Nebuchadnezzar II 067


Obverse
11	^dna-bi-um-ku-du-úr-ri-ú-ṣu-ur LUGAL ba-bi-lam.KI	(1) Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I:
22	DUMU ^dna-bi-um-IBILA-ú-ṣu-úr LUGAL ba-bi-lam.KI a-na-ku
33	é-maḫ É ^dnin-maḫ lìb-ba ká-dingir-ra.KI	(3) (With regard to) Emaḫ, the temple of the goddess Ninmaḫ (that is) inside Ka-dingirra, I built (it) anew for the goddess Ninmaḫ, the exalted princess, in Babylon.
44	a-na ^dnin-maḫ ru-ba-a-ti ṣi-ir-tim
55	i-na ba-bi-i-lu.KI e-eš-še-eš₁₅ e-pú-uš
66	ki-sa-a-am da-núm	(6) I surrounded it with a strong base (made) from bitumen and baked brick, (and) I filled its interior with ritually pure earth.
77	i-na ESIR.UD.DU.A ù SIG₄.AL.ÙR.RA
88	ú-ša-às-ḫi-ir-ša e-pe-er e-el-lu-tim
99	qé-er₄-ba-ša ú-ma-al-lam
1010	^dnin-maḫ AMA re-me-ni-ti	(10) O Ninmaḫ, merciful mother, look with pleasure so that my good deeds are set upon your lips. Expand (my) seed (and) increase my progeny. In the womb of my descendants, grant safe and easy childbirth.
1111	ḫa-di-iš na-ap-li-si-ma
1212	da-am-qá-tu-ú-a li-iš-ša-ak-na
1313	ša-ap-tu-uk-ki ru-up-pi-ši ze-ri
1414	šu-un-di-li na-an-na-bi
1515	i-na qé-er₄-bi-it pe-er-ʾi-ia
1616	ša-al-mi-iš šu-te-ši-ri
1717	ta-li-it-ti

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. At the present time, there is no stable, citable URL for this text and, therefore, the RINBE team kindly requests that this edition be cited as "RIBo Nebuchadnezzar II B20".