Nebuchadnezzar II 026


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Column i
i 1i 1	^dna-bi-um-ku-du-úr-ri-ú-ṣu-úr	(i 1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, circumspect ruler, the true shepherd who constantly seeks out good things, the capable one who understands wisdom, the one who renovates sanctuaries, the prince who is the favorite of the great gods, the one who provides for Esagil and Ezida, heir of Nabopolassar, [king of Babylon, am I].
i 22	⸢LUGAL KÁ⸣.DINGIR.RA.KI ru-bu-ú mu-⸢un⸣-da-al-ku
i 33	⸢re⸣-é-a-um ki-⸢i⸣-nim
i 44	⸢mu⸣-uš-te-eʾ-ù da-am-qá-a-tim
i 55	le-eʾ-⸢a-um⸣ ḫa-⸢si-su⸣ né-me-⸢qí⸣
i 66	mu-ud-di-iš ⸢e⸣-eš-re-⸢e-ti⸣
i 77	ru-bu-um mi-gi-⸢ir⸣ DINGIR.DINGIR ⸢GAL.GAL⸣
i 88	za-ni-in é-sag-íl ⸢ù é-zi-da⸣
i 99	⸢IBILA ^dna-bi-um-IBILA-ú-ṣu-úr⸣
	Lacuna	Lacuna
i 1'1'	[...] x x x x x x (x)	(i 1') [...] ... remote [regions that are in the mid]st of [the Upper] and Lower Sea(s), I ruled over. [I] made important [...] ... come quickly into Šuanna (Babylon).
i 2'2'	[...] x né-su-ú-tim
i 3'3'	[ša qé-re]-⸢eb⸣ ti-a-am-tim
i 4'4'	[e-li-tim] ⸢ù⸣ ša-ap-li-tim lu a-bé-el-ma
i 5'5'	[x x (x)] x-si-it^? ⸢ka⸣-bi-it-ti
i 6'6'	[ú]-⸢ša-aḫ-mi-iṭ⸣ a-na ⸢qé⸣-reb šu-an-na.KI
Column ii
ii 1ii 1	i-na KÙ.GI KÙ.BABBAR ⸢ni-si-iq⸣-[ti NA₄.NA₄ a-qá-ar-ti]	(ii 1) With gold, silver, precio[us (and) valuable stones], copper, musu[kkannu-wood, cedar], tribute from the land U[gar-Sîn, ...], my mountain, [...] that he had conquered, [...] I decorated Esagil and [Ezida] as beautifully as the sta[rs (lit. “writings”) of the heavens and] made (them) shi[ne like daylight].
ii 22	e-ra-a GIŠ.MES.⸢MÁ⸣.[KAN.NA ù GIŠ.EREN.GIŠ.EREN]
ii 33	bi-la-at KUR.⸢ú⸣-[ga-ar-^dEN.ZU^? ...]1
ii 44	ša-di-ia [...]
ii 55	ša ik-šu-⸢du^?⸣ [...]
ii 66	é-sag-íl ⸢ù⸣ [é-zi-da]
ii 77	ki-ma ši-ṭe-er-[tì ša-ma-mi]
ii 88	ú-ba-an-⸢nim^?⸣-[ma (...)]
ii 99	ú-na-⸢am⸣-[mi-ir ki-ma u₄-um]
ii 1010	⸢ì⸣-[nu-mi-šu ...]2	(ii 10) At [that time, ...]
	Lacuna	Lacuna
ii 1'1'	x (x) [...]	(ii 1') gran[t me ...] ... [...] so that I may constantly shepherd [...].
ii 2'2'	a-na ši-ri-⸢ik⸣-[tim šu-úr-kam ...]
ii 3'3'	lu er-te-ʾe-e-⸢em^?⸣ [...]

1KUR.⸢ú⸣-[ga-ar-^dEN.ZU^?], “the land U[gar-Sîn]: This tentatively restored place is also mentioned in Nbk. 27 (C41) ii 48 and C041 ii 14´.

2The main building report starts here, but nothing of it, except part of the first sign of the first word remains. R. Da Riva (GMTR 4 pp. 111 and 129 sub 2a) has tentatively suggested that this passage might record work on one of the three palaces constructed by Nebuchadnezzar II at Babylon.

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/Q005497/.