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Measurements of the City Walls of Babylon C (Q007974)
Metrological, First Millennium, unclear
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| Designation | Measurements of the City Walls of Babylon C |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007974 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | First Millennium |
| Genre | Metrological |
| Find spot | unclear |
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)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | 12 di⸣-ma-a-tum TA GU₂ {id₂}BURANUN | 12 emātu-plants from the bank of the Euphrates |
| 2 | a-di KA₂.GAL ša₂ ID₂-šu-u₂-hi | as far as the city gate of his river |
| 3 | 18 di-ma-a-tum TA sip-pi KA₂.GAL | Eighteen towers from the gate. |
| 4 | ša₂ ID₂-šu-u₂-hi a-di KI{et} kisal-lu ša₂ {lu₂}ŠA₃.TAM | From the Euphrates River to the lower courtyard of the šatammu |
| 5 | 8 di-ma-a-tum TA KI{et} kisal-lu | 8 towers from the courtyard. |
| 6 | ša₂ {lu₂}ŠA₃.TAM a-di sip-pi KA₂.GAL ša₂ ID₂-{d}DI.KU₅ | From the šatammu-official until the gate of the Daiku canal |
| 7 | 29 di-ma-a-tum TA KA₂.GAL ša₂ ID₂-{d}DI.KU₅ | 29 statues from the main gate of the Daiku canal; |
| 8 | a-di DUR ša₂ KA₂.GAL-giš-šu₂ | as far as the wall of the GIŠU Gate |
| 9 | 23 di-ma-a-tum TA KA₂.GAL-giš-šu₂ | 23 statues from the Gišu Gate |
| 10 | a-di UGU di-im-tum e-le-ni-⸢tum⸣ | as far as Elenītum |
| 11 | ša₂ KA₂.GAL-{d}UTU-DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ | From the Šamaš-ilāni Gate. |
| r | ||
| 12 | 30 di-ma-a-tum TA UGU | 0;30, the dividing line from |
| 13 | di-im-tum e-le-ni-tum | the upper diadem |
| 14 | ša₂ KA₂.GAL-{d}UTU-DINGIR.MEŠ | From the Šamaš-ilāni Gate. |
| 15 | a-di KA₂.GAL-ša₂-pat-tam-tum | as far as the Gān-ša-pattamtum |
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