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Cyrus II 2 (Q006654)

Royal Inscription, Achaemenid, Ur · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE

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DesignationCyrus II 2
IDQ006654
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodAchaemenid · c. 539 BCE–330 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotUr
Coordinates30.9616, 46.1047

English translation

By ORACC project ribo/babylon8 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:6] 11–66Cyrus (II), king of the world, king of the land Anšan, the son of Cambyses (I): The great gods placed in my hands all of the lands (and) I allowed the land to live undisturbed.

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{m}ku-ra-aš₂ LUGAL ŠAR₂ LUGAL {kur}aš-ša-an
2DUMU {m}kam-bu-zi-ia
3LUGAL {kur}aš-ša-an
4DINGIR.DINGIR GAL.GAL kal KUR.KUR
5a-na qa₂-ti-ia SI.A-ma
6KUR šu-ub-ti ne₂-eh-ti u₂-še-šib

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