Nebuchadnezzar II B18 (Q005532)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II B18 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005532 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, 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 [0:3] 11–33 | Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who provides for [Esag]il and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I: [In order to] strengthen [the protection of] Esagil (so that) no arrow (during) battle [can come clos]e to Imgur-Enlil, I built a fortified wall on the outskirts of Babylon. |
| Obverse [3:5] 44–55 | I saw that emplacement of the embankment that my father had constructed was too narrow (so) I built a stronger one with bitumen and baked brick and adjoined (it) to the embankment that my father had constructed. I raised (it) as high as a mountain. |
| Obverse [5:7] 66–77 | To strengthen the circumference of the wall for a third time, with bitumen and baked brick, I supported the foundations of the wall with a large stanchion. |
| Obverse [7:10] 88–1010 | O Marduk, Enlil of the gods, the one who created me, may my deeds be pleasing in your presence so that I live for a long time. Give me as a gift a life of long days, the attainment of very old age, a firmly secured throne, and a long-lasting dynasty. |
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}na-bi-um-NIG₂.DU-URU₃ LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} za-ni-in [e₂-sag]-⸢il₂⸣ u₃ e₂-zi-da | |
| 2 | DUMU {d}AG-IBILA-u₂-ṣur LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} a-na-ku [aš-šum ma-aṣ-ṣar-ti] e₂-sag-il₂ du-un-nu-nim | |
| 3 | qa-an ta-ha-zi a-na im-gur-{d}EN.LIL₂ [la ṭa-he]-⸢e⸣ i-na ka-ma-a-ti ba-bi-lam BAD₃ da-num₂ e-pu-uš | |
| 4 | ap-pa-li-is-ma ka-a-ri a-bi ik-ṣu₂-ru qa-ta-an ši-ki-in-šu da-num₂ i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A u₃ SIG₄.AL.UR₃.RA ab-ni-ma | |
| 5 | it-ti ka-a-ri a-bi ik-ṣu₂-ru e-se-ni-iq-ma u₂-za-aq-qi₂-ir-ma hu-ur₂-sa-ni-iš | |
| 6 | i-ta-at BAD₃ a-na du-un-nu-nim u₂-ša-al-li-iš-ma a-sur-ra-a ra-ba-a | |
| 7 | i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A u₃ SIG₄.AL.UR₃.RA iš-du BAD₃ e-mi-id | |
| 8 | {d}AMAR.UTU {d}EN.LIL₂ DINGIR.MEŠ ba-nu-u₂-a i-na ma-hi-ri-ka ep₂-še-tu-u₂-a li-id-mi-qa | |
| 9 | lu-la-ab-bi-ir a-na da-ra-a-ti ba-la-ṭu u₄-um ru-qu-u₂-ti še-be₂-e li-it-tu-ti | |
| 10 | ku-un-nu {giš}GU.ZA u₃ la-ba-ar BALA-e a-na ši-ri-ik-ti šu-ur₂-kam |
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