Inscriptions

Compared to the length of his reign and the importance attributed to this king in later sources, the corpus of Nebuchadnezzar's royal inscriptions, as far as it is known to us, is relatively small. The majority of these texts are written in Akkadian, but there are also one Sumerian inscription (no. 2, preserved on several bricks from Nippur), as well as three bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian inscriptions (nos. 1, 8+9, and 10). Only text nos. 1-4 are preserved on their original objects; the other inscriptions are known only from (mostly later) copies. Note that because of the texts' fragmentary states of preservation, some of the attributions are uncertain. Deviating from normal RIM/RIBo-standards, in addition to the known royal inscriptions, the introduction of a kudurru from Sippar has also been included here since it provides valuable historical information on a campaign of Nebuchadnezzar against the Elamites (no. 11).

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Two fragments of probably the same limestone tablet preserve parts of a bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian inscription reporting that Nebuchadnezzar I undertook construction on Ekitušḫegaltila, the sanctuary of the god Adad at Babylon.

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• Böhl 1950 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#boehl1950], pp. 42-46 (edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 12-14 (edition)

• Böhl 1950 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#boehl1950], pls. I–III (photo, copy)
• Weidner 1952-1953 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#weidner1952-1953], p. 72 no. 3 (ex. 2, copy of obverse [col. ii])

• Böhl 1939 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#boehl1939], p. 263 no. 3 (ex. 1, study)
• Böhl 1950 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#boehl1950], pp. 42-46 (study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 5, 106, 109, 112–113, and 325–26 no. 4.2.1 (exs. 1–2, study)
• Sommerfeld 1982 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#sommerfeld1982], pp. 183–184 (study)
• Weidner 1952-1953 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#weidner1952-1953], pp. 71–73 no. 3 (exs. 1–2, study)

A Sumerian building inscription of Nebuchadnezzar I records that this king of Babylon worked on Unumaḫ, a sanctuary of the Ekur temple of Enlil. Sseveral bricks at Nippur are reportedly stamped with this text, but only one of these is currently available.

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• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], p. 113 n. 624 (edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], p. 15 (edition)

• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 5 and 326 no. 4.2.3 (study)
• Behrens 1985 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#behrens1985], p. 239 no. 51 (study)

Four bronze daggers of unknown origin (reportedly Luristan) contain an Akkadian possession inscription by Nebuchadnezzar I.

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• Contenau 1931 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#contenau1931], p. 107 (ex. 4, transliteration)
• Herzfeld 1941 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#herzfeld1941], p. 134 (ex. 4?, transcription)
• Dossin 1962 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#dossin1962], p. 152 (exs. 1–3, edition)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], p. 164 no. 30 (ex. 4, transliteration) and p. 164 nos. 31–33 (exs. 1–3, transliteration)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 15-16 (edition)

• Langdon in Pope 1938 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#pope1938], p. 283 no. 7 (ex. 4, copy in type)
• Nagel 1959-1960 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#nagel1959-1960], p. 97 fig. 2 (ex. 4, drawing)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], p. 60 fig. 58 and pl. 2 no. 3 (ex. 2, photo; ex. 3, drawing)

• Langdon in Pope 1938 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#pope1938], pp. 279 and 283 no. 7 (ex. 4, study)
• Nagel 1959-1960 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#nagel1959-1960], p. 95 no. 2 (ex. 4, study)
• Ghirshman 1961 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#ghirshman1961], nos. 272 and 275 (exs. 2–3, study)
• Ghirshman 1962 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#ghirshman1962], no. 126 (ex. 2, study)
• Porada 1964 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#porada1964], nos. 138 and 141 (exs. 2–3, study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], p. 326 nos. 4.2.2 (ex. 4, study) and 4.2.5 (exs. 1–3, study)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], p. 60 no. 31F (ex. 4, study) and p. 60 nos. 31G–I (exs. 1–3, study)
• Moorey 1971 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#moorey1971], p. 31 nos. 3–4 (study)

(Possibly) two bronze hatchets in the Foroughi Collection -- reportedly from Luristan -- contain an Akkadian prayer to the god Marduk; the last line of the inscription gives the name of the objects' owner as "Nebuchadnezzar, king of the world."

