Nebuchadnezzar II 024 (Q005495)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II 024 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005495 |
| Collection | University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Babylon |
| Coordinates | 32.5434, 44.4222 |
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 [0:7] i' 1'1'–i' 7'7' | [... Iš]tar-sākipat-tēbîša, ... [...] (both) Imgur-Enlil and Nēmetti-Enlil, [... the ga]te (of) the entrance of the gods’ controlling place, the exit (and) entry [of the Igīgū and Anu]nnakū gods, the broad gate of Babylon, [...] he had created their structure(s) with (sundried) brick(s) [...] baked brick(s) I constantly sought out for them. |
| Obverse Column i [7:12] i' 8'8'–i' 12'12' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse Column i [12:17] i' 13'13'–i' 17'17' | [While] buil[ding, ...] ... [...] I discovered a ... [of] the father who engendered me inside i[t]. I opened up ... and reached the water table. I set their foundation(s) (firmly in place) with bitumen and baked brick and (thereby) secured its foundation. |
| Obverse Column i [17:22] i' 18'18'–i' 22'22' | I made them appear resplendent with (baked bricks colored with) shining blue glaze that have (representations of) wild bulls (and) mušḫuššu-dragon(s) fashioned upon them (lit. “it”) (and) [wild bulls] (whose) bod(ies are made) of copper resplendently made for them. I had them skillfully surrounded with [... of the fat]her who engendered me, that [...] inside them [...] ... [...] |
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 x x [...] | |
| 2' | [... {d}iš]-⸢tar₂-sa⸣-ki-pa-⸢at-te-e⸣-bi-⸢ša⸣ x x x x x x x [(x)] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢im-gu-ur₂-{d}EN.LIL₂ u₃ ne₂-me₂-et-ti-{d}EN.LIL₂⸣ | |
| 4' | [... KA₂].⸢GAL⸣ ne₂-re-⸢bi ma-as₃-na-aq-ti DINGIR.DINGIR mu-ṣe-e ne₂-re-bi⸣ | |
| 5' | [ša {d}i-gi₄-gi₄ u₃ {d}a]-⸢nun⸣-na-ki ⸢KA₂.GAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} ša-di-il-tim⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x i-na] ⸢SIG₄.HI.A ib-ši-mu ši-ki-in-ši-na⸣ | |
| 7' | [...] SIG₄.AL.UR₃.RA aš-te-ʾe-ši-na-ši-⸢im⸣ | |
| 8' | [...] x x ni x x [...] | |
| 9' | [...] x [...] | |
| 10' | [...] x [...] | |
| 11' | [...] | |
| 12' | [...] SIG₄ [...] | |
| 13' | [i-na] e-pe₂-[šu ...] x ši [...] SIG₄.HI.A x x x ⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 14' | [ša] a-bi a-⸢li-di-ia ap-pa-li-is qe₂-re-bu-uš⸣-[šu] | |
| 15' | [x]-x-ri ap-te-e-ma šu-pu₂-ul me₂-e ak-šu-⸢ud⸣ | |
| 16' | [i-ši]-id-si₃-in i-na ku-up-ru u₃ a-gur-ri e-er₄-te-e-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 17' | ⸢u₂-ša-ar-ši-id⸣ te-me-en-ši-in | |
| 18' | {[na₄}ZA].GIN₃ el-le-tim ša ri-i-mu u₃ MUŠ.HUŠ ba-nu-u₂ qe₂-re-bu-uš-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 19' | [AM.AM] URUDU la-an na-am-ri-iš u₂-še-pi₂-ši-na-ši-⸢im⸣ | |
| 20' | [...] x na-ak-li-iš u₂-ša-as₃-hi-ir-ši-na x | |
| 21' | [ša a]-⸢bi⸣ a-li-di-ia ša i-na qe₂-er-bi-ši-na x [...] | |
| 22' | [...] x x ⸢u₂ na ir⸣ [...] | |
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