Nebuchadnezzar II 044


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Column i
i' 1i 1	[...]-⸢tu^?⸣	(i' 1) (No translation possible)
i' 22	[...]-⸢bi⸣
i' 33	[...] x
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Column ii
ii' 1ii 1	a-na gi-ib-bi KÁ.GAL li-ib-bi pi-it-lu-uḫ-ma ra-ši gi-li-it-ti1	(ii' 1) My heart was afraid (and) became terrified about the ... of the city gate. Regarding the construction of the ... and the stretching out of the architrave, ... the gods Šamaš, Adad, and Marduk. [...] the great gods always answered m[e] with a firm ‘yes.’ ... [...]
ii' 22	a-na e-pé-šu gi-ib-bi ù ta-ra-ṣi GIŠ.GAN.DU₇ ^dUTU ^dIŠKUR ù ^dAMAR.UTU ina ⸢ta⸣-[x-(x)]
ii' 33	[(x)] x x x (x) x x x DINGIR GAL.GAL an-nim ki-i-nim i-ta-nap-pa-⸢lu-in^?⸣-[ni^?]2
ii' 44	(traces) [...]
	Lacuna	Lacuna
ii' 1'1'	lu-le-e [uš-ma-al-lam ...]	(ii' 1') [I filled it with] splendor [...].
ii' 2'2'	⸢EN⸣ ^dAMAR.UTU be-lí ra-bi-ù ⸢li-pí⸣-[it qá-ti-ia]	(ii' 2') [O lor]d Marduk, great lord, lo[ok] upon [my] hand[iwork] with favor and pleasure [and] grant me a long life, the attainment of very old age, a firmly-secured throne, a long-lasting reign, [the cut]ting down of the enemy, (and) the conquest of ene[my] land(s).
ii' 3'3'	⸢i⸣-na da-mi-iq-tim ḫa-di-iš na-ap-⸢li⸣-[is-ma]
ii' 4'4'	[ba]-la-ṭu da-rí-a še-bé-e li-it-tu-tu ku-un-nu GIŠ.GU.ZA la-ba-⸢ri⸣ [pa-le-e]3
ii' 5'5'	[šu]-um-qú-tu na-ki-ri ka-ša-dam MA.DA a-a-[bi]
ii' 6'6'	[a]-na ši-ri-ik-tim šu-úr-ka-am
ii' 7'7'	[i]-na a-ma-⸢ti⸣-ka ṣi-ir-ti ⸢ša⸣ la na-ka-ri4	(ii' 7') By your exalted word, which cannot be altered, may I bring the luxuriance of the (four) qu[ar]ters (of the world), the yield of a[l]l of the lands, [the in]come of the mount[ains], (and) the wealth of the all of the in[habited sett]lements through the city gates of Babylon, into yo[ur] presence.
ii' 8'8'	⸢i⸣-pa-at ⸢ki⸣-[ib]-⸢ra⸣-a-ti bi-ši-ti ⸢ma-ti⸣-ta-an5
ii' 9'9'	⸢er⸣-bi ša-⸢di^?⸣-[i] ⸢ḫi⸣-iṣ-bi ka-la ⸢da-ad⸣-mu
ii' 10'10'	x KÁ.⸢GAL.KÁ⸣.GAL ⸢KÁ⸣.DINGIR.RA.KI lu-še-ri-ba a-na ma-aḫ-ri-⸢ka⸣

1gi-ib-bi “...”: This Akkadian word, as far as the authors are aware, is otherwise unattested, certainly in the corpus of Neo-Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions. From context, it is clear that it is an architectural term connected with gateways. li-ib-bi pi-it-lu-uḫ-ma ra-ši gi-li-it-ti “my heart was afraid (and) became terrified”: Nebuchadnezzar II states that he also became frightened because of the unsuitability of the emplacement of Eḫursagsikila, the temple of the goddess Ninkarrak/Gula; see Nbk. 31 (C33) iii 15–17. See the on-page note to those lines for kings reporting that they were anxious regarding the renovation of temples.

2an-nim ki-i-nim “firm ‘yes’”: At least three other inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II report that he received a positive response to a query addressed to the gods through expisticy: Nbk. 31 (C33) iii 29; C31 ii 18; and WBC vii 63.

3Compare Nbk. 42 (B 5/VA Bab 607) ii 24´b–27´a, which have [ba-la]-ṭam da-⸢rí⸣-a a-di še-bé-e li-it-tu-ú-ti [LUGAL-ú-tu^? la] ⸢ša⸣-na-an [ku]-⸢su⸣-ú da-mi-iq-ti šu-úr-šu-du [šu-um-qú]-⸢tu⸣ na-ki-ri ka-ša-dam ⸢MA.DA⸣ a-a-bi [a-na ši-ri-ik-tim šu-úr-ka-am a]-⸢na⸣ da-rí-a-tim, “[grant me] a lo[ng li]fe until the attainment of very old age, [kingship without r]ival, a firmly-secured throne of good fortune, [the cutting dow]n of the enemy, (and) the conquest of enemy lan[d(s)], forever.”

4[i]-na a-ma-⸢ti⸣-ka ṣi-ir-ti ⸢ša⸣ la na-ka-ri “By your exalted word, which cannot be altered”: Compare Nbk. 42 (B 5/VA Bab 607) ii 27´, which has i-na qí-bi-ti-ka ki-it-ti ša la šu-pel “By your true command, which cannot be overturned.”

5This passage is also attested in Nbk. 42 (B 5/VA Bab 607) ii 28´–30´. Compare Nbk. 56 (B 18) i´ 3´–5´, which have ⸢bi⸣-ši-ti ma-ti-ta-an SA.⸢TU⸣.[UM ...] ḫi-ṣi-ib ta-⸢ma⸣-[a-ti lu]-⸢še⸣-ri-ba a-na ma-aḫ-ri-[ka], “[May I b]ring [the yie]ld of all of the lands (and) mounta[ins, ...], (and) the wealth of the se[as] into [your] presence.”

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/Q009929/.

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