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• Dossin 1962 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#dossin1962], p. 158 (edition)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], p. 106 n. 575 (edition)
• Lambert 1968-1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#lambert1968-1969], p. 11 (edition)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], 164 nos. 28–29 (transliteration)
• Sommerfeld 1982 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#sommerfeld1982], p. 184 (edition)
• Foster 1993 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#foster1993], p. 303 (translation)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 16-17 (edition)

• Dossin 1962 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#dossin1962], pl. XXIV no. 14 (photo)
• Porada 1964 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#porada1964], no. 135 (photo)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], pl. 4 nos. 1–2 (photo)
• Amiet 1976 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#amiet1976], fig. 26 (photo of reverse)

• Ghirshman 1961 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#ghirshman1961], no. 269 (study)
• Ghirshman 1962 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#ghirshman1962], no. 124 (study)
• Porada 1964 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#porada1964], no. 135 (study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], p. 326 no. 4.2.4 (study)
• Calmeyer 1969 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#calmeyer1969], p. 67 nos. 33B'–C' (study)
• Moorey 1971 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#moorey1971], p. 33 no. 1 (study)
• Borger 1975 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#borger1975], p. 47 (study)
• Amiet 1976 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#amiet1976], pp. 29–30 (study)

A prayer of Nebuchadnezzar I to the god Marduk regarding his desired "return" from the land Elam and the god's favorable answer (both in Akkadian) are preserved on a fragmentary tablet in the Kuyunjik Collection of the British Museum. That tablet -- according to its colophon -- contains a late Neo-Assyrian copy of a (historical-literary) text from Babylon.

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• Boissier 1894 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#boissier1894], pp. 76–78 (partial edition)
• Winckler 1897 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#winckler1897], pp. 542–43 (edition)
• Foster 1993 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#foster1993], p. 301 (translation)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 17-19 (edition)

• Winckler 1893 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#winckler1893], p. 72 (copy)
• King 1901 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#king1901], pl. 48 (copy)

• Delitzsch 1887–1890 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#delitzsch1887-1890], pp. 306 and 308 (study)
• Bezold 1891 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1891], p. 532 (study)
• Boissier 1894 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#boissier1894], pp. 76–78 (study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], p. 328 no. 4.3.8 (study)
• Grayson 1975 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#grayson1975], pp. 42–43 and 45 (study)
• Roberts 1977 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#roberts1977], pp. 183–187, especially nn. 23 and 45–47 (study)
• Sommerfeld 1982 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#sommerfeld1982], pp. 187–188 (study)

The first part of an Akkadian historical-literary text, which is known from a Neo-Assyrian tablet now in the Kuyunjik Collection of the British Museum, mentions that the Elamites successfully campaigned against Babylonia in the time of the last rulers of the Kassite Dynasty, Zababa-šuma-iddina and Enlil-nādin-aḫi. These events are obviously reported in retrospect by a later king whose name is, however, unfortunately no longer preserved. Because of the similarity of the second part of the inscription with descriptions of Nebuchadnezzar's campaign against the Elamites, the text is usually assigned to that ruler.

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• Winckler 1889 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#winckler1889], p. 46 (partial edition)
• Winckler 1897 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#winckler1897], pp. 534–538 (edition)
• Tadmor 1958 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#tadmor1958], pp. 137–139 (edition)
• Longman 1991 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#longman1991], p. 243 (translation)
• Foster 1993 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#foster1993], pp. 294–296 (translation)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 19-21 (edition)

• Rawlinson and Smith 1870 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#rawlinson-smith1870], pl. 38 no. 2 (copy in type)

• Bezold 1891 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1891], p. 463 (study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 79–80, 88–90, 106, and 328 no. 4.3.9 (study)
• Roberts 1977 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#roberts1977], pp. 183–187, especially nn. 24, 32, 38, and 48 (study)
• Longman 1991 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#longman1991], pp. 194–95 (study)

Two fragments of a clay tablet found at Babylon preserve part of an Akkadian historical-literary text which purports to be a letter sent by a Babylonian king from Elam to the people of Babylon in order to report his victory and the resulting return of the god Marduk. Because of similarities between this account and the description of Nebuchadnezzar's campaign against the Elamites in other inscriptions (in particular Nebuchadnezzar I 11, i 12-43), it seems likely that the text refers to events that took place during his reign.

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• van Dijk 1986 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#vandijk1986], p. 170 (partial edition)
• George 1989 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#george1989], p. 382–383 (partial edition)
• Foster 1993 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#foster1993], p. 302 (translation)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 21-23 (edition)

• van Dijk 1987 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#vandijk1987], pl. XXIX no. 87 (copy)

• George 1989 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#george1989], pp. 382-383 (study)
• Hurowitz 1992 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hurowitz1992], p. 52 n. 17 (study)

A bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian inscription written in the name of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, reports that the god Marduk had become angry with his people in the reign of a previous king, and, therefore, the Elamites were allowed to successfully attack Babylonia, lay waste to its settlements, carry off its gods, and turn their sanctuaries into ruins. This account provides the background for the description of Marduk's glorious return from Elam to Babylon in the time of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, which was inscribed on a second tablet (explicitly designated as such in a colophon on an exemplar from Ashurbanipal's library) that is listed here as separate inscription (Nebuchadnezzar I 9) although clearly belonging to the same text. The text had obviously been quite popular in antiquity: to date, copies of it (both in Babylonian and in Assyrian script; with varying arrangement of the Sumerian and Akkadian version) have been found at Babylon, Sippar and Nineveh.

