Nabopolassar 01
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11 | (1) Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, protégé of the gods Nabû and Marduk, am I. | |
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55 | (5) (With regard to) Imgur-Enlil, the great wall of Babylon, which had become weak (and) had collapsed before my time, I firmly set its foundations on (its) original socle. I built (it) anew using people mustered from my land and (thus) I surrounded Babylon (with it) on (all) four sides. I raised its superstructure just like the one in earlier times. | |
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1818 | (18) O wall, speak favorable things (about me) to the god Marduk, my lord. | |
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Created by Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny, 2015-24, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich, the Henkel Foundation, 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 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/Q005360/.