Nebuchadnezzar II B16 (Q005534)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II B16 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005534 |
| Collection | Musei Vaticani, Vatican City, Rome, Italy; British Museum, London, UK; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Private collection: anonymous, Göttingen, Germany; 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 [0:5] 11–55 | Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I: I built a palace, a residence for my royal majesty, in the Ka-dingirra district, which is in Babylon. I secured its foundation on the surface (lit. “breast”) of the netherworld and raised it as high as a mountain. |
| Obverse [5:8] 66–88 | By your command, O wisest of the gods, Marduk, may I be sated with the luxuriousness of the house that I have built. May I reach the prime of (my) life (and) attain very old age inside it, in Babylon. 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}AG-NIG₂.DU-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} za-ni-in e₂-sag-il₂ u₃ e₂-zi-da | |
| 2 | DUMU {d}AG-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} a-na-ku E₂.GAL mu-ša-ab šar-ru-ti-ia | |
| 3 | i-na er-ṣe-et ka₂-dingir-ra{ki} ša qe₂-re-eb ba-bi-lam{ki} e-pu-uš | |
| 4 | i-na i-ra-at ki-gal-lim i-ši-id-sa u₂-ša-ar-ši-id-ma | |
| 5 | i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A u₃ SIG₄.AL.UR₃.RA u₂-za-aq-qi₂-ir-ša hu-ur₂-sa-ni-iš | |
| 6 | qi₂-bi-tu-uk-ka IGI.GAL₂ DINGIR.DINGIR {d}AMAR.UTU E₂ e-pu-šu la-la-ša lu-uš-bu | |
| 7 | i-na qe₂-re-bi-ša i-na ba-bi-i-lu{ki} ši-bu-ti lu-uk-šu-ud lu-uš-ba-a li-it-tu-ti | |
| 8 | 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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