Names

  • Nebuchadnezzar II 088

Numbers

  • Q005559
  • Nebuchadnezzar II 088
  • GMTR 4 BP2

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  • paving stone
  • Neo-Babylonian
  • Borsippa
  • Royal Inscription
  • Nebuchadnezzar II

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GMTR 4 BP2

Nebuchadnezzar II 088

Obverse
11

dAG-ku-dúr-ri-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL TIN.TIR.KI

(1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I:

22

DUMU dAG-IBILA-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL TIN.TIR.KI a-na-ku

33

a-na dAG be--ia é-zi-da É-su ina bar-si-pa.KI -

(3) For the god Nabû, my lord, I built Ezida, his temple in Borsippa.

44

TA -maḫ a-di -umuš-a

(4) From Kamaḫ to Kaumuša, from the Dais of Destinies to the entrance gate of the god Nabû, I beatified the accessway (for) the processional street of the son of the prince, the god Nabû, with slab(s) of stone.

55

-tu BÁRA NAM.MEŠ a-di -re-bi dAG

66

ma-áš-da-ḫa DUMU NUN dAG i-na SIG₄ NA₄

77

ú-ban-na-a tal-lak-ti dAG SUKKAL MAḪ

(7b) O Nabû, exalted vizier, grant me a long life.

88

TIN da--a ia-ti šur-kam


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 BP2".