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BM 091108 (X000132)
Royal/Monumental, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 091108 |
|---|---|
| ID | X000132 |
| Museum no. | BM 091108 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal/Monumental |
| 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) |
|---|---|---|
| i | ||
| 1 | {d}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-⸢ṣu⸣-[ur₂] | Nebuchadnezzar |
| 2 | LUGAL da-⸢num₂⸣ | king of the four quarters |
| 3 | LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{⸢ki⸣} | king of Babylon. |
| 4 | LUGAL MA.DA šu-me-ri₂-im u₃ ak-ka-di-i | king of the land of Sumer and Akkad. |
| 5 | ⸢mu⸣-ki-in iš-di MA.DA | “It is enough! It is enough!" |
| 6 | ru-ba-a-am na-aʾ-dam | the noble one who is to be seen |
| 7 | ti-ri-iṣ qa₂-at | the hand of |
| 8 | {d}na-bi-um u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | Nabium and Marduk |
| 9 | mi-gi-ir ša-aš-šu | |
| 10 | na-ra-am {d}a-⸢a⸣ | beloved of Aya-ea |
| 11 | qar-ra-ad qar-ra-[de-e] | the hero of the warriors |
| 12 | ⸢ša⸣ {d}er₃-ra ra-šu-⸢ub⸣-[bu] | The treasury of Erra is yours |
| 13 | u₂-ša-ak-ši-du-šu ni-iz-⸢ma-su⸣ | he made him bow down, weeping |
| 14 | a₃-aš-ri-im ša-ah-ṭam | a šaḫtam plant |
| 15 | ⸢mu⸣-uš-te-ʾe-e-em sak-ke-e-em | “It is a sakkê-demon, |
| 16 | ša DINGIR.DINGIR GAL.GAL | of the great gods |
| 17 | LUGAL ša ep-še-tu-šu | king whose deeds |
| 18 | e-li LUGAL.LUGAL AD.AD-šu | above the king, his father |
| 19 | šu-tu-qa₂ a-na-ku | (a kind of insect) I |
| 20 | e-nu-ma ša-aš-šu | When his body |
| 21 | EN ra-bi₂-u₃ | the great lord |
| 22 | i-da-a-a il-li-ku-ma | they went with me, and |
| ii | ||
| 1 | [su-ba-ru-um a]-na-ru | Subarean anarum |
| 2 | [u₃ MA.DA za-ʾe-e]-ri-ia | and the capital of my dowry |
| 3 | [u₂-te-er-ru] ⸢a⸣-na DU₆ | he returned. “Ea-e-na (Month VII) |
| 4 | [u₃] ⸢ka⸣-ar-mu | and Earmu |
| 5 | ⸢i₃⸣-nu-mi-šu | his eminent one |
| 6 | a-na {d}NIN ZIMBIR{ki} | to the Lady of Sippar |
| 7 | ru-ba-tim ṣi-ir-tim GAŠAN-ia | Exalted prince, my lady |
| 8 | e₂-edin-na E₂ ta-ap-šu-uh₂-ti-šu | The E-edina, the house of relaxation |
| 9 | e-eš-ši-iš e-pu-uš-ma | did a ritual, and |
| 10 | ki-ma u₄-mi-im u₂-na-mi-ir | like a day he made it shine. |
| 11 | a-na ša-at-tim {d}NIN ZIMBIR{ki} | for the life of the lady of Sippar |
| 12 | [be-el]-tim šu-ur₂-bu-tim | the lord of heaven |
| 13 | ⸢e-ma⸣ E₂ šu-a-ti | that house |
| 14 | uš-ta-ak-la-lu-ma | they have sinned, and |
| 15 | ta-ra-am-mi-i-im qe₂-re-eb-ša | you love inside it |
| 16 | ia-a-ši {d}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur₂ | Nabium-apla-uṣur |
| 17 | LUGAL za-ni-in-ki | the king who provides for you |
| 18 | ki-ma SIG₄.SIG₄ ZIMBIR{⸢ki⸣} | like the bricks of Sippar |
| 19 | u₃ KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | and Babylon |
| 20 | ku-un-na-am a-na ṣi-a-tim | firmly established for eternity |
| 21 | šar-ru₄-tim šu-ul-bi-ri-im | the kingship of Šulbirum |
| 22 | a-na u₄-mi-im re-e-qu₂-tim | in perpetuity. |
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