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Nebuchadnezzar II 006 (Q005477)

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

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DesignationNebuchadnezzar II 006
IDQ005477
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotBabylon
Coordinates32.5350, 44.4258

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[Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, son of Nabopolass]ar, king of Babylon, am I.
Obverse [1:3] 22–33(As for) the stre[et of Babylon (Ay-ibūr-šabû), for the proc]essional street of the great lord, the god Marduk, [I beautified] (its) access way with slab(s) of stone quar[ried from the mountain(s)].
Obverse [3:4] 44–44O Marduk, my lord, grant me a [long] l[ife]!

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{[d}AG-ku-dur₂-ri-u₂-ṣu-ur LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} DUMU {d}AG-IBILA-u₂]-⸢ṣu-ur⸣
2⸢LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR⸣.RA{⸢ki} a-na⸣-ku su-⸢le⸣-[e ba-bi-lu{ki} a-na ma]-⸢aš⸣-da-⸢ha⸣
3be-li₂ ⸢GAL {d⸣}AMAR.UTU i-na SIG₄ NA₄ ši-[ti-iq ša-de-e u₂-ban-na-a] tal-lak-ti
4{⸢d⸣}AMAR.UTU be-li₂ ⸢TIN⸣ [da-ri₂-a] šur-kam

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