Nebuchadnezzar I 05


Obverse
o 1o 1	a-šib i-na KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI ^dAG-NÍG.DU-ÙRU [LUGAL^?]	(o 1) In Babylon dwells Nebuchadnezzar, [the king]. He rages like a lion (and) thun[ders] like the god Adad. Like a lion, he frigh[tens] his distinguished nobles. [His] supplications go to the god Marduk, lord of Babylon:
o 22	il-tam-mir ki-i UR.MAḪ ki-i ^dIŠKUR i-šag-[gum]
o 33	LÚ.GAL.MEŠ-šú e-du-ú-tu ki-ma la-ab-bu ú-šag-[lat^?]
o 44	a-na ^dAMAR.UTU EN TIN.TIR.KI il-la-ku su-pu-ú-[šú]
o 55	a-ḫu-lap at-⸢tu⸣-ú-a šu-ta-nu-ḫu ù ú-tu-⸢lu^?⸣	(o 5) “Have pity on me, one who is dejected and prost[rate]! Have pity on my land, which weeps and mourns! Have pity on my people, who wail and weep! O lord of Babylon, how long will you dwell in the land of the enemy? May beautiful Babylon be remembered by you! Turn your face back to Esagil (“House Whose Top Is High”), which you love!”
o 66	a-ḫu-lap i-na KUR-ia šá ba-ke-e ù sa-pa-a-⸢du⸣
o 77	⸢a⸣-ḫu-lap i-na UN.MEŠ-ia šá nu-um-bé-e ù ba-ke-⸢e⸣
o 88	[a]-di ma-ti EN TIN.TIR.KI ina KUR na-ki-ri áš-ba-a-ti
o 99	⸢lib^?⸣-bal-⸢kit⸣ i-na lìb-bi-ka TIN.TIR.KI ba-nu-um-ma
o 1010	[a]-⸢na é-sag⸣-íl šá ta-ram-mu šu-us-ḫi-ra pa-ni-ka
o 1111	[su-pe-e^?] ^dAG-NÍG.DU-ÙRU EN KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI iš-mé-e-ma	(o 11) The lord of Babylon listened to [the supplication(s) of] Nebuchadnezzar and [his command] comes down to him from heaven:
o 1212	[x x x] ⸢ul⸣-tu AN-e in-da-naq-qu-ta-áš-ši
o 1313	[x x x (x) i^?]-na pi-i ⸢aq⸣-bak-ka a-na-ku	(o 13) “[... b]y (my own) mouth I spoke to you. [Instructions (promising)] good fortune, I have sent to you. [With] my [support] you are to attack the land of Amurru. [...] listen to [the iss]uing of your instructions! [...] take me [from E]lam to Babylon! Let me, [... the lord of Ba]bylon, give Elam to you! [...] above and below.”
o 1414	[x x x x] x šá du-un-⸢qa⸣ al-ta-tap-pa-rak-ka
o 1515	[x x x x x (x)]-⸢ia te^?⸣-ba-a-ta a-na KUR MAR.TU.KI
o 1616	[... ši^?]-kìn ṭè-mì-ka ši-me
o 1717	[x x x x (x)] ⸢ELAM.MA⸣.KI a-na KÁ.DINGIR.RA.⸢KI⸣ li-qa-an-nu
o 1818	[x x x EN^? KÁ].⸢DINGIR⸣.RA.KI ELAM.MA.KI ⸢lud⸣-din-ak-ka
o 1919	[...] x-⸢ka⸣ e-li-ti ⸢ù šá⸣-pil-ti
o 2020	[...] x iṣ-ṣa-bat [(x x)] DINGIR.MEŠ-šú	(o 20) [...] has seized [(...)] his gods [...]
o 2121	[...] x [(x)]	(o 20) [...] has seized [(...)] his gods [...]
	Lacuna
Reverse
rr	Lacuna
r 1'1'	[...] x [...] x ⸢ŠE^?⸣	(r 1') [...]
Colophon		Colophon
r 2'2'	[...] URI.KI GABA.RI KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI šaṭ-ṭir ba-ri	(r 2') [...] Akkad, written (and) collated (from) a copy (in) Babylon.
r 3'3'	[...] MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR-AN.⸢ŠÁR.KI⸣	(r 3') [...] king of the world, king of Assyria.

Based on Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) (RIMB 2; Toronto, 1995). Digitized, lemmatized, and updated by Alexa Bartelmus, 2015-16, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich 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 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. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/ribo/Q006245/.