Nebuchadnezzar II BP2 (Q005554)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Borsippa · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II BP2 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005554 |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Borsippa |
| Coordinates | 32.3907, 44.3448 |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] 11–22 | Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, [am I]: |
| Obverse [2:6] 33–66 | For the god Nabû, my lord, I built Ezida, his temple in Borsippa. From Kamaḫ to Kašua, from the Dais of Destinies to the ent[rance] gate [of the god Nabû], I beatified the access way (for) the processional street of the son of the prince, the god [Nabû], with [slab(s) of stone]. |
| Obverse [6:8] 77–88 | O Nabû, exalted vizier, 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {<d>}AG-ku-dur₂-ri-URU₃ LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 2 | DUMU {d}AG-IBILA-URU₃ LUGAL ⸢TIN.TIR{ki⸣} [a-na-ku] | |
| 3 | a-na {d}AG be-li₂-ia e₂-zi-da E₂-su ina bar-si-pa{ki} DU₃-uš | |
| 4 | TA ⸢ka₂⸣-mah a-di ka₂-umuš-a | |
| 5 | iš-⸢tu BARA₂⸣ NAM.MEŠ a-di ⸢KA₂⸣ ne₂-[reb {d}AG] | |
| 6 | ma-aš₂-da-ha DUMU NUN {d}[AG] i-na [SIG₄ NA₄] | |
| 7 | u₂-ban-na-a tal-lak-ti {d}AG SUKKAL MAH | |
| 8 | TIN da-ri₂-a ia-ti šur-kam |
Sources & licences
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