Nebuchadnezzar II 086
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| ii 1ii 1 | (ii 1) [I] made [...] come quickly into Šuanna (Babylon). | |
| ii 22 | (ii 2) With gold, silver, [pr]ecious (and) valuable stones, [c]opper, [mus]ukkannu-wood, cedar, that my (own) two hands cut down, [I] decorated [E]sagil and Ezida as beautifully [a]s the stars (lit. “writings”) of the heav[ens] and made (them) shine like day[light]. | |
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| ii 1010 | (ii 10) At that time, (with regard to) Etila, the temple of the goddess Ninkarr[ak], which is inside Borsippa, whose brickwork had not been restored from distant days, (my) heart prompted me and my attention was set on (re)building that temple. I sought out the (original) emplacement of that temple and (thus) I dug down N+2 cubits into the earth. Then, I saw its original foundation(s), laid its (new) foundations [o]n top of its former foundation(s) and (thereby) [fi]rmly established it (Etila) for eternity. | |
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| ii 1818 | x+⸢2⸣ KÙŠ qá-qá-ru ú-ša-ap-pí-il-ma | |
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| ii 2323 | (ii 23) O Ninkarrak, exalted lady, look upon [my handiwork] with pleasure and [gra]nt me [a life of] distant days (and) [go]od health so that I may increase (my) [se]ed and expand my progeny. May I constantly walk in good health and happiness. | |
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1Compare Nbk. 83 (C022) ii 8´–11´, which have [ša] ⸢te⸣-me-en-šu i-nu-ma [a-na e-pé-šu uz]-⸢ni⸣ ib-šu a-ša-ar-šu [a-dan]-ni-iš lu áš-te-eʾ-e-ma [ša] É šu-a-ti, “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.”
Created by Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny, 2015-25, 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 C023".