Nebuchadnezzar II B11 (Q005531)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II B11 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005531 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
| 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 [0:3] 11–33 | Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, pious prince, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I: When Nabopolassar, the father who engendered me, built Imgur-Enlil, the great wall of Babylon, it was me, the wise (and) pious one who reveres the lord of lords, who had its canal dug and had its embankment(s) set with bitumen and baked brick, like a mountain. |
| Obverse [3:6] 44–66 | O Marduk, great lord, look with pleasure upon my precious handiwork and be helper whom I can trust. Give me as a gift a life of distant days. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {d}AG-NIG₂.DU-u₂-ṣur LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} ru-ba-a na-a-du za-ni-in e₂-sag-il₂ u₃ e₂-zi-da | |
| 2 | DUMU {d}AG-IBILA-u₂-ṣur LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} a-na-ku e-nu-ma {d}AG-IBILA-u₂-ṣur AD ba-nu-u₂-a im-gur-{d}EN.LIL₂ | |
| 3 | BAD₃ ra-ba-a ša TIN.TIR{ki} i-pu-šu ia-a-ti en-qu mu-ut-ne₂-en-nu-u₂ pa-li-ih EN EN.EN | |
| 4 | hi-ri-is-su lu u₂-ša-ah-ri-ma ki-bi-ir-šu₂ i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A u₃ a-gur-ru ša-da-ni-iš lu-u₂ er-te {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | EN GAL-u₂ li-pi₂-it qa₂-ti-ia₃ šu-qu-ru ha-di-iš na-ap-li-is-ma lu-u₂ re-ṣi tu-kul-ti-ia₃ | |
| 6 | at-ta-ma ba-la-aṭ UD.MEŠ ru-qu-ti a-na ši-ri-ik-ti šu-ur-ka-am |
Sources & licences
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