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• Lambert 1967 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#lambert1967], pp. 126–138 (exs. 1 [K 04874 (+) Rm 0255], 2 [K 02211 + K 08636 + K 09168], 3–4, edition)
• Lambert 1974 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#lambert1974], pp. 435–438 (exs. 1–4, transliteration)
• Block 1988 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#block1988], p. 136 (ex. 1, partial translation)
• Foster 1993 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#foster1993], pp. 290–293 (exs. 1–4, translation)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 23-28 (edition)

• Langdon 1932 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#langdon1932], p. 35 (ex. 1 [K 04874], copy)
• Lambert 1967 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#lambert1967], pp. 134–136 (exs. 1 [K 04874 (+) Rm 0255], 2 [K 02211 + K 08636 + K 09168], 3–4, copy)
• Lambert 1974 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#lambert1974], pp. 439–440 (exs. 1 [K 06088], 2 [K 03469, K 06189, and K 10739], copy)

• Delitzsch in Lotz 1880 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#lotz1880], pp. 149 and 181 (ex. 1 [K 04874], study)
• Haupt 1885 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#haupt1885], p. 269 (ex. 1 [K 04874], study)
• Delitzsch 1887-1890 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#delitzsch1887-1890], pp. 286 and 369 (ex. 1 [K 04874], study)
• Sayce 1888 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#sayce1888], pp. 169 n. 1 and 454 nn. 3–4 (ex. 1 [K 04874], study)
• Bezold 1891 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1891], pp. 422, 551, 671, 762, and 769 (exs. 1 [K 04874, K 06088], 2 [K 02211, K 03649, K 06189], study)
• Bezold 1893 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1893], pp. 947, 990, and 1111 (ex. 2 [K 08636, K 09168, K 10739], study)
• Bezold 1896 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1896], p. 1598 (ex. 1 [Rm 0255], study)
• Falkenstein 1944 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#falkenstein1944], p. 74 (exs. 1 [K 04874], 2 [K 02211], study)
• Borger 1956 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#borger1956], p. 117 §87a (ex. 1 [K 04874], study)
• Borger 1957-1958 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#borger1957-1958], p. 118 §87a (exs. 1 [K 04874], 2 [K 02211], study)
• Lambert 1974 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#lambert1974], pp. 432-434 (exs. 1–4, study)
• Roberts 1977 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#roberts1977], pp. 183–187, especially pp. 185–186 (study)
• Sommerfeld 1982 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#sommerfeld1982], p. 187 (exs. 1–4, study)
• Block 1988 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#block1988], pp. 136 and 147–148 (ex. 1, study)

Despite of being edited separately in Frame, RIMB 2, Nebuchadnezzar I 9 is not an independent text, but simply the continuation of Nebuchadnezzar I 8. This bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian inscription, which reports on the wrath of the god Marduk and his subsequent return to Babylon, was so lengthy that it had to be split over two (numbered) tablets by the scribes of Ashurbanipal who copied it in the seventh century BC.

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• Foster 1993 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#foster1993], pp. 299–300 (exs. 1–2, translation)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 28-31 (edition)

• Talbot 1873 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#talbot1873], p. 65 (ex. 1 [K 03444], partial copy in type)
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• Rawlinson and Smith 1891 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#rawlinson-smith1891], pl. 20 no. 1 (exs. 1 [K 03444], 2, composite copy in type)
• Meek 1918-1919 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#meek1918-1919], pp. 134 and 139 (ex. 1 [BM 099067], copy)

• Bezold 1891 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1891], pp. 522, 534, and 697 (exs. 1 [K 03444], 2, 3, study)
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• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 112–113 and 329 no. 4.3.10 (exs. 1–4, study)
• Roberts 1977 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#roberts1977], pp. 183–87, especially nn. 10 and 52 (study)
• Deller, Mayer, and Sommerfeld 1987 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#mayer-sommerfeld1987], pp. 209 and 217 (exs. 1–2, study)
• Jacobsen 1991 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#jacobsen1991], pp. 288–291 (exs. 1–2, study)
• George 1992 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#george1992], p. 402 (exs. 1–2, study)

A bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian historical-literary inscription preserved on a fragment of a clay cylinder reports how the sun-god appointed a royal descendant for kingship because of his piety and ordered his earthly representative (Nebuchadnezzar I) to plunder Elam. Since such an attack reportedly happened in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, the inscription is tentatively attributed to him. (Note, however, that in this case, the responsible god is Šamaš, and not Marduk as in Nebuchadnezzar's other inscriptions.)

