Names

  • Nebuchadnezzar II 043

Numbers

  • Q005514
  • Nebuchadnezzar II 043

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  • cylinder
  • Neo-Babylonian
  • Babylon
  • Royal Inscription
  • Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar II 043

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Column i
i'i Lacuna

Lacuna

i' 1'1'

[...] x x [...]

(i' 1') [...] ... [...] ... [... I secured] their foundation(s) at the level of the water table using bitumen and baked bri[ck. ...] using baked bricks (colored with) shining blue glaze that have (representations of) wild bulls and mušḫuššu-dragon(s) [fashioned upon them ...] both gates, I made (them) appear resplendently for them.

i' 2'2'

[...] x x ša a x x [...]

i' 3'3'

[...] mé-ḫe-ra-at mé-e i-ši-id-sì-in ⸢i-na ku-up-ru ù a-gu-úr⸣-[ru ú-šar-ši-id-ma]

i' 4'4'

[...] ⸢i-na a-gur⸣-ri NA₄.ZA.GÌN el-le-ti ša ri-i-mu ⸢ù⸣ [MUŠ.ḪUŠ ...]

i' 5'5'

[...] ⸢KÁ.GAL.KÁ⸣.GAL ki-la-al-la-an na-⸢am⸣-ri-iš ú-še-pí-ši-[na-ši-im]

i' 6'6'

[... ši]-⸢ṭi⸣-ir šu-um ša a-bi a-li-di-ia ša i-na [...]1

(i' 6') [... an insc]ription bearing the name of my father who engendered me, that in [...] Ištar-sākipat-tēbîša using bitumen and baked brick [...] ... [...] I raised (it) high [...].

i' 7'7'

[... d]⸢iš₈-tár⸣-sa-ki-pa-at-te-e-bi-ša i-na ⸢ku-up⸣-ri ù a-gur-ri [...]

i' 8'8'

[...] x di um za-aq-ru ú-ul-la-a [...]

i' 9'9'

[...]-sì-na GIŠ.SAG.KUL LÁL ša x

(i' 9') [...] sikkūru šāqilu lock(s), that [... I ... (beams of)] hard [cedar] originating from the [high] mountains (Lebanon) [...] ... [...] fierce [wild bulls] of copper and [raging] mušḫuššu-[dragons ...] ... of cast copper I fashi[oned ...] bright ... [...] both [g]ates for [...]

i' 10'10'

[... GIŠ.EREN] ⸢da⸣-nu₄-tim ṣi-i-ti ša-di-i [e-lu-ti]

i' 11'11'

[...] x x x-a-tim ta x x x [...]

i' 12'12'

[... ri-i-mu] ⸢e⸣-ri-⸢i e-ek⸣-du-⸢tim ù⸣ MUŠ.⸢ḪUŠ⸣ [še-zu-zu-ú-tim]

i' 13'13'

[...] ri ti? la? x x x x x URUDU e-ep-⸢ti⸣-[iq-ma ...]

i' 14'14'

[...] x na-am-ru x x x x x x [...]

i' 15'15'

[... KÁ].⸢GAL⸣.KÁ.GAL ki-la-al-la-an a-⸢na x⸣ [...]

i' 16'16'

[...] (traces) [...]

Lacuna

Lacuna

1References to Nabopolassar working on the Ištar Gate and Nebuchadnezzar II’s workmen finding foundation documents (presumably clay cylinders) in that gate’s structure are also mentioned in Nbk. 24 (C012) i´ 14´ and 21´ and Nbk. 41 (B 43) i´ 4´.

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/Q009928/.

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