Nebuchadnezzar II 014
| Obverse | ||
| Column i | ||
| i 1i 1 | (i 1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, pious prince, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, the one who renovates the sanctuaries of the great god(s), the reverent servant who is very attentive to and mindful of the will of the gods, true heir of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I. | |
| i 22 | ||
| i 33 | ||
| i 44 | ||
| i 55 | ||
| i 66 | ||
| i 77 | ||
| i 88 | ||
| i 99 | ||
| i 1010 | ||
| i 1111 | ||
| i 1212 | (i 12) When Nabopolassar, my father who engendered me, built Imgur-Enlil, the great wall of Babylon, dug its moat, and constructed its embankment(s) using bitumen and baked brick — | |
| i 1313 | ||
| i 1414 | ||
| i 1515 | ||
| i 1616 | ||
| i 1717 | ||
| i 1818 | ||
| i 1919 | (i 19) As for me, the wise (and) pious one who reveres the lord of lords, I opened up (the area) alongside his moat embankment(s) and I reached the water table. Using bitumen and baked brick, I built a fortified wall, which like a mountain cannot be shaken, and I adjoined (it) to the embankment that my father had constructed. I secur[ed] its foundation on the surfa[ce (lit. “breast”) of the netherwo]rld and raised its superstructure as high as a mountain. | |
| i 2020 | ||
| i 2121 | ||
| i 2222 | ||
| i 2323 | ||
| i 2424 | ||
| i 2525 | ||
| i 2626 | ||
| i 2727 | ||
| i 2828 | ||
| i 2929 | ||
| i 3030 | ||
| i 3131 | ||
| Column ii | ||
| ii 1ii 1 | ||
| ii 22 | ||
| ii 33 | ||
| ii 44 | (ii 4) I magnificently did (something) for the god Marduk, my lord, that no king among the (former) king(s) had built. | |
| ii 55 | ||
| ii 66 | ||
| ii 77 | ||
| ii 88 | ||
| ii 99 | (ii 9) O Marduk, great lord, merciful god who listens to (my) supplication(s): “Nebuchadnezzar (II), the servant who reveres you, the creation of your (own) hands, am [I]. Grant me a life of long days, the attainment of very old age, a stable dynasty, a firmly-secured throne, the cutting down of the enemy, (and) the attainment of (my) heart’s desire. | |
| ii 1010 | ||
| ii 1111 | ||
| ii 1212 | ||
| ii 1313 | ||
| ii 1414 | ||
| ii 1515 | ||
| ii 1616 | ||
| ii 1717 | ||
| ii 1818 | ||
| ii 1919 | ||
| ii 2020 | ||
| ii 2121 | ||
| ii 2222 | ||
| ii 2323 | ||
| ii 2424 | (ii 24) By your exalted command, which cannot be overturned, may I (lit. “my arms”) perform good (and) righteous things that are pleasing to you.” | |
| ii 2525 | ||
| ii 2626 | ||
| ii 2727 | ||
| ii 2828 | ||
| ii 2929 | ||
| ii 3030 |
1à-gu-ru “baked brick”: Writing agurru with à (PI), instead of the expected a, is unusual and is also attested in Nbk. 16 (C25) i 17 and 26, and Nbk. 32 (C36) i 55, ii 24, 56, 59, and iii 4.
2On ex. 2, col. ii begins with this line.
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/Q005485/.