Nebuchadnezzar II 001
Obverse | ||
Epigraph | ||
11 | (1) [E]tem[en]anki, [the z]iggurat of [B]abylon | |
22 | ||
33 | ||
Column i | ||
i 1i 1 | (i 1) [Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon], the e[xalted ruler] ... [...] ... [whose] atten[tion is] fixed [o]n the god Nabû — [his lord — the one who constantly seeks ou]t li[fe, the pious (and) unc]easin[g one who brings great g]if[ts into] Esagi[l, the wise (and) pious one who provides for Esagil] and [Ezida, foremost] heir [of Nabopolassar, kin]g of Babylon, [am I]. | |
i 22 | ||
i 33 | ||
i 44 | x (x) x [...] x x | |
i 55 | ||
i 66 | ||
i 77 | ||
i 88 | ||
i 99 | ||
i 1010 | ||
i 1111 | ||
i 1212 | ||
i 1313 | ||
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i 1616 | ||
i 1717 | (i 17) [W]he[n the god M]ar[duk, the] grea[t lord, r]aised [up my head, ... the wide]sp[read people] | |
i 1818 | ||
i 1919 | ||
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Ca. 6 lines missing at the end of col. i | ||
Column ii | ||
ii 1ii 1 | [...] | (ii 1) (No translation possible) |
ii 22 | [...] | |
ii 33 | [...] | |
ii 44 | [...] | |
ii 55 | [...] | |
ii 66 | [...] | |
ii 88 | [...] | |
ii 99 | [...]4 (traces) | |
ii 1010 | [...] (traces) | |
ii 1111 | [...] (traces) | |
ii 1212 | [...] (traces) | |
ii 1313 | [...] (traces) | |
ii 1414 | [...] (traces) | |
ii 1515 | [...] (traces) | |
ii 1616 | (ii 16) I mustered [... in all] lands everywhere, [every] single ruler [whose] head had been raised up among the totality of the people of the inhabited world [to be the one lov]ed by the god Marduk, from the Upper Sea [to the Lo]wer [Sea, the fa]r-off [lands, the widespread people of the inhabited wor]ld, [kings of remote mountains and distant islands that are i]n [the Upp]er and Low[er] S[eas, wh]ose [le]ad-[rop]e(s) the god Marduk, [my] l[ord, pl]ac[ed] in [my ha]nd t[o pu]ll [his] chariot pol[e], and I imposed (the carrying of) bask[et(s)] on the workmen of the gods Šamaš and [Marduk] in order to build Eteme[nanki] and Eurmeimina[nki]. | |
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Column iii | ||
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iii 22 | ||
iii 33 | ||
iii 44 | ||
iii 55 | ||
iii 66 | ||
iii 77 | ||
iii 88 | ||
iii 99 | ||
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iii 1515 | (iii 15) I fill[ed] in the b[a]se of Etemenanki [and the ba]se of Eurmeiminank[i] (to make) a hi[gh] ter[r]ace. (With regard to) [E]temenan[ki] and Eurmeim[inanki], I b[ui]lt their e[ntire str]uctures using bitumen and [baked brick]. I compl[eted (them)], ma[king] (them) s[hin]e l[ike the sun]. | |
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iii 2121 | ||
iii 2222 | ||
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Ca. 3 lines missing at the end of col. iii | ||
Text continued on the right side or never finished |
1dna-⸢bi-um⸣ “the god Nabû”: There is a space of 1 cm between the divine determinative and the NA sign.
2⸢é?-sag?-íl?⸣ “Esagil”: The traces of this word are barely visible on the stele and are tentatively suggested here based on parallels; see, for example, Nbk. 27 (C41) i 10–11.
3The reading is based on R. Da Riva’s collation of the stele.
4R. Da Riva (personal communication) has suggested that these lines were: (1) accidentally erased; (2) intentionally erased; or (3) never completed, that is, only the heads of the wedges were engraved to pre-align the inscription. For further details on the erasure, see the commentary of this inscription. For a similar case with an inscription of the Middle Assyrian king Tukultī-Ninurta I (r. 1243–1207), see Wilcke, Studies Wilhelm p. 432 n. 104.
5The reading is based on R. Da Riva’s collation of the stele.
6[qá]-⸢tu?-ú⸣-[a] “in [my ha]nd”: The traces of this word are barely visible on the stele.
7ú-⸢na?-am?-mar? ša⸣-[aš-ši-iš?] “ma[king] (them) s[hin]e l[ike the sun]”: The tentative reading follows R. Da Riva (personal communication). Note that in Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions šamšiš usually appears before ú-ša-pa-a, “I made shine forth,” and not after unammir, “I made (it) shine.”
8See the commentary of this inscription on the now-missing portion of the text.
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/Q005472/.