Unread Atlas
Nebuchadnezzar II VA Bab 1975 (Q009965)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II VA Bab 1975 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q009965 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Sippar |
| Coordinates | 33.0592, 44.2538 |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| ii | ||
| 1' | [...] x x [...] | |
| 2' | [a]-bi ba-⸢nu-u₂⸣-[a] | whose father had engendered |
| 3' | ⸢li⸣-bi-it-ta-ša ik-ši-ru-u₂-[ma] | “Elī-ebittašu sealed it and |
| 4' | ⸢ma⸣-qi₂-it-ta-ša u₂-uš-zi-iz-⸢ma⸣ | (Sum) He sat down on his throne (Akk) He stood up on his chair |
| 5' | 22 KUŠ₃ ik-ši-ru-u₂-⸢ma⸣ | 22 cubits, Ikširû-ma |
| 6' | la u₂-ul-lu-u₃ re-e-ša-a-ša | (a kind of insect) that cannot be removed, its head |
| 7' | ia-ti a-pi-il-šu | My brother, his brother |
| 8' | re-e-eš-ta-a na-ra-am li-ib-bi-šu | The beginning of his heart was awe-inspiring |
| 9' | i-na ha-si-sa ne-me-qi₂ pa-al-ka-a | In her wisdom, your presence, |
| 10' | ša {d}e₂-a u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU i-qi₂-pu-nim | which Ea and Marduk ordered |
| 11' | mi-im-mu-u₃ a-bi ba-nu-u₂-a i-te-ep-pu-šu | All that my father who engendered me had done |
| 12' | a-na šu-te-šu-ru aš-te-ne-eʾ-e | In the future, I will keep you in mind. |
| 13' | IBILA-šu ki-i-num | His heir is Kīnum |
| 14' | ⸢a⸣-na ri-te-ed-de-e | “If he slips in through his window, |
| 15' | [na]-⸢ša⸣-an-ni li-ib-⸢ba⸣ | May he/she say to me: “Do not abandon me!" |
| 16' | [a-na] {⸢d⸣}UTU be-li₂ ra-bi₂-[u₃] | To the god Šamaš, my great lord |
| 17' | [DI.KU₅] ṣi-i-ri x [x (x)] | Judge of the ṣiru |
| 18' | [...] x x [...] | |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.