Nebuchadnezzar II 039

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[MA.DA].MA.DA [-la-ši-na]

(i 1') I established the city of Babylon as a fortress, [...], in the totality of all lands (and) every single inhabited settlement, [all of the la]nds whose shepherdship the god Marduk, [my lord, had given] to me.

i 2'2'

ša dAMAR.UTU [be-]

i 3'3'

RE.É.UM-si-na ia-ti [i--nam]

i 4'4'

i-na ku-ul-la-at ma-ti-ta-an

i 5'5'

gi-mi-ir ka-al da-ad-mi

i 6'6'

URU.KI .DINGIR.RA.KI

i 7'7'

a-na ni-ṣi-ir-tum -ku-un

i 8'8'

-šum [ma]-aṣ-ṣa-ar-

(i 8') In order to strengthen [the pro]tection of Esagil (so that) [no evil-doer or mur]derer

i 9'9'

[é]-sag-íl du-un-nu-nim

i 10'10'

[le-em-num ù ša]-ag-gi-šu

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(ii 1') (No translation possible)

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(traces) [...]

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ii 9'9'

ì-nu-um [dAMAR.UTU ...]

(ii 9') When [the god Marduk ...]

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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/Q009924/.