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Nebuchadnezzar II C23 (Q005568)

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

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DesignationNebuchadnezzar II C23
IDQ005568
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland; Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden; John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Arkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey; Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotSippar
Coordinates33.0592, 44.2538

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse Column i [0:36] i 1i 1–(An English translation of this inscription is in preparation)

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)
i
1{d}na-bi-um-ku-dur₂-ru-u₂-ṣu-ur₂
2LUGAL ba-bi-lam{ki}
3za-ni-in e₂-sag-il₂ u₃ e₂-zi-da
4DUMU {d}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂
5LUGAL ba-bi-lam{ki} a-na-ku
6e₂-babbar-ra E₂ {d}UTU
7ša qe₂-re-eb ZIMBIR{ki}
8a-na {d}UTU EN mu-ša₂-ri-ku u₄-mi-ia
9e-eš-še-eš₁₅ e-pu-uš
10{d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ ep₂-še-tu-u₂-a
11a-na da-mi-iq-ti
12ha-di-iš na-ap-li-is-ma
13ba-la-ṭam u₄-um ru-qu-u₂-tim
14še-be₂-e li-it-tu-tu
15ku-un-na {giš}GU.ZA u₃ la-ba-ar pa-le-e
16a-na ši-ri-ik-ti šu-ur₂-ka-am
17ni-iš qa₂-ti-ia ki-ni-iš mu-gu-ur₂-ma
ii
1i-na qi₂-bi₂-it-ti-ka ṣi-ir-ti
2ša la na-ka-ra-am
3i-pi₂-iš-ti li-pi₂-it qa₂-ti-ia
4lu-la-ab-bi-ir a-na da-ri₂-a-tim
5li-pu-u₂-a i-na šar-ru-ti
6li-te-el-li-pu
7li-ku-un i-na MA.DA
8e-ma qa₂-ta a-na-šu-ka EN {d}UTU
9lu pe-tu-u₂ ur₂-hi-ia
10a-na na-a-ri a-a-bi-ia
11{d}UTU at-ta-ma
12{giš}TUKUL.{giš}TUKUL-u₂-ka ez-zu-u₂-tim
13ša la im-ma-ha-ru
14a-na šu-um-qu₃-tu na-ki-ri-ia
15li-il-li-ka i-da-a-a
16ki-ma SIG₄.HI.A e₂-babbar-ra
17ku-un-na a-na ṣa-a-tim
18ša-na-tu-u₂-a li-ri-ka
19a-na u₄-um da-ri₂-u₂-tim

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