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Nebuchadnezzar II B5 (Q005526)

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

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DesignationNebuchadnezzar II B5
IDQ005526
CollectionLouvre Museum, Paris, France; Joanneum Museum, Graz, Austria; British Museum, London, UK; Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; Musée de la Castre, Cannes, France; Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Museo di Antichità di Torino, Turin, Italy; Private collection: anonymous, Göttingen, Germany; Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotBabylon
Coordinates32.5434, 44.4222

English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:6] 11–66Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, foremost heir of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I.

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-URU₃
2LUGAL ba-bi-lu{ki}
3za-ni-nu e₂-sag-il₂
4u₃ e₂-zi-da IBILA
5SAG.KAL ša₂ {d}AG-IBILA-URU₃
6LUGAL ba-bi-lu{ki} ana-ku

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