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Page 1412 / 1492

~620 BCE·Neo-Assyrian

RINAP 5

Sîn-šarru-iškun 2001

(1) [Belonging to Ana-Taš]mētu-taklāk, queen of [..., (...,) king of Assyria].

Law·Religion & Myth

~620 BCE·Neo-AssyrianRINAP 5

Sîn-šarru-iškun 21

(1) Palace of Sîn-šarra-iškun, [great] king, [...], (who was) also king of Assyria.

Law·Religion & Myth

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianOur engine

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

[Nebuchadnezzar,] [king of Ba]bylon, [the one who provides for] Esagil [and Ezi]da, [foremost] heir [of Nab]opol[assar,] [king of Babylon, am I.]

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianOur engine

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

[Nebuchadnezzar (Nabû-kudurrī-u]ṣur), king of Babylon, [provider of] [Esagil] and Ezida, [foremost] heir [of Nabopolassar (Nabû-apla-uṣur)], king of Babylon.

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianOur engine

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 03

(obverse? — only line-ends preserved) [...] ... his mouth (i.e., his [command/utterance]) [...] I stretched (beams) across [... O ...], resplendent lord, the god, light of the gods, his fathers [... his] exalted [command(?)] which cannot be altered, [...] may I be sated with its/his [...] [...] may I attain [...] ... [... wherever(?)] the sun rises

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianOur engine

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 04

(obverse, fragmentary) In [...] (which) no (former king) had [erected(?) ...] (but) me, the humble, [submissive one ...] I fashioned, and eight [mušḫuššu-dragons of copper ...] which upon the wicked and [the enemy spray venom of death ...] with a plating of si[lver ...] in the gate(s) of [...] on the platform(s) (kisû) [...] (remainder broken)

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianOur engine

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 05

(beginning broken) [...] ... lordship(?) ... [...] [... of a] former [king(?)] ... he cast/fashioned in silver [...] [...] shining ..., with ornament and awe-inspiring radiance I clothed it. [...] the Euphrates, the river of abundance, which from its creation [... flowed] straight past Esagil — its massive waters, [... in the days(?)] of a former king, its waters from the border of Esagil [...] had receded (too far) for the drawing of water. [...] I sought out its ancient site, and [...] its waters as of old [... to the bor]der of Esagil I directed [straight]. The [...] which a former king had…

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianOur engine

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 07

Neriglissar, king of Babylon [(...)], the renovator of Esagil and E[zida], the one who does good [deeds], whom, in order to exercise his kingship, [...] the great gods established [...] their [counsel(?) ...]; [whom(?)] Marduk, foremost of the gods, the one who de[crees destinies(?) ...], [... with(?)] dominion over (all) the lands [...], [... the shep]herdship of the black-[headed people ...], [...] true/faithful [...], [...] ... [...], [... m]ighty(?) [...], [...] ... [...]. (The remainder of the tablet is broken.)

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianOur engine

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 08

(obverse, all lines broken at the right edge) [Ne]riglissar, king of Babylon, [...] [the one who reno]vates(?) Esagil and [Ezida ...] with [...] like the (original) appurtenances [...] I set up [...]. The Dais of Destinies, which is inside [...], upon which at the New Year (zammukku), the beginning [of the year], during the akītu-festival, (at) the setting-out of the Enlil of the g[ods, Marduk], Nabû, the true heir, processes t[o ...] Šuanna [...], (on) the 5th day (and) the 11th day, in going and retu[rning ...] (remainder of this exemplar broken)

Sîn-šarru-iškun 2001

Sîn-šarru-iškun 21

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 03

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 04

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 05

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 07

RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 08

AuOr 37, 043-044 01

AuOr 37, 044-045 02

AuOr 37, 045-046 03

AuOr 37, 047 04

AuOr 37, 047-049 05

BM 091441

CDLI Literary 002701.01, ex. 023 & 002701.05, ex. 010

CDLI Literary 002701.05, ex. 011

CDLJ 2007/1 §3.49

CDLJ 2007/1 §3.50

CDLJ 2007/1 §3.54

CUSAS 15, 043

DUROM 2009.9

Fs Lambert 210-211 53 A3

Genava 17, 031, no. 23

Iraq 06, 178, 80 + 81

LKU 012

MSL SS 1, 033

MSL SS 1, 083

NABU 2015/105

OECT 11, 077

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

RINBE 2, Nabonidus 14, ex. 01

RINBE 2, Nabonidus 14, ex. 02

RINBE 2, Nabonidus 16, ex. 02

RINBE 2, Nabonidus 18, ex. 01

RINBE 2, Nabonidus 18, ex. 02

RINBE 2, Nabonidus 18, ex. 03

RINBE 2, Nabonidus 18, ex. 04

RINBE 2, Nabonidus 18, ex. 05