Names

  • Nebuchadnezzar II 113

Numbers

  • Q005584
  • Nebuchadnezzar II 113
  • GMTR 4 B27; CBI 92 (same as C23)

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Details

  • brick
  • Neo-Babylonian
  • Sippar
  • Royal Inscription
  • Nebuchadnezzar II

Bibliography

GMTR 4 B27; CBI 92 (same as C23)

Nebuchadnezzar II 113

Obverse
11

dna-bi-um-ku-du-úr-ri-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL ba-bi-lam.KI

(1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I:

22

za-ni-in é-sag-íl ù é-zi-da

33

DUMU dna-bi-um-IBILA-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL ba-bi-lam.KI a-na-ku

44

é-babbar-ra É dUTU ša -re-eb ZIMBIR.<KI>

(4) (With regard to) Ebabbar, the temple of the Šamaš that is inside Sippar, I built (it) anew for the god Šamaš, the lord who prolongs my days.

55

a-na dUTU EN mu-šá-ri-ku u₄-mi-ia e--ši- e-pu-

66

dUTU EN GAL-ú ep-še-tu-ú-a a-na da-mi-iq-ti

(6) O Šamaš, look with favor and pleasure upon my deeds and grant me a life of long days, the attainment of very old age, a firmly-secured throne, and a long-lasting dynasty.

77

ḫa-di- na-ap-li-is-ma

88

ba-la-ṭam u₄-um ru-qu-ú-tim še-be-e li-it-tu-ti

99

ku-un-nu GIŠ.GU.ZA ù la-ba-ar pa-le-e

1010

a-na ši-ri-ik-ti šu-úr-ka-am

1111

ni- -ti-ia ki-ni- mu-gu-úr-ma

(11) Steadfastly accept my prayers and, by your exalted command, which cannot be altered, may my deed(s), my handiwork, grow old for a long time, may my descendants flourish as kings, (and) may they endure in the land.

1212

i-na --ti-ka ṣi-ir-ti ša la na-ka-ra-am

1313

i---ti li--it -ti-ia

1414

lu-la-ab-bi-ir a-na da--a-tim

1515

li-pu-ú-a i-na šar-ru-ti li-te-el-li-pu

1616

li-ku-na i-na MA.DA

1717

e-ma -ta a-na-šu-ka EN dUTU

(17) Whenever I raise up (my) hand(s) to you, O lord Šamaš, let my way to kill my enemies be open. You are the god Šamaš. May your fierce weapons, which cannot be withstood, go at my side to cut down my enemies.

1818

lu pe-e-tu-ú ur-ḫi-ia a-na na-a-ri a-a-bi-ia

1919

dUTU at-ta-ma

2020

GIŠ.TUKUL.GIŠ.TUKUL-ka ez-zu-ú-tim ša la im-ma-ḫa-ru

2121

a-na šu-um--ta na-ki-ri-ia li-il-li-ka i-da-a-a

2222

ki-ma SIG₄.ḪI.A é-babbar-ra ku-un-na a-na ku-un-na a-na ṣa-a-tim

(22) Like the bricks of Ebabbar, which are firmly in place for eternity, may my years be extend until the distant future.

2323

ša-na-tu-ú-a li-ri-ka

2424

a-na u₄-mi da--ú-tim


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 B27".