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Nebuchadnezzar II B10 var. (Q005577)

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

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DesignationNebuchadnezzar II B10 var.
IDQ005577
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotUr
Coordinates30.9616, 46.1047

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:2] 11–22Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, foremost heir of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I:
Obverse [2:4] 33–44(As for) Ekišnugal (Egišnugal), the temple of the god Sîn which is inside Ur, I indeed built (it) for the god Sîn, 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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1{d}AG-NIG₂.DU-URU₃ LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} za-nin e₂-sag-il₂
2u e₂-zi-da IBILA a-ša-re-du ša {d}AG-IBILA-URU₃
3LUGAL KA₂.DIŠ.DIŠ{ki} a-na-ku e₂-giš-nu₁₁-gal E₂ {d}EN.ZU
4ša₂ qe₂-reb uri₂{ki} a-na {d}EN.ZU EN-ia lu e-pu-uš

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