Access the composite text of Nebuchadnezzar I 10 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/Q006250/].

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Bibliography

• Frame 1994 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1994], pp. 59–67 (edition)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 31-33 (edition)

• Frame 1994 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1994], pp. 62-63 (copy)

• Frame 1994 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1994], pp. 59–60 and 67-72 (study)

Details about a campaign of Nebuchadnezzar I against Elam are given in the introductory section of a kudurru inscription. According to this text, special privileges (i.e., exemption from taxation and from the jurisdiction of the province Namar) were granted to the villages of Bīt-Karziabku, whose chief, a man called Šitti-Marduk, had been significantly involved in Nebuchadnezzar's victory over the Elamite king Ḫulteludiš.

Access the composite text of Nebuchadnezzar I 11 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/Q006251/].

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• Hilprecht 1883 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hilprecht1883] (edition)
• Pinches and Budge 1883-1884 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#pinches-budge1883-1884], pp. 144–170 (edition)
• Peiser 1892 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#peiser1892], pp. 165–174 (edition)
• Gray 1904 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#gray1904], pp. 8–11 (translation)
• King 1912 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#king1912], no. 6 (edition)
• Hurowitz 1992 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hurowitz1992], pp. 41–46 (edition)
• Foster 1993 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#foster1993], pp. 297–298 (translation)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], pp. 33-35 (edition)

• Hilprecht 1883 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hilprecht1883], no. 1 (copy)
• Pinches and Budge 1883-1884 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#pinches-budge1883-1884], pp. 151–170 (copy in type)
• Rawlinson and Pinches 1884 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#rawlinson-pinches1884], pls. 55–59 (copy in type)
• Hinke 1907 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hinke1907], p. 131 fig. 49 (photo of relief)
• King 1912 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#king1912], no. 6 (photo)
• BM Guide 1922 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bmguide1922], pl. XXV (photo of relief)
• Strommenger and Hirmer 1962 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#strommenger-hirmer1962], pl. 272 (photo of relief)
• Seidl 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#seidl1968], pl. 23a no. 67 (photo of relief)
• Seidl 1989 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#seidl1989], pl. 23a (photo of relief)

• Bezold 1886 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bezold1886], p. 60 §32 (study)
• Thureau-Dangin 1913 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#thureau-dangin1913], pp. 97–98 (i 40–43, study)
• BM Guide 1922 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#bmguide1922], pp. 66–67 no. 192 (study)
• Steinmetzer 1922 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#steinmetzer1922], pp. 12–14 no. 6 (study; additional bibliography)
• von Soden 1935 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#vonsoden1935], pp. 345-346 (i 27 and 37, study)
• Oppenheim 1947 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#oppenheim1947], p. 127 (i 24, study)
• Weidner 1952-1953 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#weidner1952-1953a], p. 18 n. 134 (i 9–10, study)
• Brinkman 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#brinkman1968], pp. 106–116 and 327 no. 4.2.9 (study)
• Seidl 1968 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#seidl1968], p. 43 and passim in article (study)
• Seux 1970 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#seux1970], p. 188 (i 5, study)
• Walker and Collon 1980 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#walker-collon1980], p. 101 no. 50 (study)
• George 1985 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#george1985], pp. 70-71 (i 16-18, study)
• Deller, Mayer, and Sommerfeld 1987 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#mayer-sommerfeld1987], pp. 200 and 212 (i 17–18, 27, and 37, study)
• Reade 1987 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#reade1987], p. 48 (study)
• von Soden 1987 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#vonsoden1987], p. 190 (i 17–18, study)
• George 1989 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#george1989], pp. 382-383 (i 12–13 and 18, study)
• Seidl 1989 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#seidl1989], p. 43 and passim (study)
• Hurowitz 1992 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#hurowitz1992], pp. 39–59 (study)

R. Borger (HKL 2, p. 310) suggests that a badly damaged tablet in the Spartoli Collection of the British Museum (CT 51, no. 73) inscribed with an Akkadian, probably historical-literary text might refer to Nebuchadnezzar I since there seems to be mention of Elamite(s) (in line 12'). However, because of its very poor state of preservation, the attribution of the text is uncertain and, thus, no edition is given here.

Source

Bibliography

• Pinches in Walker 1972 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#walker1972], pl. 23 no. 73 (copy)

• Borger 1975 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#borger1975], p. 310 (study)
• Frame 1995 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/bibliography/index.html#frame1995], p. 35 (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, 2017 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon2/rulers/nebuchadnezzari/inscriptions/]