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Nebuchadnezzar II SB1 (Q005552)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Borsippa · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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DesignationNebuchadnezzar II SB1
IDQ005552
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotBorsippa
Coordinates32.3907, 44.3448

English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] 11–11Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, [am I]:
Obverse [1:3] 22–33... [...] Ezida and ... [...] I beatifi[ed the access way f]or the processional [str]eet of the son of the prince, the god [Nabû], with slab(s) of stone.
Obverse [3:4] 44–44O Nabû, [exalted] v[izier], give me a long life.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1{[d]}AG-ku-dur₂-ri-URU₃ LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} DUMU {⸢d}AG⸣-IBILA-⸢URU₃⸣ LUGAL TIN.⸢TIR{ki⸣} [a-na-ku]
2⸢re⸣-e-[x (x) x]-x ⸢e₂⸣-zi-da u₃ SI x [(x)] ⸢ru⸣ [...]
3[a]-⸢na ma⸣-aš-[da]-ha DUMU NUN {d}AG ⸢i⸣-na ⸢SIG₄ NA₄ u₂-ba-an-na⸣-[a tal-lak-ti]
4{d}AG ⸢SUKKAL⸣ [MAH] TIN da-ra ⸢šu-ur₂-kam⸣

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