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Nebuchadnezzar II B6 (Q005528)

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

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DesignationNebuchadnezzar II B6
IDQ005528
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; Louvre Museum, Paris, France; Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Arkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey; Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; Musée de la Castre, Cannes, France; de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Civico Museo Archeologico Paolo Giovio, Como, Italy; Museo di Antichità di Torino, Turin, Italy; Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Burrell Collection. Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK; National Museum, Warsaw, Poland; Museum of the Kibbutz Hazore'a, Israel; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK; Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Schøyen Collection, Oslo, Norway
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-du-ur₂-ru-URU₃
2LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}
3za-ni-in e₂-sag-il₂
4u₃ e₂-zi-da
5IBILA a-ša-re-du
6ša {d}AG-IBILA-URU₃
7LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}

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