Nebuchadnezzar II 065
| Obverse | ||
| 11 | dAG-NÍG.DU-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI za-ni-in é-sag-íl ù é-zi-da | (1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I: |
| 22 | DUMU dAG-IBILA-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI a-na-ku É.GAL mu-ša-ab šar-ru-ti-ia | (2b) I built a palace, a residence for my royal majesty, in the Ka-dingirra district, which is in Babylon. I secured its foundation on the surface (lit. “breast”) of the netherworld and raised it as high as a mountain. |
| 33 | i-na er-ṣe-et ká-dingir-ra.KI ša qé-reb ba-bi-lam.KI e-pu-uš | |
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| 55 | i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A ù SIG₄.AL.ÙR.RA ú-za-aq-qí-ir-ša ḫu-úr-sa-ni-iš | |
| 66 | qí-bi-tu-uk-ka IGI.GÁL DINGIR.DINGIR dAMAR.UTU É e-pu-šu la-la-ša lu-uš-bu | (6) By your command, O wisest of the gods, Marduk, may I be sated with the luxuriousness of the house that I have built. May I reach the prime of (my) life (and) attain very old age inside it, in Babylon. May my descendants rule over the black-headed (people) inside it forever. |
| 77 | i-na qé-re-bi-ša i-na ba-bi-i-lu.KI ši-bu-ti lu-uk-šu-ud lu-uš-ba-a li-it-tu-ti | |
| 88 | li-pu-ú-a i-na qé-re-bi-ša a-na da-rí-a-tim ṣa-al-ma-at qá-qá-dam li-bé-e-lu |
Created by Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny, 2015-25, 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. At the present time, there is no stable, citable URL for this text and, therefore, the RINBE team kindly requests that this edition be cited as "RIBo Nebuchadnezzar II B16".