Nebuchadnezzar II 055
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i' 1'1' | [...] x ub-⸢la-am⸣-[ma ...]1 | (i' 1') [...] I s[et (my mind) and ...] ... [...] to build ... the cella [...] I prayed to him (Marduk) and [...] he listened to my words [...]. |
i' 2'2' | [...] x-na-ši-x [...] | |
i' 3'3' | [...] ⸢e⸣-pé-šu ad mé-e ku-um-⸢ma⸣ [...] | |
i' 4'4' | [...] x ut-né-en-šu-um-ma [...]2 | |
i' 5'5' | (i' 5'b) [... of heaven and] earth, the temple of hi[s] supreme power [... co]pper, musukkannu-wood, cedar, [... I made (it) shi]ne [like daylight] and made its sheen shine forth. [...]. | |
i' 6'6' | [... ša-mé-e ù] er-ṣe-tim É d⸢EN⸣.LÍL-ú-ti-⸢šu⸣ [...] | |
i' 7'7' | [... e]-ra-a GIŠ.MES.MÁ.KAN.NA GIŠ.⸢EREN⸣ [...] | |
i' 8'8' | [(...) u₄-mi-iš ú-na-am]-⸢mi⸣-ir-ma ú-⸢ša⸣-pa-a ša-ru-ru-ú-⸢ša⸣ [...] | |
i' 9'9' | [... é-zi-da?] ⸢e?-pú?-uš?⸣ ú-ša-ak-li-il-ma [...] | (i' 9'b) I (re)built (and) completed [Ezida], and (then) [...] ... [...] |
i' 10'10' | [...] x x ⸢ṣu⸣ ir [...] | |
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1ub-⸢la-am⸣-[ma] “I s[et (my mind) and]”: ublamma is attested in inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II and Nabonidus (r. 555–539), but the writing of the word as ub-la-am-ma is attested only in Nebuchadnezzar’s texts; see Nbk. 23 (C35) iii 13; and Nbk. 32 (C36) iii 40; it is written as ub-lam-ma in Nabonidus’ inscriptions.
2ut-né-en-šu-um-ma “I prayed to him”: This written form is attested in C31 ii 8. Compare C31 ii 8–13, which have ut-né-en-šu-um-ma dUTU be-lí ra-bí-ù ni-iš qá-ti-ia im-ḫu-úr-ma iš-ma-a ⸢su⸣-pé-e-a a-na e-pé-eš É šu-a-ti, “I prayed to him and the god Šamaš, the great lord, accepted my supplications and listen to my prayers.” Based on this parallel, perhaps restore ni-iš qá-ti-ia im-ḫu-úr-ma at the beginning of line 5´; the traces of the sign before iš-ma-a match the end of the MA sign.
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/Q009940/.