...] | |
| 19 | [...] (x) x-qu {na₄}BABBAR.DILI [x (x) x] {na₄}⸢GUG {na₄}ZA.GIN₃⸣ x (x) x x [...] | |
| 20 | [...] x x [(x)] x x x x (x) x-šu ud-du-nin-⸢ni a-na⸣ [ia-a-ti] | |
| 21 | [...] x x x x x x x-su ra-biš u₂-⸢ter-ma a-na-ku⸣ | |
| 22 | [...] ⸢u₂⸣-ša₂-lik 1 NIG₂.NA KU₃.GI SIKIL ⸢u₂-šag-me-er⸣ šu-bat {d}AMAR.UTU {⸢d}zar-pa-ni⸣-[tum] | |
| 23 | [...] x x {d}x (x) [(x x)] {⸢d}taš⸣-me-tum {d}na-na-a {⸢d⸣}[x x (x)] | |
| 24 | [...] {⸢d}GAŠAN-ia₂ ša₂ qe₂-reb e₂-bara₂⸣-<dur₂>-gar-⸢ra⸣ [x (x)] | |
| 25 | [...] x (x) [...] |
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