Nebuchadnezzar II B22 (Q005537)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II B22 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005537 |
| 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 [0:6] 11–66 | Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who reveres the great gods, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, [foremost] heir of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I: |
| Obverse [6:10] 77–1010 | When the god Marduk, the great lord, raised up my head, I paid reverent attention to the god Marduk, my lord. |
| Obverse [10:16] 1111–1616 | (As for) Etemenanki, the ziggurat of Babylon, I made (it) shine like daylight with bitumen and baked bricks (colored with) blue glaze. [I filled (it) in with a high infill] (and) set up thick (beams of) cedar. |
| Obverse [16:20] 1717–2020 | O Marduk, my lord, look with pleasure upon my deeds (and) give me as a gift a life of distant days. |
| Obverse [20:23] 2121–2323 | O Etemenanki, [constantly say] good things about me to the god Marduk, my lord. |
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 | |
| 2 | LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 3 | pa-lih DINGIR.DINGIR GAL.GAL | |
| 4 | za-ni-in e₂-sag-il₂ u₃ e₂-zi-da | |
| 5 | IBILA [SAG.KAL] ša₂ {d}AG-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ | |
| 6 | LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} a-na-ku | |
| 7 | i₃-nu-um {d}AMAR.UTU be-li₂ ra-bi₂-u₃ | |
| 8 | re-e-ši-ia u₂-ul-lu-u₃ | |
| 9 | a-na {d}AMAR.UTU DINGIR ba-nu-u₂-a | |
| 10 | pa-al-hi-iš u₂-ta-qu | |
| 11 | e₂-temen-an-ki zi-qu₂-ra-at KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 12 | i-na ku-up-ri | |
| 13 | u₃ a-gur-ri {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ | |
| 14 | u₄-mi-iš u₂-ban-ni | |
| 15 | [ta-am-la-a za-aq-ri-im u₂-ma-al-li] | |
| 16 | {giš}EREN.MEŠ pa-ag-lu-tim aš₂-ta-ak-ka-an | |
| 17 | {d}AMAR.UTU be-li₂-ia e-ep-še-tu-u₂-a | |
| 18 | ha-di-iš na-ap-li-is-ma | |
| 19 | ba-la-aṭ u₄-me ru-qu-ti | |
| 20 | a-na ši-ri-ik-tim šu-ur-ka-am | |
| 21 | e₂-temen-an-ki a-na {d}AMAR.UTU be-li₂-ia | |
| 22 | dam-qa₂-tu-u₂-a | |
| 23 | [ti-iz-ka-ri-im ka-a-a-na-am] |
Sources & licences
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