Measurements of the City Walls of Babylon C
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | ⸢12 di⸣-ma-a-tum TA GÚ ÍD.BURANUN | [Twe]lve t[o]wers from the bank of the Euphrates |
o 22 | to the Šūḫi Canal Gate. | |
o 33 | Eighteen towers from the doorpost of | |
o 44 | the Šūḫi Canal Gate to the district of the Court of the Administrator. | |
o 55 | Eight towers from the district of the Court | |
o 66 | of the Administrator to the doorpost of the Madānu Canal Gate. | |
o 77 | Twenty-nine towers from the Madānu Canal Gate | |
o 88 | to the enclosure of the Giššu Gate. | |
o 99 | Twenty-three towers from the Giššu Gate | |
o 1010 | up to the upp[er] tower | |
o 1111 | of the Sun of the God[s] Gate. | |
Reverse | ||
r 12r 12 | 30 di-ma-a-tum TA UGU | Thirty towers from |
r 1313 | the upper tower | |
r 1414 | of the Sun of the Gods Gate | |
r 1515 | to the Seashore Gate. |
Adapted from A.R. George, Babylonian Topographical Texts (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 40), 1992. Translated and lemmatized by Giulia Lentini, 2019-2020, as part of the LMU-Munich-based project Living Among Ruins (directed by Karen Radner and Jamie Novotny), which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung as part of the Lost Cities program (coordinated by Martin Zimmermann and Andreas Beyer). Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/btto/Q007974/.