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Šamaš-šuma-ukin 2 (Q006312)

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

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DesignationŠamaš-šuma-ukin 2
IDQ006312
LanguageSumerian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotSippar-Yahrurum
Coordinates33.0605, 44.2552

English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon6 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:14] 11–1414For the god Šamaš, king of Sippar, his lord: Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, viceroy of Šuanna (Babylon), king of Sumer (and) Akkad, (re)constructed Ebabbar (“Shining House”) anew with baked bricks for the sake of his life and for the sake of the life of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, his favorite brother.

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}utu
2lugal zibbir{ki}
3lugal-a-ni-ir
4{d}(GIŠ.NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA)
5šagina šu-an-na{ki}
6lugal ki-in-gi uri{ki}
7nam-til₃-la-a-ni-še₃
8til₃-la-bi-da
9(AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-IBILA)
10lugal ma-da-aš-šur-ke₄
11šeš tam-ma-bi
12šeg₁₂ al-ur₃-ra
13e₂-babbar-ra gibil-bi
14mu-un-na-dim₂

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