As is evident from its title, this volume includes editions of all of the currently known inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabopolassar and some of Nebuchadnezzar II's texts, specifically that king's inscriptions from Babylon (excluding those written on glazed and baked bricks).
In total, seventy-one Akkadian inscriptions are included here. All of the Nabopolassar texts were recently and carefully edited in Da Riva, SANER 3,[[93]] while only a portion of the Nebuchadnezzar material presented in this volume has ever been treated together in a single place. That treatment was in 1912, when S. Langdon published Die neubabylonischen Königsinschriften, which included all of the then-known Neo-Babylonian inscriptions, a volume that has long been out of date, not only in terms of its treatment of the texts, but also since many new texts have come to light since then, especially the until-recently unpublished cylinder inscriptions included here (Nbk. 38–56).[[94]]
Since the inception of the RINBE project, it has always been the plan to divide the Nebuchadnezzar corpus into two parts. Part 1 was to include most of that king's inscriptions from Babylon, while Part 2 was to edit the remaining texts from Babylon and his inscriptions from other cities in Babylonia (especially Borsippa, Larsa, and Sippar) and from the Levant (Wadi Brisa and Nahr el-Kalb; see the Texts Excluded from RINBE 1/1 section below). As originally conceived, the present volume presents transliterations and English translations of (1) the "Tower of Babel Stele" (Nbk. 1); (2) the "East India House Inscription" (Nbk. 2); (3) texts written on stone blocks and paving stones from Babylon (Nbk. 3–10); (4) the clay prism text commonly referred to as the "Hofkalender" (Nbk. 11); (5) previously published texts written on clay cylinders from Babylon (Nbk. 12–37);[[95]] and (6) until-recently unpublished cylinder texts mostly from R. Koldewey's excavations at Babylon in 1899–1917 (Nbk. 38–56).[[96]] For further details, see the Survey of the Inscribed Objects section below.
93 One inscription of Nabopolassar published in Da Riva, SANER 3 (pp. 104–105 §2.2.8 C011) is excluded here since it is actually a text of Nebuchadnezzar from Larsa. See the section Texts Excluded from RINBE 1/1 for further details.
94 More information will be provided section Overview of Previous Editions.
95 The majority of these are studied/catalogued in Da Riva, GMTR 4; see, in particular, pp. 118–122 and pp. 128–129 of that volume.
96 Information about these texts were kindly brought to our attention by R. Da Riva, N. Heeßel, O. Pedersén, D. Schwemer, and G. Van Buylaere; see the Preface of the present volume for further details.
Jamie Novotny & Frauke Weiershäuser
Jamie Novotny & Frauke Weiershäuser, ' Texts Included in RINBE 1/1', RIBo, Babylon 7: The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, The RIBo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2024 [/ribo/babylon7/RINBE11Introduction/TextsIncludedinRINBE11/]