Nebuchadnezzar II 028 (Q005499)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II 028 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005499 |
| Collection | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 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 ii [0:10] ii 1ii 1–ii 1010 | [(As for) Etemenanki, the z]iggurrat of [B]abylon, [whose site Nab]opolassar, [king of B]abylon, [the father who en]gendered me, [had p]urified [through the craft of the e]xorcist, [the wisdom of] the gods Ea and Marduk, and whose [foundati]on [he had firmly fixed on the surface (lit. “breast”) of the ne]therworld, |
| Obverse Column ii [10:23] ii 1'1'– | [Larak, Dilbat], Marad, [Puqudu], Bīt-Dakkūri, [Bīt-Amukān]i, <Bīt>-Šillāni, Birātu, D[ēr], Agade, Dūr-[Šarrukku], Arrapḫa, L[aḫīru], the entirety of the lands of A[kkad] and [Assyria], kings of A[cross the River (Syria-Palestine)], provincial gover[nors of] the land of Ḫa[tti, fr]o[m the Upper Sea] |
| Obverse Column iii [9:12] iii 1'1'–iii 3'3' | Esagi[l ....] of cedar [...] wherever there were gates and [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| ii | ||
| 1 | [e₂-temen-an-ki] ⸢zi⸣-qu₂-ur₂-ra-at | |
| 2 | ⸢KA₂⸣.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 3 | [ša {d}na-bi]-um-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ | |
| 4 | [LUGAL] ⸢KA₂⸣.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 5 | [a-bi] ⸢ba⸣-nu-u₂-a | |
| 6 | [i-na ši-pi₂-ir] ⸢KA⸣.KU₃.GAL₂-u₂-tu | |
| 7 | [ne-me-qi₂ {d]}⸢e₂⸣-a u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 8 | [a₃-ša-ar-ša] ⸢ul⸣-li-lu-ma | |
| 9 | [in i-ra-at] ⸢ki⸣-gal-lim | |
| 10 | [u₂-ki-in-nu te-me]-⸢en-šu⸣ | |
| 1' | [la-ra-ak{ki} dil-bat]{⸢ki} mar₂-da{ki⸣} | |
| 2' | {[kur}pu-qu-du] {⸢kur⸣}E₂-da-ku-ru | |
| 3' | {[kur}E₂-a-mu-ka-a]-⸢nim⸣ {kur}<E₂>-si-la-a-nim | |
| iii | ||
| 1 | {kur}bi-ra-a-tim ⸢BAD₃⸣.[DINGIR{ki]} | |
| 2 | {uru}a-ka₃-de₃{ki} BAD₃-20-GIN{ki]} | |
| 3 | {kur}ar-rap-hi {kur}⸢la⸣-[hi-ri] | |
| 4 | na-ap-ha-ar KUR-⸢ak⸣-[ka-di-im] | |
| 5 | u₃ MA.DA-{[d}aš-šur{ki]} | |
| 6 | LUGAL.MEŠ ša ⸢e⸣-[be₂-er-na-a-ri] | |
| 7 | {lu₂}pi₂-ha-⸢ta⸣-[a-tim] | |
| 8 | ⸢ša⸣ MA.DA-⸢ha⸣-[at-tim] | |
| 9 | [iš]-⸢tu⸣ [ti-a-am-tim e-li-tim] | |
| 1' | ⸢e₂-sag-il₂⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | ša {giš}EREN.⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x (x)] | |
| 3' | e-ma KA₂.KA₂ u₃ [...] | |
Sources & licences
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