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 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/Q006276/].

Source

Bibliography

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• Layard 1849 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#layard1849a], pl. 95a no. 11 (drawing)
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Alexa Bartelmus

Alexa Bartelmus, 'Inscriptions', RIBo, Babylon 2: The Inscriptions of the Second Dynasty of Isin, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2017 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/rulers/nabushumulibur/inscriptions/]