Nebuchadnezzar II 034 (Q005505)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II 034 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005505 |
| Collection | Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Babylon |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
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 [0:3] i 1i 1–i 33 | Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I. |
| Obverse Column i [3:7] i 44–i 77 | I provided for Esagil, completed Ezida, (and) made the sanctuaries of the great god(s) shine like daylight. |
| Obverse Column i [7:22] i 88–i 2222 | At the time, the broad streets of Babylon, whose interior(s) had become too low — (as for) Nabû-dayyān-nišīšu, the street of the Uraš Gate, and Ištar-lamassi-ummānīša, the street of the Ištar Gate, I filled (them) in with six cubits of infill for the processional street(s) of the great lord, the god Marduk and the god Nabû, the triumphant heir, the son beloved by him, and beautified (their) access way(s) with bitumen and baked brick. |
| Obverse Column i [22:27] i 2323–i 2727 | For a second time, (and) more than before, I filled (them) in with eighteen cubits of infill and improved (their) access way(s) with bitumen and baked brick. |
| Obverse Column ii [0:4] ii 1ii 1–ii 44 | For a third time, I filled in Ištar-lamassi-ummānīša with a large seventeen cubit infill. |
| Obverse Column ii [4:7] ii 55–ii 77 | (In total) I filled Ištar-lamassi-ummānīša with a high forty-one cubit infill and broadened (its) access way. |
| Obverse Column ii [7:16] ii 88–ii 1616 | O Marduk, exalted lord, the wisest of the gods, look upon my handiwork with favor and pleasure and give me as a gift a long life, the attainment of very old age. |
| Obverse Column ii [16:24] ii 1717–ii 2424 | O great gods who go in procession on the way to the akītu(-house) on Ay-ibūr-šabû with the god Marduk, the king of the heavens and netherworld, say good thing(s) about me in the presence of the god Marduk, the great lord. |
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 | {d}AG-NIG₂.DU-u₂-ṣur LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 2 | za-ni-in e₂-sag-il₂ u₃ e₂-zi-da | |
| 3 | DUMU {d}AG-IBILA-u₂-ṣur LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} a-na-ku | |
| 4 | e₂-sag-il₂ az-nu-un | |
| 5 | e₂-zi-da u₂-ša-ak-li-il | |
| 6 | e-eš-re-e-ti DINGIR GAL.GAL | |
| 7 | u₂-na-am-mi-ir ki-ma u₄-um | |
| 8 | i-na u₄-mi-šu su-le-e ba-bi-lam{ki} | |
| 9 | ša-ad-lu-u₂-tim | |
| 10 | ša iš-ta-ap-pi₂-lu qe₂-re-eb-šu-un | |
| 11 | {d}AG-da-a-a-an-ni-ši-šu | |
| 12 | su-u₂-qu KA₂.GAL-{d}uraš | |
| 13 | u₃ {d}iš-tar-{d}LAMMA-um-ma-ni-ša | |
| 14 | su-u₂-qu KA₂.GAL-{d}iš-tar | |
| 15 | a-na ma-aš-da-ha | |
| 16 | be-li₂ ra-bi₂-im {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 17 | u₃ {d}AG IBILA ši-it-lu-ṭu | |
| 18 | DUMU na-ra-mi-šu | |
| 19 | 6 KUŠ₃ ta-am-la-a u₂-ma-al-li-ma | |
| 20 | i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A | |
| 21 | u₃ SIG₄.AL.UR₃.RA | |
| 22 | u₂-ba-an-na-a ta-al-la-ak-tim | |
| 23 | a-ša-ni-ma e-li ma-ah-ra-a | |
| 24 | 18 KUŠ₃ ta-am-la-a u₂-ma-al-li-ma | |
| 25 | i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A | |
| 26 | u₃ SIG₄.AL.UR₃.RA | |
| 27 | u₂-da-am-mi-iq ta-al-la-ak-tim | |
| ii | ||
| 1 | u₂-ša-al-li-iš-ma | |
| 2 | {d}iš-tar-{d}LAMMA-um-ma-ni-ša | |
| 3 | 17 KUŠ₃ ta-am-la-a ra-ba-a | |
| 4 | u₂-ma-al-lu | |
| 5 | 41 KUŠ₃ ta-am-la-a za-aq-ru | |
| 6 | {d}iš-tar-{d}LAMMA-um-ma-ni-ša u₂-ma-al-li-ma | |
| 7 | u₂-ša-an-di-il ta-al-la-ak-tim | |
| 8 | {d}AMAR.UTU be-li₂ ṣi-i-ri | |
| 9 | IGI.GAL₂ i₃-li₂ te-le-ʾu-um | |
| 10 | li-pi₂-it qa₂-ti-ia | |
| 11 | a-na da-mi-iq-tim | |
| 12 | ha-di-iš na-ap-li-is-ma | |
| 13 | ba-la-ṭam da-ri₂-a | |
| 14 | še-be₂-e li-it-tu-u₂-tim | |
| 15 | a-na ši-ri-ik-ti | |
| 16 | šu-ur₂-kam | |
| 17 | i₃-li₂ ra-bi₂-u₃-tim | |
| 18 | ša it-ti {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 19 | LUGAL ša-me₂-e u₃ er-ṣe₂-tim | |
| 20 | i-na a-a-i-bu-ur₂-ša-bu-um | |
| 21 | i-ša-ad-di-hu u₂-ru-uh a-ki-ti | |
| 22 | i-na ma-ha-ar {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 23 | be-li₂ ra-bi₂-um | |
| 24 | qi₂-ba-a-am du-um-qu₂-u₂-a | |
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