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Nebuchadnezzar II ES6 (Q005588)

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

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DesignationNebuchadnezzar II ES6
IDQ005588
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK; Private collection: anonymous, Florence, Italy; Private collection: anonymous, New York, New York, USA
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 [0:6] 11–66Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, gave (this bead) to the god Nabû, his lord, for (the preservation of) his 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)
1ana {d}AG EN-šu
2{d}AG-NIG₂.DU-URU₃
3LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki}
4DUMU {d}AG-IBILA-URU₃
5LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki}
6ana TIN-šu BA-iš₃

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