Nebuchadnezzar II 029
| Obverse | ||
| Column i | ||
| i 1i 1 | (i 1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I. | |
| i 22 | ||
| i 33 | ||
| i 44 | ||
| i 55 | ||
| i 66 | (i 6) (With regard to) Emaḫ, the temple of the goddess Ninmaḫ (that is) inside Ka-dingirra, I built (it) anew in Babylon for the goddess Ninmaḫ, the exalted princess. | |
| i 77 | ||
| i 88 | ||
| i 99 | ||
| i 1010 | ||
| i 1111 | ||
| i 1212 | ||
| i 1313 | ||
| i 1414 | ||
| i 1515 | (i 15) I surrounded (it) with a strong base using bitumen and baked brick. I filled its interior with ritually-pure earth from the ground. | |
| i 1616 | ||
| i 1717 | ||
| i 1818 | ||
| Column ii | ||
| ii 1ii 1 | ||
| ii 22 | ||
| ii 33 | ||
| ii 44 | (ii 4) O Ninmaḫ, merciful mother, look with pleasure (upon this temple) and may good things about me be set upon your lips. Expand (my) seed (and) increase my progeny. In the womb of my descendants, grant safe and easy childbirth. | |
| ii 55 | ||
| ii 66 | ||
| ii 77 | ||
| ii 88 | ||
| ii 99 | ||
| ii 1010 | ||
| ii 1111 | ||
| ii 1212 | ||
| ii 1313 | ||
| ii 1414 | ||
| ii 1515 | ||
| ii 1616 | ||
| ii 1717 |
1On ex. 29, col. ii begins with this line.
2On ex. 16, col. ii begins with this line, with e-el-lu-⸢tim⸣ (“ritually-pure”).
3On exs. 9 and 23, col. ii begins with this line.
4On exs. 5, 25, and 28, col. ii begins with this line.
Created by Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny, 2015-24, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich, the Henkel Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East), and and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/ribo/Q005500/.