Nebuchadnezzar II B12 (Q005533)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II B12 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005533 |
| Collection | Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; British Museum, London, 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, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon: I built a palace, a residence for my royal majesty, in the Ka-dingirra district, which is in Babylon. I brought hard (beams of) cedar from Lebanon, the holy forest, and stretched (over it) as its roof. |
| Obverse [3:6] 44–66 | O Marduk, compassionate god, listen to my prayer(s) so that I may be sated with the luxuriousness of the house that I have built, renovate the dilapidated section(s) of base that I have bound, (and) walk around inside it, in Babylon, for a long time. May my descendants rule over the black-headed (people) inside it forever. |
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-ku-du-ur₂-ri-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} DUMU {d}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 2 | E₂.GAL mu-ša-ab šar-ru-ti-ia i-na er-ṣe-ti ka₂-dingir-ra{ki} ša qe₂-re-eb ba-bi-lam{ki} lu e-pu-uš | |
| 3 | {giš}EREN.{giš}EREN da-nu₄-tim ul-tu {kur}la-ab-na-nu {giš}TIR el-le-tim lu ub-lam a-na ṣu-lu-li-ša lu u₂-ša-at-ri-iṣ | |
| 4 | {d}AMAR.UTU i-lu re-me₂-nu-u₂ še-mu-u₂ ta-as-li-ti E₂ e-pu-šu la-la-ša lu-uš-bu ki-sa-a ak-su-u₂ | |
| 5 | an-hu-us-su lu-ud-di-iš i-na qe₂-re-bi-ša i-na ba-bi-lam{ki} lu-la-ab-bi-ir ta-al-la-ak-ti | |
| 6 | li-pu-u₂-a i-na qe₂-re-bi-ša a-na da-ri₂-a-tim ṣa-al-ma-at qa₂-qa₂-dam li-be₂-e-lu |
Sources & licences
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