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Adad-apla-iddina 1001 (Q006275)

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

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DesignationAdad-apla-iddina 1001
IDQ006275
LanguageAkkadian; Sumerian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotBābili
Coordinates32.5434, 44.4222

English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon2 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse Column i [0:3] i 1i 1–i 2'2'[Adad-apla-iddin]a
Obverse Column i [1:8] i 1'1'–i 7'7'(No translation possible)
Obverse Column ii [0:2] ii 1ii 1–ii 22I am the one who takes in his (lit. “my”) hand the lead rope of all the people.
Obverse Column ii [2:6] ii 33–ii 66At that time, with regard to the god Asari, the one who goes at the fore, I respectfully followed his desires.
Obverse Column ii [6:16] ii 77–ii 1616In order to re-erect the wall Imgur-Enlil (“The God Enlil Showed Favor”), the (city) wall of Babylon, which had collapsed at the beginning of the year due to old age, to reach its ancient foundation, to lay its foundation on the breast of the netherworld, and to restore it as it had been in the past,
Obverse Column ii [16:19] ii 1717–ii 1919... the king ...
Obverse Column ii [19:21] ii 2020–ii 2121... may he not change.
Obverse Column ii [21:23] ii 2222–ii 2323... my statue I put with it.

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}IŠKUR-IBILA-i-din]-⸢nam⸣
1'[...] x
2'[...] A
3'[...] x
4'[...] x
5'[...] x [...] x
6'[...] x
7'[...] x
ii
1eš₂-kiri₃ uŋ₃ šar₂-ra
2šu-ŋa₂ al-dab-be₂-da
3me-en-ŋa₂ ud-bi-a
4{d}asari igi us₂-sa DU
5su-zi-eš kur-ku-bi
6mu-un-da₅-us₂-us₂-e
7{bad₃}im-gur-{d}en-lil₂
8bad₃ (KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki})ke₄
9zag-mu-ta sumun-be₂-eš dirig-ga
10ši-in-da-ab-zi-zi-da
11temen-bi libir-ra
12sa₂ bi₂-in-dug₄-ga-e-a
13gaba ki gal-la
14uš₈-bi al-tag-ga-bi
15⸢niŋ₂⸣ ud-bi-da-gin₇
16⸢ki⸣-bi-še₃ al-gi-gi-da
17[x] x (x) x ⸢lugal⸣-e
18[x x x x]-a-ga₂
19[x x x] x dim₂-ma
20[x x x]-⸢un⸣-du₈-ru-na
21[x (x)] ⸢nam⸣-ba-kur₂-ra
22x (x) alan-ŋu₁₀
23⸢mu⸣-un-da₅-gin₆-na

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