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VA 05952 (X000008)

Royal/Monumental, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE

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DesignationVA 05952
IDX000008
Museum no.VA 05952
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
GenreRoyal/Monumental
Find spotBabylon
Coordinates32.5350, 44.4258

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1'[If he roams] around outside,
Obverse [2:3] o 2'o 2'–o 2'o 2'they shall bring [him] outside to an inaccessible place.
Obverse [4:5] o 3'o 3'–o 3'o 3'If he lingers at the gate of a house,
Obverse [6:7] o 4'o 4'–o 4'o 4'they shall make him enter a house with no exit.
Obverse [8:9] o 5'o 5'–o 5'o 5'If he slips in by the door and the door bolt,

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}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂
2LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}
3ti-ri-iṣ qa₂-ti {d}na-bi-um
4u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU a-na-ku
5⸢im⸣-gur-{d}EN.LIL₂
6BAD₃ ra-bi₂-a-am
7ša KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}
8ša ul-la-nu-u₂-a
9i-ni-šu i-qu₂-pu
10in ki-gal-lim re-eš-ti-im
11⸢u₂⸣-ki-in uš-ši-šu
12in um-ma-nim di-ku-ut ma-ti-ia
13eš-ši-iš lu ab-ni-ma
14a-na IM LIMMU₂.BA KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki}
15⸢lu⸣ u₂-ša-as₃-hi-ir
16⸢ki⸣-ma ša u₄-um ul-lu-tim
17re-ši-šu lu u₂-ul-lu
18BAD₃ a-na {d}AMAR.UTU EN-ia
19da-mi-iq-ta ti-iz-ka-ar

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