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Nebuchadnezzar II 007 (Q005478)

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

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DesignationNebuchadnezzar II 007
IDQ005478
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 [0:2] 11–22Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I.
Obverse [2:4] 33–44(As for) the street of Babylon (Ay-ibūr-šabû), for the processional street of the great lord, the god Marduk, I beautified (its) access way with slab(s) of breccia.
Obverse [4:5] 55–55O Marduk, my lord, grant me a long life!

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]}
2[DUMU] {⸢d⸣}AG-IBILA-u₂-⸢ṣu-ur LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki⸣} a-na-[ku]
3⸢su⸣-le-e ba-bi-lu{ki} [a-na] maš-da-ha be-⸢li₂⸣ GAL {⸢d⸣}[AMAR.UTU]
4ina SIG₄ {na₄}DUR₂.⸢MI⸣.NA.BAN₃.DA u₂-⸢ban⸣-na-a tal-la-[ak]-⸢ti⸣
5{d}AMAR.UTU be-li₂ TIN da-ri₂-a šur-kam

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