Nebuchadnezzar II 083
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ii 1'1' | (ii 1') [I dec]orated [Esag]il and [Ezida] as beautifully [as the st]ars (lit. “writings”) of the he[avens] and [made (them) shi]ne like daylight. | |
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ii 5'5' | (ii 5') [At] that time, (with regard to) Etila, [the temple of the goddess] Ninkarrak, [which is in]side Borsippa (and) whose foundation(s) had changed, my [mi]nd was focused [on (re)building (that temple). I [ver]ily sought out the (original) emplacement [of] that temple and (thus) I dug down [N+2 cubits into the ea]rth. | |
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ii 12'12' | [x+2 KÙŠ qá-qá]-ru ú-ša-ap-pí-il-ma | |
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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. 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 C022".