Nebuchadnezzar II 079
| Obverse | ||
| Column i | ||
| ii | Lacuna | |
| i 1'1' | (i 1') he (the god Marduk) commis[sioned me to a]ct [as the one who provides for him, the god the god Nabû, overseer of the] totality of heaven and earth, [al]lowed my hands to grasp [a just scepter]. | |
| i 2'2' | ||
| i 3'3' | ||
| i 4'4' | (i 4') [(With regard to) Esagil, the] palace of heaven and earth, [the residence of] the Enlil of the gods, the god Marduk, I outfitted [Eumuša], the cella of his lordship, with [brig]ht [gold] as if were šallaru-plaster. | |
| i 5'5' | ||
| i 6'6' | ||
| i 7'7' | ||
| i 8'8' | (i 8') I built [Ezid]a anew and [com]pleted its construction [with] silver, gold, precious stone(s), [cop]per, musukannu-wood, (and) cedar. | |
| i 9'9' | ||
| i 10'10' | ||
| i 11'11' | ||
| i 12'12' | (i 12') [I buil]t (and) completed [Etemenan]ki, the ziggurat of Babylon, and (then) [rais]ed its superstructure [using baked bri]cks (colored with) shining blue glaze. | |
| i 13'13' | ||
| i 14'14' | ||
| i 15'15' | ||
| i 16'16' | (i 16') [At that time, (with regard to) Eurmeimi]nanki, the ziggurat of Borsippa — [which a king of the past] had built and [had rais]ed [forty-two cubits], | |
| i 17'17' | ||
| i 18'18' | ||
| Lacuna | ||
| Column ii | ||
| iiii | Lacuna | |
| ii 1'1' | [...] x x [...]3 | (ii 1') [...] ... [...] ... [...] and [(...)] cedar [...]. Moreover, [I ...] the [(...)] struc[ture ... I built it anew] as (it had been) in anci[ent times and raised its superstructure] as (it was in) [distant] da[ys]. |
| ii 2'2' | x x x x [...] | |
| ii 3'3' | ||
| ii 4'4' | ù ri-ik-x [...] | |
| ii 5'5' | ||
| ii 6'6' | ||
| ii 7'7' | (ii 7') O Nabû, [legitimate] h[eir, exalted vizier], the trium[phant one who is the beloved of the god Marduk, look with favor and] pl[easure upon my] de[eds] and gr[ant me] a [long] life, [the attainment of very old age], a firmly-secured [throne, a long-lasting reign], the cutting [down of the enemy], (and) the conqu[est of enemy land(s)]. | |
| ii 8'8' | ||
| ii 9'9' | ||
| ii 10'10' | ||
| ii 11'11' | ||
| ii 12'12' | ||
| ii 13'13' | ||
| ii 14'14' | (ii 14') Upon [your reliable] wr[iting board], which firmly establishes the bo[undary of heaven and earth], com[mand that my days be long] (and) wr[ite out (my attainment of) very old age]. | |
| ii 15'15' | ||
| ii 16'16' | ||
| ii 17'17' | ||
| ii 18'18' | ||
| Lacuna |
1For the now-missing contents of the beginning of the inscription, see Nbk. 78 (C212) i 1–10.
2For the now-missing contents of the beginning of the inscription, compare Nbk. 78 (C212) i 29–ii 16.
3This passage is not included in Nbk. 87 (C212); compare ii 14–15 of that text. Note, however, that ii 5´–6´ are also in Nbk. 87 (C212) ex. 2 (BM 91122). See the on-page note to Nbk. 87 ii 14–15.
4For the now-missing contents of the end of the inscription, see Nbk. 78 (C212) ii 24–29.
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 C212".