Nebuchadnezzar II 066
| Obverse | ||
| 11 | dna-bi-um-ku-du-úr-ri-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI DUMU dna-bi-um-IBILA-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI | (1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon: |
| 22 | É.GAL mu-ša-ab šar-ru-ti-ia i-na er-ṣe-ti ká-dingir-ra.KI ša qé-re-eb ba-bi-lam.KI lu e-pu-uš | (2) I built a palace, a residence for my royal majesty, in the Ka-dingirra district, which is in Babylon. I brought hard (beams of) cedar from Lebanon, the holy forest, and stretched (them over it) for its roof. |
| 33 | GIŠ.EREN.GIŠ.EREN da-nu₄-tim ul-tu KUR.la-ab-na-nu GIŠ.TIR el-le-tim lu ub-lam a-na ṣu-lu-li-ša lu ú-ša-at-ri-iṣ | |
| 44 | dAMAR.UTU i-lu re-mé-nu-ú še-mu-ú ta-aṣ-li-ti É e-pu-šu la-la-ša lu-uš-bu ki-sa-a ak-su-ú | (4) O Marduk, compassionate god, listen to my prayer(s) so that I may be sated with the luxuriousness of the house that I have built, renovate the dilapidated section(s) of base that I have bound, (and) walk around inside it, in Babylon, for a long time. May my descendants rule over the black-headed (people) inside it forever. |
| 55 | an-ḫu-us-su lu-ud-di-iš i-na qé-re-bi-ša i-na ba-bi-lam.KI lu-la-ab-bi-ir ta-al-la-ak-ti | |
| 66 | 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 B12".