Inscriptions

Only one inscription pertaining to the reign of Nabû-šumu-libūr is known today.

A short Akkadian inscription on a duck weight found at Nimrud states that this object weighed thirty minas and belonged to Nabû-šumu-libūr, "king of the world."

Access the composite text of Nabû-šumu-libūr 1 [/ribo/babylon2/Q006276/].

Source

BM 091432 (1848-11-04, 0128)

Bibliography

Edition

Winckler 1889, p. 46 (transliteration)
King 1907, p. 221 (edition)
Weissbach 1907, p. 394 no. 6 (translation)
Poebel 1955, p. 23 (transliteration)
Brinkman 1968, pp. 147–148 (transliteration)
Frame 1995, pp. 66-67 (edition)

Copy/Photo

Layard 1849, pl. 95a no. 11 (drawing)
Layard 1851, pl. 83 F (copy in type)
Norris 1856, no. 2 on the plate following p. 222 (copy in type)
King 1907, p. 221 (copy in type)

Further Information

Norris 1856, pp. 218–219 (study)
Weissbach 1907, pp. 394–395 and 948 no. 6 (study)
Brinkman 1968, pp. 6 and 339–340 no. 11.2.1 (transliteration, study)
Layard 1849, p. 316 (provenance)
Layard 1853, pp. 600–601 (study)
Brandis 1866, pp. 46–47 (study)
BM Guide 1922, p. 213 no. 255 (study)
Barnett 1975, p. 4 (study)

Alexa Bartelmus

Alexa Bartelmus, 'Inscriptions', RIBo, Babylon 2: The Inscriptions of the Second Dynasty of Isin, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/Rulers/Nabu-shumu-libur/Inscriptions/]

© RIBo, 2015-2016. RIBo is based at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historisches Seminar (LMU Munich, History Department) - Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East. Content released under a CC BY-SA 3.0 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/] license, 2007-14.
Oracc uses cookies only to collect Google Analytics data. Read more here [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/about/cookies/index.html]; see the stats here [http://www.seethestats.com/site/oracc.museum.upenn.edu]; opt out here.